Man, when you know your music's good, you don't really need any of that shit. Look at the musical trajectory of the bands that do that (and I'm sure we'll think of one or two commonly) and you'll understand much .
@@joebenson528honestly putting Batushka in the same box with Mgla is a monumental insult to Mgla. Come on... You take out the atmosphere and visuals from Batushka and it becomes nothing. Sorry.
Who else literally got goosebumps when saw the notification and then ran to listen to this like an alienated? Never had a sacred time like this since Exercises in Futility.
And let's not forget, Dude, that keeping wildlife, um... an amphibious rodent, for... Um, ya know domestic... Within the city... That ain't legal either.
Listen to "tooth enamel and concrete" by Cattle Decap, I love that opening sound too (doesn't have the same atmospheric quality the black metal fandom likes tho so the song is optional)
Forgot my headphones at home today (first time in the whole damn year). 30 minutes later I got this album notification. This kind of events can drive a man insane. I barely survived the next 10 hours.
Nice to see, that you appreciate their work spending money on their relaeses! If we talk about BM, I like them probably the most too, but I also very like Burzum.
Love the move they pulled with the cover on this one! Showing us only part of it with the song they released and now being able to see the full picture, sorta speak, there is so much more. Bravo!
They did the same with exercises in futility - just showing the arms - if I remember correctly. The fucked up Sleipnir looks great but overall the cover, for me, looks kind of weird -- but who cares, the Music is as great as expected
I have viewed and reviewed this. Studied the lyrics. I've come to the following conclusion: Love you guys. What a bleak view. All hails to Polska. I also have a little anecdote: When I had my journeyman exam, I made some critical mistakes on the workpiece and was within a hair's width of surrendering. The words " do you believe in victory, or do you hail defeat" came to mind and reinvigorated my doing to the effect of ending within the top 3 of my class. Thank you.
Now it's time to accept that Mgla is one of the best (Black) Metal bands of all time. They know they're in a new epoch, they criticize the modern humanity and they knew perfectly how to evolve from the message to the sound to become a style, a new way to create pure and epic Black Metal. They're geniuses, and I'm glad I'm alive in their time.
@Heca stahp pls :v Groza is excellent too, along with their early EPs. But their crowning achievements are definitely WHTN, EIF, and now AOE (in my opinion)
@@sirmanfred6083 I wouldn't say mediocrity exactly I mean I like their music, but people do get carried away with all this best black metal band/album bullshit.
This is one of the best metal (not only black metal) albums I have ever heard! The feeling in the last 5 minutes especially... that was phenomenal! Mgla are the evidence that quality still exists in black metal!
@@juannapoles Dude I am not sure they are gonna go anywhere outside of Europe. I don't think they have ever come to a single major city in the US based on the few times I had tracked their tours schedule in the past. I take it that they probably don't have the finances to support doing international touring at all. Plus their fanbase is smaller than mainstream metal bands so that does not help either.
@@Ecclesiastes11718 It feels as if they're somehow criticizing, while also acknowledging man's view of what is good and what is not. It's not the blackness that is eating our souls, and not the light that will bring salvation, but the gray that is grinding us into dust, with our consent.
I think one of the best and most unique Black Metal records of the last decade. Great drumworks on the bells and cymbals, great shredding, catchy hooklines and last but not least, it has a Bass ;-)
@@SoundSelector It was a joke, relax. There are so many great Black Metal bands in Norway you wouldn't grasp it. But some of my favorites are from poland and sweden as well
What a time to be alive ! One of the very few meaningfull sources of vitality for the spirit: Mgła ! Curious, paradoxal even, as these hollow and barren soundscapes fill up our hearts with contentment. Hail, my brothers and sisters in this empty existence.
David Martin Portmann Just ordered a shirt from No Solace yesterday but I ordered the record as soon as it was available a few months ago. For nihilists they’re on their shipping game.
Lyrics: I 00:00 A species had been armed with a double edged blade A guardless weapon of delusion Forged of a mirage of inherent transcendence In the tangled mechanisms of life itself As the curtain is being unraveled The ego writhes in a spasm of insight Delighted gods grunt like pigs At the mere notion of a raison d'etre From the gardens of Semiramis To the trenches of Ypres A meaningless uproar Sublime truths are revealed In the hammering of hobnailed jackboots And there's wisdom to be found In the shameful epitaphs of cowards From the gardens of Semiramis To the trenches of Ypres From the grounds of Comitium To the cellars of Tuol Sleng From the spores of presence And a swarm of pest Unto the ironies of being Falling hopes whip the ground Among laments of sunken millennia There are no paths to follow But a nightmare of endless repetition Those who peruse the annals of humanity Demanding patterns, connections, developments: Were there any to be found? And was it sapience indeed that kept pushing this broken cart? The wonders The misery The ascent The emptiness Falling hopes whip the ground Among laments of sunken millennia There are no paths to follow But a nightmare of endless repetition II 07:29 The stench of zeitgeist Is the incense of discarded shrines As the corpses put on powder and rouge So that the hoax can proceed, ever sidewards A cheaped out incarnation into a shopworn sarx The soul congeals into a grimy lump - Substance of the world, dreary and pale At the feet of a spirit detached Between the grinder and the abattoir Such are the landscapes of grief Grayness and glitz Glitter and gehinnom Between tedium and fright Such is the song of the nether world The hissing of rats And the jarring chants of angels A sacrifice to the gutter gods Squandered redemption, misplaced grace As an ailing mole burrowing in Eden Living breathing downfall Between the grinder and the abattoir Such are the landscapes of grief Grayness and glitz Glitter and gehinnom Between tedium and fright Such is the song of the nether world The hissing of rats And the jarring chants of angels It's a land of sun gone down In comical grandeur A sluggish danse macabre Hyenas waltzing about Would a new flood please finally come A real rain and an assortment of plagues And when all is said and done Even the Devil won't care enough to spit in the mud III 14:27 Out of howling of prophets And curses of the righteous In the ivory halls A new kind of champion is bred Herostrates for the modern day High on good conscience A noblest of sufferers On disinformation highway At the end of the day it's the same old script: Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat Those finaglers of justice Expert wrights in deceit Carvers of the crooked timber And their finely tuned farce Proclaiming anger and rage Under the mortal threat it thrives At the end of the day it's the same old script: Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat Ersatz revolt Ersatz rebellion For a new world would come Every once in a while "Purer", "brighter", "clearer", "better" And the last of misbelievers Will be trampled in the greatest of marches Toward the radiant future Where sheep are promised fangs And only after the graves are filled With remains of dissidents And the frame of reference is torched Together with forbidden thoughts Then, and only then The disciple is relieved The true believer has overcome the evils Of engineering of dissent At the bottom of things it's the same old script: Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat Ersatz revolt Ersatz rebellion For a new world would come Every once in a while "Purer", "brighter", "clearer", "better" Ersatz purpose Ersatz alliance Ersatz ideals Ersatz communion IV 20:43 Ground zero of transgression: Whether ironic distance is true subversion As it is carved in the structure Of the system being opposed Therefore the language of the scourge Should be instilled in further discourse The language of strife and hunger In a state of relentless panic Henceforth the struggle takes form Of an absolute order, a total institution The clandestine laws of the night Should be exposed in broad daylight Mocked by many - known by the few The arsonists of perpetual aporia Acknowledge the presence of a sinister side That reaches far and wide beneath the surface Acknowledge that there are aspects of self Only to be revealed in burning, blinding hatred The blades shall be sharpened Upon gravestones of "kind" hearted The measures shall be chosen For maximum impact upon illusion of safety The ordnance which will tear Into the heart of daydream Shall become the testament Of the hopeless quest of prelest prophets Acknowledge healthy confusion, the dirt behind the reverie Unearth madness and probe into the absurd Deconstruct with no promise of a restore pattern And become free through the truth of the prelest prophets V 26:19 The gruesome caravan is crawling in circles Around pillars of cold grey light Pale horse is there, but the rider's away on business And the lion went roaring somewhere else It's a begging time for dissolution The commodity of ultimate silence on public display The living dead stare at the gaping void Waiting for the blade to finally come down Not just yet There's still innards to be ripped out And hanged between the sacred trees Bones to be broken, eyes to be plucked For the amusement of a drooling god Born again in a tidal wave of filth Amidst chants of suffocating angels An offering to a ravenous idol That'll take more pleasure in puking it out Gnawed and spat out Still good enough for lowbrow vultures Torn and led astray Fed scraps of hope until the banal end A bargain pilgrimage to the heart of darkness The stay got extended quite a good bit View is always the same: sorrow upon sorrow And the orchestra keeps playing same song on repeat A canticle arranged for gnashing of teeth Howling of hearts and cracking of spines And there's a hundred eager razors Underneath the conductor's suit Gnawed and spat out Still good enough for lowbrow vultures Torn and led astray Fed scraps of hope until the banal end In this rotten excuse for a world At the bottom of the dustbin of history Let's just try and pretend That our corpses still have some class The cold light The gaping void The final silence At the fingertips The cold light The gaping void The broken cycle Not just yet VI 33:20 Forever uphill atop the remains Of missed chances, of hope and innocence The withered bones of those who failed But more so of those who didn't even try Bursting through the barbed thickets Sharp with guilt, deceit and shame To the petty truths buried underneath Layers and layers of drivel and mud In this day and age The litanies of overskurkens moral Are the only prayers to be heard these days And all those who dreamt about a True Revolution Got distracted by hurting each other What has to be done, has to be done The human nature is what it is We cover our eyes in a call to arms And turn one edge toward ourselves Arm in arm in this futile strife Where cards are marked and odds are little to none Hand in hand with fate worse than death Relentless in discontent In this day and age Empires get wrecked Principles get crushed Saviors get crucified History gets what? History fucking gets over it all And the assassins in rose tinted glasses At the wrong end of the tunnel of light Practitioners of paramount scorn And those who'd rig moral compass rather than bridges Behold the world and spit on it The noble and the scum of the earth Just out of some basic damned dignity In this day and age of excuse What has to be done, has to be done The human nature is what it is We cover our eyes in a call to arms And turn one edge toward ourselves Arm in arm in this futile strife Where cards are marked and odds are little to none Hand in hand with fate worse than death Relentless in discontent What has to be done, has to be done The human nature is what it is We cover our eyes in a call to arms And turn one edge toward ourselves
@@Jurica-mtb Sometimes embracing the emotion you're feeling through music can be cathartic. I have severe anxiety and panic attacks, and I created a song about that anxiety. It sounds like a whirling, abyssal, hopeless, and frenetic spiral into hell. And that's how I help keep my anxiety in check, but making and listening to music like that.
I was never really into black metal out all of my years of being a metalhead. I mean... I've liked a few black metal songs before but not like this. A few months ago I was listening to one of the black metal songs, and then RU-vid Music automatically started playing Exercises in Futility V and I instantly fell in love. It sent me on a black metal rabbithole adventure. I discovered amazing black metal bands such as Grima and Uada just to name a few. All of MGLA's albums are amazing from start to finish and i never get bored.
Nie spodziewałem się, że będą w stanie pobić Excercises in futility i...nie pobili, ale album jak najbardziej solidny. EIF to arcydzieło, doskonale zbalansowane pomiędzy melodyjnością a mocnym uderzeniem, do tego świetna liryka. Ten album jest dużo mocniejszy, coś jak nowe Kriegsmachine, ale brakuje tu na pewno takiego fajnego balansu jak w poprzednim. Niektórzy podniecili się nowym krążkiem, ale jak przesłuchają kilka razy to dostrzegą, że jednak jest słabszy, aczkolwiek wciąż mocna propozycja ugruntowująca pozycję Mgły w światowym BM.
Boy oh Boy what a great sound. I have been listing to death, black metal since 1982 I am 50 now this music is so addicting. Great Job MGLA please keep up the great work. Greetings from Albuquerque New Mexico USA.
Lyrics and music in number III are outstanding (actually, the whole album is excellent). Love it! One of those songs that fill a gap in your life you never knew existed before hearing it for the first time.
After listening to this album several times since it's release I can proudly say I enjoy this album more than Exercises In Futility even though that album holds a special place in my heart since it was my first album I ever heard from Mgla. This one to me just sounds like a more mature and glorified version of Exercises In Futility and is a great follow up to it as well. All my opinion but man is this band absolutely phenomenal in so many ways!
I agree. EiF was an awesome album. AoE is a masterpiece. I don't know how Mgla can ever top this. Though I didn't think they could've topped EiF and they did. For now I'm just gonna enjoy this masterpiece and appreciate it as one of the best things 2019 has offered me.
@@VideoGameMusicFan13 I agree but if they were able to top EIF with this album then I'm sure they can do it again with their next album even though that probably won't be for another 4 or so years.
I think both records are at the top of their awesomeness. I mean, they are basically the same thing, but EIF is more focused on the failure of religious belief, whiel AOE is more about the rational stream of thoughts that a nihilitst goes through when they become aware of the terrible nature of humankind. These guys go far beyond music. This is the Bible of nihilism.
Good guys Mgla & No Solace - straight up uploading the whole album on release date. No bullshit, no ads, just pure music. Keep on going! Will for sure buy the new album.
I had lost interest in modern BM many moons ago but always check in from time to time. Mgla's "With hearts towards none" is by far one of the greatest black metal albums ever and one I still routinely come back to. I admit I wasn't AS impressed with their releases after, I just felt "with hearts" set a bar so high that it would be near impossible to ever reach again.... Well I am so happy to be wrong and to come back to discover this masterpiece. I have been waiting for this album since WHTN and I had a feeling deep down Mgla had it in them to pull it off... So happy. Incredible musicians, artist and performers... I will always believe Mgla is the evolution of BM, a perfection of a craft that has been... copied to death but rarely executed uniquely since the early second wave.
To jest Metalowy czad na najwyższym światowym poziomie. Ten krążek jest po prostu wykurwisty że się tak nie ładnie wyrażę. Mgła prezentujecie zajebiste Metalowe granie dla mnie rewelacja pozdrawiam.Jako fan Metalowego łojenia chciałbym mieć ten album na swojej półce do kolekcji z innymi płytami. Dajecie czadu jesteście świetnym Metalowym zespołem. Dzięki takim zespołom jak Mgła jestem dumny że słucham Polskiego Metalu.
I have been listening black metal for about 27 years on and off and when yt recommended me Exercises in Futility a few years back, I remembered why I fell in love with the genre all those years back. This feels like a more mature version of that album, even though EiF will always have a special place in my heart, for it being the first Mgła album I listened.
