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Il 1993 vide la morte di euronymous da parte di varg vikersen mettera fine alla sua vita, la mente della one man band burzum.
Questo tragico evento diede via alla vertiginosa ascesa del black metal, che nel giro di anni diventerà un fenomeno di largo uso. Il 1993 salì anche la scalata al sucesso degli immortal, il massacrante 'pure holocaust' usci proprio quando i mass media puntavano proprio sulla scena norvegese. Consci dal problema abbath e demonaz parteciparano al 'fucking christ tour' nel dicembre dello stesso anno.
Questa serie di concerti in compagnia di rotting christ e blasphemy si rivelo un buon sucesso di critica e fece guadagnare agli immortal una buona fama. La risposta del pubblico incremento la fiducia dei musicisti; abbath e demonaz vivesero un momento di grande euforia. Molte band neonate diedero la propria musa agli immortal. La violenza e le velocità massacranti di 'pure holocaust' spinsero sempre di piu a pigiare sull'acceleratore. Gli immortal non temevano rivali; demonaz disse in un intervista che il suo prossimo album si chiamera 'battles in the north' e sarà ancora piu veloce l'album disse che era un misto tra il massacro di 'pure holocaust' e le parti acustiche di 'diabolic fullmoon mysticism' che erano assenti su 'pure holocaust'.
L'album si apre con la titletrack finalmente gli immortal usano questo titolo, il terzo album degli immortal contiene musica forgiata nel sangue e nella neve; la titletrack non lasci dubbi a proposito. Velocissima e violenta come la furia degli elementi; gli immortal hanno volute spingere le intenzioni di pure holocaust , i suoni sono trasportati come il vento e la neve in dicembre. Con la loro musica gli immortal evocano combattimenti sulle montagne innevate, il cielo innevato frusta i volti dei combattenti con lacci di gelida neve. Gli immortal non sono mai stati cosi ostili. La seconda traccia e ritmata da un ritmo piu oscuro rispetto all'opener, i riff sono semplici ma la carica e insoppartabile, il testo e un invito a sentieri notturni che non esistono. "descents into eminem of silence" ha un appeal melodico sebbene non cedi a compromessi. Il riff a centro canzone è molto bello; nascosto dal mitragliare della batteria e dall'distorsore. Il testo parla di un antica conoscenza che porta diventare custodi di qualcosa che non si sia. Non vi elenco tutte le tracce arriviamo all ultima traccia del cd cioe "blashimir might ravendark" che gode di un riffing ben immediato e in apertura presenta un riff di chitarra molto atmosferico, se la tensione e arriva allo spasimo del cd verso la fine gli immortal rifiatano, sorpredentemente arriva una tastiera infine viene preso il riff principale e viene ripetuto fino alla fine .
"Battles in the north" è il capolavoro degli immortal una grande prova di talento, creatività, ispirazione per un gruppo che si è sempre evoluto.
Hail immortal
Hail sons of northen darkness
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01 Battles in the North (04:11)
Come forth demonized
Under the banner of
Blashyrkh we ride
In the battlesky
We lie estranged
Kings of the ravenrealm
We trample bejeweled
Thrones of the earth
In an age underdreamed of
Viewing myriad battles
Yet our eyes sparkling
Strident with strength
To trample bejeweled
Thrones of the earth
In an age underdreamed of
The ones to sit upon
The elder thrones
With shadowed faces
For the coming centuries
Riding towards the masterfields
A ride from the north
To the north
By our sacred raven
We are one
In the deadwhite moonlight
far above we reign mercilessly
Kings of the ravenrealm
Stronger than ice
Stronger than stone
A horde of heathenhearts to come
Battle... Battles in the north
Those who adhere to principle
Above battlelust
Sing your songs with dying breath
For the kings of the ravenrealm
For the kings of the ravenrealm
Battle... Battles in the north
02 Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms (02:47)
Frostbitten I became
Forthwith to see
Crystalized dimensions
To where the unfaithful fly
You might say
I'm demonized
but yet not the only one
You must come to me
There are nocturnal paths
To follow
Painted faces
From earlier centuries
Wander by desecrating winds
Binded shadows
Cast out from daylight
And from the beaten lands
Frostbitten I became
Forthwith to see
Crystalized dimensions
To where the unfaithful fly
You might say
I'm demonized
but yet not the only one
You must come to me
There are
Nocturnal path to follow
Enjoying the circle of eminent silence
Amidst the glacial abyss
Join my yearning emptiness
And the knowing
Of being beneath
Grim and frostbitten kingdoms
03 Descent Into Eminent Silence (03:09)
Standing by ringwalls of stone
Deepest dungeons
Passing irongates
Nor the golden send dreams
Under towers that
Once stormed in sight
That never storm
Hill.. the elder ravens
Above borgs layed in fog
Forget not
The blasphemic nordic deeps
Shadows... steal our souls
Into what we once were
I'm feeling
That well be taken there
Closed in time for those
Who shall not pass our gates
04 Throned by Blackstorms (03:38)
In circles concentric
Against the earth
I enthrone my spiritworlds
Obviously of frost shall be
Blizzard beasts
Encompassing me
To vipe the faces
Of the earth
In memorial to the ones
With pride
And glance of day
Will never shine
For these realms are mine
Master of nebulah frost
Await the solar fall
Creations of ice
Shall behold
Wings majestic funereal
Guide through spectral lands
None shall pass me there
Hidden within churning chasms
Of an elder age
Come the mighy sons of dawn
Shadows of aurora
A time for pure holocaust
To rise
Decades a thousand fold
In circles concentric against
Against the earth
I enthrone my spiritworlds
Obviously of frost shall be
Blizzard beasts
Encompassing me
To vipe the faces
Of the earth
In memorial to the ones
With pride
Glance of day shall
Never shine
For these realms are mine
Stillbreathing waters
Made birth to the beasts
From the throne of the north
Throned by blackstorms
05 Moonrise Fields of Sorrow (02:24)
Moonrise fields of sorrow
Our mighty fathers fell
Mountains watches memories
From a darkshining past
Layed in frost
Below a bleak sun
Under icicled paths
Mighty were the
Fathers of norsemen
And in us they shall return
Shine for me
Fields of sorrow
Shine for me dread moon
And make me
Neverending snowfall
Moonrise fields of sorrow
Layed in frost
Below a bleak sun
Under iced paths
Mighty were the
Fathers of norsemen
And in us they shall return
06 Cursed Realms of the Winterdemons (03:59)
Eyeless in eternal time
For I have worm the moonshine
Burning away daylight glimmer
With my nocturnal senses
Winds have come for me
Descending now
Thowards the frostmoon eclipse
A spectral spiritkingdom rise
In stormscreens
Covered by eyes
Night emits its shadow
There is no difference
Between the ravens
They have come for me
They will come to me
To the cursed realm
Of the winterdemons
Lavender eyes had only known
The underdark
From crypts of stone they rise
Beyond the blinding glare
Eyeless in eternal time
For I have worn moonshine
Burning away daylight glimmer
With my nocturnal senses
Winds have come for me
Winds will come for me
Descending now towards
The frostmoon eclipse
Out from the chambers
And horizons will open for me
The face of the earth
Will be to know black silence
For I saw them march for the lights...
07 At the Stormy Gates of Mist (02:59)
Endless tall mountainsides
Gates to open wide
Land of dragonbirths
Sorrow always rains
On a frosty path to sorrow
Guarded by unearthly beasts
Darkening memories
Claim that winter never dies
With bad moons enshrined
In the heart
Northern darkness walks
With me hand in hand
Endless tall mountainsides
Gates to open wide
Land of dragonbirths
Sorrow always rains
What waits me there
Behind the permafrost
Views that eye can never bear
At the stormy gates of mist
I'm still standing...
08 Through the Halls of Eternity (03:35)
In storm I ride
Toward the shadowruins
Infernally vasts
Take my sight
Then color my vision
From an endless dripping sky
Paint the visage
Centuries old
Of those
That rode by my side
The houvering steel desecrators
Nearer have I never been
To this that I always searched
The crystal cleared opening
In wich I shall be gone
From an endless dripping sky
Cryptic visages centuries old
Of those that rode by my side
In storm I stand upon ruions
Infernally vasts take my sight again
The light is dim before me
For the vision was frost
Chiming bells of immortality
Sings through the halls of eternity...
10 Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark) (04:34)
far above the ravengate
the spreaded wings of blashyrkh waits
Above the roaring depths
Sits the oath of frost
On the elder raventhrone
Older mountains sleeping in my sight
By chilling woods I stand
A grimly sound of naked winds
Is all that shall ever be heard from here
Cometh the rightful kings of highest halls
Cry of ravens lurk the realm
Eternally through the noctambulant grimness
...Demons stride at the gates of blashyrkh...
...Blashyrkh... Mighty ravendark...
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Battles In The North è forse uno dei più grandi album che la scena black metal norvegese abbia mai prodotto.
Meglio ricordarceli quando vestiti da bravi black metallers sfidavano il gelo delle loro montagne.
