1. Jordrök - 00:00 -11:09 2. Vandringar I vilsenhet - 11:1023:02 3. Infrån Klarhet till Klarhet 23:03 - 31:05 4. Kung Bore - 31:07 - 44:15 Banda Inigualável. As músicas do Änglagård me remete por ora a uma ficção científica e por vezes um filme de ação com finais românticos. Impressionante do início ao fim. Queria muito entender o sueco para compreender a beleza dessas músicas. Espero que todos comprem esse álbum da produção original. É importante é honesto ao artista.
I bought this LP on the Norwegian Colours label in 1997 after it was already out of print. I spent $35 and the album simply blew me away! I can see why everyone was raving about this in the '90s. Now that same LP is going for at least ten times as much, so I'm glad I bought the LP when I did. The Mellotron had been left for dead, and Änglagård (along with Landberk and Anekdoten) sure helped bring it back from the grave. It's also unbelievable that Mattias Olsson was just 17 when they recorded this. The booklet that came with the LP included many photos of the band members, I swore the pictures of Mattias Olsson had to been taken a few years earler, but it was actually how he looked in '92!
I tried to find thia album many years ago having heard great things though the prog grapevine. Finally, i stumble upon it yten years later and "wow" I am not disappointed. For those who can not appreciate the timeless beauty of this masterwork, I say only this: "resist your ego's need to label and denigrate anything that it doesn't comprehend."
Try listening Magic Pie, they're very actually and their best albums (in my opinion) are "Circus of life" and "Motions of desire". Both of them are complete in youtube, and they're completely based on Canterbury Scene style.
It is a masterpiece!!!! I learned about this album in 2004. I wish I knew about it before! This is an opera in several acts 🙂 So many beautiful details! It is a pleasure and a challenge each time I listen to it. It defies the norm 🙂
HUGE Yes/Tull/Crimson/Rush/Floyd/ELP fan here, just starting on my list of modern prog to listen to, this one is already amazing 10 minutes in, they pull together the best of several prog bands into one cohesive sound which I knew was probably possible but never thought I'd ever here someone do.
perpetualchange1 I could not agree more. For a band that never come out in the 70's they absolutely defie all belief. TO be honest not even the bands you mentioned here were capable of producing music like this after the 70's and all the other prog rock bands that came out after the 70's have not got a cats chance in hell of making music like this.
It was Sunday evening and I was playing a station on my radio that I could only just pick up, called Imports Only out of Milwaukee. It was an interesting show, but when this song came on the hair at the back of my neck stood up and a chill ran down my spine. To me at that moment, it was like members of Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Gracious, and other had joined together to create a super group. Top Shelf stuff, this.
People say this sounds like Genesis, or Yes, or King Crimson -- but it's strangely more specific than that. It sounds like _Trespass_ , and _Tales from Topographic Oceans_ , and _Lizard_ . As if that's what was in stock in Norway in the '70s.
And I can add on the 1970s American band Cathedral with Stained Glass Stories (1978). Thanks to Syn-Phonic reissuing it in 1989 on vinyl (and on CD in 1991), it's clear they got a hold of the reissue and blown away, and they never made it a sacret that Stained Glass Stories was a huge influence on them.
It's insane how close this is to Haken's Cockroach King/The Mountain album. They definitely were inspired by this. I just can't believe this is from 1992. It sounds older and newer at the same time.
This is amazing, it's a trip back to prog heaven in the early 1970's, virtually all of it summarised in this one album. And I'd never heard of this band till now. Try their Epilog album as well.
I'm greatly surprised by this band which I've recently discovered. It remembers me a bit of Gabriel's Genesis, but also Hackett, Focus, even King Crimson...prog's not dead!
They did released Viljans Öga back in 2012. That one really caught me off guard because I remembered they had a brief reunion in 2002-'03 and quickly disappeared after a few concerts so I was certain they were done for good. So a decade later I unexpected got the news of Viljans Öga and quickly bought the CD and black vinyl. Certainly the band had since toured with a modified lineup, and Johan Brand and Thomas Johnson (along with current Änglagård drummer Erik Hammarström and Johan's daughter Miranda Brand) started their side project All Traps on Earth whose A Drop of Light, unsurprisingly isn't too different from Änglagård.
Änglagård-Hybris - From Wikipedia- - -Hybris (Swedish: hybris 'hubris') is the first studio album by Swedish progressive rock group Änglagård. Released in late 1992, it would become one of the most influential albums of the new wave of progressive rock in the 1990s.[citation needed] It begins with "Jordrök" (which means 'earth-smoke'), the only fully instrumental piece on the album. The music is quite similar to 1970s progressive rock groups such as Yes and King Crimson, but Änglagård has also created their own style, thanks to Holmgren's folklore-sounding flute playing and Olsson's highly distinctive drumming (he was only 17 in 1992). There are also obvious similarities to the obscure 1970s band Cathedral's one-shot album Stained Glass Stories. Keyboardist Pär Lindh makes an uncredited guest appearance on the album. The remastered CD version of the album contains a bonus track called "Gånglåt från Knapptibble", which seems to be a demo of the song "Skogsranden" from their second album, Epilog.[citation needed] The song was originally included on the Ptolemac Terrascope Number 5 CD sampler. The song also appears on the Hurricane Katrina benefit album After the Storm (NEARfest Records, 2005). Track listing All music written and arranged by Änglagård. All lyrics by Tord Lindman. "Jordrök" ('Earth Smoke') - 11:10 "Vandringar i vilsenhet" ('Wanderings in Confusion') - 11:56 "Ifrån klarhet till klarhet" ('From Clarity to Clarity') - 8:08 "Kung Bore" ('King Winter') - 13:04 "Gånglåt från Knapptibble" ('Marching Tune from Knapptibble') (bonus track) - 7:19 Personnel Tord Lindman: Vocals, Gibson 335, nylon and steel acoustic guitars Jonas Engdegård: Stratocaster, Gibson 335, nylon and steel acoustic guitars Thomas Johnson: Mellotron, Hammond Organ B-3 & L-100, Solina, clavinet, pianet, Korg Mono/Poly, piano and church organ Anna Holmgren: Flute Johan Högberg: Rickenbacker bass, bass pedals and Mellotron effects Mattias Olsson: Sonor drumset, Zildjian cymbals, concert bass drum, triangles, tambourines, vibraslap, Po-Chung, gong, castanets, line bells, cowbell, wood block, glockenspiel, tubular bells, bongos, bells, ice-bell, finger cymbals, waterfall, agogô bells, cabasa, claves, French cowbell, African drums and effect-flute Pär Lindh (uncredited): guest keyboardist - -
Ce genre d'album qui vous laisse sans mots... Ces types ont saisis l'essence du prog et l'ont additionné d'une mélancolie toute scandinave qui vous rentre dedans avec la puissance d'un Behemoth...
Thanks for the upload. This record is out of print and very expensive to buy. I don’t why it’s so difficult to put something like this on band camp to buy.
Put the pastoralism of Genesis together with a few teaspoons of tranquility and melodism of Camel, add in the wildly unpredictable improvisational bursts of King Crimson, with just a pinch of compositional wizz of Gentle Giant, you get Änglagård.
Realmente é uma banda comprometida com o progressivo muito bom performance instrumental de alto nível gostei muito rocck progressivo pra mim não melhor gênero.
@Arkadi Danielyan Ok, I understand what you are saying. But in an age of rap and other equally derivative music, I am grateful that there is excellent prog rock still being made. Once you move past Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, and a few other prog rock pioneers, the argument can be made that all other prog rock bands are derivative. The same is true with blues, jazz, classical, hard rock, and all genres.
@Arkadi Danielyan Those are all great bands, several of which are Canterbury school, I notice, and that is a sub-genre of prog which has probably inter-mingled personnel and revisited musical styles and progressions more than most others. When it comes to rap vs prog, regardless who was first or most recent, I absolutely disagree with you , but I respect your right to have an opinion. Different strokes for different folks.
@Arkadi Danielyan I started listening to prog 50 years ago, in 1970, so I know quite a bit about it. I am not interested in debating your ideas versus mine. Enjoy you music your way, and I will enjoy music my way.
This came upon my Flower Kings Pandora. Feel like this would have been the follow up to Trespass if Anthony Phillips had not departed Genesis. And I'm a huge Steve Hackett fan.
I forgot to mention when I bought my copy in '97 I was really digging the back cover depicting a Mellotron sitting in the dark Nordic woods with this eerie light glowing (the LP depicts that, the CD depicts the Mellotron sitting in a field next to some trees). You can't argue with an album depicting such a cover.
Your video would be perfect if you'd put this in the discription: 1. Jordrök 00:00 2. Vandringar i Vilsenhet 11:10 3. Ifrân Klarhet Till Klarhet 23:03 4. Kung Bore 31:07 Btw, thanks for the video, the world neads it.
Can anyone tell me something about the guitar section that plays with the flute starting at 6:15? I think I heard it somewhere else before. Another prog rock song or a well known swedish folk song maybe?
I am grateful for this video which got me into Hybris, but now that I listen to it again, the pitch is all wrong. This video is a full semitone higher than the album. What's up with that?
You can definitely see the influences these two bands have taken on together. But both are still very much different at the same time... at least sound wise
It's easy to understand how a band like ÄNGLAGARD had to happen. Let's see what happened in the prog rock scene in between the thirteen years before "Hybris" came out near the end of 1992 right up to that time: punk, disco, and new wave brought an end of prog rock by 1979. People were getting so desperate for something from their prog heroes in the '80s, they'd even welcomed ASIA, which I thought was just a pop band trying to pander to the Lowest Common Denominator. YES and GENESIS went pop. The Neo-prog scene emerged (such as MARILLION) which while welcomed by many progsters, many others derided it as being nothing more than a modernized update of the GABRIEL-era GENESIS sound. By 1991-92, things were really looking down on some of the big name prog acts: YES gave us Union, which is regarded by many as a big disaster. Likewise, ELP gave us Black Moon, which wasn't all that great, in my opinion. That gave room to a Swedish band, in which half the members were 17-18 (that is drummer Mattias Olsson, guitarist Jonas Engdegård, and keyboardist Thomas Johnson - the other half, being older, around the 23-25 age range consisted of guitarist Tord Lindman, bassist Johan Högberg, and flautist Anna Holmgren). This band was called ÄNGLAGARD. Despite having members of age where they were either too young or not even alive when many of the great prog rock albums came out, they were obviously not pleased with how prog was going. If they had to put up with ASIA, if they had to put up with Love Beach, only to have the band reunite 14 years later and give Black Moon, they knew they had to take matters in to their own hands. And this was their approach: ditch all digital equipment, never lay their hands on a Yamaha DX-7, get themselves a Mellotron and Hammond organ, get themselves a whole bunch of other instruments, as long as it wasn't made after 1975 (except for the Korg Poly/Mono synth that came out in 1982). Basically take matters in to their own hands. If many people think just how original Änglagård are hadn't tried hearing albums like CATHEDRALl's "Stained Glass Stories", or side two of SFF's "Symphonic Pictures". In fact the opening cut, "Jordröck" sounds a like like side two of the already mentioned SFF album, but with plenty of HACKETTt-like guitars, and some really nice, gently, pastoral passages with that Nordic feel. The rest of the album is of the same high quality, unbelievable complex music from musicians who obviously play like they were ten years older than they really were. There are the occasional vocals in Swedish, but are only brief. There's enough Mellotron and Hammond organ to make any '70s prog fan happy. And in fact, the traditional '70s prog fan not happy with the neo-prog scene, and not happy with digital equipment more than welcomed ÄNGLAGARD with open arms, even from people who obviously don't bother with most albums released after 1977 or 1978. I can see how this band set the prog world by storm. It might be hard to believe that this album was actually availble on LP as well as CD at the time. The LP, released on the long defunct Colours label out of Norway was beautifully packaged complete with lyric booklet which has lyrics to all the songs, as well as photos of band members, various other photos, and what band member played what (in Swedish - in which they also included an insert in English which described the history of the band up to that point, and the band members and the instruments they played). No doubt about it, "Hybris" is definately one of the best '90s prog albums.
I have to say that I agree. What gets me is that it follows straight after such a promising gothic intro, destroying the mood that was building. I'm now just about 7 minutes into the video, and it's improved considerably. It's just that awful circus section between 1:07 and 1:35, and its repeat a minute later.
100 % Pure Prog like the good old days when Prog was Prog
one of the best progressive rock albums of all time
progressive rock with a high level of progression, orchestration beyond the conventional, dare to listen to it, feel it and live it
Been listening to this album for 20 years now... One of my absolute stayers
Same here
I'm a brazilian keyboardist, great symphonic/renaissance/prog-rock fan, i love this album!
esse som é do caralho né, pena que nao dá pra cantar junto kkkkk
1. Jordrök - 00:00 -11:09
2. Vandringar I vilsenhet - 11:10 23:02
3. Infrån Klarhet till Klarhet 23:03 - 31:05
4. Kung Bore - 31:07 - 44:15
Banda Inigualável.
As músicas do Änglagård me remete por ora a uma ficção científica e por vezes um filme de ação com finais românticos.
Impressionante do início ao fim.
Queria muito entender o sueco para compreender a beleza dessas músicas.
Espero que todos comprem esse álbum da produção original.
É importante é honesto ao artista.
Eu comprei na galeria do rock uma edição especial, na finada lojinha do Elton, a Dunno.
I bought this LP on the Norwegian Colours label in 1997 after it was already out of print. I spent $35 and the album simply blew me away! I can see why everyone was raving about this in the '90s. Now that same LP is going for at least ten times as much, so I'm glad I bought the LP when I did. The Mellotron had been left for dead, and Änglagård (along with Landberk and Anekdoten) sure helped bring it back from the grave. It's also unbelievable that Mattias Olsson was just 17 when they recorded this. The booklet that came with the LP included many photos of the band members, I swore the pictures of Mattias Olsson had to been taken a few years earler, but it was actually how he looked in '92!
Excellent hindsight.
My God. I am hearing Camel, Genesis, Yes, Crimson, Gentle Giant all in one. Remarkable, amazing, awesome
Miguel Arruabarrena Couldn't agree more.
Miguel Arruabarrena Definitly one of the best albums ever, yet so little known...
Miguel Arruabarrena Pendragon's "Masquerade Overture" and Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" come to mind, too.
Miguel Arruabarrena The bonus track sounds like ELP
+Miguel Arruabarrena
Yes?
Why Yes? :s
Yes is overrated *~*
One of the most remarkable albums from the 90'…if not the very best one!
Probably the 2nd best of the decade... .... after Epilog
Atheist "Unquestionable Presence"
I'm really loving that epic sound. Hi all prog lovers from Turkey..
I tried to find thia album many years ago having heard great things though the prog grapevine. Finally, i stumble upon it yten years later and "wow" I am not disappointed. For those who can not appreciate the timeless beauty of this masterwork, I say only this: "resist your ego's need to label and denigrate anything that it doesn't comprehend."
Try listening Magic Pie, they're very actually and their best albums (in my opinion) are "Circus of life" and "Motions of desire". Both of them are complete in youtube, and they're completely based on Canterbury Scene style.
finally, I was looking for music to dance to.
Probabily lived too many years of my life without knowing they existed ...
It is a masterpiece!!!! I learned about this album in 2004. I wish I knew about it before!
This is an opera in several acts 🙂 So many beautiful details! It is a pleasure and a challenge each time I listen to it. It defies the norm 🙂
Sublime realizzazione di vero prog, musicisti tecnicamente abili, l'atmosfera proposta in questo album ha dell' incredibile.
HUGE Yes/Tull/Crimson/Rush/Floyd/ELP fan here, just starting on my list of modern prog to listen to, this one is already amazing 10 minutes in, they pull together the best of several prog bands into one cohesive sound which I knew was probably possible but never thought I'd ever here someone do.
perpetualchange1 I could not agree more. For a band that never come out in the 70's they absolutely defie all belief. TO be honest not even the bands you mentioned here were capable of producing music like this after the 70's and all the other prog rock bands that came out after the 70's have not got a cats chance in hell of making music like this.
It was Sunday evening and I was playing a station on my radio that I could only just pick up, called Imports Only out of Milwaukee. It was an interesting show, but when this song came on the hair at the back of my neck stood up and a chill ran down my spine. To me at that moment, it was like members of Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Gracious, and other had joined together to create a super group. Top Shelf stuff, this.
planet prog?
@@dougmphilly I was addicted to Planet Prog back in the day!
People say this sounds like Genesis, or Yes, or King Crimson -- but it's strangely more specific than that. It sounds like _Trespass_ , and _Tales from Topographic Oceans_ , and _Lizard_ . As if that's what was in stock in Norway in the '70s.
And I can add on the 1970s American band Cathedral with Stained Glass Stories (1978). Thanks to Syn-Phonic reissuing it in 1989 on vinyl (and on CD in 1991), it's clear they got a hold of the reissue and blown away, and they never made it a sacret that Stained Glass Stories was a huge influence on them.
*Sweden
Actually they are swedish.
It snows A Lot in Sweden, where they are from. So they have lots of time to listen, practice and write music. I for one am VERY happy about that...
I'm an Italian keyboards player, I love this album!
I'm Portuguese and I like pineapple on my music
Okay shit tard
Definitely a masterpiece.
It's insane how close this is to Haken's Cockroach King/The Mountain album. They definitely were inspired by this. I just can't believe this is from 1992. It sounds older and newer at the same time.
Thanks for the tip. I'll be sure to check that out.
yeeeeyy mexican fan hereee!! Increíble matíz, técnica y atmósferas cambiantes!! es cas´i música clásica!
This is amazing, it's a trip back to prog heaven in the early 1970's, virtually all of it summarised in this one album. And I'd never heard of this band till now. Try their Epilog album as well.
OTRO MUY BUEN GRUPO QUE YO NO CONOCIA SALUDOS FROM MEXICO CITY.
Lo mismo me pasa a mi
One of the best thing in the 90's progressive times.
damn perfect. undoubtly the best album of post 70's prog
one of the best albums ever; my favourite track, Vandringar I Vilsenhet!
What an amazing album!!
I'm greatly surprised by this band which I've recently discovered. It remembers me a bit of Gabriel's Genesis, but also Hackett, Focus, even King Crimson...prog's not dead!
yess, it's a shame this band is over by now =/
Jonas Lavarini Actually, they're back together. I've seen them in concert one year ago in Lorelei. They're still playing :)
Jonas Lavarini They're definitely back together, I'm seeing them tonight!
They did released Viljans Öga back in 2012. That one really caught me off guard because I remembered they had a brief reunion in 2002-'03 and quickly disappeared after a few concerts so I was certain they were done for good. So a decade later I unexpected got the news of Viljans Öga and quickly bought the CD and black vinyl. Certainly the band had since toured with a modified lineup, and Johan Brand and Thomas Johnson (along with current Änglagård drummer Erik Hammarström and Johan's daughter Miranda Brand) started their side project All Traps on Earth whose A Drop of Light, unsurprisingly isn't too different from Änglagård.
It remembers you?
sublime album
capolavoro assolutio del prog-rock, nient'altro da dire !!!
capolavoro!
gran disco...il prog rock si esprime ai massimi livelli, molto ricco di atmosfera!!!
Az egyik legnagyobb album, amit életemben hallottam!
Great album, inevitably the style reminds me of Focus, the first great progressive rock band I heard in the 70
Biggest prog masterpiece in 90s. While being largely influenced by classic prog bands of 70s, it doesn't sound dated or derivative.
Their live performance @ Nearfest '09 = Mind blown.
Sublimely superb.
Più ascolto i musicisti "vichinghi" e più li stimo.
At last,Yes made me start with music,thankfull to them,and now these progrock groups.Bless them!
And on the last day God created Änglagård and heard that they were good. Very good. Remarkable in fact.
Epic! The best prog album ever.
MASTERPIECE
Änglagård-Hybris - From Wikipedia- - -Hybris (Swedish: hybris 'hubris') is the first studio album by Swedish progressive rock group Änglagård.
Released in late 1992, it would become one of the most influential albums of the new wave of progressive rock in the 1990s.[citation needed] It begins with "Jordrök" (which means 'earth-smoke'), the only fully instrumental piece on the album.
The music is quite similar to 1970s progressive rock groups such as Yes and King Crimson, but Änglagård has also created their own style, thanks to Holmgren's folklore-sounding flute playing and Olsson's highly distinctive drumming (he was only 17 in 1992). There are also obvious similarities to the obscure 1970s band Cathedral's one-shot album Stained Glass Stories. Keyboardist Pär Lindh makes an uncredited guest appearance on the album.
The remastered CD version of the album contains a bonus track called "Gånglåt från Knapptibble", which seems to be a demo of the song "Skogsranden" from their second album, Epilog.[citation needed] The song was originally included on the Ptolemac Terrascope Number 5 CD sampler. The song also appears on the Hurricane Katrina benefit album After the Storm (NEARfest Records, 2005).
Track listing
All music written and arranged by Änglagård. All lyrics by Tord Lindman.
"Jordrök" ('Earth Smoke') - 11:10
"Vandringar i vilsenhet" ('Wanderings in Confusion') - 11:56
"Ifrån klarhet till klarhet" ('From Clarity to Clarity') - 8:08
"Kung Bore" ('King Winter') - 13:04
"Gånglåt från Knapptibble" ('Marching Tune from Knapptibble') (bonus track) - 7:19
Personnel
Tord Lindman: Vocals, Gibson 335, nylon and steel acoustic guitars
Jonas Engdegård: Stratocaster, Gibson 335, nylon and steel acoustic guitars
Thomas Johnson: Mellotron, Hammond Organ B-3 & L-100, Solina, clavinet, pianet, Korg Mono/Poly, piano and church organ
Anna Holmgren: Flute
Johan Högberg: Rickenbacker bass, bass pedals and Mellotron effects
Mattias Olsson: Sonor drumset, Zildjian cymbals, concert bass drum, triangles, tambourines, vibraslap, Po-Chung, gong, castanets, line bells, cowbell, wood block, glockenspiel, tubular bells, bongos, bells, ice-bell, finger cymbals, waterfall, agogô bells, cabasa, claves, French cowbell, African drums and effect-flute
Pär Lindh (uncredited): guest keyboardist - -
Ce genre d'album qui vous laisse sans mots... Ces types ont saisis l'essence du prog et l'ont additionné d'une mélancolie toute scandinave qui vous rentre dedans avec la puissance d'un Behemoth...
amazing prog
Just discovered these guys on Pandora. Amazing!
sound is realy amazing !!
How come I didnt hear this masterpiece yet?
Thanks for the upload. This record is out of print and very expensive to buy. I don’t why it’s so difficult to put something like this on band camp to buy.
Buenísimo, muy elaborado y delicado..Vad fint!! gratulerar!!
Oh God....I believe in You once again 😊 Thanks for that
I bought this album back then in 1992!...Colours was a norwegian label.....
And where from are these guys?
@@ornjonasson8873 sweden
Put the pastoralism of Genesis together with a few teaspoons of tranquility and melodism of Camel, add in the wildly unpredictable improvisational bursts of King Crimson, with just a pinch of compositional wizz of Gentle Giant, you get Änglagård.
Realmente é uma banda comprometida com o progressivo muito bom performance instrumental de alto nível gostei muito rocck progressivo pra mim não melhor gênero.
Thanks, this was the hope for the 90's in the prog scene. And is one of the best of the History..
Non li conoscevo....Una piacevole sorpresa. Grazie alla rivista "PROG music".
Amazing jam
Amazing Album
Epic Viking prog metal just fascinating texturing of sounds and complex solos with deep grooves that are interwoven with way slick melodic lines..
This isnt Prog metal.
Änglagård the best!
El Pollo Diablo! It is Manny Calavera!
@@HerbalistGuybrush Indeed it is!
Lol. I'm 16 years old and I recently caught my father playing Grim Fandango. How fitting your presence is
Truly amazing, bravo!!!
Masterpiece !!!
Amazing!!
Amazing music !!!
I'm officially a convert. Kung Bore is incredible.
Really fine stuff. Gentle Giant, PFM, Strawbs, Genesis, Yes - hell, it sounds like all the prog greats contributed.
Thanks for remember great PFM
@Arkadi Danielyan Why be negative? It's great music.
@Arkadi Danielyan Ok, I understand what you are saying. But in an age of rap and other equally derivative music, I am grateful that there is excellent prog rock still being made. Once you move past Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, and a few other prog rock pioneers, the argument can be made that all other prog rock bands are derivative. The same is true with blues, jazz, classical, hard rock, and all genres.
@Arkadi Danielyan Those are all great bands, several of which are Canterbury school, I notice, and that is a sub-genre of prog which has probably inter-mingled personnel and revisited musical styles and progressions more than most others. When it comes to rap vs prog, regardless who was first or most recent, I absolutely disagree with you , but I respect your right to have an opinion. Different strokes for different folks.
@Arkadi Danielyan I started listening to prog 50 years ago, in 1970, so I know quite a bit about it. I am not interested in debating your ideas versus mine. Enjoy you music your way, and I will enjoy music my way.
This disc has the Alucard seal of approval.
Thanks for this. I love Anglagard.
Um dos grandes álbuns feitos nos annos noventa, uma obra prima.
wow, first time i listen to them and... wow....
Bloody brilliant !!!! I am now a fan. To anybody who wishes to buy go to Musea Records
Beautiful
Yes!, astonishing!!!.
This came upon my Flower Kings Pandora.
Feel like this would have been the follow up to Trespass if Anthony Phillips had not departed Genesis. And I'm a huge Steve Hackett fan.
The mellotron was officially resurrected in 1992 with this recording.
Altered pitch ? So sharing an album is more important than respecting the music and the artists who made it ? Yeaaaaaaah.
Fine !
That synthesized piano does stain an otherwise fantastic album.
People here keep saying this is modern prog. This was from 1992, thats 25 years ago.
Let me give you a concise history lesson:
70s: good stuff, classics
80s: crap
90s: modern
Yeah, they were ahead of their time in 1992 ;)
@@HerbalistGuybrush Perfect way to put it!
Lol, I was thinking the same thing. This album came out closer to the release of Foxtrot than to today, by an entire decade!
Muito bom....maravilha sonora.....
Pitch is slightly toned up, so you better find another video if you wanna listen to this
I got to know this group the first time yesterday
I still have and listen to the LP, I think there just 50 copies for Germany. Great stuff!
I forgot to mention when I bought my copy in '97 I was really digging the back cover depicting a Mellotron sitting in the dark Nordic woods with this eerie light glowing (the LP depicts that, the CD depicts the Mellotron sitting in a field next to some trees). You can't argue with an album depicting such a cover.
Wow!!!!!
very good..................................
for me, the best of anglagard was always its rhythm section. the fills are never the same and the bass packs stinging jab and a mean left hook.
Your video would be perfect if you'd put this in the discription:
1. Jordrök 00:00
2. Vandringar i Vilsenhet 11:10
3. Ifrân Klarhet Till Klarhet 23:03
4. Kung Bore 31:07
Btw, thanks for the video, the world neads it.
Can anyone tell me something about the guitar section that plays with the flute starting at 6:15? I think I heard it somewhere else before. Another prog rock song or a well known swedish folk song maybe?
Hey man. Prog fan here. I can´t find the album on the net :/. Can you share it on a link please?
I am grateful for this video which got me into Hybris, but now that I listen to it again, the pitch is all wrong. This video is a full semitone higher than the album. What's up with that?
Opeth and Anekdoten have grown up on this music and from this music.
You can definitely see the influences these two bands have taken on together. But both are still very much different at the same time... at least sound wise
And Perihelion Ship have grown up on this three bands, simply amazing
Falta un bonus track super suculento que se llama Ganglat Fran Knapptibble, mmm ulala
wish this album was on spotify
it is, under another name and with more songs
what's the name? i'm looking at their spotify and all i see is a live album
Wow, what a good prog rock this here.
Who are these guys and where do they come from?
If only this bands material was still available at a reasonable price!
Anyone know where to legally acquire this album?
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It's easy to understand how a band like ÄNGLAGARD had to happen. Let's see what happened in the prog rock scene in between the thirteen years before "Hybris" came out near the end of 1992 right up to that time: punk, disco, and new wave brought an end of prog rock by 1979. People were getting so desperate for something from their prog heroes in the '80s, they'd even welcomed ASIA, which I thought was just a pop band trying to pander to the Lowest Common Denominator. YES and GENESIS went pop. The Neo-prog scene emerged (such as MARILLION) which while welcomed by many progsters, many others derided it as being nothing more than a modernized update of the GABRIEL-era GENESIS sound. By 1991-92, things were really looking down on some of the big name prog acts: YES gave us Union, which is regarded by many as a big disaster. Likewise, ELP gave us Black Moon, which wasn't all that great, in my opinion.
That gave room to a Swedish band, in which half the members were 17-18 (that is drummer Mattias Olsson, guitarist Jonas Engdegård, and keyboardist Thomas Johnson - the other half, being older, around the 23-25 age range consisted of guitarist Tord Lindman, bassist Johan Högberg, and flautist Anna Holmgren). This band was called ÄNGLAGARD. Despite having members of age where they were either too young or not even alive when many of the great prog rock albums came out, they were obviously not pleased with how prog was going. If they had to put up with ASIA, if they had to put up with Love Beach, only to have the band reunite 14 years later and give Black Moon, they knew they had to take matters in to their own hands. And this was their approach: ditch all digital equipment, never lay their hands on a Yamaha DX-7, get themselves a Mellotron and Hammond organ, get themselves a whole bunch of other instruments, as long as it wasn't made after 1975 (except for the Korg Poly/Mono synth that came out in 1982). Basically take matters in to their own hands.
If many people think just how original Änglagård are hadn't tried hearing albums like CATHEDRALl's "Stained Glass Stories", or side two of SFF's "Symphonic Pictures". In fact the opening cut, "Jordröck" sounds a like like side two of the already mentioned SFF album, but with plenty of HACKETTt-like guitars, and some really nice, gently, pastoral passages with that Nordic feel. The rest of the album is of the same high quality, unbelievable complex music from musicians who obviously play like they were ten years older than they really were. There are the occasional vocals in Swedish, but are only brief. There's enough Mellotron and Hammond organ to make any '70s prog fan happy. And in fact, the traditional '70s prog fan not happy with the neo-prog scene, and not happy with digital equipment more than welcomed ÄNGLAGARD with open arms, even from people who obviously don't bother with most albums released after 1977 or 1978. I can see how this band set the prog world by storm.
It might be hard to believe that this album was actually availble on LP as well as CD at the time. The LP, released on the long defunct Colours label out of Norway was beautifully packaged complete with lyric booklet which has lyrics to all the songs, as well as photos of band members, various other photos, and what band member played what (in Swedish - in which they also included an insert in English which described the history of the band up to that point, and the band members and the instruments they played).
No doubt about it, "Hybris" is definately one of the best '90s prog albums.
4:48 's like: 'Welcome to his majesty of Kung Bore's kingdom.'
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I have to say that I agree. What gets me is that it follows straight after such a promising gothic intro, destroying the mood that was building. I'm now just about 7 minutes into the video, and it's improved considerably. It's just that awful circus section between 1:07 and 1:35, and its repeat a minute later.