Gravel land

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Gravel land
Graveland (Kolovorot 2017)
Graveland (Kolovorot 2017)
General information
Genre (s) Black Metal (until 1997), Pagan Metal (from 1999)
founding 1991 or 1992
Website http://www.graveland.org/
Founding members
Robert "Rob Darken" Fudali
Current occupation
Guitar, vocals,
electric bass , keyboard
 Robert "Rob Darken" Fudali
Drums (2015)
Mirosław Rosiński
former members
Capricornus (1993-1998)
Electric bass
 Karcharoth (1994-1995)

Graveland is a pagan metal - band from Poland , but in their origins Black Metal has the second shaft and also the basis of their ideological orientation NSBM is assigned.

biography

Graveland was founded in the winter of 1991 and 1992 as a solo project by Robert "Rob Darken" Fudali. First sources of inspiration were Emperor and Bathory . During this time the first demos Necromanteion and Drunemeton were made . In 1993 Capricornus joined the band as a “permanent session drummer ”. In the same year, the first joint demo In the Glare of Burning Churches was recorded and published, the title of which affirmatively refers to the church arson carried out by the Norwegian black metal scene . Inspired by the Norwegian Inner Circle, the group The Temple of the Fullmoon emerged in Poland, to whose founders Nergal ( Behemoth ), Blasphemous (Veles) and Venom (Xantotol) belonged. Darken called him a more idealistic copy of the Norwegian circle and the "only [sic!] True satanic organization in Poland". In addition to the founders, the group Infernum, affiliated to Graveland, as well as the bands Mysteries, Fullmoon, Kohort, Perunwit, Dark Storm, Midnight and Pagan Temple belonged to them. After breaking with Behemoth, the organization adopted a change to right-wing extremism .

"Together we can destroy this cursed system - democracy and Christianity !!!"

- Rob Darken : Ablaze # 6

In 1994 Karcharoth joined the band and with him the demo The Celtic Winter was recorded that same year , which was released as an EP by the No Colors Records label . The collaboration with the label that began back then continues to this day. A few months later the label Eternal Devils Records released the album Carpathian Wolves .

In the same year the first album of Karcharoth's project Infernum was released with the title ... Taur-Nu-Fuin ... , on which he was supported by Rob Darken and Capricornus. Due to right-wing extremist content on this album and in the booklet, the Polish police became aware of Infernum and began investigations. According to Darken, Karcharoth suffered a nervous breakdown and testified against the other members of the band, which, according to Darken and Capricornus, caused "serious problems" . In addition, Karcharoth changed his political ideas every week and turned away from the right-wing extremist scene and turned to left-wing ideas. According to Darken, he began "anti-graveland campaigns" and accused him and Xanquoreth von Fullmoon of attempting to murder himself. In the fall of 1997 Karcharoth is said to have been admitted to a psychiatric clinic; According to Darken, he was schizophrenic and planned to travel to Norway to assassinate Darkthrone drummer Fenriz . Karcharoth died on Walpurgis Night or on May 7, 2004 by suicide .

In the course of the release of this album, Graveland got increasing attention from larger metal labels. The band signed a contract with the Austrian label Lethal Records , on which the album Thousand Swords was released in 1995 . Many fans of the band still consider it the best release and a classic in the black metal scene.

In 1995 Darken announced to the Ablaze : “We support all terrorist activities against Christianity and democracy! [...] Don't let the Jewish conspiracy destroy us! [...] The German war spirit must awaken! The Aryan Europe will die if we do not wake up! "As a result, the label Lethal Records announced the band. Michael Piesch from Lethal Records announced in the same Ablaze issue: "Complete idiots like Rob Darken (whose ancestors were probably Jews themselves) help to cast the entire scene in a bad light." Darken then founded his own label Isengard (later Eastclan), on which he shortly afterwards re-released Thousand Swords as MC. The booklet reads: "Isengard products are anti- osmosis - Nuclear-Blast- Lethal, against this Jewish business conspiracy." Ironically, the Graveland title Born for War was published in 1995 on Nuclear Blast Soundcheck - Series Volume 2 . In interviews he spoke out against labels like Osmose Productions and bands under contract like Immortal and continued to make right-wing extremist statements, like in 1996 against Dark Philosophies : “I fight with the ideas that are against the holy Aryan pagan war support Judeo Christianity. […] Auschwitz is still waiting for the days of its renewed fame. ”He spoke to Pit magazine about a mixture of pagan and neo-Nazi ideology:

“Aryan race wake up! The new era of paganism and darkness is coming. Graveland will show you the way. Start the holocaust again, kill Jews and Christians.Destroy the false god of Jesus Christ! [...] We chose the way of war, because we have to wage war against the sub-human races from Turkey, Africa and Rumania. Destroy Negroes and other sub-men! They destroy our traditions and culture. Europe must be cleansed from this fucking shit! Europe only for white Aryan race! "

“Aryan race awake! The new era of paganism and darkness is coming. Graveland will show you the way. Start the Holocaust again, kill Jews and Christians. Destroy the false god of Jesus Christ! […] We choose the way of war because we have to wage wars against the subhuman races from Turkey, Africa and Romania. Destroy negroes and other subhumans! They destroy our traditions and culture. Europe needs to be cleansed of this damn shit! Europe only for the white Aryan race! "

- Rob Darken

Due to the problems with Karcharoth and the aftermath, Graveland did not release new music until 1997, in the form of the album Following the Voice of Blood , which, however, did not receive the same popularity as the Thousand Swords album.

On the 1999 release Immortal Pride , the music, like film music (on the MySpace page of Gravelands, Darken named the bands Bathory , Manilla Road , In the Woods ... and the film music for Conan the Barbarian as influences), was much more epic and bombastic . Keyboards and choirs were used extensively, and the songs became significantly longer, so the Immortal Pride album consists of only four songs, two of which act as intro and outro. The other two songs, in turn, are about 24 and 17 minutes long. Since Capricornus could not identify with Darken's new musical direction, he left Graveland and began to devote himself more to his own ideas. According to Capricornus, the relationship between the two musicians is still good. Capricornus then led the solo projects Capricornus and Thor's Hammer in addition to his existing label Capricornus Prod. And published a magazine called Into the Pentagram . In the meantime he has withdrawn from the scene.

In the winter of 1999/2000, Rob Darken wrote music for a release with the right-wing extremist band Honor , also from Poland , which was released on CD under the title Raiders of Revenge on Resistance Records and on cassette in Poland on Triskelon Records. In 2000 the album Creed of Iron was released , which continued the path taken on Immortal Pride . From this album Darken continued to work without Capricornus on the drums.

In 2001 the mini CD Raise Your Sword! and in 2002 the album Memory and Destiny , with both releases also being very epic. With the 2003 album In the Fire of Awakening , Darken manifested his form of Pagan Metal, which is typical for Graveland, and continued this style on the 2004 album Dawn of Iron Blades .

In September 2008, four Graveland publications were indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (List B).

Graveland has a well-known side project, Lord Wind, whose music, according to Darken and No Colors Records, is influenced by music from the Middle Ages , folk , Dead Can Dance and the score for Conan the Barbarian . Darken is or was involved in several other groups besides Infernum, including the bands Veles, Thoth and Legion.

Graveland didn't play live until 2015, but announced first live appearances in 2015. In 2015/2016 there were local appearances as well as at the Finnish Steelfest and the French Ragnard Rock Fest. On December 25, 2017, Graveland performed for the first time in Germany.

style

At the beginning the band played a very raw, slow or medium-paced, but quite aggressive Black Metal style with rough vocals and a dark atmosphere based on the use of the keyboard. Graveland played a combination of fast, hardcore- heavy riffs similar to those of Discharge , which alternated with epic, waltz-like passages. Darken uses a keyboard sound modeled on the church organ here, while choir- like keys dominate on later works . The albums Thousand Swords and Following the Voice of Blood marked the beginning of the development into a pagan metal band. These albums are considered to be the best from Graveland. On them there was a thin, slightly distorted, but still very raw guitar sound and spherical keyboards. The drum kit, reminiscent of a horse gallop, is considered unique.

From 1998 Darken relied on strong influences from film music and Bathory's Viking Metal phase, but continued to use guttural vocals throughout; only on Immortal Pride is epic clear vocals used. Despite the change in style, an EP was released in the same year with two new recordings of old pieces in Black Metal style, but with elements from the band's new phase. With the departure of Capricornus, the music initially became more static and slower, but faster drumming is used again on the last two albums. The keyboard playing of later albums served as the basis for the Lord Wind side project. The style of Graveland has been compared to that of Bathory in their Hammerheart era, the melodies also to those of Emperor .

Ideological background

Although the texts of Graveland are not clearly right-wing extremists, Graveland is counted among the groups of the NSBM movement. This is mainly due to the attitude and the right-wing extremist statements that the band repeatedly reproduces in interviews, but also to their membership in the NSBM network The Pagan Front . Darken regards himself as pagans and sees Christianity as the greatest enemy for the "white Europeans". He seeks a return of the white Europeans to the alleged inheritance of their ancestors . His interpretation of neo-paganism is shaped by xenophobia , racism , anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories . For example, he expressly speaks out against “racial mix”. On the EP Raise Your Sword! From 2001 paganism is declared to be a “species-specific” religion that is universally and irrefutably valid (natural) religion for white Europeans: “Paganism or rather ethnic, natural beliefs and religions are part of our nature, part of our racial heritage.”

Darken's former bandmate Capricornus also often represented right-wing extremist and racist positions. Darken himself also works with right-wing record distributors and skinhead bands such as Honor from Poland. For example, Hendrik Möbus from Absurd also contributed the text for White Hand's Power for Graveland. For him, as well as for Varg Vikernes and Timothy McVeigh (through a text by William Luther Pierce ), honors can be found on the Gravelands website. The neo-Nazi-neo-pagan groups Wotansvolk and Temple of Wotan, founded by David Eden Lane , serve as inspiration .

Graveland contributed songs to the CD The Night and the Fog - A Tribute to the National Socialist Black Metal Underground and the third part of the series, The Night and the Fog Part III - Underground Heathen Hammer , but Darken himself does not count his band in the NSBM and also distanced himself from National Socialism itself, as it was illogical and against “the eternal law of evolution” and instead demands that “the white man should look for ideas that are better adapted to today's reality”. He doesn't want his band to be associated with Satanism , which he sees as inseparable from Black Metal. Satanism is part of the “Judeo-Christian religion” and as such is “foreign to culture”; Satanists would have found their end in the Third Reich in gas chambers. He justifies the initial connection between Satanism and paganism with the fact that he played with people who were Satanists with no interest in paganism; Karcharoth and Capricornus are responsible for satanic elements in Graveland's image, he himself never supported Satanism. These differences are also the reason why they went their separate ways and Graveland became a one-man band again. In the meantime, however, Capricornus has also deviated from it and points out that in the texts of his project of the same name “no topics like Satan or other Jewish shit are mentioned”.

The band's music has often been well received, but their attitude has led to different reactions outside of the far-right wing. While many fans are interested in the music rather than the political background, the far right wing has welcomed the band. Another part of the scene is very averse to Graveland and the entire NSBM scene and turns against this circle; For example, some metal clubs, festivals and musicians do not tolerate visitors with Graveland shirts.

Discography

Albums

  • 1994: Carpathian Wolves
  • 1995: Thousand Swords
  • 1997: Following the Voice of Blood (indexed September 30, 2008)
  • 1999: Immortal Pride (indexed September 30, 2008)
  • 2000: Creed of Iron ( republished in 2001 under the title Prawo Stali with Polish texts)
  • 2002: Memory and Destiny (2012 under the title Pamięć i przeznaczenie , remastered and republished with Polish lyrics)
  • 2003: The Fire of Awakening
  • 2004: Dawn of Iron Blades (indexed January 28, 2011)
  • 2005: Fire Chariot of Destruction
  • 2007: Will Stronger than Death
  • 2009: Spears of Heaven
  • 2013: Thunderbolts of the Gods

EPs and split albums

  • 1999: Impaler's Wolves (Mini-CD)
  • 2000: Raiders of Revenge (split with Honor )
  • 2001: Raise Your Sword! (Mini CD)
  • 2002: Blood of Heroes (EP)
  • 2007: Eastern Hammer (split with Nokturnal Mortum , North and Temnozor )
  • 2008: Wotan with me (EP)
  • 2010: Cold Winter Blades (EP)
  • 2010: Tribute to King of Aquilonia (Split-7 "-EP with crossfire )
  • 2012: Ogień wilczych serc ( Eng . 'Fire of the Wolf's Heart', Split with Biały Viteź)

Demos and promos

Sampler contributions

  • 2007: Spear of Wotan on The Night and the Fog Part III - Underground Heathen Hammer

Web links

Individual evidence

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  10. ^ NEWS ( Memento from October 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
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