RFI Ep. 328: Branikald (The Classic Years) 

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I gotta listen to Evilfeast more, I like Elegies of the Stellar Wind a whole lot.

Yeah Sanguine Eagle is good stuff, been listening to them a lot lately

@@radiofreeinnsmouth1337 Same here; both albums are always in my rotation, as well as other HoFL material. Sanguine Eagle was my introduction to the bm underground via a friend some years ago now; formative but absolutely masterful. One of my favs.

And looking back at what I have, I have a little from each era of Branikald as it turns out; Varg..., Kveldulv, Хмель мизантропии, Хладавзор, Струн натянутых..., and Тингов наслаждаясь распрей. Slowly tracking them down, though I'm having to settle for the "disputed" versions more often than not.

Glad you liked it! I'm not sure what the dispute is with the Ragnarok Records versions, but I did have to go with those for a couple of the later albums as it was kind of the only easily available versions of that stuff out there. I did manage to get a lot of the Totenkopf Propaganda and Stellar Winter ones off Discogs way back in the day when you could still buy stuff like that. I think my favorite bit of Blazebirth Hall merch I managed to get back in the day is the Grievantee Productions compilation of the first two Raven Dark albums, because it has a really long essay inside going into the philosophy and spirituality behind the music.

​@@radiofreeinnsmouth1337 Damn, that sounds awesome! I have a few of the Forest albums, as well as the reissue/official release? of the Wotan Sølv album as well. The rabbit hole runs deep, and I've plenty more to try and find in the BBH realm of releases..

With Forest I've got the 2009 Stellar Winter versions of Песнью в жатве горя and Обрекая надежду на вечность, but I always just called them the red one and the blue one cause one's got a red cover and one's got a blue cover. I would like to get their first two albums some day, as well as that Demonized Forests demo comp from a few years ago. That Wotan Sølv album is indeed pretty sick, but it always kind of confused me because the big essay in the Raven Dark reissue compilation always referred to that project as Wotansjolv instead of Wotan Sølv, so who knows, really?

I do like me some Spear of Longinus, especially the Khephera and Domni Satnasi albums. I need to listen to their other stuff more.

Back in the day I bought 'em from the Temnozor guy on Discogs but obviously you can't do that any more. Apparently the Nithstang distro has a few of them up, and Hells Headbangers has a bunch as well.

@@radiofreeinnsmouth1337 will see... i saw people trading some of the ns stuff on facebook groups Yeah idk about the hells headbangers, the shipping is like 80$ for a cd

I'll probably do a Funeral episode some day, yeah. I believe most of the Branikald covers were painted by Sigrun who's married to Izverg from Dub Buk.

No, his wife painted them. All except for the last albums from Branikald and Forest. Those were done by Njard who also designed the two bands’ logos.