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Black Metal (early), Progressive Viking/Folk Metal (later) band from Bergen,Norway

Album:Quintessence (Full-length 2000)

Lyrical themes:Nature, Science, Cosmos, Mythology

Borknagar is a band from Bergen, Norway founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. The band began as a black metal/viking metal band and quickly adopted a more progressive metal style after their first album.

As such, the band's most known style would be that of progressive black metal, with most of their albums taking from this style. Borknagar's lyrics often deal with philosophy, paganism, nature, and the cosmos. Øystein Brun stated once that the name was inspired by a Scottish legend about a man who climbed Lochnagar, a mountain in Scotland.

Borknagar rose out of the ashes of the Norwegian death metal band Molested when then-member Øystein G. Brun became tired of the brutal aspects of the band's music. Øystein formed Borknagar to explore a more melodic outlet of expression; he wrote all of the music and lyrics and gathered together an all-star group of black metal musicians to play in his band. Well-known musicians of the black metal scene (such as Infernus of Gorgoroth, Grim of Immortal and Gorgoroth, Ivar Bjørnson from Enslaved, Garm of Ulver, Head Control System, and ex-Arcturus) joined the project, bringing immediate attention to Borknagar. The band never even recorded a demo -- they simply asked for a record contract on Malicious Records and were granted their request. Borknagar's majestic, melodic sound was instantly liked by many and received positive press attention.

-Lyrics-

Upon the ruins of the future

I climbed to behold

A distance so pale

An existence so cold

Resembling the views

These angels of damnation

As my mind came and flew

Upon the ruins of future

I stood to be told

That the future will fail

Upon the hands that fold

At the edge of the horizon

I saw the harmony of havoc

The path of the marauders

Transient yet tremendous

Upon the failure, denial of token

Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken

The sign, the pulse that protrude

The resound, the return

The sequence that conclude, the fall of man

Upon the ruins of the future

I climbed to behold

A distance so pale

An existence so cold

Resembling the views

These angels of damnation

As my mind came and flew

Upon the ruins of the future

I settled to be bold

When the downfall arises, as I am told

The denomination of the grandiose demise

Granted as the imious impetus

Upon the failure, denial of token

Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken

Upon the ruins of the future

I settled to be bold

When the downfall arises, as I am told