SÂVER - They Came With Sunlight(2019)

This is one of those sound that I was about to skip it after the first two minutes, but than it easily kept my attention. As expected from Norwegian bands, this amused me a lot. Vibes of what in bands so different like Ulver, Borknagar, Leprous, Ihsahn. Some harsh and agressive sounds(the most one so far this year in the blog probably), alternating with others so pleasant. A good album to pay attention in near future. Musically irrepreensibl,  I leave you for now with "Dissolve to Ashes"

MORK - Det Svarte Juv(2019)

This song, might be the heaviest one in the recent times in my blog. It is in that frontier between what I can and enjoy to hear, and what starts to be too much for me. This guys, I enjoyed it. it has a dark vibe around the music "På Tvers Av Tidene" that for me is most of time senough to caught my attention. I think those who enjoy that feeling more doom metal, black metal, will surely enjoy this one.

Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP(2016)

Time to bring you something more from Ulver. This is the album from 2016 with a name almost impossible to pronounce. This Song is on my MP3 and is a pleasure any time it pops up. The song is called "Cromagnosis"
 



The album title is the combined initials of all the 12 signs of the zodiac. From aries to pisces

Personnel

On stage

• Seth Beaudreault — audiovisuals
• Ole Alexander Halstensgård — electronics
• Anders Møller — percussion
• Daniel O'Sullivan — bass, guitar
• Kristoffer Rygg — electronics, percussion, voice
• Jørn H. Sværen — voice
• Ivar Thormodsæter — drums
• Tore Ylvisaker — keys, electronics

In The Woods - Pure(2016)

Cheers, Hope you had an amazing new year's eve and the new year may bring amazing new sounds for us to hear. To start this year, I will show you something I found recently, despite being from 2016. In some way this made me remember of Amorphis with a feeling darker than what Amorphis sing about usually, full of power, but I already checked they have even heavier sounds. Hope you enjoy this "Cult of Shining Stars"

Ihsahn - ÀMR(2018)

For some unknown reason I wasn't aware that a new ablum from Ihsahn was around after 2016's Arktis, but thinking a bit it makes sense. I really enjoyed the song presented for us to hear, seems to follow part fo the path of Arktis focusing a lot on Ihsahn's clean vocals, which is what I like the most
I leave you with "Arcana Imperii"

Fatal Fusion - Total Absence(2016)

One of this days someone suggested me this band, and I am so glad he did it. I enjoy it all the way, don't know what it is but sounds simply wonderful, with no more words, here it is the song "The Emperor's Letter"

Circus Maximus - 1st Chapter(2005) - A prog metal band I have been forgetting

Today I'm making a small pause between Therion's Discography cause I suddenly remembered a band I never talked about for some reason. This album 1st Chapter from the Norwegian band Circus Maximus is hard to divide it by songs, makes us remember in some bits of Dream Theatre. It basically tells us bit by bit a story of someone who lost faith in life and questions it and the event will give him hope.

The first song of the album is called "Sin", and is the beginning of the adventure

"All My life I have been a Drifter

Going the paths that had no ending
With satan on my shoulder
I was an angles from the underground

(...)
What you have taken away from me
Can never come back, I cry, all night"

This tells what the main character was passing and what bring him to imprisonment (to be like a slave)

The second song is Alive, I think in this song he remembers his lover and the times spent whit his girlfriend, wife from the cell he is in

When you feel alive, and there's nothing you can do
When you can't explain, is there a reason why I'm living?
When you feel alive, and there's nothing you can do
We must struggle towards this together
Together we will make it through alive...

The third song is epic, He is brought to fight in the arena as a gladiator for is live and fear controls him, the song is called "Glory of the Empire"

Now the time has come
Will I win or fall?
Victory is on my mind
Could it ever be what I have found?
Now the gates are open wide
I must enter the arena
It will bring me one step closer to my revenge

There is an instrumental song I will not post, but hear it, the 5th song reveals after he is freed from where he was after winning in the arena, the song "Silence from Angels Above" where he questions his choices, and the time to confront who he left behind

The time has come to face the end
This is a necessary thing
Cause I will hold your hand an say
Will you forgive me

Long ago I made a choice
That I thought would make a difference
And lead me back on track

 
The next song is "Why am I here?" he continues questioning what he done in the arena, and in his life that brought him to that moment

 It was only a dream. His body senses relief
He washes of the night from his face
Followed by a look in the mirror
Something doesn't feel right here
Who is this man I see?
Somehow he can't recognize himself

Then comes "The Prophecy" where he realises he is part of something bigger he found his reason to live after all that happened

I woke up in the middle of the night
Outside the rain was covered in red
Thunder and lightning covers the sky
I'm all alone in this forsaken place
What have I done to deserve a life like this
Am I the key? Have I unlocked the mystery to life?

Innocence is the secret to reveal the prophecy
A new beginning predicted by the pages in the sand

The longest song of the album is also where everything is solved and where he finally closes the first chapter and starts a new one, the song is called precisely "1st Chapter"

I've reached the point of no return
And the path that lies behind me I will never see again
From the day that I left home I had one thing on my mind
To find the hidden answer in the sand

Feels like someone's watching over me
My faith is in their hands
Voices surround me... they show me the way

The journey ends back to paradise
Beyond the mountains far away
I've returned to where the sun always shine
...to my Grand Utopia

There is a last song on the album but I will not post it, hear the full album from first to last song so you can embrace the story on it's full

I guess he understands his happy life before all that happened was an utopia, We understood the message that life is that, doubts questioning and moments of unforeseen wins you never expected when everything seemed darkness all around.

Leprous - Malina(2017)

Today I bring you the new album of that amazing band that are the Leprous, even with a change in their formation(their guitarist departed and was subtituted) even so they will release in August 25th their next album Malina, there we can find this song

I enjoyed it, it clearly detaches from The Congregation(2015) which was aamzing, but no one likes to hear the same sonority in two sucessive albums, nevertheless this new sound made me remembere here and there the sonority of Bilateral which I learned to appreciate. Once something more is released I will share it with you.

Ulver - Shadows of The Sun (2007)

This last posts were about Norwegians bands. Today we will stick once again to Norway.
You might probably remember me talking about the amazing voice of Garm present in Borknagar. The truth is a bit after stumbling upon them, I happen to found his former work. Now he is in a band called Ulver, It seems the band started in Black metal and is not in a more experimentalist way, The way they sound now is mystical in so many ways that gives me chills to hear it. I bring you a song from 2007's album Shadows Of The Sun, which brings a kind of a tribal sound to the music which I love it.

Ihsahn - Arktis (2016)

The reason for having shared now with you Ihsahn was the new release from Ihsahn, released in the first half of this year 2016, it's a album worth listening to. I live you my favourite, which counts with Einar Solberg from Leprous, called Celestial Violence

Ihsahn - das seelenbrechen (2013)

Today something different inside Progressive metal, from Norway suddenly we have been presented by a lot of good artists, and one of those arriving in first place to mind is Ihsahn, I stumble upon this album some time ago, and now it's time to share it with you. Stay with the lyric video for NaCl

Borknagar - Winter Thrice (2016)

Today I bring you something a bit different, I stumble upon this album almost by accident, somewhere between progressive metal and some heavier sounds, for me in the exact same measure for it to turn from amazing to a masterpiece of excellence.
The first song it first we doubt what it's worth but then we realise it's a great one

However, their official video song for this album is even more amazing, with the same name as the album Winter Thrice we feel the strength of the Winter it's cold ways. I'm addicted to this song.

Sorry but probably in the next times I won't be able to make two posts a week as before, in other way it's also good to give you time to hear the things I post properly with no rush at all. Only when I have a unique song to show you I will share with you at a Wednesday. See you around next Saturday

ProgCenter - Leprous 3rd part - The congregation 2015

Last year, Leprous released a masterpiece, even more inside progressive metal, with some really heavy moments in some of the songs, but the sound even more refined than in The Cloak never hesitating in experiment new things and new sonorities.
let's start with a strong song not only musically but also lyrically, the Slave, it's open to interpretation but for me is clearly a warning to new slavery system we have today, we have the screaming part near the end which fits a moment of despair in the lyrics

The next song I am going to show you is a live version, but so strong, Rewind, I adore this song in so many ways. The need to turn ourselves free, this one filmed by me, it's not that well filmed but you can hear the whole song, sorry for the column ressonance, but it was a bit to close

The third song is called Down, having some similarities with some songs of Coal, it evolues in a clearly distinctive way, this one for me talks about the need to reassure ourselves when everyone tries to put us down. Lyrics that seem simple say so much. as it says

Off the edge
I have been thrown
Down

Vanished
All that I've known
Down

the last song is my favourite from Leprous, it's called moon we almost feel what this moon is feeling towards the song, never a Witcher background made so much sense as in here.

With this I end for now my Leprous post, hope the waiting was worth it, it's not needed to say this is my favourite album from Leprous, and I own the three of them it's in my mobile phone some of the songs from this album

Here are some of the bands I will talk about in a recent future
Amorphis, Circus Maximus, Sabaton, Opeth, will talk once again about Myrath and there are also another cool things I'm hearing which I will share with you. see you around next Saturday.

ProgCenter - Leprous part 2 - Coal 2013

Hello those few people who end here like by a parachute, welcome. This is the second part of my Leprous post, today I bring you the 2013 album, Coal
Here we see a clear difference in the way the music is made more long songs, more elaborated, more I would say kissing in some songs the frontier between rock and metal and in other a more agressive style. The voice of Einar Solberg is even more evident here than in Bilateral.

First I show you the official video chosen for this album the Cloak, this song gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it, it alternates more strong moments with other more soft.

the second song I decided to share with you it's called The Valley, here a more harsh song I would say, less melodic than the last one

If Bilateral was a good album this one is far beyond amazing, and it's obvious that my next post will also arrive only in the next Saturday with 3rd and last part of my leprous post, until there check another songs as Chronic or Foe, or others from this amazing album, which are just as amazing

ProgCenter - Leprous part 1 - Bilateral 2011

Finally I found some time to share with you one of my favourite bands, One I had the lucky to see live in 2015, Leprous. Pure progressive metal, because that is the main essence of this blog. In the 2011 album, Bilateral, we find a more harsh progressive metal, harder, less refined as their recent material. Here I present you Restless, where you can experiment what I said, more strength than you will experience on later works but in other and the guttural part was yet to appear. If you remember another progressive band from Norway called Circus Maximus you will find in the sound some similarities.

In the second music I want to show you is one the most used by them live, called Acquired Taste, different from the first one. I already heard this album a few times as I own it, and it's amazing

As I want you to hear this band properly, there will be no new post Wednesday in this Leprous series of posts.