Drudkh

[Genevieve]

A folky, Ukranian black metal band. Any fans around?

And an amazing one at that. They're immense. A lot of people don't like their output after their third album, but I pretty much love everything. I guess the song 'Eternal Sun' from 'The Swan Road' album is my favorite. The essence of black metal, punishing, aggressive, beautifully melodic and hypnotic, though not particulars characteristic of the band since they're known for ambiance and pagan tinged mid tempo black metal most of all such as on the song Summoning The Rain. Not sure what my favorite album is, it may be 'Autumn Aurora', but I'm not really sure.

The affiliated bands/side projects such as Blood Of Kingu and Hate Forest obviously deserve a mention as well.

Sooo, discuss Drudkh or black metal in general I guess (but mostly Drudkh please, I don't want this thread to be flooded with posts about how Varg's sociopolitical views suck, because everyone's aware of that).[/url]

[bobsabarker]

LOVE this band.

[capo ultra]

Drudkh are amazing. All the albums are intense (even the folky instrumental one), but I reckon the last album 'Blood in Our Wells' distilled everything they had done previously into one whopper of an album and added stadium rock solos jsut or good measure. Lovely album.

Hate Forest are class, Purity is possibly my favourite Black Metal of all time. And I was pleasantly surprised by Blood of Kingu, although the album is a little short innit

[bassbeyondreason]

Can we talk about how Drudkh's socio-political views suck?
Good band, I prefer the overblown folky stuff to the earlier Burzum-worship, but they haven't done anything I don't like.

[Genevieve]

And I was pleasantly surprised by Blood of Kingu, although the album is a little short innit

Yeah and the interludes are rather... I don't know, they're forced. They sort of distract from the rest of the album, but when Blood of Kingu is on point, the band IS on fucking point. Love the vocals.

Can we talk about how Drudkh's socio-political views suck?
Good band, I prefer the overblown folky stuff to the earlier Burzum-worship, but they haven't done anything I don't like.

You're... actually right. But they don't seem to be as bad as most bands, as in, they seem to want the music to speak for itself and don't give a crap what their fanbase thinks politically. That's good. I disagree with nationalism since I feel it's irrational, but I've never let the musician's politics influence my view of the music. It's funny because, as an anarcho-capitalist (ideologically)/minarchist (practically), I should never expect to find many musicians who agree with my points of view since musicians and artists as a whole seem to be collectivists/socialists/social democrats/social liberals.

[Genevieve]

Much love for Astrofaes too. =|

Also, fans Drudkh may dig Walknut. Which is basically atmospheric black metal with a lot more balls than most atmospheric black metal (and don't get me wrong, I love the mellower stuff too, my screenname is a reference to Portland band Velvet Cacoon and their album 'Genevieve'). It's a lot 'bigger'. Imagine Xasthur when he doesn't suck (I feel like his stuff is very inconsistent, sometimes absolute greatness, sometimes mediocrity) but more epic, playing in the style of Drudkh.

[DOOMTROOPER/T40]

Drudkh are one of my influences for my own progressive metal project and some of my electronic stuff. I particularly like the folky instrumental stuff. Some of it is very chilled out.

[timofdeath]

The indescribably sublime riff at 04:35 in "When the Flame Turns to Ashes" always sounds to me like it needs lifting for a Dubstep tune.

[alexchuck]

are they NSBM? back when I was into black metal.. most of the ukrainian bands were :\

[Genevieve]

are they NSBM? back when I was into black metal.. most of the ukrainian bands were :\

Whatshisname from Nokturnal Mortum released some of Drudkh's stuff and there's some Drudkh merch that hints NS, but the band themselves refer to their music as "conservative revolutionary" and they consider themselves 'individualists'. Roman Saenko is in a band called 'Blood Of Kingu' which has Middle Eastern and Indian instrumentation (tablas) and is largely about Egyptian mythology. So who knows, really. These guys love the swastika, but associate it with the ancient religions and cultures of the original Aryans that lived in what we call Persia today who are ancestral to all modern Europeans, especially culturally...and their name is Sanskrit for 'wood' and since most people who speak Sanskrit these days aren't exactly white... I don't know. Draw your own conclusions I would say.

I wouldn't be too phased if they were NS, to be honest. If politics in music mattered to me, I'd have to hate almost all music because there aren't many propertarian libertarians making music.

[capo ultra]

are they NSBM? back when I was into black metal.. most of the ukrainian bands were :\

Whatshisname from Nokturnal Mortum released some of Drudkh's stuff and there's some Drudkh merch that hints NS, but the band themselves refer to their music as "conservative revolutionary" and they consider themselves 'individualists'. Roman Saenko is in a band called 'Blood Of Kingu' which has Middle Eastern and Indian instrumentation (tablas) and is largely about Egyptian mythology. So who knows, really. These guys love the swastika, but associate it with the ancient religions and cultures of the original Aryans that lived in what we call Persia today who are ancestral to all modern Europeans, especially culturally...and their name is Sanskrit for 'wood' and since most people who speak Sanskrit these days aren't exactly white... I don't know. Draw your own conclusions I would say.

I wouldn't be too phased if they were NS, to be honest. If politics in music mattered to me, I'd have to hate almost all music because there aren't many propertarian libertarians making music.

Basically there Eastern European. which means they're dodgy but not too dodgy.

[Genevieve]

New album out in 2 weeks, mayne.