EPIC Reaction to Saltatio Mortis - Finsterwacht 🔥 | First Time Hearing This Masterpiece!

Hey everyone! 🤘 In this video, I dive into the mesmerizing world of Saltatio Mortis with their track "Finsterwacht". This song blew my mind with its powerful lyrics and epic melodies. Join me on this musical journey and let's vibe together! Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more awesome music reactions!

[@HinterdemAugeDSA]

Hi Jadeance, thanks for your reaction! There is also an English version out yet: Darkenguard. And there also is an Director's Cut, here on KZbin, telling the whole story by a narrator (with focus on the story, not on the song). A bit of background: It's the first single from Saltatio Mortis' concept album Finsterwacht ("dark watch" or "Darkenguard"), an hommage to German tabletop RPG Das Schwarze Auge (DSA)/The Dark Eye (TDE) for it's 40 years aniversary. The box contains the CD, a novel (one of the authors - Bernhard Hennen - is the one, who dies on the field after handing out the map - the authors also wrote the story of this video), a tabletop adventure book (choose your own adventure style) and dice. Saltatio Mortis is a German medieval rock band, but they also mix in different music styles. The other singles like Schwarzer Strand/"black beach" and Feuer und Erz/"Fire & Ore" are also out. There are also (German) making of videos for those music videos. Finsterwacht (Darkenguard) are a line of towers/beacons in the mountains of Finsterkamm, as last line of defense between the lands of humans and orcs at Heldentrutz, a part of Weiden in the Middenrealm at the continent of Aventuria. Their function is to warn the people as seen in the video. Saltatio Mortis (latin for "dance of the death") plays the group trying to reach this goal in the video. Rondra is the goddess of fight. The video took 4 days of shooting, with a lot of LARPers - which is why they have such good costumes. The choir at the beginning and end is from Prague orchestra. Hansi from Blind Guardian sings at the chorus, sometimes alone, sometimes with Saltatio Mortis' lead singer Alea (the blonde, bearded guy).

[@jadeance]

it was amazing even without it being in English i loved it an totally got into the video lol, Thank you for giving the the background on what it was about and the band, i was not sure if it was a video game or not , i played world of Warcraft for 15 years so it reminded me of WOW . i will check out the English version as well

[@HinterdemAugeDSA]

@@jadeance You're welcome :) There are video games for DSA/TDE, but at first it's a classic tabletop, played with pen, paper and a lot of imagination :)

[@jadeance]

@@HinterdemAugeDSA oh similar to D and D ?

[@HinterdemAugeDSA]

@@jadeance It's the German answer to D&D. TSR planned to bringt D&D to Germany in the 1980s, but the licence fee was to high. So Schmidt Spiele then thought "let's make an own RPG". so DSA/TDE was invented and became to biggest German RPG.