tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post111334685866532627..comments2024-03-18T07:16:02.127+00:00Comments on An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming: GarmarnaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1114552264402010022005-04-26T21:51:00.000+00:002005-04-26T21:51:00.000+00:00Hi Loki~It's me~ The guy who emailed you regarding...Hi Loki~<BR/>It's me~ The guy who emailed you regarding Comus.<BR/>This is great!<BR/>Thanks for that song.<BR/>Really appreciate this one.<BR/>All the best pal~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1113384942524516952005-04-13T09:35:00.000+00:002005-04-13T09:35:00.000+00:00excellent... this kind of thing is why i started t...excellent... this kind of thing is why i started this blog in the first place..i like the song even more now...Lokihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924395676931035948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1113366274522378112005-04-13T04:24:00.000+00:002005-04-13T04:24:00.000+00:00Thanks anders for blowing away any notion that thi...Thanks anders for blowing away any notion that this band's "folk music" has anything to do with floaty dresses. Nordic folk music (and indeed a lot of the REAL folk music in many cultures) has a high body count. Think Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads" in a language other than English. These songs were the local TV news murder roll before there was television.<BR/><BR/>Loki, you can read the liner notes and lyrics for this album at http://www.noside.com/nsd6028note.html<BR/><BR/>For this album, the gore index reads: 3 dead (1 stomped to death by a horse, 1 swallowed up by the earth, 1 serial killer of women murdered by an intended victim), 1 deranged woman having sex with nineteen guys, and just for fun, 1 pregnancy lasting 9 years.<BR/><BR/>--drewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198360.post-1113351598949775722005-04-13T00:19:00.000+00:002005-04-13T00:19:00.000+00:00Garmarna's songs are mostly modern arrangements of...Garmarna's songs are mostly modern arrangements of traditional scandinavian folk songs, which are almost universally dark, morbid, and grisly. seriously, some of them make death metal seem tame in comparison. it's what happens to a culture that doesn't see sun for months at a time.<BR/><BR/>eg, the song you posted involves a stepmother casting a spell and turning the narrator into a gray wolf. the spell is finally broken after many years when the wolf catches up with her, kills her, and drinks the blood of his unborn brother in her womb. and, uh, then becomes a gallant knight...<BR/><BR/>--andersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com