My Third Borknagar CD...THE OLDEN DOMAIN

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

After your recommendations and after I had said that I was fine with just the Vintersorg Borknagar CD's, I finally caved in and got a non-Vintersorg Borknagar CD...THE OLDEN DOMAIN.

And I pretty much feel the same way I did when I got EMPIRICISM...I'm sure glad I picked it up...

More Viking themes in this CD, which being a fan of Viking-era Bathory, Amon Amarth, Falkenbach, and others, is just fine with me. The songs are great. My favourites are "To Mountans Rode" (I may have spelled that wrong, the calligraphy on the CD is a bit hard to read) and the beautiful instrumental "Ascension Of Our Fathers."

I'm not too fond of the singer, but he's alright. It's a little hard to compare him to one of my all-time favourite singers, Vintersorg, but let's just say he's not terrible.

Overall a great album...

 

[Necramentia]

anyone else tired of him?

 

[iAMtheblackwizards]

to answer your question: yes

 

[Innipunn]

Garm was the god of metal once! And I like his vocals! Especially the grim one. Vintersorg has a godlike clean vocal but his grim vocal could have been better.

And: Buy the first Borknagar album, it is without doubt the best (Along with The Archaic course )

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

I got this at an import CD store, and I didn't see the first one. That's going to be really hard to get, but I'm sure Ebay can help me.

Anyways, I'll grab whatever I can get. If I can get the first, awesome...

 

[fjellvandrer]

Quintessence is still the best i have ever heard, so grab that one, Rainbow Demon! )

 

[AceRoccola]

I finally managed to order Olden Domain and Archaic Course, can't wait until they get here. Garm and Simen are amazing.

 

[complexprocess]

I got this at an import CD store, and I didn't see the first one. That's going to be really hard to get

Here you go.
http://shopping.theendrecords.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.13/it.A/id.698/.f

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

Thanks alot!

And I stand corrected...Garm has some EXCELLENT grim vocals...

 

[insidethefall]

Garm has some of the best clean vocals ever, The Olden Domain is just frickin amazing

 

[Jonki]

TOD is my favorite record of all time close followed by the other Borknagar records ofcourse But Garms vocal on TOD is very unique, it takes me away

 

[Eternal_Frost]

i dunno ive always loved the archaic course the most , out of all of borknagars recordings.

 

[Necramentia]

i can't decide. the archaic course does have some special significance to me though.

 

[ChromeLife]

Archaic Course is perfect... Everything on it is perfect. Now I need some tabs for it
!

 

[Eternal_Frost]

Archaic Course is perfect... Everything on it is perfect. Now I need some tabs for it
!

yea i know what you mean , i want some bass tabs for some of the songs off archaic course. and im too lazy to do it myself .

 

[The Grimace]

OWN QUINTESSENCE! PERIOD!

All Borkish vocalists are gods, but Simen = Odin. The fact that he has 'Colossus' and 'Universal' on his resume... either one would make him godly...

V and G > everyone else

but...

Simen > oxygen or food.

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

I just got QUINTESSENCE.

But for the sake of some on these boards, I've decided to post about it in this thread and save everyone the headache!

Again, I've only listened to it once, but it was rather impressive. It does sound different from THE OLDEN DOMAIN and the Vintersorg CD's. That Borknagar sound that is a trademark of those albums is changed up a bit. Even more experimentation than EPIC...

 

[Necramentia]

headache not saved, only lessened slightly.

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

Who needs Advil?

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

Advil...


Aw, I thought it was clever...