I love how the song goes soft when it talks about how she takes the people who didn't die in battle. As the lyrics say, she is the mother of the sick and unchosen, implying that she is kind to those who deserve it. She only tortures the souls of the wicked that come to her
Hel is the keeper of the dead, the one who claims dominion, and protection of mortal kind. While Valhalla will take those who will make fine servants of the shining halls, and the other gods pluck their chosen as they shall, Hel takes all the rest, those who lived good or ill, rich or poor, they stand as equals for judgement before the Queen of Midnight. Though her dominion mortals who were in no position to impress the other gods and be chosen and thus die a "normal" death are not lost to wander the planes dazed, confused, and easy prey for those things that were never alive. Instead they come to her halls, rest, and are reborn to live again. Without Hel's mercy mortal kind would be doomed to be consumed in death, and without the wheel of souls returning to life after repose, where would the souls of newly born mortals come from? Its notable that the ancient Norse did not see her a villain. That utterly simplistic view would come much later from people who looked at the Norse religion with the eyes of Christians, failing to understand that the Norse didn't believe in such simpleton concepts as the polarity of all-good and all-evil deities. This point needs driven home because even modern Norse religion fans still look at the "unchosen" as people who are forsaken, which is still a very Christian way of looking at things, and incorrect. The common dead were not at all forsaken, they were simply not-chosen, and would go to join their families in the afterlife. Helheim was not like the Christian Hell, the dominion of evil and sinners. Helheim was the place of rest and repose after life for the living, with the full recognition the extreme majority of people never would be great heroes to be carried off by the Valkyries. If anything Helheim should never be thought of as a place of pain and torment, even if some parts of it serve as prisons for the damned who failed Hel's judgement, but it should be seen as a place of somber peace, repose, and remembrance. And in turn it was Hel who punished the wicked, but also gave mercy to the common mortals after life was over. Death is of course terrifying to the mind of a mortal, but the keeper of the dead is surprisingly merciful when you think about it.
@@nordoceltic7225 Well written, and I agree, but what I'm most curious about is this: If Hel treated well the souls that came to her (talking about the unchosen here, not the ones that failed her judgement and would have been considered "evil" like murderers), why would the dead rise against the Aesir during Ragnarök? Is Hel, being partly a Jotunn, treating well the dead to "brainwash" them and teach them that the Aesir are evils in reality, and deserve Ragnarôk? Or are the dead rising back up during Ragnarök and fighting against the Aesir and the Einherjar because they have some sort of Stockholm syndrome induced by Hel's grace and good treatment? No idea if there's a pre-christian era recorded Saga that talks about this more in detail (I specify pre-christian because as you said, when christinaity came over, a lot of things changed in the nordic myths, especially relating to Hel, Helheim and Ragnarök)
Love the story where Frigg asks Hel to send back Baldr after he was killed. And Hel promised to do so if every living thing (and death thing, can't remember) would weep for him. All did but one woman (supposedly Loki in disguise) and thus Baldr had to stay in the Underworld until Ragnarök.
As I understand it, Baldr's death and Hel's refusal to release him is basically what kicks off Ragnarok. And yes, Loki allegedly disguised himself as the giantess Thökk, and refused to mourn for Baldr. For that matter, Loki is responsible for Baldr's death in the first place. Brothers can be such a pain.
@@quietpsycho1 According to what I have read Loki's brothers are Helblindi and Býleistr. Helblindi is also the many names of Odin. In Gylfaginning it says "I call myself Grim and Ganglari, Herian, Helblindi".
@@TheNerdsFromHell this is false. When ragnarok happens, yggdrasil falls and dies, and along with it, each realm dies. After ragnarok, is the true death.
This is why i prefer european metal more than others. From melodeath, power metal, symphonic metal all the way to folk metal, pagan etc. The music is just beautiful. Greetings from Malaysia!
American Metal is trash in comparison, most people in the US consider Metal on par with Rap, and don't consider either music, even though Metal is truly what music was originally intended to be, the telling of stories.
When I saw that my favourite song of the album got a music video, I got excited. When I saw that it's not one of the live-action ones where they larp around in a fashion unrelated to the song but a lyric video in the style of Prophecy of Ragnarök, I got ecstatic.
@@alicelund147 her story is apart of Ragnarok though, two of the causes for Ragnarok (off the top of my head) are jormungandr becoming oroborous (snake biting it's tale) and Fenrir breaking free, then at Ragnarok it is said that hel will kill the gods
@@unknqwnshepherd1872 "Causes" is a bit modern (Christian) way of thinking about it. Ragnarök is destined by the Norns to happen, no matter what anyone does. Garm, Hel, Odin, Jörmungandr, none can stop neither cause ragnarök, it will happen because it is the destiny of the world. Jörmungandr is normally biting his tail, unless he is disturbed by Thor. The Gods face different enemies at Ragnarök, I don't think Hel is mentioned in that battle.
In the myths they were brought to Odin Fenrir was actually willing to be chained to show his strength did so once easily then again but had to use all of his strength then finally chained to the mountain the third causing ragnarök he can also talk like scooby do
@@S0n0fCh4d @Convexity Hróðvitnisson well, there are often multiple versions of the same myth, the one I know is, in fact, that Fenrir got tied twice (I can't recall if by its own will or not, I believe the latter but I'm not sure), either way, the third time he didn't want to because he thought the chains were infused with magic, and asked a god to put a hand in his mouth as proof that they were honest about it. Tyr, righteous god of justice and war sacrificed his own hand because when Fenrir couldn't free himself, he ate the hand as promised. And yes, Fenrir could talk like Scooby Doo (but ever so slightly less comic relief-like). Then someone put a sword in his mouth to prevent him from talking and the saliva coming out through the teeth formed a couple of rivers. To this day, Fenrir is growing and when Ragnarok will come and ties will end, his mouth will be so big that when the jaw will touch the ground, the upper part will pierce the heaven and he will eat Odin as vengeance for this torture.
This song is so powerful, it moves me to tears and I can't help but sing along. I must've listened to it over a hundred times at least by now. This music video just reinforces the quality of the music and the story it tells. I really hope they do "Chain Breaker" and "Powersnake" as well, love those songs.
Deya Grima Deya Grima Deya Grima Far to the north Through the ice and snow There's a realm in the dark of the underground Hidden deep below Where we all must go Is the land of the dead and the frozen Master of the underworld, the queen of twilight Sovereign of the mortals, she will claim your soul The mistress of the void With your death in her mighty grasp When your path is at its' end Goddess of the underground Who's to blame For the pain of the wicked? Helbound in her lonely crown And only the one eyed knows why Deya Grima A monster in their eyes She was thrown from the skies In her fall she was crippled and broken Creating a fiend It was easy enough With a beast in control of the harness Deceived by them all She was crowned in her hall As the mother of the sick and unchosen Master of the underworld, the queen of twilight Sovereign of the living, she will claim your soul The mistress of the void With your death in her mighty grasp When your path is at its' end Goddess of the underground Who's to blame For the pain of the wicked? Helbound in her lonely crown And only the one eyed knows why There is no escape The gods will end up dead Go through the gates of Hel And to the lordess of decay Deya Grima Deya Grima Goddess of the underground Who's to blame For the pain of the wicked? Helbound in her lonely crown And only the one eyed knows why
Tarja, Floor, Sharon, Simone listen up! There is a new goddess of metal aproaching. And I'm not talking about the one she sings of, but herself. Ylva is just perfect!
Well, this looks and sounds like it's about the time she and her brothers were put into their defining predicaments, and from what I remember, that happened when they were but children, so...
@{Thy Baroness Annabelle Lee} Yeah, it does, but wasn't she just half dead? Whatever that means. I think I heard it was like her upper half was of a living woman and the lower half was just dead.
@@echoesman3439 close her left was a normal girl but her right looked like she was dead. (or the other way around, I'm not sure) That means when you sae her from one side she looked normal while the other well... But I don't remember anything about her staying a child after Odin banished her to the North.
Theoretically, based off what we do know, Hel would have been cast out around our own age of 8, as her brother Fenrir was bound around late "puppyhood" as he kept growing and growing, bigger and stronger. Seeing Jormungandr doing similar, they hurled him into the sea when he was still small enough to be held This would mean as she began to show power as a young child, they'd have already been planning how to contain her. What little I've been able to research, in my own language, suggests half of her was healthy and hale, the other half sunken and pale. The pale side is often treated like skeleton, but what if, like Odins eye (sometimes the one he sacrificed is referred to as his "dim" eye, possibly due to being at the bottom of the well)...what if it was a sort of kenning or reference to having a different look, perhaps partially mummified or--dare I suggest--frozen? Just a collection of thoughts. That said, completely agree she was cast out as a kid
@@hansonrowe234 its like the Job promotion that you get that transfers you in a "higher Posistion" away from the HQ to the middle of nowhere becouse you offended the wrong person but they couldnt fire you
I'm from Russia, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying your music! I came across you quite by accident,but I liked you very much right away! Keep up the good work! don't stop making us happy!
It can be a perfect cycle - songs about realms of yggdrasil... about Hel or, for example, Surtr of Muspelheim or dark elves of Svartalfheim... I'd like it!!!
If I remember the story correctly, Odin Banished Hela to Helheim for being so hideous due to her having the blood of a god and a witch. in her banishment she did become crippled from the fall to Helheim. But the song fits perfect and even the art showing her disfigured a little bit as a child was kind of neet to see.
@LittleGiantJ she isn't exactly a villain in the traditional sense, she's seen as one because you'd see the goddess of the underworld as a villain, same as you'd see the Grim Reaper as a villain, but they're just doing their jobs
Wulfric R yeah she’s really not a villain at all, she’s fair and just and takes all the dead that the aesir and vanir deem “unworthy”, most underworld deities are the least messed up amongst their respective families lol
because as far as the legends say none of the 3 were villains, they were cast as such by Odin out of fear of a prophecy, a prophecy HE caused by trying to stop it...
One of my favorite Brothers of Metal songs and the lyric video really illustrated the story of Hel. I appreciate that, and I really liked it. Keep up the great work! 🤘
SUCH an awesome song. The only thing that really gets me, is that the singers allude to Hel being thrown into the depths by Odin causing her to be crippled. I've gone through my copies of the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda and can't find this reference. It also wasn't mentioned by Dr. Jackson Crawford's translation of Hel. Any idea where they got this reference or whether it was the band's artistic expression? So far all I can find is the story of when the Aesir discover and meet the children of Loki, and another with the story of Balder.
4:14 i feel like Hel would sing this every now and then, and one day a mortal sails too close to the gates of Helheim and hears this and sees some condemned souls wandering around and decides to call her song the "Song of Death"
Suddenly I'm reminded of Human Head's RUNE...when Ragnar is stuck in Hel & has armies of undead to fight through... DAMN this makes me want to reinstall that ancient game...
To me this is an ode to the sorrow of one I know. Broken as a child and suffering forevermore. Destined to hurt all of those around her and live a lonely life of pain.
Seeing this music video made me realize something, Jormungandr and Hel were CHILDREN when Odin threw them out, only Fenrir was allowed to grow up in Asgard, so Hel became the queen of well Hel when she was a child! Jormungandr got thrown out when he was still a baby I believe, and Fenrir was bound as soon as he got "too strong" Odin's a dick
He is a massive dick, he also brought the Frost Giants to near extinction. In fact, if it wasn't for Odin, Jormungandr and Fenrir wouldn't have been so scornful and may not of started Ragnarok.
@KingofThemyscira "Kids, even if you know something bad might happen because of some people, don't let fear take you over and start being a dick to them. It might just lead to you, your family, friends and practically the world getting destroyed" Would be much better of a lesson than most fairytales' lessons if it was put into words properly, to be honest.
Представьте моё удивление, прочитать тут под новым клипом группы, которую я заслушал "до дыр" коммент на русском, в котором упоминается моя любима металл группа Blind Guardian ! Роман, вы знаете толк в музыке))
One the worst things about pop culture awareness of Hel is that now because of Thor Ragnarok most will know her as a stupid video game villain when she's supposed to be a broken and tragic character who embodies loneliness and melancholy.
Is she really though? I read Snorri's Edda and another book about North Mythology, and nothing there hinted that Hel was meant to be a tragic character. She's barely even mentioned, aside from when they send her to Niflheim and later when Hermod asks for Baldr's revival.
@@guipinus I'd love to have emblas saga next because of the old Norse they have in their, plus it would be AMAZING to have some visuals with the story bits at the beginning and the middle of the song!
I actually never checked these guys out cause I thought it was a joke/parody band. Then last year Yggdrassil autoplayed after some other video... and damn, blew me away. Vad kan man säga? Autoplay är en förbannat bra funktion ibland ha ha :P Skål och fortsätt skriva förbannat bra musik! Hatten av till Ylva Eriksson, klockren röst!
The cheese is pretty off putting even for a power metal band. If you just hear the songs and don't get exposed to the cheese, the band is phenomenal. This song in particular is excellent. Probably the best song of the album followed by Powersnake. Jörmungandr is one of the more interesting figures of the mythology.
It still has significance to me. Although I be amongst the chosen, my sickly sister has her merit. None the drengir that fear her remain among the living.
Well, it probably wouldn't very fun if you went there, though... I mean, if I remember correctly, Helheim is the worst place the dead can go. Niflheim might be worse (for criminals, maybe?), and that "the place where those who die in the sea go" I believe exists might not even be in the myths and turn out to be something I read from a book with the norse tales as it's setting.
I think there might be a bit of confusion the underworld isn’t a punishment in Norse mythology there is a specific part of the underworld for punishment but mostly just a place where people did the same things they did in life, just in a different place
The artwork is superbe!! And the song as well! Loooove it! Love you guys! Your music helped me trough a grown depressions and the death of my mother! Thank you so much!♥️👍🏻🤘🏻
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I love how the song goes soft when it talks about how she takes the people who didn't die in battle. As the lyrics say, she is the mother of the sick and unchosen, implying that she is kind to those who deserve it. She only tortures the souls of the wicked that come to her
Hela, will embrace us all who are deemed unworthy of either valhalla or folkvangr.
Hel is the keeper of the dead, the one who claims dominion, and protection of mortal kind. While Valhalla will take those who will make fine servants of the shining halls, and the other gods pluck their chosen as they shall, Hel takes all the rest, those who lived good or ill, rich or poor, they stand as equals for judgement before the Queen of Midnight. Though her dominion mortals who were in no position to impress the other gods and be chosen and thus die a "normal" death are not lost to wander the planes dazed, confused, and easy prey for those things that were never alive. Instead they come to her halls, rest, and are reborn to live again.
Without Hel's mercy mortal kind would be doomed to be consumed in death, and without the wheel of souls returning to life after repose, where would the souls of newly born mortals come from?
Its notable that the ancient Norse did not see her a villain. That utterly simplistic view would come much later from people who looked at the Norse religion with the eyes of Christians, failing to understand that the Norse didn't believe in such simpleton concepts as the polarity of all-good and all-evil deities. This point needs driven home because even modern Norse religion fans still look at the "unchosen" as people who are forsaken, which is still a very Christian way of looking at things, and incorrect. The common dead were not at all forsaken, they were simply not-chosen, and would go to join their families in the afterlife. Helheim was not like the Christian Hell, the dominion of evil and sinners. Helheim was the place of rest and repose after life for the living, with the full recognition the extreme majority of people never would be great heroes to be carried off by the Valkyries. If anything Helheim should never be thought of as a place of pain and torment, even if some parts of it serve as prisons for the damned who failed Hel's judgement, but it should be seen as a place of somber peace, repose, and remembrance.
And in turn it was Hel who punished the wicked, but also gave mercy to the common mortals after life was over.
Death is of course terrifying to the mind of a mortal, but the keeper of the dead is surprisingly merciful when you think about it.
@@nordoceltic7225Perfectly written.
@@nordoceltic7225 Well written, and I agree, but what I'm most curious about is this:
If Hel treated well the souls that came to her (talking about the unchosen here, not the ones that failed her judgement and would have been considered "evil" like murderers), why would the dead rise against the Aesir during Ragnarök?
Is Hel, being partly a Jotunn, treating well the dead to "brainwash" them and teach them that the Aesir are evils in reality, and deserve Ragnarôk? Or are the dead rising back up during Ragnarök and fighting against the Aesir and the Einherjar because they have some sort of Stockholm syndrome induced by Hel's grace and good treatment?
No idea if there's a pre-christian era recorded Saga that talks about this more in detail (I specify pre-christian because as you said, when christinaity came over, a lot of things changed in the nordic myths, especially relating to Hel, Helheim and Ragnarök)
Wrong
Whoever made this art did an exceptional job.
LMAO
@@samthemaniac6284?
Love the story where Frigg asks Hel to send back Baldr after he was killed.
And Hel promised to do so if every living thing (and death thing, can't remember) would weep for him.
All did but one woman (supposedly Loki in disguise) and thus Baldr had to stay in the Underworld until Ragnarök.
As I understand it, Baldr's death and Hel's refusal to release him is basically what kicks off Ragnarok. And yes, Loki allegedly disguised himself as the giantess Thökk, and refused to mourn for Baldr. For that matter, Loki is responsible for Baldr's death in the first place. Brothers can be such a pain.
@@quietpsycho1 brothers?
@@fenrirlokisson9361 I think he means Loki being Baldur's brother
Yall need to re-listen to Hermod's Ride to Hel - Lokes Treachery Pt.1 by Amon Amarth.
@@quietpsycho1 According to what I have read Loki's brothers are Helblindi and Býleistr. Helblindi is also the many names of Odin. In Gylfaginning it says "I call myself Grim and Ganglari, Herian, Helblindi".
I love how Hel is very obviously still a child and much smaller than the Dead around her. Poor Hel...
Ironically, after ragnarok, the very gods who put her there will be judged before Hel’s throne...poetic justice anyone?
Doesn't Hel die in Ragnarok though?
@@bradyburleson4569 No she survives, along with Magni, a resurrected Balder, and one man and woman. Definite Christian overtones lol
When the gods die in Ragnarök they just die, dont even go to Helheimur.
@@TheNerdsFromHell true Asatru predates Christianity.
@@TheNerdsFromHell this is false. When ragnarok happens, yggdrasil falls and dies, and along with it, each realm dies. After ragnarok, is the true death.
This is why i prefer european metal more than others. From melodeath, power metal, symphonic metal all the way to folk metal, pagan etc. The music is just beautiful. Greetings from Malaysia!
Fair enough, I hope you enjoy the fullest :)
American Metal is trash in comparison, most people in the US consider Metal on par with Rap, and don't consider either music, even though Metal is truly what music was originally intended to be, the telling of stories.
Hey Malaysia rock is actually pretty Metal too
When I saw that my favourite song of the album got a music video, I got excited. When I saw that it's not one of the live-action ones where they larp around in a fashion unrelated to the song but a lyric video in the style of Prophecy of Ragnarök, I got ecstatic.
They're called Lyric Videos as written in the title. Separate from music videos.
I enjoy there larping vids. They look like there having fun
No it's not about Ragnarök, its about the Goddess Hel.
@@alicelund147 her story is apart of Ragnarok though, two of the causes for Ragnarok (off the top of my head) are jormungandr becoming oroborous (snake biting it's tale) and Fenrir breaking free, then at Ragnarok it is said that hel will kill the gods
@@unknqwnshepherd1872 "Causes" is a bit modern (Christian) way of thinking about it. Ragnarök is destined by the Norns to happen, no matter what anyone does. Garm, Hel, Odin, Jörmungandr, none can stop neither cause ragnarök, it will happen because it is the destiny of the world. Jörmungandr is normally biting his tail, unless he is disturbed by Thor. The Gods face different enemies at Ragnarök, I don't think Hel is mentioned in that battle.
Not to detract from the rest of the video in any way, but I really like the image of Hel playing fetch with her brothers. It's cute.
Doesn't end well tho
@@destrorso2505, speaking for all three of us, Odin is the real man who causes Ragnarök. It was in the Disney movies of Atlantis 2: Milo's Return.
@@rextheextremewerewolf3096 is the classic case of " i try to prevent the prophecy but end causing the prophecy".
@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd indeed.
0:55 it brokes my heart when I see those siblings playing together before they were found by Odin.
1:15 its so painful see how they were separeted, and Odin put Hel where her brothers would never found her.
In the myths they were brought to Odin
Fenrir was actually willing to be chained to show his strength did so once easily then again but had to use all of his strength then finally chained to the mountain the third causing ragnarök he can also talk like scooby do
@@S0n0fCh4d Everything you just said is...completely incorrect
@@Corymbia how so?
@@S0n0fCh4d @Convexity Hróðvitnisson well, there are often multiple versions of the same myth, the one I know is, in fact, that Fenrir got tied twice (I can't recall if by its own will or not, I believe the latter but I'm not sure), either way, the third time he didn't want to because he thought the chains were infused with magic, and asked a god to put a hand in his mouth as proof that they were honest about it. Tyr, righteous god of justice and war sacrificed his own hand because when Fenrir couldn't free himself, he ate the hand as promised. And yes, Fenrir could talk like Scooby Doo (but ever so slightly less comic relief-like). Then someone put a sword in his mouth to prevent him from talking and the saliva coming out through the teeth formed a couple of rivers. To this day, Fenrir is growing and when Ragnarok will come and ties will end, his mouth will be so big that when the jaw will touch the ground, the upper part will pierce the heaven and he will eat Odin as vengeance for this torture.
This song is so powerful, it moves me to tears and I can't help but sing along. I must've listened to it over a hundred times at least by now. This music video just reinforces the quality of the music and the story it tells. I really hope they do "Chain Breaker" and "Powersnake" as well, love those songs.
Yea, all the songs on that album are epic, but the first 3... some of the best power metal i've ever heard!
Look more into the mythology. She's so misunderstood.
They actually got Freyja herself to sing about Hel.
Ooooooooooo
This song really does a wonderful job of highlighting how much texture there is in Norse mythology.
Deya
Grima
Deya
Grima
Deya
Grima
Far to the north
Through the ice and snow
There's a realm in the dark of the underground
Hidden deep below
Where we all must go
Is the land of the dead and the frozen
Master of the underworld, the queen of twilight
Sovereign of the mortals, she will claim your soul
The mistress of the void
With your death in her mighty grasp
When your path is at its' end
Goddess of the underground
Who's to blame
For the pain of the wicked?
Helbound in her lonely crown
And only the one eyed knows why
Deya
Grima
A monster in their eyes
She was thrown from the skies
In her fall she was crippled and broken
Creating a fiend
It was easy enough
With a beast in control of the harness
Deceived by them all
She was crowned in her hall
As the mother of the sick and unchosen
Master of the underworld, the queen of twilight
Sovereign of the living, she will claim your soul
The mistress of the void
With your death in her mighty grasp
When your path is at its' end
Goddess of the underground
Who's to blame
For the pain of the wicked?
Helbound in her lonely crown
And only the one eyed knows why
There is no escape
The gods will end up dead
Go through the gates of Hel
And to the lordess of decay
Deya
Grima
Deya
Grima
Goddess of the underground
Who's to blame
For the pain of the wicked?
Helbound in her lonely crown
And only the one eyed knows why
We still on round 3 of 6 babe?!😂😅
Tarja, Floor, Sharon, Simone listen up! There is a new goddess of metal aproaching. And I'm not talking about the one she sings of, but herself. Ylva is just perfect!
favorite female vocalist of any genre, check out her other band Good Harvest
No lies detected!
Right?
Just a smooth, powerful & full voice...crystal-clear!
Even in the lyrics videos, that guy in the spiked helmet is guaranteed to die. It just wouldn't be a BoM video otherwise.
Oh no those bastards killed spikehead
Don't worry he was already dead. After all he was in Hel.
@@Mecha82 but what if when you die in hel you respawn in Hel in Poland
@@diooverheaven6561 respawn?
@@diooverheaven6561 then he would have to take a bus with number 666 ( jokes aside but this bus is real)
The Brothers are rising higher than they were before...
I like the idea of displaying Hel as a Child, giving the myth a sadder image :O very cool.
Well, this looks and sounds like it's about the time she and her brothers were put into their defining predicaments, and from what I remember, that happened when they were but children, so...
@{Thy Baroness Annabelle Lee} Yeah, it does, but wasn't she just half dead? Whatever that means. I think I heard it was like her upper half was of a living woman and the lower half was just dead.
@@echoesman3439 close her left was a normal girl but her right looked like she was dead. (or the other way around, I'm not sure) That means when you sae her from one side she looked normal while the other well...
But I don't remember anything about her staying a child after Odin banished her to the North.
Theoretically, based off what we do know, Hel would have been cast out around our own age of 8, as her brother Fenrir was bound around late "puppyhood" as he kept growing and growing, bigger and stronger.
Seeing Jormungandr doing similar, they hurled him into the sea when he was still small enough to be held
This would mean as she began to show power as a young child, they'd have already been planning how to contain her.
What little I've been able to research, in my own language, suggests half of her was healthy and hale, the other half sunken and pale. The pale side is often treated like skeleton, but what if, like Odins eye (sometimes the one he sacrificed is referred to as his "dim" eye, possibly due to being at the bottom of the well)...what if it was a sort of kenning or reference to having a different look, perhaps partially mummified or--dare I suggest--frozen? Just a collection of thoughts.
That said, completely agree she was cast out as a kid
She not dead she is in a half life have dead half alive but immortal
Absolutely beautiful I'm so proud to be a fan of brothers of metal
Emblas Saga came out at the beginning of 2020 but im pretty sure its gonna stand strong and be my favourite album of the year
This is such a banger and the lead vocalist has a great warm and full sound to her voice. Perfect for this type of music.
One of the best if not strongly the best lyric videos that I have ever seen!
Somehow that doesn't sound a good compliment at all
ua-cam.com/video/TeGyZCwdQmo/v-deo.html Swedish song with enf lyrics.
I see so many who have taken Hel as their Patron Diety. It makes me happy to witness so many accept and love her as I have. Hel Bound, my kin.
Wait are you fr or memeing?
@@hyperion9793 im serious. I've take Hel as my patron deity. Why would that be a meme?
@@Shadeogray1113 because I didn't know that people still think that the old gods exis.
@@hyperion9793 norse Paganism is very much alive and well
@@Shadeogray1113 huh
More you know I guess.
Mother of the sick and unchosen 😥. Such epic words. One of the mistreated Goddess
Couldn’t watch the whole thing. Had to open amazon and order the album. I think i have a crush on her voice, heh :)
Not gonna lie, you could do worse.
And there not many female vocals that are this badass and enchanting at the same time.
All should pay tribute to Hela for her hard work in maintaining the underworld and taking the worst of souls to her realm.
Just make sure to give her a separate altar. She doesn't like to share and it's understandable.
Not only the worst souls. All the souls who died of age or illness, regardless of their moral standing
The worst of the souls go to Niflhel. The very bottom of Helheim
As Hel is my patron deity. I think of her daily.
@@Shadeogray1113 a chaos worshipper then
I expected her to be taller. Some legends say that Hel was very tall, even by the standards of the Yotuns, "giant among giants".
Maybe because she was still a child when she was deceived by her dad. I mean this is how they describe it here in the video at least. 🤔🙂
@Trevor Johnston but he did cast her to hel as the watcher of the realm
@@hansonrowe234 its like the Job promotion that you get that transfers you in a "higher Posistion" away from the HQ to the middle of nowhere becouse you offended the wrong person but they couldnt fire you
The Jötnar aren't giants. That's a mistranslation.
@@Shuulk I know you probably know this now, but just in case, iirc She's a child of Loki, not Odin.
Odin be like
I'm sorry little one. *yeet*
He gonna regret it come with Ragnarok
Yes he will regret it, it's brother's promise
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
my sides
Thinking on it, Odin may have done it to protect her from the fate that was to befall her brothers.
Technically the offspring of a Giant. The gods can't be associated with giants, they're mortal enemies.
There are other places. Not everyone reach Wallhala. Expecially these times. Pray to Hel. This song has the best lyrics imo.
Amazing artwork for all of it and a great song from one of my favourite albums of all time.
I'm from Russia, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying your music! I came across you quite by accident,but I liked you very much right away! Keep up the good work! don't stop making us happy!
The Ruser (Swedes) went to Russia and down to Kiew.
Ruser = Men who roars.
The humming at the final part of the song will sound awesome when the fans sing it when they play Wacken!
If there is Wacken this year, given how slow the virus role out is going in the EU it might have to be a virtual / AR event like last year
It can be a perfect cycle - songs about realms of yggdrasil... about Hel or, for example, Surtr of Muspelheim or dark elves of Svartalfheim... I'd like it!!!
If I remember the story correctly, Odin Banished Hela to Helheim for being so hideous due to her having the blood of a god and a witch. in her banishment she did become crippled from the fall to Helheim. But the song fits perfect and even the art showing her disfigured a little bit as a child was kind of neet to see.
If i remember correctly she became hideous from the fall. Before she was a beauty
Amazing performance, this band is too underrated for the work they've done. Huge respect from Portugal \m/
This song might just be my favourite song from both the albums due to the terrifyingly brilliant storytelling 🤘
Why am I crying over deity of the Underworld?
@LittleGiantJ she isn't exactly a villain in the traditional sense, she's seen as one because you'd see the goddess of the underworld as a villain, same as you'd see the Grim Reaper as a villain, but they're just doing their jobs
Wulfric R yeah she’s really not a villain at all, she’s fair and just and takes all the dead that the aesir and vanir deem “unworthy”, most underworld deities are the least messed up amongst their respective families lol
She in not villain
because as far as the legends say none of the 3 were villains, they were cast as such by Odin out of fear of a prophecy, a prophecy HE caused by trying to stop it...
@@brayachdragonbane7529 you're god damn right
Wow just wow I love this song, immediately going to rabbit hole every song this band has ever made
Best album this year.
Чуваки, да вы же охрененные. Жирный славянский лайк!
This song converted me. Goddess of the sick and unchosen. Know those feels well! Good job guys keep it up!
Welcome to the broteherhood I'm Norse Pagan former roman catholic chritian Hail the Gods and Goddesses and the forgotten ones
One of my favorite Brothers of Metal songs and the lyric video really illustrated the story of Hel. I appreciate that, and I really liked it. Keep up the great work! 🤘
SUCH an awesome song. The only thing that really gets me, is that the singers allude to Hel being thrown into the depths by Odin causing her to be crippled. I've gone through my copies of the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda and can't find this reference. It also wasn't mentioned by Dr. Jackson Crawford's translation of Hel. Any idea where they got this reference or whether it was the band's artistic expression? So far all I can find is the story of when the Aesir discover and meet the children of Loki, and another with the story of Balder.
I doubt it's a literal cripple, it might be eluding to not being able to escape or something along those lines, that was at least how I interpreted it
I always cry at the chorus no matter what at least 1 tear idk why
Never heard a Song like this what an amazing masterpice
4:14 i feel like Hel would sing this every now and then, and one day a mortal sails too close to the gates of Helheim and hears this and sees some condemned souls wandering around and decides to call her song the "Song of Death"
3:51 The spiked helmet guy dies again 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Even in Helheim he can't catch a break!
I can't stop listening to this song. It's so perfect: the lyrics, the music... also this lyric video is very powerful. Great job to all!
Why haven't I heard of this before? This is just beyond epic.
One of my favourite songs from this album. Love the energy it has.
Oh man this chorus is SO DAMN CATCHY. Love it! Please please please play this on the upcoming tour early 2022!!
Brings tears to my eyes...sympathy for the goddess.
Suddenly I'm reminded of Human Head's RUNE...when Ragnar is stuck in Hel & has armies of undead to fight through...
DAMN this makes me want to reinstall that ancient game...
I already knew all the words! Brothers of Metal are my favorite metal band! Love this video!!
This song could definetly be a movie soundtrack if they made a movie about Helheim in viking mythology. I for one would want a movie like that too lol
To me this is an ode to the sorrow of one I know. Broken as a child and suffering forevermore. Destined to hurt all of those around her and live a lonely life of pain.
Der Besten Song, den ich seit langem hören durfte. Gänsehaut und halskratzen gratis!
Sending my deepest love from Botswana
Your music will always take me to a special place
Seeing this music video made me realize something, Jormungandr and Hel were CHILDREN when Odin threw them out, only Fenrir was allowed to grow up in Asgard, so Hel became the queen of well Hel when she was a child! Jormungandr got thrown out when he was still a baby I believe, and Fenrir was bound as soon as he got "too strong" Odin's a dick
Yes he is
He is a massive dick, he also brought the Frost Giants to near extinction. In fact, if it wasn't for Odin, Jormungandr and Fenrir wouldn't have been so scornful and may not of started Ragnarok.
@KingofThemyscira "Kids, even if you know something bad might happen because of some people, don't let fear take you over and start being a dick to them. It might just lead to you, your family, friends and practically the world getting destroyed"
Would be much better of a lesson than most fairytales' lessons if it was put into words properly, to be honest.
Fenrir's strength was to Thor's as a regular wolf's is to a regular man
@@echoesman3439 Treat a person as one would wish to be treated, lest their axe meet your throat.
Я из россии- город череповец,вы парни молодцы,не хуже чем блайнд гуардиан,а те ещё те перцы-браво парни слух тает!буду слушать-однозначно!
Представьте моё удивление, прочитать тут под новым клипом группы, которую я заслушал "до дыр" коммент на русском, в котором упоминается моя любима металл группа Blind Guardian !
Роман, вы знаете толк в музыке))
One the worst things about pop culture awareness of Hel is that now because of Thor Ragnarok most will know her as a stupid video game villain when she's supposed to be a broken and tragic character who embodies loneliness and melancholy.
Is she really though? I read Snorri's Edda and another book about North Mythology, and nothing there hinted that Hel was meant to be a tragic character. She's barely even mentioned, aside from when they send her to Niflheim and later when Hermod asks for Baldr's revival.
WOW... Simply spectacular, since I heard it it was like "wow this is great!" and now seeing it in a video is SPECTACULAR, thanks
BROTHERS OF METAL!
Do Powersnake next.
Would be better Emblas Saga, it’s a large history
I think they'll do Kaunas Dagaz
@@guipinus I'd love to have emblas saga next because of the old Norse they have in their, plus it would be AMAZING to have some visuals with the story bits at the beginning and the middle of the song!
Maybe then we can see how they'd depict Thor like we got with Odin here.
MWGND best song ever...well top 3-4 at least
I love your music so much! The way how you tell the old legends again is amazing.
and again the poor dude with the spikey helmet
Yes XD
Timestamp?
@@Harold749 3:51
@@lordkain2412 Thanks
At this point I would be disappointed if he didn’t fall in one of their videos.
Never fails when Brothers of Metal release a new song it's played on repeat
One most artful and very descriptive rock metal videos I've ever seen in my life!!!
Brothers of Metal amazing!!
Super groupe incroyable, bonjour de France les Vikings !
Oh my god, this is truly the best "lyric video" I've ever seen in my entire damn life
Very classic Nordic feel with this.
Power metal band making a death metal song about hel. Fitting.
Holy hell mama gazelle! This was truely amazing, loved the artstyle and the subtle animations. It was a great addition to a very good song
Absolutely Beautiful track !!!
Brothers of Metal just keeps getting better :D
This lyric video has more production quality than other bands performance oder story videos
Amazing! Please come tour the states in 2021.🤙
Man I just discovered Berserkir and this band today. I'm making my rounds to all their music. This band frickin jams!
I actually never checked these guys out cause I thought it was a joke/parody band.
Then last year Yggdrassil autoplayed after some other video... and damn, blew me away.
Vad kan man säga? Autoplay är en förbannat bra funktion ibland ha ha :P
Skål och fortsätt skriva förbannat bra musik!
Hatten av till Ylva Eriksson, klockren röst!
The cheese is pretty off putting even for a power metal band. If you just hear the songs and don't get exposed to the cheese, the band is phenomenal. This song in particular is excellent. Probably the best song of the album followed by Powersnake. Jörmungandr is one of the more interesting figures of the mythology.
This song is SO F****** GOOD!!
Late to the party…just found this band…awesomeness!!!! ❤️
It still has significance to me. Although I be amongst the chosen, my sickly sister has her merit. None the drengir that fear her remain among the living.
Seriously, you guys are amazing! Can't wait for the next album!!!
everybody who likes this music, art and mythology: i love you. brothers and sisters, unite!
This song is beautiful. It makes me want to meet The Goddess Of The Underground.
Well, it probably wouldn't very fun if you went there, though... I mean, if I remember correctly, Helheim is the worst place the dead can go. Niflheim might be worse (for criminals, maybe?), and that "the place where those who die in the sea go" I believe exists might not even be in the myths and turn out to be something I read from a book with the norse tales as it's setting.
@@echoesman3439 You're incorrect. Hel isn't a punishment. It's far from life, but as far as 'underground' afterlives though, it's actually quite nice
I think there might be a bit of confusion the underworld isn’t a punishment in Norse mythology there is a specific part of the underworld for punishment but mostly just a place where people did the same things they did in life, just in a different place
Oh.
I see. My mistake, then. Been a while since my last Norse Mythology Spree, so I guess I forgot.
Me encanta este grupo, desde que lo descubrí me fascino. Muchas gracias.
What a masterpiece.
my most favourite brothers of metal song
MMMMMMMM some POWERFUL vocals here. Giving me some lullaby vibes. You guys should totally do a Lullaby of sorts if it wasnt one. \m/
one of the few new metal bands that I don't find boring
Los amo con todo el corazón ♥️🤘🏻
The artwork is superbe!! And the song as well! Loooove it! Love you guys! Your music helped me trough a grown depressions and the death of my mother! Thank you so much!♥️👍🏻🤘🏻
I love you, my patron goddess, my heart cries for you, my soul is yours
Same bro, same :')
3:53 spike head is dead ... ufff
Oh man this story gives me slight feels. I love it also you lyric videos are very stylish and fits very well
Wtf 🤩🤩🤩 my favorite song from album and a mastermind of video 😍😍
Is it just me, or this song is touching?
I REALLY WANT ANOTHER ONE OF THIS ABOUT EMBLAS SAGA AND POWERSNAKE
This is my favorite song of BoM now
VIKING GOD FINAL SUPER C-C-C-C-COMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! 4:14
A fun little note: this song being 4:44 is also fitting, as 4 is often the number of death for many Asian cultures.
You Guys will be better and better with every song you delivering. Good job. Great song!