Mother North

Mother North
Satyricon
publication	1996
length	6:26
Genre (s)	Extreme metal
Author (s)	Satyr
album	Nemesis Divina

Mother North ( Engl ., Mother North ') is a song by the Norwegian band Satyricon . It was written by Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) and recorded by the band along with session guitarist Ted "Kveldulv" Skjellum from Darkthrone . In 1996 it was released on the album Nemesis Divina and as a video single on VHS . There are two music videos for the song , one censored and one uncensored, which differ only in terms of the scenes shown, but not in length.

style

For the main riff, the A and D strings are used in frets 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10

This variation starts with an empty E string

The singing is typical of the genre screaming . The drumming is dominated by an almost continuous double bass with blastbeats of different speeds . The bass is mixed very softly, the bass line consists only of the respective fundamental tone. Harmoniously, the song is based on the keynote E , but the guitar plays dissonant patterns over and over again, each offset by a string, which mainly use the 7th, 9th and 10th fret of the guitar. The most shredded first guitar plays chromatic scales. Two guitars are used in the song, one of which, like the keyboard, basically only plays the power chords to the notes already played by the bass. The keyboard plays atmospheric "sound carpets" in the background, which mostly only contain the fifth , but more rarely also the minor third , which causes a minor chord. The minor minor sound typical of Nordic Black Metal does not result from the minor chords played, but from the chord progression with harmonic neutral chords (root + fifth), which together with the scales creates this impression. While in the main reef a ⁶ / ₈ ¯ clock is present, the verse and some other parts in is ⁴ / ₄ -stroke maintained.

The song contains traditional, quintessential and epic extreme metal with keyboards , which is based on Nordic black metal. The composition is more varied, more complex and with a higher technical standard and the production is cleaner and clearer than many other recordings from the Norwegian black metal milieu. Sephiroth from metalstorm.net describes the song as a "hymn" and the main riff as one of the most representative of the genre.

text

The text is written in English. The beginning of the song is reminiscent of Midnight Oils Beds Are Burning :

“Mother north - how can they sleep while their beds are burning? Mother north - your fields are bleeding ” “Mother North - how can you sleep while your beds are on fire? Mother North - Your fields are bleeding " - Satyricon : Mother North

"How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning" "How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning" - Midnight Oil : Beds Are Burning

In contrast to Beds Are Burning , the speaker at Mother North does not count himself among the sleepers.

According to the religious scholar Jason Forster, the song represents the disgust at the perceived state of mental, physical and environmental impurity to which Christianization , modernity , population development and immigration in Northern Europe would have led. Some members of Scandinavian bands had made corresponding statements to the press; Satyr himself had "starred in the magazine Rock Furore in a report on racism in black metal" and in 1994 in Nordic Vision, upon request, the interview there, actually in English, with an exclusive message to Scandinavian readers about Satyr's label and mail order Closing Moonfog Productions , voiced:

«Köp norskt! Og i disse dager er det vel klart at. Alt er ikke norskt selv om det har base her til lands. Drep de kristne. "

“Buy Norwegian! And these days it's clear that not everything is Norwegian, even if it's based in Norway . Kill the Christians. "

- Sigurd Wongraven : Interview in Nordic Vision

According to Forster, the band is amazed in their song at the complacency of their compatriots, who essentially look on indifferently to the pollution and desecration of their homeland.

"A Future benighted still they are blind
Pigeonhearted beings of flesh and blood
Keeps closing their eyes for the dangers that threat ... ourselves and our nature
And that is why
They all enrage me"

"A future, watch out, yet they are blind.
Dove-hearted beings of flesh and blood
keep closing their eyes to the dangers that threaten ... ourselves and our nature.
And that's why
you all infuriate me"

- Satyricon : Mother North

However, the "extremely nationalist , neo-fascist / neo-Nazi allusions and rhetoric", as Forster in connection with that of ( Rev 6,17  EU ) ( "For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" ) derived line of text "For the great day of wrath is coming, and who shall be able to stand?" from The Dawn of a New Age , another song by Satyricon, writes no more than "a superficial degree of agreement with romantic ideology ". Because ultimately they pointed less to true freedom than to the "displacement of one form of oppression / tyranny by another". At the end of the song, the speaker declares himself again connected to home; He will be there when they hunt them down ( "Mother north - united we stand (together we walk) / Phantom north - I'll be there when you hunt them down" ).

Despite the respectful reference to home as a mother, there are no indications of a pantheistic dimension of the texts in which home and nature would be God at the same time. There is also no reference to Satanism , which defines Black Metal ; Satyr, who wrote the song, stated that, in contrast to the drummer Frost ( Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad ), he is not a Satanist, but he shares some views of the Satanists and sees dark forces as "something other than just Satan ". Frost affirmed that satyr did not believe in Satan and had a strong hatred of religions; but there are other "approaches to the dark side than Satanism". He himself professes a form of Satanism that "has nothing to do with rigid religious dogmas or the stupid adherence to any set of rules", but " needs free will and a free but clear mind as a basis for your own truth […] [And] nd your own way through life, to find your own way to greatness ”.

Music video

Emergence

In March 1996, the music video for Mother North was made , directed by Satyr . The filming locations were Hekseskogen, Trosskogen and Greåker Fort in Sarpsborg Municipality . The video cassette was released on his own label, Moonfog Productions. Next to him, Frost and Kveldulv appears in the music video Monica Bråten, who is said to have been the girlfriend of one of the Satyricon members. The videotape contains a censored and an uncensored version of the clip, both of which are exactly the same length (6 minutes and 25.8 seconds or 9645 frames ); the censored version contains 63.4 seconds (1585 frames) of alternative scenes. On the tape are an intro with Carl Orff's O Fortuna , the censored clip, an intermezzo (Prokovjev Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet) that introduces the uncensored clip, and the credits . The music video should visually express the music and visualize the atmosphere of the song.

action

The video begins with the satyr breaking a cross with a large double-headed ax in slow motion . Then you can see the actors in the video individually, which is kind of an idea. The band members are dressed in typical black metal clothing with corpse paint , rivets and chains; Frost spits beyond even fire . Monica Bråten runs through the forest in a transparent white dress or portrays a pagan shaman . Then the singing begins while the satyr is seen walking through the forest with Monica Bråten. This is followed by some scenes that were shot in a building (the film studio) before Bråten is seen running (away) alone. Then you can see Satyr leaning on his ax in the dark in the fog, where he is shown partly in the medium long shot down to the detailed shot of his left eye. The intermediate part shows the three musicians performing an occult ritual while kneeling in a circle of fire. This scene is followed by a quieter interlude, which is underlaid with various scenes that show the moon and Kveldulv's face, and those that are very similar to the ideas of the actors at the beginning of the video. In the further course of this part you can see Satyricon leaving the ritual place and finally singing in a similar setting as in the scene with Satyr in fog. Now follow the first corpse Megaupload - and Aktszenen that are interrupted when the tempo of the music increases again and looking at the musicians, both individually as well as together, looks again. Then these scenes start again. The video ends with a final scene that reflects all the elements shown in the video such as the performance, the portraits, the nudes and desecration scenes and the wandering satyrs with Bråten.

Differences between the two versions

In the censored version, the desecration of the corpses and nudes have been edited in seven places with a blur filter or replaced by other recordings. At 3:07 (frame 4695) you can see in the 4.12 seconds different seconds of the censored version in a close-up how Satyr Bråten bites in the throat "like a vampire ", while the uncensored version no longer sees the scene in close-up so that her breasts are sometimes visible. At 3:27 (frame 5182) Satyr assaults Bråten and drinks blood from a wound in her stomach, while in the censored version he poses for 8 seconds in front of the flashing light. At 4:31 (frame 6789), the censored version of the video only shows a glow of light for 1.76 seconds; in the uncensored version "bloody chunks fall from the satyr's mouth". In the fourth cut at 4:42 (frame 7053) with 4.28 seconds of alternative footage, Bråten dances naked in front of the camera, although the image in the censored version is very blurry; in the uncensored version the picture is sharp and the picture was taken from a different camera angle. At 4:49 (frame 7226) Bråten can be seen dancing in the uncensored version while Satyr appears next to her; In the censored version with 11.28 seconds of alternative footage, you first see her face, then the satyr posing and finally a blurry shot of Bråten dancing. At 5:01 (frame 7543) and 5:22 (frame 8066) again “nude scenes were made unrecognizable by a blur filter”, with 19.12 and 14.84 seconds in both versions differing from each other.

Later versions of the song

The band gave their next release the title Megiddo - Mother North in the Dawn of a New Age ; this is reminiscent of the titles Mother North and The Dawn of a New Age from the album Nemesis Divina , but no version of Mother North can be heard on the EP . Satyricon published the song in its original version again in 2002 on the compilation Ten Horns - Ten Diadems and writes on its website: "It's always a pleasure to perform it live" ('It 's always a pleasure to perform it live '). Since the band has now turned to a more rock-heavy style, more distant from Black Metal, the song is meanwhile tonally “ geared towards the current, more rocky era” and, according to Markus Jakob from metalnews.de, “slightly messed up”. A live version with orchestral additions recorded on the Gjallarhorn show (Sentrum Scene, Oslo, November 2006) can be found on the EP My Skin Is Cold from 2008; In contrast to Metallica's S&M , the title has been changed from the original and not just expanded by an orchestra, whereby the changes add an additional dimension, according to Frost, which puts an emphasis on the apocalyptic aspects. This is a big experiment for the band.

reception

Mother North initially received "not a great response," according to Satyr, but was well received. The song is now considered a classic and anthem and has been covered by numerous bands. Parts of the music video can be seen in the film Spun by former Bathory drummer Jonas Åkerlund .

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