In recognition of 1349's influences, the band performed a cover of Mayhem's "Buried by Time and Dust" on their debut album, Liberation. At 1349's live shows, the band has also covered Celtic Frost, whom vocalist Ravn cites as his principal influence.
1349 tours on a regular basis. The band's live shows often begin with Frost and guitarist Archaon breathing fire. In 2006, 1349 toured the US with Celtic Frost. Ravn also appeared on the Celtic Frost album Monotheist (2006), performing guest vocals on the CD digipack bonus track, "Temple of Depression". In 2007, during the French Hellfest festival, 1349 was slated to play during the day, but asked to reschedule their appearance to play in the dark instead. During 1349's appearance at the Oslo Inferno Metal Festival in March 2008, the band was joined on stage by Celtic Frost frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer for a rendition of the Celtic Frost song "The Usurper". In September 2008, 1349 toured with Carcass, Suffocation, Aborted and Rotten Sound on the Exhume to Consume Tour.
A music video for "Sculptor of Flesh" was released following the release of Hellfire (2005). The video, directed by Judd Tilyard, alternates between footage of the band performing the song in Norway and clips of surgery filmed in Australia.
During late 2008, 1349 recorded its fourth album, Revelations of the Black Flame. The album was co-mixed by Tom Gabriel Fischer, and was released in Europe on 25 May 2009. Revelations of the Black Flame marked a change in direction for the band, as songs on the album were slower than previous releases, and there were also some dark ambient and industrial-tinged tracks.
At the beginning of 2010 the band signed a contract with Indie Recordings for the release of its fifth album in Europe, with Prosthetic Records distributing the album in North America.
1349 toured with Cannibal Corpse, Skeletonwitch, and Lecherous Nocturne on the Evisceration Plague Tour, in April–May 2010. The band also performed at the Wacken Open Air and Summer Breeze Open Air festivals in August 2010.
1349 released its fifth album, Demonoir, on 26 April 2010. The album shows a return to 1349's earlier sound, before Revelations of the Black Flame, while continuing the low-fi production and ambient sensibilities of Revelations. 1349 toured Canada and the United States with Tom Gabriel Fischer's project Triptykon in October 2010. A deluxe box set of Demonoir was released in October 2011. The band's first live DVD, titled Hellvetia Fire – The Official 1349 Bootleg, was released on 24 October 2011 by Candlelight Records. It was filmed at Bikini Test La Chaux De Fonds in Switzerland in 2005.
In October 2013, the band began recording their sixth studio album, called Massive Cauldron of Chaos. On 10 December, the band announced that the record was finished, and it was released on 29 September 2014, via Indie Recordings.
In February 2017, it was announced that 1349 have now signed to Season of Mist and are now said to be in the process of writing their seventh studio album, which is set to be released in 2018
Riders of the Apocalypse
1349 Lyrics
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With a blazing demon
We paint the night sky red
With the blood of god's angels
We piss on the tormented souls
Of religious believers
We rape the Virgin Mary
To create an Anti-Christ
This is the war of angels
This is the war of demons
This is the war of heaven
This is the war of hell
Burning angels falling
(Their) corpses littering the ground
We crush the pearly gates
Burn all heaven down
We quench the sun
And burn the moon
Remove Jehova
And welcome Emptiness
This is the war of angels
This is the war of demons
This is the war of heaven
This is the war of hell
Walk through the valley of death
Smell the stench of decay
As the war is ending
They will curse this day
On this day Death walks the earth
Reaping all mandkind
As the sky burns we march forward
Crushing, tormenting and raping the
World
Hunt down all survivors, living in fear
We ride with death so no one is
Spared
What once were will never be again
(Because) the horseman of death
Brings the world to an end!
The lyrics of 1349's song "Riders of the Apocalypse" describe a brutal scene of warfare between angels and demons. The singer is riding on burning wings alongside a blazing demon, and together they are painting the night sky red with the blood of God's angels. They are defiling religious beliefs, raping the Virgin Mary to create an Anti-Christ and pissing on the tormented souls of religious believers. This is a violent and gruesome depiction of the ultimate war between good and evil, where both sides are fighting to claim victory and ascend to power.
The lyrics are not only describing a physical skirmish but also suggest a metaphysical battle between Heaven and Hell. The singer talks about burning the gates of heaven down and removing Jehovah from his throne. The theme of the end of the world is also present, with Death walking the earth and reaping all mankind. The lyrics demonstrate the destruction and chaos that wars can bring and how they can strip away everything humanity once held dear.
Line by Line Meaning
I ride on burning wings
I soar with the power of the inferno beneath me
With a blazing demon
Spirited away by the devil's might, I ride through the flames
We paint the night sky red
Our destructive tendencies leave behind a trail of chaos and carnage
With the blood of god's angels
The cost of our madness is the lives of those who once flew among the divine
We piss on the tormented souls
We delight in the torment of those who cling to faith in a higher power
Of religious believers
We take pleasure in the misery and suffering of those who have different beliefs from us
We rape the Virgin Mary
We embrace the darkest perversions to bring about the ultimate destruction
To create an Anti-Christ
Our malevolent acts lead to the birth of the ultimate force of evil
This is the war of angels
Angels and demons battle for supremacy in the great war
This is the war of demons
The infernal forces seek to consume and destroy all purity and light
This is the war of heaven
The divine and the damned wage war amongst the clouds
This is the war of hell
The abyss boils over with rage and malice as the battle wages on
Burning angels falling
Even the greatest of the heavenly host are consumed by the flames of war
(Their) corpses littering the ground
Only death and destruction remain in the wake of the battle's fury
We crush the pearly gates
The very symbol of divine power is shattered under our might
Burn all heaven down
Our flames erase all trace of the divine realm
We quench the sun
Even the light of day is extinguished under our dark influence
And burn the moon
The very sky is set ablaze and consumed by our hatred
Remove Jehova
The very source of divine control is vanquished by our indiscriminate fury
And welcome Emptiness
Only the void remains in the absence of all that once existed
Walk through the valley of death
Amidst the carnage and ruin, only death and despair remain
Smell the stench of decay
The foul odor of death hangs heavy in the air
As the war is ending
The great conflict comes to its inevitable conclusion
They will curse this day
Those who survive will only lament the tragedies of the day's events
On this day Death walks the earth
In the wake of the carnage, only death remains
Reaping all mandkind
Humanity is consumed by the aftermath of the battle
As the sky burns we march forward
In the midst of the inferno, we continue to march towards our ultimate goal
Crushing, tormenting and raping the
Only destruction lies in our wake as we take delight in our evil deeds
World
The very world itself is consumed by our infernal might
Hunt down all survivors, living in fear
Even those who remain are not safe from our wrath and violence
We ride with death so no one is
We have embraced death as our ally in our quest for ultimate power
Spared
No one is safe from our wrath in this time of great conflict
What once were will never be again
The world itself has been irrevocably altered by the destructive forces at play
(Because) the horseman of death
Our very presence brings destruction and ruin to all that we come into contact with
Brings the world to an end!
In the wake of our ultimate triumph, the world itself crumbles and fades into nothingness
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Willem Dafuck?
Love this song.
Noel Schmidt
Fucking awesome! I love this riffs
WitchyHxryn
Masterpiece
Sherwood Lovehead
Could you imagine being in that pit from 3:00 on? Brutal
Erwin Janssen
Respect from belgium
Oscar Cartes
Brutal lml