Track By Tracks: Hild - The Great Unrest (2022)

1. Hrist:

The fourth song was written for HILD. I just knew beforehand I wanted to do a snare build-up with some cool guitar stuff and then lead it into a verse with a steady backbeat and rhythmic driving guitars. Maybe something like ”Breaking me up” by Raised Fist. Figured the theme would transit nicely into a bridge in a different key and then land in a ”Dead Skin Mask”-kind of chorus. As it turned out, I ended up with just open, simple chords and a melodic Black Metal-feel to it. I didn´t plan that but I liked it. So it´s really the first song where I realized HILD could benefit from at least a little bit of melody and that I shouldn´t back away from my own spontaneous sound and touch, just because the original idea was to play Thrash Metal.

Lyrically, it channels valkyrie Hrist, in the interpretation of ”shaker” and terrifying energy that you can let scare you into defeat, or immerse you to press on to (and beyond) the ultimate limit of your physical and spiritual capacity. It´s about giving yourself wholeheartedly to a greater cause and following your heart´s path and not backing down from any battle you may encounter on it. Even if it means death.

Lyrics:

In the wake like an earthquake

Came the great Unrest

Shake your bones til they break

In the air a vibration

Came the hidden Hrist

Rattling death sensation

All of your breath

All of your blood

Give up the ghost

Surrender the spirit

Time to escape the body

To increase the earth

Tight Her grip til your movements cease

In the air a vibration

Came the hidden Hrist

Rattling death sensation

All of your breath

All of your blood

Give up the ghost

Surrender the spirit

2. Wodurida:

The third song was written for HILD. I was now tripping on valkyrie Wodurida and felt that she (and the whole project) needed a relentless, merciless song. Still, in Raised Fist/Slayer mood I wanted a mix of Raised Fist´s ”Running man” and the more chaotic aspects of ”Reign in blood”. I also knew from the get-go I needed to have a breakdown of sorts with a Hanneman-style riff. All in my own way of course. Lyrics are sorcery rooted. They concern the company of Wodurida as the wild child, the ferocious rider. Drinking mad wisdom and losing yourself in ecstatic abandon, rage, and inspiration. Be it in the fields of war, or in other adult situations. Wolf riding witchery.

Lyrics:

A rift in reality

Ready and ravenous

Tear open the gap

Frantic, fanatic rider

Wretched wolf in Serpent reins

Quench the thirst of Thurs

Untouched by casual laws

Unflawed by lacerations

Fierce and flaming

Wet wound wielder 

Laugher at a thousand deaths

Wodurida

Impale with point precision

Manyfold Murderess

Slit open slit

Ferocious, feral rider

Memory mead maiden

Many a moon ago

Drank the dazzling madness

Down the gushing throat

Fierce and flaming

Wet wound wielder 

Laugher at a thousand deaths

Wodurida