Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen. Formed in 1992 by Infernus (who is also the only original member remaining), the band is named after the dead plateau of evil and darkness in the land of Mordor from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. The group used to be signed to Regain Records and had released eight full-length studio albums. A re-recording of their third album, Under the Sign of Hell, was released in 2011, and the new full-length album Instinctus Bestialis has been released on June 8, 2015. The band is now signed to Soulseller Records.
History
Early years (1992–1995)
Gorgoroth was founded in 1992 by guitarist Infernus. In 1993, the band released their first demo, entitled A Sorcery Written in Blood. On January 7, 1994, Firda, the major newspaper in the county of Sogn og Fjordane where the band originated from, ran a cover story on the demo, with the headline "Local music with Satanic symbolism". According to the article, the release of the demo and flyers with Satanic symbols led to "concerned parents contacting the Sheriff's Office in Fjaler". After the demo was released, Gorgoroth signed a record deal with Embassy Productions and started work on their debut full-length Pentagram. When bassist Kjettar left the band in 1993, Samoth of Emperor joined Gorgoroth as their new bassist, and participated in the recording of the album. After Pentagram was completed and released in 1994, drummer Goat left the band and was replaced by Frost from Satyricon. The band performed their first concert at Lusa Lottes Pøbb in Oslo, Norway, on May 3, 1994, at a four-day Black Metal Nights festival with bands such as Dark Funeral (who also made their live debut), Dissection, Enslaved, Marduk (who played their first gig abroad), Gehenna and Hades Almighty.
Middle-earth is the setting of much of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. The term is equivalent to the term Midgard of Norse mythology, describing the human-inhabited world, i.e. the central continent of world of Tolkien's imagined mythological past. Tolkien's most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place entirely in Middle-earth, and Middle-earth has also become a short-hand to refer to the legendarium or its "fictional-universe".
Within his stories, Tolkien translated the name "Middle-earth" as Endor (or sometimes Endórë) and Ennor in the Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin respectively, sometimes referring only to the continent that the stories take place on, with another southern continent called the Dark Land.
Middle-earth is the central continent of Earth (Arda) in an imaginary period of the Earth's past (Tolkien placed the end of the Third Age at about 6,000 years before his own time), in the sense of a "secondary or sub-creational reality". Its general position is reminiscent of Europe, with the environs of the Shire intended to be reminiscent of England (more specifically, the West Midlands, with Hobbiton set at the same latitude as Oxford).
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Gorgoroth
ALBUMS
- Under the Sign of Hell released: 2011
- Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt released: 2009
- Destroyer + Incipit Satan released: 2008
- True Norwegian Black Metal: Live in Grieghallen released: 2008
- Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam released: 2006
- Twilight of the Idols: In Conspiracy With Satan released: 2003
- Incipit Satan released: 2000
- Destroyer, or About How to Philosophize With the Hammer released: 1998
- Antichrist released: 1996
- Pentagram released: 1994
- Burzum / Gorgoroth released: 1993
- The Beginning released:
- 2004-04-08: Inferno Metal Festival, Oslo, Norway released:
- Unter den Flugeln von Satan released:
Destroyer + Incipit Satan
Released 2008- Destroyer
- Open the Gates
- The Devil, the Sinner and His Journey
- Om kristen og jødisk tru
- På slagmark langt mot nord
- Blodoffer
- The Virginborn
- Slottet i det fjerne
- Incipit Satan
- A World to Win
- Litani til Satan
- Unchain My Heart!!!
- An Excerpt of X
- Ein eim av blod og helvetesild
- Will to Power
- When Love Rages Wild in My Heart
Burzum / Gorgoroth
Released 1993- Lost Wisdom (1991 demo)
- Spell of Destruction (1991 demo)
- Channeling the Power of Souls Into a New God
- A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit (Unreleased version)
- A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit (Aske version)
- My Key to Purgatory (Rough mix)
- Lost Wisdom (Rough mix)
- Gathered at Blakulla (intro) / Sexual Bloodgargling
- (Under) The Pagan Megalith (live in Germany)
- Katharinas Vortgang
- Crushing the Scepter (Regaining a Lost Dominion)
- Ritual
- Maancskuggens Slave
Unter den Flugeln von Satan
- En stram lukt av kristent blod (Intro)
- Bergtrollets hevn
- Gorgoroth
- Begravelsesnatt
- Crushing the Scepter
- Ritual
- Sorg
- Heavens Fall
- Katharinas bortgang
- Huldrelokk
- Under the Pagan Megalith
- Måneskyggens slave
- Drømmer om død
- Possessed (By Satan)
- Gathered at Blåkulla (demo)
- Sexual Bloodgargling (demo)
- Under the Pagan Megalith (demo)
- Katharinas bortgang (demo)
- Maaneskuggens slave (demo)
- Life Eternal
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Under the Sign of Hell
by: GorgorothGo out and see the churches how they are burning like
hell
When the devil is calling, when heaven is falling
Have you got a soul to sell
Now Satan is raping the nuns with joy
Now Jesus cries loud out in vain
There is no hope at all on earth or in heaven
When the angels have all been slained.Where were you when
the Devil was calling you
Didnt you hear the call from the lord. Now you see him
thrive. You see him killing thousands of gods warriors
just die away.
Frightened for the sake of your name forever and ever you
shall live like a fag you turned away and you follow your
god like a dog.
Now you are a worthless soul to save know it will forever
burn you in hell