Welcome to Part 18 of our list of the year’s most infectious extreme metal songs. In each installment, I’ve been posting at least two songs that made the cut. For more details about what this list is all about and how it was compiled, read the introductory post via this link. To see the selections that preceded the two I’m announcing today, click here.
I think you’ll readily get the connection between the two songs I’m adding to the list today. Folk/pagan metal is not a genre of music that is as near and dear to my black heart as others, and I’d never hold myself out as any kind of expert, much less as someone who listened to a lot of albums in this field during 2012. But I do know what I fuckin’ like, and I do like these two songs.
ELUVEITIE
I’m unable to disassociate this Swiss band’s recorded music from my memories of hearing them live. I’ll see them live whenever I get the chance, because every show I’ve attended has been a big kick in the ass. Those experiences make me prone to like their recorded music because I can visualize and feel the energy of them performing. But with that said, I believe I’d still think the title track to their 2012 album Helvetios is a damned fine song.
It’s heavy and it’s epic, but it also bounces and maketh my head to bang. Gotta love that fiddle solo and Chrigel’s typically awesome vox, too.
“HELVETIOS”
[audio:https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/02-Helvetios.mp3|titles=Eliuveitie – Helvetios]
ENSIFERUM
What can you trust in these perilous times? Most people are conniving douchebags trying to sell you some kinda shit or figure out some other way of taking what you got that they want. The weather wants to kill us all, the food you eat will clog your arteries or give you colon cancer, your brain could stroke out tomorrow, and God is dead, fucking off, or a total fiction.
So I ask you, what you gonna trust?
“IN MY SWORD I TRUST”
[audio:https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/02-In-My-Sword-I-Trust.mp3|titles=Ensiferum – In My Sword I Trust]
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Had a difficult week. For some reason, listening to “HELVETIOS” made it all better. Thanks for the musical metal inoculation!
Had a difficult week. For some reason, listening to “HELVETIOS” made it all better. Thanks for the musical metal inoculation!
Oops. Sorry for the double post. The capstone to a shitty week.
Hope the next week is better than the last. And if it’s not, just put “Helvetios” on a repeat loop.
Unsung Heroes was a bit subpar for an Ensiferum album, but ‘In My Sword I Trust’ was one of the album’s highlights.