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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAncient German/Viking music from around 1BC (Heilung LIFA - Krigsgaldr)
I can't vouch for its accuracy, but found it fascinating nonetheless.
Iggo
(47,546 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)as the first note built up layers I kept expecting laser beams and a TSO guitar solo.
Otherwise hauntingly morbid and tedious, but the Vikings had apparently only invented microphones and sticks. I can see how death metal may have sprung from this.
interesting. Thanx for posting.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)The practitioners describe it as the kind of music they think Vikings would dig. Here is a sample from Amon Amarth. I dig the front man's vocals.
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)Actually, I can imagine Hagar The Horrible playing this through his headphones as the ship sails toward his next castle victims. Everything I know I learned in the comics.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)There was that guy hitting a frypan repeatedly with an antler.
NBachers
(17,097 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Bayard
(22,038 posts)Costumes are pretty interesting too.
Thyla
(791 posts)And it totally blew me away. I'm certainly a fan now.
If you can find the whole concert on youtube it is well worth the watch.
Plus if you look into the comments of the singles on youtube some helpful people have given explanations and translations of the lyrics much of which has originated in ancient rune stones/writings.
I'd love to know more about it all as it is quite fascinating plus my dog heard it and he is a wolf now.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Lifa, that is. Of course you don't get the visuals that way, but it was worth contributing to them.