Herbstleyd
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1998 |
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| Label (s) | No Colors Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
01:09:31 min |
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Herbstleyd is the debut album of the solo project Nargaroth and was released as an album in 1998 via No Colors Records .
Track list
- Introduction / Herbstleyd - 16:01
- Karmageddon - 4:23
- Nargaroth - 3:01
- The peace of mind of the old warrior ' - 8:39
- Amarok - Wrath of the Lamb - 18:39
- The Black Painting - 8:41
- From the dream of killing mankind / Outroduction - 10:15
History of origin
With the exception of Vom Traum zu killing die Menschheit (The Dream to Kill Mankind) and the intro and outro, the material can also be found on the demo of the same name, which Kanwulf says he wrote in 1993. The band's release date is doubted by critics and the date of creation is dated to 1998 or later.
Kanwulf responded to the question of why he had only published the material, which according to his own statement was made in 1993, so many years later that he had already recognized the decline of black metal and therefore originally did not publish his material at all wanted to:
“It was first released as a demo and after I released this demo, I recognized this certain decay, this inversion of values in Black Metal, and I found that this music and I were too bad to fit in there. Due to a friendship with Steffen from No Colors , it came about, more or less out of purely amicable interests, that I am now releasing the CD, otherwise it would probably never have happened. [...] The reason that I've brought it out now is really just that it was a wish of Steffen, but also my interest, maybe after all, to give a certain opinion that was in me. Whether someone is interested in that is the other matter - probably less. But I knew that people would hear it and, in the hope of reaching out to a few of these old people, who perhaps still feel a little connected to the basic idea of this music, somewhere ... Unfortunately, that was not the case! "
A supposedly earlier version of the song Herbstleyd can be found on the 2000 EP Amarok .
Originally, the song The Black Painting was to be provided with a text that can also be read on the official Nargaroth website, but the text was no longer used, so the song remained an instrumental piece.
criticism
Herbstleyd was included by Rock Hard in the list of "250 Black Metal albums that you should know", which is not limited to black metal albums. Editor Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann described it as "the ideal soundtrack for." an epic about our pagan ancestors ”and as the best German disc of the past two years from this area next to Nagelfar's megalithic grave in autumn . According to Kanwulf, this is a concept album.
However, the dedication "were controversial to the greater glory of deutchen [sic] soldiers of the Wehrmacht 1933-1945 [sic] . The negation of their achievements and the turning a blind eye to their willingness to make sacrifices, especially in the last year of the war, is the shame of our nation! ", As well as a greeting to the NSBM band Absurd ( Absurd, good to know yeah [sic!] Out of jail !!! ) and the statement:" German hateful and misanthropic Black Metal, made from White man for White man " in the booklet of the first pressing. In an interview he tried to explain the dedication and greeting to the band Absurd, but never distanced himself from the last statement. Dedications are missing in the new editions, the type of audience is now indicated with “a celtae hominis pro celtae homninis” [sic!].
Critics also assume that in the song Karmageddon , "Sieg Heil" is shouted at a point that was censored in the booklet. Instead of the 8 letters there are 8 points. Kanwulf has never commented on this.
Presentation
The cover shows Kanwulf with a shield and helmet sitting on a horse, in the booklet itself there is a close-up in armor and a picture with corpsepaint . Otherwise all texts can be found there. Kanwulf explains the many spelling errors in the first editions by saying that it was made by employees of a Dutch company who were not particularly thorough when typing the texts.
In the booklet, the song Vom Traum, die Menschheit zu killing Rob Darken from Graveland is dedicated, as the 1995 album Thousand Swords , which is considered by many to be the best Graveland work, helped Kanwulf to get through all these years. Kanwulf generally calls this his favorite album, which he has always wanted to make a sequel. A Nargaroth release called Raise Again the Thousand Swords is announced.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Last Wound: Interview in the "Black Metal Almanach". 1999, archived from the original ; Retrieved on November 10, 2010 (original page deleted due to the closure of Geocities ).
- ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : Biography. (No longer available online.) In: MusicMight.com. Archived from the original on September 22, 2012 ; Retrieved January 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Herbstleyd in the metal archive. Encyclopaedia Metallum , accessed November 9, 2010 .
- ^ A b Diana Glöckner: Dialogue between "Kanwulf von Nargaroth" and Diana Glöckner in the "Magacinum Ab Ovo". 1999, archived from the original on June 21, 2008 ; Retrieved June 30, 2010 (original link is dead).
- ↑ Self-statements on the official website.
- ↑ 250 Black Metal Albums That You Should Know . In: Rock Hard , No. 269, October 2009, p. 75.
- ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: NARGAROTH. Herbstleyd . In: Rock Hard , No. 144.
- ↑ nargaroth.de (PDF)
- ↑ Self-statement in the booklet for the CD
- ↑ Information on the official website.