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Post by exo on Aug 18, 2017 17:42:15 GMT -6
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Post by sonofnun on Jun 26, 2020 19:52:31 GMT -6
That's hard to believe, but also not. I got into them around 2003 or 2004 when all their work was fairly fresh. That seems like yesterday to me, but it was really some time ago and I was quite a young lad then. Even after I became a Christian and junked a lot of my secular metal, I still listen to Borknagar. Their last two albums are some of their best work.
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Post by julienbakerfan on Jun 26, 2020 23:18:39 GMT -6
I will have to check this band out. I was under the mistaken impression that they were very anti-Christian, but I think I was mixing them up with Belphegor. Or I was mixing them up with an Ikea furniture item.
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Post by Bartimaeus on Jun 27, 2020 8:12:07 GMT -6
I really enjoyed "Winter Thrice" but haven't listened to "True North". I got a very pagan vibe (nature worship) from the lyrics, but what do you expect from pagans?
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Post by sonofnun on Jun 27, 2020 11:48:47 GMT -6
I will have to check this band out. I was under the mistaken impression that they were very anti-Christian, but I think I was mixing them up with Belphegor. Or I was mixing them up with an Ikea furniture item. They are not anti-Christian. They started as a more traditional pagan metal band, but evolved into a more progressive black metal band with folk influences. I don't listen to the first album because they never released the lyrics. The second is still a little standard pagan with references to Oden, etc but not bad. After that the music evolved and so did the lyrics. Oystein Brun who heads the band and Vintersorg (who came in as lead vocalist on "Empiricism") are both very interested in nature, science, and the cosmos and their lyrics became much more sophisticated explorations of these themes than simple nature worship (I think Vintersorg is an actual scientist for his day job).
Borknagar has had a sort of all-star cast over the years. Garm from Ulver and Arcturus was the vocalist on the first two albums. The next two featured Simen "Vortex" Hestnaes who was also in Dimmu Borgir and did some work in Arcturus. Vintersorg then took over vocal duties for quite some time and he, of course, has a well-known project of the same name. Anyone who likes folk metal would love his earlier and more recent work. Anyone who likes the progressive black style would really enjoy the couple of experimental albums he released in-between called "Visions From the Spiral Generator" and "The Focusing Blur." His lyrics, like Borknagar's are rather safe and mostly explore the same themes of nature, the cosmos, and science (also becoming more sophisticated over time). Recently, Borknagar had Vortex return and Garm did some guest vocals while Vintersorg left before the last album. I'd recommend listening to the song "Winter Thrice" since you get to hear all of Borknagar's vocalists on one song.
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Post by julienbakerfan on Oct 12, 2021 20:37:17 GMT -6
I listened to this album a few months ago and really enjoyed it.
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Post by sonofnun on Oct 23, 2021 22:07:11 GMT -6
I listened to this album a few months ago and really enjoyed it. The only thing that stops me from buying it is the lyrics to "A Tale of Pagan Tongue." Not sure how to interpret that one.
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