{"id":2215,"date":"2016-11-25T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2016-11-25T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:19:29","slug":"einherjer-dragons-of-the-north-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2215","title":{"rendered":"Einherjer: Dragons Of The North XX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dotn-xx\"<\/a>How is it at all possible the Viking-metal genre is as old as it is? Back in ’96, American metal had all but turned belly up. And throughout Europe, a new wave of awesomeness had already arisen. The first song I heard by 2014’s Album Of The Year winners<\/a> was the infamous Firestarter Compilation<\/b>. This brought to American shores a plethora of Euro-awesomeness including Satyricon<\/b>, Emperor<\/b>, Opeth<\/b>, Borknagar<\/b>, Old Man’s Child<\/b>, Katatonia<\/b>, Arcturus<\/b>, Ophthalamia<\/b> (*takes breath*) and more. I loved Einherjer<\/b> but my first purchase after that would be Odin Owns Ye All<\/b> and I was utterly disappointed. Almost as soon as I got into the band, I lost interest. I was left with an incredible three-song EP and Dragons Of The North<\/b>. It’s one of those things though…as the sheer quantity of music coming from Norway and Sweden was so outrageous, it was easy not to appreciate just how incredible it was. <\/p>\n

And so here we are, somehow 20 years down the line and while this re-recorded version is by no means necessary (the original is perfect), it’s fun. And it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Furthering the band’s philosophy taken from Av Oss, For Oss<\/b>, they likely did this for themselves first and foremost. The record is as spectacular as it was then, perhaps I can appreciate it more now at 40 than I did at 20. (Well, I got it at 22, to be honest). <\/p>\n

This won’t win AotY<\/b> (that’s clearly going to Moonsorrow<\/b>), but I’m psyched to be listening to it more than I have in well over a decade. This album fucking rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How is it at all possible the Viking-metal genre is as old as it is? Back in ’96, American metal had all but turned belly up. And throughout Europe, a new wave of awesomeness had already arisen. The first song I heard by 2014’s Album Of The Year winners was the infamous Firestarter Compilation. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}