EMPYRIUM - a class of their own

JayKeeley said:
Wow, it's like playing 'spot the band album cover':

Tiuren Plays: EMPYRIUM

The Pest Arrives: WYRD

She Travels around the Country: BURZUM

The Pest in the Stairs: BURZUM

When the Apsens Bleeds: GAY FOREST (BWD's band) :tickled:
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Unfortunately they didn't have "Fattigmanden":

Fattigmanden.jpg


...which you should recognize. The "Filosofem" cover is also a Kittelsen picture, so are all the ones in that booklet.

"Høstkveld" (Fall Night or something) has been used by various bands also, like Helheim (not the "Jormundgand" Helheim, but the other Helheim from Norway with an industrial NSBM slant)
 
Erik said:
OK, great, feel free to tell me what they say so I don't have to mail 'em. :D
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what great guys, i got a really quick reply, here's what they said:

"Hei,og takk for din forespørsel. Send en mail og oppgi hvilke motiver du er
interessert i, og om du ønsker bildet innrammet eller uinnrammet. Da kan vi
oppgi priser. Uinnrammet koster bildene fra NOK 50,- til NOK 300,-. Porto kommer i tillegg.
Med hilsen
Munchforlaget as
Lise Bye Jøntvedt
daglig leder"
 
I think I would really like a long sleeved shirt with the "Where at Night..." artwork, but I've never seen that Empyrium shirt.

By the way, does anyone here collect live bootlegs? I was just curious as to where one could find a live bootleg of Empyrium. Same applies to Negura Bunget for that matter...
 
ok so i got the "a wintersunset"-disc a few days ago and i must say you where right jaykeely :p
i think the vocals infact are a bit weak at times, not all of the time but at some points. but overall it's an awesome cd; beautiful and sad haunting melodies. the yearning is one of the best songs i've heard in a loing while. though i'm not the biggest fan of doom-metal around, this type works great me thinks. thanks for the tip
 
OK great, they're a great band and I like all of their releases!! I think that Songs of Moors is their best, however. It sounds a little more 'mature' than A Wintersunset...., although they all have key moments.

I have a review for Songs of Moors coming in our next upload, so feel free to have a read when published. :)
 
A Wintersunset is amazing, Schwadorf was only like 17 or something when he made that.

I'm fairly certain Empyrium never played live, so you won't be able to get any live bootlegs unfortunately.

See here for news on Schwadorf's new band http://www.prophecy.cd/ The Vision Bleak. I own the single they released a while back. It's nothing like Empyrium or SoTS but it's quite good anyway, so I'll be getting that new album.
 
Doom said:
See here for news on Schwadorf's new band http://www.prophecy.cd/ The Vision Bleak. I own the single they released a while back. It's nothing like Empyrium or SoTS but it's quite good anyway, so I'll be getting that new album.
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Horror metal! Perhaps more gothic sounding than Diabolical Masquerade, however, I'd like to hear more. What's interesting is that the press release states that the voice of Saruman from LotR provides guest appearance (spoken passages). Why didn't they just say Christopher Lee I wonder?

If that's the case, Christopher Lee will now be appearing on this and the next Rhapsody album?
 
This is good stuff, I'm digging the very sparse instrumentation, kind of a Negura Bunget feel (but not sound). I'm also exhausted and in desparate need of sleep, so a further opinion will be formed later. :zzz:
 
NAD said:
This is good stuff, I'm digging the very sparse instrumentation, kind of a Negura Bunget feel (but not sound). I'm also exhausted and in desparate need of sleep, so a further opinion will be formed later. :zzz:
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It's later. :Smug:
 
Jeez, someone's impatient. :tickled:

I've listened to Weiland and Songs of Moors and Misty Stuff Too twice each now. Very good stuff, very striking. Those somber violins toward the end of Weiland are very moving. I'm really enjoying the German lyrics over the music, it creates a different effect than I'm used to hearing. So far I like Weiland better, but both will easily be listened to excessively in the coming months.

I love the word tranquil, and it fits very much for this band.
 
NAD said:
I've listened to Weiland and Songs of Moors and Misty Stuff Too twice each now. Very good stuff, very striking. Those somber violins toward the end of Weiland are very moving.
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The whole of Weiland's chpater 2, song "Waldpoesie", track #7, is some of the saddest music I've ever heard. If you're in the right atmosphere, dim lights, quiet night, then it's hard not to feel quite tearful.

I once translated the lyrics, *very loosely*, but it gives you the jist of what he's singing. Once you read these, it might help understand the different movements in the song itself, but it also reinforces the fact that the song is better left in German poetry (at least from the phonetics perspective):

Moss sings through the forest fog,
As night draws near, the moonlight pours through the treetops,
What rustles, moves, howls in the shrub, what in the wood moves?
It is my spirit, and then nothing - only night, only night, only night! (nur Nacht!)
My heart strikes wildly in fright, that is the devil, by me now in this dark place, the monster in his fort!

Each tree seems to lead away from here, like a child in a maze, each angle laughing, each view is new to me.
Now it is quiet and saddened, no more sound to hear, where am I in this deep forest?
The morning is lost, the love of the gleam is lost, my will is lost, yet there is a strange twinkling through the branches...

The glade in the distance! What glowing light festival is before me! And yet the view behind me is grey - with only peace in the forest.

I'm really enjoying the German lyrics over the music, it creates a different effect than I'm used to hearing. So far I like Weiland better, but both will easily be listened to excessively in the coming months.
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Of course I preferred Weiland at first too, and then I switched over to Songs..., of course that doesn't mean it can't switch back. It depends on my current tastes, but both got perfect scores from me anyway.
 
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