In the Hall of the Mountain King Metal Version

[@AndrewColomy]

The whole theme of this song is that it starts off slow but very gradually builds in tension before erupting into full unadulterated chaos. This song was made to be metal.

[@erincroft1358]

Best comment EVER

[@Sapfu100]

This song is and always has been metal. Even when is was written \m/ 😄

[@guerrillaradio9953]

Even the TITLE was metal from the jump.

[@GateKeeper_Systems]

The tempo is actually the sams througout the entire song, it just sounds faster

[@amycox5733]

Any song that was composed for violin is gonna slap hard on electric guitar, any song designed for the electric guitar is gonna slap on violin. I don’t make the rules, but I will not hesitate to enforce them.

[@jimbobborg22]

Have you heard of 2 Cellos? Listen to their cover of Thunderstruck.

[@nordin1975]

Portuguese word for guitar is violão, go figure 😉

[@valentine3725]

This is the only path of this song. This is what it was fated to be. Metal is the true form of the Hall of the Mountain King. You are the chosen one that made it a reality. Thank you.

[@siampayak8925]

Yes Exactly

[@helenkouts9772]

@@siampayak8925 agreeeed

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

This and what apocalyptica did with it

[@ВладимирСубаков]

Yeah, that riff always sounds like Slayer, maybe South of Heaven but faster

[@elapidpython4378]

I will politely disagree as the pipe organ version is spectacular

[@aaronwackenhut2216]

Saw somewhere this was the first Metal song ever written. Hearing it like this I believe it lol. Great job!!!

[@vasilisvasilopoulos5932]

Rich, mountainous sound. Happy to hear the cover of a long favorite classic track

[@swiftfox3461]

Grieg would be proud. Maybe he wouldn't know what to do with metal music, but he would be proud.

[@Skriften]

Grieg is proud and rejoicing from his grave!

[@Beeschurgers]

Classical music in metal form just slaps

[@technoneko8108]

Agreed

[@acog_quarks8753]

And metal songs redone with an orchestra are amazing too

[@WexMajor82]

Classic music is metal without electricity.

[@sanity_not_found]

@@WexMajor82 yes

[@tri.channel]

This should have at least a few million views, I love it!

[@jollyviking8583]

that one dislike is the virgin who has never considered classical music in a metal form

[@Stigmatix666]

that one dislike is from the moron who's surprised that this isn't blues..

[@BlueSmoothi]

POV: my mom disliking the video:

[@RealSpookyGuy]

nah honestly its probably a dad who just accidently pressed it with his finger instead of the like button

[@thomascooper438]

Dimebag and Vinnie Paul, Jon and Chris Oliva, Malcolm and Angus and Eddie and Alex. I couldn’t pick just one set because I love them all.

[@mutantavocado1200]

Amazing cover! Your use of a diminished sixth in the section between 0:29 and 0:46 is an incredible touch that really adds an additional sense of chaos and foreboding to a piece that is already one of the most widely renowned pieces for its sense of chaos and foreboding ever

[@Stigmatix666]

The diminished sixth is already there in the original..

[@mutantavocado1200]

@@Stigmatix666 you’re right lol i meant diminished fifth

[@mega_bird700]

Grieg hearing this in the afterlife: “This sound, it’s beautiful!”

[@Stigmatix666]

Hails from Norway. You would have made Grieg proud! And blast beats, of course

[@americanbrandon]

This was so freaking beautiful I shed a tear!!! It was only one and it was made of mercury

[@teragram38crows49]

Mercury Tears sounds like a name for a metal band album.

[@americanbrandon]

@@teragram38crows49 i’m gonna look it up right now because if it’s not you should totally use it!!!

[@Fswanepoel05]

You shred a tear

[@americanbrandon]

Shredding Tears Of Mercury! That’s so METAL!!

[@YhormsKlangschmiede]

I hoped so much for blast beats and I wasn't disappointed, thank you man!

[@TheHeavyDead420]

I had to search for a full 10 minutes before finally getting here. So some guy on roblox played this exact music and i asked him and said "hey what music is this?" He said "classical rock" so i searched on yt classical rock and i didnt find this music. So i had to go down a rabbit hole before finally finding a video from Maxemite and he left the original music name in his desc. I. Quickly searched it and found it was music but then i searched the exact thing with rock next to it and found this video. Thanks Maxemite.

[@josettecruchet7633]

I discovered you througt KZbin a few month ago I love it I sent my gradson Who play guitar The imperial march he is now a fan!! Hello from Paris 💙🤍👍👍👍👍

[@benthecartoonist3518]

Edeard Grieg literally just invented Slayer.

[@dancater9915]

MY DUDE!!! THE HYPE OF THIS SONG IS SOO GOOD!!! I LOVE THIS YOU ARE A MUSICAL GENIUS!!!

[@Jaco2117]

Holy hell... You've truly outdone yourself. Again. Epic!

[@idlexe]

Браво! Awesome!

[@GodRock369]

Loving those arpeggios...

[@casscat7]

this ROCKS! wow this is one of the most epic metal covers ever

[@Matigre_16]

Keep it up boy, you are a phenomenon 💪🏼💪🏼

[@jkobain]

Yeah, this is how they should do it from the very beginning. ;D Thanks!

[@FoxFire4125]

Love this so much!!! This and your Beethoven cover. Some of the classics were definitely made to be metal 🤘

[@kampagowska]

Dude, you nailed it!

[@IlegolGuy]

Oh my this is fast fr Ive searched for a machine speed guitarrist

[@billyboyles]

Well, That's an eye opener! Thanks for this.

[@fxw]

Very very nice! Well played 🤘

[@kingakimoto69]

I'm gonna play this during my online sessions of Doom Eternal!!

[@silverphoenix_1756]

This sounds awesome!

[@jeffschroeder8294]

All day we dig along, dig along,dig along. Searching gold and gems.

[@Lunartvis]

If i use this in an animation i won't be made fun of right? I MEAN THE NORMAL VERSION OF THIS SONG IS A MEME

[@koltur]

Nice sound.

[@hawkfeather6802]

That was awesome! I played this song in band and its even cooler like this

[@silvanasciallero3437]

mi piacciono tutte le interpretaz di mj

[@MagusHabilus]

Words fail. so awesome!

[@emilianofernandez2642]

Sos un groso! Encima la edicion del video es superlativa

[@KGKing101]

what do you use for the drum patterns ? Trying to get realistic drum sounds like this for my music

[@MarcinJakubek]

For drums I stick to EZ Drummer with Metal Machine expansion since a very long time. But I write and customize everthing by hand, I don't really use included midi.

[@quercusquercus532]

... and subscribed. Nice work.

[@TheRealBrotherGrimmy]

I don't know if this is the actual story... but I remember hearing it at some point when I was a kid... or maybe that's just how I imagined it... But this was written in a way that would make it seem like someone found the mountain king, tried to steal some treasure, and the song starts as he steals, and then he gets chased, and then the chase gets faster and faster, until ultimately he gets caught and killed. I could be wrong... but that's at least what I remember from 20 years ago

[@spilleren9173]

That's wrong. The song was originally written to accompany the play Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen. The context is that the titular character, Peer Gynt, is up in the mountains when he meets the daughter of the mountain king, a powerful troll. Seeing his opportunity to become a prince, he courts the daughter, and is soon taken into the mountain for the actual marriage to take place. This song usually plays as he's taken inside, and culminates with him being led into the midst of the Mountain King's court, where the various trolls and goblins are very upset at him having seduced the princess, and suggest various ways to kill him. In some traditional versions of this song, you'll hear some wild shouting and shrieking. That would be the trolls shouting things like "Can we eat him?" or "Can we pull his hair out?", in the original language of the play, Norwegian.

[@benjaminprietop]

awesome, was hoping you would make this one lml PD: I don't know if you take requests, but I'd love it if you made a version of "The Gnome" from Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

[@zeth997]

Jak zawsze SZTOS! :)

[@johnsmith-sy7wz]

Live - This seven string guitar souds awesome/back line sounds spot on/great producing.

[@mythicaldragon6803]

My GOD this is a masterpiece!!

[@bigbennythurman]

Loved this more than you'd know 1:05

[@devynthomas8988]

This is fantastic, are you ever doing "Bald Mountain?"

[@brandonvancurler6863]

Sick

[@Skriften]

Ofcourse i click "LIKE!". I am from Norway afterall!!!

[@Lucashgadm]

Maravilhosa demais essa música 🎷🎷🎷😊😊😊😊😊

[@sirarthur3316]

I'm so happy

[@dylanhartman24]

Great cover 👌 got any tab for this?

[@RubenLaden]

Nice !

[@francescopresta9570]

Great guitar player

[@Dallas_paycheck_2]

We need an extended version

[@golan.darkness]

Amazing blat

[@mikeayers8951]

Holy wow man!!!

[@hermask815]

my question in general: which classical composers were really open minded towards new instruments: here electrical guitar. but saxophones are rarely embraced, and synthesizers are more a concept thing for "modern" "non-classic" composers. So which old-school composer would be proud of this? i'm totally ok with this, but who had an open mind? the "mozart" (1981)with Salieri movie makes me believe Mozart could be such a guy.

[@Rubber_duck_lover]

0:06

[@tuberdave1]

Man you got talent!😮

[@codybuckman6795]

don’t delete this song it’s cool.

[@joytekb]

Epic

[@rossshaddock1502]

This just goes to show that humanity craved the metal before they even knew it for what it was

[@staC-wh6ik]

Amazing cover!

[@Seth-The-Dragon]

i was listening to this as i was liberating porto cavo in just cause 3

[@calebhu6383]

Amazing stuff. Next could you do something by Schumann? Maybe something from Kreisleriana

[@berguzar7327]

awesome

[@IDKMUFFINKID]

Very nice.

[@victorpaes8310]

masterpiece

[@yuuuuqud]

さいこう！！！

[@codeling2552]

this sounds like Raining Blood

[@Nihilism110]

Wow u guitar good! Yay!

[@mikalaconway7568]

Is there any way to listen to this from your Spotify?

[@mikalaconway7568]

Please put this on your Spotify!!!

[@hast66]

Listen to the full album from Savatage (1987)

[@andreeap7393]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@andrewcarr2431]

most of Richie Blackmore's Deep Purple/Rainbow inspiration was classical based. All Metal is normal tunes played really fast and hard.

[@thirtie]

this is such a metallica san diego 1992 moment (iykyk)

[@Grandbee7182]

We have found it’s true form

[@alanalves8991]

The party king!!!!!

[@chuckcrunch1]

way better than my version . nice

[@nicholasholliday9331]

I need a tab, and that backing, like hell

[@uygaruygun9056]

This sounds like it would be a song in the Dytopia album by megadeth.

[@titaneidolon2007]

It had lyrics too. Something about a dragon kite

[@laurencescrenci1460]

Can you give the tabs please?

[@fentumgames8203]

Это афигенно! Для иностранцев: это очень круто

[@analedesma3067]

Magic and Amazing👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤Kisses and Hugs from Buenos Aires Argentina!!!👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤💋💋💋💋💋🇦🇷😍

[@srobertweiser]

If Grieg had an electric guitar, they'd rip the seats outta the auditorium and be skanking and moshing it up (like the dirty rotten imbecile in my Icon) 'til the whole joint just erupted into total fucking bedlam. I heard Geezer Butler say that the song Black Sabbath was inspired by the Mars Suite from Holst's Planets. Seems like a lot of these dudes were straight-up metal, they just didn't have the electricity to amplify it.

[@jesslevenson3595]

This is a cover of a classical piece?? Where’d the cover of the Savatage song go??

[@yarkorab]

Hail to Marcin J ...

[@michadudek1665]

To jest cover ostateczny.

[@adieuing]

minimalism real

[@lolimac]

Sounds Like Slayer In Eb Tuning

[@ebinmaine]

The Oliva brothers would be proud

[@TheTimeProphet]

If I didn't know any better I would swear the drums are speeding up LOL

[@user-bs6vq8dh9k]

Play it in 1.25 its like a boss fight

[@takirosh]

Damn. 7 stringer.

[@ThatAutisticGuy2005]

Exodus meets Metallica that's what it kinda sounds like, rock on dude.

[@borderelite]

Last thing you want to hear in games.