black metal is war
| Black Metal is War - A Dedication Monument | ||||
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2001 |
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| Label (s) | No Colors Records | |||
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CD |
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11 |
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70 min 15 s |
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Black Metal is War - A Dedication Monument is the second album of the solo project Nargaroth and was released in 2001 by No Colors Records . According to Kanwulf, the album is a dedication to Black Metal and an attempt to portray his view of it and its meaning for it. With the exception of the drum parts , which were recorded by Butcher of Maniac Butcher and Occulta Mors of Moonblood , Kanwulf took over all the instruments .
Track list
- Introduction (Kanwulf) - 2:14
- Black Metal is War (Kanwulf) - 5:03
- Far Beyond the Stars (Angramainyo) - 4:50
- Seven Tears Are Flowing to the River (Kanwulf) - 14:50
- I Burn for You (Lord Foul cover with an intro from Quentin Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs ) - 2:58
- The Day Burzum Killed Mayhem (Kanwulf) - 9:24
- Píseň pro Satana (Big Boss) - 2:42
- Amarok - Wrath of the Lamb III (Kanwulf) - 9:33
- Erik, May You Rape the Angels (Kanwulf) - 7:01 am
- The Gates of Eternity (Gaamalzagoth) - 5:06
- Possessed by Black Fucking Metal (Kanwulf) - 6:34
Texts
Seven Tears Are Flowing to the River is a love poem written by Kanwulf to his then wife Nöktrymm.
Far Beyond the Stars is a cover by the Swedish band Azhubham Haani, whom Kanwulf often mentioned in interviews and described in an interview with Magacinum ab ovo as one of the “most profound and strongest pioneers of this scene”.
Píseň pro Satana is a cover by the Czech band Root , who according to Kanwulf's comment in the booklet, Big Boss deserves this honor despite the “indisputable sexual affinity of the front man that was only revealed to him after the recording”. In his opinion, the song has “tremendous potential” and has served Varg Vikernes as “the musical inspiration for his song 'WAR'”, which Varg Vikernes confirmed in one of his first interviews.
Kanwulf dedicated the title Amarok - Wrath of the Lamb III to all soldiers and their descendants who died in the two world wars.
Two titles deal with events in the Norwegian scene. The Day Burzum Killed Mayhem is about the day Varg Vikernes murdered his former friend Øystein Aarseth . Kanwulf interprets this day in the text as the end of true Black Metal :
“Since that mighty day Black metal split his way,
And the unity was never the same again.
Read, rumors and hate. Moneymaking, sadness and shame
And all this by the Day as Burzum Killed Mayhem . "
In the booklet Kanwulf writes that the event was a tragedy for him in 1993, the extent of which "could only be grasped by a member of the scene who also lived through it", although he himself only came into contact with the black metal scene in 1996 .
The song Erik, May You Rape the Angels was written for the dead musician Erik "Grim" Brødreskift, who died on October 14, 1999 of a drug overdose. In the booklet Kanwulf writes that for him Brødreskift was "one of the most likable existences in the history of Black Metal of the second generation and the knowledge of his passing created a feeling of sadness similar to that which crept into mine after the self-induced death of my only friend" . Musically, Erik, May You Rape the Angels is based on Immortal , one of the bands in which Brødreskift played; Kanwulf writes that he tried to "come close to the musical style of the song to a style of the bands in which he was active". Since Gorgoroth presented "no stylistic challenge" for him, despite his "aversion to the musical peculiarities of IMMORTAL" he oriented himself to their style. As an outro, Kanwulf used a sample by Brødreskift that was recorded at an Immortal concert in 1994.
The Gates of Eternity is a cover of the Saxon band Moonblood , whose drummer Occulta Mors helped out on the album. According to Kanwulf's comment in the booklet, it testifies to his “respect for the only Black Metal band in Germany that, besides ABSURD, is also worth mentioning”.
“And precisely because there is hardly anything in Germany that one could delight in in the Black Metal area, one now thinks about the long neglected and ignored by many, so that it is a kind of fashion to hear MOONBLOOD at the moment. So the number of alleged confidants or longtime friends and some former gothic sluts who are not even worth raping before you kill them wear MOONBLOOD t-shirts and when asked if you knew whose shirt they made them Wearing them through their disgusting existences pollute answers like: 'They're good, aren't they?' give. Arrrrrgggghhh ... !!! And so another valuable gem is destroyed by inflationary abuse. Crap!"
However, Marcel "Darkmoon" Spaller from Sombre Records described Kanwulf Moonblood as "shit".
“Root, Azubham Hani [sic!], Lord Foul and Moonblood all only know Kanwulf from me, Kanwulf also wrote the lyrics and covered the songs for“ Black Metal ist Krieg ”a few weeks later. When he was at an Akhenaten birthday party, he told me that Moonblood was rubbish when I gave Akhenaten a Moonblood LP. "
layout
The cover itself shows Kanwulf in black and white, armed with sword and dagger, crossed his arms and is based on a promotional photo of Varg Vikernes from 1993.
In the booklet the lyrics of the songs are not printed, but Kanwulf's explanations for each are longer. Kanwulf himself stated in the booklet that he had "in the course of the publication [...] [decided] to write a bound accompanying document which [...] seems indispensable for understanding and which should follow the album shortly". He further described this project as a transliteration of his thoughts for which there was no more space due to a lack of space. However, this accompanying pamphlet never appeared, Kanwulf himself states that he was “simply too lazy [...] to write it”.
criticism
Black metal is war - A Dedication Monument is, along with Herbstleyd, the most famous work by Nargaroth. The phrase "Black Metal is War" achieved cult status in parts of the metal scene and became a winged word within the metal scene. Accordingly, the phrase also led to numerous parodies both inside and outside the scene. Kanwulf himself writes on his official homepage that the album title has often been misunderstood:
“The album title, which found its way around the world in a wide variety of versions and variations, including caricatures, and thus made me virtually immortal, was hardly understood by anyone! Many interpreted this saying naively, in the sense of a conventional war or conventional violence. But that's not what it meant. I meant the daily war in my head. The daily contradictions, triggered by the inner ideals of Black Metal and the everyday demands in the real world. "
He also stated that every true Nargaroth fan should have understood the statement, since in the outro of his debut album Herbstleyd "the foundation stone for the name and the meaning of this album had already been laid". However, the slogan is also used intentionally in a different sense than the Kanwulfs. It finds its equivalent, even without naming Nargaroth, on numerous patches , T-shirts and other accessories.
It was criticized that “damn few own ideas were pepped up with the professional replay of traditional hearing patterns […]” and that the titles “cannot be surpassed in some cases in pathos and ridiculousness”. The track Erik, May You Rape the Angels takes over riffs of the band Immortal, in which Erik Brødreskift played, other tracks sound like the Darkthrone albums Under a Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger . The title track Black Metal ist Krieg takes over a passage from Strids End of Life without Wagner mentioning it, which has been criticized as outrageous. In addition, critics accuse Kanwulf that the bands he covered on this album served him "solely to satisfy his personal addiction to recognition".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Shaddai: Lies and half-truths about "Kanwulf of Nargaroth". Archived from the original on February 28, 2009 ; Retrieved November 17, 2009 .
- ↑ Shaddai: Dialogue between "Kanwulf von Nargaroth" and Diana Glöckner in the "Magacinum Ab Ovo". Archived from the original on May 8, 2009 ; Retrieved November 23, 2009 .
- ↑ MEMBERS. Archived from the original on August 20, 2001 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 (English).
- ↑ metalupdate.com. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
- ↑ weblink. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed in 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Own presentation (PDF; 3.1 MB)
- ↑ a b Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 125 f .
- ↑ a b Official homepage
- ↑ a b Bad Peon: THE UNDERGROUND EMPiRE METAL MEGAZiNE: LESS CURRENT REVIEWS. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
- ^ Interview with Yersinia. In: Sheol web magazine. Archived from the original on April 27, 2005 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Review of Strids End of Life by Abditus Vultus. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Reviews of Nargaroth at FinalWar. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed in 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )