The wait is soon at end
Always charge never bend
Morning is here, make your stand
Live for honor, glory, death in fire!
Total war is here
Face it without fear
Age of sword, age of spear
Fight for honor, glory, death in fire!
See the fire rise
Flames are raging high
Soon all will burn and die
Burn for honor, glory, death in fire!
Storm of lethal flames
Only death remains
Ragnarok is closing in
Die for honor, glory, death in fire!
Forces of chaos is on the move
Everyone, choose your side
And know the end is coming soon
The day for all to die
The day is here when Bifrost breaks
Nor sun or moon will rise
When the dead rise from their graves
and Surtur spreads his fire
All you know will wither away
And sink into the sea
A new world will be born one day
Where everyone is free
Total war is here, face it without fear
Age of sword, age of spear
Fight for honor, glory, death in fire!
Storm of lethal flames
Only death remains - Ragnar?k is our fate
Die for honor, die for glory
Die, death in fire!
The Pursuit Of Vikings
The warming sun returns again
And melts away the snow
The sea is freed from icy chains
Winter is letting go
Standing on the ocean side
We can hear the waves
Calling us out with tide
To sail into our fate
Oden! Guide our ships
Our axes, spears and swords
Guide us through storms that whip
And in brutal war
Our ships await us by the shore
Time has come to leave
Our country, family and homes
For riches in the east
Some of us won't return
But that won't bring us down
Our fate is written in the web
Woven by the Norns
A ram is sacrificed
Across the longship's bow
And as we set our sails
A strong breeze starts to blow
It carries us out to sea
With hope of fame and pride
And glorious all will be
That with sword in hand will die
Oden! Guide our ships
Our Axes, spears and swords
Guide us through storms that whip
And in brutal war
Oden! Guide our ships
Our axes, spears and swords
Guide us through storms that whip
And in brutal war
Beyond The North Waves
On many ships we have sailed
Far beyond the north waves
On the high northern seas
We have found our way
The shadowing voices of our gods
Singing on the calling winds...
Where the cold waves and the longboats brought us far
The saga of the warriors from northland
Speaks of greatness and strength
The saga of the warriors from northland
Are the saga of many great a man
On seas against the open
We travelled on and on
Through the raging winds
And storms we arrived
The shadowing voices of our gods
Singing on the calling wind...
Where the cold waves and the longboats brought us far
With sword in hand I now stand
On my enemies land
With a northern heart
I will fight until the day I die
My time will be remembered my time it will be known
By my sons by my tribe and by the sun the sea and moon
For the who battle for his land his pride and for his men
Shall be remembered and stand eternally named
In the legends of our land
Breathing in winds...
From the essence of a roaring horizon
Breathing in winds...
From the cold sea call the shores of the north
Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
The battle raged on and on
Fuelled by the venom of hatred for man
Consistently, without the eyes to see
By those who revel in sewer equally
We, the prosperity of the future seal
Cloaked by the thunders of the north wind
Born to capture the essence of
The trails of our kind
Zero tolerance must be issued forth
Behind the enemy's line
So it shall be written
And so it shall be done
Discover and conceive the secret wealth
And pass it unto your breed
Become your own congregation
Measure the sovereignty of it's invigoration
We, who not deny the animal of our nature
We, who yearn to preserve our liberation
We, who face darkness in our hearts with a solemn fire
We, who aspire to the truth and pursue it's strength
Are we not the undisputed prodigy of warfare
Fearing all the mediocrity that they possess
Should we not hunt the bastards down with our might
Reinforce and claim the throne that is rightfully ours
Consider the god we could be without the grace
Once and for all
Diminish the sub principle and leave it's toxic trace
Once and for all
In my kingdom cold...
30.10.2006., ponedjeljak
The Kings At Hold...On Their Thrones Immotal And Invincimble...The Might Lives On
Immortal-biografija
Immortal - bend koji je u jedinstvenom zvuku spojio norveski black i americki speed metal su u pocetku cinili Abbath (bas gitara i vokal), Demonaz (gitara), Jorg (gitara) i Armagedda (bubnjevi). Bend se prije 1990 zvao Amputation. Prije su cesto mijenjali bubnjare.
Pocetkom 1991 izdaju prvi demo Suffocate, koji bas i nije najbolje prosao. Poslije ovog demoa Jorg je izbacen iz benda. Nedugo nakon njega izlazi drugi demo, The Northern Upins Death, koji je prosao puno bolje. Upravo zbog tog demoa francuski Listenable Records daje Immortalu priliku snimiti singl plocu. Tada pocinju snimati pjesme kao Unholy Forces of Evil ili Cold Winds Of Funeral Frost, koja ce se pod imenom Cold Winds of Funeral Dust pojaviti na prvom albumu. U ovom se periodu primjecuje koliko je Immortal i vizuelno i muzicki bio inspiriran bendovima Bathory, Celtic Frost i Venom.
Druga izdavacka kuca koja je u pocetku pokazala interes za Immortal je francuski Osmose productions, koji su im ponudili ugovor za dva albuma. Immortal je, naravno, prihvatio te krecu u Grieghallen studio u Bergenu da bi snimili prvi album. On se trebao zvati Battles in the North, ali clanovi mijenjaju ime tog albuma u Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism zbog misljenja da takvo ime vise odgovara njihovoj glazbi. Album je vrlo atmosferican, te na njemu ima dosta dijelova koji su svirani akusticnom gitarom, gdje se vidi jeben utjecaj Bathory-a.
Kasnije, iste godine Armagedda je zamoljen da ode iz benda, ne zbog bubnjanja, ve? zato sto ih nije mentalno pratio. Zamijenio ga je Kolgrim, koji je kao bubnjar bio sranje. Nakon 6 mjeseci je otpusten zbog lijenosti.
1993. snimaju novi album - Pure Holocaust. Na tom albumu je sam Abbath bubnjao, ali za vrijeme miksanja novog albuma dolazi novi bubnjar, Erik. On se slikao za naslovnicu, ali nije svirao na snimanju tog albuma. U to vrijeme Immortal dobiva puno paznje zbog imena albuma i cinjenice da su izjavili da sviraju "holocaust metal". Otada napustaju taj naziv i preferiraju da ih se ne trpa u nikakav metal.
1994. pisu novi materijal i Immortal ponovo odlazi u Grieghallen studio, te Abbath opet uzima palice, jer je Erik mjesec dana ranije dobio otkaz. Razlog - Abbath i Demonaz zele napredovati u glazbi, a Erik nema mentalitet ni vjestinu da bi ih pratio. Album se zvao Battles in the North.
1995. je bila najbolja godina za Immortal, popularnost im raste nakon novog albuma, odlaze na prvu evropsku turneju sa Morbid Angel-om, a kao bubnjar im dolazi Hellhammer iz Mayhem-a. Izdan je i prvi sluzbeni video s dvije pjesme(Grim and Frostbitten Kingdoms i Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)).
1996. - vec punih 6 godina Immortal ima problema sa bubnjarima. Ove se godine to mijenja. U proljece 1996. bubnjar na dobrom glasu Horgh kontaktira Abbatha i Demonaza. Oni cim su ga prvi put vidjeli u akciji znali da je Horgh pravi bubnjar za Immortal, a ipak im je trebalo sest godina da bi ga nasli. Nekoliko mjeseci poslije prelaze iz Osmose Producions-a u Sigma Studios. Prelaze jer zele raditi na zvuku i istaknuti Demonazove solaze.
1997. izlazi novi album: Blizzard Beasts koji je potpuno razlicit od onih koji su izlazili dosad. Kasnije ove godine Demonaz ima uzasnih problema s rukama. Jedno vrijeme nije mogao ni kosu oprati sam. To je bio problem, jer su trebali na turneju. Odgadjali su je nekoliko mjeseci, a kad je vise nisu mogli odgadjati i Demonaz je, nazalost, odustao i izasao iz benda. Umjesto njega gitaru uzima Abbath. Naravno, bilo je puno odlicnih gitarista, ali ovo je bilo pitanje stila.
1998. godine kao basista im dolazi Ares, inace basist Aeternus-a. Napokon ponovno odlaze na turneju, a bivsi gitarist Demonaz se brine o menadzmentu. Ares je bio zamoljen da predje u Immortal, ali on se odlucuje za svoj pravi bend Aeternus. Kasnije te godine je snimljen novi album, At the Heart of Winter, ali ovog puta u Abyss Studios-u ciji je vlasnik Peter Tägtren. On je kasnije kontaktirao Osmose Productions sa zeljom da Immortal slijedeci album snimi u njegovoj izdavackoj ku?i. Kako ni Immortal ni Osmose productions nisu imali nista protiv Immortal prelazi u Abyss Studios.
1999. je izdan At The Heart of Winter i on dokazuje da dolazi nova era Immortal-a. Promjenjena je donekle muzika, nacin na koji se ona stvara, logo, i ovaj put na naslovnicu albuma ne stavljaju sliku benda, vec abstraktnu umjetnost. Ipak, uprkos ovim promjenama Immortal ostaje vjeran svojim korijenima. Prije same turneje na prazno mjesto basista dolazi Iscariah. Bend se dokazuje kao hiperproduktivan i vec za 4 mjeseca imaju tekstove i sav ostali materijal za novi album.
2000. izlazi novi album, Damned in Black koji je brutalniji i tezi od proslog. Immortal u kratkom vremenu svoju muziku odvodi na visi nivo od svojih predaka. Ovo je njihov zadnji album u saradnji sa Osmose Productions. Nakon 9 godina saradnje Immortal u potpunosti prelazi u njemacki Nuclear Blast. 2002. izdaju debi album u Nuclear Blast-u, Sons of Northern Darkness. Nuclear Blast je za taj album imao velika ocekivanja - zeljeli su prodati 150 000 albuma u cijelom svijetu. Nakon toga albuma Iscariah odlazi iz benda, a zamjenjuje ga svedjanin Saroth. On i Horgh su zajedno svirali u bendu Pain.
2003. nominirani su za Alarm i Spellmannsprisen (norveski Grammy), ali obje nagrade dobija Satyricon za album Vulcano.
Immortal je poslje 13 godina djelovanja i sedam izdanih albuma prestao s radom u lipnju 2003. godine. I tako su prolazili mjeseci i godine,sve dok u ranom lipnju 2006 Abbath i Horgh su izjavili u German Rock Hard magazinu da će Immortal još jednom uskrsnuti i ujediniti sa novim basistom zvanim Apollyon.
BAND
Sadašnji Članovi
-Olve Eikemo-Abbath
Guitar, Vocal, Bass, Drums
-Reidar Horghagen-Horgh
Drums
-Ole Jřrgen Moe-Apollyon
Bass
Bivši Članovi
-Yngve Liljebäck-Saroth
Bass
-Stian Smorholm-Icsariah
Bass
-Harald Nćvdal-Demonaz
Guitar
-Ronny Hovland-Ares
Bass
-Jan Axel Blomberg-Hellhammer
Drums
-Erik Brřdreskift-Erik
Drums
-Kolgrim
Drums
-Armagedda
Drums
-Jorn Inge Tunsberg-Jorn
Guitar
Diskografija
1990: 'The Norther Upins Death' (Demo)
1991: 'Suffocate' (Demo)
1991: 'Immortal 7"' (Ep)
1992: 'Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism'
1993: 'Pure Holocaust'
1994: 'Battles In The North'
1996: 'Live In Zaandam' (Live Bootleg)
1997: 'Blizzard Beasts'
1999: 'At The Heart Of Winter'
2000: 'Damned In Black'
2002: 'Sons Of Northern Darkness'
In The Name Of The Mighty Lord Of Frostbitten Kingdoms,I Present You...
Mighty Ravendark