Srontgorrth
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| Released | 1999 | |||
| Genre | Black metal | |||
| Label | Kettenhund | |||
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Srontgorrth: Die Macht erfaßte das meine wie die Angst das Blut der anderen (lit. "Power seized mine [my blood] as fear [seized] the blood of others") 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.[1] 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.
In a 2009 interview, drummer Alexander von Meilenwald wrote that the first Srontgorrth chapter was influenced by Enslaved's "Slaget i skogen bortenfor";[2] in addition, Nagelfar experimented with industrial elements in this album.[2]
Lyrics
According to Legacy journalist Johannes Paul Köhler, Srontgorrth dealt with the total solar eclipse of 1999,[3] 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.[1] Meilenwald has also written that the mythological lyrical aspects had almost completely disappeared on Srontgorrth.[4]
