Laeknishendr

Occupation

• All instruments: Vratyas Vakyas

Læknishendr, also Laeknishendr, ( Old Icelandic: Healing Hands ') is a demo of the Viking Metal band Falkenbach.

Genesis

Between 1989 and 1996, took the only member of Falkenbach, Vratyas Vakyas, to a total of nine cartridges. Since about most of them is very little known, can not be said, which number it is Læknishendr; the other recordings were not intended for distribution to persons unknown to him. Complete Songs of Laeknishendr came before on older tapes.

In 1995 Vratyas Vakyas in the Icelandic national park Þingvellir, the first according to his information official cassette Læknishendr on. The original publication was produced in an edition of 33 pieces and sold to various record companies, but many of the record companies, however, have the cassettes copied without permission and sometimes even sold. Information provided by Vratyas Vakyas According to him it was the dispatch of the cassette to record companies not primarily about a contract, but for your feedback on music and lyrics. Today, an original of the demos is considered sought-after rarity.

Title list

The Internet is widening in the bootleg version is played a little too fast and therefore shorter by 2 minutes. The songs Skirnir, Læknishendr Asaland and were later re-recorded and on the albums ... En Their medh riki fara ..., Heralding - The Fireblade and re-released Tiurida. Læknishendr appears without an intro to the 1995 released by No Colours Records promo tape.

Style

The style is much more minimalist and darker than on the following albums and the sound pretty washed out. The singing is enigmatic as on the albums and partly provided with a delay, clean vocals is comparatively rarely used. All drum tracks were recorded with an analog drum machine. Instead of an acoustic guitar as on the albums Vakyas used an electric guitar for the undistorted interludes.

The intro Skirnir begins with an epic keyboard melody, followed by a slower Metal Part follows. This version differs significantly from that on the album Heralding. The title track starts with a clean Læknishendr folk -like intro, which is missing on the re-releases, with nearly eight minutes this is the longest version of this piece. In the middle and at the end of the distinctive folk melody is repeated in each case.

Blonde is very slow and minimalistic. The piece uses elements of doom metal and contains clean vocals, acoustic interludes, some passages in which are only wind or to hear underwater sounds. With over 11 minutes this is the longest song. Wuotan Imposuerunt consists of a slow, played in Palm courage electric guitar rhythm over which a hynotische keyboard melody is, this tune is interrupted only by a brief interlude and a blast beat part.

Infernum is a very fast, played in the Norwegian Black Metal style song. The first 3 minutes consist largely of blast beats and gekeiftem singing, sometimes can be heard psychedelic keyboards. This is followed by an atmospheric part, in which you hear a horn, followed by an epic beat. The last three minutes are identical to the first three, but do not contain vocals. The outro Asaland begins with a clean, equipped with an echo guitar melody that accompanied the end of the piece of keyboard, drums and electric guitar.

Texts

The texts of Skirnir and Læknishendr are written in Old Norse language, last comes from the Edda, Sigrdrífumál, verses 4 and 5 Infernum contains a passage from Scripture Germania of Tacitus. There warriors are described which black paint their skin. Since this song on Norwegian Black Metal oriented, the text is a kind of homage to the corpse paint used in the local scene.

Reviews

Sic of Myrrthront.de called Laeknishendr " even for a demo absolute class " and likened the style with Enslaveds frost.

Swell

• Album 1995
• Album ( Pagan Metal )
• Demo recording