Christians React To MGLA Exercises in Futility I!!! 

Exercises in futility is one of the best albums ever

Yes, a return to Mgła! No complaints here!

this album is one of the best black metal album ever.i love it.

Sori, Black Metal is, and should be hypnotic. That´s what people search on this type of music, and this is what they get. A wall of sound which revolves around of you and traps you. A trance, a bridge that links your material existence with your essence. An inner dialog between the consciousness and the subconscious mind. The flowering of our deepest questions and fears, which haven´t got an actual answer, as "Exercises in Futility I" suggests.

KRIEGSMASCHINE - Residual Blight!!!

my take on the lyrics.... lyrics: The great truth is there isn't one And it only gets worse since that conclusion The irony of being an extension to nothing And the force of inertia is now a vital factor my opinion: For me it means, that after realizing that there is no final destination or thruth for a human beeing or humanity, it got worse because people around you still havent realized it after 1000 of years of existence. and the extension of them seeking for a nonexisting thruth is the irony of them seeking and their futile existence itself, because it leads of them achieving nothing in their lifespan on this planet. force of inertia is a contrdiction since inertia is the resistance to the amount of force needed for an object to move... maybe because the intertia is getting stronger at the same pace the force is beeing pushed a dilemma of all religions but they need both a strong interia and force to survive. lyrics And there is despair underneath each and every action Each and every attempt to pierce the armour of numbness Burning bridges becomes a habit to support And the front line expands like there's no tomorrow my opinion the desperation of each action, of every human on this planet is futile since there is no real purpose other then the purpose of existing and the sadness behind that we are only a machine of our useless existence. every attempt we try to pierce through this thruth is numb and nonesense. it is numb cause we dont feel it in out everyday life, these attempts, because our armor made of thought for reasons of existence and our own self preserving and survival is so thick that it does not make us feel. all this reasoning becomes to much a habit of our whole life that we keep supporting it even though we burn right from the start we are born. the whole humanity is the burning bridge and each human is a wooden blank, that will exstent it further and faster then it can burn down. the frontline is the attempts we try to uphold that bridge and ressources we use, since it is growing in a unknown direction and we try to plan the bridge ahead to see something after our death and too see something after we faded away. lyrics I envy the maggots Their stuff at least sticks together Better than laudations of misinformed seers And those are lengthy annals of shame that we work with my opinion we can envy the lowest forms of life because they stick to their own kind in physical and psychological way. they dont try to change other beeing through their force and attempts they also wont force change through the things they leave behind, like buildings ect. but keep the circle of life in balance. they consume themselfs and consume what they leave behind but we spit our out words out and leave a trail of nonsense and infect others with them. with our leaders who praise wrong ideas and thus leave behind new generations who are blind from the beginning. with written words as leftowers for new ones to come to pick up the ideas we had but realize them to be shameful the moment we die. lyrics It's like dumping dead meat at the brink of Styx With a barge that we made of what was left of Yggdrasil After veterans of spiritual revolts were done with their armchairs And I don't even remember which brink is which my opinion we try to fill the gap between life and death. too see something after dead, to cheat dead and search for immortality. a life after death is for me the same and its arrogant. to fill the whole river with corpses of ideas, and dead people to ignore the rules of life and death. and use our arrogance to build something out of our own heritage and what was left of people befor us, to float above others and feel better and more important. people who hoped for change and saw the same things happened befor us were put to silence. and we dont even know where all the things started, why and what connects with what, since all religions and ideas are a labyrinth of roots that entangles and holds itself together. lyrics The odour of sanctity is just refined stench of existence Shining pearl of Augeas' crown pales in comparison my opinion the feeling of beeing at home is just a false security and hides the reality. its just a helpless attempt of protecting yourself and give a warmth to the cold world and the reality that everything around us is nothing. family, friends, religions, hope is only a upgraded variant of life. and the odour that bait us everyday to flee from the reality is nothing else then a parfume on our body that give us a false premise of existence. and still after parfume and everything we try its still dirty and ugly. using augeas filthy kingdom fuul of cattles to strnegthen that argument. shining pearl is a false premise. we think we are pure and clean in our eyes and crown ourself as the highest form of life and think us as kings even if our kingdom is dirty and futile lyrics The grotesque eagles of misfortune, well fed on thanatos, sit still It's the dignity of scavengers at the ever growing garbage dump of life my opinion we try to cheat death and refuse to let it take a hold on us more and more and longer and longer. humans are the eagles who are grotesque creatures but can be noble too and we feed on death itself and what it holds. we feed on the premise of an afterlife and use death as a instrument for people to believe in something. thanatos itself was cruel and cold but honest and we try to erase honesty cause it hurts us and our feelings. we want to ignore the brutal things and dont want to accept that we will be dust too, one day. so better we sit on that corpse of the death and feed on it. deaths corpse is endless so we can feed forever. we grow lazy and are becoming dirty even tho we are creature who have the ability to achieve more and are can go to many places like an eagly but rather sit still then looking for new ideas, when we already have enough ideas we can feed upon. why bother the effort? so we can thank the few people who are not ashamed to see what we are and try to clear the dirt we leave behind and find reason inside the every growing ideas and shit we produce in physical and psychological form. them try to erase the garbage we leave behind and dont feed on it rather recycle whats usefull. lyrics There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind As if the extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others my opinion we are drawn to statues, we are drawn to figures. motionlessness draws our attention, maybe we try to give life to it or try to change it or seek somethning inside. we underestimate the powers of words and look to much around us what moves and try to avoid it but forget about the true danger of silent things. we will accidently land in their grasp or because we are blind to the truth it is only a matter of time till we are completely ignorant to everything ourselfs. maybe we happily accept blindness and misinterpret open arms of ideas when in reality only nothingness and lies lay behind it and grow blind ourselfs but then stretch our arms in hope to grab something or someones hope and change it to your own useless existence and purpose. we constantly try to deceit others and dont even know we are already blind long ago but we makes us look like, we need help even tho we dont, just that we can infect others with our useless shit. Im sorry for the many mistakes. english is my secondary language and its not easy to express deeper thoughts in it, without seound repetitive or strange. i tried as much as i could but im pretty sleepy right now and my back hurts a lot. i dont claim any thruth since i happily admit that sometimes i try to give comfort for my egosistic self and views. just like my ideas spin out of maybe attempts to change the views of others. noneless i wanted to express myself, for my own benefit? maybe idnk. wish you all a good night. and maybe someone takes the time to read it and can identify or find it pure boring nonesense. both are a good conclusion not?:)

"The great truth is, there isn't one" As the hip hop heads say, that's coldddd

Soo happy you both listened to this song! The entire album is absolutely amazing, every song is a masterpiece and the lyrics are very deep

I am glad you finally did Mgła (I refuse to write it without the charming Polish "ł") again! And I am also glad that I was one of the first pain-in-the-ass followers to request them on your Facebook. It seems like it blew Vin away exactly as I thought. :D These particular lyrics are their concept in a nutshell. The way they built the words in this is also a peculiar point, mixing a mature view of nihilism with some metaphoric narrative "backgrounded" with Greek and Norse Mythology. Take the "Styx" and "Yggdrasil" reference, for instance. Styx in one of the rivers of the underworld in Greek mythology, the one where Charon conduces its boat to take the souls to Hades realm - it means: Death. And in their song this river is being navigated by a barge made with the rest of Yggdrasil, which is the Tree of Life in Viking/Norse mythology. I interprete it as: life is pointless and the remains of the thing that originated it is now being used to roam towards the one inevitable path: Death. I may be wrong, but surely is something in this way. And, to Sori, I think that it is "repetitive" because the main point of Black Metal is to be hypnotic and almost mantra-like. Few bands, of any genre, can be able to manipulate such few riffs and build a melody and also an harmony that is so powerful that sounds like a tsunami of darkness coming for you like Mgła does. Darkside makes a superb work in his kit, his dexterity with the cymbals is quite unique. Monolithic riffs by mister M. complete the astonishing opus of these Poles.

And force of inertia is now a vital factor... You brought me to MGLA and I can't stop listening to it! I have become a fan.

If the universe is eternal, without a creator, then there is no problem.

I concur MGLA is of the elite elite! Not that my request or suggestion will meaning anything, but you would also LOVE Funeral Mist album 'Hekatomb;.

Clearly, Vin love hearing himself talking. As usual, especially in this video, according to my studies, Vin delivers a great speech about morality, even though he don't know what he's talking about, and continues to assume that a does. It is a reaction channel, no doubt, but when the song is over, it's preech time about christianity, in a direct way or a disguised one. And if Sory continues to agree about literally everything that comes out of Vin's mouth, he will feel even more empowered.

But I don't avoid immoral actions because there is a mandate of heaven behind it, I avoid it because of empathy and sympathy that's coded in my DNA and the society I live in and their rules. I think it's a bit odd to say that there is nothing restricting you of doing bad things to people if there is no higher purpose, if everything in the end is nothingness. And I don't think that in itself is anything negative either, why can't we just enjoy the ride even though the way of things would be like that? I think the buddhist say that the most natural state of existance is nothingness, and there is no inherent sadness in that.

You guys should check out Windir - Journey to the End, and Burzum - Det Som Engang Var, or Lost Wisdom.

Dude, Vin, I'm really glad you're getting into these guys and I can't wait for you to enjoy entire albums. Most of the good black metal, imo, is better as full albums. Dissection's Reinkaos, Rotting Christ's Rituals, and all of mgla's stuff are good examples of this, but there are many, many more. Watain also, for sure, pretty much their whole catalogue...

You pronounced "Mgła" so well it surprised me, well done bro. I've seen them live in Katowice, Poland and I'm so happy I'm going to see them once more in this year's Brutal Assault in Czech Republic - because their concerts are literally amazing.

Mgla - With Hearts Towards None II

Love the breakdown. The fact that you folks are open minded enough to breakdown Mgla makes me happy. Great breakdown of TRUTH. in general.

Ah, mgla!!! You guys really need to check out the Groza album. Groza II is probably my favorite mgla track so far, but I don't think there's any bad overs.

Vin, you and I should talk about Nihilism. I have never genuinely applied that label to myself but, over the past ten years or so, I have slowly come to realize that "nihilist" is probably a fairly accurate description of me (to an extent).

That break down gets ya guys pumped too!! It gave me goosebumps as well!! So good

Finally!!! Thank yall for finally getting to EinF I

Can we get more draconian please? Rivers between us. Death come near me, pale tortured blue. Stellar tombs. Pretty Pretty Pretty please!

The Song clearly states that there is not "the GREAT truth".. not that there is no truth at all. Interessting how brains work to twist a sentence to each owns liking.

1349 has new Material out/to be released just sayin' Taake or Sunn o))) would be fun tooooooooo

Sometimes Vin is trying to sound too smart and ultimately end up tripping on his own words without admitting it.

Please, please, please delve deeper into the Norwegian black metal scene from the 90s. For God's sake, check out Ulver, Borgnagar, Arcturus..Kristoffer Rygg's bands. And check out other bands such as Negura Bunget, Forefather, Skyforger etc. They have good use of tremolo too. \m/

Opeth - Baying of the Hounds, Demon of the Fall (Roundhouse Tapes)

One of the best bands in the genre for sure! The first time i heard this album i was stunned, by the end hypnotized. Been digging into the Atmospheric Black metal a lot after that, but i didnt find anything close to this so far.

Novembers Doom - Autumn Reflection 385+

Awesome album, you can be a futilist in your world view recognizing the day to day theater and self deception is pointless and leads to nothing while holding a great sense of purpose as to his union with God. its primarily to set it's contrast between conscious and unconscious. It's the death of the unauthentic self which man lives the majority of his life in, when you do away with the script there is no need to prop up the ego construct with its mindless actions and brings the authentic self in line with reality/truth or a metaphoric death and resurrection.

I love how much Vin enjoyed this it's so nice to see him so happy :D I think you guys would enjoy listening to some melodic death metal bands like Amon Amarth, very pretty pagan stuff!

Drudk - "Sunwheel" excellent black metal from the Ukraine! Walknut - "Motherland Ostenvegr" cold atmospheric bm from Russia! That's right, WALKNUT!

When you are drifting on the Styx and you don't even remember which brink is which - this is the best definition of severe depression that I have encountered. Depression stole four years of my life, and this song is perfect exemplification of nihilistic state of my mind during these years. True story. Now I'm better, I'm on the surface again, but I still love this song, how extremely profound it is.

And I really like that you went and reacted to mgla. Dimmu Borgir etc dont even belong in the genre at all and missrepresent the mindset and spirit imo. you are one of the few out here and I really respect that.

Hi Vinand Sori, new MGLA album in May this year!!! hails from Poland \m/

Queen The Show Must Go On

YES !! More black metal here AND it's MGLA...That's what I'm talking about

This track really connects to the soul, it's so layered and has so much depth. Darkside (drummer) is an absolute beast! Always said he must have octopus ancestry to play like that! Awesome awesome band.

I know this is getting on to a month ago since you did this video, but I finally came to a point I listened again and again to it and decided I should say that this desire to wanting to be a part of a community, juxtaposed against the dismay of community and understanding has stemmed an incredible amount from literally decades of bullying that I have personally experience on all sorts of levels. I would consider myself a spiritual person today, in an omnist sort of way, but it is utterly maddening and crippling. I can't speak anything about the life experiences of the artist(s) here. I've always found it a strange thing, though, in my own life that people and people a part of communities pride themselves often of inclusion and bringing people together but then single handedly and right at the same moment push people away in a multitude of ways. Somehow I encountered it through peers and teachers in Bible schools, in public schools, and in workplaces, in a lot of other spectrums. I even witnessed it happening to others and it only pushed my morbid curiosity with the "why" even further. It was only when I grew further and further away and cared less and less about these places and organizations that I slowly began to realize he truth of how wrong they were about me and I began to garner some self-esteem that I feel like I really began to see things as they are and were. A lot of questions still remain. But in the end, a sort of pointless bullying was really what spurned these very similar feelings and thoughts in me that you were both discussing. Since then I have tackled and accomplished a lot of things that people always doubted me for, sometimes with my understanding that there was no serious basis to begin with. I might put this video on the healing experience level. The fact that you, as Christians, saw this, discussed this respectfully, and came to some very interesting conclusions was great to me. So, thank you! I'm hoping you do more MGLA in the future.

I love how 6 months later, she's weirded out and he's grown into them so much!

Oh, could some Patreon member also get them to react to Into the Painted Grey by Agalloch? MGLA lifted a lot of tremolo riffs from that song. :) Also Faustian Echoes would be a great piece to react to.

My most often listened album in 2018, and they are from my city - Kraków in Poland, i feel proud to say the least

my favorite from the album; it's hypnotic

Great shirt vin! Will try to get one. Should be a hit in alabama.

Vin is a proper, authentic blind who passes his blindness onto others.

Great breakdown.

That riff with the snare-heavy beat for the, I suppose, musical chorus, lives rent free in my head most days and has done for years.

The last line alone, the one about the blind, slays all other BM lyrics.

I never thought I would be introduced to so much great Metal music, much less Black Metal, by a couple of Christians. MGLA is one of them. I own a bunch of their stuff now. Them and Kriegsmaschine. Thanks. I love how you pronounced their name right.

@VinAnd Sori "best part of 2018" Same for me too. This album helped me survive the entire year. I still hear parts of the songs in my mind daily...

Vin, I love your shirt!!

In Flames - Moonshield or Jotun Old Melodeath lml

"The irony of being an extension to nothing" mic drop

I saw MGŁA in Sydney a couple of years back. They put on a great show.

Best Metal Reaction Channel on RU-vid. Please never stop making cool Reactions.

Vin, why are you acting like there are objective implications of nihilism? When you don't believe in anything, everything is up for personal interpretation so there can't logically be any objective implications. Acting as if your interpretation of it is the truest one is intellectually dishonest. Not everything is all dark and spoopy all the time. The universe is not a cold dark place, and the liberation from binding worldviews can be a beautiful reason to celebrate and live with joy. I'm not even a nihilist but turning it into a boogieman is absolutely ridiculous.

Whole album slays! Good choice!

Glad you liked it. I also love this one. In my opinion though, you've done the top 3 songs on EiF at this point. The rest of the album is great but I, V and VI are noticeably above the rest. I'd echo the recommendations for either With Hearts Towards None I or VII

Vin had a good train of thought, but eventually fumbled with his own hubris . He has only one, very faulty view of nihilism and assumes everything just happens to follow the concepts he believes in. Thats a bit dishonest

Love your reaction.

Yes the guitars repeat over and over same riff but there`s also a lot of great drumming that makes recording more atractive (In my opinion)

Pretty cool you guys do Mgla, Behemoth, Batushka and other awesome bands, keep up the good work! Mgla rules!

wow love the new lightning light

Repetion is the key in creating great atmosphere. And atmosphere is the core of black metal. If you listen to Rotting Christ, Mgla, Drudkh, late Immortal, Forteresse, Kampfar, etc., you can hear a great example what repetion can do with songs when it is use wisely. It's almost hypnotic and when you, as a musician, know how to create great melodies with trem. picking, it can be a hell of a song like this one! 🤘

It's 2 am, i just came back from a behemoth show in Brussels. I was about to sleep but now i see a video by you guys about mij FAVORITE black metal band. I have school tomorrow. Not sleepin yet it seems

Opeth - Windowpane

This is my favorite reaction to date.

Portal - Curtain

going to see them live next month in manchester, can't fucking wait

Katatonia - Brave

I enjoyed watching your excitement towards the song whilst it was playing but I don't listen to the theorizing afterwards, but I have to say I felt the same excitement when I first discovered MGLA- Exercises in futility in 2017 it took me back to my youth and discovering pure metal.

Looks like you throw that dvd across the room. LOL

Wow i didn't see you doing this! Such an MGLA fan Vin!

Ahhh such stunning music and from my country ❤❤

Correct reaction from Vin. This album is impeccable. Was lucky to see them live in Australia two years ago, fantastic set. "But it was the same thing over and over and over" ~Sori < That's black metal. In its nature, it's repetitive. Songs structures like this let you float away with the music, in an almost meditative way, I find. Which is a funny thing to say about black metal. Definitely make your next Mgla song "Further down the nest I". The main trem riff is the grandfather to the one in Exercises in Futility I.

Hey guys! Really like how you explore so many stuff, the discussions after the reactions, your honest opinions etc. Shows you are true metal fans, and true music fans in general, much respect to you for that. Mgla is my favourite black metal band too, together with Rotting Christ. Check out He, the Aethyr from Rotting Christ, I think you 'll love it. Best wishes for the little guy!

Hey I'm a little late to the party but this is one of your most interesting videos, and seeing as I'm pretty nihilistic this is a funny one (not in the sense that "oh yeah nihilism is so cool" but it just came from my observations about life) your lyrics analysis are always very good

Oh yeah, one of my favorite polish black metal. Please listen to with towards to none III

Please do the official 'watchers' video from Mayhem or the entire "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas alive" gig :p

Dark and atmospheric! 🤘 Do Sargeist - Let the Devil In

One thing I noticed you missed, in your previous mgla reaction videos you asked what the album cover was about, check out the last line of this song, they have a talent of bringing their whole albums into full circle, usually referring to something they said earlier in the album in the last songs, these guys are incredibly intuitive and creative and you will always find new hidden meanings in their music, they’re number because even though each song may differ slightly, each album has a motif that the songs build on

I'm surprised you didn't touch on the quote by Emil Cioran at the end knowing you read stuff like Nietzsche. Very powerful song. Love it

Hail from Montreal!

This song is a masterpiece!!

*'Stream of Consciousness'-Dream Theater live video @ Budokan or 'Hollow Years'-Dream Theater live video @ Budokan!* :D

I love that album so intense Suche a massive Journey I love with hearts toward none even more. All MGLA albums are masterpieces, this for me is the benchmark on black metal today.

Can you guys do more reviews about MGLA. You guys give the best insight by far, of all the "reaction videos" of any kind. Really good stuff. I also feel theres more meaning to mgla's lyrics than it seems and you guys break it down really well.

Ghost- Pro Memoria

Demon of the Fall-Opeth, the roundhouse tapes version

Dissection and then mgla. My two favourite bands. Good shet guys

So much emotion in this song. Another good one to check would be Emperor - Into The Infinity Of thoughts. The riffs are good, the overall sound is atmospheric, dark and emotional.

Amorphis - The Bee .. or song called Under the red Cloud ( it's melodic death metal band from Finland)

It's like dumping dead meat at the brink of Styx With a barge that we made of what was left of Yggdrasil oof

Finally I’ve been waiting for this one. Also, Vin quit the soda bro that shit is poison.

I would really like to see your reaction to *Burzum - Lost Wisdom*

Love this band. Love they aren't just saying Satan over and over again like a lot of black metal.

You guys should review Paysage d'Hiver - Über den Bäumen. (Over the trees).

Septicflesh-the vampire from Nazareth please