Be'lakor - Held In Hollows

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[@luismaciel7463]

I listen to Death Metal/melodic death metal since 1987 and I think this is the best I ever heard. Sound, mix, riffs, good taste, melodies, wow!!!

[@Polosatik_life2024]

Absolutely the same

[@vanizorc]

Check out Amorphis as well. The first two albums - Thousand Lakes and Karelian - are exemplars of the melo-death genre. Every track is sublime.

[@luismacielcosta8845]

@@vanizorc Tales from the thousand lakes is a landmark in metal music

[@vanizorc]

@@luismacielcosta8845 Undoubtedly. That and Karelian are some of the best of all time in Metal (unfortunately I'm not partial to Amorphis' more recent works, but their earlier stuff in their first two aforementioned albums embodies the melo-death subgenre so perfectly).

[@mtinfinity7845]

I don't mean to make other bands look bad. But Be'lakor is far superior in their amazing music. They're just perfect in their music, their growling doesn't sound noisy nor does any of their instrumentals. It just all sounds perfectly put together.

[@user-te1bu4li8q]

Yes. They are perfect. Check thy darkened shade

[@Thjr13enGhost]

For me it's the lyrics that seperate them from all the other bands who mostly write cringe/edgy songs

[@Beederda]

This album is the magnum opus of belakor I can’t ever get enough of this song lyrical madness in the most beautiful form still banging in 2021 \m/

[@HighOverlordBeardo]

I have no idea what inspires these lyrics and allows them to take the shape that they do, but it's seriously unique amongst an ocean of completely hollow bellowing and growling. I wish I had even a single ounce of this level of talent. If I did, the short stories that I write would be transcended to another magnitude altogether.

[@dc8836]

Give Mastodon's Emperor of Sand a try. They're more like traditional heavy metal than melodic death metal but their lyrics tend to tell detailed connected stories like Stone's Reach does. Ne Obliviscaris is also worth a look. They're like some hodgepodge of melodic death metal and progressive metal but they have very intricate lyrics and musical compositions. Their songs are basically poems set to music.

[@-Ruben]

​@@dc8836 I hadn't heard of Ne Obliviscaris before and since last week I find them everywhere 😂 They have a lot in common with Opeth and also have some endless acoustic parts that sometimes are great and sometimes very boring (to me) 😅

[@XTyrannicalX]

I've listenned to this song about 5.0000 times myself.

[@stephanaltmann7213]

The best ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever CD from Belakor 👍👍👍👍👍👍🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😊

[@celiktenklc1795]

Through tainted mass A scourge unseen Brought three winters forth And set between After these hundreds of years The embers and fate will collide Her rotten heart has burst And shattered through dead wood When they drank from the earth, the end was near Tracing paths that once ran alone and pure Suffused within, the blighted decay Now snapped into dust, their splinters fall But a tithe to the wind, his frail grasps Clawed for the moon then came undone When all hope fails in the last broken bough Her strength will be gone Churning ash and husks in the bitter winds Crack the earth and burn the sky A wry procession of hubris Where nothing remains But everything changes... In destruction she will create Arising in glory, the searing gaze Crimson-handed specter of death Under the blood eye of furies Bury their feeble hearts

[@mtndotshdws]

Those last lines are so fucking sick.

[@celiktenklc1795]

loom. Be'lakor are fucking sick \m/

[@itsdokko2990]

i don't remember when i fell in love with melodic death metal and Be´Lakor, but i'm so fucking glad i did

[@dantelacroix8044]

4:30 I have tears each time I hear this part. So beautiful !

[@homevalueglass3809]

Epic guitar riff followed by whammy bar dive @1:01 = 💪

[@noonelies4ever]

My FV From STONES REACH !!!

[@Nir_Navon]

2:10...W O W This is an amazing piece of music. One of the best songs I've heard in recent years

[@MrsSoen]

date 7.03.2012 and time : 20:19 , i discovered this song and this band.This song is awesomeness :O

[@bmx687]

commenting to remind you to keep listening

[@jorgeluisvera3779]

Gracias Be'lakor por existir!! lml Headbanging from Piñas, Ecuador..

[@hauptmann25]

Am i the only one who thinks you are actually one of the best understandable growlers out there?

[@mark-uo7mi]

this song is so beautiful. 🥲

[@npopovic1]

masterpiece "where nothing remains out of destruction she will create" this part hounts me for long time !

[@shuckledeath281]

Good Shit right here The breakdowns really blew my mind the first time i heard you guys.

[@Salidoo1]

it's so relaxing

[@Khalis33]

1:01 This part is the perfect amalgamation of Lord Hypnos and Artifacts of The Black Rain.

[@Carsu12]

Intro of this track f*cked my soul, the rest devoured it.

[@AeoliusNRG]

pretty impressive that you can write a riff as strong as that one at 0:30 and then use it only the ONE time in a 7-minute song. must've taken some grit; 3 a.m., white-knuckle gripping the steering wheel while blowing past easy off-ramps, bloodshot eyes fixed on the destination

[@Ahmedwolf6699]

Starting from 1:08 you are forced to head bang whether you want it or not 😅 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@user-pm3db5kn6n]

Good job! Respect from Ukraine!

[@neclayilmaz5961]

Respect for Ukraine...

[@Carsu12]

And you too, my friend.

[@MelancholicSerenade]

4:30!!!!!!!!!!

[@kubicek0009]

I'm looking forward to see you guys at Brutal Assault 2012!

[@bishoysamir3018]

It’s 2024 and still can’t find the words to describe what happens from 4:30 to 5:48

[@NuKeMETAL78]

Yes it's looks like the intro of God of War Arise :)...

[@XTyrannicalX]

Writing to these tunes is quite something my friend. And the lyricism is quite magnificent. Does it remind you of any authors, or perhaps era's?

[@SanDisk4GB4]

Hey people is there any other Be'lakor songs with parts like 6:30?

[@jordaninard345]

Did you find some ? ;) Fraught 0:57, From scythe to sceptre 2:06, In Parting 2:38 if I have to choose among them but I think you can find a bunch of them ;)

[@kinethical]

an amazing fresh sound for any Death Metal enthusiast!..! i have to comment after those 7 dislikes... what's to not like!? Posers!

[@scottalexander6016]

What model of ENGL amplifier did George use to get this sound? It sounds like a giant grinding milling machine that utterly crushes you, yet fills you with comforting rage.

[@scottalexander6016]

Just guessing: SE 120

[@janguchelaar5836]

2:10-...

[@Nir_Navon]

Yesssss

[@yasithperera5700]

No one mentioning this part? 1:32 I sometimes wish they had that riff in more parts of this song

[@Giselbartecek]

5:18 Gods Of War Arise maybe? :D Anyways belakor kicks arse! :D

[@mehdimouradbenhadach9426]

Oké

[@Urbanned101]

It's fairly easy to understand. But I think Insomnium (even though vocals are recorded low) and DT are even better. And a few others which I can't remember the name of. :)

[@user-te1bu4li8q]

Be’lakor had definitely similarities but they are in league of their own

[@willemdafuck]

5:19

[@chainsawers]

GHahahahhahahahahahahha yeah!!

[@user-te1bu4li8q]

5:48 and onwards….!!

[@no66bodo]

It would be nice to know what was the initial inpulse for the tune from 5:19 to 5:49... For me absolute breathtaking part! Thnx for it.

[@Assgier]

That particular phrase sounds very familiar (and it is not from Be'lakor since I'm listening to them for the first time at this very moment). I think it is from a 90's song, but I'm not sure. Not even of the genre of that song in fact... if it ever comes to mind later on I'll post it here.

[@TaariqSiddik]

@@Assgierdid you find it?

[@1992yasy]

1 juni 24

[@technoshamanarchist]

The part from 5:19 to 5:48 reminds me of Judas Priest :)

[@Carsu12]

Cause it's seems fuckin right to me.

[@leland0]

Opeth: "You did well, my apprentice"

[@user-te1bu4li8q]

Funny thing is i dont like opeth that much, while be’lakor is one of my favourites. But i agree with you

[@devastation134]

LOL

[@IlIIlIIIIlIIllllIIlllIII]

Lyrics: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH RAWRAW OOOOOHHHHH DAUUOOAAHHHH WAAAAAAAAADRJAHEHA CHAAALLAASSKEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOH!!!! WDAWHAHHDHAHHDA!!!

[@chainsawers]

in fact its was fukin funny hahahah its not that song but its was a good joke hahaha

[@pinopippo97]

Future Amon Amarth..

[@benwilling]

Current Be'lakor.

[@Dejiek]

Nothing like Amon Amarth except for them sharing the same general genre.

[@user-te1bu4li8q]

Such broad and surfaced viewpoint

[@thychaos]

why the fuck are you censoring yourself

[@migalluno4700]

🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺🇷🇺 🇷🇺

[@natala653]

👋🇷🇺🤝🇷🇺👍🌠🎼🌠💎🌠🎁💯❤️‍🔥✊

[@WolfhoundMercenary]

The most failed attempt at being funny.