Heimdall's watch

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Heimdall's watch
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Heimdall's Watch at the 2016 Dark Troll Festival
Heimdall's Watch at the 2016 Dark Troll Festival
General information
Genre (s) Pagan metal
founding 2004
Current occupation
Skjeld
Vocals, bass
Saruman
Herjann
Electric guitar
 Teja
Winterheart
former members
Drums
 Fire Giant (2004-2015)
singing
 Narhemoth (2004-2016)
bass
 Thjafjaz (2013-2015)
Heimdall's Watch at the 2016 Dark Troll Festival.

Heimdalls Wacht is a German pagan metal band from Ahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The band describes their style as "anti-Christian pagan music".

history

The band was founded as a side project of The Martyrium , because the members wanted to implement a certain concept "which only marginally fit into The Martyrium context" and was therefore better off as a side project. The first album Westfälischer Schlachtenlärm was released in 2005.

style

The style is Pagan Metal. According to the band itself, the reviews of the musical work turned out very differently, some called it an unmistakable, unique style, while the others only spoke of another band in the “uniform”.

Lyrically, the band differs from other pagan bands mainly in that there are no declarations of war on Christianity or other religions on the albums.

Right-wing extremism allegations

Heimdalls Wacht released on the Christhunt Productions label , which also publishes right-wing extremist bands. The band of origin The Martyrium released their album Todesrunen on the Nebelklang label of the right-wing extremist band Absurd . Because of titles such as The Shine of the Black Sun or Under the Banner of the White Hand , a right-wing extremist attitude of the band was suspected on various occasions. The music is classified as NSBM by some observers . She was accused of having “a positive opinion about relevant Nazi Black Metal bands [like] Totenburg , Absurd ”, and the singer is also said to have “invoked crude right-wing extremist conspiracy theories”.

The band said that "those who want to see us in the right spectrum do it, those who have some idea of ​​the matter, anyway know that we don't belong there". Specifying more closely, however, according to the published statement, they emphasize that political ideologies, especially from the extreme fringes, are resolutely rejected and further confess a clear rejection of fascist-right-wing extremist and left-wing extremist ideologies. A liberal legal order is eminently important in order to secure the postulate of autonomy of art that they consider to be worth striving for and that should not intervene in political and secular matters. Band member Saruman emphasized that despite all the accusations he is proud of his homeland Westphalia and its history and that people who “confuse patriotism with political ideologies (...)” are just stupid for him. According to a conversation with the Heathen Harvest network magazine, it is expressly not a question of proclaiming the superiority of a particular culture or "race", but of referring to cultural individuality that is felt to be worth preserving.

Publications

Studio albums

  • 2005: Westfälischer Schlachtenlärm (CD / 2x LP / MC ; Bloodshed Productions)
  • 2006: The Fall of the Old World (CD / MC; Christhunt Productions )
  • 2008: Ut de graute olle Tied - Deel I (CD; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2008: Heimdalls Wacht (MC; Heidens Hart )
  • 2010: Non-Places - Or the Spiritual Journey of the Runic Shaman (CD; Det Germanske Folket)
  • 2012: Ekte Westfäölske Svatte Metal (CD / 2xLP; Heidens Hart)
  • 2015: Ut de graute olle Tied - Deel Twee (Land der Nebel) (CD / 2xLP; Black Skull Records)
  • 2016: Ghost Seer (CD / 2xLP; Trollzorn Records )

Compilations

  • 2013: Promo 2013 (CDR; Heidens Hart)
  • 2014: Buried - Unforgotten (MC; Heidens Hart)

Splits

  • 2009: Niewelkraien with Heervader and Winterlieke (CD; Heidens Hart)
  • 2014 :: ZeitGeist: with Trollzorn (MC; Heidens Hart)

Web links

Commons : Heimdalls Wacht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Spielmann: Interview with Heimdalls Wacht ( memento from March 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Heimdalls Wacht - Ut De Graute Olle Tied - Deel I . | CD review / criticism
  3. ↑ The "wolf days" of the Black Metal Nazis? on "de.indymedia.org"
  4. ^ "Wolfszeit-Festival" in Neustadt / Coburg with dubious bands on "fight fascism"
  5. ↑ heathenharvest.com