#Emblas Saga

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Brothers of Metal - Fimbulvinter (AFM Records)

Swedish Vikings, Brothers of Metal will release their new album, Fimbulvinter, on 1st November, through AFM Records. Brothers of Metal are a rising phenomenon on the international metal scene delivering catchy songs that pay homage to both heavy metal and the Norse gods. Their first two album releases, Prophecy Of Ragnarök in 2017 and Emblas Saga in 2020, earned the band an outstanding…

[fr-thrice]

i was gonna buy or hatch a dragon to turn into a fan dragon for an album I really like and even put it on my calendar but double checking today it seems the album actually came out on the 10th. and all the g1s I'm looking at that could maybe match enough, are from the day before and after SCREAMS

[kiltedveteran]

According to a late Viking icelandic lore, humanity began with the first man, Askr, who was made from an Ash tree, and his wife Embla, who was made from an Elm.

Stories like this one were written by Snorri Sturluson, a Christian Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of the 'Prose Edda', which is a major source for what is today known as Norse mythology, and 'Heimskringla', a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history. For stylistic and methodological reasons, Snorri is often taken to be the author of 'Egil's saga'.

The stories, written in the Icelandic language, take place in the period from the settlement of Iceland around 900 AD until the 11th. He wrote them in the late 13th century.

Credit @ Fb The Archaeologist

The sculpture "Ask och Embla" (Ask and Embla) by Stig Blomberg 1948, Sölvesborg, Sweden.

[metalheadfromslovakia]

What's your favorite metal album?

It will be Slipknot

And Emblas saga

[tj-dragonblade]

Top Nine Albums

Tagged by @zzoomacroom , thank you!

In no particular order, here are nine albums that I would classify as favorites:

Nightwish: Showtime, Storytime (2013)

Beast in Black: Dark Connection (2021)

Depeche Mode: Violator (1990)

Brothers of Metal: Emblas Saga (2020)

Judas Priest: Angel of Retribution (2001)

Yanni: Live at the Acropolis (originally 1993, but I am specifically talking about the 25th anniversary remaster that includes the full setlist)

Skid Row: Slave to the Grind (1991)

Rammstein: Rosenrot (2006)

Alestorm: Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (2022)

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[childofaura]

Anyt thoughts you have regarding Kirk Thornton? He did Dorcas, Surtur and Yen’fay.

AH YES, I LIKE THIS ONE. THIS WILL BE FUN.

Ok I wanna start off this review with an obligatory statement I usually make whenever I open my mouth about Kirk Thornton:

Kirk Thornton catches seriously unfair flak for voicing Shadow the Hedgehog. Now Jason Griffith and David Humphrey are definitely THE Shadows for me, but Kirk actually does a great Shadow voice, he just gets constantly and horribly fucked over by outside issues, namely either the cringe-ass writing we’ve had since Colors, or the horrible audio mixing they had in Forces. But he IS a good Shadow voice.

In FEH, he does play Yen’Fay, Dorcas, Iago (under a pseudonym of Ron Allen), and Surtr. I think I’ve heard that he was only just recently credited for playing Surtr, but I’m not sure. Outside of FEH, he’s Shadow (and Orbot), Askeladd from Vinland Saga, Saix from Kingdom Hearts (haven’t played that series though), and Jubei from BlazBlue. Plus many others.

His performances are SOLID. While his role as Dorcas is pretty casual and laid-back (but still good), his other roles are absolutely outstanding in how much he gets to emote. Yen’Fay’s voice is quiet and cold while simultaneously being smooth as butter, it’s absolutely mesmerizing to listen to him talk. And his line about Say’ri is full of such denial, especially when you hear him talk about her finding good company with Chrom. Makes me think that this Yen’fay is actually the one who died in the battle with Chrom, rather than the one from the other world where he killed Say’ri instead. Iago is so much fun to listen to, his voice is just as greasy as his hair is, lol. Each line has such a high level of inflection that really drives home how narcissistic and dishonest he is; even if I don’t much care for him, he was definitely handled with good care in his art and voice. But man, SURTR. That role is the crown jewel of his performances. The raw energy he brings to the lines while he roars about burning everything in his grasp is just phenomenal, and honestly it’s so criminal how slow FEH is to give the male book villains (or any male book characters) any kind of good seasonal alt outside of the obligatory New Years alts. Pirate Surtr was probably the coolest fucking alt we had for any of the book characters; definitely not the only good one but certainly the coolest. Unfortunately the only book villain who gets any attention is Freyja, and we all know it’s only because of her big breasts. Where’s my ninja/Halloween Hel, IS? Where’s my Christmas Fafnir? Or my Valentine’s Embla? But I’ll settle for now with Surtr finally getting a much deserved alt and Resplendent, especially when the new lines and art are so badass.

I think he fits all these characters perfectly like a glove, and I would like to see more alts for Yen’fay and Surtr. And like I mentioned before, if FEH were ever going to replace Joe J. Thomas for any reason, I think Kirk would be a good replacement simply due to sounding decently similar and having not lost his energy like Joe did.

I would definitely say he has amazing range. Between his roles, almost none of them sound like he’s using the same voice, even if they all sound pretty recognizable. They’re very vastly different characters and he does an amazing job giving them different qualities to their lines.

I actually feel comfortable giving Kirk a 10/10. He’s a fantastic actor who got the perception of his acting skills screwed over by how badly his Shadow was handled. He’s definitely an actor whom I’m always happy to hear in media.

[inkinmyskinandsoul]

Fascinating insights into the nature and reality of the early missions can be had from sources such as Widukind’s History of the Saxons, written around 968, which describes the conversion of a later Danish king. From the ambiguous way in which he charts the context of the royal baptism, it is clear that while the Danes are in many senses Christians, they also happily retain many of their earlier beliefs. The task of the missions was not conversion, as such, but the practical demonstration of Christ’s power through action.  

There is a remarkable glimpse of how this worked in practice through a document known as Heliand, ‘The Saviour’. Written in Old Saxon during the first half of the ninth century, it is a paraphrase of the gospel for a Germanic audience, tweaked for their sensibilities and pitched almost as a Norse saga though with biblical heroes. Thus we read of Jesus’s birth in Galileeland, his later travels to Jerusalemburg, and how the Lord lives in a great hall in the sky (clearly Valhöll). The Lord’s Prayer is in ‘secret runes’, Peter is given command over the gates of Hel (with one L), and so on. Satan’s temptation of Christ takes place in a northern wilderness filled with vague forces, ‘powerful beings’ that seem to live among the trees, and one wonders what this implies of the traditional Northern beliefs that were known to the Christian clerics. By the same token, Jesus’s disciples are ‘warrior-companions’, framed in the language of a warlord’s retinue, and the Last Supper is the ‘final mead-hall feast’. Even God is called by Odinnic epithets such as ‘Victory-Chieftain’ and ‘All-Ruler’. This is the kind of message that was taken into Scandinavia by the first missionaries-a doctrine meshed with the ancestral stories of the North and following a model found in many other conversion histories.  

It has sometimes been suggested that the Scandinavians’ adoption of Christianity was mostly a veneer-lip service to the outward trappings of belief combined with regular church attendance, but in reality merely a thin covering over the old ways that persisted beneath. In all the debate concerning afterlives and the varying destinations offered by the traditional customs and the new religion, one wonders whether Viking-Age people might actually have decided where they wished to go after death. If so, what did they make of a faith in which the fate of a person’s immortal soul was dependent on living a certain kind of life? It is hard to overstate how alien this concept may have seemed, although a cornerstone of many world faiths today.  

The religious context of the sources is crucial here and affects the material culture as well. Much of what is known about the pre-Christian thought-world of the Vikings comes to us through the writings of, precisely, Christians. Even the framing story of this book-the creation of Ash and Elm-is relevant to the retrospective filter: how much of a coincidence is it that the ‘first couple’ in Norse cosmology have names beginning with A and E? Although the meaning of Askr/Ash is unequivocal, Embla is less certain. ‘Elm’ is the most commonly accepted translation, but the actual noun for an elm tree (almr) is masculine, and the etymology is convoluted. ‘Vine’ is another possibility, though this requires an ultimate derivation from Greek, and from there the scholarly debate starts to meander into the thickets of postulated Indo-European linguistic heritage. This kind of unresolved confusion-the ambiguities, contradictions, and possibilities-are all typical of the Viking-Age spiritual palimpsest, as we see dimly in the rear-view from more than a millennium in its future.

Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm

[therocklobser]

Brothers of Metal: Emblas Saga

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

[wornoutspines]

The battle for Ragnörak begins in A KINGDOM OF DREAMS, the first volume in Sam Northman’s Viking Bloodlines Saga!

📚 Buy or borrow today: getbook.at/AKingdomOfDreams

In modern-day Boston, CEO Markus Embla constantly seeks release from irrepressible anger. When a chance meeting with an alluring stranger triggers a sudden and intimate flashback to a past life, Markus’ hard-fought-for control unravels.

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[darkarfs]

Mutoid Man - Mutants Brothers Of Metal - Emblas Saga Subsignal - La Muerta Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever Dragoncorpse - The Drakketh Saga Trees Of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale Unhuman - Unhuman breaths - Though Life Has Turned Out Nothing Like I Imagined, It Is Far Better Than I Could Have Dreamt Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance Manticora - To Live to Kill to Live Gillian Welch - Woodland Asunojokei - Island VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun Zealotry - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds Zealotry - The Last Witness

[astaragalatea]

Beatrice,

Celina, Carla,

Della,

Eleonora, Embla,

Felicia, Feline

Gaia, Gia, Giselle, Galatea

Isabel, Isadora,

Justina, Jasmine, Joëlle,

Leonor, Luna,

Maxine,

Noelle, Neona

Phoebe, Paloma, Penelope, Perla, Paradisa, Parisa,

Quintessa

Rose,

Sienna, Saga, Satine

Ottessa, Ophelia, Olivia,

[hard-rock-music]

Brothers of Metal - Fimbulvinter 2024

Swedish power metal heavyweights BROTHERS OF METAL are back with their new album ‘Fimbulvinter’. 4 years have passed since the release of ‘Emblas Saga’ and now the wait is finally over, as their latest work ‘Fimbulvinter’ will be released on 01.11.2024 via AFM Records and unstoppably continues the steep rise of the BROTHERS OF METAL. Continue reading Brothers of Metal – Fimbulvinter 2024

[theart2rock]

Brothers Of Metal

Endlich haben die Götter den Ruf nach True Metal erhört! Ein neues Brothers Of Metal Album wird geschmiedet. Auf diesem Album ist jeder Song eine echte Heavy Metal Hymne, die sowohl neue als auch alte Fans in ihren Bann schlagen werden. Epischer und härter als jemals zuvor! The Hype Is Real! Man muss in den letzten zwei Jahren unter einem Stein gelebt haben, um nichts von dieser erstaunlichen neuen Band aus Falun, Schweden, gehört zu haben: BROTHERS OF METAL sind ein aussergewöhnliches 8-Mann/Frau starkes Gespann, das die Metal-Welt im Sturm erobert. Ihr ursprünglich selbstveröffentlichtes Debüt „Prophecy Of Ragnarök“ wurde im November 2018 offiziell von AFM Records weltweit zugänglich gemacht und entwickelte sich umgehend zum Bestseller. Darüber hinaus wurden die Songs des Albums mehr als 25 Millionen Mal (!) gestreamt, was für einen Metal-Act enorm ist – und insbesondere für eine Band, die noch ganz am Anfang ihrer Karriere steht. Vorfreude und Erwartungen sind daher gleichermaßen hoch – und ein Erfolgsdebüt wie „Prophecy Of Ragnarök“ zu übertreffen, ist mit Sicherheit keine leichte Aufgabe. BROTHERS OF METAL setzen sich in dieser Schlacht aber beindruckend durch und man darf hoch erfreut feststellen, dass ihr meisterhaftes neues Epos ‘Emblas Saga’ dem Debüt in nichts nachsteht, sondern es sogar übertrifft. Quelle: Kofmehl Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

[pestisly]

I really want to show you some of Ylva Eriksson’s stuff I just love her voice so much

She sings in Brothers of Metal, which is closer to other stuff I’ve sent - all of Emblas Saga is amazing - it’s a bit silly but really genuinely fun

Also I found she’s in a group called Good Harvest which is a sort of American folk band - very different vibe but also well worth a look - some of my favorite songs of theirs

Charade

Wolves

Three

Garden

Dream of June

Pilgrim

Hitchhiker’s Luck

Dreams

I know it’s a different genre and idk if it’s your type but it’s REALLY pretty

I’ve been needing pretty 🖤

And you know I’ll always listen to what you send me~ 😘

[calturnerreviews]

#BlogTour – #BookReview of #EchoesOnACornishRiver by Kate Ryder @KateRyder_Books @emblabooks @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders

I’m pleased to welcome you today to my stop on the blog tour for sweeping romantic timeslip saga Echoes on a Cornish River by Kate Ryder. Thank you as to Tracy Fenton for the invitation and to Embla Books for my copy of this lovely book. About the book: Can a love like theirs stand the test of time? Ellinor lived for adventure, always travelling from one place to the next – until tragedy struck…

[johnerigo-blog]

BROTHERS OF METAL (Heavy Metal - Sweden) - Release Music Video For Epic New Single "Berserkir" via AFM Records #BrothersOfMetal

BROTHERS OF METAL (Heavy Metal – Sweden) – Release Music Video For Epic New Single “Berserkir” via AFM Records #BrothersOfMetal

BROTHERS OF METAL Release Music Video For Epic New Single “Berserkir”   Following their latest, critically acclaimed masterpiece, the Emblas Saga (2020), Swedish power metal collective BROTHERS OF METAL has shared a brand new song alongside a music video! While the Emblas Saga invited the dedicated listener on an epic trip into the realms of Northern Mytholgy and Viking adventures, today, the…