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Finntroll – Ur Djupet

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This one is among the most brutal songs I’ve published here, but this sublime mix of folk and extreme metal cannot be overlooked for too long. Monstrous growling and hellish metal orchestration is easier to digest when served alongside a bunch of unconventional instruments. Oh, and there’s even a 10-second lull towards the end of the melody!

Don’t look up the lyrics unless you’re into gory stuff…

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ROQuCFG1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ROQuCFG1o^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/2DhJwXtT9NodDNZAznyu97^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/2602702^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Finntroll-Ur-Jordens-Djup/master/3103^

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Children Of Bodom – Everytime I Die

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Brutal it may be, but with these catchy guitar lines and tasty synths, this song is one for the history books. The way the melody flows makes it a truly epic piece.

Kick ass metal from Finland, Children of Bodom have been described as “power metal with harsh vocals” (in the period this song is from). But I think this song is “melodic death metal with keyboards”. Like a wise man said: trying to peg music to genres is like trying to dance architecture.

The lyrics are good and the video is pretty nice too!

“The faint blaze of the candle of my life,
Slowly dying like a fire in a pouring rain.
No sparks of hope inside,
No shooting stars on my sky.
On broken wings, no flying high

Another night, another demise,
Cadaverous wind blowing cold as ice
I’ll let the wind blow out the light
Cause its gets more painful every time I die.

Out of strength to fight.
I cannot take another night.
I cannot take it no more.
Lust of light slips through my fingers
like blood on my arms.
Black candle wax has buried me”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtPDm2kaj1c^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/5ey5UuZfhmeUV8iOQKXihS^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/645364762^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Children-Of-Bodom-Follow-The-Reaper/master/4355^

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The Kovenant – Jihad

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Perhaps not the happiest song out there but one that deserves a good play nevertheless, if only to open the history book and listen to how people found ways to express and experience anger at the end of the 20th century. This tune can be safely labeled “industrial dark symphonic metal”. Beside the staple metal instruments, we’re treated to a diverse side-dish of keyboarding while Sarah’s reverbed vocals contrast Nagash’s angry growls. And beware, the lyrics are even darker than the song:

“Get down on your knees and feed the illusion
Get down on your knees and prolong the delusion
Superstition is the religion of the feeble mind
Liberty and justice, the illusions of mankind

A dogmatic expression in every direction
There is no redemption in divine intervention
The world is a disease that cannot be cured
The truth is a voice that cannot be heard

Jihad, the twisted hands of faith
Jihad, in the name of hate
Jihad, the twisted hands of faith
Jihad, in the name of hate

Hate is the solution to life’s evolution
Love is a high that you cannot sustain
For each age is a dream that is dying
And freedom is a whore that we love to adore”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AomNDsA_s6k^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/29rDytS9v4Y55UkvgalOgZ^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/668832312^

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Dimmu Borgir – Eradication Instincts Defined

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Marching forth with cruel precision, an ominous orchestra serves as the starting point for this lovely ride of terror. There are moments of hopefulness, but these will be quickly extinguished by the bleak landscape that follows.

It takes a lot to make me feature metal music in this space, especially when it comes to this extreme variety. It takes a perfectly executed song, featuring one of the best synergies between electric guitars, merciless artillery percussion, choirs, raging howls and a full-fledged orchestra. Completing the apocalyptic picture, the song showcases some of Dimmu Borgir’s finest lyrics, bringing forth the murderous aspect of man and punishing it with the image of nuclear Armageddon. Even the title of the song is perfect.

“A living hate smoldering abyss
Nurtured through centuries with quietly exercised wrath
Seeks the easiest way to the feed the engine
Praising the final bloodbath

Uncertainty and guilt
Will no longer endorse our fate
There will be no remorse, we kill to kill again
Killing all

Go ahead end it all, we deserve no better
As a forever unblessed detonation
The great plutonium chord fulminates
Blinding the eyes of creation

Cutting off all life support
Sweeping away existence instantly
Iced desolate ruins linger
Leaving traces of our lovely humanity”

Unfortunately, the label upon which album is released, Nuclear Blast, seems to still be part of those annoying, backward-thinking content-police organizations. No YouTube version is available for this song and, of course, it’s difficult to buy the album in DRM-free format. Luckily, the song can be listened for free on Deezer, which requires only a Google or FaceBook profile to login.

I provided links for the orchestral-only version of the song too. I highly recommend listening to it as well.

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/0FTMaa5IV5gJr87D1Hn8FL^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

http://www.deezer.com/track/89100471^

Orchestral version (unfortunately, only live versions are available online, “thanks” again to content police not allowing people to get to know this music and potentially buy it):

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/0MDrHjDoX4KCSHEbxd1788

https://open.spotify.com/track/0MDrHjDoX4KCSHEbxd1788^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

http://www.deezer.com/track/348155401^

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