This is heavy metal the way I love it. Powerful guitars, powerful rhythms from drums and bass, melodic arcs, no speed banging and a singer who gives the songs a concise expression with his unadulterated voice.
Classic old school Metal, just the way I like it. Roaring guitars, thundering drums, rumbling bass and powerful yet melodic vocals. This has become one of my favorite albums of the year in short order! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
FUCK YEAH!!!! Masterful as always, still processing these brilliant tracks. Great day dedicated to blasting this album on full repeat till the sun sets. Thank you yet again to Grand Magus!!!
This is the sort of music which kept Grendel awake. Awesome! Ða se ellengæst earfoðlice þrage geþolode, se þe in þystrum bad, þæt he dogora gehwam dream gehyrde hludne in healle.
@@stratoseleftheriadis3696 Did that happen in Metal as well? I almost completely lost interest in the late 90s but that crap still seems to be going in all kinds of styles, sometimes I hear tracks that put such an unpleasant pressure on my ears and I guess it's because they compressed the shit out of it.
I've been listening to metal for 20 years. I've gone through many bands and genres from heavy to black metal. But this band is the one to rule them all. The highest class of metal. Guys, each of your albums is a celebration, keep recording until Ragnarok!
Dont wanna brag, but I listen to metal for 33 years now (i am 46yo, unfortunately). This is the first time i listen to grand magus. Sounds like classic metal like Dio and the sound of the guitars sounds like a little like dismember.
Title: "Betrayed by the North" Verse 1: Under the frozen moon, where shadows hold their breath, I walked among my kin, but found a bitter death. They took my name, my blood, cast me to the cold, Now I rise from the ice, my vengeance to unfold. The fjords whispered secrets of steel and snow, A call to arms, where only the strong may go. My heart is forged in darkness, my sword in flame, The North will know the terror of my name. Pre-Chorus: The wind howls like wolves at my side, I will not fall, I will not hide. Chorus: Betrayed by the North! But I rise from the grave, A storm of vengeance, no soul to save. Betrayed by the North! My wrath will ignite, The frozen lands tremble before my might. Verse 2: Onward through the blizzards, my fury burns bright, In the halls of traitors, I’ll end their light. With hammer and shield, I carve through their lies, Each strike a promise, beneath blood-red skies. Their gods will not save them, not this time, For I am the storm, the end of their line. Oaths were broken, but my honor stands true, Now the gods of the north will tremble too. Pre-Chorus: The ravens circle, they know the cost, The North will bleed, for all that it’s lost. Chorus: Betrayed by the North! But I rise from the grave, A storm of vengeance, no soul to save. Betrayed by the North! My wrath will ignite, The frozen lands tremble before my might. Bridge: I walk the path of wolves, where ice turns to flame, A shattered soul seeking those to blame. Their blood will run like rivers through the snow, For in the heart of winter, no mercy will grow. Chorus: Betrayed by the North! But I rise from the grave, A storm of vengeance, no soul to save. Betrayed by the North! My wrath will ignite, The frozen lands tremble before my might. Outro: The frost will fade, the sun will rise, But in the end, the traitors pay the price. In the halls of Valhalla, I’ll rest my sword, Betrayed no more by the northern horde.
A little bit too short, but Grand Magus has proven that they have successfully embraced the legacy of Manowar. Manowar are dead, long live Grand Magus!
siet boah, this is good. groovy Edit: I REMEMBER NOW! Metalfest 2012 Jaworzno, Poland! I remember i was impressed by your great energy! I remember when lead said to bassist "Fox, shut the fuck up!" for making noises while lead speaking ;D maaaan, great times. 12 years ;o
It seems that their familiar spice called masculinity/emotion is missing. The dosage of the spice is sprinkled here in a low dose. Kind of something we've already heard from him before. But don't get confused. It still likes the record. Addicted to this band.... Masterpiece 10 on the Orsher scale
Album Review: Grand Magus - Sunraven Reviewed by Eric Clifford The first thing that you should know is that I am wearing a loincloth. This isn’t by choice exactly; one seems to just materialise on me whenever I play this album. It could be chance I suppose - correlation not being causation and all that - but then what to make of the wolves that are suddenly summoned to my side? And where did this axe come from? How long have I been standing on this snowbound mountaintop hurling racial slurs at frost giants? Does my wife know about any of this? It’s to be expected on occasion. If the true steel flows like quicksilver through your own veins, you will know as surely as do I that certain albums transport you. It’s a nebulous matter; certain releases have this preternatural ability to invoke unguarded ejaculations of boundless metallic jubilation, it’s difficult to pin down in words, something you really have to feel more than boil down into dry terminology. Grand Magus do have this capability; it’s why “Forged in Iron, Crowned in Steel” from their “Sword Songs” Album is, to this day, one of my favourite songs ever. In keeping with that, bits of “Sunraven” are amazing, the type of thing that made it difficult to reach the replay button over the enormous erection the album was giving me. “Hour of the Wolf” is absolute brilliance. Clad in the illustrious armour of Judas Priest, it’s a brisk, vertebrae-threatening triumph of a track, with a magnificent chorus and the strongest melodies on the entire album. Glory erupts equally profoundly on opener “Skybound” with it’s classic descending riff and rolling thunder percussion, kick drums smashing in like suppressive fire. “Winter Storms” has a tasty bit of AC/DC DNA snaking through it; I can imagine Brian Johnson strutting up to the mic to belt through it with his gravelly Geordie screech. It feels “right”, on this base elemental level that feels integral to me; heavy metal distilled and pure down to the very quintessence of it’s being. When “Sunraven” fires on all guns then, it’s completely killer, a total vindication as trve as it could possibly be.Which isn’t to say that it’s perfect, because it isn’t. It’s fair enough to say that not everything needs to be some impenetrable act of appallingly pretentious musical autofellatio, but it’s also not like some more adventurous song structures would have gone amiss. Intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus...and it’s a wrap. Grand Magus have wrought magic when they’ve opted to step outside of this boilerplate arrangement - the aforementioned “Forged in Iron, Crowned in Steel” for one resplendent example. The sheer simplicity of the music does at times hurt the album - the chorus riffs for “Wheel of Pain” and “The End Belongs to You” are gratingly basic; not necessarily bad, just uninventive even for music that isn’t trying to singe the eyebrows from your face with unintelligible odysseys of fretboard masturbation. The good ol’ fashioned KISS adage (Keep It Simple Stupid) can apply, but even so this band undeniably have the talent to blast this album from “good” to “astonishing” if they’d just stepped a bit beyond the basic structure of their songs as is. “To Heorot” has a neat solo, but beyond this it’s folky swing simply didn’t do anything for it; it felt a bit too much like listening to a jig filtered through a Marshall stack, and came across to me as a little trite in a way that’s always made it difficult for me to connect with folk metal in general. I don’t want to belabour the point. Beyond anything else, my balls are getting really cold in this loincloth, and at least one of these wolves is a poodle. If you like heavy metal, then you will like “Sunraven”. It pulls from so many of the foundational albums in early metal, from the vintage sabbath groove of “The Black Lake” to “Grendel”, which smacks of something that could’ve comfortably sat on Dio’s immortal “Holy Diver” release, that something in it is bound to hook you. Is it original? No, god no, of course not. The roots of this band germinate in those glory days of the 70’s and 80’s, and while it perhaps wouldn’t be fair to accuse the band of musical philopatry as though they’re a covers band or something, they’re certainly content to stick to tried and true methods and means when it comes to their own sound. Yet it’s this earnestness - the steadfast iron will to just play really good heavy fucking metal - that makes the album so endearing even in it’s weaker moments. At it’s best, “Sunraven” is truly excellent, at it’s worst it’s...well, it’s still pretty good. A band may be excused occasional filler if the record on the whole is otherwise great, and if you count yourself amongst those who fretted somewhere in their heart of hearts that Grand Magus had called time on their tenure about this brief mortal coil of ours, then fear no further; they are back with a bang!
This is heavy metal the way I love it. Powerful guitars, powerful rhythms from drums and bass, melodic arcs, no speed banging and a singer who gives the songs a concise expression with his unadulterated voice.
Classic old school Metal, just the way I like it. Roaring guitars, thundering drums, rumbling bass and powerful yet melodic vocals. This has become one of my favorite albums of the year in short order! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Love it ! Imagine this album coming out in 1984, they'd have ruled the world.
Imagine Messi playing the 1962 world cup
@@gustavoautran 🤔
Great album, top level musicianship and composition
Fantastic! Didn't expect anything else from one of the greatest metal bands on the planet! 🤘
You are saying this is better than Killswitch Engage??? I don't think so.
The Black Lake is awesome! The whole Album is a great listen you really can tell how much skill and effort was put into it. Thanks alot Grand Magus !
FUCK YEAH!!!! Masterful as always, still processing these brilliant tracks. Great day dedicated to blasting this album on full repeat till the sun sets. Thank you yet again to Grand Magus!!!
As always cuts right to the core……if I had theme music…..bringing doom bringing death black sails charge ahead
YES!!! This band is so much fun to listen to! I'm stoked we've got a new album to enjoy, and this one gnarly!
To hear the strumming on the Bass Strings so augmented in the mix is just brilliant. Soothing galloping sound. ❤ Brilliant stuff.
My copy arrives tomorrow. Can’t wait
Awesome!! The Masters of Metal have done it again!
Amazing new album, greetings from Brazil!
heh, i was born in 84, those riffs and songs are back to the past, where real and true music was the only music, thanx for that
Was also born in 84 and discovered Magus in 2017.
This is the sort of music which kept Grendel awake. Awesome!
Ða se ellengæst earfoðlice
þrage geþolode, se þe in þystrum bad,
þæt he dogora gehwam dream gehyrde
hludne in healle.
Absolutely cracking album! Amazing work by the band.
Reminds me of Iron Will, which is my absolute favorite GM album. Some of their best tracks on here for sure.
Greetings from Vineland NJ
Greetings from Newark Delaware neighbors
Have already preordered it on orange vinyl. True / vintage metal sound, a definitive acquisition!!!
Well, I guess technically you could call a 90s sound 'vintage' now ...but I'm from the 80s when it comes to Metal, I wouldn't ; )
@@DerEchteBold the 90's have by now become vintage as well, compared to the diagraceful loudness wars that followed the millenium turn
@@stratoseleftheriadis3696
Did that happen in Metal as well? I almost completely lost interest in the late 90s but that crap still seems to be going in all kinds of styles, sometimes I hear tracks that put such an unpleasant pressure on my ears and I guess it's because they compressed the shit out of it.
love the art cover
Old guy here, this is just wonderful!
Last song's my favorite. Very cool main riff 🤘
Really great! Never disappointing, thanks!
GRAND MAAAGUUUUS!!! I needed this in my life! 🤘🏽🤓
Hell yeah! ⚡
Instant classic, well worth the wait!
Así es exactamente cómo me gusta el heavy metal con un sonido machacante y una voz poderosa
Sonido potente!! Energia Vikinga del Valhalla!
Saludos desde Argentina
What a banger this album is!! Well done, lads. Love the song Grendel! 🤟
Soooo ein geiler Sound....🎸🔊.....🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Awesome. Greetings from Brazil!!!
Охренительно.Круто!!!
HAIL!
Banda fodástica 🤘🤘
Mantap lagu-lagunya....👍🏻🤘🏻🔥💥
One of the best from them ❤
Amazing album, I love it 🤘🏻😍 Well done guys, this is the beauty of Heavy Metal
Guys, this is pure badassery put on record! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Interesting and entertaining music. Great work. Greetings to see you.🎧👍
Love the bass being so high in the mix!
more i listen this gem more i like it . really great job done here guys . thx
Sounds reallyreally great!!!
Wahoo !! Enjoy this New tracks, Hail Grand magus the best!!
Grand Magus is truly Grand! Thank you!
Glad i randomly listened very Dio like enjoyable album
Holy hell!!!!! Awesome!!!!! Hail Grand Magus !!!🤘😈🤘
Incrível banda! Grande álbum! Going to Brasil!!!!!
The spiritual heirs of Manowar, great album!
He'll yesssssssssss ✊💪🤘
Haven't listened yet, but I👍ed it already. If it's anything like their previous one it should be a banger. 🤘😎
Great album. Keep up the good work!
Top notch return. Absolutely awesome
very good album!
Mmmm! Organic metal 🌴🥥👌🤘
Can't wait.
I've been listening to metal for 20 years. I've gone through many bands and genres from heavy to black metal. But this band is the one to rule them all. The highest class of metal. Guys, each of your albums is a celebration, keep recording until Ragnarok!
Dont wanna brag, but I listen to metal for 33 years now (i am 46yo, unfortunately). This is the first time i listen to grand magus. Sounds like classic metal like Dio and the sound of the guitars sounds like a little like dismember.
Tremendo albuuuuuuum 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Excellent!!
Brother this is a SOLID album, congrats!
Hell yeah!! 🤘🏻
Thank you GM!
Los Número 1!!!!!
Awesome...
Grymt bra! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Never heard of them... i now have new music to purchase...
Greetings from México!!! 🤟⚡
sick
This is f**king amazing! Gonna be blasting on the car stereo for awhile! The live show would collapse the venue. Lol.
YESSSS!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
Title: "Betrayed by the North"
Verse 1:
Under the frozen moon, where shadows hold their breath,
I walked among my kin, but found a bitter death.
They took my name, my blood, cast me to the cold,
Now I rise from the ice, my vengeance to unfold.
The fjords whispered secrets of steel and snow,
A call to arms, where only the strong may go.
My heart is forged in darkness, my sword in flame,
The North will know the terror of my name.
Pre-Chorus:
The wind howls like wolves at my side,
I will not fall, I will not hide.
Chorus:
Betrayed by the North!
But I rise from the grave,
A storm of vengeance, no soul to save.
Betrayed by the North!
My wrath will ignite,
The frozen lands tremble before my might.
Verse 2:
Onward through the blizzards, my fury burns bright,
In the halls of traitors, I’ll end their light.
With hammer and shield, I carve through their lies,
Each strike a promise, beneath blood-red skies.
Their gods will not save them, not this time,
For I am the storm, the end of their line.
Oaths were broken, but my honor stands true,
Now the gods of the north will tremble too.
Pre-Chorus:
The ravens circle, they know the cost,
The North will bleed, for all that it’s lost.
Chorus:
Betrayed by the North!
But I rise from the grave,
A storm of vengeance, no soul to save.
Betrayed by the North!
My wrath will ignite,
The frozen lands tremble before my might.
Bridge:
I walk the path of wolves, where ice turns to flame,
A shattered soul seeking those to blame.
Their blood will run like rivers through the snow,
For in the heart of winter, no mercy will grow.
Chorus:
Betrayed by the North!
But I rise from the grave,
A storm of vengeance, no soul to save.
Betrayed by the North!
My wrath will ignite,
The frozen lands tremble before my might.
Outro:
The frost will fade, the sun will rise,
But in the end, the traitors pay the price.
In the halls of Valhalla, I’ll rest my sword,
Betrayed no more by the northern horde.
Still gonna buy it😊
🤘🔥🤘
Greetings from Ohio!!!
Yeeeeeaaaaahhhh!!!!
Total👌
Good old Magus.
LFG!!!
I really do like this.
I wonder if the band falconer was inspired by this band,sorta got same sound,love it,yew
Awesome way better than wolf god!!
One of the only metal albums from a big band I've seen lately with an actually good cover
класс
❤💪🤘
Winterstooorms keep me waaarm...
Holy Odin.
😊🤘
😢Good! Note 10
такого стиля давно не хватало 🤘👍🔥
Ok enough with coffee now I need a beer
Soso , were even os vanouds , mei dit wol hjerre
GRENDEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A little bit too short, but Grand Magus has proven that they have successfully embraced the legacy of Manowar. Manowar are dead, long live Grand Magus!
Manowar????
BUEN TRABAJO,GRAN GRUPO,SALUDOS DE UN VETERANO DE 69, DESDE IGUALADA CATALUNYA 😮😂🎸🍺🕷️🕸️🤘🔥☀️🌴😳🐰🐿️👺
The End Belongs to You, brothers.
siet boah, this is good. groovy
Edit: I REMEMBER NOW! Metalfest 2012 Jaworzno, Poland! I remember i was impressed by your great energy! I remember when lead said to bassist "Fox, shut the fuck up!" for making noises while lead speaking ;D
maaaan, great times. 12 years ;o
I shall return
We are expecting you in Thessaloniki Greece to party like 2017 in Eightball club
Hm, where's my comment? Had only good to say but nevertheless gone? Probably some algorithm bullshit. Anyway: Great album
It seems that their familiar spice called masculinity/emotion is missing. The dosage of the spice is sprinkled here in a low dose. Kind of something we've already heard from him before.
But don't get confused. It still likes the record. Addicted to this band....
Masterpiece 10 on the Orsher scale
Album Review: Grand Magus - Sunraven
Reviewed by Eric Clifford
The first thing that you should know is that I am wearing a loincloth. This isn’t by choice exactly; one seems to just materialise on me whenever I play this album. It could be chance I suppose - correlation not being causation and all that - but then what to make of the wolves that are suddenly summoned to my side? And where did this axe come from? How long have I been standing on this snowbound mountaintop hurling racial slurs at frost giants? Does my wife know about any of this?
It’s to be expected on occasion. If the true steel flows like quicksilver through your own veins, you will know as surely as do I that certain albums transport you. It’s a nebulous matter; certain releases have this preternatural ability to invoke unguarded ejaculations of boundless metallic jubilation, it’s difficult to pin down in words, something you really have to feel more than boil down into dry terminology. Grand Magus do have this capability; it’s why “Forged in Iron, Crowned in Steel” from their “Sword Songs” Album is, to this day, one of my favourite songs ever. In keeping with that, bits of “Sunraven” are amazing, the type of thing that made it difficult to reach the replay button over the enormous erection the album was giving me. “Hour of the Wolf” is absolute brilliance. Clad in the illustrious armour of Judas Priest, it’s a brisk, vertebrae-threatening triumph of a track, with a magnificent chorus and the strongest melodies on the entire album. Glory erupts equally profoundly on opener “Skybound” with it’s classic descending riff and rolling thunder percussion, kick drums smashing in like suppressive fire. “Winter Storms” has a tasty bit of AC/DC DNA snaking through it; I can imagine Brian Johnson strutting up to the mic to belt through it with his gravelly Geordie screech. It feels “right”, on this base elemental level that feels integral to me; heavy metal distilled and pure down to the very quintessence of it’s being. When “Sunraven” fires on all guns then, it’s completely killer, a total vindication as trve as it could possibly be.Which isn’t to say that it’s perfect, because it isn’t. It’s fair enough to say that not everything needs to be some impenetrable act of appallingly pretentious musical autofellatio, but it’s also not like some more adventurous song structures would have gone amiss. Intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus...and it’s a wrap. Grand Magus have wrought magic when they’ve opted to step outside of this boilerplate arrangement - the aforementioned “Forged in Iron, Crowned in Steel” for one resplendent example. The sheer simplicity of the music does at times hurt the album - the chorus riffs for “Wheel of Pain” and “The End Belongs to You” are gratingly basic; not necessarily bad, just uninventive even for music that isn’t trying to singe the eyebrows from your face with unintelligible odysseys of fretboard masturbation. The good ol’ fashioned KISS adage (Keep It Simple Stupid) can apply, but even so this band undeniably have the talent to blast this album from “good” to “astonishing” if they’d just stepped a bit beyond the basic structure of their songs as is. “To Heorot” has a neat solo, but beyond this it’s folky swing simply didn’t do anything for it; it felt a bit too much like listening to a jig filtered through a Marshall stack, and came across to me as a little trite in a way that’s always made it difficult for me to connect with folk metal in general.
I don’t want to belabour the point. Beyond anything else, my balls are getting really cold in this loincloth, and at least one of these wolves is a poodle. If you like heavy metal, then you will like “Sunraven”. It pulls from so many of the foundational albums in early metal, from the vintage sabbath groove of “The Black Lake” to “Grendel”, which smacks of something that could’ve comfortably sat on Dio’s immortal “Holy Diver” release, that something in it is bound to hook you. Is it original? No, god no, of course not. The roots of this band germinate in those glory days of the 70’s and 80’s, and while it perhaps wouldn’t be fair to accuse the band of musical philopatry as though they’re a covers band or something, they’re certainly content to stick to tried and true methods and means when it comes to their own sound. Yet it’s this earnestness - the steadfast iron will to just play really good heavy fucking metal - that makes the album so endearing even in it’s weaker moments. At it’s best, “Sunraven” is truly excellent, at it’s worst it’s...well, it’s still pretty good. A band may be excused occasional filler if the record on the whole is otherwise great, and if you count yourself amongst those who fretted somewhere in their heart of hearts that Grand Magus had called time on their tenure about this brief mortal coil of ours, then fear no further; they are back with a bang!