After the release of Kill for Satan, Arak Draconiiz moved away from Oslo, and was replaced by Pål. In October 2001, Svendsen had to leave the band, because he got tendinitis in both arms. Guitarist Pål also left the band due to his working hours. Svendsen was replaced by Jontho of Ragnarok, and this line-up recorded from December 2001 to January 2002, which became the band's second studio album Demonic Possession, which was released through Drakkar Productions in 2002. Norwegian label Mester Productions also re-released the Throne of the Goat EP on picture disc in a limited edition of 666 copies that same year. In 2003, the recovered Svendsen returned to Tsjuder, replacing the drummer Jontho. The band signed to the French label Season of Mist in April 2004, and, after striking this new deal, their third full-length Desert Northern Hell was released in November 2004. Tsjuder toured Europe with Carpathian Forest in early 2005.
As of 2006 the band had split up, but reunited to play at Wacken Open Air festival in August 2011 and continued to tour afterwards. A fourth studio album, Legion Helvete was released in October 2011 and a fifth, Antiliv, in September 2015. The band are reportedly working on a sixth album, originally scheduled for release in 2020, but without drummer Svendsen who left in June of the same year.
Musical style and lyrical themes
The music in Tsjuder is mainly written by Nag and Draugluin, citing as main musical inspirations, the black metal bands from the early 1980s and early 1990s such as Bathory, Celtic Frost, Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Immortal, Marduk, Mayhem, and "old" thrash metal bands Destruction, Kreator, Possessed, Sepultura, Slayer, and Sodom.
Tsjuder's lyrics are written prior to the music, and are based on topics such as darkness, death, evil, hatred, demons, antireligious themes, Satanism, horror films, and the fictional book Necronomicon, that appears in the stories of horror novelist H. P. Lovecraft, considered as a "great source of inspiration" by frontman Nag.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsjuder
Studio albums
Kill for Satan (2000)
Demonic Possession (2002)
Desert Northern Hell (2004)
Legion Helvete (2011)
Antiliv (2015)
Ghoul
Tsjuder Lyrics
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I walk the path of undead damnation
I hunger for the true kiss of the scythe
Dead flesh walking
Bloodless
Lifelessly deprived and forgotten
A holocaust soul
The black moon witnessed a soul entombment
Lifeless, faded and forever damned
My flesh still seeked the tombworld
But the path of damnation seemed endless
Bloodless
Lifelessly deprived and forgotten
Deadness
A holocaust soul
In the darkest chamber of my soul
The poisoned fire my only light
A dark embrace and madness prevail
The final filthy katharsis
Tsjuder's song "Ghoul" is a dark and morbid reflection on the state of the undead. The opening lines "Time is torment and my flesh is cold" set the tone for the rest of the song. The singer is cursed with eternal life and his physical form is a constant source of suffering. He is on a path of "undead damnation" and is trapped in a never-ending cycle of torment.
The second verse describes the soul of the singer as being "bloodless" and "lifelessly deprived and forgotten." He is a shell of a person, devoid of any life or meaning. The use of the word "holocaust" in this verse is particularly interesting - it conjures up images of mass destruction and devastation, giving the sense that the singer's soul has been destroyed in some way.
The third verse continues the theme of the singer's eternal damnation. The "black moon witnessed a soul entombment" suggests that he has been buried alive or trapped in some other way. His "flesh still seeked the tombworld" but he is unable to escape the path of damnation. The final lines of the song - "a dark embrace and madness prevail, the final filthy katharsis" - suggest that the singer has given up hope of ever escaping his curse and has resigned himself to a life of madness and despair.
Line by Line Meaning
Time is torment and my flesh is cold
I am in great anguish and pain, and I feel nothing but coldness within me.
I walk the path of undead damnation
I am cursed to wander the world as an undead being, stricken with eternal damnation.
I hunger for the true kiss of the scythe
I yearn for death and the release it will bring from my cursed existence.
Dead flesh walking
I am a walking corpse, devoid of life and any joy that comes with it.
Bloodless
I have lost all of my blood and am now a pale, colorless creature.
Lifelessly deprived and forgotten
I have been stripped of any semblance of a normal, happy life and left to wither away in obscurity.
Deadness
I am nothing but a shadow of my former self, dead both inside and out.
A holocaust soul
My soul has been plagued by destruction and devastation, much like that of a holocaust.
The black moon witnessed a soul entombment
My soul was laid to rest in a dark and desolate place, under the cold gaze of the black moon.
Lifeless, faded and forever damned
I am doomed to exist in a lifeless, colorless state, with no hope of salvation.
My flesh still seeked the tombworld
My body longed for the peace of the grave, even as my spirit remained trapped in this cursed existence.
But the path of damnation seemed endless
I saw no end in sight for my suffering and cursed existence, with no hope of escape or release from my torment.
In the darkest chamber of my soul
Deep within me, I carry a darkness that cannot be extinguished.
The poisoned fire my only light
The only thing that guides me through this darkness is a poisoned, corrupted flame that consumes me from within.
A dark embrace and madness prevail
Rather than feeling comfort in the darkness, I have been consumed by madness and despair that surrounds me.
The final filthy katharsis
The only way out of this cursed existence is through a final, filthy purification of my soul, which will bring an end to my suffering.
Contributed by Ryan L. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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Time is torment and my flesh is cold
I walk the path of undead damnation
I hunger for the true kiss of the scythe
Dead flesh walking
Bloodless
Lifelessly deprived and forgotten
Deadness
A holocaust soul
The black moon witnessed a soul entombment
Lifeless, faded and forever damned
My flesh still seeked the tombworld
But the path of damnation seemed endless
Bloodless
Lifelessly deprived and forgotten
Deadness
A holocaust soul
In the darkest chamber of my soul
The poisoned fire... my only light
A dark embrace and madness prevail
The final filthy katharsis
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beautiful
Shameful Presentations
One person has shitty music taste I see. This is some of the most brutal black metal.
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