Odal (band)

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Odal
General information
origin Thuringia , Germany
Genre (s) Pagan metal
founding 1999
Website odal-horde.de
Current occupation
Taaken
ADD (since 2009)
Grroll (since 2002)
former members
Drums
 Loki (2000-2002)
bass
 Wolfhetan (2003–?)
bass
 Naudhiz
guitar
 Berserk

Odal is the name of a pagan metal band from Thuringia. The band is counted as part of the NSBM scene due to personal involvement and ambiguous texts .

Band history

Odal was founded by singer and guitarist Taaken in 1999 as a side project of the band Aske . However, Taaken fell out with the band's founder Svart and the band broke up. After several EPs, the debut album Sturmes Brut was released on Darkland Records in 2002 . Then Odal switched to the right-wing extremist metal label Christhunt Productions , where the two albums ... wilde Kraft and Zornes Heimat were released.

In 2016 the so far last album Geistes Unruh was released via Eisenwald Tonschmiede.

Ideology and style

Musically, Odal is based on Darkthrone . Other musical influences are Isvind , Immortal , Moonblood , Burzum , Venom , Emperor , Satyricon and Mayhem . In terms of text, the band deals with topics such as paganism , Germanic ancestors and battles. Taaken emphasizes in various interviews that Odal is not an NSBM band, even if he listens to NSBM himself. However, some texts can be interpreted in the sense of an NSBM band. This is how Taaken sings in the song Germansk :

“God of war, lead us to battle, to defeat the plague that the south brought us! Let our hordes go under the sign of the sun, for our ancestors and the sun wheel! Army of thunder lead us to victory, fight in holy war! "

- Odal : Germansk

The usual right-wing extremist ciphers are used there: the sun wheel for the swastika and the "plague from the south" for Judeo-Christianity . Taaken also expressed himself xenophobic and anti-Semitic in various fanzines . In addition to Odal, Taaken was and is also active in various other bands, such as Wolfsschrei, Barastir and Raven's Empire, where his brother Raven contributes to the vocals. He is also the head of the Irminsul Vertrieb or Irminsul Records label, on which bands such as The Martyrium and many of his side projects have appeared, as well as the fanzine of the same name.

The band is named after the Odal rune Othala , which in the older runic alphabet stands for “permanent property, inherited property”. In the Nazi state it served as a symbol for blood and soil and was later used, among other things, as a symbol of the banned right-wing extremist organizations Wikingjugend and Bund National Studenten . In the scene on the right, she is now a symbol of "ancestral loyalty".

Discography

Studio albums

  • 2002: Sturmes Brut (CD; Darkland Records)
  • 2005: ... wilde Kraft (CD; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2008: Zornes Heimat (CD; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2016: Geistes Unruh ( 12 " ; Eisenwald Tonschmiede)

EPs

  • 2001: Germansk ( MC ; own publication)
  • 2001: Traitor (CD; self-published)
  • 2002: Fimbul Winter ( 7 " ; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2003: Once adored by everyone (CD; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2016: Der Dunkelheit Reiter (12 "; Black Devastation Records)

Splits

  • 2003: Odal / Raven's Empire - Once adored by everyone / Vae Victis (7 "; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2004: Odal / Surturs Lohe - And on earth the battle rages / Enter the Fields of Clear Blue Sky (7 "; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2004: Branstock / Cultus / Odal / Deathgate Arkanum (song: Des Wodans Zorn ) (10 "; Heidens Hart )
  • 2009: Odal / Sõjaruun (song: Veitstanz ) (7 "; Black Devastation Records)

Compilations

  • 2007: On Old Paths (CD; Klaxon Records)
  • 2009: ... wild force / once adored by everyone ( LP ; Christhunt Productions)
  • 2013: Discography Box 2013 (10xCD; Fallen-Angels Productions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview. Infernalfields.com, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ quoted from Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Allianzen . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 180 .
  3. ^ Rainer Fromm: Black and brown music networks. bpb.de, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ 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. 180 f .
  5. ↑ Irminsul Records at Discogs
  6. ↑ Criminal signs and gestures. University of Salzburg : Department of Geography and Geology, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ministry of the Interior and Sport Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Department for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.): Rituals and symbols of the right-wing extremist scene . Schwerin July 2015, p. 15th f . ( verassungsschutz-mv.de [PDF]).
  8. ↑ Georg Schuppener: Strategic recourse of the extreme right to myths and symbols . In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers . VS-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 , pp. 318 .
  9. ^ Rudolf Simek : Runes yesterday, today, tomorrow | bpb. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .