The Olden Domain is Borknagar

Borknagar

Borknagar is a progressive black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements...

's second studio album, and their first to feature English

English language

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 lyrics. It also marks the beginning of the band's transition to its trademark progressive/folk/black metal sound featured on later records.

This would be the band's last studio album to feature Garm

Kristoffer Rygg

Kristoffer Rygg , also known as Garm, Trickster G. and recently also God Head is a Spellemannprisen nominated vocalist, musician and producer known as the frontman of Ulver and former vocalist for Arcturus...

 (credited on this album as "Fiery G. Maelstrom") on vocals. It is also their first album to feature Kai K. Lie on bass, replacing Infernus.

Track listing

All Songs By Oystein G. Brun. Copyright

Copyright

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 1997 Magic Arts Publishing.

1. "The Eye of Oden" – 6:01
2. "The Winterway" – 7:52
3. "Om Hundrede Aar er Alting Glemt" (In a Hundred Years All is Forgotten) – 4:12
4. "A Tale of Pagan Tongue" – 6:13
5. "To Mount and Rove" – 4:56
6. "Grimland Domain" – 6:19
7. "Ascension of Our Fathers" – 3:54
8. "The Dawn of the End" – 5:06

Personnel

• Kristoffer Rygg
  Kristoffer Rygg
  Kristoffer Rygg , also known as Garm, Trickster G. and recently also God Head is a Spellemannprisen nominated vocalist, musician and producer known as the frontman of Ulver and former vocalist for Arcturus...
  
   – vocals
• Øystein Brun
  Øystein Brun
  Øystein Garnes Brun is the guitarist and founder of the Norwegian black metal supergroup Borknagar. He has been the only permanent member of the group, and is also responsible for writing almost all the music, and is noted for having many albums already written ahead of time.-Biography:After...
  
   – electric & acoustic guitar
  Guitar
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  s
• Ivar Bjørnson
  Ivar Bjørnson
  Ivar Bjørnson is a Norwegian composer/guitarist for the progressive black/viking metal band Enslaved. He is, along with Grutle Kjellson, one of only two founding members left in the current line-up, being only 13 years old at the time of the band's formation...
  
   – synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , sound effects
• Kai K. Lie – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Erik Brødreskift
  Erik Brødreskift
  Erik Brødreskift was a Norwegian drummer, who played in several black metal bands during his career...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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Production

• Arranged By Borknagar
• Produced By Borknagar & Waldemar Sorychta
• Recorded & Engineered By Matthias Klinkmann
• Mixed By Eroc

External links

• Borknagar-The Olden Domain (1997 2nd Album at Borknagar.com)
• "The Olden Domain" at discogs