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[Elric of Melniboné]

Negură Bunget - Om, released 10 years ago today, or at least according to Metal-archives. Wikipedia says it was October 20, but whatever, I'm going with today.

Cool cover art.

http://bravewords.com/news/negura-bunget-om-release-date-confirmed-release-party-scheduled

I don't know the band but this Sept. 2006 article confirms the release date was November 27th, 2006. Wikipedia is lying.

 

[EspaDa]

Negură Bunget - Om, released 10 years ago today, or at least according to Metal-archives. Wikipedia says it was October 20, but whatever, I'm going with today.

Great album indeed. Worth celebrating.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Cool cover art.

http://bravewords.com/news/negura-bunget-om-release-date-confirmed-release-party-scheduled

I don't know the band but this Sept. 2006 article confirms the release date was November 27th, 2006. Wikipedia is lying.

This is next on your list of albums to check out. Every release is great but this is probably tops. Epic atmospheric folk metal in this mofo.

 

[zerostatic]

 

[EspaDa]

Is their sophomore worth giving a try??

 

[ProphetofHatred]

 

[Burkhard]

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Still my favourite Hedningarna-album.

 

[Baroque]

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I like the art, what's that?

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I like the art, what's that?

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Urfaust/Empty_Space_Meditation/604900

I looked it up because I also thought that the art looked cool and then realized that the band name and album title are in the four corners of the album art.

 

[Atomic Tide]

 

[ProphetofHatred]

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

^I heard that it's on their subsequent albums that they really started to diversify, and that they were still rather primitive at this point.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Cryptopsy

 

[Burkhard]

 

[EchoForever]

youd think for a progressive metal album the instruments would be a little more interesting

 

[ProphetofHatred]

^I heard that it's on their subsequent albums that they really started to diversify, and that they were still rather primitive at this point.

They're all over the place, this album is pretty much just sludge metal where they usually play some kind of progressive death metal thing.

 

[EchoForever]

Still my favourite Hedningarna-album.

its the first one ive heard, they blend modernism and nordic folk really well though

 

[ProphetofHatred]

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Fuck yeah!

 

[Burkhard]

its the first one ive heard, they blend modernism and nordic folk really well though

I really like this mixture, too. I like nordic folk when it's mixed with something else (rock, metal or a bit of jazz), whereas its pure form usually doesn't do that much for me. My first album by Hedningarna was "kaksi!", on which I like the opening song "Juopolle Joutunut" best, especially because of the vocals of the two female Finnish singers. I also like "Hippjokk", whereas "Karelia Visa" is probably my least favourite (haven't listened to it for years), maybe because it sounds too "traditional".

Since you liked Ketil Bjørnstad's "Sunrise", I'm curious if you are also familiar with other albums (also of other artists) for which he wrote the music. I think he is very good at writing music to other people's poems.