Borknagar-Borknagar-NO-REMASTERED-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2021-MOONBLOOD

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2023-01-08

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     Artist......: Borknagar
     Album.......: Borknagar
     Year........: 2021

     Genre.......: Black Metal
     Label.......: Century Media Records
     Cat.No......:

     Source......: WEB (24bit)
     Encoder.....: libFLAC
     Quality.....: 1626kbps avg. / 44.1kHz / 2 channels

     Playtime....: 01:44:49  (1303.6MB)
     R.date......: 2023-01-06
     S.date......: 2021-11-09

     Website.....: http://open.qobuz.com/album/ovlh29z5vlmpb


     Disc 1 / 2
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     01. Vintervredets Sjelesagn                                          6:47
     02. Tanker mot Tind - Kvelding                                       3:43
     03. Svartskogs Gilde                                                 5:52
     04. Ved Steingard                                                    2:18
     05. Krigsstev                                                        2:02
     06. Dauden                                                           5:49
     07. Grimskalle Trell                                                 5:39
     08. Nord Naagauk                                                     3:07
     09. Fandens Allheim                                                  6:22
     10. Tanker mot Tind - Gryning                                        3:01


     Disc 2 / 2
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     01. Vintervredets Sjelesagn (Live Session at Grieghallen Studios     6:46
         1995)
     02. Svartskogs Gilde (Live Session at Grieghallen Studios 1995)      5:51
     03. Krigsstev (Live Session at Grieghallen Studios 1995)             2:02
     04. Dauden (Live Session at Grieghallen Studios 1995)                5:51
     05. Grimskalle Trell (Live Session at Grieghallen Studios 1995)      5:45
     06. Fandens Allheim (Live Session at Grieghallen Studios 1995)       5:53
     07. Ved Steingard (Alternate Mix)                                    2:13
     08. Nord Naagauk (Alternate Mix)                                     3:28
     09. Vintervredets Sjelesagn (Rehearsal 1994)                         6:59
     10. Grimskalle Trell (Rehearsal 1994)                                6:14
     11. Ved Steingard (First ever recording 1994)                        2:18
     12. Vintervredets Sjelesagn (Alternate Mix)                          6:49


     25th Anniversary Edition.

     Borknagar's debut is one of the truly greatest black metal albums of all
     time. Here they play a much more aggressive form of metal than on their
     later, more progressive works. This is pure late-nineties black metal, but
     it doesn't really sound like anything else. There is both folk and Viking
     influences with acoustic guitars, deep choirs and clean singing from
     almighty Garm (whose performance on here is beyond that of the Ulver
     records) on "Dauden".

     The songs follow no standard song pattern and all of them contain a handful
     of killer riffs and this is the strongest attribute to this record. All of
     the riffs on here have so many layers it's almost insane, they shift and
     turn and the two guitars never seem to play the exact same thing. The sound
     created out of this was, to my knowledge, not very heard of when this album
     was released. Taake is the only band that I can come to think of that uses
     this kind of musicianship and they didn't really arrive at the scene until
     many years later.

     The production to is really awesome and does nothing but well for the songs
     on here. The acoustic elements are perfectly balanced to fit into the
     blasting black metal parts (very much unlike on many Opeth records) and the
     bass is actually audible all the way through and doesn't follow the guitars
     all the time (how's that for Norwegian black metal?) which again, layers
     the riffs into the "super-awesome" category!

     The guitar tone is quite cold and "spacey" in a way that really makes you
     picture the fjords and forests that must've surely been an inspiration to
     these guys. This is supreme black metal all the way through, but at the
     same time it is quite daring, incorporating many elements and some almost
     groovy riffs.

     This album is highly recommended for anyone that likes black metal, folk
     metal or really metal in general, and isn't afraid of the screams (wouldn't
     really call them growls) typical for black metal bands.

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