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
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.
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.
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.
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 Well, than try some Korpiklaani, Enfiserum or Amon Amarth. But best melodeath for me are Children of Bodom, Insomnium, Dark Tranquility and Omnium Gatherum. ;-)
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.
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.
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 !!!!
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...
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.
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.
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\
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!
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!
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! :)
They are quite good, but I really expect you to be attempting some brutal sarcasm there.
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@@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.
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 🤘💪🍻🇬🇷🇨🇦
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.
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..
@@inciiopath 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.
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.
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.
*Guardian starts playing* I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING
I'm not denying it! What a beautiful, powerful song.
I'M CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!
NO, YOU'RE CRYING! I JUST GOT SOMETHING IN MY EYE!
The guitar shredding is so beautiful and heavy, a shard of the pick broke off and hit me in the eye!
It's Violet Evergarden all over again :
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
Thank you!!!
thanks
champion
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.
This isn't extreme metal.
ig it's not really extreme metal but it's still amazing. every song is a masterpiece, not just tarot.
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.
@@GenghisKal Would you be so kind as to give examples?
@@GenghisKal way to shit on someone's taste. You feel superior yet?
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.
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 ...
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.
@@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. ;-)
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.
@@Thomas.Wright cool, check out sonata arctica and rhapsody :)
That's a lot of 5s and 1s!
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
And what do you think? Did it live up to the hype?
Dont sleep on the magician either! Great album and the title track has a guest solo by inferi, so, basically its a perfect song
@@drocka36 oh god inferi? Fuck yeeeesss, these guys have amazing taste in music.
This has to be one of the strangest mashup of styles I have heard yet. It is exactly how I imagined it would be!
"When the north wind bites
By the moon's dim light"
Fuckin' beautiful
Thank you for implementing a banjo into a metal song. I've been wanting to try it for awhile. Guess it works!
2020 is saved
lol
Hahahahaah
Guardian and cycle keep me going on in this shitty world, thank you very much for your art!
Enjoy your limited stay here, and take time with yourself. Good things will come
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!🤘
Hunger is a masterpiece
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.
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!
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 !!!!
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...
its beautiful
ive -looked at- listened to this for 5 hours now
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.
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.
Best present on quarantine, thanks buds! :3
You have good taste aswell as it seems, nice Vektor outer isolation pfp!
Fantastic album, it's so Aether Realm yet so new for them too! I love it!
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\
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!
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!
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! :)
Incredible band, this and Tarot are two fucking masterpiece!! better everytime
Not to mention their first album, one chosen by the gods, is fucking fire too
Now I don't need caffeine in the morning, i just put on Aether Realm's ... From Hell and I can tackle anything
The last part of One Hollow Word is one of the most touching, epic, and marvelous pieces of music I've ever heard.
YES YES YES I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW HAPPY I AM
I LOVE AETHER REALM
The breakdown in Cycle at around 36:00 gives me such big The Faceless vibes, listened to them a ton in school.
Loving this! 59 and still rockin
#AetherRealm #TheCycle #Freedom #BreakTheCycle I love you so much, Alyssa.
Sounds like Ensiferum!
I like it!
You mean this sounds better than ensiferum at their peak 😉
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.
Whatever this is, I needed it. Awesome music, and wonderful facial hair too
Great !!!! Discovered this band few minutes ago , seriously played ironic METAL !!!! Various influences, something original and with humour !!!!!!!!!
I don't think you used enough exclamation marks.
IRONIC metal? Never heard that term before...
"Goodbye" definitely give me "69 Eyes" goth rock vibes. So cool...
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 🤘💪🍻🇬🇷🇨🇦
love the title of the album. it has many contradictions just in the title. the music is amazing and catchy as hell.
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.
Damn I love this unique sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well... have you heard of Ensiferum yet? They've been playing this unique sound for decades. ;)
Yea, written ensiferum all over this
Banda maravilhosa. Que album incrível.
Didn't expect this music from the U.S. I like this!
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!!
Hunger is a class tune, one of my favourites off of the album. So he's a vampire right? dope.
Saludos desde Jujuy Argentina 🤘🏽🤘🏽
Best start of month!
Oh man they need to make more songs w/o lyrics like The Craft and the Creator. It is amazing
Damn, the intro to cycle is real...
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..
Feels like wild west folk metal. Pretty cool.
I didn't think I would hear a banjo in metal again after Taake's Myr.
Panopticon did it like a year later. Not like it's never been done before.
This is awesome! \m/
One Hollow Word is my favourite ^^
It would have been my favorite if they added the same chorus at the end instead of a pointless slow outro.
@@blindg7092 yea i thought they dropped the ball with how that track ended
I think it was sick. The end too
One hell of a good job! Keep going!
Half of these songs are great masterpieces, the rest is okay (by Æther Realm standards of course). Tarot still remains the best album.
I like a couple songs here more than anything in tarot but tarot had like not a single bad song.
@@hachikuji_mayoi which on are your favorites in this album?
@@nightwishpower personally
*Liked*
1, 2, 5, 6 9
*Eh*
4, 7, 10, 11
*Disliked*
3, 8
@@inciiopath 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.
@@inciiopath damn you must have really disliked 5. you didn't even list it lmao
Banjo and metal is severely underutilized.
have you heard Taake-Myr? Best example of banjo in metal to me. A pity it`s just one song🙃
Rob Scallion, a TH-cam cover artist that covers metal and banjo-phies it.
We need and deserve more western country metal
Now you mention it-
Also check this out. First thing I thought of when I heard that kickass opener.
th-cam.com/video/H2Y7BjuLM5U/w-d-xo.html
SHE'S BACK!
Craft and the creator is so amazing, but please PLEASE one day add lyrics!!!!
Utterly Brilliant .....lost for more words x
It's gonna be 4 am local time but it's worth ruining my sleep schedule for
embrace the bad sleep schedule, become the bad sleep schedule
i have returned after 4 months and i regret it
do not become the bad sleep schedule, nor embrace it
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.
I didn't know there was an American Troldhaugen. Sick
craft and the creator is the best song !
Love band😍😍
So good !
Much better than I expected! I take off my horned helmet.
I can hear bits of Craft and the Creator throughout some of the songs
Sounds like Wintersun or Ensiferum. I like a lot!!!
Hunger!! 🤘🤘🤘
🔥 Love the title!
I don’t know what I expected when I clicked on this, but god damn am I glad I was wrong
15:55 SICK !
2020 is saved boys
This is brilliant
Since Tarot, you guys are on the good way ! Keep it up !
Just great !
Congrats, Jake! Can't believe you stuck with the name shared between two drunks in Pratteln! LOL :)
Z7... can't wait for it to open it's doors after Covid.
This album is fantastic fun!
this song is fking fire
Really liked Goodbye.
Awesome band, man.
New fan from Putrajaya
ahhhhhh just still sending it, mfg, how are the dudes still not on huge bills, ffs its a crime.
I love this album!
Let's gooo!
Good Album Guys !!! Thx for that !!!
You don't hear heavy metal banjos too much these days.
Saludos desde ILO - PERU 🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍
🤘🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤘Znakomite zakręcone doskonałe i basta.
I'm on my 5th listen. Lemme update: great fucken band.
You guys rule
Totally fucking awesome !
Hell yeah! Almost missed it!
craft and the creator is such a perfect end to this album.
really good :D
Grand finale
Valhallaaaaaaaaa🖤🤙🏼
Coming in after finding Tarot. Pretty good, but I prefer the Tarot sound.
Slave to the Riff reminds me of Eskimo Callboy somehow
I fucking love it!
Hunger can easily challenge 'The Magician' and 'The Chariot' for best Aether Realm song.. total masterpiece
The Sun, The Moon, The Star plz
@@elised8588 Indeed. Sadly they put some 11-minute piece of crap with no vocals instead.
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.
Magician and Chariot are great but, no way they are better than The Sun, The Moon, The Star or The Devil or Death.