Nova Express, the new band by former Mayhem frontband Maniac have signed with Cold Spring Records according to a report published on Blabbermouth.

Former MAYHEM frontman Maniac, whose band SKITLIV has proved to be a surprising departure from the black metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with fiancée Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band GALLHAMMER, and SKITLIV’s guitarist Ingvar Magnusson. The band, going by the name of NOVA EXPRESS, has already signed with the UK label Cold Spring Records. Unlike SKITLIV, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniac’s vocals still firmly rooted in black metal, NOVA EXPRESS is in the noise/darkwave/ambient genre, with any vestiges of black metal pared away.

“We have booked the studio for late autumn to record the NOVA EXPRESS album, which has a working title of Narrow Birth, and we will also be putting the finishing touches to SKITLIV’s Glem Aldri Korset. Following the release of that album, SKITLIV will start touring. We have no immediate plans to take NOVA EXPRESS on the road, but given that Maniac very much enjoys playing live, I would suspect that you will be seeing the band perform live sooner or later.”

It should come as absolutely no surprise that Nova Express sucks. Really, really, really, really, really hard. Really!