 Style: Death / Melodic Black Metal
Year of birth: 1992
Country: Sweden
Views: 5863. Updated: 17 December, 2004 by Project Moderators
Biography of BandIt took a long time…four years to be exact. Already announced for release in Summer 2002 and postponed a few times, now Sweden's NAGLFAR finally release their third album "Sheol" upon mankind.
"Diabolical", NAGLFAR's second output, had been released back in 1998 and was as well received as the band's debut album of 1995, "Vittra", a work that is still today (nearly eight years after its release) a milestone in Swedish melodic Black Metal.
Both "Vittra" and "Diabolical" helped NAGLFAR to get an excellent reputation in the worldwide Metal scene and filled fans of pure Black Metal noise as well as Death Metal maniacs and friends of more traditional Metal sounds with overwhelming enthusiasm.
After the release of "Diabolical" it became quiet around the NAGLFAR camp for a long time. Aside from a tour with Deicide, Six Feet Under and Amon Amarth in 1998, as well as some weekend tours (e.g. in Holland together with Soilwork and Darkane) and some single shows nothing major happened within NAGLFAR for the next few years.
In 2000 long-standing guitar player Morgan Hansson decided to call it a day and the vacant position was reoccupied by Marcus V. Norman (e.g. Bewitched).
In 2001 the first sign of re-animation was given with NAGLFAR's highly acclaimed appearances on Wacken Open Air and Party-San Open Air followed with the release of the mini album "Ex Inferis" in August of 2002. This mini-album already gave an idea of what was to come with the new full-length studio album.
Now "Sheol", which is Hebrew and means nothing less than "Hell" itself, will hit the streets on March 24th, 2003 with a record the band hopes is rewarding for the extreme patience and loyalty of all their fans. The songs of "Sheol" don't simply contain expertly-combined ingredients, but rather manages to bundle their stylistic varieties, to compress them, to purify them, so that "Sheol" seems a vast monument upon first listen.
But if the listener dares to dive deeper into the various levels of the nine songs (each one its own level of torment as described by Dante), they will discover fine adornments within each of them, the likes of which are normally scarce within Black Metal. Lots of today's Black Metal bands define themselves through the creation of icy atmosphere, pure raving vitriol and monotony, but NAGLFAR go one step further and inject - besides traditional influences - some elements into their music that are pretty rare in this genre: magnificent melodies, interesting and varied rhythm work as well as variable, multi-faceted vocals.
All these trademarks shape "Sheol" into musical work of art, one high above the mean average, improved by stunning artwork from Dark Tranquillity's Niklas Sundin (In Flames, Arch Enemy and many more) and endued with a razor-sharp, transparent and powerful sound in the Ballerina Studios in NAGLFAR's hometown of Umeå.
So people, if you can't stand listening to the millionth dull Black Metal band ruin the genre's once boundless hopes, then you definitely should go and get "Sheol". Even if the listener normally prefers to get a new album by their favourite bands more often than once every four years, one cannot deny that NAGLFAR have managed to spawn their most diabolic, most sinister, most elaborate and most brilliant work in the band's history. And for such a work of Metal it should be worth waiting for…with "Sheol", NAGLFAR invite you to hell. We recommend you accept the invitation. |
Members of Naglfar
Current Members:
Jens Ryden. In Band at: 1992 - . Role: Vocals
Side projects: Ancient Wisdom, Dark Fortress, Dead Silent Slumber, Persuader
Kristoffer Olivius (Wrath). In Band at: 1992 - . Role: Bass
Side projects: Bewitched, Purgatorium, Setherial
Andreas Nilsson. In Band at: 1993 - . Role: Guitars
Side projects: Ancient Wisdom
Mattias Grahn. In Band at: 1997 - . Role: Drums
Marcus Norman (Vargher). In Band at: 2000 - . Role: Rhythm guitars
Side projects: Ancient Wisdom, Bewitched, Havayoth, Purgatorium, Throne Of Ahaz, Vintersorg
Past Members:
Ulf Andersson. Period: 1992 - 1994. Role: Drums
Side projects: Ancient Wisdom, Bewitched, Nocturnal Rites
Fredrik Degerström. Period: 1993 - 1994. Role: Guitars
Side projects: Auberon, Bewitched, Disorge, Guillotine, StormLeigh
Morgan Hansson. Period: 1993 - 2000. Role: Guitars
Side projects: Havayoth
Mattias Holmgren. Period: 1995 - 1995. Role: Drums
Side projects: Azure, Darkside Cowboys, Dead Silent Slumber, Embracing, Skyfire, Tired Tree
Morgan Lie. Period: 1995 - 1997. Role: Drums
Side projects: Auberon, Bleeding Art
Johan Moritz. Period: 1995 - 1997. Role: Drums
Side projects: Disorge, Throne Of Ahaz |
DiscographyDemo: Stellae Trajectio (1994) Studio: Garageland. Tracklist.
Promo: We Are Naglfar - Fuck you! (1995) Studio: Garageland. Tracklist.
CD: Vittra (1995) Tracklist.
Lineup: Matte Holmgren - Drums, Jens Ryden, Andreas Nilsson - Keyboards, Andreas Nilsson - Acoustic Guitars, Peter Tagtgren - backing vocals
Comment: Reissued by Regain Records in 2001 with 3 bonus tracks:
10 - 12th Rising (4:25)
11 - The Evil That Men Do (Iron Maiden cover) (4:45)
12 - Pleasure To Kill (Kreator cover) (3:58)
Promo: Maiden Slaughter (1996) Studio: Sulight. Tracklist.
7"EP: When Autumn Storms Come (1998) Tracklist.
CD: Diabolical (1998) Studio: Ballerina Audio. Tracklist.
Comment: Remastered and reissued in 2002.
MCD: Ex Inferis (2002) Studio: Ballerina Audio. Tracklist.
Comment: The creature on the cover is supposed to be a cenobite from the "Hellraiser" movie series.
CD: Sheol (2003) Studio: Ballerina Audio. Tracklist.
Comment: "Sheol" is the Hebrew word for Hell. |
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