Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood

[@Hamel7777]

Boromir is laid to rest in one of the other boats. His sword rests with him, his shield is above his head and his cloven horn at his side. The boat slips over the falls of Rauros and then drops into the mists below. Gimli watches the boat disappear from the bank. Aragorn ties Boromir’s vambraces to his arms, in his honor. Legolas hurriedly shoves the third boat into the water.

[@PexDoombringer]

Glory to the Captain of Gondor forevermore...

[@reigninoel]

Boromir completely exonerated himself. He went to have a warriors death, denouncing the hold that the Ring held over him and trying his best to protect his comrades.

[@demondog999]

wow so romantic i almost fell asleep

[@kramertimothy4825]

There is something about words sung when they can barely be understood and are half drowned out in brutal beauteous melodies that speaks to me more clearly than the clearest voice. Hail, brothers and sisters who can feel this in your souls! \m/

[@Starduster93]

DUNGAELF GoldSmith you' re welcome.

[@ephagon]

DUNGAELF GoldSmith You are right. It's indeed something mesmerizing. Same goes for other languages you don't understand in my opinion. Altough it's not quite the same, but if you don't understand what the artist(s) sing(s) it has to be more than just a overused and absolutely boring melodie. And most of the Hits today are exactly like that. You understand what they are singing but if you leave away the voice the melody is just boring/annoying. And the lyrics are often quite dumb. (I'm not saying that every hit is like that, but nearly every single one get's damn annoying if you hear it too often. And most of them are ...as I explained above. )

[@misca90909]

clearer than the clearest voice, feeling it like a breeze in the forest of our souls

[@jacksonzhangthyMetalhead]

well said..i dont understand a fucking word but i love it

[@zoedecoster7838]

When you can barely understand the words you're going to focus more on the music itself and the stuff that's happening in the background and also you can feel the emotions and the feels that the singer brings. It's just mindblowing

[@Tman5608]

This music makes me feel so alive in ways I can no explain.

[@OccidentalHorizon]

Same here!

[@TheDraconianParadise]

Trevor Jensen and it's such a fucking weird thing that i can understand what you say despite you haven't explain a thing :P

[@jesuspopcornius6078]

+TheDraconianParadise i was thinking the fucking same thing..It's Magical

[@youssefyassini9580]

same feeling it s like your the only one in this planet

[@RyanDenzerKing]

Funny thinking of all the people listening to this right now feeling like we're the only one on the planet

[@mushroomman6864]

Black metal really is something special.

[@silenceiswhereweare7268]

Yes, but just when it is executed with the soul. Not with the spent and boring idea that BM was born to worship Satan.

[@dukenukem8598]

@@silenceiswhereweare7268 Trust me atmospheric black metal isnt born out of a void, almost all black metal is atmospheric to an extent.

[@kvltizt]

@@dukenukem8598 Yeah, I think he just means the "I R Dorkthrone!!" bands that think black metal is just yelling about Christians while wearing Kiss makeup are frustrating because they lack authenticity and soul. They are not all bad, but as I get older I listen to stuff a lot more like this video and a lot less of the "Christraping Black Metal" by Marduk type of BM.

[@dukenukem8598]

​@@kvltizt Funny that you mention Darkthrone, I recently had a dream and have been pondering the branch of black metal that developed from Darkthrone a bit. Marduk, Dark Funeral, etc esque norsecore is not what I consider bad DT-clones or even DT-clones at all. Both are of course rock and roll music disguised as black metal ie a fundamentally different song structure, but the bad DT-clones at least are fun to listen to and serve as good rock and roll music. However, the line of development of black metal that could be described as using the best Darkthrone as a starting point (ie Transilvanian Hunger) and refining it further is one of the most supreme manifestations of black metal. Cf your comment about you lately preferring post-black metal more and more, I have a contrary feeling. Most post-bm seems to be "Burzumic" in spirit, and imo that band while important lacks one of the key characteristics of black metal that separate it from other music with similar structures: forward velocity and which is the important connecting strand that still keeps black metal connected to metal; an element which is present in Darkthrone, and as I said, the said newer bands refining this approach (stripping away the traces of Celtic Frost that remained in the Transilvanian Hunger sound and adding somewhat more complexity both in large scale structure and the individual riffs, while still maintaining the spaciousness and relative minimalism that is so important in black metal etc) constitute one of the best strands in this genre.

[@呼吸-e9b]

@@silenceiswhereweare7268 if only you knew

[@frikaleoteras]

Haven't listened to this for years. I remembered the band's name randomly just now. It's as good as I remembered

[@Redhairedviking09]

Same here!

[@Pfennigpfuchser]

I used to dislike every kind of metal a year ago or so. But then I started to listen to caladan brood floowed by summoning etc. And i have to say, atmospheric Black Metal is pure art. Thanks to these guys creating stuff like this. Letting us escape the world for some minutes.

[@jarithesaunalover6008]

Haha that's true and also thank you for the good laught.

[@journeystarr]

+vaguelyhuman screw your damn bible

[@journeystarr]

+vaguelyhuman fuck the bible

[@Astral_voyager_]

Exemplar Bubonica you seem to use queer and faggot as an insult that's low

[@joelpocalips]

Have you listened to neurosis? They're post metal...at least from my understanding. But, it seems as if they have a strong understanding of the dark experiences we face in the world. My personal favorite would be "eye of every storm." Check it out if you feel the need to. You might dig it. You might hate it.

[@ethios4]

Bought it yesterday. I am proud to have this CD in my collection! There are few albums I consider worth purchasing these days, but this one is so excellent I am considering sending the band additional money since I will be listening for a lifetime.

[@yunocchiyuphoria1778]

I honestly never get tired of this album. this was the only tape I had in my car for 2 years and despite exclusively listen to it when driving I still love this album. At this point it has to be the album I listened to the most in my life and I still can't get enough of it.

[@23Dakini]

Me too...love, love, love this album and band...

[@vylespewton]

lucky enough to do a small tour with themin 2010, some of the coolest dudes ive ever toured with, great musicians live too , stayed with them for a few days in maine and they extended great hospitality. cheers fellas

[@ayotundeayoko5861]

with Agalloch splitting or on Hiatus, this band will do nicely...this is awesome

[@szelestnowiu1309]

Dla takich albumów słucham tej właśnie muzyki.Pięknie zagrane.

[@issacharlev5553]

for similar sound: Austere, Dark Fount, Coldworld its my first time to hear this one. its beautiful. thanx for this amazing upload

[@PachiKalmah]

Awesome album, falls of rauros is the best conection with the nature and the mistics

[@datboin8669]

If you like Falls of Rauros then you gotta check out Can Bardd theyre just as amazing

[@sire8879]

So beautiful. Beyond that actually. More than words can say.

[@anaemiabag]

i can instantly tell this is my cup of tea.

[@inflorescence440]

Try it with sum lotus tea

[@inflorescence440]

Dissent stuff o\|

[@dragonflyobsidian8346]

This album is amazing and this drummer is incredible.

[@mannaz-musikalmoloch]

Instantly became one of my favourites; great work amazing atmosohere and ideas

[@JoshTheBassist]

That was a fantastic album. I just listened to it front to back without even noticing. It's got the perfect recording quality for it. Nothing too fancy, just perfect.

[@leonardovillegas1119]

Lush, wild and cold, Just like a pine's forest in the middle of winter. This album is top-notch black metal ✌🏽✌🏽.

[@marcjansson1039]

Thank you for putting sound to my selfharm atmetpts. You guys put sound to emotions like not others. I wish someone would get the relife O get from thid

[@nickviking1]

Without a dought...one of the most underrated albums of last year. this is nothing short of genius....."i thought i heard them whisper....."

[@TheUrbanDharma]

amazing album! I'll be buying the album for sure (please folks support the bands you love and actually purchase their music to ensure we get to hear more amazing stuff like this - Im talking indie labels here, the mainstream can whistle!)

[@ethios4]

I love the recurring musical themes, like you catch a glimpse of the opening chords again at 13:34. I think that awesome change at 20:47 might be a reference to the same chord changes as well. I'd have to check it on a guitar to be sure. It comes up through the whole album. Rare to hear that level of craftsmanship in music these days.

[@PexDoombringer]

What an album, fellas, what a bloody album...

[@AntonioDoesMetal]

This album just carries me away to somewhere else, I can't describe it.

[@rubenr5544]

Wow, so glad I found this through a comment under an Agalloch video

[@fercruz30]

Sem explicação essas guitarras, que construções sonoras, tudo, tudo foda, um brinde as sombras!

[@arthasthelichking6137]

@Othon Pode crer.

[@carstenwagner3355]

Beauty mixed with devastation. Glorious! Hope to see this band over here in Europe some day!

[@JoshTheBassist]

Posted on this before. Will post again. This is a lovely album.

[@JoshTheBassist]

still lovely.

[@aoevix]

CartoonKiller35 still lovely

[@gidipidiamo]

Just clicked on the video because of the picture.... it´s my favourite album ever....

[@luanbrancher6269]

Instrumental is great, but the vocals are stunning!

[@EyesofNeurosis]

The sad thing is, that remains true for most albums. Sure, we all have songs we love and enjoy on their own, but people in this modern world have forgotten how to appreciate the holistic offering that artists conjure, therefore cheating themselves and the creator.

[@Oakenbull]

Its just one of those epic riffs that is impossible to deny its awesome

[@odiousbliss5715]

Oakenbull 👍🏻

[@EyesofNeurosis]

Dreams, so many - i want to believe that this life holds more and we all hold the power to change that which we abhor - These thoughts are torturous misleading down a wandering path to nowhere but disappointment. - i want so much more for us all - Their is nothing more devastating than the realization that we have yet to reach our full potential as a whole and individual - so here we are a shadow of what could have been

[@heshandevon899]

Hails from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🤘

[@pariskotsaros]

One day we'll build upon the ruins of this dead world...

[@chrisonliine]

+pariskotsaros holy shit I scrolled to this and read it as soon as the singer said it omfg

[@marekprzybyszewski9961]

there was some probability of this, according to ~250 k views

[@tommytrebowicz7986]

I can't stop lisen it!Masterpiece!

[@ericahaines4521]

That sounds so beautiful and ethereal. I hope I can see them live someday and experience the same thing.

[@RB8JASON]

I'm a newcomer to these guys but I'm liking what I'm hearing. WITTR are just otherworldy, probably one of my favourite black metal bands. I'd love to see bands like this playing outdoors more often. Living in the suburbs in the UK can suck sometimes. I can imagine your experience to be mindblowing.

[@deandrulias5812]

this singer reminds me of Dissections singer, and its awesome.

[@Akeront383]

Love this album. I came today only for "Banished", but I had to listen the whole album.

[@felipedandrea124]

Although I'm a fan of Wolves In The Throne Room, this guys are so much better for my taste!

[@aoevix]

love this band to death, cant wait for their next album after patterns in mythology

[@atlasentity]

The final 10 minutes are magic

[@lisao6928]

My first time listening to this all the way through. I'm really feeling it! A lot of emotion here. Nicely done! Now, I have to check out the rest of their stuff.

[@grantxvx]

Saw them live. Really great. I especially love around 21:00.

[@jakecu1325]

Wonderful music

[@nervenzucken]

*---* I am speechless. Amazing Band...

[@DuffyJ1111]

I challenge the humans across the world to turn off their tumor makers for 45 minutes. Put this album on with headphones, close your eyes and experience an amazing journey. My favorite album and regret not buying it on vinyl at the Sacramento show. Hail!

[@alexcielvieira3548]

a truly beautiful album, indeed. there are usually copies up for sale on discogs. :)

[@diegosepulveda4669]

chalenge accepted

[@nnnro]

Sac!? Seriously.. I came back across now and find that out

[@DuffyJ1111]

I felt the same way when I got into MGLA and realized they toured the west coast a year before.

[@ahuman6277]

Bro, I need my tumor maker to listen to this while walking in the woods :)

[@WagnerHertzog123]

AWESOME Album!! Great, Fantastic.

[@riric666]

I love this band !!! Atmospheric & Melodic

[@greglemagnifique]

I love, really a very good band black atmospheric.

[@fernandoblengio]

How is this atmospheric?

[@lillianboothman2841]

@@fernandoblengio agalloch is atmospheric folk black, this seems to be in the same vein

[@fernandoblengio]

@@lillianboothman2841 It sounds to me more like Folk Black. A good example of Atmospheric Black would be Lustre.

[@mxlydiedntrror]

@ThatYoureSinking I would kill to have seen that. I saw WITTR in Cincinnati recently, but it was a much different experience, what with in taking place in an abandoned warehouse... and the absence of Falls of Rauros of course.

[@danielchristensen6033]

An epic musical journey. A well named band.

[@LondonMcGregor]

Thanks to Tolkien for reminding me of this band.

[@johnny711]

tolkien and black metal go together. for ever

[@iamalpharius9483]

Listen to Numenorian's new album.

[@jerg6195]

Summoning

[@msdfsdfe2533]

I love this album so much

[@ThatYoureSinking]

@blackmetalblunt This is by far one of the best albums I've heard this year. I saw these guys open for Wolves in the Throne Room in some field out in the Vermont Mountains. It was absolutely incredible. They pretty much blew me away.

[@Oakenbull]

thanks for this full album upload, this album is sick!

[@mynameismatej]

no, no, no, the transition between the first and second song is supposed to be gapless q_q

[@HandsOfCinderblock]

mynameismatej It's OK, I'm here for you. Have some mead.

[@greciacavazos1283]

Amazing.

[@julianrojas8257]

Master piece , obra de arte

[@andreerubi6060]

Silence is a masterpiece

[@paganfire999]

fall of rauros,agalloch,wolves in the throne room, those are the only bands id ever need...this album is just great all the way through! i love it

[@paridox4ever]

deafheaven are pretty good too i love blackgaze.

[@David93434]

And Gallowbraid.. And Alcest.. And Woods of Desolation, and Austere, and Grey Waters, and Liturgy, and Amesoeurs, and Coldworld, oh well I better stop XD

[@David93434]

And Fen!

[@Sean.Cordes]

***** Gris > any of those [and are only equaled by this band]. Panopticon and Obsequiae are close too.

[@David93434]

+Kuolleille mehhh.. opinions ahaha. I'll check out Panopticon and Obsequiae though I just found out Aquilus, pretty good too...

[@schink24]

This is so good.

[@610SAARi]

after 9 min I was in love!

[@SpicedIcePirate]

This album is quite a masterpiece, I must say.

[@AndrewWKD]

I have just found this band and I love this album! In places it reminds me of Jason Newsted's vocals from his band Papa wheelie..

[@seldomsceen]

i like what im hearing..im gonna check more on this band..thx for loading this

[@jaceksky4064]

Good stuff 🤘🤘

[@fercruz30]

Clima muito foda!!!

[@4bzu]

masterpiece

i'm dying when i'm listening to this album, but it's fine.

[@nathand.384]

Good album, sounds like they have listned to a lot of Agalloch.

[@tomaschytil2209]

Krásný atmospherics black metal 😍

[@J9SP3R]

this is the greatest thing i saw on yt

[@bocckoka]

This is seriously good music.

[@JvG0]

This album is beautiful.

[@otisbright]

excellent; beautiful and huge!

[@ethanmerritt4696]

These bois are from Maine, one of the only decent artists to walk in this wood.

[@lewissmart7915]

Wolves in the Throne Room.. Drudkh.. and this band.

[@kiliandumas9710]

you forgot Alrakis

[@GthemanTM]

...and Woods of Desolation.

[@Himihan]

And Panopticon.

[@GlauberLCR]

And Fen.

[@GlauberLCR]

I forgot Wodensthrone, also!

[@blackmetalblunt]

This band is on another level compared to every other black metal band writing music today.

[@darkclownKellen]

Notlw that rite belongs to Mgla. Wonder whos next

[@issacharlev5553]

excellent work

[@jacobanderson2285]

Awaiting the fire of flood that awakes it is really one of the best black metal songs of all time. Up there with "In the shadow of our pale companion" in my opinion.

[@AldeasTylsanas]

Really good album, perfect for a snowing day like today :)

[@aegrimonis]

now this is what daddy likes

[@SteegoVontonna]

wonderfully done. grazzie uploader

[@SonOfTheNorthe]

I usually don't like American metal, but MMmmm, this is some good stuff.

[@michaelray543]

fuckin brony

[@SonOfTheNorthe]

michael ray Nigga you don't know me.

[@michaelray543]

No, and I don't want too. What you say tells me all I need to know about you.

[@erydiam]

Here some of: Falls of Rauros, Wolves in the Throne Room, Agalloch, Xasthur. Hahaha fucking poser if you are not a musician why don't just shut the fuck up!!!

[@SyFurr]

I hear ya man. Most stuff I like is from Sweden, Finland, Norway, etc. But I'm digging this Cascadian black metal.

[@kvltizt]

21:49 is where it peaks for me.

[@4evam3]

the main riff of "Banished" gives me the chill....

[@Sdistant]

Just read the lyrics to Banished. Brilliant song.

[@sidmuller4782]

Beautiful!!🤘🇧🇷

[@dennishornung2648]

excellent piece of usbm🗡

[@hauntedshore204]

Oh rad. It's pouring outside and I've Played out my WITTR This sounds good!

[@DuffyJ1111]

Silence is pretty epic

[@baldeaglediscgolf]

I dig it!

[@DuffyJ1111]

They play in Sacramento July 9th! If we survive Taake, I'd say lets rock this one as well @ Starlite Lounge!

[@Miniapplesauce]

Wasn't super into believe in no coming shore, but this stuff here is real good. Real real good.

[@DarleneAshleyCheleze]

it would be lovely to have the lyrics to these pieces. the music is brilliant.

[@Sean.Cordes]

look on metal-archives. the lyrics are just as good

[@blackmetalblunt]

I'm not necessarily saying they're writing better music than other modern BM artists. These guys are just coming from another plane of influence. The wilderness, valleys and mountains of Maine have given this band a voice vastly different than what other projects have.

[@BigRare]

Didn't know metal was like this

[@apeapeape999]

Big Rare metal can be a lot of things. depending on how loose you are with the rules, metal probably has the biggest family tree of any genre. the reason I say it depends is because you could be one of those guys who's like "ALL MUSIC CAME FROM CAVEMEN BANGING ROCKS SO ALL GENRES ARE THE SAME". That's an exaggeration of course.

[@effiemars_]

Metal is a lot of ways

[@RaceToNowhere]

Gorgeous