Jordan Richner on Nostr: Far, far below the deepest delving of mainstream music, the world of metal is gnawed ...
Far, far below the deepest delving of mainstream music, the world of metal is gnawed by nameless vocals... I have walked there, and I will bring now report to darken the light of day
https://youtu.be/iBrugTuI28c
It's time for Metal Transmitted by Relays, where I feature lesser known metal bands and subgenres each week. Continuing our Tolkien theme, today we have metal from the deep places of the world.
Khazad Dum is a band named after the Dwarven name for Moria, the ancient, abandoned, underground stronghold of the Dwarves. And what sound did they choose to accompany their Dwarven motif?
Funeral Doom.
(Shout-out to Wind Rise for their Dwarf theme, but sorry, Doom Metal is way more "Dwarven" than Folk/Power metal.)
Khazad Dum has released one album, "Hymns from the Deep". It's a concept album about the Fellowship's journey through Moria.
Funeral Doom is the ultimate low-time- preference music. It's best experienced in it's entirety.
https://youtu.be/KoZS1pMsBMU
The only lyrics I was able to find.
STONES OF SORROW
"Ithkêl murbêl
Buh Dashât sadishîn
Doom of the deep folk wrote on blackened blades
Tidings of Balin’s fate through tale of plight
Stones of sorrow tell their tale as light fades
Wrought by hands of time in stillness of night
Hooded faces silent beside the tomb
Reflecting upon the brave lord’s lone quest
Went alone to look in Mirror mere’s gloom
An arrow in the dark death manifest
Grim readings sing bloody tunes of cruel ends
Cloven shields and helms conjoin words to deeds
Morning’s end to dread and horror extends
Vile tides come to repeat prior misdeeds
They are coming
We cannot get out"
#metal #tunestr #tolkien #heavymetal #music #grownostr #metaltransmittedbyrelays
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https://youtu.be/iBrugTuI28c
It's time for Metal Transmitted by Relays, where I feature lesser known metal bands and subgenres each week. Continuing our Tolkien theme, today we have metal from the deep places of the world.
Khazad Dum is a band named after the Dwarven name for Moria, the ancient, abandoned, underground stronghold of the Dwarves. And what sound did they choose to accompany their Dwarven motif?
Funeral Doom.
(Shout-out to Wind Rise for their Dwarf theme, but sorry, Doom Metal is way more "Dwarven" than Folk/Power metal.)
Khazad Dum has released one album, "Hymns from the Deep". It's a concept album about the Fellowship's journey through Moria.
Funeral Doom is the ultimate low-time- preference music. It's best experienced in it's entirety.
https://youtu.be/KoZS1pMsBMU
The only lyrics I was able to find.
STONES OF SORROW
"Ithkêl murbêl
Buh Dashât sadishîn
Doom of the deep folk wrote on blackened blades
Tidings of Balin’s fate through tale of plight
Stones of sorrow tell their tale as light fades
Wrought by hands of time in stillness of night
Hooded faces silent beside the tomb
Reflecting upon the brave lord’s lone quest
Went alone to look in Mirror mere’s gloom
An arrow in the dark death manifest
Grim readings sing bloody tunes of cruel ends
Cloven shields and helms conjoin words to deeds
Morning’s end to dread and horror extends
Vile tides come to repeat prior misdeeds
They are coming
We cannot get out"
#metal #tunestr #tolkien #heavymetal #music #grownostr #metaltransmittedbyrelays
Previous notes in this series.
quoting nevent1q…kgkcIn a basement in Austria, there lived a black metal band. It was not a black metal band filled with satanic themes and a low recording quality, nor was it a Norwegian band that stabbed people or burned churches in it's spare time.
It was Summoning
And that means Tolkien inspired lyrics, majestic atmospheric soundscapes, and a much needed change of pace for black metal.
https://youtu.be/Vb1-yX3WhnA
Welcome to Metal Transmitted by Relays. This month we're featuring metal bands influenced by Tolkien.
And the time has come to dive into Black Metal, but don't be scared, it's not really as black as you've been led to believe, a fact I largely credit to Summoning.
They borrowed the foundation of their sound from the Black Metal subgenre but rather than focusing on anger, despair, or anti religion themes, they wrote songs about Middle Earth.
https://youtu.be/JvzY5aQDe70
They also recorded the first metal song written entirely in the Black Speech of Mordor.
https://youtu.be/phjb-PLK6DI
Their career has spanned over eight albums in which they've established a deep Tolkien nerd credibility far beyond any other band I've ever come across. They also pioneered the atmospheric black metal scene in inspiring several other bands to contribute to their particular style of black metal.
But if you're a fan of the classic black metal sound, they have an album for that too.
https://youtu.be/bAYqEiysNmA
#metal #tunestr #tolkien #heavymetal #music #grownostr #metaltransmittedbyrelays
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