{"id":794024,"date":"2019-03-21T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=808122"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:51:39","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-gaahls-wyrd-from-the-spear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-gaahls-wyrd-from-the-spear\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Gaahls Wyrd, \u2018From the Spear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gaahls-wyrd.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The lyrics on \u201cFrom the Spear,\u201d the first taste of extreme-metal group Gaahls Wyrd\u2019s upcoming debut, are mostly incoherent. At one point, frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/gaahl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gaahl\" data-tag=\"gaahl\">Gaahl<\/a> growls, \u201cI hold the spear, blood dripping\u201d; at another, he moans, \u201cI stare down from here.\u201d But by and large the words\u2019 intention is obscured, and that\u2019s been the point with Gaahl\u2019s music going back to when he\u2019d leave his vocals low in the mix with his band Gorgoroth: Listen closer, try and divine the meaning from it.<\/p>\n<p>Gaahl has always reveled in being one of extreme metal\u2019s most enigmatic figures. He has fronted Norwegian black-metal bands for the past 25 years, including Trelldom, Gorgoroth and the underrated God Seed, and he\u2019s contributed to the ambient folk group Wardruna. He\u2019s openly gay \u2013 he was once named \u201cGay Person of the Year\u201d in Bergen, Norway \u2013 and owns an art gallery in the city. He\u2019s also served time for assaulting a man \u2014 allegedly collecting the victim\u2019s blood in a cup and taunting him with it \u2014 and can\u2019t tour in the United States because he\u2019s a felon. His music, especially since the 2004 arrest, has reflected both hope and despair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the Spear\u201d alternates from a locomotive onslaught to a dusky goth-rock bridge before racing to the finish with more gut-rattling riffs. Gaahl\u2019s bandmates include members of God Seed and the death-metal group Aeturnus, who play the song a tremulous quality that makes it all the more mysterious. It makes you want to play it again and again to try to decipher it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gaahls-wyrd-from-the-spear-808122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics on \u201cFrom the Spear,\u201d the first taste of extreme-metal group Gaahls Wyrd\u2019s upcoming debut, are mostly incoherent. At one point, frontman Gaahl growls, \u201cI hold the spear, blood dripping\u201d; at another, he moans, \u201cI stare down from here.\u201d But by and large the words\u2019 intention is obscured, and that\u2019s been the point with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:17:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}