BROTHERS OF METAL - Hel (2020) // Official Lyric Video // AFM Records 

Hela, will embrace us all who are deemed unworthy of either valhalla or folkvangr.

Hel is the keeper of the dead, the one who claims dominion, and protection of mortal kind. While Valhalla will take those who will make fine servants of the shining halls, and the other gods pluck their chosen as they shall, Hel takes all the rest, those who lived good or ill, rich or poor, they stand as equals for judgement before the Queen of Midnight. Though her dominion mortals who were in no position to impress the other gods and be chosen and thus die a "normal" death are not lost to wander the planes dazed, confused, and easy prey for those things that were never alive. Instead they come to her halls, rest, and are reborn to live again. Without Hel's mercy mortal kind would be doomed to be consumed in death, and without the wheel of souls returning to life after repose, where would the souls of newly born mortals come from? Its notable that the ancient Norse did not see her a villain. That utterly simplistic view would come much later from people who looked at the Norse religion with the eyes of Christians, failing to understand that the Norse didn't believe in such simpleton concepts as the polarity of all-good and all-evil deities. This point needs driven home because even modern Norse religion fans still look at the "unchosen" as people who are forsaken, which is still a very Christian way of looking at things, and incorrect. The common dead were not at all forsaken, they were simply not-chosen, and would go to join their families in the afterlife. Helheim was not like the Christian Hell, the dominion of evil and sinners. Helheim was the place of rest and repose after life for the living, with the full recognition the extreme majority of people never would be great heroes to be carried off by the Valkyries. If anything Helheim should never be thought of as a place of pain and torment, even if some parts of it serve as prisons for the damned who failed Hel's judgement, but it should be seen as a place of somber peace, repose, and remembrance. And in turn it was Hel who punished the wicked, but also gave mercy to the common mortals after life was over. Death is of course terrifying to the mind of a mortal, but the keeper of the dead is surprisingly merciful when you think about it.

​@@nordoceltic7225Perfectly written.

@@nordoceltic7225 Well written, and I agree, but what I'm most curious about is this: If Hel treated well the souls that came to her (talking about the unchosen here, not the ones that failed her judgement and would have been considered "evil" like murderers), why would the dead rise against the Aesir during Ragnarök? Is Hel, being partly a Jotunn, treating well the dead to "brainwash" them and teach them that the Aesir are evils in reality, and deserve Ragnarôk? Or are the dead rising back up during Ragnarök and fighting against the Aesir and the Einherjar because they have some sort of Stockholm syndrome induced by Hel's grace and good treatment? No idea if there's a pre-christian era recorded Saga that talks about this more in detail (I specify pre-christian because as you said, when christinaity came over, a lot of things changed in the nordic myths, especially relating to Hel, Helheim and Ragnarök)

Wrong

LMAO

Doesn't Hel die in Ragnarok though?

@@bradyburleson4569 No she survives, along with Magni, a resurrected Balder, and one man and woman. Definite Christian overtones lol

When the gods die in Ragnarök they just die, dont even go to Helheimur.

@@TheNerdsFromHell true Asatru predates Christianity.

@@TheNerdsFromHell this is false. When ragnarok happens, yggdrasil falls and dies, and along with it, each realm dies. After ragnarok, is the true death.

As I understand it, Baldr's death and Hel's refusal to release him is basically what kicks off Ragnarok. And yes, Loki allegedly disguised himself as the giantess Thökk, and refused to mourn for Baldr. For that matter, Loki is responsible for Baldr's death in the first place. Brothers can be such a pain.

@@quietpsycho1 brothers?

@@fenrirlokisson9361 I think he means Loki being Baldur's brother

Yall need to re-listen to Hermod's Ride to Hel - Lokes Treachery Pt.1 by Amon Amarth.

@@quietpsycho1 According to what I have read Loki's brothers are Helblindi and Býleistr. Helblindi is also the many names of Odin. In Gylfaginning it says "I call myself Grim and Ganglari, Herian, Helblindi".

Fair enough, I hope you enjoy the fullest :)

American Metal is trash in comparison, most people in the US consider Metal on par with Rap, and don't consider either music, even though Metal is truly what music was originally intended to be, the telling of stories.

Hey Malaysia rock is actually pretty Metal too

Ooooooooooo

Doesn't end well tho

​@@destrorso2505, speaking for all three of us, Odin is the real man who causes Ragnarök. It was in the Disney movies of Atlantis 2: Milo's Return.

@@rextheextremewerewolf3096 is the classic case of " i try to prevent the prophecy but end causing the prophecy".

@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd indeed.

Yea, all the songs on that album are epic, but the first 3... some of the best power metal i've ever heard!

Look more into the mythology. She's so misunderstood.

They're called Lyric Videos as written in the title. Separate from music videos.

I enjoy there larping vids. They look like there having fun

No it's not about Ragnarök, its about the Goddess Hel.

@@alicelund147 her story is apart of Ragnarok though, two of the causes for Ragnarok (off the top of my head) are jormungandr becoming oroborous (snake biting it's tale) and Fenrir breaking free, then at Ragnarok it is said that hel will kill the gods

@@unknqwnshepherd1872 "Causes" is a bit modern (Christian) way of thinking about it. Ragnarök is destined by the Norns to happen, no matter what anyone does. Garm, Hel, Odin, Jörmungandr, none can stop neither cause ragnarök, it will happen because it is the destiny of the world. Jörmungandr is normally biting his tail, unless he is disturbed by Thor. The Gods face different enemies at Ragnarök, I don't think Hel is mentioned in that battle.

1:15 its so painful see how they were separeted, and Odin put Hel where her brothers would never found her.

In the myths they were brought to Odin Fenrir was actually willing to be chained to show his strength did so once easily then again but had to use all of his strength then finally chained to the mountain the third causing ragnarök he can also talk like scooby do

@@S0n0fCh4d Everything you just said is...completely incorrect

@@Corymbia how so?

@@S0n0fCh4d ​ @Convexity Hróðvitnisson well, there are often multiple versions of the same myth, the one I know is, in fact, that Fenrir got tied twice (I can't recall if by its own will or not, I believe the latter but I'm not sure), either way, the third time he didn't want to because he thought the chains were infused with magic, and asked a god to put a hand in his mouth as proof that they were honest about it. Tyr, righteous god of justice and war sacrificed his own hand because when Fenrir couldn't free himself, he ate the hand as promised. And yes, Fenrir could talk like Scooby Doo (but ever so slightly less comic relief-like). Then someone put a sword in his mouth to prevent him from talking and the saliva coming out through the teeth formed a couple of rivers. To this day, Fenrir is growing and when Ragnarok will come and ties will end, his mouth will be so big that when the jaw will touch the ground, the upper part will pierce the heaven and he will eat Odin as vengeance for this torture.

Oh no those bastards killed spikehead

Don't worry he was already dead. After all he was in Hel.

@@Mecha82 but what if when you die in hel you respawn in Hel in Poland

@@diooverheaven6561 respawn?

@@diooverheaven6561 then he would have to take a bus with number 666 ( jokes aside but this bus is real)

He gonna regret it come with Ragnarok

Yes he will regret it, it's brother's promise

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT my sides

Thinking on it, Odin may have done it to protect her from the fate that was to befall her brothers.

Technically the offspring of a Giant. The gods can't be associated with giants, they're mortal enemies.

Well, this looks and sounds like it's about the time she and her brothers were put into their defining predicaments, and from what I remember, that happened when they were but children, so...

@{Thy Baroness Annabelle Lee} Yeah, it does, but wasn't she just half dead? Whatever that means. I think I heard it was like her upper half was of a living woman and the lower half was just dead.

@@echoesman3439 close her left was a normal girl but her right looked like she was dead. (or the other way around, I'm not sure) That means when you sae her from one side she looked normal while the other well... But I don't remember anything about her staying a child after Odin banished her to the North.

Theoretically, based off what we do know, Hel would have been cast out around our own age of 8, as her brother Fenrir was bound around late "puppyhood" as he kept growing and growing, bigger and stronger. Seeing Jormungandr doing similar, they hurled him into the sea when he was still small enough to be held This would mean as she began to show power as a young child, they'd have already been planning how to contain her. What little I've been able to research, in my own language, suggests half of her was healthy and hale, the other half sunken and pale. The pale side is often treated like skeleton, but what if, like Odins eye (sometimes the one he sacrificed is referred to as his "dim" eye, possibly due to being at the bottom of the well)...what if it was a sort of kenning or reference to having a different look, perhaps partially mummified or--dare I suggest--frozen? Just a collection of thoughts. That said, completely agree she was cast out as a kid

She not dead she is in a half life have dead half alive but immortal

We still on round 3 of 6 babe?!😂😅

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No lies detected!

Right? Just a smooth, powerful & full voice...crystal-clear!

Somehow that doesn't sound a good compliment at all

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TeGyZCwdQmo.html Swedish song with enf lyrics.

Is she really though? I read Snorri's Edda and another book about North Mythology, and nothing there hinted that Hel was meant to be a tragic character. She's barely even mentioned, aside from when they send her to Niflheim and later when Hermod asks for Baldr's revival.

Maybe because she was still a child when she was deceived by her dad. I mean this is how they describe it here in the video at least. 🤔🙂

@Trevor Johnston but he did cast her to hel as the watcher of the realm

@@hansonrowe234 its like the Job promotion that you get that transfers you in a "higher Posistion" away from the HQ to the middle of nowhere becouse you offended the wrong person but they couldnt fire you

The Jötnar aren't giants. That's a mistranslation.

@@Shuulk I know you probably know this now, but just in case, iirc She's a child of Loki, not Odin.

Not gonna lie, you could do worse. And there not many female vocals that are this badass and enchanting at the same time.

Yes XD

Timestamp?

@@Harold749 3:51

@@lordkain2412 Thanks

At this point I would be disappointed if he didn’t fall in one of their videos.

@LittleGiantJ she isn't exactly a villain in the traditional sense, she's seen as one because you'd see the goddess of the underworld as a villain, same as you'd see the Grim Reaper as a villain, but they're just doing their jobs

Wulfric R yeah she’s really not a villain at all, she’s fair and just and takes all the dead that the aesir and vanir deem “unworthy”, most underworld deities are the least messed up amongst their respective families lol

She in not villain

because as far as the legends say none of the 3 were villains, they were cast as such by Odin out of fear of a prophecy, a prophecy HE caused by trying to stop it...

@@brayachdragonbane7529 you're god damn right

Even in Helheim he can't catch a break!

Just make sure to give her a separate altar. She doesn't like to share and it's understandable.

Not only the worst souls. All the souls who died of age or illness, regardless of their moral standing

The worst of the souls go to Niflhel. The very bottom of Helheim

As Hel is my patron deity. I think of her daily.

@@Shadeogray1113 a chaos worshipper then

The Ruser (Swedes) went to Russia and down to Kiew.

Ruser = Men who roars.

If there is Wacken this year, given how slow the virus role out is going in the EU it might have to be a virtual / AR event like last year

Yes he is

He is a massive dick, he also brought the Frost Giants to near extinction. In fact, if it wasn't for Odin, Jormungandr and Fenrir wouldn't have been so scornful and may not of started Ragnarok.

@KingofThemyscira "Kids, even if you know something bad might happen because of some people, don't let fear take you over and start being a dick to them. It might just lead to you, your family, friends and practically the world getting destroyed" Would be much better of a lesson than most fairytales' lessons if it was put into words properly, to be honest.

Fenrir's strength was to Thor's as a regular wolf's is to a regular man

@@echoesman3439 Treat a person as one would wish to be treated, lest their axe meet your throat.

Same bro, same :')

Yes please!!

I'll stick to what actually happens in the stories. Fenrir chowing down.

@@Corymbia oooh. That is a possibility. Let Kratos and Hel eff him up then Fenrir can eat him.

Well, it probably wouldn't very fun if you went there, though... I mean, if I remember correctly, Helheim is the worst place the dead can go. Niflheim might be worse (for criminals, maybe?), and that "the place where those who die in the sea go" I believe exists might not even be in the myths and turn out to be something I read from a book with the norse tales as it's setting.

@@echoesman3439 You're incorrect. Hel isn't a punishment. It's far from life, but as far as 'underground' afterlives though, it's actually quite nice

I think there might be a bit of confusion the underworld isn’t a punishment in Norse mythology there is a specific part of the underworld for punishment but mostly just a place where people did the same things they did in life, just in a different place

Oh. I see. My mistake, then. Been a while since my last Norse Mythology Spree, so I guess I forgot.

I doubt it's a literal cripple, it might be eluding to not being able to escape or something along those lines, that was at least how I interpreted it

I doubt it because hel is Loki’s daughter and because of how young Loki is it seems unlikely to me unless there is a time jump of sorts or time travel wich I also doubt

@@kingdomofvinland8827 you say that like Jorm isnt Lokis son too but is a very prominent part of the game.

Luka Stanojevic well when you put it like that it might work

@@kingdomofvinland8827 also, the cycle of Ragnarok is repeating, but Hel and Jorm and Fenrir are eternal.

Me 2, this band is amazing! However; does anyone know what "Deya Griima" means? I'm guessing: 'God of the dead'...?

@@jesperregli2444 Deya means Dead or Death and Grima means Mask

@@Alaskar8998 thanks man! :)

Would be better Emblas Saga, it’s a large history

I think they'll do Kaunas Dagaz

@@guipinus I'd love to have emblas saga next because of the old Norse they have in their, plus it would be AMAZING to have some visuals with the story bits at the beginning and the middle of the song!

Maybe then we can see how they'd depict Thor like we got with Odin here.

MWGND best song ever...well top 3-4 at least

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The cheese is pretty off putting even for a power metal band. If you just hear the songs and don't get exposed to the cheese, the band is phenomenal. This song in particular is excellent. Probably the best song of the album followed by Powersnake. Jörmungandr is one of the more interesting figures of the mythology.