Let me just preface this band - SO GOOD. There, I said it.
Coldworld - Hymn to Eternal Frost Bah!
What an album...I usually buy my albums based off of the 30 sec previews via emusic.com or itunes (if Emusic doesn't have it), and I bought this album about...2 years ago? It's really dang good. But, it's one of those albums you need to be "in the mood for."
Despite that, the album, FIRSTLY, is a depressive-black album. It lives up to this, easily. But there is something special about this album...it feels...post-apocalyptic in sound and scope. I remember listening to it while walking one day in an enveloping snowstorm - one of those storms where the flakes look like marshmallows in size, the sky hangs so low and gray and the snow is so thick that if you didn't look where you were going, you may get lost. But I remember thinking that this album felt so..."in tune" with this weather. It is a beautiful yet miserably sad album.
I also suggest this song: Coldworld - Winterreise
Always remember: SUPPORT bands you LOVE!
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Leaves' Eyes!
Been a while since I posted, but here's a song I've owned some time and, for whatever reason, I've overlooked and hadn't really listened to it!Leaves' Eyes - Leaves' Eyes
It's a self titled track - really beautiful composition and excellent meaning. However, this video...was the only one I could really find....it has pictures of sausages, Gorden Ramsay...I really am unsure as to all that lot, but just ignore them!
The song is very potent and powerful - I really don't know how I hadn't heard it before! I'm not especially fond of female singers in metal, and it has nothing to do with sex, at all! I just find it few and far between that one really, REALLY sticks out to me. This one is an exception. Also, she's quite pretty (not hot - there is a difference), I must say (I'm even pickier when it comes to women...like ridiculously choosy)!
But this is a good song for a mellow moment when you just don't feel like thrashing! :P
check out their other stuff, too. It's a bit "mainstreamy" sounding as far as folk metal goes (at least from what I've listened to) but it's not bad - this particular song seems to be a diamond compared to their other works.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Alcest - Écailles De Lune (part II)
Alcest - Écailles De Lune (part II)
Absolutely a beautiful work of music from the French black/ambient band, Alcest. The frontman, Neige, went on to join forces with Drudkh, and a few other bands to form the post-rock group "Old Silver Key."
Great track to just sit back and enjoy in the autumn's fading light.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Absolutely a beautiful work of music from the French black/ambient band, Alcest. The frontman, Neige, went on to join forces with Drudkh, and a few other bands to form the post-rock group "Old Silver Key."
Great track to just sit back and enjoy in the autumn's fading light.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Hel - Fimbulwinter
Hel - Fimbulwinter
Very raw song from a great German black metal group. I don't know a whole lot about them, except their recordings are always mastered wonderfully; this song is a fine example of their craftsmanship musically - they lay out a great atmosphere with the subtle synth and wide-feeling sections.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Very raw song from a great German black metal group. I don't know a whole lot about them, except their recordings are always mastered wonderfully; this song is a fine example of their craftsmanship musically - they lay out a great atmosphere with the subtle synth and wide-feeling sections.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Wodensthrone - Heofungtid
Wodensthrone - Heofungtid
This phenomenal band from the U.K. is in cahoots with the band "Winterfylleth," who I will link another day.
I was immediately drawn to this band, namely this song, and couldn't stop listening to it - over and over. So masterfully composed and arranged, especially the "vast" and sort of "spacy" sounding portions found at 1:27 and then repeated throughout - brings the smell of damp, dead leaves in a midforest clearing to mind, maybe at a full moon night, with the sound of only a nearby river rushing in its age-old, never ending cycle. When I'm out mushroom hunting and roaming in the woods near my home (Piers Gorge, seen here, only I go about 2-3 miles off the path into the forest - I know the deer trails well), this song always comes to mind when I stop for a moment to drink and have a look at the surroundings; the song has a haunting effect with its thick atmosphere.
Many bands have great songs, and oftentimes, the album the aforementioned "great song" is featured on is just okay, or even "meh." I can assure you, the entire almost 70 minute album is very engrossing - there are no times when you feel as though you detach from the songs and jump back to reality.
Interesting fact: this album was recorded in the "in house" studio used by the renowned band "Negura Bunget."
Kippis!
-Vulpes
This phenomenal band from the U.K. is in cahoots with the band "Winterfylleth," who I will link another day.
I was immediately drawn to this band, namely this song, and couldn't stop listening to it - over and over. So masterfully composed and arranged, especially the "vast" and sort of "spacy" sounding portions found at 1:27 and then repeated throughout - brings the smell of damp, dead leaves in a midforest clearing to mind, maybe at a full moon night, with the sound of only a nearby river rushing in its age-old, never ending cycle. When I'm out mushroom hunting and roaming in the woods near my home (Piers Gorge, seen here, only I go about 2-3 miles off the path into the forest - I know the deer trails well), this song always comes to mind when I stop for a moment to drink and have a look at the surroundings; the song has a haunting effect with its thick atmosphere.
Many bands have great songs, and oftentimes, the album the aforementioned "great song" is featured on is just okay, or even "meh." I can assure you, the entire almost 70 minute album is very engrossing - there are no times when you feel as though you detach from the songs and jump back to reality.
Interesting fact: this album was recorded in the "in house" studio used by the renowned band "Negura Bunget."
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Empyrium - The Blue Mists of Night
Empyrium - The Blue Mists of Night
A beautiful, sorrowful and powerful piece from the German group "Empyrium." When I get new music, I always buy a single song from a band first, and if I like it, I usually buy the rest of the album (iTunes has a VERY surprisingly diverse selection among folk metal!). Generally, I buy a $25 iTunes card and will pick up about 15-20 songs from NEW bands I have yet to hear, and a few from bands I liked and wanted to hear more from...This song from Empyrium REALLY caught my ear!
I hope you will enjoy it, as well, and SUPPORT who you like! Buy!
Kippis!
-Vulpes
A beautiful, sorrowful and powerful piece from the German group "Empyrium." When I get new music, I always buy a single song from a band first, and if I like it, I usually buy the rest of the album (iTunes has a VERY surprisingly diverse selection among folk metal!). Generally, I buy a $25 iTunes card and will pick up about 15-20 songs from NEW bands I have yet to hear, and a few from bands I liked and wanted to hear more from...This song from Empyrium REALLY caught my ear!
I hope you will enjoy it, as well, and SUPPORT who you like! Buy!
Kippis!
-Vulpes
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Drudkh - The First Snow
Drudkh - The First Snow
One of my absolute favorite bands, Drudkh is a powerhouse, recording-wise, releasing one album EVERY year for almost a decade. Drudkh is this mysterious, shadowed figure in the already fairly hidden genre that is folk metal (and its sub-genres), never playing a single show, scarcely doing interviews and almost never doing photos.
This song rerolls through my head every winter day...it is hauntingly beautiful, so simple, and listening to it floods my mind with thoughts of winter in its boundless energy - I have always loved winter the most, ever since I can remember.
More specifically, I think of the day I asked my fiancee, Erin, to marry me. December 17, 2011, I brought her to Copper Harbor, Michigan (Seen here,) the furthest point north in Michigan - VERY remote, and (as I hoped) it was dumping snow all that day; the first real snow we had received that year.
We stopped along the way a few places, as I had made it a scavenger hunt leading to Copper Harbor and me "popping the question..." We stopped at this one point, about 20 minutes south of there. Lake Superior was still unfrozen and lapping on the shore down on one side of the road, down a huge ravine, and the other side of the road had a ENORMOUS dune - almost 100 meters tall, but sloped so it was long and climbable.
We got out and climbed this dune, and the snow was coming down...silent, en mass, and only the sound was that of the lake crashing a quarter mile behind us - still in sight. When we reached the top of the dune, it dropped off at a direct angle; and drop off that would kill anyone who overstepped.
The top of the dune looked out over a gigantic pine forest, its trees coated with fresh snow, and more coming down.
I remember that entire moment to every detail, as I told myself in my soul that that was the single most perfect, most beautiful moment in my entire life, as I stood holding Erin's hand. I still remember it perfectly, and every time I do, this song, Drudkh's "the First Snow," is running in my head.
It's funny; folk metal has a great deal of beauty tucked within its harsh shell - I will be posting many a song like this one.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
One of my absolute favorite bands, Drudkh is a powerhouse, recording-wise, releasing one album EVERY year for almost a decade. Drudkh is this mysterious, shadowed figure in the already fairly hidden genre that is folk metal (and its sub-genres), never playing a single show, scarcely doing interviews and almost never doing photos.
This song rerolls through my head every winter day...it is hauntingly beautiful, so simple, and listening to it floods my mind with thoughts of winter in its boundless energy - I have always loved winter the most, ever since I can remember.
More specifically, I think of the day I asked my fiancee, Erin, to marry me. December 17, 2011, I brought her to Copper Harbor, Michigan (Seen here,) the furthest point north in Michigan - VERY remote, and (as I hoped) it was dumping snow all that day; the first real snow we had received that year.
We stopped along the way a few places, as I had made it a scavenger hunt leading to Copper Harbor and me "popping the question..." We stopped at this one point, about 20 minutes south of there. Lake Superior was still unfrozen and lapping on the shore down on one side of the road, down a huge ravine, and the other side of the road had a ENORMOUS dune - almost 100 meters tall, but sloped so it was long and climbable.
We got out and climbed this dune, and the snow was coming down...silent, en mass, and only the sound was that of the lake crashing a quarter mile behind us - still in sight. When we reached the top of the dune, it dropped off at a direct angle; and drop off that would kill anyone who overstepped.
The top of the dune looked out over a gigantic pine forest, its trees coated with fresh snow, and more coming down.
I remember that entire moment to every detail, as I told myself in my soul that that was the single most perfect, most beautiful moment in my entire life, as I stood holding Erin's hand. I still remember it perfectly, and every time I do, this song, Drudkh's "the First Snow," is running in my head.
It's funny; folk metal has a great deal of beauty tucked within its harsh shell - I will be posting many a song like this one.
Kippis!
-Vulpes
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