Windhand - Boleskine

Windhand - Boleskine from the 2013 album "Soma"
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Windhand is:
Asechiah Bogdan - Guitar
Parker Chandler - Bass
Dorthia Cottrell - Vocals
Garrett Morris - Guitar
Ryan Wolfe - Drums
Recorded & Mixed by Garrett Morris
at The Darkroom, Richmond, VA - March - May 2013
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photography by Krist Mort www.kristmort.com
Layout by Jacob Speis
Video by Des Tröyer
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[@whatistau]

Windhand groove to solos harmony is unmatched. People dont know

[@theNinjastar27]

She has the voice doom metal needed but didn't know it needed

[@manynukes11]

After you listen to this song you instantly become a wizard

[@IggyCrib]

I heard it spits you out the other side of a Pink Floyd album, some time in the 90’s, and you try to remember your past life even though you’re now some stoner kid

[@AmIevL]

@@IggyCrib other side of a Pink Floyd album, in the 90's you say? Holy Shit, thatsa "Potentially Powerful Past Pink Floyd Prime, Past life Passover Paradigm " Yeah, thats right. I just took another toke off this Jet and Hit Lvl 2 Wizard... Huh? What? What were we talking about?

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

"I'm a wizard mind you!"

[@DrthGrth]

Can confirm.

[@gildedvibrations8927]

She is my favourite Doom Metal singer. Ozzy is objectively the best, but her energy is so different. It's an energy I need in my life.

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Her voice is hypnotic. Puts me in a blissful trance every time

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Don't know how to really describe the feeling. Try mountain hiking while listening to Windhand. Something about being surrounded by nature while listening to the powerful rawness of Windhand. Bordering on hypnotic is the result. Try it sometime, you'll be glad you did

[@jimjam3394]

This whole album is so heavy.. I happily have this one on vinyl and every time I play it it is truly an experience. Dorthias vocals are absolutely ethereal throughout the entire thing. I ritualistically sacrifice a banana every time.

[@asajonsson9982]

I listen to this over and over again right now.

[@gilsonsa7795]

💆

[@tonyaharper5092]

Her voice is so buried in the music, this is the best I can do: There must be a season Where I can rest my bones Some would trade their freedom Some would trade their gold Chorus: Got light of the morning Then sat down on the floor Sing at the sun in the evening Sleep in despair of the dawn There must be a reason Nothing good can stay Passes into winter Passes into winter Take me to your garden Where I can be alone (chorus)

[@utoshop]

Wow! Thanks!

[@Altarofdoom]

If you haven't heard, Check out Dorthia Cottrell (of Windhand) she does solo dark-acoustic-blues

[@garyedgar9778]

Boleskine Lodge was Aleister Crowleys rented home on the shore of Loch Ness - It's still there .

[@guitarspiderbomb]

Not anymore.

[@shaftsbury94]

i think jimmy page once owned it

[@crashundburn]

Yeah, he did

[@matthewbennett4429]

It burnt down.

[@Leiferuphugus]

@@matthewbennett4429 There's a historical charity organization working to restore it. It's mostly just walls right now. But it's not gone.

[@bashar9644]

Holy Shit I can't describe what I've just heard

[@PontaRJ]

I've listen to this over and over again

[@flawdgawd9396]

3 A.M. You keep me alive.

[@juakoblues]

flawdgawd same here

[@blakesatyr4027]

Thank you so much for this beautiful masterpiece. Holy fucking hell.

[@raphaelb.8665]

Wish they released the lyrics to this somewhere on the Internet. Being a non-native English speaker, some parts aren't quite "comprehensible", and this kinda affects the experience.

[@almagexnum]

THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE MUSSSSST BEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASOOOOOOOOOOOOOON WHERE AAAAAAAAAAAIQUEEEEEEMRESSSSSSSSTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEEEESSSSSS

[@raphaelb.8665]

@@almagexnum this was actually helpful as FUCK, man

[@alexmagnum7228]

@@raphaelb.8665 you're welcome brooo, anytime i'm in doubt about this kinda shit the solution is to drown into the delay and patientily let the words enter the void. first rule of listenin to doom: atmosphere. let all the sounds create the ambient and the lyrics will show you the path. to me, this tune is kinda an awakening into a freezin forest, then you walk around the heavy snow, find a distant woodbine where a sweet guitar plays, when u step into the house the sound blasts. perfect vibe to read or draw; will not transcribe the whole lyrics because if its not the interest of the band, i will not break the magic of the discovery. have a nice day!

[@alexmagnum7228]

ps: just answered you because i love the office too.

[@cian9461]

Don't worry bro, native English speaker here and I too find the lyrics incomprehensible hahaha

[@flyingplantsinspace]

this is some great music. sucked me right in on the first listen.

[@nomok8072]

An absolute work of art

[@lullabi3234]

Oh my sweet Gods this is Glorious!

[@JorgeGonzalez-ox5js]

God bless that beautiful voice. She sure can sing doom music.

[@artemshulz6570]

God? Are you sure? :D

[@mikereseigh]

true. but her voice is perfectly matched to the music. Thank God. Thank God

[@metalswifty23]

@@artemshulz6570 In doom metal? Sure. Religion is explored quite a bit in various ways in doom, and there are, I imagine, various religious people in the genre. One of the first definitively doom albums was called 'Psalm 9' for Christ's sake, with the band who recorded it (Trouble) subsequently being dubbed a Christian metal band. Let's also not forget that the father of metal and the doom riff, Tony Iommi, is a Catholic. And yes, 3+ year old comment blah blah blah. Felt that I had to point it out.

[@brendanfromhoenn]

@@artemshulz6570 This god is good enough for her.

[@AnUnhingedMind]

If there were ever to be a proper mix of Funeral Doom and Stoner/Doom, this song would be it.

[@monsterjesse]

SUCH A WARM PLACE

[@TheKeefmaster]

Impressive

[@handlebaryuri673]

These guys are everything tonight... What a happy mistake finding this band on here was

[@billygrind2980]

This is magic.

[@deepfocus888]

Listened to dope and accidentally smoked all my Windhand

[@loganbass4930]

Some of these lines don't make much sense but here's my transcription of the lyrics: There must be a season Where I can rest my bones Some would trade their freedom Some would trade their (god?) (Go light?) up the morning There's only (dope?) on the floor (Stinging song?) in the evening Sleep here and (spread out the dawn?) There must be a reason (Nothing won't come staring?) Crashes into winter Passes into winter Take me to your garden Where I can be alone Come (light up?) the (morning?) (dancing?)/(death sat?) down on (your?) floor (Sleep now?) you're starting to feel it Sleep (like you?) spread out the dawn Go light up the morning (Death sat?) down on your floor Sleep like a sun in the evening (Prevent this man from the dawn?) There must be a season Where I can rest my bones Some would trade their freedom Some would trade their god Take me to your garden Where I can be alone Come and light up the morning (Death sat down?) on your floor Sleep like a sun in the evening Stay here and spread out the dawn I'm probably totally wrong but I interpret this song as having multiple meanings. The first (literal) meaning is about taking way too much of something in an unfurnished room and (possibly) extreme end-stage depression. There seems to be a lot of astronomical imagery relating to the changing of the seasons which could be referencing the spring and summer equinoxes. "The equinox" was the title of Aleister Crowley's periodical works and as someone already pointed out, Boleskine manor was a home that Aleister Crowley lived in. An interviewer once asked Dorothia what this song was about and she didn't want to explain other than it definitely meant something personal to her. I wish I could hear what she says after "there must be a reason" in the second stanza.

[@buiu6246]

Porra puta som bem Loko🤘🇧🇷😆🔧

[@theNinjastar27]

You could level a fucking building with that distortion

[@mike2o4942o]

Awesome.

[@mattcharwood3606]

When I listen to this it feels like me n aleister Crowley are sittin round the fireplace smokin a fat bowl out in his cabin in the woods in the middle of a winter storm...just passing the time.

[@MrEyeM]

that would be quite a night :D

[@warfighter4528]

reminds me of "something in the way" by Nirvana

[@TheLazyOne00]

She always said she takes inspiration from the album of her youth, grunge albums too. It makes sense

[@YouFuck2]

muy buena banda

[@casperHeyzeus]

awwww man this is so awesome the guitar solo reminds me of paradise lost's gothic album. the guitar tone and style of the solos is similar but shit damn this is so good! i love the clear blue vinyl too :)

[@antennaea]

do you mean minute 13?

[@thebailey67]

Im waiting for the New Electric Wizard so Im gonna live inside this Doom till then!!

[@snaker9er]

Steven Bailey RIP

[@tgallison8569]

Boleskin House was Crowley, s. Later in life Jimmy Page bought it.Page also puchased other properties of Crowley also. Page was interested in Crowley for many yrs. I'm not sure if that is still true or not now

[@timetraveler8777]

Yes It's true, there are many clues that prove Jimmy Page's interest in Alester Crowley

[@djoxfutura]

awesome. gonna check them out at roadburn 2014 fo sho.

[@myroslavahartmond2534]

djoxfutura There's now a Windhand Live at Roadburn 2014 vinyl

[@jeffloucks2120]

Only place this song has been played live.

[@heitorpachec0]

Wish there was the lyrics for this masterpiece

[@raphaelb.8665]

Same. I've been looking for them for quite a while, even asked them on their Facebook page, but no luck so far.

[@timreigns6099]

From what I’ve gathered, the lyrics are deeply personal...so we may never know. I’ve asked as well...no response.

[@teddydog6229]

But I read that for the twelve or so years he owned it, he spent roughly a total of six weeks inside the house. Wonder why ?

[@rasczak959]

It´s remember me some kind of shoegaze.

[@BallisticMystic]

Unfortunately I enjoyed their self titled much more then Soma. Not that this album was bad, but as a fan you hope to enjoy new content more then old, but it's a weird trap. Their old stuff sounded like a ghost singing out of the window of a haunted tavern, this sounded like a metal song. It's innocuous, but as the production value rises, it just doesn't feel as ethereal, as distant, and in turn sounds more forced.

[@shadeofmirkwood]

Kyle Grost I agree , especially griefs infernal , way Les ethereal and distant, it's because Garret did the old recordings on a reel to reel , and he mastered them too, now it's studio and outside mastering

[@AnUnhingedMind]

See, I think this sounds much more atmospheric, dark, and utterly bleak. The self-titled was a lot more laid back, aside from the ending riffs to Libusen and Winter Sun, which are absolutely monstrous. I think this particular song is able to consistently hold that level of tension and devastation that those two particular moments of the first album were able to pull off.

[@geertvanderveken6210]

I thought Kurt Cobain was about to fall in...Underneath the bridge / Tarp has sprung a leak / And the animals I've trapped... But it turned out way better.

[@michailscherd5778]

🎉type tyrei wizedeird

[@kayleewasilauskis4142]

2:43

[@labvanta]

rip boleskin, however you burned down

[@Ailuromancia]

any one knows the lyric?

[@asifvomit]

lyrics?

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Windhand does not publish the lyrics to their songs

[@edwardcastro4276]

Anyone know where I can find the lyrics?

[@silentkiller2709]

9:52

[@Mouth_Full_of_Spiders]

My boxers just shrunk a little....

[@manuelaizkolari4107]

some one knowu the name of the song at minute 14 ?

[@mk_a-xz1he]

this whole video is one song (last song from album "soma")

[@asifvomit]

High on codeine and trip on this

[@nickaveris87]

man I'd love to know the lyrics to this... anyone have any idea?

[@YskarAlbumLuna]

me too dude

[@YskarAlbumLuna]

it's hard to understand and it's too much things to write, hard to know

[@obi-wancanblowme2949]

Does somebody know the chords?

[@brendanfromhoenn]

Play a power chord on a different fret until you get it. lol

[@stevenworth353]

The Thelemic Kibblah, is Boleskine

[@GabrielFernandes-bc7se]

24:16 nice mouse click bruv

[@steelmob]

check out the doom stoner band HANZ KRYPT great guitar player

[@AlreadyEddie]

tlaxcalan

[@AlreadyEddie]

beware of fair usage

[@meocats]

the mouse click sounds at the end of the boleskine song are really annoying