GALDR

Origen: E.E.U.U., Woodstock

Formados: 2008

Estilo: Black atmosférico

Temática: Mágia nórdica, mitología nórdica y paganismo

Enlaces: Bandcamp y facebook

Miembros:

• Draugr Todos los instrumentos y voces

Discografía:

• Valdyrhugr Demo 2009  
• Galdr CD 2011
• Ancient Lights from the Stars  CD 2013
• Mörkergång Single 2014
• Mörkergång CD 2015
• Tranquilities II: The Air, the Silence and the Vast Array of Emptiness Split 2023

ANCIENT LIGHTS FROM THE STARS (2013) 

Este segundo larga duración se deja influenciar por la segundo ola dentro del black metal y toma como referente a bandas de blak ambiental como puede ser el caso de Burzum, ofreciendo como resultado una disco de ambientación fría y pagana. Draurgr sabe captar la esencia del estilo y valiéndose de unos ritmos en líneas generales repetitivos e hipnoticos que se sustentan en una batería constante y unos riffs de tendencia melancólica y melódica, con el aporte de sintetizadores y sobre todo de saber arrancar a todo ello un sonido sucio no del todo pulido que es un extra de credibilidad para la propuesta. Sus gritos de desesperación y por momentos casi desgarradores acaban por helar la sangre del oyente, todo ello centrado en la mitología nórdica con un sentimiento totalmente pagano. Ni que decir tiene que la ambientación lo clava perfectamente, frialdad y oscuridad a destajo sin olvidarse de la soledad, la desesperación y el paganismo. Además sabe incorporar pasajes instrumentales muy evocadores, todo ello en un álbum que debe ser considerado como un referente dentro del género. (8,9).

Darker than black

1. Realm of Niflheim 01:14  instrumental

2. Calling Out into a Frozen Void 07:03

  A thick, white blanket covers this land.

This land where my heart forever exists.

My flight into the endless lights

Leaves me frozen and breathing

the beautiful air.

She shines out now, calling us, to eternity.

I am a being of this land, and of

timeless stars.

We inhabit these lands,

so cold and beautiful.

Out star guides us into the white.

The night harbors our frozen emotions.

While our hearts maintain our strength

and power.

We are for all eternity, as we are the

Earth and the

snowfall above, with space and the stars

we embrace the light from our blanket

of the north...

3. Oath of Blood 05:43

 When falls the hammer of destruction?

Uprising of ancient oaths

Sleeping in a nest of darkness

Held close to the breast of the night

A power old and wise

Infinity of life

Universal power

Strength over all mortals

4. Well of Urdr 07:22

Lost keys, humans now shut an eye to the truth. From the forests, light and wisdom, darkness and triumph. The past holds secrets, time withers true power. Time, withers humans' wisdom. Only time without wisdom from the past From the sea, within our northern home, washing away, keys from the past. Will our future mend time lost without the past? Will we begin again and regain wisdom of the past?

5. Fenrir's Sorrow 01:38  instrumental

6. Iss og Odal 08:30

A fell whisper

The air carries secrets yet unknown

Wind grasps our thought as time passes

and we ride on through the open twilight of the next realm

Faces express hollowed emotion

Warriors of our cause, we ride through the night

A passage, riding towards the lights

The night cradles us

We protect its everlasting spirit

7. Ancient Lights of the Stars 09:23

  Will this oracle of souls be sacrificed to a dying time?

Calling out into the void, wishes and dreams from eternity

carry the voices of anguished lives.

Wrath reigns down now upon those who tried to defile purity.

The ones who protected live on, in an endless flow of ice and snow.

8. Nordstjerne 08:46  instrumental

  49:39

PUTAMEN INSULA - INTERVIEW

1. The beginnings of Putamen Insula back to the year 2008, at that time Sovannak, Vincent VDM and Fred Criss, decided to form the band, what do you reason to create Putamen Insula and why choose this name?

Me (Sovannak) & Vince played music for a short lived grindcore band, and after the split up, we decided to start our own band with the help of Fred, who has always been a very good friend of ours. We used to do everything together all the time at some point in our lives, so creating a band together seemed like the natural thing to do, even though we each had different music tastes.

2. In 2011 you editáis your debut, an album that contains a direct issues where you can see a black metal influenced by punk, how was the recording process of this album and how has sat over time?
By the time we recorded this album, we had a new drummer, Mark, that we met a few times in local punk shows. I don't remember much from that time. I know we found him on myspace, because we posted an ad saying we needed a drummer who was into black metal, and didn't have a problem with fist fights and drugs. He was the only one who answered our ad and he did a very good job on the album. We recorded the whole thing in a friend's basement, and paid him with vodka and beer. Later, our drummer had to quit for uninteresting reasons but we always remained good friends.

3. In 2013 "Sourez" comes an album where they began to appreciate the variety of your sound, the songs become more mature and you can see more styles, like jazz doom, without losing sight of the punk part of your you sound, consider this album as the most important race of Putamen Insula?
I'm not sure what you are asking, but after the first album, we quickly starting experimenting more with music and broke free from any restraining (sub)genres. Our new drummer J loved to create atypical drum patterns, thus the main reason, I think, why we sound so different from the rest of the black metal bands out there. We also moved our rehearsal space in a dark basement, outside of Montreal, with no other bands jamming around us or interfering, which I think helped a lot for the writing process.

4. And this brings us to 2015 "Condoléances" an album with incredible guitars with a darker atmosphere, how you describe the sound of this album for yet or who has heard?
Condoléances starts out very slow and depressing, but gradually becomes more and more enraged. By the end of the album, what you hear is total hatred, and the conclusion of the album is this simple thought; the lesser Evil is human genocide.

5. After various line-up changes how was the process of writing and recording of "Condoléances"?
I don't remember how any of those songs were invented except for the first one. I started playing those riffs the day I wanted to announce to my ex post-punk band that I wanted this project to end. I was very stressed out and was going through a lot of different emotions.

6. Although the atmosphere is dark, almost depressive, your music revolves around social criticism, sarcasm and ecology, not to mention certain nihilism. Topics them all away somewhat from the classic current within the black, why consider interesting these issues?
I need to stay true to myself as much as I can, and I can't write about forests or Satan, it's simply not part of my daily life. What I go through everyday is struggle in an overpopulated capitalist world that has absolutely no respect for Gaia. The feelings of depression and anxiety you hear on the music are natural secondary effects from this modern life, in a big city such as Montreal. But to be fairly honest, living in the big city has always been a love/hate relationship, but I don't feel the need to express positive emotions, I just live them.

7. What bands and styles they are a benchmark for Putamen Insula?
I can't talk for the others but I am very much into coldwave, goth rock, post-punk, as well as second wave black metal, dsbm, post-black metal... I think they all blend in together very well. When Putamen Insula first started, we had this very strong crust punk sound but that was mainly because of the other members, i've never really been fond of this type of music except for a few melodic anarcho crust bands. An easy exemple to throw out there is Contravene.

8. From the pictures is to attend a concert Putamen Insula must be at least a very intense experience, how do you face the execution of a concert?
We don't play too many shows but we try as much as we can to play in a DIY and BYOB environment, and from what people say, I think we do give a good show. Whenever I feel like the energy exchange is very good, I get a little too excited and start mutilating myself on stage. I also made myself vomit a few times.

9. Erimha, Dagaz, Valknacht or Menace Ruine, to name a few, come from the same area as Putamen Insula, what happens in the area of ​​Quebec to come out so many good good extreme bands? Are you in touch with other bands and what you think about the scene?
All of those bands are terrible except for Menace Ruine, which I adore. We have many different metal scenes that don't mix together or get along. However, I always considered Putamen Insula to be outcasted from all those metal scenes... But maybe we are part of one and not aware of it.

10. How did you get started in music and why did you decide to become a musician?
This is gonna sound very cliché but I started a one man black metal band, back in the golden days of MySpace. At first I was just programming the drums and synths, and asked my friends to play the guitars for me. Later I taught myself how to play guitars and started recording them myself. I've been doing this for a few years and one day a friend of mine asked me to play guitars for his grindcore band, which I accepted. It didn't last long but just enough to give me a slight idea of how to be in a band, book gigs, deal with musicians, etc.

11. Your three albums have finished edited tape format by Haineuses Productions, why this format and this label?
Productions Haineuses is a label I founded. I'm a 90's kid, so cassettes have always been a huge part of my life. They are also cheap to produce and release in small batches, almost unbreakable, they never skip, and the list could go on and on... It's just a very good format and if people don't agree, that's their problem. They can find a way to download our music if they hate tapes so much.

12. What can you tell us of your other two groups Oppression and Sovannak Ke?
Oppression is a blend of Punk, Oi and Black Metal.
Its lyrical content focuses on war, our inner beast, and urban violence. We released 2 tapes and we have a 3 way split coming soon. I don't know what the future holds for Oppression, hopefully more stuff will come out but as we speak I am focusing on other projects for the moment. Just like Putamen Insula, Oppression played mostly in DIY spaces, in people's basements, private parties in rehearsal spaces, etc. and it's happened a few times that we'd played for bigger shows in real venues but I always instantly regretted them.
Sovannak Ke is obviously a solo project of mine. I wrote some songs that couldn't fit with any other bands I was in, so I decided to teach myself how to drum and then recorded everything myself. The result came out okay, but I used very bad recording equipment. The other members of Putamen Insula learned the songs and we performed one show of Sovannak Ké's Dites non à la vie (Say no to life). It was a great night.

13. Is it true that this "Condoléances" will be the last release of Putamen Insula? Why have you made this decision?
It doesn't have to be such a big deal, every member of Putamen Insula will keep playing black metal. Condoléances is a very solid way of saying goodbye, people should just enjoy the tape.

14. Mark the final point of Insula Putamen concert next July 31 with Antediluvia, Volah and Black Anvil?
Yes this show will be our last show, we were supposed to end this earlier but when we were asked to play with Volahn we decided to stretch it a little bit and only split up after that gig.

15. Thank you very much for taking the time to Black Metal Spirit, if you want to add something for the followers of Putamen Insula, this is the place. I hope the questions are to your liking.
Please kill yourself.
Contact Order:  productionshaineuses (a) gmail punto com 

Doombringer - The Grand Sabbath 16,00 €

In recent years, Doombringer has been responsible for some of the most unholy emanations from the bleak region of Poland. After several magnificent demos and 7” releases, Doombringer now unleashes its debut full-length, “The Grand Sabbath.” This album is a triumphant exaltation of darkness. The band, which features members of Bestial Raids and Cultes des Ghoules, has spent considerable time arriving at this point, and their dedication is manifest. Doombringer imbue the cacophonous intensity of Death Metal with the unconstrained evil of Black Metal, exploring the nexus between the raw, oppressive darkness of Goatlord and the ecstatic and transcendent evil of bands like Varathron and Mortuary Drape. The high level of composition is immediately apparent, and against the backdrop of the band’s tremendous songwriting is a tendency to enhance their sound with unanticipated sonic and vocal flourishes that accentuate the unique character of the songs. The use of varied vocal styles in particular is immediately arresting and provides a welcome departure from the usual monotonous vocal delivery of most other bands. To bring the album together as a whole, Doombringer sought Marko Marov to provide his uniquely demonic vision for the artwork. Regarded as a whole, “The Grand Sabbath” is a manifesto of the future direction of Black/Death and is destined to expand and epitomize the perimeters of extremity inherent in both genres.

silver vinyl LP: Casewrapped jacket wrapped in textured paper, 24″x24″ poster, and A3 insert.

BLACK METAL SPIRIT STORE

MOR DAGOR

Origen: Alemania, Essen

Formados: 1996

Estilo: Black

Temática: Destrucción, guerra, muerte y negativimo

Enlaces: Facebook, Mor dagor y youtube
Miembros:

• Beliath Bajo
• Lykanthrop Guitarra
• Schmied Voces
• Torturer Batería

Discografía:

• Bloodstream CD 2000  
• Human Execution CD 2001
• Necropedophilia CD 2004  
• Cirith Gorgor / Mor Dagor Split 2006  
• Mk. IV CD 2009
• Redeemer CD 2015

REDEEMER (2015)

Veinte años de carrera se antojan como más que suficientes para tener las ideas claras, así nos llega el quinto larga duración de lo germanos, un claro ejemplo de black metal en donde las sensaciones de guerra y destrucción están a la orden del día, en clara referencia eso sí a bandas de cabecera como Marduk. "Redeemer" son diez temas en poco más de treinta y siete minutos de una máquina de destrucción masiva en forma de música endiabladamente rápida y brutal, en donde Torturer aporrea sin piedad los parches, construyendo un ritmo aplastante, sobre el cual Schmied ruge imperioso en una delgada línea que separa el death y el black, las guitarras enlazan riffs tras riffs conservando la violencia de la propuesta en general. Podemos llevarnos una idea errónea de este álbum si solo hacemos caso a lo anteriormente expuesto, ya que los temas respiran, respiran en forma de algunos cambios de ritmo en los mismos que permiten apreciar el groove que tiene su música, al mismo tiempo que los riffs de guitarra cobran cierta accesibilidad sin perder del todo de vista su aire militar. En líneas generales este álbum significa encender la maquina de guerra y comenzar a rebanar cabezas a diestro y siniestro. (8).

Osmose productions

1. Redeemer 04:15  

2. Industrial Homicide 03:11  

3. No Mercy 02:59  

4. Message of Salvation 03:37  

5. Peace Through Superior Firepower 03:56  

6. Accuser 03:34  

7. Field of Demise 03:11  

8. Z.238 02:33  

9. Scorched Earth 04:36  

10. God of Gods, Destroyer of Worlds 05:20  

  37:12  

Dämmerfarben, Blaze of Sorrow – Geister Des Winters 16,99 €

The is going to be available as gatefold, including a six sided (eight pages (Gatefold + Inlay)), sticked in inlay and a 12'' vinyl.

Tracklist:

Side A:

01. Wintergang (5:28)

02. Der Blätter Abschiedslied (5:56)

03. Northern Shore (Throndt Cover) (5:51)

Side B:

04. Lumi (5:16)

05. TBA (9:10)

Playtime: ~ 31min

BLACK METAL SPIRIT STORE

FORTID

Origen: Islandia, Kopavogur

Formados: 2002

Estilo: Black, viking

Temática: Mitología nórdica

Enlaces: Facebook, soundcloud y youtube

Miembros:

• Einar "Eldur" Thorberg Guitarras, teclados y voces
• Ingi Þórisson Guitarra
• Kári Pálsson Bajo
• Unnar Snær Bjarnason Batería

Discografía:

• Völuspá Part I: Thor's Anger CD 2003
• Völuspá Part II: The Arrival of Fenris CD 2007  
• Völuspá Part III: Fall of the Ages CD 2010
• Pagan Prophecies CD 2012
• 9 CD  2015  
• The Demo Sessions  Recopolatorio 2016
• World Serpent CD 2020
• Dómur um dauðan hvern EP 2022
• Narkissos CD 2023
• Völuspá Recopilatorio 2023
• Lifandi á Íslandi 2024 Directo 2025

9 (2015)

Einar "Eldur" Thorberg creó Fortid en 2002 en un comienzo como una one man band, así llegaron sus tres primeros lanzamientos, años más tarde, en 2008, decide cambiar de aires, se asienta en Noruega y se produce la llegada de nuevo miembros que acaban por conformar a la banda en todo regla. Así llegó en 2012 "Pagan Prophecies" y recientemente este "9" que como su nombre indica consta de nueve temas en una línea viking, folk en toda regla. Ante todo estamos ante un álbum que nos muestra a una banda en plena madurez creativa y etiquetas como la del black metal se le quedan cortas. Un álbum que también es rico en matices y muy variado, a lo largo de casi su hora de duración podemos asistir a descargas de metal extremo teñido de black metal, aderezado con pasajes más tranquilos y limpios de presencia y ambientación más folk, sin perder en ningún momento una cierta aura pagana, recogida en embestidas de puro viking metal. Habrá quien guste más de sus inicios pero cualquier seguidor de bandas como Bathory tendrá en este álbum un buen lugar donde refugiarse. (8,2).

Schwarzdorn

1. Hrafnar 06:40  

2. Hugur 05:15  

3. Nornir 05:14  

4. Viska 10:15  

5. Leit 03:47  

6. 9 09:09  

7. Galdur 05:14  

8. Rúnir 05:59  

9. Hof 06:06  

  57:39  

WORSEN

Origen: E.E.U.U.

Formados: 2012

Estilo: Black

Temática: Automutilación, oscuridad, sufrimiento y suicidio

Enlaces: Bandcamp y facebook

Miembros:

• Brian Gobble Guitarra
• Randy Baucom Batería
• Rick Contes Todos los instrumentos y voces

Discografía:

• Blood EP 2014
• Worsen / Whitewurm Split 2016
• Cursed to Witness Life CD 2019
• Demo MMXII Demo 2019 Killed by Death Single 2019

BLOOD (2014)

Worsen despacha en este EP de cuatro temas y en poco más de veinte minutos una retaíla de black metal enfurecido, crudo y directo. La música desprende odio y oscuridad en cada nota, gran trabajo de guitarra, distorsionada a tope, sin alardes en cuanto a riffs, la mayoría de ellos se repiten a lo largo del tema, pero sin perder del todo de vista una cierta parte de melancolía y crudeza. La batería suena a mil por hora, programada o no, lo cierto es que se amolda perfectamente a la cadencia de la música y por último tenemos las voces de Rick, totalmente desgarradas y violentas cual persona que estuviera padeciendo. En conjunto el Ep transcurre por una línea continuista de riffs, los temas están cortados por el mismo patrón pero el resultado final logra ofrecer una música plagada de odio y oscuridad, velada en algunos sutiles cambios de ritmo. (8).

1. Open Veins 04:39  

2. Collect Their Skulls, Leave Their Bones 05:36  

3. Mortal Sin 04:37  

4. Blood 07:01  

  21:53  

S

APPALACHIAN WINTER

THE EPOCH THAT BUILT THE MOUNTAINS (2014)

Para su sexto larga duración Klyne se ha rodeado de un elenco de músicos por primera vez para poder desarrollar el álbum. "The Epochs That Built the Mountains" rompe un tanto con sus anteriores trabajos, hay un mejor sonido y una menor presencia de instrumentos acústicos para dejar sitio a una música mucho más épica, rozando lo operístico. Las composiciones han perdido ese componente metálico para cargar el peso de la misma en los sintetizadores y si bien esa sensación folk y de contacto con la naturaleza sigue estando presente se han perdido otras, sobre todo la de asistir a la audición de un álbum de black en todo regla. Las voces siguen siendo relativamente variadas con registro limpios y claros en contraposición a otros más agresivos y operísticos, todo muy grandilocuente. Estamos ante una obra mucho más elaborada que se adentra en terrenos sinfónicos, abandonando la crudeza y atmósferas de antaño para dejarse llevar por la vertiente más sinfónica del género. (7,8).

1. Laurentia 06:03

  Hear now, Great Mother of my land, 

Your ghost haunts all that is here, now, 

Here, that I call home. 

Here - now, Laurentia is upon 

The soul of a northern one 

Who wishes to know her. 

Secrets cast in stone 

And locked by the hands of time 

Are the only remnants 

Of a land lost to the ages. 

A stone image of a seafarer 

Cradled skyward upon a ridge 

Has spoken of my mountains 

With an incredible voice 

Passing ghosts from the rocks 

To my dreams. 

Hear now, Great Mother of my land 

That you are upon my dreams, 

You, great Laurentia!

2. Close the Ocean 06:01

Upon this world 

Even lands wander 

Upon journeys of thousands of miles. 

And in this epoch 

A great ocean dies 

Before the march of the lands' last embrace. 

The death of one Earth 

In genesis of another 

Brings lands closer to what our ages know. 

For behold, great forces below 

Upend the basin and the mountains now rise! 

Land comes upon land 

in an old, grand epoch of change. 

When all lands are in search of each other, 

The seas will yield before their advance, 

For behold, great forces below 

Upend the basin and the mountains now rise!

3. Rise to the Heavens 05:52

Rise to the heavens; Reach out through time. When lands collide, Let the mountains rise. Rise to the heavens as all lands gather, Riding the storms within the Earth. In this brief moment before it seems That all life will die, Something beautiful happened, And my Appalachians rose proudly into the sky! Long ago, my mountains were the tallest, Before wind and rain had their say. But even today, only ignorant eyes Can look upon these Appalachians And call them "humble." For they have borne skyward The fractured remains of a time That tell us about the forgotten age Of a once different Earth. Rise to the heavens and unite distant epochs, For all lands became one In the moments of your origin. And bear thee skyward the imprints of ancient times, For you are the mighty Appalachians, Old and beautiful; You are a testament of the Earth!  

4. The Last All-Land 05:17

 Span of the Earth; 

Many have become but one 

Ancient giant, 

For the lands came upon greatness and fused. 

And in the middle, 

Mountains like none before 

Kissed the heavens and stood against 

All that time could summon. 

Span of the Earth; 

Mother of my mountains! 

Fire below; 

The forge of all epochs! 

The Earth above; 

The face of eternal change! 

The mountains high; 

The dreams of the gods themselves! 

The greatest of lands 

Destined to be torn asunder; 

For giants that seem unmoveable 

Flow as rivers charging from the mountains. 

Span of the Earth; 

An old world's ghosts in a new age, 

Though the story of my mountains 

Is far from ending!

5. Clay Becomes Stone 04:51  instrumental

6. The Cycle of Sea and Mountain 05:41

 Rise to the knowledge of the Earth! 

Mountain and sea are eternally tied 

In their vortex - a swirl of re-creation - 

In an embrace as old as time. 

The epochs echo those that came before, 

As the sea and mountains sing the harmony of this world. 

Rise to this knowledge of the Earth, 

For the ground beneath our feet 

Changes as do the clouds above 

When the fearsome storms gather, 

And the eternal marble of the Earth 

Shall always persist, 

For the mountains flow into the sea 

Only to rise again. 

From the tallest mountains 

Are borne the ocean's depths. 

The beauty we call this Earth 

Flows as do the rivers, 

For in every rock 

Distant epochs sparkle

7. Watergap 05:08

 How can it be 

That the river is stronger than the mountain, 

The water can move the land, 

That the Rain can crumble to boulder? 

How can it be? 

How can it be 

The the river can stand it ground, 

And say, "The mountain shall not rise here, 

And my course to the sea shall remain, 

Unabated"? 

For when the mountain tried to give the river 

To the heavens, the river cut back down, 

Saying, "None shall move me from this Earth!" 

But these things are to be this world, 

That the river can carve the land, 

That this Earth - forever changed - 

Changes forever!

8. Withstand the Ages 05:51

A miracle are these mountains; they have withstood. 

And cruelties many they have defied. 

A miracle are these mountains, for they still stand. 

The ages spared no hardship upon this tortured land. 

Withstand the ages that would see your end. 

These mountains withstood; these mountains survived. 

These mountains still stand; these mountains still live. 

Through endless time, from old Earth to new, 

These mountains have stood; these mountains still live. 

Ages of sun and atmosphere 

Wrought destruction upon these mountains. 

Buried and uncovered, with once proud peaks 

Rended and cast into the sea, my mountains stand, still. 

And when all lands are again one, 

My Appalachians will reach the heavens once more.

9. Hymn to the Ancient Mountains 06:06

 When these mountains rose, 

the Earth gained a new beauty. 

And when these mountains rose, 

A new soul was brought upon this land. 

For the mountains sing the tales of the ages, 

And they bring the heavens closer to the Earth. 

My mountains stand, so eternal and glorious 

As the genesis of endless wonder. 

See now what remains of ages ancient 

-To this land 

-To this world. 

For the mountains sing the tales of the ages, 

And they bring the heavens closer to my heart, 

As my soul calls out to the ancient epochs, 

That echo still from peak to shaded valley.

  50:50

Anti / Mosaic - Landscapes 4,99 €

Illustration by Pascal Hauer (worked for Lantlôs, Vargnatt and others). Concept and Post-Execution by Inkantator Koura.

MOSAIC is the solo-project of Inkantator Koura (Alchemyst, Seremoni).

He is supported by Wiedergaenger (Total Negation, Nachts, Auvandril) on Session-Drums and Stephan Löscher (mastermind behind FJOERGYN) who creates the interlude for the split track.

ANTI is a project of Anti (Ex-Darkestrah) on strings, A.Krieg (Eternity, Darkmoon Warriors) on vocals and Zahgurim (Ex-Bethlehem) on Drums - creating dismal black metal at its best.

Tracklist:

Mosaic - Stellar Landscape 7.58min

Anti - Landscape in Minor (Re-Recorded 2012 with real drummer!) 6.24min 

- 300g gatefold cover

- uncoated (matte) paper

- limited to 500 copies

BLACK METAL SPIRIT STORE

HYPERBOREAN

Origen: Suecia, Örebro

Formados: 2000

Estilo: Black melódico

Temática: Bastallas históricas, guerras y mitología

Enlaces: Facebook

Miembros:

• Andreas Blomqvist Guitarra
• Magnus Persson Voces

Discografía:

• Of Malice Demo 2002  
• Thorns Scar Her Soul Demo 2003  
• Prey Demo 2005  
• The Spirit of Warfare CD 2011
• Mythos of the Great Pestilence CD 2014

MYTHOS OF THE GREAT PESTILENCE (2014) 

Segundo larga duración para los suecos después del más que correcto "The Spirit of Warfare" editado hace unos años. El salto de calidad y técnica con respecto a su anterior obra en este "Mythos of the Great Pestilence" es más que notable. Las baterías corren a cargo de Fredrik Widigs de Marduk, la producción viene de mano de Magnus Devo Andersson también de Marduk, con lo cual todo el álbum rezuma un ambiente más crudo y directo, sirva de ejemplo que han abandonado un tanto la inclusión de teclados para centrarse más en las composiciones, en las cuales se ha profundizado en el uso de las guitarras, con mucho más peso en este álbum. Ellos prefieren incluir el término experimental para definir su música, será por la incorporación de algunas ambientaciones folk, algún acercamiento al death melódico, pero sobre todo por lo enrevesado de algunas composiciones en cuanto a cambios de ritmo. Magnus también a madurado como cantante y sus voces están llenas de odio, siempre conservando un plano rasgado y violento. Complicado es de entender que todavía no haya ningún sello interesado en hacerse con sus servicios ya que este "Mythos of the Great Pestilence" bien se merece más repercusión de la que ha tenido. (8,1).

1. Hail Dystopia 04:56

Mindless hordes, cogs in the wheel

Break their swords, weaken their steel

Numb their souls have them pacified

As our final goal, their will has died

Watch our generation wilt and crumble

As our culture is scorned and raped

A rootless youth stagger and stumble

With Apathy as their great escape

Gather and march to extinction

Obeying and serving shadow lords

The sheep led to slaughter

Gather and march to extinction

Under the sharpened Damocles sword

To Styx’s cold waters

Hooked on Opiates that weaken their minds

A restless youth the blind leading the blind

Following the lure of the pied pipers tune

Their wills break and scatter with the fumes

Suppress our strong and exalt the weak

Their highest virtue is to turn the other cheek

Feminize our young so they easily break

Should the day come that they awake

Gather and march to extinction

Obeying and serving shadow lords

The sheep led to slaughter

Gather and march to extinction

Under the sharpened Damocles sword

To Styx’s cold waters

The lit beacons of the past

Hail Dystopia

Mirroring the present

Hail Dystopia

A vision for the future

Hail Dystopia

2. The Great Pestilence 07:20

Stand guard against their presence The Omens, the rats and the ravens Stand guard against evils true essence Fear is sweet poison for the craven Lo! Behold their coming Carrying broom and rake Wandering from village to city Silence following in their wake In his passing some would live Not so where she had swept For he who they brought with them His name was death The hour is at hand! Pestilence! Thou hath cometh! Malevolence! We shape the world in your image For we are the victim and the weapon We are the fertile soil and the sharpened scythe So they have come And with them our deliverance So that we may appease death On our knees in reverence They are brother and sister With hunger burning in their eyes The black soil brings silence Snuffing out their cries The hour is at hand Pestilence! Thou hath cometh! Malevolence! We shape the world in your image For we are the victim and the weapon We are the fertile soil and the sharpened scythe For we are the victim and the weapon We are the fertile soil and the sharpened scythe There are no necks we would not step on There is no soul we would not make writhe

3. Bring Forth the Dead Man 04:07

Some heed their holy calling To repent, suffer and pray And march the roads of flagellation It seems virtue and piety has fallen As he points and picks where he may Among the world’s nations All of our best enchantments Our finest potions and our spells What have they become No! Death shall not relent Behold the true manifestation of hell Where sinners succumb All remedies are futile, for the wages of sins Miasma! So he appears in the eastern wind Gather the corpses, pile them up in their mass grave Bring forth the dead men, to their master all shall slave Mark the cursed houses, beware the foulness of the air Bring forth the dead man, bow before his hollow stare All hope has been taken Of worldly nature or the divine There are no healing oils For if this world is forsaken And its pearls are cast for swine Indulge its wretched spoils And in the absence of god When pontiffs and priests kneel To the cross, a fallen scepter Join in and dance macabre Fornicate, drink and steal And embrace the leper Bring forth the dead man Bring forth the dead Bring forth the dead man Bring forth the dead Bring forth the dead man So shall it all end! As he spreads his wings Miasma! And he appears in the eastern wind Welcome the piled corpses, dance upon their graves Bring forth the dead man, we are his devoted slaves Consume the cursed spoils, inhale the foulness of the air We have become the dead men and laugh at his hollow stare

4. The Slaves of This World 06:14

 “And there before me was a white horse

Its rider held a bow and he was given a crown

And he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest”

The crops are withering

And the sun turns pale

The auguries have gone astray

The forests are whispering

The rains turn to hail

As if nature herself turns away

Untangle thy shackles and step forth into the world

Do with it as thou will! The poisoned arrow hurled

All fortifications fall, cross the Danube and the Rhine

The papacy rendered helpless at the sight of his sign

Crowned and anointed

Wretched wielder of the bow

The sharpened arrow pointed

At the kingdoms overthrown

They are the slaves of this world

They are the slaves of this wretched world

Where he rides there is a great anguish

The air will tremble with poison and laments

Even the splendor of Rome will lay ravished

As the impotent clergy pleads and repents

They are the slaves of this world

Fever burns through their veins

And blackness has marked their flesh

Their voices are coarse and strained

At the mercy of the black abscess 

The great equalizer, of serfs and knights and knaves

Further into Europe march, unto him they all are slaves

Nations fall to ruin, the conqueror’s banner flies unfurled

As the dead throng the roads to the underworld

For the ravens in black

Austere murder of the cloth

Their faith proved little match

And their flesh fell to rot

They are the slaves of this world

5. Änglamakerskan Hilda Nilsson 06:24

Kom oäktingar och bastarder

Kom ni oönskade små

Till Hilda på Bruksgatan fem

Kan era arma mödrar gå

Här ställs inga frågor,

Inga myndigheter lägger sig i

Och modern lämnar Änglamakerskan

Ensam och fri

Hilda bär flickan i sin famn

I en zinkbalja läggs hon ner

Dörren stängs och öppnas igen

Och barnet finns inte mer

Änglamakerskan Hilda Nilsson går ohyggliga bud

En tvättbräda och en kolhink kväver barnets gråt

Och Kroppen förtärs av lågor

Elden bränner kvarlevorna, förkolnar ben och hud

Men ingen ser dem, ingen hör, barnets klagolåt

Om de oönskade ställs inga frågor

Sjutton barn om livet bragt

Till evig vila Hilda lagt

Ve dig stackars arma barn

Som nästlats in i hennes garn

En pojke saknas i Hildas vård

Hans moder slår genast larm

Då uppdagas mörderskans dåd

All dess fasa, vrede och harm

I rätten fördes bevisen fram

Om de barn hon sänt att vila

Hon dömdes möta mästerman

Vid galgbackens inväntande bila

Änglamakerskan Hilda Nilsson går ohyggliga bud

Dömd till döden inlåst på Landskrona Citadell

Förekommer hon sitt öde

Med en linnetrasa runt halsen så möter hon sin gud

Hon finner ingen ro i döden och i hennes cell

Går den osalige döde

Igen

6. On the Nature of Mankind 06:12

Oh man he is a horrid beast

The most ravenous of them all

To satisfy all desires unleashed

To every darkness he will crawl

We exploit nature and it’s wild

For no other reason than our gain

We hoard the riches of her defiled

The scorched earth burned again

We exalt ourselves the lords of all

This world is ours to form

And better not as mindless thrall

Seal the fate of things forlorn

Peer through the looking glass

That your eyes may burn by flame

The reflection that the Abyss cast

Is of a beast we can never tame

The state of man against fellow man

Is a perpetual state of tooth and claw

For nature will steer whenever it can

And the state of nature means war

So when reason and desire duel

Shall logic be conquered by faith

For in a reality bleak and cruel

Is illusion the preferable state

We proclaim the exposition

Of our particular tribe or clan

And favor our own superstition

´Tis for “the greater good of man”

The modern world is an Atlas bred

To bear the weight of our warring toll

We swarm the earth as locust spread

To bled it dry and quench its soul

Oh the folly of they who believe

Enlightenment will cure the blind

When the will to exploit and deceive

Lies within the nature of mankind

7. Ethics of the Conqueror 05:36

The strong do as they will

The weak do as they must

An iron law true still

When we are bones and dust

This world is a theatre

Where the mighty perform

All will succumb to her

Clad in war torn uniform

And so prepare for the coming storm

The creeds of man bloody themselves

Against their natural peers

To test where true iron lies

On the ideological frontiers

The usurpers and lords who rule

Through myths they penned

Those myths will be unraveled

And this will be their end

The injury done unto a man

Should always be dealt so severe

That from the might of his hand

Vengeance need not be feared

The game of princes unravel

It is in the nature of man

The fallen taste the gravel

The victor claims the land

And rules his foe by force of hand

The creeds of man bloody themselves

Against their natural peers

To test where true iron lies

On the ideological frontiers

The usurpers and lords who rule

Through myths they penned

Those myths will be unraveled

And this will be their end

This austere logic endure

The Wise man and fool alike

In the state of nature

Profit is the measure of right

8. The New Paradigms Outcasts 07:59

 We spit forth our hatred into the vile mouth of the beast

We scorn the weak sedated that forever slave leashed

We care not for complacency that pacifies the fool

We care not for Christianity and all its golden rules

What need have we for the philosophies

Of an ancient desert tribe

What need have we for authorities

From old forgotten scribes

What need is there for a morality

That condemns man to be a slave

What need is there to bend knee

Until you stumble into your grave

What of the conquerors, the bold men of the past

Shall we just discard them, the new paradigms outcasts

The mighty and the vigorous, shall they forever be replaced

With meek and sobbing men of a bleeding and dying race

Thus the modern man was molded, his virtue torn apart

Left standing, a pallid ghost with a weakling’s heart

What need have we for pacifism

That wrestles the able into submission

What need have we for feminism

And its genderless visions

What need are there for timid ideals

That exalts mediocrity where they can

What need is there to grovel and kneel

Creating a spineless form of man

The madness that spews forth from ivory towers

Turn men into shadows and riddle them with guilt

Ideologies control the meek used by those in power

To maintain illusions upon which their society is built

Is this then our future

That of a cringing dog

Domesticated and neutered

Controlled and flogged

Whipped into silence

They lash out with wrath

At every ill-spoken word

So their chosen path

Won´t scatter the herd

At the threat of violence

What of our spirit, they took her to brand her

A whore infested with their vile rot

Like the great heroes, a modern Alexander

We will take our swords to their Gordian knot

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