Year : 2015
Style : Viking Black Metal , Folk Metal
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 207 mb
Bio:
Månegarm is a Swedish Viking/black metal band from Norrtälje. The band's name is derived from Mánagarmr, a wolf in Norse mythology.The band was started by Svenne Rosendal, Jonas Almqui, and Pierre Wilhelmsson in 1995. After finding another guitarist (Mårten Matsson) and a drummer (Erik Grawsiö), they began rehearsing as "Antikrist". By 1996, they had changed their name to Månegarm, after the wolf of Norse legend, apt for a band concentrating on Viking metal, and early that year, they began recording their first demo collection, Vargaresa (Wolf's Journey).After the recording, Rosendal and Matsson left to be replaced by Jonny Wranning (vocals) and Markus Andé (guitar).With a second demo, Ur Nattvindar, folk metal became part of their sound, including violins and female vocals for the first time, and they were signed by Displeased Records. Soon afterwards, Wranning left the band and was replaced by Viktor Hemgren. At the end of the year, they went back into Sunlight studios to record their first full-length album, Nordstjärnans Tidsålder (The Age of the Northstar).In summer 1999, they began recording their next album, Havets Vargar. Because of some difficulty with the recording studio, they took some time off from recording the album, during which, Viktor Hemgren was fired. Grawsiö took over as vocalist along with his drumming. Also during this time, Janne Liljekvist was added as a full member. With the line up now set, they finished recording the album and released it in 2000.The band's two demos were remastered and released as an album in 2004, with a fourth studio album, Vredens Tid (Age of Wrath), issued in 2005, followed by performances on the European festival circuit that summer. After one further EP on Displeased, a completely acoustic folk music EP, Urminnes Hävd (The Forest Sessions), the band moved to the Swedish label Black Lodge, which issued the group's sixth album, Vargstenen (Wolf Stone) in 2007.A new album called Nattväsen was released on October 22, 2009, by Regain Records.At the end of June/beginning of July 2013 (dates vary depending on territory) they released a new album, Legions of the North, through Napalm Records.
Album:
With more than 20 years under their belt Swedish Viking metal band Manegarm aren’t going away anytime soon and for that we can thank Thor. This latest outing features a varied bag from the veteran collective, from soaring, power-cum-black metal to ethnic folk and beyond. While that kind of diversity might spell the end of some acts in the metal horde it’s exactly that kind of risk-taking that makes Manegarm, and this record in particular, charming.The opening “Blodorn” weaves a Jew’s harp hook in with tank-heavy guitar riffs and vocals that seem summoned from the deepest pits of the earth; it’s the seemingly impossible intersection of black metal and Appalachia but set in the heart of the Swedish countryside. (Or is that the skies over that fair land?) Parsing the disparate styles there will only do so much because at the end of it all, this song, and the others here are about advancing a goal: to awaken something primal and spiritual in us all and by three minutes into the seven minutes of this track, we’ve all signed up for the ride and are willing to follow it to its end no matter the twists and turns.“Call Of The Runes” is perhaps a little more predictable in its unfolding but never the less for it; it’s a trampling, smashing metal attack that relentlessly assaults a listener who’s been lulled by the quiet folk interlude of “Blot” and “Vigverk—del II” (the latter replete with female vocals and a beat that might just inspire campfire dancing). “Kraft”, on the other hand, delivers a different kind of heaviness, an almost glacial progression as the listener marches with the band from one end of the tune to the other, enjoying each nuanced passage and each eerie, slamming guitar figure.Before long we’re back to the acoustic side of things with “Bärsärkarna från Svitjod”, though this time it’s just as foreboding as anything we’ve heard from electric moments of the record, though its place in the sequence does bother a little: Why not group more of the like-minded songs? It’s tough to say and one might suggest that with so many spheres to juggle the band just couldn’t find a better way of blending the loud and the soft. That said, there’s nothing that can really be taken away from “Bärsärkarna från Svitjod”, it is superior for what it is and, like the closing, destined-to-be-classic “Allfader”, only deepens the mystique of this most unusual band.That problem or quirk of sequencing aside this is a record for the metal community to remember, one that has sewn some interesting seeds and one that will surely take its rightful place in the Manegarm oeuvre. Early reception for this has been remarkably warm and it seems that trend will continue as the record makes its way into the world and finds its rightful audience.Of course, questions remain: Can you play “Allfader” for your Swedish grandmother and will she like it more or less than “Kraft”? But that is a conversation for another time.
Line Up:
Erik Grawsiö - Drums (1996-2010), Vocals (2000-present), Bass (2010-present) - See also: ex-Cthulhus Scorn, ex-Desperator, ex-Strhate Edge, ex-Obscurity
Jonas "Rune" Almquist - Guitars (1995-present)
Markus Andé - Guitars (1996-present)
Jacob Hallegren - Drums (2011-present) - See also: Angrepp, ex-Valkyrja (live)
Tracklist:
01. Blodörn 07:58
02. Tagen av daga 05:27
03. Odin Owns Ye All 04:25
04. Blot 03:38
05. Vigverk - Del II 03:29
06. Call of the Runes 06:31
07. Kraft 05:33
08. Bärsärkarna från svitjod 04:14
09. Nattramn 06:17
10. Allfader 02:39
11. Månljus 02:44
12. Mother Earth Father Thunder (Bathory cover) 06:08
+ Video "Odin Owns Ye All" (Official Video)
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