MARRAS – Steelfest 18/5 2024
Interesting band. From Finland, debut album released in 2019. The second one (latest) in May 2021.
“It’s an old word of death or signs of death. There are old traditional stories of Finnish people who have seen people who have already died earlier. Like ghosts. But in those days they were called a marras and they predicted that someone is going to die. So maybe a sign of death is the best way to describe it. One has to remember that old Finnish words have plenty of different meanings so don’t get confused if you hear different versions. And by the way, that’s also one of the greatest advantages in the Finnish language; it’s not always what you say, but also how you say it.“ – Valgrinder in an interview for thisisblackmetal.com (2020?)
[Live clips by Dark Aeon Productions sarvi ORGASMEDIA]
Notes & links:
https://www.facebook.com/marrasblackmetal
https://marrasblackmetal.bandcamp.com/album/endtime-sermon
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TORSOFUCK – Steelfest 18/5 2024
Never heard or saw them before but loved the stuff immediately:D
Slam/brutal death/goregrind from Finland since 1995. Couldn´t listen to it 24-7 but every now and then and especially live, I really like this kind of brutal shit.“After many line-up changes and some live shows, the band split up around 1999. In 2001 the band returned for a split with Lymphatic Phlegm and after that called it quits again. However, Goregiastic Records offered them a record deal; the band accepted it and recorded their first full-length Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy.
Torsofuck played their last show in 2009 before splitting up a third time. Several years later two ex-members started a new group in 2017 named Torso. After years of consideration, Torsofuck officially reformed in autumn 2022.” – E. Metallum[Live clip by GRONNENHELL]
Notes & links:
https://www.facebook.com
https://torsofuck.bandcamp.com/
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LICHT DES URTEILS – Steelfest 18/5 2024
Again, lights/fog combo very hard to handle, so shitty pics:/
[Live clips ORGASMEDIA ]
Notes & links:
https://www.facebook.com/lichtdesurteils
https://lichtdesurteils.bandcamp.com/
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Licht_des_Urteils/3540452978
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INQUISITION – Steelfest 17/5 2024
Last band for the most excellent Friday @ Steelfest 2024. Always amazed by how massive sound they produce on stage.
Still struggling a bit with the latest album (getting there) but in general everything they´ve done so far is flawless.
Very impressed by Arto S. for remembering all the lengthy song titles when discussing the band late at night. The songs I know by heart, not the titles, tho. But ofc, I mostly don´t remember peoples names either. The quality of the stuff is more important in both cases xD
Didn´t get any acceptable pictures of Incubus:/ Good thing that Tales From The Frontline is very drummer focused in his videos.
Quotes from an old Vice interview (around the release of Obscure Verses For The Multiverse):
“So many people justify their beliefs as “true” only to realize that in the end we will not know what the correct path is. Therefore, I choose to continue to use the path of Satan as the symbolic path of the “force that opposes all forces.”
“Before writing the album I thought to myself that beyond the void of blackness and grandeur in our music that I want to transmit with Inquisition, I want to generate harmonics that can elevate the listener to heights of pleasure while entranced by the rituals of melody and rhythm creating for a vicious combination using these harmonics because there you can find the living soul of what makes a riff and song sound good, be it tonal or atonal”
[Live clips BryceTalksMetal GRONNENHELL Tales From The Frontline sarvi Hellsinkiconcerts]
Notes & links:
– Currently signed @ Agonia Records
https://www.facebook.com/inquisition.official
https://unholyinquisition.com/
Shop @ Agonia Records
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Inquisition/6665
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KRODA – Steelfest 17/5 2024
KRODA formed in 2003 as a studio project but started with live shows a few years after. Last band on the outdoor stage for day 2. Last time they played here was in 2019. The other Ukranians, Nokturnal Mortum, have been booked at least for the past 2 festivals but again couldn´t get out of the country. Maybe next year?
(Guitar: Severoth / Morok )
[Live clips (and materials from) GRONNENHELL Werwolf Drums Werwolf Julio César Solorio Sarvi Tales From The Frontline]
Notes & links:
https://www.facebook.com/krodaofficial/
http://kroda.com.ua/
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Kroda/35759
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HORNA II (Corvus) – Steelfest 17/5 2024
Corvus (Tapsa Kuusela – Korgonthurus, Ymir, ex-Totalselfhatred etc). Another fantastic & strong HORNA experience!
Lights even more shitty than the previous night but whatever, I tried the best I could:)
HORNA W. CORVUS (from E. Metallum)
Vocals (2002-2009)
2002 Musta Surma / Horna (Split) Vocals
2002 Risti ja ruoska (EP) Vocals
2003 Horna / Desolation Triumphalis (Split) Vocals
2003 Tästä alkavat minun vuoteni / Live Invocation (Split) Vocals
2003 Viha ja viikate (EP) Vocals
2004 Black Metal Warfare – Goat Guts over Hengelo (Live album) Vocals
2004 Horna / Woods of Infinity (Split) Vocals
2004 Talismaani (EP) Lyrics (track 3), Vocals
2004 Horna / Behexen (Split) Vocals
2004 Vuohipaimen (EP) Vocals
2005 Vihan vuodet (Split) Vocals (tracks 3, 4, 5, 6)
2005 Goatfucking Gent / Vivicomburium (Split) Vocals
2005 Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne Songwriting (track 4), Vocals
2005 Unohdetut kasvot, unohdettu ääni / Un sogno oscuro (Split) Vocals
2005 Horna / Blackdeath (Split) Vocals
2006 Ilman arvoa ja arkkua / Κιναιδος (Legion of Doom) (Split) Vocals
2006 Ääniä yössä Vocals
2007 Horna / Sacrificia Mortuorum (Split) Vocals
2007 Sotahuuto Vocals
2007 Pimeyden hehku (EP) Vocals (lead)
2007 Horna / Peste Noire (Split) Vocals
2009 Sanojesi äärelle Lyrics (track 4), Vocals
2009 Musta kaipuu (Saatanan toinen evankeliumi) (Compilation) Vocals
2009 Horna / Nefarious (Split) Vocals
2009 Vihan tiellä (Live album) Vocals
[Live clips GRONNENHELL TopiKoo Doomed 2 travel Sautherom Mx sarvi]
Notes & links:
– HORNA has been experiencing shitloads of troubles on social medias w. hijacked accounts etc so nothing official to link to for the moment.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Horna
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INFERNAL WAR – Steelfest 17/5 2024
They played at Steelfest in -22 but had to quit after some songs due to reasons. Now they got to play a full set. Great gig!!
[Live clips by GRONNENHELL Desde las Catacumbas sarvi]
Notes & links:
https://www.facebook.com/infernalwar/
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Infernal_War/14386
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MISÞYRMING- Steelfest 17/5 2024
[Live clips by GRONNENHELL sarvi Tales From The Frontline]
Notes & links:
– Interview from 2019 (around the release of “Algleymi” @ Bardo Methodology
https://www.facebook.com/Misthyrming
https://www.instagram.com/Misthyrming/
https://misthyrming.bandcamp.com/
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VED BUENS ENDE – Steelfest 17/5 2024
Quite different stuff, this:) ) VBE in short: Formed in 1994, recorded a demo and a full length, split up in -97, picked up the band again in 2006 with plans to make a new album just to split up (again) in 2007 without making any. But ofc…the guys are also busy with lots of other stuff but now they are playing live gigs again.
Glad I got to see them and ofc run into Eide:) Very nice guy.
“The universal consensus is that they are “Avant-garde”, but the nature of that label is in itself a term that already bears the implication of just being ‘miscellaneous’.”
– isangfortheswans.wordpress.com
[Live clips by sarvi & GRONNENHELL]
Notes & links:
https://www.facebook.com/vedbuensende1/
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Krzysztof Drabikowski´s Батюшка- Steelfest 17/5 2024
The original one in Prague 2016, Krysiuk’s band on the Black Rituals tour (w. Belphegor) in 2021 and now Drabikowski´s at Steelfest.
A way more confusing split than the Entombed/Entombed A.D. ever was:/ It´s been ongoing for years but obviously the District Court in Warsaw, 22nd Intellectual Property Division ruled in Drabikowski´s favor a couple of weeks after Steelfest (29 May). So it all should be sorted now?
Anyways, this was a pretty good gig.
Recordings with Drabikowski
Батюшка
Studio albums
Litourgiya (Witching Hour Productions, 2015)
Singles
Yekteníya VII (Witching Hour Productions, 2015)
Krzysztof Drabikowski’s Батюшка
Studio albums
Панихида / Panihida (Sphieratz Productions, 2019)
Singles
Песнь 1 (Self-released, 2019)
[Live clips by TopiKoo & GRONNENHELL]
Notes & links:
