ÆTHER REALM - Redneck Vikings From Hell (Album Stream)

[@piteurchevallier899]

0:00 : Redneck Vikings from Hell 3:36 : Goodbye 8:32 : Lean Into the Wind 12:23 : Hunger 16:56 : Guardian 21:14 : One Hollow Word 26:37 : She's Back 29:11 : Slave to the Riff 33:35 : Cycle 38:08 : TMHC 42:21 : Craft and the Creator

[@alexjeffrey4093]

Thank you!!!

[@jessieyumiferreira4611]

thanks

[@Handles_Are_Bad.Phuk-them-off]

champion

[@morgan3392]

Tarot was my introduction to extreme metal with growls and such, and it has remained probably my favorite album of all time. Definitely my most listened by far. I've listened to some of those songs almost 800 times, and every single song is in my top played. It was a masterpiece. And I was worried that they weren't gonna be able to live up to such standards, but by God they did, and I'm loving it. It's not Tarot 2.0, it's more energetic, trim, and vicious, with just enough emotion, and more experimentation than ever with the new clean vocals.

[@johnran6015]

This isn't extreme metal.

[@bugass81]

ig it's not really extreme metal but it's still amazing. every song is a masterpiece, not just tarot.

[@GenghisKal]

Oh man... there is so much more to extreme metal than this band. I don't know if I even class them as that due to their horrible, and I mean absolutely horrible generic metal production. Having said that, Tarot is... ok. Definitely nothing to wet your pants about though. If you ever decide to venture to the side of metal where albums are mixed in such a way that it doesn't suck all life out of the instruments and performances, you are going to be in to a whole new world that can blow your mind.

[@sweetgokke]

@@GenghisKal Would you be so kind as to give examples?

[@jane.6107]

@@GenghisKal way to shit on someone's taste. You feel superior yet?

[@doctorsatan3371]

2020 will always be remembered as the year I realized I knew how to fkin party... ...and something about bats, but that was outside so I barely noticed.

[@elliottpaine9259]

I clicked just bc it seemed funny, (and the cowboys from hell take), but wow. This is sick, now i want to check out the Tarot everyone mentioned

[@thomasedwardlawrence9775]

And what do you think? Did it live up to the hype?

[@drocka36]

Dont sleep on the magician either! Great album and the title track has a guest solo by inferi, so, basically its a perfect song

[@lolilikedragons3528]

@@drocka36 oh god inferi? Fuck yeeeesss, these guys have amazing taste in music.

[@gillesclare63]

OMG, when I was 15 i was listening to extreme metal... during almost 35 years i did not listen to this kind of music... my 15 year old son introduced me to this extraordinary group. 🙌 I am 51 ...

[@Thomas.Wright]

I wasn't much of a metal fan either until I heard Wind Rose "Wintersaga." Now I'm all about the Gloryhammer, Storm Seeker, Sabaton, Alestorm.

[@paralpetr]

@@Thomas.Wright Well, than try some Korpiklaani, Enfiserum or Amon Amarth. But best melodeath for me are Children of Bodom, Insomnium, Dark Tranquility and Omnium Gatherum. ;-)

[@nomanmcshmoo8640]

52 here. If you get a chance to see these guys live...DO IT!!! BTW: Bring Ear Plugs!!!!! You WILL need them. Don't worry, you will NOT miss a not...I guarantee it.

[@raa14211]

@@Thomas.Wright cool, check out sonata arctica and rhapsody :)

[@hellion6737]

That's a lot of 5s and 1s!

[@joebuckhoff]

This has to be one of the strangest mashup of styles I have heard yet. It is exactly how I imagined it would be!

[@ahuman6277]

*Guardian starts playing* I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

[@Vagab0ndify]

I'm not denying it! What a beautiful, powerful song.

[@cobrawat7]

I'M CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!

[@AwesomeRainbowLP1]

NO, YOU'RE CRYING! I JUST GOT SOMETHING IN MY EYE!

[@MrEgofreak]

The guitar shredding is so beautiful and heavy, a shard of the pick broke off and hit me in the eye!

[@commandermcnash5137]

It's Violet Evergarden all over again :

[@GretchenNGould]

Holy Mother Mary & Joseph! Im 64 totally enjoying every second of this music, its so dope its off the chain! Im a musician this rocked my world!

[@kharnkillington2515]

Thank you for implementing a banjo into a metal song. I've been wanting to try it for awhile. Guess it works!

[@nincsittsemmi1]

"When the north wind bites By the moon's dim light" Fuckin' beautiful

[@SarahAParis]

Just discovered Aether Realm on April 13, 2024 on the Battle Ballads Tour, and now I can't get enough! Their music is f*cking incredible. 🤘TMHC!🤘

[@marcosreloaded6692]

I'm so happy to listen the new album, i was listening their two other albums just about a week ago... they are awesome and have become one of my favorite bands of all time. I wish the best of lucks to the band and hope everyone can enjoy this new masterpiece as much as i do.

[@MrEgofreak]

When I first got into you guys a little under a year ago, I read that you frequently tour with Alestorm and was surprised. (For a long while, all I listened to were The Sun, The Moon, The Star; The Fool, The Devil). You too seemed like a total clash of styles. Now, listening to this album for the 1st time, I get it!

[@KissShotMokou]

Guardian and cycle keep me going on in this shitty world, thank you very much for your art!

[@deuxfecctiol197]

Enjoy your limited stay here, and take time with yourself. Good things will come

[@marvinscampion5961]

Oh hell...the drops man....so many great technical things to admire in this album .. orchestra....riffs..solos..drums.......blast beats.. vocals.. gutteral attacks.. growls..screams.. cleans. Bass and lead absolutely killing it..ect .ect .. soooooo much more.....everyone of you amazing musicians..top job...

[@funkjaw]

I'm old school, grew up on Slayer, Morbid Angel, Death, all the classics - so it takes a lot for me to listen to a new metal band nowadays without me neckbearding a thousand different ways how it's not that good and not my style and so fourth.. BUT, once a year I seem to find a new metal band that really hits home with me and I add them to my special reserved list, and these guys made that list for 2020. Loving this album, and loving their previous works as well. Keep it up!

[@shane4823]

Banjo and metal is severely underutilized.

[@descendinguniverse]

have you heard Taake-Myr? Best example of banjo in metal to me. A pity it`s just one song🙃

[@MrEgofreak]

Rob Scallion, a KZbin cover artist that covers metal and banjo-phies it.

[@abellavieri9834]

We need and deserve more western country metal

[@UnwrittenGamingftn]

Now you mention it-

[@pepsismuggler1580]

Also check this out. First thing I thought of when I heard that kickass opener. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmO8aHWgqrGAa7c

[@lofiigz]

Just a group of dudes who are meme lords and talent personified. I'll keep coming back to listen to this masterpiece of an album and will look forward to what you have to offer. /m\

[@notburchase9627]

2020 is saved

[@elliottpaine9259]

lol

[@mohammedkatim4186]

Hahahahaah

[@fayah8865]

no 40 minute song, disappointed. jokes aside, 2 years later this album is still one of the most diverse, testing the actual limits of metal. seriously, country music with neomelodic!??? who invented that!!? give them a god damn raise!! And the lyricism is not to underestimate either. Its complex in terms of vocabulary yet simple to understand, immediately getting what they actually mean. fantastic job.

[@nmnate]

It was great meeting you guys at a show. Super fun small little venue (ABQ). PS I love the CoB vibe in TMHC. She's back and Slave to the Riff are my other favorites, so glad I got to hear 'em live! :)

[@ttttttttttttttttt.]

its beautiful ive -looked at- listened to this for 5 hours now

[@Teutelypewned]

The years pass and this album is still the greatest masterpiece of all time WTF !!! FEAR AND RESPECTED FROM NORTH TO THE SOUTH VIKIIIINGGGSSS YEEAAAHHHHH !!!!

[@moons.1363]

Came here from The Sun, The Moon, The Star. That sure is different lol. Gonna put those guys with Nanowar of Steel, Alestorm and Ultra Vomit now. Then again, seeing as this is also a Napalm Record band, considering the rest of the label's portfolio (NoS and AS included) I am so not surprised ! Keep the ball rolling.

[@ruinenlust_]

Fantastic album, it's so Aether Realm yet so new for them too! I love it!

[@senssv9407]

Best present on quarantine, thanks buds! :3

[@thomasedwardlawrence9775]

You have good taste aswell as it seems, nice Vektor outer isolation pfp!

[@tijltrienen]

Hunger is a masterpiece

[@thomasedwardlawrence9775]

People are gonna use that word until it has no meaning anymore, are they? It's a good song but the only song I'd call an actual masterpiece is Craft and the Creator.

[@ahmicqui9396]

Half of these songs are great masterpieces, the rest is okay (by Æther Realm standards of course). Tarot still remains the best album.

[@hachikuji_mayoi]

I like a couple songs here more than anything in tarot but tarot had like not a single bad song.

[@nightwishpower]

@@hachikuji_mayoi which on are your favorites in this album?

[@AMR_Setsunai]

@@nightwishpower personally *Liked* 1, 2, 5, 6 9 *Eh* 4, 7, 10, 11 *Disliked* 3, 8

[@alexsharp5196]

@@AMR_Setsunai that is so interesting to me. I am on my second listen through this album right now and 3 has been my favorite. Weird how we all have such different tastes! Anyways, keep it metal! Have a good one.

[@alexsharp5196]

@@AMR_Setsunai damn you must have really disliked 5. you didn't even list it lmao

[@thefierybrib]

The last part of One Hollow Word is one of the most touching, epic, and marvelous pieces of music I've ever heard.

[@elliottpaine9259]

Now I don't need caffeine in the morning, i just put on Aether Realm's ... From Hell and I can tackle anything

[@Nelsea7190]

love the title of the album. it has many contradictions just in the title. the music is amazing and catchy as hell.

[@rv8891]

Whatever this is, I needed it. Awesome music, and wonderful facial hair too

[@4rgenn]

Incredible band, this and Tarot are two fucking masterpiece!! better everytime

[@ruinenlust_]

Not to mention their first album, one chosen by the gods, is fucking fire too

[@poseidonstrident1457]

Σας απόλαυσα, σας προσκύνησα, σας έδωσα τα σέβη μου after the f@cking live show into historic horseshoe tavern few months before in Toronto. Now im back in Greece, probably Canada is not for Europeans (PR bla bla) but that's something else. Γαμησατε εκεί κ έτσι θα σας θυμάμαι εις τους αιώνας των αιώνων 🤘💪🍻🇬🇷🇨🇦

[@EB-cw8mm]

Loving this! 59 and still rockin

[@haeleyburns3206]

i dont really get down with metal but when i heard this i had to listen to the whole album! and im glad i did. this is music!!

[@ruinenlust_]

YES YES YES I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW HAPPY I AM I LOVE AETHER REALM

[@karolhoubiuk2196]

Nie dość, że chłopaki sprawiają wrażenie, że z gitarami potrafią zrobić wszystko, to jest jeszcze jakieś świeże spojrzenie na muzykę.. Można się zachwycić, ale nie każdy to zapamięta.. Ja tak miałem kiedyś z zespołem Avatar..

[@sebking7902]

The breakdown in Cycle at around 36:00 gives me such big The Faceless vibes, listened to them a ton in school.

[@shornoMALONEY]

Hunger is a class tune, one of my favourites off of the album. So he's a vampire right? dope.

[@metalforever6088]

Banda maravilhosa. Que album incrível.

[@davideneysth9204]

Saludos desde Jujuy Argentina 🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@Diabolic9595]

Oh man they need to make more songs w/o lyrics like The Craft and the Creator. It is amazing

[@w_ulf]

#AetherRealm #TheCycle #Freedom #BreakTheCycle I love you so much, Alyssa.

[@Tetrastructural]

"Goodbye" definitely give me "69 Eyes" goth rock vibes. So cool...

[@codysam366]

Sounds like Ensiferum! I like it!

[@bollwerk94]

You mean this sounds better than ensiferum at their peak 😉

[@jaimemcarthur5623]

They are quite good, but I really expect you to be attempting some brutal sarcasm there.

@@bollwerk94 I'm profoundly in love with AR and with their older stuff that sounds more like Ensiferum, but Ensiferum and Iron are unbeatable albums on its style.

[@DarkCloudGather]

Just listened to the whole thing, I gotta say it's much better than Tarot, besides 2 songs from the middle portion that were ok, the rest is amazing, it feels fantastical mixed in with folklore and Pagan. Definitely some unique sounds that I haven't heard before, and it sounds great.

[@harshdhanwani3435]

Best start of month!

[@antonellodelmastro423]

Great !!!! Discovered this band few minutes ago , seriously played ironic METAL !!!! Various influences, something original and with humour !!!!!!!!!

[@ZEHM89]

I don't think you used enough exclamation marks.

[@blindg7092]

IRONIC metal? Never heard that term before...

[@NovemberX]

Didn't expect this music from the U.S. I like this!

[@xuno6114]

One hell of a good job! Keep going!

[@MariaOderso]

This is awesome! \m/ One Hollow Word is my favourite ^^

[@blindg7092]

It would have been my favorite if they added the same chorus at the end instead of a pointless slow outro.

[@dylanmaxwell6697]

@@blindg7092 yea i thought they dropped the ball with how that track ended

[@KookaiPLZ]

I think it was sick. The end too

[@dylanvalorfall]

Feels like wild west folk metal. Pretty cool.

[@crackstar2139]

Damn I love this unique sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ziuwaz1588]

Well... have you heard of Ensiferum yet? They've been playing this unique sound for decades. ;)

[@呼吸-e9b]

Yea, written ensiferum all over this

[@hachikuji_mayoi]

Lean Into the Wind actually sounds a bit like the 2 most recent Fleshgod Apocalypse albums. She's back reminds me of Japanese melodeath like Imperial Circus Dead Decadence and I really like that. It's way too short tho. Those two, Slave to the Riff, Redneck Vikings from Hell and Craft and the Creator are probably my favourites. Also Hunger. I don't really feel Goodbye or Guardian. Rest of the songs are decent but nothing that impressed me a lot.

[@elised8588]

Now that you say it, I definitely get this ICDD-ish feel, especially in the beginning, but it kinda lacks the strong clean vocals

[@epicans6065]

goodbye sounds like amaranthe a little xD

[@Arthemesia]

Craft and the creator is so amazing, but please PLEASE one day add lyrics!!!!

[@CannibalCory]

Congrats, Jake! Can't believe you stuck with the name shared between two drunks in Pratteln! LOL :)

[@ziuwaz1588]

Z7... can't wait for it to open it's doors after Covid.

[@Eldrazification]

Damn, the intro to cycle is real...

SHE'S BACK!

[@keithspooner2240]

Utterly Brilliant .....lost for more words x

[@D14V0R05]

I didn't think I would hear a banjo in metal again after Taake's Myr.

[@eddymetal]

Panopticon did it like a year later. Not like it's never been done before.

[@gregmurphy8059]

I didn't know there was an American Troldhaugen. Sick

[@apocalypseARK]

Since Tarot, you guys are on the good way ! Keep it up !

[@yoxnod]

Much better than I expected! I take off my horned helmet.

[@jabrane1564]

craft and the creator is the best song !

[@christopherdiedrich40]

🔥 Love the title!

[@CharllySonOfMetal]

Love band😍😍

[@trtdshash1138]

So good !

[@desmondkenway4952]

I don’t know what I expected when I clicked on this, but god damn am I glad I was wrong

[@Thomas.Wright]

You don't hear heavy metal banjos too much these days.

[@jonikaijankoski]

Sounds like Wintersun or Ensiferum. I like a lot!!!

[@jurezadravec3852]

This is brilliant

[@dasisleudagar4145]

..jeezus fuckin christ... it's like a C64 had a love child with Johnny Cash and they had Running Wild as a Landlord and for some reason he had some weird fetish for technical blues speed metal.....

[@MrEgofreak]

Accurate way to describe this!

[@patriotFPS]

ahhhhhh just still sending it, mfg, how are the dudes still not on huge bills, ffs its a crime.

[@chegg7841]

It's gonna be 4 am local time but it's worth ruining my sleep schedule for

[@ttttttttttttttttt.]

embrace the bad sleep schedule, become the bad sleep schedule

[@ttttttttttttttttt.]

i have returned after 4 months and i regret it do not become the bad sleep schedule, nor embrace it

[@jorgeriveramarin891]

I'm on my 5th listen. Lemme update: great fucken band.

[@nicholasm.9274]

Coming in after finding Tarot. Pretty good, but I prefer the Tarot sound.

[@hijrahnusrah1589]

New fan from Putrajaya

[@pip3174]

I can hear bits of Craft and the Creator throughout some of the songs

[@imageofchaos]

This album is fantastic fun!

[@JustBlowItUp15]

craft and the creator is such a perfect end to this album.

[@jorgeriveramarin891]

Awesome band, man.

[@MegaAedu]

I love this album!

[@creamyanddreamy4017]

If the whole album retained the western feel the title track had, I'd enjoy this album more. I've wanted western folk metal for a long time and I've only found 3 songs so far, 2 by ensiferum. :( Such open territory for awesome new music but no one actually does it.

[@Jesus-ui5bm]

check out ghoultown and devildriver's Outlaws till the end.

[@creamyanddreamy4017]

@@Jesus-ui5bm yeh those were cool, but not really what I was looking for. I guess to elaborate, I'm looking for something along the lines of melodic death metal that focuses on themes of north american music. Basically like if Ensiferum made an album heavily influenced by bluegrass and specifically Aaron Copland. Sounds and melodies that can encapsulate country lifestyle, freedom, pioneering, and the vast north american landscape. Somewhat of a triumphant, uplifting, and adventurous spirit in the instrumentation and music meshed with fun, catchy, and somewhat technical melodic death metal. If someone made a band based on strictly this, they would be my heroes.

[@melodeathmaster]

Good Album Guys !!! Thx for that !!!

[@heartofjustice6041]

this song is fking fire

[@matheuscoelho4804]

Really liked Goodbye.

[@bm_midotv9841]

2020 is saved boys

[@ThyHooligan777]

Just great !

[@Lusor_Elges]

really good :D

[@eduardoagusti4528]

You guys rule

[@vibekemouritzenelmquist1330]

Totally fucking awesome !

[@viganosmani3137]

Hunger can easily challenge 'The Magician' and 'The Chariot' for best Aether Realm song.. total masterpiece

[@elised8588]

The Sun, The Moon, The Star plz

[@blindg7092]

@@elised8588 Indeed. Sadly they put some 11-minute piece of crap with no vocals instead.

[@viganosmani3137]

not too big a fan of The Sun, The Moon, the Star tbh.. its just too long and I feel like there's some unnecessary parts to it similar to how i feel about Equilibrium - Mana.. dont get me wrong theyre both great renditions, but the magician and/or chariot pack a much bigger punch at a much shorter time.

[@cameronhildebran3497]

Magician and Chariot are great but, no way they are better than The Sun, The Moon, The Star or The Devil or Death.

[@sebastiancalizayaquispe5756]

Saludos desde ILO - PERU 🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍

[@andrewilyin1850]

Слушал в онлайне, очень понравилось, прекрасный альбом. Идёт в копилку

[@deahim3764]

Hunger!! 🤘🤘🤘

[@MisterValaravaus]

Slave to the Riff reminds me of Eskimo Callboy somehow

[@MetalSonic1389]

Let's gooo!

[@Tapioca_Rin]

As an osu! (rythym game) player, this is one of the songs i play the most in the game and idk why people aint listening to this masterpiece.

[@dhatribalz7772]

Same :D

[@astyrvela]

First time I hear about this band. I'm not thrilled but might give them another try soon

[@mr.strongopinionman8507]

Their first two albums really worth a listen.