Graveland
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J.
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Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
J.
Old Fart
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
J.
Old Fart
EricT
Don't you ever get...
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
That's pretty ironic.I wonder how many black dudes jumped him.
You're next RiA!
Don't drag my name through the mud in which you worship. How can such a silly disillusioned little faggot like yourself survive through life with such a philosophy? Oh that's right, you sit at home playing Return of the Jedi on your PSP while Mommy and Daddy work from 9-5 to pay all the bills. If you denounce mankind, then you should also denounce every creation that humanity has brought to your daily life to make it as comfortable as it is. You spew ill-thought out drivel against Jon's name not out of hatred, but out of envy. Envious towards the fact that he had no reservations in ending his life, while you sit there masking your cowardness towards seeking your end by convincing yourself that you're somehow superior to the one's who contribute to society. Self preservation is my only concern, and I wouldn't tender the thought for one second of sacrificing it for a bonsai tree.
George Lucas is a fucking Jew!
J.
Old Fart
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
J.
Old Fart
"This is blasphemy. This is madness!"
"Madness? THIS. IS. GRAVELAND!"
Don't fuck up the thread!
Looks cool. Been listening to the newest Nokturnal Mortum again recently actually. Better than I remember in fact.
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
J.
Old Fart
ive never heard north except for the split with sacrilegium. that was before they went "pagan". never heard anything of the recent stuff.
temnozor was OK. more interested in NM and the other band
temnozor was OK. more interested in NM and the other band
Reign in Acai
Of Elephant and Man
EricT
Don't you ever get...
Everyone should listen to North's 'From The Dark Past', it is most excellent. Can't say I'm much of a fan of North's later work, such as Korona and the split with Gromowladny, but I haven't yet listened to their 2006 release Na Polach Bitew yet, even though I have heard some good things.
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J.
Old Fart
The Year was late 1992 when a young man full of hate and disgust began what would materialize into one of the most hateful bands in the history of this genre of black metal. In the early days Graveland was filled with some of the most potent grief and hatred this world has ever heard in the extreme music underground Inspired musically by one of the first true black metal bands Bathory. Rob Darken had much more emotion that was screaming to be released from his soul and it poured later into what would be an array of promos and demos. There were five transformations of style since the first demo Necromanteion at least the only five here that we will cover, as this tribute is solely only interested in the blackest years of Graveland.
Drunemeton" was the second conversion, and opened up what even to this day (2005) stands on its own two feet among the sea of carbon copycat bands and masses of false pursuers. This period to me was probably the darkest era of the bands long history. It wasn't long after in mid 1993 that Darken teamed up with friend and now band mate Maciej DeBrowski (Capricornus) and June 14th 1993 the legendary "In The Glare Of The Burning Churches" demo II was recorded. This was obviously influenced by a number of church burnings in Norway. In These days Rob Darken was very close with Nergal of Behemoth which most
probably don't even know. But later this friendship would cease once Nergal would turn his back on the black metal underground for greed and popularity. Although in this year Graveland stood with absolute darkness and hate he never wanted anything to do with (hollywood) LaVey satanism. lyrically the band was still very close to what some may interpret as a kind of satanism or deep attraction to darkness, regardless Gravelands real hatred was towards the Judeo-Christian dogma that seems to
be very dominant in Europe and abroad. During this time alot of bands were coming out in Poland which would later be seen as the Polish black metal scene. Spawning bands like Veles, Infernum, Legion, Fullmoon etc I still see this scene of bands as one of the best in all of black metal underground, even with very limited production and skill on instruments it was still able to rule with pure emotion. In December of 1993 the debut album "Celtic Winter"was recorded and released through Melissa Productions. Due to no CD duplicating companies this was at first only released on cassette, this time with Karcharoth of
Infernum on second guitar bass. Later a weak mind full of depression and betrayal would separate any friendship between Karcharoth and Graveland. In between april and may 1994 the "Carpathian Wolves" was recorded This would end the fourth transformation and begin what most would consider as the best era of Graveland, namely the release of Thousand Swords" which was recorded in December of 1994. During this time Graveland was having some problems with their record label "Lethal Records" in which they were ripped off and ended up releasing the CD through Darkens own label Isengard Distribution Around this time No Colours picked up all of Gravelands releases and the rest is history.
Although Graveland might of went towards a total pagan metal direction with their music their ideology of black metal has never changed. Their repudiation towards commercialism in music hasn't changed. Another thing I respect is the fact that even though Rob Darken isn't an avid black metal fan he still understands fully the purist attitude of what makes this kind of music what it is. In all the years of Gravelands existence never once have they ever played live and if you asked him today he would probably tell you that black metal isn't meant for a live setting. Which I for one couldn't agree more!
I would like to take the time to thank, Rob Fudali and Maciej Debrowski for allowing this tribute to be and for sharing some of the most hateful black metal ever created.
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Last thing we need is another tribute album taking up distro space. Especially a(nother) GRAVELAND tribute.
