Srontgorrth

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Srontgorrth
Studio album by Nagelfar
Released	1999
Genre	Black metal

Srontgorrth: Die Macht erfaßte das meine wie die Angst das Blut der anderen (lit. "Power seized mine [my blood] like fear [seized] the blood of the others.") is the second album by the German progressive black metal band Nagelfar, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). It is a loose concept album, with the first four tracks focusing on the four seasons. The riff introduced at the beginning of the first piece is reprised at some point in every track on the album, lending a sense of conceptual and thematic unity to the album. The first three tracks had previously appeared on the band's first two demos and first album, respectively, but were re-recorded for this release. The fourth track is performed entirely in an industrial style, featuring no guitars whatsoever.

Interestingly, the band themselves did not consider Srontgorrth as an album, referring to their next album Virus West as their second album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Kapitel Eins. Der Frühling: Als die Tore sich öffnen... (Freiheit oder Untergang?)" – Chapter One. The Spring: As the Gates Open... (Freedom or ruin?) – 16:45
   • Sonnenfinsternis Eins: Zeit der Schatten – Solar Eclipse One: Time of Shadows
   • Eine Geburt – A Birth
   • Sonnenfinsternis Zwei: Unter neuen Wolken – Solar Eclipse Two: Under New Clouds
   • Wind der Verwesung – Wind of Rotting
2. Kapitel Zwei. Der Sommer: Die Existenz jenseits der Tore (Begreifen des Bewußtseins ist Streben nach Wissen) – Chapter Two. The Summer: Existence on the Other Side of the Gates (Understanding of Consciousness Is Striving after Knowledge) – 16:10
   • Mein Thron auf den Leibern verstorbener Freunde – My Throne upon the Bodies of My Dead Friends
   • Mondschatten – Moonshade
3. Kapitel Drei. Der Herbst: Endzeit (Vernunft siegt über Nostalgie) – Chapter Three. The Autumn: Endtime (Reason Triumphs over Nostalgia) – 9:18
4. Kapitel Vier. Der Winter: Trümmer – Chapter Four. The Winter: Debris – 9:35
5. Kapitel Fünf. Willkommen zu Haus (...denn keine Sonne schmelzt mich, das Licht, die Freiheit, den Untergang) – Chapter Five. Welcome Home (...Because No Sun Melts Me, the Light, the Freedom, the Ruin) – 18:09