Pioneering and prolific black metal act Graveland announced that an official video clip for the track Possessed by Steel will appear exclusively on the D.R. Silesia YouTube channel sometime during April 14th, 2020. This track will adorn the upcoming album Hour of Ragnarok to be released in autumn of 2020.
“Possessed by Steel” distinguishes itself by the successful use of rhythmic differentiation to create a sense of texture, dynamism, and momentum balanced with the simultaneous weaving of related motifs that drive the overall narrative of the song forward, and should be enjoyed by new and old fans alike.
If, as Tolkien quipped,
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? … If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
…then “Possessed by Steel,” along with the remaining tracks on Thunderbolts for the Gods, surely provides the solitary adventurer with a legitimate escape route, if only for a moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_a0ZeVhisg
Tags: Black Metal, graveland
08/15 Music & opportunism.
For me Graveland was musically interesting only in the years 1992 – 1998. Only “Raiders of Revenge” I could still listen to. What followed was just the same. And it was boring.
Thunderbolts is probably the best full length of the latter era Graveland, i.e, Immortal Pride Onwards
The new era certainly brought badly drawn and kitschy frontcovers with it. And what should one think of clips like “Lodowy Labirynt” for example? I don’t know if I should laugh or cry :-) By the way; Darken still had reasonable views 10 years ago or so. Even if I did not agree with everything. But he was against the satanic of he past in Graveland. As you can read in several interviews, he wanted to embody the Solar-Aryan Weltanschauung. But now he is just an ordinary metalbrother who poses with the „mudra“ of the devil into the camera in a brutally clichéd, stupid way hehe… NO; THANX!
Nice clip! Although, to be fair, it is not very different from earlier Wolin cosplay dramatizations. I don’t like the music so much, however. It has this generic folk treatment from recent Graveland which softens the approach without bringing in any uniqueness in exchange.
Regardless, I look forward to the new album later this year, as I find Darken always manages to deliver something of interest. I do like all Graveland eras, and could not decide between the Thousand Swords, Immortal Pride, Memory and Destiny or Fire Chariot of Destruction formulae because each of them features a different perspective with a solid and appealing base. There are not many long-standing bands one could say the same about.