AMENRA - Ogentroost (Official Visualizer)

[@relapserecords]

AMENRA’s first release for Relapse Records is at once a departure and a momentous act of deliverance. Stepping outside the run of albums titled Mass I-VI, De Doorn casts a 21-year journey from the heart of Belgium’s crusading hardcore scene to world-renowned, spiritually guided innovators in an enthralling new light. Ritual, remembrance and hard-won rebirth have always been at the heart of Amenra’s colossal, soul-purging approach. Centered around frontman Colin H. Van Eeckhout, but marked out by a transcendent unity of purpose, their albums have acted as totemic, personal marker points, a means to process individual grief as a shared, cathartic experience. Their live shows are acts of incendiary, communal exorcism that reach a cusp of sublime, out-of-body experience. A closely knit collective, they transport you to a febrile state where confrontation of pain, transformation and true healing can occur. Amenra have always been profoundly bound to their hometowns around Flanders, the weight of that area’s war-torn history. The sacrifice and sense of a larger purpose that bridges the fragility of humanity and the pull of an immaculate ideal is carried as an ever-present resonance. No more is this apparent than in the spectacular, commemorative events the band have performed in recent years - to mark ending of the First World War; the band’s 20th anniversary; and the departure of long-time band member Levy Seynaeve. At the SMAK Museum Of Contemporary Art in Ghent’s 19th-century, monument-strewn Citadelpark in May 2019, they offered a communal recognition of loss and letting go. Here, audience members were invited to make their own offerings, placing personal notes of acknowledgment in wooden structures created by Indonesian artist Toni Kanwa Adikusumah, before they were brought out into the park and set alight as an act of recognition and release - a forging of hope from the flames. Written for the purpose of that rite, De Doorn (‘The Thorn’) occupies a place between Amenra’s recorded and live work, less a testimony to the band’s individual bereavements, more an invitation for others to come forward, and to pass through darkness into light. Where the Mass albums have taken the form of solitary struggles whose fearless honesty has aligned itself to the most intrinsically human of chords, the dynamics of De Doorn are as stricken by destiny as ever, but sonically looser. Guided to a lesser extent by the band’s characteristically immense, behind-the-beat traction, it’s more lush, immersive, steeped in sonorous, cathedral-echo ambiences amplified to the point of static-infected instability and carrying passages of deeply intimate spoken-word that feel like being drawn in to the most hallowed of confidences. Its themes of dialogue and the passing of knowledge are echoed in the combined vocals of Colin and Oathbreaker’s Caro Tanghe. Her spectral presence on the opening Ogentroost acts as both counterpoint and complement to Colin’s stricken howl as the song cycles between enervation and helplessly compelled momentum. Their whispered devotions in the following, vast, hallowed atmospheres of De Dood In Bloei leave you feeling as though you’re bearing witness to the most private of conversations. The first Amenra album to be sung entirely in Flemish, De Doorn imparts a universal power by digging deep into local customs. Not just allowing for a greater range of expression through the intimacy, allowances and layers of meaning granted by your native tongue, it takes inspiration from Flemish forms such as Kleinkunst, a folk-based musical wave driven by storytelling, and the passing of wisdom through generations. Yet as with every Amenra release, De Doorn is an act of observance that recognises the path travelled by fully experiencing the moment, as a rite of consummation, reckoning and deliverance. That state of transition is exemplified in the closing Vor Immer, a hushed, plaintively wracked coda that bursts into newborn, world-in-your eyes transfiguration where sheer, sense flooding experience becomes a blazing threshold where rupture and rapture become one. The thorn is the most potent of symbols - in religious terms, a reclamation and an agony as a mark of transformation. It’s the nagging reminder of vulnerability and it’s the violent protector, without which beauty cannot thrive. For the cover of De Doorn, it’s been cast in bronze - a thing of value and a memorial, each band member given their own piece to symbolise their own pain and their belonging to the greater whole. In bronze, it is both nature and something else - a mark of singularity and a portal to a continuity that we all share. As Amenra have acknowledged once more, it’s one that hears our call, even when we feel we are at our most alone.

[@ssgansta-m-j-t]

this description is why i love metal . very descriptive and deep

[@OmegaRedFan]

@@rl904 go away

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

That was really well written brother you really know a lot about the group that's awesome

[@BIackMass]

@@OmegaRedFan Most of the views on this are from that

[@byronscussel8148]

Tienen qe traducirlo al español porfavor

[@JasonParadise]

House of Black represent 🤘

[@ejmovement1613]

Salute to JasonParadise! BTW, hope you don't get one of those arrogant, "shut up about wrestling" comments like I just did, I muted the guy though. Haters gonna hate bruh.

[@KenFM12.93]

Now that the firefly funhouse has officially closed,Im ready to enter the house of black.

[@ejmovement1613]

@@KenFM12.93 Hopefully Bray does some type of "Adult Swim" type of gimmick still, because that was way too good to not keep up in my opinion.

[@alexcollina7545]

@@ejmovement1613 After decades of subpar WWE content. . . that´s what wrestling is all about for most. AEW is on a roll and hearing this was a fucking banger of a moment. heads will turn, or roll.

[@relapserecords]

Hell yes!

[@QueenMAB666]

MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF BLACK, RISE!

[@peschi7925]

To all new fans of Amenra, welcome.

[@bladeworksmaster]

Here from my man Malakai Black's AEW debut, what an absolutely killer theme and entrance!

[@johnvoltaeus9556]

Right here with you!

[@jeffr3787]

Same.

[@ShinraSoldier.]

had to rewind on the tv 7 times.. that entrance was 🔥🔥🔥

[@henriklarssen1331]

Our Savior has arrived!

[@MohlaVarun]

Banger of a theme for Malakai

[@peace9172]

This place is gonna explode now

[@relapserecords]

MUHAHAHAHA

[@shogunrua5589]

Yes

[@SeanceyStephens]

​@@relapserecords🤟🏾♥️

[@KeenenMurray]

Malakai Black brought me here!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[@dracolupus0217]

Malakai Black brought me here. Thank you House of Black.

[@jamesmcintyre94]

Tommy End/Malakai Black fans rise up!

[@ZERO-X79]

IKR this song is very fit with him!

[@ShadowMasterOfArmageddon]

Hell yeah!

[@Bfratman]

English translation: land of night eyebright its time my dear spring is near a darkened hand touched new born land where silence reigned heartbeat beating drums called upon it has been done hallowed ground, a dying son bodies sprawled and all is done I was called upon heart throbs throbbing vein a father nods to ease their fright bids them goodnight a heartbeat its beating faster a mother's face stares into space her last embrace in heaven bright her only son he never won my bones broke as I stood before you broken now awoken

[@TheRealArtimusKnight]

After reading that I feel like I just summoned a demon 0-0

[@KorriganTheGreat]

The eye right is ogentroost right?

[@itstheazorean]

It's satisfying when even in the translation it rhymes, the beauty of sharing the same branch of the linguistic tree

[@GoldPhantomZ]

actually Nachtland is nightland, not land of night

[@AH-te5gs]

@@GoldPhantomZ Poetic freedom. "Night bright" is not a translation of "ogentroost" either. But I like what the translator did here.

[@ejmovement1613]

Shout out to Tommy End/Malakai Black doing his thing on AEW Dynamite and shout out to this band for the entrance theme!

[@ejmovement1613]

Me getting heat over shouting out the wrestler AND still shouting out the band anyways. Welp, Couldn't be me.

[@relapserecords]

Keep doing your thing king.

[@joshuamontoni4980]

They should perform it one day in aew when he comes out. Maybe dynamite grandslam in New York

[@HonkeyKongLive]

@@joshuamontoni4980 Amenra performing live at an AEW event would be mayhem. Especially if Colin really goes all out.

[@editnosmirc4489]

He doesn't come out by himself enough. Haven't got to hear this on AEW tv in almost a year.

[@ivanL1695]

Here to let you know by now it’s been more than a year

[@ConnorONeil]

Malakai Black and his amazing entrance brought me here

[@xbattedpond7058]

Malakai brought people here with the swiftness 👀

[@PaxBisonica89]

The people were already here, not you bandwagon creeps.

[@jayhollows5729]

@@PaxBisonica89 yeah how dare people hear music somewhere and enjoy it. You hipsters are the real cancer. Tryhards

[@robertjuniorsernaquevelasq151]

The House always wins ☠️☠️☠️

[@daleeck4202]

The House always wins...

[@joshbowman9481]

When this song goes double time it feels like it becomes almost more than music, it taps into something different, something primal, and I love every bit of it

[@christofts857]

YES. This. It takes me somewhere man. I’m a developer and De Doorn is one of my go to albums to help me debug. It just clears my mind.

[@scorpiosweetheartx3]

Welcome to the house of Black… 🖤🥀 This song is so beautiful.

[@godscoldhands77]

ALBUM OF THE YEAR.!!!!! most intense. most beautiful.

[@robertaprado87]

"Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. my yoke is easy and my burden is light"

[@Yliaene]

This is incredibly intense, dark...pfff speechless.

[@irfanlateef4939]

Perfect Theme for Malakai Black. I thought his theme from WWE was a banger but this is even better! A fan of AMENRA from now.

[@thesnacccgawdsukuryuappu]

“Open your mind, oh ye who knock at his door. Let yourself be transformed through his teachings”

[@joshcohen9238]

when he said WHATS UPPPPPPPPPPPP I felt that

[@dineentimothy]

Before last Wednesday, I had never heard of this band or this song. Once I heard it, it just kept repeating inside of my head. Malakai Black may have done a ton to help sell albums just by coming out to such an awesome song. I have a feeling this is going to be one of my workout songs...great song. Now I have to listen to more of their music.

[@TheDarkWarlords]

I second all your points

[@kentucky_ken]

Same.

[@peschi7925]

Welcome to the Church Of Ra

[@alvarogarcia5270]

Pure darkness. Absolute amazing De Doorm

[@mattsmith2274]

Welcome To The House Of Black!!! 🏴‍☠️☠🏴‍☠️

[@KevdaReb]

Will all the members of the House of Black please rise ✊

[@MikeG1]

This is perfect for Malakai

[@IAmAngel627]

This theme fits Malakai Black so well 🖤

[@brentlockman7195]

We just heard this on national tv. incredible moment.

[@johnmancini4403]

Malakai Black brought me here! 🤟

[@KyloRen2k3]

All rise to the kings of the black throne

[@arkangelarkangel5348]

What an amazing band...

[@generalstrategy8420]

I am a humbled General and member of the House of Black. Malakai brought me here.

[@trevorhensley3185]

When the Dark Father speaks, I listen to his gospel.

[@ibstrd]

At 5:26 it sounds like he says Aleister Black, though I know it's not.

[@kochs30]

A certified banger! Here cuz of Malakai Black. Wow!

[@_ADINFINITUM]

Here because of MALAKAI BLACK. Best entrance in years.

[@DavidRamirez-sh5xd]

NXT entrance>

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

Hes gonna kill it in aew 10000% #HouseOfBlack

[@BODLive08]

Members of The House of Black Please, rise 🌑🌑🌑🌑

[@yvinhobrazil]

It's like those torns are blooming from his own soul

[@Ravens93]

Thank you Malakai Black without you I wouldn't have found out about this amazing band🤘

[@kevindevos4698]

Oh man, you are in for a treat!

[@nelsonbaeza428]

AMENRA is a incredible band..... amenra is an incredible band, in fact post metal, achieves an ambient, dark, cursed sound .... where humanity has no opportunity to continue living after so much torment !!!! .... ETERNAL TORMENT FOR SOULS CHRISTIANS !!!

[@TheMattHendrix]

ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF BLACK RISE

[@tylerblxck]

🕯️MALAKAI BLACK 🕯️

[@blackjeez]

You are fast. Ik why u here... Malakai Black. 🔥😂

[@geo305]

Malakai sent me 🤘🔥

[@FaustNemesis]

Malakai Black brought me here, I love this kind of music anyway!

[@PinBiohazard]

Malakai Black sure has great taste in music

[@lenoir936]

Malakai black bring my soul here! 🤘🏾🔥

[@clipstunner]

HOUSE OF BLACK - RIGHT ON!!!

[@carlDJS]

This song is going to become very very beloved over time due to Malakai Black's fantastic entrance. This was a great choice of music, I'm definitely going to go through their discography

[@jotunn30]

same..i already love this kind of music and somehow never heard of Amenra and now i'm just gonna devour their whole discography

[@danieltroche6019]

Do it!!! they've been around for years and kicking ass! I'm glad some people are enjoying this!

[@erikvacca1241]

This song really has malakai black vibes

[@MTR_Nara]

This song hits different after watching Black’s entrance 🤣 ITS SO GOOD, I was screaming the whole time!!! 😤

[@xtinctiongames2448]

This song makes me wanna just randomly hit the Black Mass on people... This song fits him so well.

[@matthewsalazar4553]

A person asks for help and I respond with a roundhouse to the face

[@darrieonmoore3609]

@@matthewsalazar4553 *spinning heel kick

[@makoent2231]

It is a very relaxing song.

[@THEPASTSHALLENDURE]

Helps me do school work fairly well. If you got work to do then this is the song for it. It's long and not very distracting. Due to it's length and how the song is set up, you can loop it without it getting boring.

[@Ellier215]

A lot of AmenRas songs are. They are full of grief but I find peace in them.

[@mohammedmb1921]

Just imagine a live performance in a ppv

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

The goosebumps 🤘

[@SahadF]

Surely they have to make this happen!

[@knightshousegames]

If I were producing it, I'd have it so they were playing in the dark initially, then when the bright light came on that normally illuminates Malakai, you'd see the band instead. Maybe have them in like a circular pattern, around that hole Cody normally rises up from, but he rises up in a sitting position, like they like summoning him or something as they play.

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

@@knightshousegames That's a kick ass idea 🤘 Love it

[@charlroeber6712]

@@knightshousegames damn that idea is super great.

[@zerozeeros]

Malakais energy fits this song so much. Sombre doom metal with a touch of Hardcore. Given his taste and from what he told me during a meet and greet I can't think of a more suiting track. I also love that he got a small band to do his theme. What an awesome promotion for the band

[@drinfernodds]

Black has introduced a lot of people to great bands. In NXT he introduced people to Incendiary, and now Amenra is being introduced to us

[@DilettanteMyT]

@@drinfernodds For me, personally, Incendiary, BWP, Mgla, City & Color, and now Amenra. Love the man not only for his wrestling skills but also for enriching my musical taste

[@chopchop080808]

@@drinfernodds Can sort of work the opposite way as well now. I'm very much a stopped watching wrestling person a decade ago, but shit, if there's a dude using Amenra as his theme then I might actually have to give it a look.

[@trscsaeg]

@@chopchop080808 you definitely should. Are they perfect no but no promotion ever was. Is there some corny shit. Yeah but overall you can tell they’re trying and not being held back. Just keep watching at least till the ppv and see what you think

[@AndrewJShirley]

@@DilettanteMyT Incendiary, BWP, MGLA, City & Colour are all fucking class. I love how C&C proper stand out in all of those though haha

[@emmanuelluiz9233]

Brasilia-Brasil. Thanks for everything, long live Amenra.

[@brettgoodwin1655]

❤ the sound of my name thanks for using my Rif

[@SanatoZen]

Amenra's so unique. I've listened to atmospheric bands before. But this sound is really apart. Always come back to this album (de doorn) every few months or so.

[@immortaltechnique6128]

Malakai Blacks debut on AEW brought me here!!🔥

[@ericpieters4383]

Poetry and metal 😍

[@nadjabattsengel8413]

I'm all cried out! Thank you AMENRA 🖤

[@TheNightTyrant]

Finally Black getting to use Black/Doom Metal for his entrance.

[@PhilipKneitinger]

While a European indie worker, he'd also use Chelsea Wolfe and Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Dude has the best taste in themes

[@cmpork7145]

@@PhilipKneitinger I think Arshan meant on a bigger stage. For im sure in the indies he's not the only one to use that type of metal.

[@amoe1234]

I just love it when i get ads in the middle of a song... ffs

[@liamtime217]

I'm here digging the atmospheric intro and Simone Biles pops in to tell me about crackers. Like, yeah, 'food brings people together' but I don't want to hear it when I'm getting enveloped in a creepy, moonless night surrounded by barren trees covered in thorns! C'MON, SIMONE!!

[@mayrahernandez5780]

I love this! Plus the creepy AF entrance of Malachi legit gave me Silence of the lambs/Seven/True Detective vibes, I love shit like this!

[@eng-ahmedhusen729]

really i felt seVen vibe 🦅💜💥🔥☄️👌🏻

[@michaelhope666]

This is the finest music I've heard in a few years. This is a rare and true masterpiece.

[@ThePhenomForLife]

Malakai Black 🖤

[@Humanipathic]

Kind of methodical song that gets in your veins before descending into chaotic madness throughout you.

[@Paullawrence1584]

Here for Malakai Black. Suits his character so well. Best ring entrance music for a very long time. #HouseOfBlack ☠️

[@LyndseyLuvs]

Who knew that in 2021 wrestling would continue to help me find new music to listen to. Welcome to the House of Black. 🤘

[@phildeiner7757]

So fucking awesome to see all these new fans here from hearing it on AEW. Truly one of the best fucking bands and itd be so sick to see him come out to them playing it live cuz their singer has crazy stage presence.

[@jaybarbieri8619]

I’ve never seen them live but they’re on my bucket list

[@ThompsonExpress]

I wasnt even into Doom Metal before hearing this. Now my spotify playlist is filled with them.

[@matthewsalazar4553]

I close my eyes and I imagine I'm walking through a forest at night when I listen to this 🤘🏽😈

[@ViolentAce]

From Amsterdam,Netherlands….MALAKAIII BLACK!

[@drew8147]

House of black 🤘🤘👹👹👹

[@loudblackmenfilmproduction7974]

House of Black!!

[@pinonoir7287]

Good to see a lot of AEW folks checking in! Ofcourse I cannot speak of AmenRa personally but a lot of folks from Belgium & The Netherlands haven't forgotten about their Germanic & Celtic roots, if I may say so...

[@Brian-zl8qj]

Fantastic walk on tune fantastic wrestler!

[@mattiabiondini9070]

So intense, Amazing! What a masterpiece

[@sebastianarmas897]

By far my favorite song they’ve released

[@botchedbladejob]

Here from malakai black using this banger. So happy to see one of my favorite bands being used by my favorite company and wrestler

[@rogeredmonds3263]

Members of the House of Black, please rise.

[@pahasaradias]

Im grateful that Malakai Black entertains us with his amazing performances in wrestling, but im more grateful for him for introducing me to AMENRA

[@73kenkel]

The house of black has begun

[@b6lmont]

House of Black!

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

The House of Black is here and going NOWHERE

[@_ADINFINITUM]

The Church of Ra and The House of Black

[@WrestlingCovers]

Welcome to The House Of Black 🤘🏼

[@johnyrobeyns3343]

Fenomenaal. Ik had niks anders verwacht. Bedankt Amenra, bedankt dat jullie er zijn.

[@joshuaeagling1208]

Now I for one would love for a big stadium like event for AEW and Malakai’s entrance to be played by Amenra in line and in it’s entirety, no cut, just the raw ten minutes. Nothing but suspense, evil, darkness. Hell even win the title.

[@joshuaeagling1208]

live and in it’s entirety*

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

If tony Khan has any clue how to make money this needs to happen!!

[@adammilligan8426]

They did in milwaukee but only the people there saw it cuz of commercial

[@MsBadJedi]

Welcome to the House of Black 💀🖤

[@kellendawson2510]

Song is fucking amazing. Thank you Malakai Black for showing me this banger. Jesus this is heavy I love it. If the Devil had a lullaby, this is it folks and I'm at peace finally.

[@sikguitarist]

Malakai Black brought me here 💀 🖤 😎

[@ScreamingDestiny]

Played this to my 9 month old son last night, next morning He Hit a Blackmass on everybody.

[@rittis013]

LOL 😂😂😂

[@sethrobinson28]

These views bouta go UP !

[@Everette1233]

Here because of Malakai Black 🔥🔥🔥

[@martinkaczor8123]

When I heard Malakai's entrance I knew it was a known tune. I was right, it's typical Amenra's shit ! I LOVED IT

[@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051]

If you thought code orange was killer this blows it out the fucking water straight to hell 🤘🤟🤘

[@switchblade7422]

Amenra and malakai black hell yeah

[@inklingmario5974]

Absolutely love this theme for Malakai Black suit him to a T.