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)
Morbid Lust
Tsjuder Lyrics
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So silent, so cold
Carried by a funeral wind
Seductive hellish desires
Her carnal tomb voice haunts me still
As I enter the city of death
Her lifeless breath
Restless morbid lust
In a coffin lies my beauty
Alone and awake waiting for me
Dressed only in white silk
The ravenous grim and
Those black eyes of yours
Your bluish skin for me to hold
My flesh hunger for the tomb world
For a kiss of your cold lips
Cold steel my veins are open
In a cold forgotten mausoleum
Where only the funeral wind blows
Where only death and grief blooms
Finally my flesh and bloodline ends
The lyrics to Tsjuder's song "Morbid Lust" describe a dark and macabre obsession with death and the desire to be united with the dead. The sepulchral whispers in the first line set the tone for the song, with the singer haunted by a ghostly voice that is both seductive and hellish. The funeral wind carries this voice, symbolizing the movement and progression of death. The singer's desires are described as carnal and morbid, suggesting a twisted yearning for the physical consummation of death.
The second stanza takes on a more intimate tone, describing a specific person that the singer is obsessed with. This person is described as lying in a coffin, dressed in white silk and waiting for the singer. The imagery suggests a desire for a marriage-like union with death, with the singer longing for the embrace of their beloved's cold, lifeless form. The final lines of the song suggest that the singer willingly sacrifices themselves to be united with their love, with the phrase "Finally my flesh and bloodline ends" indicating an acceptance of their own mortality.
Line by Line Meaning
Sepulchral whispers in the night
Eerie whispers coming from the graveyards in the silent, gloomy night.
So silent, so cold
The environment is brimmed with absolute silence and coldness.
Carried by a funeral wind
The sound of the whispers is carried by the wind that usually blows in cemeteries.
Seductive hellish desires
The dearth of a loved one is causing the artist to have seductive yet hellish desires.
Her carnal tomb voice haunts me still
The voice of his deceased beloved is still haunting him from the grave.
As I enter the city of death
The singer considers the graveyard as a city of death, and he is entering it to meet his beloved.
Her lifeless breath
Even though she is dead, she reminds him of her breath in his neck.
Restless morbid lust
The artist's lust for the deceased is unsettling and morbid.
In a coffin lies my beauty
The artist's beloved lies in a coffin in the grave.
Alone and awake waiting for me
Even though she is dead, she is waiting for the artist inside the coffin.
Dressed only in white silk
The deceased is wearing a simple white silk dress in her coffin.
The ravenous grim and
The artist is overwhelmed by the horrifying and dreadful reality of death.
Those black eyes of yours
The deceased had intensely black eyes, and the singer recalls it fondly.
Your bluish skin for me to hold
The singer desires to touch his beloved's chilly, bluish skin once again.
My flesh hunger for the tomb world
The singer yearns to be with his beloved in the afterlife, the world beyond the grave.
For a kiss of your cold lips
The artist desires to kiss his beloved's lips, which have turned cold due to death.
Cold steel my veins are open
The artist wants to die to be with his beloved and is ready to slit his veins open using cold steel tools.
In a cold forgotten mausoleum
The singer is inside a dark, abandoned mausoleum where he intends to take his own life.
Where only the funeral wind blows
The singer is in a place where only the sound of the wind that blows at funerals can be heard.
Where only death and grief blooms
The environment of the mausoleum is conducive to pain, loss, and sadness.
Finally my flesh and bloodline ends
The artist considers dying as the end of his love story and the end of himself.
Contributed by Evan Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@masterfrst6316
Sepulchral whispers in the night
So silent, so cold
Carried by a funeral wind
Seductive hellish desires
Her carnal tomb voice haunts me still
As I enter the city of death
Her lifeless breath
Restless morbid lust
In a coffin lies my beauty
Alone and awake... waiting for me
Dressed only in white silk
The ravenous grim and
Those black eyes of yours
Your bluish skin for me to hold
My flesh hunger for the tomb world
For a kiss of your cold lips
Cold steel... my veins are open
In a cold forgotten mausoleum
Where only the funeral wind blows
Where only death and grief blooms
Finally my flesh and bloodline ends
@dalazo
One of Norway's finest in the arsenal of fierce black metal, always loved the ruthless pace of this album and this song is a good testiment to that.
@mutantalbert
11 minute masterpiece
@j1shin
9:53 awesome riff \m/
@pepsi-mcrib
The opening riff is pure thrash metal.
@miguelangellunacarrasco2840
this is actually good with clearly Motörhead's strong influence
@morempire
4:09 Oh my... Here it starts the evilness at its best
@ahmadotair9644
One of the best ever miss it
@BATHORY1979
Always Crushes! \\m//
@eduardoleon9431
una obra maestra del black metal.
@maniosminos3224
i love it!