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Style
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Folk Metal
Status:
Active
Country :
Russia
Band Members :
Andrew Sokolov
- keyboards
Dmitri Petras - basses, pipes, gabop, programming and
zombification
Rob Mcreddin - axes, logs, undipped infants, phials mystic and not
so mystic, banners and rubbish. Also - muscles of face and of
throat.
Stas Matveyev - guitars
Iana Nikulina - keyboards, Jew's-harp, screaming
Tanya Frolova - vocals
Max Znaevski - Drums, percussion
Sound samples can be found on the official site.
Official
Website |
Info:
Live gigs in local clubs of St. Petersburg have made Wolfsangel
popular as a superb live band with a mix of good music and
original dramatized show. Musically, Wolfsangel is an interesting
blend of folk and metal, from mid-tempo to fast, based on Northern
European and Germano-Scandinavian melodies.
The name:
Wolfsangel is a German word. Naming our
band in this way, we meant the Northumbrian rune (by other sources
- the Saxon rune). Its magical semantics is protection,
confinement of movements and thoughts of enemy, providing of own
freedom, defence. In the Middle Ages it was used as protection
from wolves, in more general aspect - as protection from Fenriz
the Wolf. From XIV century Wolfsangel was used as a border sign in
Germany; in XV century it became symbol of a peasant rebellion.
However
you may see that the same word can be interpreted as two English
ones - wolf's angel. So, the band uses this pun in lyrics and even
in emblem, which looks like a wolf going to eat a little fat
angel.
I've heard that "Wolfsangel"
is the Nazi symbol. Is that true?
"What can we say on this? Runes are older then Nazism for several
thousand years; and it is at least stupid to consider Wolfsangel
to be a Nazi symbol. our attitude towards Nazism and neo-Nazism is
distinctly negative. Period."
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Widdershins
2004 |
1.Barditus
2.Njord
3.Ice
4.Of Ye Birch Tree Slain
5.Lullaby
6.King Of Northern Trolls
7.Wolfsangel
8.Lady Of Darkness |
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