Srontgorrth


Srontgorrth: Die Macht erfaßte das meine wie die Angst das Blut der anderen is the second studio album by German black metal band Nagelfar, released in 1999.
Srontgorrth is a loose concept album, with the first four tracks focusing on the four seasons. The riff introduced at the beginning of the first piece is reprised at some point in every track on the album. The first three tracks had previously appeared on the band's first two demos and first album, respectively, but were re-recorded for this release. The fourth track is performed featuring no guitars whatsoever.
Most likely because more than half of the songs are re-recordings of previously released material, the band themselves do not consider Srontgorrth as an album, referring instead to their next album, Virus West, as their second album.

Sound

In a 2009 interview, drummer Alexander von Meilenwald wrote that the first Srontgorrth chapter was influenced by Enslaved's "Slaget i skogen bortenfor"; in addition, Nagelfar experimented with industrial elements in this album.

Lyrics

According to Legacy journalist Johannes Paul Köhler, Srontgorrth dealt with the total solar eclipse of 1999, while Meilenwald explained it as the fictional story of an individual freed from the prison of the unconscious and striving to reclaim his past, understand the present and look into the future. Meilenwald has also written that the mythological lyrical aspects had almost completely disappeared on Srontgorrth.

Reception

Srontgorrth was featured on Rock Hard magazine's list 250 Black-Metal-Alben, die man kennen sollte.

Track listing

  1. "Kapitel Eins. Der Frühling: Als die Tore sich öffnen... " - Chapter One. The Spring: As the Gates Open... - 16:45
  2. * Sonnenfinsternis Eins: Zeit der Schatten - Solar Eclipse One: Time of Shadows
  3. * Eine Geburt - A Birth
  4. * Sonnenfinsternis Zwei: Unter neuen Wolken - Solar Eclipse Two: Under New Clouds
  5. * Wind der Verwesung - Wind of Rotting
  6. Kapitel Zwei. Der Sommer: Die Existenz jenseits der Tore - Chapter Two. The Summer: Existence on the Other Side of the Gates - 16:10
  7. * Mein Thron auf den Leibern verstorbener Freunde - My Throne upon the Bodies of My Dead Friends
  8. * Mondschatten - Moonshade
  9. Kapitel Drei. Der Herbst: Endzeit - Chapter Three. The Autumn: Endtime - 9:18
  10. Kapitel Vier. Der Winter: Trümmer - Chapter Four. The Winter: Debris - 9:35
  11. Kapitel Fünf. Willkommen zu Haus - Chapter Five. Welcome Home - 18:09