"Its kind of frustrating how often these vibes come in that I really jamming along with and how quickly they leave" Exactly! This album was about going through a reflection of my life up until then, that is why its also feels purposely disjointed at times, because I did not feel the a timeline has to be presented linear fashion in retrospective. At this point these experiences are revisited so many times, that it has the analytical perspective of a conscious agent which has turned experience into perception. You know who it is, but not where it is. It is just plainly everything lived up to then. Like when life flashes by before your eyes just before you die. I do not really know its good or bad music or how to break it down on a pure academic level, I just run through thoughts and emotions and try to make that to some sort of musical narrative out of it. I want it to be an experience rather than a some filler for entertainment. You are really misinterpreting the last few lines bud, there is no objective truth here, no message, just a narrator and his perception/experience and him sharing this experience. So its not really about wrong or right. The structure of the song is long and at times disjointed, just like a life lived, moods, emotions, temperament and convictions within that life during specific parts of the journey, that are always contrasting and changing, and that also ties into that perceived truths or lies within the lyric. So in other words, the lyric does not necessarily agree with itself all the way through, same as the musical presentation. Like frustration or anger, there is a truth to the experienced emotion itself, but not necessarily in the manner in which it expressed. There is a vulnerability in here, like in, we are all flawed creatures. In some sense though i want it to stop being my experience and rather become something that ties into your own. For you to dwell into your own broken and flawed moments. These moments are not by themselves tragic, if maybe intrinsically so, but sometimes they end up rendering amazing things. I really enjoyed this break down, so thank you very much. And thank you all for all the comments folks.
Eeyyyy, geniet ham selv! 🤘🏻just wondering, would you ever consider releasing all those recorded tracks, that didn't get on "Supervillain Outcast" with vocals? Oh and an eternal thanks for "666 International". That whole album is just an eternal massive fucking flex. 👍🏻👍🏻🤘🏻
A Umbra Omega is an all time peak. It's simply something else. I couldn't believe what was coming out of the headphones, that thing goes on and on for a wonderful hour and 15 minutes so full of riffs, twisted lyrics and moods. Superb.
”I couldn`t believe what was coming out of the headphones” that sums it up nicely, it`s as awesome as it is just weird. Nothing like this have ever been done before, it`s just art.
@@niklas2378 this album definitely beaten 666 International. New "Black Current Medium" is not so good as "A Umbra Omega" in my opinion but still very good but different.
I'm a huge fan of DHG and happy to see one of their most challenging songs getting featured. I'm pretty sure yours is the only channel on YT with the chops to analyze it!
Here's what Vicotnik said in an interview about the concept of the album: Well, "A Umbra Omega" is about darkness, it's a rather non-emotional and concrete darkness, not a conceptual one. The narration of the album focuses on the thoughts and emotions that is bred from that darkness and the transformation the narrator has to go through in order to avoid being consumed. I guess transcendence is a good word; doubt also plays a major role on this album. This is quite uncommon in our line of music, where concepts mostly are about the (self-proclaimed) right vs the wrong perspective. I also play a lot on emotion on this album, abstractly, so that the consumer will relate to the melancholy, but on his / her own terms. So I stripped the content of any specific mundane scenario and just left the thoughts and emotions that derive from it. Creation-wise, there was a very simple criterion for "A Umbra Omega", the themes just had to have the right feeling, and everything else was sort of in the open. On a practical level that meant two things. Firstly, I threw away a lot of good material that just did not fit the mould and secondly, it also meant I could open up to other avenues of sounds and genres as long as it was atmospherically in line with my ambition. So on the one hand the album was very closed down and specific, in terms of right emotional outlet, but on the other hand it was very open on how to achieve it. The journey towards its release was long and hard and the album took may shapes and forms during this process. The real life journey and the creation of the music was all simultaneously an ongoing process.
Thanks for doing this one. One of my all-time favorite albums, and I've spent countless hours exploring the album's nooks and crannies. Know every track by heart now, and so happy I invested the time to do so. It's otherwordly,. Vicotnik (songwriter) has expressed that he felt he fulfilled his goals with the album when critics were not discussing primarily what genre the album was, but what kind of state it put the listener in. And I appreciate that. Now, a reaction to either "God Protocol Axiom" or "Architect of Darkness" from the same album wouldn't hurt. :)
So much yes to this. Brand new to this channel, one of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite bands is featured. Would love to see some analysis of anything in Virus' discography.
The chaos and madness of this is something else for sure. For me this album above everything else... and is one of the few albums that becomes art. And it took me many listens before the album got it's hooks in me... but since it did, it has been my #1 favorite album of all time.
Just when it was apparent that good old Norwegian black was dying and becoming yet another artefact of the early 90s like for instance grunge, Vicotnik lay his deep self naked in front of us, mere mortals and served us A Umbra Omega, the new pinnacle of black metal, a record that is second to nothing conceived under the BM monicker in the 21st century. Only to be ever topped by his new release coming soon, in April, as they do, every 8 years. It was 8 years ago I was leaving my homeland of Moravia for the UK where I live till today and it was my soundtrack for the sudden, abrupt switch in my already chaotic life. Can't fucking wait, thanks for everything Yusaf Parvez, the true unsung hero of Norwegian black metal.
You would do well to check out another band of Vicotniks, alongside Carl Michael Eide (Aura Noir) and Skoll (Ulver) called Ved Buens Ende. Formed in 1993, described as avant-garde metal. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats. I sang for the Swans is a good song to start out with, or Den Saakaldte, both are of the album Written in Waters released in 1995.
When you were reading the description, the OdiumNostrum channel shows up in the recommended videos section, my album is somewhere in there :P I really like The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master, it's with a former vocalist of Dødheimsgard. Also at 9:34 the clean riff, reminds me of the Final Fantasy 7's soundtrack, I think it's during the bombing of one of the reactors.
DHG are my favourite band. It feels like a missing piece of my soul that slots in and makes me whole when I listen to them. I had the distinct please of seeming the live last week in an exclusive show in Hobart Tasmania (Australia) as part of our Dark MOFO festival. It was hands down the greatest experience of my entire life!
Classic of avant-garde extreme metal. As many have said, digging into some Ved Buenes Ende and Virus would be the logical step though this is quite unique unto itself.
Astonishing and absolutely genious. Bass, drums and vocals are so good.. and the guitar riffs too. Thy darkened shade is on your list and they are somewhat similar, less psychedelic avant garde but just as complex, and more furious. I think they got a lot of inspiration from them
Oh muy friends from músic, i had such a great time seeing your face react to this song. I never thought seeing somebody react to músic was my thing. Seven Years and i feel the same chills in the spine about aphelion void. I sing my throat out. Those guitars really feel like inside of a black hole spiral
Interesting analysis...I love everything about this album...and the production is great imho. I also love the highly theatricality of the singer, if I may say...There obviously humor in this...If this was bearable for you, I really recommend the track called "God Protocol Axiom" (my favorite of the album) which has also some awesome 'calm' passages (highlighting that beautiful bass play that isn't praised enough imho). By the way some Metal websites state it is a "Black Electro" which is different from Psychedelic music, but I guess it is so special that it combines ideas or sounds from probably 4 or 5 genres....I don't feel it is random though, or really chaotic, it is just reflecting what they want to express, contrasts, some insanity, yeah, and, not said enough, some fantasy as well...Other Avant-Garde band are less palatable (and it is my prefered album of them) & yes before I forgot there are blastbeats in there....I also feel it like a concept album...to be listened into its entirety...Anyway it is great to be able to see a channel reaction to both Dodheimsgard, The Angelic Process or Agalloch, 3 bands I quite praise....Last word, I don't know who did it but I like a lot your outro music ! Cheers !
13:36 I totally get that reaction. They set us up for something completely different and they have this absolutely sudden transition into dissonant chords and blast beats.
Would you mind taking the challenge and check out Devil Doll? Devil Doll is an Italian-Slovenian experimental rock band formed in 1987 by the mysterious "Mr. Doctor". The band has gained a cult following, taking influences from gothic rock, classical and Slavonic folk music, and fronted by the sprechgesang of Mr. Doctor himself. The band is notable for very lengthy epics, none under 20 minutes. I'd say "The Girl Who Was.....Death" or "Dies Irae" might be the best ones to start. It's gonna be quite a rollercoaster of feelings.
I have loved Devil Doll for a long time now, but they might not be the best fit for reactions because of the length. That being said, I would love to see reactions to those albums so I second this recommendation. My dad always called it Bertolt Brecht when I played it, not sure why. So while I never heard any Bertolt Brecht myself I guess it sounds a bit like that?
@@wolverine669 I don't know how accurate the comparisson is and I never checked him out either. I have been meaning to check him out for a while though, but never got around to it.
Why not try a bit of classic gateway black metal. One of my personal favourites is by Abigor. Scars in the landscape of God. Beautiful melodies, soaring riffs and a fair bit of synth
I feel like for people who are more "music" oriented than metal-oriented would really benefit from working their way backwards into the genre. Such as formally trained composers, musicians, or those who are primarily into jazz or prog metal or something. Abigor is a great shout, though. I like their avant-garde era as much as their classic Nachthymnen era.
if you like repetition and hearing what thousands of bands have made before then by all means.. but if you want uniqueness you have to dig deeper and change your perspective
Such a great song and album! Also some great comments here :) Lots of quality surrounding this band :) As much as I love this album, I'd be interested more in getting your reaction the something from their previous album - "Supervillain Outcast", which took a very different approach. I love the song "21st Century Devil" also because of its lyrics - a song about Post-Modernism (the way I see it anyway). I also think it's a more varied album, compared to this one. In 'A Umbra Omega' all the songs are quite balanced containing lots of different element, and it might be hard to tell them apart at the beginning. That's not the case with 'Supervillain Outcast'. "Vendetta Assassin" is probably a better representative for the album (and a great song in itself, of course).
holy shit, finally band and the song i have been waiting for years. This album is an avant-garde/prog masterpiece, albeit a deranged one. :) Along with this track, The Unlocking are my favourites.
Whole A Umbra Omega is masterpiece avantgard black metal of all the time. Must be listened on headphones during the night and focusing....and of course need to listen more times ;-)
@@connorm.anderton363 I still remember when I heard it first time back in the day...it blew my mind. Regno is easily my favourite track from Dhg. And it was in '99, waaaay ahead of it's time.
@@laughingman9574 Regno Potiri is basically the aural equivalent of a strong, dark (bad?) "unity-fuelled" trip, with all sorts of 'desires' running riot. Stonedrop silverblue, indeed! 🤣 I didn't discover DHG until I was fresh out of being a student, about 5 years ago, and was looking for more "out there" BM than I had been listening to for years at the time, so obviously I wasn't able to hear it when it was released, but I can only imagine what an experience it must have been, as even now, it's difficult to find a work of such bizarre and mad yet articulate honesty in the instrumentals and the lyrics/vocals. They really were doing it for themselves, without a care in the world of what anyone else thought, which is a really difficult thing to achieve sometimes. As for the album's overall content, to me it may have seemed totally schizotypal at first, but by "Completion", after a dozen full spins, the message of the whole thing makes sense in a strange way. It's still my favourite post-mutation DHG album I'd say, even though I hugely appreciate and enjoy AUO, as it has a certain playful aggression that was actually brought back more for the vocalist's current project 'Urarv'. Btw, speaking of "out there" BM, I highly recommend checking out "Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old" by Prometheus (Greece). It's total churning, ethereal, cold, harsh, brooding, utterly alien and dimension flipping otherworldly nectar from start to finish, in my opinion. The riffs literally sound like signals from immensely distant lifeforms from another galaxy, yet with a chilling familiarity to them.
@@connorm.anderton363 I was 18 when I first heard it, so we can relate regarding introduction age :) Thanks for the recommendation, I will check it out. But i feel obligated to give you one, and as far as the avantgarde goes, I have nothing that you haven't heard for sure, mine would be Blut aus Nord never stuff, Kriegsmachine or The Ruins Of Beverast but you probably know of it. So I will give you 2 not avantgarde but great albums regardless: Celeste - Misanthrope(s) bm goodness, if you are on the fence with it, skip to 3rd song - Toucher Ce Vide Béant...and then go back for the whole album. :) Other would be Oathbreaker - Eros/Anteros - more of a blackened crust but it is by a large margin my fav female extreme vocal and the album is raw start to finish. I hope you will love it. Cheers, mate. :)
This whole album is pretty "out-there". If you like the themes they are onto on this, I think 2-3 listens and everything will eventually "fall" into place. The most surprising parts almost becomes musical "hooks" after a while. And that is how these kind of works, work as music. I think DHG has a devoted fanbase who likes this sort of niché "thing", and that is not dismissive or negative statement, but the only way I think I can describe it easily. But as others have said here bands like Ved Buens Ende, Deathspell Omega and even so-called mathcore like The Dillinger Escape Plan have the same ideas and structures. Without any of them actually sounding alike. But you have to do such broad comparisons, if you are to do any on this kind of music. I like all these bands because of the exact reason that they walk their own path. Edit: On the lyric section of the song: No one has an understanding of Psychosis unless you have had a psychosis. I agree that there is a cultural thing with Europe compared to the US and Canada, or a large divide. There is a cultural thing of the Nordic Countries compared to Mainland Europe even, and a cultural thing between the Nordics again. Of all of the Countries in the "Nordics" I think Finland and Norway are the most alike, and I think Danes and Swedes are easier to relate to for North Americans. Why that is, I do not know.
would be cool if you reacted to the new Dodheimsgard album "Black Medium Current." Especially if you wanted to hear something as progressive as this one but more coherently structured.
Still waiting for that and this album as a whole but unfortunately i am not able to donate money from my country due to the blockage of paypall, waiting for another to do that still
I really love how off-the-wall experimental this one. It really feels like "black metal... and the kitchen sink" because it just throws a bunch of random genres in there punctuated by bursts of black metal. My big concern is that I don't think it coheres particularly well, and I'm not a big fan of the vocals. So I guess you could say I'm ambivalent: I love certain parts, other parts leave me cold, love the originality/creativity, don't love the vocals and incoherency... but it's the kind of thing that's creative/original enough to provoke me to explore more, so they're definitely going on my list of bands to check out. Edit: OMG, What was that wink at the end? :D I literally LOL'd.
this album is kind of a meandering mess, honestly. Check out their 1999 album "666 International" for an album that's just as all over the place but actually works.
A guy I know was in this band for years. I also used to work with Fenriz at the post office. My hot take: pretty much all Norwegian black metal is tongue in cheek, it's mostly for laughs. People take this stuff way too seriously. Hadn't heard this particular track before. Parts of it is kinda ripping off the DsO thing.
I heard that DsO was inspired to do their thing because of bands like Ved Buens Ende, a band which has the same guitarist and composer as this band. So then it might be the other way around? Who knows.
"Its kind of frustrating how often these vibes come in that I really jamming along with and how quickly they leave" Exactly! This album was about going through a reflection of my life up until then, that is why its also feels purposely disjointed at times, because I did not feel the a timeline has to be presented linear fashion in retrospective. At this point these experiences are revisited so many times, that it has the analytical perspective of a conscious agent which has turned experience into perception. You know who it is, but not where it is. It is just plainly everything lived up to then. Like when life flashes by before your eyes just before you die. I do not really know its good or bad music or how to break it down on a pure academic level, I just run through thoughts and emotions and try to make that to some sort of musical narrative out of it. I want it to be an experience rather than a some filler for entertainment. You are really misinterpreting the last few lines bud, there is no objective truth here, no message, just a narrator and his perception/experience and him sharing this experience. So its not really about wrong or right. The structure of the song is long and at times disjointed, just like a life lived, moods, emotions, temperament and convictions within that life during specific parts of the journey, that are always contrasting and changing, and that also ties into that perceived truths or lies within the lyric. So in other words, the lyric does not necessarily agree with itself all the way through, same as the musical presentation. Like frustration or anger, there is a truth to the experienced emotion itself, but not necessarily in the manner in which it expressed. There is a vulnerability in here, like in, we are all flawed creatures. In some sense though i want it to stop being my experience and rather become something that ties into your own. For you to dwell into your own broken and flawed moments. These moments are not by themselves tragic, if maybe intrinsically so, but sometimes they end up rendering amazing things. I really enjoyed this break down, so thank you very much. And thank you all for all the comments folks.
Eeyyyy, geniet ham selv! 🤘🏻just wondering, would you ever consider releasing all those recorded tracks, that didn't get on "Supervillain Outcast" with vocals? Oh and an eternal thanks for "666 International". That whole album is just an eternal massive fucking flex. 👍🏻👍🏻🤘🏻
A Umbra Omega is an all time peak. It's simply something else. I couldn't believe what was coming out of the headphones, that thing goes on and on for a wonderful hour and 15 minutes so full of riffs, twisted lyrics and moods. Superb.
One of the absolute best albums of the 21st century. It's janky and disjointed as fuck but somehow they pull it off.
Also love the new segments of the video, this shit starts to seem pro level
nothing beats "666 international" though
”I couldn`t believe what was coming out of the headphones” that sums it up nicely, it`s as awesome as it is just weird. Nothing like this have ever been done before, it`s just art.
@@niklas2378 this album definitely beaten 666 International. New "Black Current Medium" is not so good as "A Umbra Omega" in my opinion but still very good but different.
I'm a huge fan of DHG and happy to see one of their most challenging songs getting featured. I'm pretty sure yours is the only channel on YT with the chops to analyze it!
Here's what Vicotnik said in an interview about the concept of the album: Well, "A Umbra Omega" is about darkness, it's a rather non-emotional and concrete darkness, not a conceptual one. The narration of the album focuses on the thoughts and emotions that is bred from that darkness and the transformation the narrator has to go through in order to avoid being consumed. I guess transcendence is a good word; doubt also plays a major role on this album. This is quite uncommon in our line of music, where concepts mostly are about the (self-proclaimed) right vs the wrong perspective. I also play a lot on emotion on this album, abstractly, so that the consumer will relate to the melancholy, but on his / her own terms. So I stripped the content of any specific mundane scenario and just left the thoughts and emotions that derive from it. Creation-wise, there was a very simple criterion for "A Umbra Omega", the themes just had to have the right feeling, and everything else was sort of in the open. On a practical level that meant two things. Firstly, I threw away a lot of good material that just did not fit the mould and secondly, it also meant I could open up to other avenues of sounds and genres as long as it was atmospherically in line with my ambition. So on the one hand the album was very closed down and specific, in terms of right emotional outlet, but on the other hand it was very open on how to achieve it. The journey towards its release was long and hard and the album took may shapes and forms during this process. The real life journey and the creation of the music was all simultaneously an ongoing process.
Excellent! Thanks for this excerpt.
Thanks for doing this one. One of my all-time favorite albums, and I've spent countless hours exploring the album's nooks and crannies. Know every track by heart now, and so happy I invested the time to do so. It's otherwordly,. Vicotnik (songwriter) has expressed that he felt he fulfilled his goals with the album when critics were not discussing primarily what genre the album was, but what kind of state it put the listener in. And I appreciate that. Now, a reaction to either "God Protocol Axiom" or "Architect of Darkness" from the same album wouldn't hurt. :)
If you like Dødheimsgard check out "Virus" from Norway.
yes
Yes!!! And Ved Buens Ende too
So much yes to this. Brand new to this channel, one of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite bands is featured. Would love to see some analysis of anything in Virus' discography.
@@Gabobow vbe is my all time favorite out of norway
The chaos and madness of this is something else for sure.
For me this album above everything else... and is one of the few albums that becomes art. And it took me many listens before the album got it's hooks in me... but since it did, it has been my #1 favorite album of all time.
dhg, vbe and virus all have the same effect on people who are willing to learn to like them.. they become favourites
Just when it was apparent that good old Norwegian black was dying and becoming yet another artefact of the early 90s like for instance grunge, Vicotnik lay his deep self naked in front of us, mere mortals and served us A Umbra Omega, the new pinnacle of black metal, a record that is second to nothing conceived under the BM monicker in the 21st century. Only to be ever topped by his new release coming soon, in April, as they do, every 8 years. It was 8 years ago I was leaving my homeland of Moravia for the UK where I live till today and it was my soundtrack for the sudden, abrupt switch in my already chaotic life. Can't fucking wait, thanks for everything Yusaf Parvez, the true unsung hero of Norwegian black metal.
You would do well to check out another band of Vicotniks, alongside Carl Michael Eide (Aura Noir) and Skoll (Ulver) called Ved Buens Ende. Formed in 1993, described as avant-garde metal. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections and aggressive black metal blast beats. I sang for the Swans is a good song to start out with, or Den Saakaldte, both are of the album Written in Waters released in 1995.
and Vicotnik's -
Dold Vorde Ens Navn
Ved Buens Ende is simply superb 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
written in waters is one of my favourites, have it on first press purple vinyl
When you were reading the description, the OdiumNostrum channel shows up in the recommended videos section, my album is somewhere in there :P I really like The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master, it's with a former vocalist of Dødheimsgard.
Also at 9:34 the clean riff, reminds me of the Final Fantasy 7's soundtrack, I think it's during the bombing of one of the reactors.
A ton of respect for DHG. And this is from an amazing album. Cool to see a react to one of their songs!
DHG are my favourite band. It feels like a missing piece of my soul that slots in and makes me whole when I listen to them. I had the distinct please of seeming the live last week in an exclusive show in Hobart Tasmania (Australia) as part of our Dark MOFO festival. It was hands down the greatest experience of my entire life!
I can't help but think of Ved Buens Ende. Perhaps not surprising when you consider that Vicotnik was one of their guitarists.
Classic of avant-garde extreme metal. As many have said, digging into some Ved Buenes Ende and Virus would be the logical step though this is quite unique unto itself.
Astonishing and absolutely genious. Bass, drums and vocals are so good.. and the guitar riffs too. Thy darkened shade is on your list and they are somewhat similar, less psychedelic avant garde but just as complex, and more furious. I think they got a lot of inspiration from them
This band is absolutely fantastic. Crazy live too.
I saw them once at Maryland Deathfest and yeah, it was pretty crazy
theres so many ideas and passages i feel like im listening to heavy classical music. or at least something prog
this is as prog as it gets.. prog means progressive music
as some other people already comment on this,you should check Ved Buens Ende next....great work on your videos man!
You're like bound to react to Ved Buens Ende at this point, same guitarist.
I'll suggest the classic I Sang For The Swans
Yes! One of my favorite bass lines in that tune.
Thanks for covering DHG. I discovered this band back in 2015. It was instant love.
FROM UPPER LEVEL 6 OV DEATHSPELL OMEGA TO HIGHER 7LEVEL OV DØDHEIMSGARD... TREMENDOUS MAGNIFICIO!!! 76667! 🔥🔥🔥
Oh muy friends from músic, i had such a great time seeing your face react to this song. I never thought seeing somebody react to músic was my thing. Seven Years and i feel the same chills in the spine about aphelion void. I sing my throat out. Those guitars really feel like inside of a black hole spiral
Interesting analysis...I love everything about this album...and the production is great imho. I also love the highly theatricality of the singer, if I may say...There obviously humor in this...If this was bearable for you, I really recommend the track called "God Protocol Axiom" (my favorite of the album) which has also some awesome 'calm' passages (highlighting that beautiful bass play that isn't praised enough imho). By the way some Metal websites state it is a "Black Electro" which is different from Psychedelic music, but I guess it is so special that it combines ideas or sounds from probably 4 or 5 genres....I don't feel it is random though, or really chaotic, it is just reflecting what they want to express, contrasts, some insanity, yeah, and, not said enough, some fantasy as well...Other Avant-Garde band are less palatable (and it is my prefered album of them) & yes before I forgot there are blastbeats in there....I also feel it like a concept album...to be listened into its entirety...Anyway it is great to be able to see a channel reaction to both Dodheimsgard, The Angelic Process or Agalloch, 3 bands I quite praise....Last word, I don't know who did it but I like a lot your outro music ! Cheers !
Great reaction to an amazing song!
Fleurety's album Min Tid Skal Komme would be interesting for you too. Same area of avant garde black metal but different sound
13:36 I totally get that reaction. They set us up for something completely different and they have this absolutely sudden transition into dissonant chords and blast beats.
Yet another fantastic selection. One of the great albums of all time
Yes I love this. More DHG
Would you mind taking the challenge and check out Devil Doll?
Devil Doll is an Italian-Slovenian experimental rock band formed in 1987 by the mysterious "Mr. Doctor". The band has gained a cult following, taking influences from gothic rock, classical and Slavonic folk music, and fronted by the sprechgesang of Mr. Doctor himself. The band is notable for very lengthy epics, none under 20 minutes.
I'd say "The Girl Who Was.....Death" or "Dies Irae" might be the best ones to start. It's gonna be quite a rollercoaster of feelings.
I have loved Devil Doll for a long time now, but they might not be the best fit for reactions because of the length.
That being said, I would love to see reactions to those albums so I second this recommendation.
My dad always called it Bertolt Brecht when I played it, not sure why.
So while I never heard any Bertolt Brecht myself I guess it sounds a bit like that?
@@MaartenT that been said, I got curious about this Bertolt dude....
@@wolverine669
I don't know how accurate the comparisson is and I never checked him out either.
I have been meaning to check him out for a while though, but never got around to it.
new album is coming, and new single has already arrived. waiting for a new DHG reaction :)
Hell yeah, this band is so good. 666 International and Umbra Omega are fantastic.
Why not try a bit of classic gateway black metal. One of my personal favourites is by Abigor. Scars in the landscape of God. Beautiful melodies, soaring riffs and a fair bit of synth
I feel like for people who are more "music" oriented than metal-oriented would really benefit from working their way backwards into the genre. Such as formally trained composers, musicians, or those who are primarily into jazz or prog metal or something. Abigor is a great shout, though. I like their avant-garde era as much as their classic Nachthymnen era.
if you like repetition and hearing what thousands of bands have made before then by all means.. but if you want uniqueness you have to dig deeper and change your perspective
Such a great song and album!
Also some great comments here :)
Lots of quality surrounding this band :)
As much as I love this album, I'd be interested more in getting your reaction the something from their previous album - "Supervillain Outcast", which took a very different approach. I love the song "21st Century Devil" also because of its lyrics - a song about Post-Modernism (the way I see it anyway). I also think it's a more varied album, compared to this one. In 'A Umbra Omega' all the songs are quite balanced containing lots of different element, and it might be hard to tell them apart at the beginning. That's not the case with 'Supervillain Outcast'. "Vendetta Assassin" is probably a better representative for the album (and a great song in itself, of course).
Thankyou, that was a great breakdown of that excellent song of one of my Favourite albums and bands.....
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holy shit, finally band and the song i have been waiting for years. This album is an avant-garde/prog masterpiece, albeit a deranged one. :) Along with this track, The Unlocking are my favourites.
Whole A Umbra Omega is masterpiece avantgard black metal of all the time. Must be listened on headphones during the night and focusing....and of course need to listen more times ;-)
This is the most insane Avant-garde black metal I’v heard in awhile the transitions are not normal
Have you heard the Dodheimsgard album "666 International"?
I like this guy, he gets it!!!
The 10 min era reminds me of opeths the grand conjuration.
GENRES OF MUSIC ARE JUST A MARKETING STRATEGY.I THINK MUSIC SHOULD GO BEYOND ANY BOUNDARIES🤘🏻
I can't help but think of Evil Dead while listening to those vocals
Too avant-garde for my taste, but I feel they really nail what they're going for.
Try 666 international from them, it's more grounded, but still amazing.
@@laughingman9574 Hmm, Regno Potiri is maybe more "out there" than most of the tracks on AUO, in my opinion. Great stuff.
@@connorm.anderton363 I still remember when I heard it first time back in the day...it blew my mind. Regno is easily my favourite track from Dhg. And it was in '99, waaaay ahead of it's time.
@@laughingman9574 Regno Potiri is basically the aural equivalent of a strong, dark (bad?) "unity-fuelled" trip, with all sorts of 'desires' running riot. Stonedrop silverblue, indeed! 🤣
I didn't discover DHG until I was fresh out of being a student, about 5 years ago, and was looking for more "out there" BM than I had been listening to for years at the time, so obviously I wasn't able to hear it when it was released, but I can only imagine what an experience it must have been, as even now, it's difficult to find a work of such bizarre and mad yet articulate honesty in the instrumentals and the lyrics/vocals. They really were doing it for themselves, without a care in the world of what anyone else thought, which is a really difficult thing to achieve sometimes.
As for the album's overall content, to me it may have seemed totally schizotypal at first, but by "Completion", after a dozen full spins, the message of the whole thing makes sense in a strange way. It's still my favourite post-mutation DHG album I'd say, even though I hugely appreciate and enjoy AUO, as it has a certain playful aggression that was actually brought back more for the vocalist's current project 'Urarv'.
Btw, speaking of "out there" BM, I highly recommend checking out "Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old" by Prometheus (Greece). It's total churning, ethereal, cold, harsh, brooding, utterly alien and dimension flipping otherworldly nectar from start to finish, in my opinion. The riffs literally sound like signals from immensely distant lifeforms from another galaxy, yet with a chilling familiarity to them.
@@connorm.anderton363 I was 18 when I first heard it, so we can relate regarding introduction age :) Thanks for the recommendation, I will check it out. But i feel obligated to give you one, and as far as the avantgarde goes, I have nothing that you haven't heard for sure, mine would be Blut aus Nord never stuff, Kriegsmachine or The Ruins Of Beverast but you probably know of it. So I will give you 2 not avantgarde but great albums regardless:
Celeste - Misanthrope(s) bm goodness, if you are on the fence with it, skip to 3rd song - Toucher Ce Vide Béant...and then go back for the whole album. :)
Other would be Oathbreaker - Eros/Anteros - more of a blackened crust but it is by a large margin my fav female extreme vocal and the album is raw start to finish.
I hope you will love it. Cheers, mate. :)
I half expected StarScream to start doing backup vocals 🤔This was super 👌
Best band ever
New work by Stagnant Waters, "Black Fields / Battle Tactics..."
This whole album is pretty "out-there". If you like the themes they are onto on this, I think 2-3 listens and everything will eventually "fall" into place. The most surprising parts almost becomes musical "hooks" after a while. And that is how these kind of works, work as music.
I think DHG has a devoted fanbase who likes this sort of niché "thing", and that is not dismissive or negative statement, but the only way I think I can describe it easily. But as others have said here bands like Ved Buens Ende, Deathspell Omega and even so-called mathcore like The Dillinger Escape Plan have the same ideas and structures. Without any of them actually sounding alike. But you have to do such broad comparisons, if you are to do any on this kind of music.
I like all these bands because of the exact reason that they walk their own path.
Edit: On the lyric section of the song:
No one has an understanding of Psychosis unless you have had a psychosis.
I agree that there is a cultural thing with Europe compared to the US and Canada, or a large divide. There is a cultural thing of the Nordic Countries compared to Mainland Europe even, and a cultural thing between the Nordics again. Of all of the Countries in the "Nordics" I think Finland and Norway are the most alike, and I think Danes and Swedes are easier to relate to for North Americans. Why that is, I do not know.
Some vibe of arcturus may be????... la masquerade infernale.....mmmmm
Definetly Arcturus vibes.
666 International would be an easier listen :) Sonar Bliss or Ion Storm
IMAGINE HOW DIFFICULT WAS TO RECORD THIS.HOWEVER LOTS OF 'TRUE BLACKERS' HATE IT🤔
Second letter
is not ' o '
it is ' ö ' (ø)
like ' her '.
Next - check out Arcturus! You won’t be disappointed
React to Arcturus - Whence and Wither Goest the Wind or Fall of Man.
Whence And Wither Goest The Wind! With the vocals played backwards and tracked that way on the final mix.
would be cool if you reacted to the new Dodheimsgard album "Black Medium Current." Especially if you wanted to hear something as progressive as this one but more coherently structured.
Still waiting for that and this album as a whole but unfortunately i am not able to donate money from my country due to the blockage of paypall, waiting for another to do that still
I really love how off-the-wall experimental this one. It really feels like "black metal... and the kitchen sink" because it just throws a bunch of random genres in there punctuated by bursts of black metal. My big concern is that I don't think it coheres particularly well, and I'm not a big fan of the vocals. So I guess you could say I'm ambivalent: I love certain parts, other parts leave me cold, love the originality/creativity, don't love the vocals and incoherency... but it's the kind of thing that's creative/original enough to provoke me to explore more, so they're definitely going on my list of bands to check out.
Edit: OMG, What was that wink at the end? :D I literally LOL'd.
this album is kind of a meandering mess, honestly. Check out their 1999 album "666 International" for an album that's just as all over the place but actually works.
"black metal... and the kitchen sink" is the perfect description of this!
A guy I know was in this band for years. I also used to work with Fenriz at the post office. My hot take: pretty much all Norwegian black metal is tongue in cheek, it's mostly for laughs. People take this stuff way too seriously. Hadn't heard this particular track before. Parts of it is kinda ripping off the DsO thing.
Totally. But that is how it's marketed though.
it was definitely NOT tongue in cheek. The members often had a sense of humor but they weren't fucking around artistically.
I heard that DsO was inspired to do their thing because of bands like Ved Buens Ende, a band which has the same guitarist and composer as this band. So then it might be the other way around? Who knows.