How am I just finding this? Such a wonderful, beautiful performance, I feel blessed I had the chance to see and meet these guys live, they are awesome people and the music they make truly praises the gods!
It's seldom that you can really feel for the protagonist of music albums as if he really exists. But with 'Baldur' Skálmöld has done such an amazing job creating and ending a Saga. Baldurs revenge successful, the Vargr vanquished and he gets to see his family again in afterlife. True modern Skalds.
I had to revisit this song. The first time I heard it, I couldn't listen to it all the way through because it literally made me feel nauseated to the point that I thought I might vomit. Hear me out. I generally have incredibly visceral responses to music, but usually it's just in the form of emotion, like crying because a song feels sad or anger if the song feels angry, etc. This was the first and only time I had that particular strong response, nausea. I'm still not sure why, but each time I tried again, same response. Listening to it again now, years later, my hands are shaking; but thankfully, no nausea. I love the lyrics. It's a fascinating story, and story telling songs are by far my favorite. So, it's not that I dislike the song or the music or anything. I actually love it! Everything about this song is freakin' epic! Wondering if anyone else reacts to music in such visceral ways?
I know this feeling fairly well. You listen to a song the first time and you don't like it. Then you listen to it repeatedly and the more often you listen to it, the more you like it. As far as I am concerned, these are the songs that never leave you again. I have also experienced the total opposite. The first listen is great, but the more often you listen to it, the weaker it becomes. Fortunately, I didn't have both of these with Skálmöld, I love this music for more than 7 years now. But see, you are not alone.
era genial cuando estaba el concierto de principio a fin, creo que nunca antes vi ni tampoco e visto algo tan maravilloso algo tan poderoso y unico para mi skalmold la mejor banda que existe lml
And he is the brother of bass player and lyric writer Snæbjörn, the latter prefers using the names of those he's familiar with. So Snæbjörn named this album after guitar play Baldur, found it on wiki lol
Innrás lyrics: Heyrir þú í vargsins væli? Vopnlaus ertu, auminginn. Nálgast ég þitt nægtabæli, nú er mestur kraftur minn. Borinn var í myrkri moldu, mér var gefið kvalræðið. Blæðandi mig böndin þoldu, brakaði í hverjum lið. Vitundin er vafin drunga, villandi og óskapleg. Blóðþorstann, þá byrði þunga, borið hef um langan veg. Brotinn, grimmur, bitur, sekur, bifast ekki ögn úr stað. Heiftin áfram hatrið rekur, herðir tak og kreppir að. Hyldýpið sem hef í brjósti heimtar af mér gjörðir þær að ég þig með illu ljósti, opni sár sem hvergi grær. Baldursbrá, Bæjará. Himinhá, Heljarspá. Heyrir þú í vargsins væli? Vakir þú svo seint um kvöld? Þú sem veitir höltum bæli hefur ekki vopn og skjöld.
