Huh what?

@@VikingStrengthBB what?

They’re great. I think they probably don’t have a lot of listeners because they weren’t in the Norwegian scene where all of this blew up. I haven’t really dug too deep into their catalogue yeat, because I haven’t known them for that long, but I’ll check out Opus IV. So far I’ve only heard Nachthymnen and Orkblut, but from those, Nachthymnen is the superior one.

It is very similar, Silencer definitely takes a lot of influence from Bethlehem, but I respectfulky disagree. I find Death, Pierce Me superior in every way. But Dictius Te Necare is also a really good album honestly. I think it also has to do eith the fact that I have a very personal relationship with Silencer, I listened to them at a very weird time of my life, whereas when I listened to Bethlehem, there’s was nothing special happening.

@@VikingStrengthBB I guess we all have sentimental albums that we cherish more than other albums. I still think Agalloch is the best band ever even though I’ve listened to maybe 1000 albums since discovering them back in 2019. There are plenty of other albums that most would consider not that great that I have sentiment towards, so to each their own.

Yeah for me that is Sólstafir with pretty much all of their discography except maybe the last 2 albums. It's crazy how different people can have completely different experiences of the same album.

Or you can just show your interest and avoid it altogether

Yeah, honestly what people realize is even if you escape the friendzone, it never works. That’s why I didn’t even mention it in the video, because I don’t want to give false hopes to people. But it is possible to escape the friend zone. I did it, I had a friend that did it. I can’t speak for him, but the girlfriend I had who friendzoned me before never gave a shit about me even after we got together. She eventually broke up with me after 9 months and honestly I was the stupid one for not leaving, because it’s pretty obvious to me now how one sided the whole thing was all along. I don’t know what my friend’s relationship was like after escaping the friendzone, but I know that eventually the girl broke up with him. So even if you escape on paper, you’ll pretty much never have a fulfilling relationship from it.

I don’t think that’s a friendzone, I think that’s kust straight rejection. But life is like that sometimes, you’ll find someone better for you. Keep your head up king!

@@VikingStrengthBBYou’re right, it’s not. After the last date she said let's stay friends, she can't do this “dating stuff” because she's immature (22 yo btw) and she wants to travel next semester anyway (aka this year), don’t have time for a relationship... I felt bad thinking about it, but I was like "We were never really friends, how the hell could we stay friends...". But that's how it is, I admit. Anyway, it was hard to date her, I could barely get her to see me every ~2 weeks, and she kept talking about her own red flags, so yeah.. I’m OK it’s ended, whatever it really was 😂

Yeah some people just don't want to commit to a relationship or they get scared of intimacy or something and pull back but still pull off the "let's just be friends" card, cause they like the attention they're getting or they just like you as a person but don't want to date. I really recommend avoiding people like this. Most people aren't like this ofc, but the one's who are will fuck your life, if you fall for their games.

Yeah I mean what else would it be? I don’t understand people who say something isn’t metal or isn’t black metal just because they don’t like it. And Midvinter is absolutely amazing. I discovered that album and that band only recently, after making this video and I’ve been bingeing it. It’s such an amazing album.

Hahh whaaat I don’t even look like him

In clickbait you looked​@@VikingStrengthBB

Yeah I almost never even listen to those albums anymore tbh. I had that phase when I was like 14 and I’m not gonna lie there is some legendary stuff from that scene, but there’s so much more to the genre. I’ll check them out. I got so many recommendations at this point I have to start writing a list lol

Haha it do be like that sometimes

Thanks man! Glad you liked it

I’ll have to check them out. I’ve heard all three names before, but never really heard an entire album from any of them.

I’ll give it a listen. Yeah, Sulphur souls is absolutely insane.

i have bad knees and very limited range of motion and pain in one of my shoulders so i train with lighter weights and just do 10 - 15 instead of going heavy and doing 3 - 5. the gains aren't great but i'm not getting hurt and will probably get there eventually.

Are you pushing your knees completely forward on leg movements? Because that could be why your kness hurt and you have limited range of motion. If yes, you could try pushing them a little bit to the sides, not a crazy amount, just not completely forward. You can look at Alan Thrall's old squat videos, he talks about this and shows it. Also have you tried building up the movement you're trying to do? It sounds shitty, but it sometimes helps a lot to just start from a very low weight, like with the bar on squats and slowly build up by adding 5lbs every week and your joints will get used to the movement that way and they won't hurt when you get back to heavier loads. And you can do something in the meantime that doesn't hurt to maintain your leg size. Also I think low reps are very overrated. Don't be sad you can't train in 3-5, if your goal is just building muscle I think you're not missing out on anything. I think 6-12 is the sweet spot for most muscles for most lifts for hypertrophy and a couple of exercises like laterals are just better done with higher reps. From my experience legs grow better with higher reps, so something like an 8-12, so you're pretty good.

@@VikingStrengthBB yeah im pushing my knees forward as much as i can, i can squat at leaat parallel but my knees hurt because i'm old.

Nagelfar deserves more love.

Uhh I don't think I even know 10 strongmen, but I'll try. 1. Hafþór Björnsson 2. The Polish guy who eats ice cream and looks like a bodybuilder (Pudzianowski? I'm not sure) 3. Brian Shaw 4. The guy who got hit by a car, I think he's Martin or something like that 5. Novikov 6. Russian guy 7. Robert Oberst I don't remember a lot of names, because the list time I seriously followed strongmen was like 3-4 years ago, but these are my favorites. Honorable mention to Alan Thrall, he's not professional, but he's great and I learned a lot from him.

Thanks man, really appreciate it! I think literally all dating advice that "works" could be reduced to just 1. be yourself, 2. self improvement 3. talk to women. And then people still come with the tactics and money all the time, even though these are usually the same people who want a "wife quality" girl who doesn't care about money and shit like that. But it's much easier to get people to watch with techniques and strategy, than with the truth. And also I think a problem is the techniques do probably work, they just won't ever get you into a HEALTHY relationship. I want to keep making videos on the topic, cause I wish my 14 old self had found these, instead of all the other shit, that's out there, but every time I think about any dating topic the end advice is always the same: just be a good person.

What bands are you into? I want to get a bit more into death metal, cause I just realized I barely listen to it and barely know shit about it, so I'd be happy to hear some recommendations.

@@VikingStrengthBB WOW first time i get to recommend a "new guy" to death metal. I d prefer to gives you some blackned death since you come from black but im gonna give you also some old school death metal that people lovs to recommend. First my favourite BEHEMOTH. They started as black metal to became slowly blackned death metal. Favourite Album "the Apostasy" and "The satanisti" which is their best. Then MORBID ANGEL. Now 99% of the fan they ll you that Altar of madness is their best but to me is more "death-thrash" so i wanna give you the more death metal ones and im gonna recommend the Album "Covenant" (best songs in it are Rapture and God of emptiness) and "Domination". The something from the swedish current of death metal (yes as you realized by now death metal has alot of subgenres in it) DISMEMBER. They dont have a bad album but my favourite are "Massive Killing Capacity" and "Indecent and Obscene"(cause the last song here is my favourite, its called "Dreaming in Red). Back in America "Deicide" (only the first album). Dying Fetus with Destroy the opposition (the opening track is probably my favourite its called Praise the lord). For "slower" death metal i d say ASPHYNX's album "Last one on earth" (titletrack being again of my favourite of all time) or Obituary "Slowly we rot"

Sooo I'm not "new" to death metal, I've been listening to it for like 5-6 years at this point, but not a lot of it. I mostly now "mainstream" stuff. I know Morbid Angel, really love 'em. I've heard a couple of songs from Behemoth, but never a full album, so I'll def check that out. I gotta check out Dismember as well. I love Deicide. I've listened to the Dying Fetus album you were recommending today and I like it a lot. It reminds me of Suffocation. I also never heard of Asphynx, so I'll check them out. I probably only know like Death, Morbid Angel, Entombed, Possessed, Deicide, Suffocation, Obituary, Amon Amarth, Cryptopsy, Vital Remains, Belakor, Blood Red Throne and Angist.

@@VikingStrengthBB You should try Portal. They may sound really messy and incomprehensible at first, but they are the best Death Metal band ever. I recommend Portal because they are sometimes regarded as "Death Metal for Black Metal fans" considering that they prioritize the atmosphere before a "killer riff". Like I said, they are heavily atmospheric (specifically a Lovecraftian soundscape) and I think 'Outre' is the best death metal album of all time. I also suggest The Chasm, Mexican death metal at its finest. Any album by The Chasm is a good place to start.

I’ve heard Ion from Portal and really liked it. I like that sort of messy, chaotic vibe. I haven’t heard anything else from them though. But I’ve heard that Ion is probably their most death metal album. I’ll check out the other stuff as well.

Honestly I have to listen to it again, because I don't really remember much of it. I've heard it a couple of times, I remember that it had some viking metal-ish elements that I really liked, but I didn't listen to it many times, no idea why.

Yeah, I love it too. I think blending some beauty into ugly music can be sooo amazing. I think some newer Emperor songs have that nailed down with the added clean vocals. I'll have to check on CoB tho, I heard the band name so many times, but never heard any of their material.

Good call out! Check out Windir and Journey to the end - I think it’s called? Ephemeral Metal experience from straight metal to this synth element that envelops you.

That album is so good to just close your eyes and vibe to, it makes you fall out of the world.

Old Mans child are just such great song writers..

@@davidlynn5272 Indeed! One of my dad's favorite bands when I grew up, so they definitely have a huge influence on my music taste today

Yeah they have a very unique take at dsbm.

@@davidlynn5272 I'll have to check on Old Man's Child, everyone here seems to love them and I somehow never even heard their name.

Icelandic black metal is honestly something else. It just has a very different vibe altogether, so much more brutal and hellish sounding

@@VikingStrengthBB indeed, i've only discovered the icelandic scene about a year ago, i'm in love

@@puckyou4568 stay tuned tuned then, because I'll be talking about some more Icelandic stuff in the future. I know so many bands from that scene and most people have never even heard of most of them, so I try to always put some of it in every metal video I make.

Haha yess, thanks bro! I had a phase when I listened to a lot of dsbm. Still do sometimes, but not as often. Some albums, like Death, Pierce Me really just take you off life in a couple of minutes

@@VikingStrengthBB good dsbm is amazing at making you incredibly depressed. an album i rlly like thats like this is Damp Chill of Life by None

@@gayyy3565 I'll check it out. For me one of the trickiest ones is Lifelover, because I know what Silencer is like and I know it'll make me depressed, so I usually don't listen to it... but Lifelover has some catchy ass songs, so I always go back at it, but then when you listen to a whole album you still become depressed.

@@VikingStrengthBB I don't know if you'll care or not, but I think 'Meloncholie 2' by Coldworld is the best DSBM album. If you have not listened to that album already, I highly suggest it. It is much more melancholic than depressive, but most still consider it DSBM. Unfortunately, every full album upload on KZbin gets copyright striked, but you can still find the individual songs on KZbin, and Spotify has the full album, I believe.

I’ll give it a listen. I found the whole thing on spotify so that’s really nice. It’s so annoying when music is not accessible everywhere. I especially hate spotify but I’ll talk a bit about that in the next metal video, because that will have 2 albums that aren’t on spotify anymore.

Thanks man! Yeah black metal is definitely not easy to get into. Give a listen to Pillorian - Obsidian Arc. That was the first bm album I really got into, partly probably because it's pretty different from all of the other stuff. But I won't overshare on that, cause I'm planning on talking about that album in an upcoming video...

I'll give it a listen today, thanks for the recommendation

my current top 10: Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination of Death Nagelfar - Virus West Silencer - Death -Pierce Me (you're right, that Album is sort of depressing, but the sound is great!) Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Unstille Todtgelichter - Angst Marduk - Those of the Unlight Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (it was either that or "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk"... I think I like "Nightside..." a little bit more) Waldgeflüster - Herbstklagen Abigor - Nachthymnen and as a Bonus: Darkthrone - Every single Album they ever recorded because its fucking Darkthrone and I love them!

Hecate Enthroned - Slaughter of innocence. Love me some Old Man’s Child Pagans Prosperity as well but they are not necessarily bonafide into a category imho. You know what was a great album - perhaps the one and only “cosmic metal” coined band? Nexus Polaris by Kovenant (Covenant)

Yes this one! we don't really care any of the later ones..

@@wastedthoughts I thought I was the only one in the world who sees 'Virus West' as a masterful album. It may be the best composed black metal album ever. Everything in that album makes sense, does not drag, and never gets boring.

Ah thanks. Yeah I think people also overestimate how much "a bad session" matters on a large scale.

I mean yeah if you go while being hangover af it's gonna be shit. I think I haven't clarified that in the video enough (sorry), but when I said tired, I meant a little hungover or 5-6 hours of sleep or going after 12 hours of work or just feeling like shit and feeling like you couldn't get a 100% session performance if you went. But also bro if you go and end up getting 2 reps with your 8 rep weight and want to puke, use common sense and go home. Simple as that.

I am used to skipping when I feel tired. But will give it a try :D

Niceeee. Only thing is: Abigor - Nachthymnen ends with A Frozen Soul in a Wintershadow and the songs that come after are a different album, Orkblut.

I'll have to check that out, because I almost only heard this album from them.

​@@VikingStrengthBB I think you will like it, its a really strong album.

Cheers cheers

Thanks man! That's what I wanted to achieve with this video, to get people to hear some new, unusual stuff.

Check out Epilirium, "Bay Harbor Butcher" and many of their songs.

Okay man, I'll give a listen. Thanks for the recommendation!

but its so overwhelmingly inferior to rep range to failure sets (1-2 sets per exercise)

@@oliver-pk3xj No. It depends on people, but for most they give the same results. The important thing is weekly volume with every set taken between 0-3 reps from failure. 2 sets to failure will give you the same results of 3 sets with 3 RIR, but the difference is that by training to failure you highly increase the risk of injury and your technique is going to get worse. Advanced BBs do straight sets and still grow, they work and always will. This is a good way to grow muscle, but there is no such thing as "the best". The important things are - Overall volume - Frequency - Intensity - Caloric surplus - Recovery

@@S.O.A_Zero Going from straight sets to a rep range definitely won't double your gains or anything crazy, but it is (if you can handle the freedom) better. I know science says you're going to die if you go to failure and 3RIR is the same, but in real life that doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of studies are not well executed, done on beginners who have no clue about RPE, etc. More and more people are starting to deviate from the science dogma of high volume 0-3RIR training and are reporting better gains with much less volume while not getting injured (or not more frequently than before). But yeah, straight sets do work and they will always work. 100% agree on that. Rep ranges are just a bit better.