Thousand Swords, mile stone in the history of Black Metal, and black diamond in history of Graveland. Pure, Unclean Black Metal with elementals of folklore and middle-age music. Recorded in 1994-1995 in the deep forest between howling wolves and dancing witches. The act of pure rebellion against Christianity. The idea of this album was awaking of the ancient spirits of ancestors, to stand with them against the religion of light. With Thousand Swords Graveland started his march to War, war with hypocrisy and false prophets. Riffs and concept of the album has it’s core in music of old Bathory and Emperor, what makes it sound pure but monumental at the same time. For many Thousand Swords is not only classical and best album of Graveland, but one of the most important albums in whole history of Black Metal. First edition of this album was released by Rob Darken’s Isengard Production. This album opened people’s minds for something more, not only new, never done before in a history mixture of black metal essence with influence of old music, but on new character of fight not with weapon but with word and music.
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This special edition of ‘A Blaze in the Northern Sky' marks 20 years since the album's original release, & contains an additional CD featuring Fenriz talking about his memories & recollections of the album's construction as the music plays in the background. Also contains video interview with Nocturno & Fenriz from 2003
Re-release of the classic “Sharpening the Thousand Swords”, this is an instrumental rehearsal session recorded during the period of the album “Thousand Swords”, the greatest masterpiece ever produced by Graveland and made by the infamous trio Darken – Capricornus – Karcharoth (rip). This re-release contains photos from the “Thousand Swords” session as well as previously unpublished photos personally processed by Rob Darken especially for this version. A Hammer Of Damnation release in Digibook CD format, with hard cover and high-quality finish, with a 24-page booklet! Limited to only 400 copies