The idea of “Nine Worlds” is famous today, but Old Norse sources do not give us one simple, definitive map containing nine neatly organized realms. The surviving mythological material is more fragmented. Yggdrasil connects different places and beings across the Norse cosmos, while texts such as the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda preserve traditions that do not always fit into a single modern diagram.

NINE WORLDS embraces that uncertainty rather than treating Norse cosmology like a fixed fantasy map.

Across the album, Cys moves through places associated with humans, gods, giants, elves, the dead, frost and fire while encountering figures whose stories reach far beyond any single realm. Fenrir and Jörmungandr, for example, belong to the mythology surrounding Loki and become central to the catastrophe of Ragnarök. Gjallarhorn is associated with Heimdallr and signals the beginning of the final crisis.

Even Ragnarök itself is not simply an ending. Völuspá describes a renewed earth emerging after the destruction, green again, while surviving gods and human beings continue into what follows. That cycle of creation, fate, destruction and renewal provides the larger arc of NINE WORLDS.

Musically, the album brings Cys into an epic Nordic world shaped by Viking music, Tech House and Tech Funk, with deep modern bass beneath its mythological atmosphere.

Expected release: November 6, 2026