WARNING: Tarihan is certainly neither a political nor an extreme ideological band, because we don't care about modernistic and materialistic ideologies!!! We don't believe in nationalism, because nationalism is a modernistic idea from the 19th century!!!
ACHTUNG: Tarihan ist mit Sicherheit weder eine politische noch eine extremistisch ausgerichtete Band, weil modernistische und materialistische Ideologien uns völlig gleichgültig sind!!! Wir glauben NICHT an den Nationalismus, weil der Nationalismus eine modernistische Idee aus dem 19. Jahrhundert ist!!!
Influences
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
César Franck (1822-1890)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
BATHORY:
Quorthon (1966-2004)
ABRUPTUM:
"Obscuritatem advoco amplectère me"
AMORPHIS:
"Tales from the Thousand Lakes"
ANATHEMA: "Serenades"
AR BLEIZI RUZ
ASPHYX: "The Rack"
ATROCITY:
"Todessehnsucht", "Blut"
AT THE GATES: "With Fear
I Kiss the Burning Darkness"
AUTOPSY:
"Retribution for the Dead"
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
GRANVILLE BANTOCK:
"Celtic Symphony"
"A Hebridean Symphony"
BATHORY:
Debut, "The Return..."
"Under the Sign of the Black Mark"
"Blood Fire Death"
"Hammerheart"
"Twilight of the Gods"
"Blood on Ice"
"Nordland I & II"
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN:
"Piano Concerto No. 5"
BEHERIT:
"Drawing Down the Moon"
BELIAL: "Wisdom of Darkness"
GILLES BINCHOIS
BLACK SABBATH:
Debut, "Paranoid"
"Master of Reality", "Vol 4"
"Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
"Sabotage"
"Born Again"
"Tyr", "Dehumanizer"
BORKNAGAR:
"The Olden Domain"
ANTON BRUCKNER:
String Quintet in F major
Symphony No. 0 in D minor "Nullte"
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Symphony No. 2 in C minor
Symphony No. 3 in D minor "Wagner-Sinfonie"
Symphony No. 4 in E flat major "Romantische"
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Symphony No. 6 in A major
Symphony No. 7 in E major
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Dem lieben Gott"
with the fragments of the Finale;
"Helgoland", "Te Deum", Masses
CANDLEMASS: "Nightfall"
CARCASS: "Necroticism..."
CATHEDRAL:
"Forest of Equilibrium"
CELTIC FROST:
"Morbid Tales"
"To Mega Therion"
CHANGES: "Fire of Life"
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
CIRITH UNGOL:
"Frost and Fire"
CORONER: "R.I.P."
"Punishment for Decadence"
"No more Color"
CRUACHAN:
"Tuatha na Gael"
DARK MILLENNIUM:
"Ashore the Celestial Burden"
DARKTHRONE:
"Soulside Journey"
"A Blaze in the Northern Sky"
"Under a Funeral Moon"
"Transilvanian Hunger"
DEAD CAN DANCE:
"Spleen and Ideal"
"Within the Realm of a Dying Sun"
"The Serpent's Egg", "Aion"
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
DEPECHE MODE:
"Singles 86 - 90"
THE DOORS
ELECTRIC WIZARD:
"Witchcult Today"
EMPEROR: Split
"In the Nightside Eclipse"
"Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk"
ENSLAVED: "Frost", "Eld"
EPITAPH (GRAFSKRIFT):
"Medieval Iceland"
EUCHARIST:
"A Velvet Creation"
FALKENBACH:
"...en their medh riki fara..."
CÉSAR FRANCK
GAË BOLG AND THE
CHURCH OF FAND:
"Tintagel"
"La ballade de l'Ankou"
GARMARNA: Debut
GRAVELAND:
"The Celtic Winter"
"Thousand Swords"
"Immortal Pride"
HA LELA: "Pabudimas"
ARTHUR HONEGGER:
"Symphony No. 4
Deliciae Basilienses"
IMMORTAL:
"Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism"
IN THE WOODS:
"HEart of the Ages"
IRON MAIDEN: Debut
"Killers"
"The Number of the Beast"
"Piece of Mind"
"Powerslave"
"Somewhere in Time"
"Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
"No Prayer for the Dying"
GUSTAV MAHLER:
Symphony No. 1 in D major "Titan"
Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Symphony No. 6 in A minor
Symphony No. 7 in E minor "Lied der Nacht"
Symphony No. 9
Symphony No. 10: Adagio
MASTER'S HAMMER:
"The Jilemnice Occultist"
MAYHEM: "Live in Leipzig"
"De Mysteriis dom Sathanas"
MEGADETH: "Peace Sells..."
"Rust in Peace"
MERCYFUL FATE: "Melissa"
"Don't break the Oath"
"In the Shadows"
METALLICA: "Kill 'em all"
"Ride the Lightning"
"Master of Puppets"
STEFAN MICKISCH
MITHOTYN:
"King of the Distant Forest"
MORBID ANGEL:
"Abominations of Desolation"
"Blessed are the Sick"
"Covenant", "Domination"
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
NEGURA BUNGET: "OM"
NEIDHART VON REUENTAL
OBTAINED ENSLAVEMENT:
"Soulblight"
OVERKILL:
"Under the Influence"
PARADISE LOST:
"Lost Paradise"
PERUNWIT: "W kregu debow"
PESTILENCE:
"Testimony of the Ancients"
BASIL POLEDOURIS:
"Conan the Barbarian"
POSSESSED:
"Seven Churches"
"Beyond the Gates"
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
SAMAEL: "Worship Him"
SATYRICON:
"Dark Medieval Times"
"The Shadowthrone"
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN:
Piano Sonatas
SENTENCED:
"North from here"
SEPULTURA:
"Schizophrenia", "Arise"
SEQUENTIA: "Edda"
"The Rheingold Curse"
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
JEAN SIBELIUS:
"The Swan of Tuonela"
Symphonies No. 1 - 7
SLAYER: "Show no Mercy"
"Haunting the Chapel"
"South of Heaven"
LIEF SOERBYE:
"Folk Music from Norway"
STORM: "Nordavind"
RICHARD STRAUSS:
"Also sprach Zarathustra"
"Eine Alpensinfonie"
SYNAULIA:
"Music from Ancient Rome"
TEMNOZOR:
"Sorcery of Fragments"
THERION:
"Ho Drakon Ho Megas"
TIAMAT: "The Astral Sleep"
TRITONUS: "Alpan -
Schweizer Volksmusik aus
der Vor-Ländlerzeit"
TROLL: "Drep de..."
TUMULUS: "Sredokresie"
ULVER: "Bergtatt"
UNANIMATED:
"Ancient God of Evil"
UNHOLY: "From the Shadows"
VELES:
"Night on the Bare Mountain"
VENOM: "Welcome to Hell"
"Black Metal"
"The Seven Gates of Hell"
RICHARD WAGNER
"Rienzi"
"Der fliegende Holländer"
"Tannhäuser", "Lohengrin"
"Das Rheingold"
"Die Walküre"
"Siegfried"
"Götterdämmerung"
"Tristan und Isolde"
"Die Meistersinger..."
"Parsifal"
WALDTEUFEL:
"Rauhnacht", "Sanguis"
WEJDAS:
"Dykra - Die Welt ohne Rahmen"
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR
WITCHCRAFT: Debut
"Firewood", "The Alchemist"
WONGRAVEN: "Fjelltronen"
and Bagpipe-Music, Renaissance, Sitar, Hardrock...
PHILOSOPHEN UND METAPHYSIKER:
Plotin (neoplatonism) (ca. 205-270)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
(1486-1535)
("De Occulta Philosophia")
Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)
Saint Germain (??? - ???)
Rasputin (1864/65 - killed in 1916)
Baron Julius Evola (1898-1974)
Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998)
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994)
Sergius Golowin (1930-2006)
Bhagavad-Gita, Edda
DICHTER UND LITERATEN / POETS AND WRITERS:
Hartmann von Aue (ca. 1200)
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
(ca. 1621-1676)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mika Waltari, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Ludwig Ganghofer, Gustav Meyrink, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dante Alighieri
HISTORISCHE PERSÖNLICHKEITEN:
S.M. König Ludwig II. von Bayern
(1845 - (killed?) 1886)
Tatanka Yotanka
(Chief Sitting Bull)
(1831 - killed in 1890)
Imperator Julian "Apostata", Widukind, Herzog Burkhart I. von Schwaben (ehemals Markgraf von Chur-Rätien), Otto III. (dei gratia Romanorum Imperator Augustus), Boleslaw Chrobry, Andreas Hofer, Kaiserin Elisabeth I. von Österreich
FILME / MOVIES:
Excalibur, Conan the Barbarian, The Lord of the Rings (3 parts), Alfred the Great, Und ewig singen die Wälder, Moby Dick, Andreas Hofer - die Freiheit des Adlers, Anuk - der Weg des Kriegers, Ludwig II. (1955), Die Wikinger, Der Kampf um Rom, Baschis Vergeltung, Der Name der Rose, Die Käserei in der Vehfreude, Der schwarze Tanner, Schloss Hubertus
TARIHAN is one of the oldest Pagan
Metal bands of Switzerland. It's the
one-man-band of Herr T. (born in 1975),
who has got Baltic Prussian and Polish ancestors,
and who was already very interested since
the 5th primary class in the year 1986
(!) for ancient Celtic, Germanic, Roman
and medieval history and paganism,
but also for other ancient European
cultures and ages. In 1990 he decided
to play Heavy Metal music (inspirated
by IRON MAIDEN), respectively Thrash
Metal (MEGADETH, CORONER). One year
later, in the spring of 1991, he found a
one-man-project, which was actually
called PAGANS and rather sounded in
the way of Death Metal, but from a
very simple quality. After this beginning,
PESTILENCE, ASPHYX, CARCASS and
MORBID ANGEL were the new influences.
But BATHORY became finally to the
main inspiration for T., who released in
February 1993 a demo-cassette with
eight songs. The name of his band was
now MUSPILLI, because an other band
called PAGAN already existed. MUSPILLI
was still in the way of Death Metal with
a very cacophonous sound, but with some
unique Doom Metal and
rocking Heavy Metal elements.
During the year
1993, T. was more and more influenced
by the archaic spirit of the Norwegian
Black Metal, but also by the bands EUCHARIST,
DARK MILLENNIUM ("Ashore the celestial
burden"), MASTER'S HAMMER (CZ), old
VENOM and even by the fairy sound of
DEAD CAN DANCE. In the winter of 1994/95,
T. changed ultimately the name of his
band in TARIHAN, that means in Old High
German (early Middle Age) "dark" or "hidden",
but "tar/ter" has also got another ancient
Germanic meaning in connection with
forests, too. In 1995, T. has got the last
influences from the Metal scene, especially
from folk sounds (CRUACHAN, ISENGARD,
GRAVELAND, EMPEROR). Some very rare
demo-cassettes of TARIHAN were released
since 1995, one of them was titled "Among
spirits I wander beyond the mist...". After
that tape, T. considered to write the lyrics
in future in German language, sometimes
even in High Alamannic dialect (Swiss German).
Between the times T. played bass in the
Symphonic Black Death Metal band ONO
TURMNA together with three other musicians.
They released the CD "In stiller Trauer"
in the spring of 1997 on Celtic Mountains
Productions. T. began afterwards slowly to
estrange from the Metal scene and after a
last demo recording for TARIHAN in 1998,
he played for a couple of years even no
music. But he began to study with a lot of
enthusiam the complete works of the
romantic dramatist, poet and revolutionary
of music Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
T. started in 2001 to play music again and
recorded in the autumn of 2002 the green
album of TARIHAN "Hohe Tannen", that means
"High firs (fir-trees)". The reason for that
recording was "to finish ultimately the old
burden from the 90s". The CD "Hohe Tannen"
was released in 2003.
Since this release, T. is still working for a
new TARIHAN album with the title
"Bergkristall", that means "Rock Crystal".
That forthcoming material shouldn't have
any similarity to the last album ("I don't
like to record two times the same thing").
Even the vocals will be completely in a
clean and melodic bariton style with some
choirs, no more screams. Only the electric
guitar will remain as the main instrument.
So the new CD shall sound in an ultra
melodic, elevating and deeply affecting
way with new tunes and cadences, which
are influenced by the monumental romantic
music of the 19th century and still never
before heard in the Metal scene. However,
TARIHAN don't want to sound progressive.
The most important influences for TARIHAN
are nowadays apart from Richard Wagner
the monumental ten symphonies of the
Austrian "mystic of sound" Anton Bruckner
(1824-1896), besides the unique sound
spaces of the French impressionist Claude
Debussy (1862-1918) or even the keyboard
works of the baroque master of the contrapuntal
general-bass Johann Sebastian Bach, in
addition to other influences (Renaissance,
Bagpipe-music, Hard Rock).
T. doesn't feel himself anymore as a
part of the Metal scene nor as a part
of any other scene. So he refuses certainly
every unilateral orientation for dark
depressive sounds. TARIHAN want to
express the ancient pagan spirit of the
Alpine centre of Europe that strives to the
primeval Grail's light in the eternal
higher transcendental reality and cosmic infinity.
"Music is the gate to a spiritual dimension."
TARIHAN are actually NOT a political band.
TARIHAN don't sympathize with any political
party nor movement. But this apolitical
way doesn't mean that TARIHAN would
agree with each common social
consensus. Being apolitical means, to stand ABOVE all politics!
Release date for the new CD "Bergkristall":
Possibly some day in this century.
TARIHAN
"For getting a right view, it never suffices
to get a different opinion, even though it
suffices nowadays to get the same
opinion, for being wrong."
"Um richtig zu urteilen, genügt es nie,
anderer Meinung zu sein, wenn es auch
heutzutage genügt, gleicher Meinung zu
sein, um zu irren."
Nicolas Gomez Davila
DISCOGRAPHY:
PAGANS - (Demo Tape 1991)
MUSPILLI - Chaos Terrible (demo tape 1993)
BERSERK'R - Autumn of Hatred (demo tape 1994)
TARIHAN - Among Spirits I wander Beyond the Mist (demo tape 1995)
TARIHAN - Drachenhort (demo tape 1996)
TARIHAN - Des Wüterichs Rabenzauber (demo tape 1998)
TARIHAN - Hohe Tannen (CD 2003), Ulfhednirs Records
TARIHAN - Der Waldgänger (1 song demo CD-R 2005)
Other Releases with Herr T.:
CREMATE - Crematorium (demo tape 1992)
BOPHOTEM OF GOLDEN SHIELDS - Warrior from Beyond
(demo tape 1994)
ONO TURMNA - In stiller Trauer (CD 1997), Celtic Mountains Productions
TARIHAN anno 1995
DER SCHLAFENDE KAISER IM BERG
(For English translation look at the blog:
"The Sleeping Emperor in the Mountain")
Zur Blüte im Hochmittelalter
war des Himmels Erdenwalter
nicht der Papst, sondern, viel weiser,
Friedrich Zwei, der Stauferkaiser.
Von Sizilien stieg er auf,
Normannenspross und Hohenstauf',
der sonnenhaft im Geist erhellt':
sein Reich war nicht von dieser Welt!
Irminen sahen mit Entzücken
auf des Krönungsmantels Rücken
- goldgestickt am Purpurkleid -
die Irmensäul' der Heidenheit.
Der edle Kaiser Friederich
beherrschte denn ganz ritterlich
Italien, Teutschland hoch zu Ross
und von Apuliens Achteckschloss.
In ehern' Harnisch stand bereit
- dem Papst zu widersteh'n im Streit -
die Ritterschaft für GOTOS Ruhm
und hehres Ghibellinentum!
Die Talschaft Schwyz - für Friedrichs Streit -
erhielt Reichsunmittelbarkeit;
so wurzelt auf des Kaisers Kraft
die Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft.
Zur gold'nen Hohenstaufenzeit,
da währte alle Herrlichkeit
und was nach höher'n Weihen rang,
wie Gralsverklärung, Minnesang.
Des Grales Licht - vom heil'gen Norden -
pflag der Tempelritter Orden;
Gotik wies zu Äthersphären,
Überwelten zu verklären...
Der Kaiser, der uns so beglückt',
ist nie gestorben, nur entrückt!
Im Berge schlafend wartet er
auf Felsenthron mit Schwert und Wehr.
Ob Kyffhäuser, ob Untersberg,
solang' das Interregnum währt,
umkreist von Raben in der Not,
da schläft der Staufer scheinbar tot.
Doch wenn umwächst sein roter Bart
den Tisch dreimal, an dem er harrt,
dann wird der Kaiser neu erwachen
und sich auf, zur Rückkehr, machen!
TARIHAN: "Bergkristall"
TARIHAN anno 1996
RICHARD WAGNER UND DER TIERSCHUTZ
(English translation below)
"Unerhörtes Werk!
Du konntest morden? Hier im heil'gen Walde,
des stiller Friede dich umfing?
Des Haines Tiere nahten dir nicht zahm,
grüssten dich freundlich und fromm?
Aus den Zweigen, was sangen die Vöglein dir?
Was tat dir der treue Schwan?
Sein Weibchen zu suchen flog der auf,
mit ihm zu kreisen über dem See,
den so er herrlich weihte zum heilenden Bad:
dem stauntest du nicht, dich lockt' es nur
zu wild kindischem Bogengeschoss? -
Er war uns hold: was ist er nun dir?
Hier - schau' her! - hier trafst du ihn:
da starrt noch das Blut, matt hängen die Flügel;
das Schneegefieder dunkel befleckt, -
gebrochen das Aug', siehst du den Blick?
Wirst du deiner Sündentat inne? -"
(Parsifal, 1. Aufzug. Tatsächlich setzte
sich Wagner für den Tierschutz ein und
verfasste eine Schrift gegen Tierversuche -
im 19. Jahrhundert!!!)
RICHARD WAGNER AND THE PREVENTION
OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
"Unheard-of deed!
And couldst thou kill, here, in the holy forest,
with peaceful stillness all around thee?
Did not the woodland beasts come nigh thee fearlessly?
Greeting thee in pious friendship?
From the branches, what sang the birds for thee?
The faithful swan, what had he done to thee?
He was but flying off to seek his mate,
to cross over the lake together,
bringing lordly benison to its healing waters.
How wast not amazed? Thou thoughtest only,
like a boy, of thy murderous bow.
We loved him: what is he now to thee?
Here - look thou here! - here thou woundedst him,
here clots the blood, limp hang the wings,
the snowy feathers dark-bespeckled,
his eye is dulled, see how he looks!
Art conscious now how thou hast sinned?"
(Parsifal, Act I. Wagner supported actually
the prevention of cruelty against animals
and wrote against vivisections - in the 19th
century!!!)
Herr Wolfram von Eschenbach
(ca. 1170 - ca. 1220):
(Parzival I, 5, 235, 15)
"nâch den kom diu künegin.
ir antlütze gap den schîn
si wânden alle ez wolde tagen.
man sach die maget an ir tragen
pfellel von Arâbî.
ûf einem grüenen achmardî
truoc si den wunsch von pardîs,
bêde wurzeln unde rîs
daz was ein dinc, daz hiez der grâl,
erden wunsches überwal.
Repanse de schoy si hiez,
die sich der grâl tragen liez.
der grâl was von sölher art:
wol muose ir kiusche sîn bewart,
diu sîn ze rehte solde pflegen:
diu muose valsches sich bewegen."
ZITATE VON KAISER JULIAN "APOSTATA":
(Flavius Claudius Iulianus, geb. 331, gefallen 363,
letzter heidnischer Kaiser des Römischen Reiches und neuplatonischer Philosoph)
"Eine brennende Sehnsucht nach den Strahlen des Sonnengottes war von früh an mir angeboren. Schon als kleines Kind richtete ich meine Aufmerksamkeit angestrengt auf das Himmelslicht und hörte nicht auf, unverwandt nach ihm zu schauen. Sooft ich nachts bei wolkenlosem, klaren Himmel nach draussen ging, liess ich alles andere stehen und starrte die Schönheit des Firmaments an. Ich hörte nicht, wenn jemand etwas zu mir sagte, noch merkte ich, was ich selbst tat. In dem Alter, wo mir der Bart zu spriessen begann, hielt man mich für einen Astrologen. Doch war mir, weiss Gott, bis dahin noch kein diesbezügliches Buch in die Hände geraten, und ich wusste nicht, um was es sich dabei überhaupt handelt."
"Aus dem einen Gott von dem einen intelligiblen Kosmos ist der eine König Helios hervorgegangen, inmitten der intellektuellen Götter der Mittlere in absoluter Mittelstellung, welche in harmonischer Liebe die Gegensätze zusammenführt, Helios, der das Letzte mit dem Ersten zur Einigung bringt, der die Mitte der Vollkommenheit, der Bindung, des zeugenden Lebens und des eingestaltigen Seins in sich vereinigt, der der Urheber der verschiedenen Güter für den sichtbaren Kosmos ist, den er nicht nur mit seinem eigenen Lichtstrahl umfängt, schmückt und erleuchtet, sondern der auch dem Sein der Sonnenengel Substanz mit sich gibt, der den ungewordenen Grund der werdenden Dinge umschliesst und noch vor ihm den alterslosen und unveränderlichen Seinsgrund der ewigen Materie."
I am now
recording for a new set of releases called the "Persona Series". These
cassettes will be commissioned works (not by content, but by payment)
for individuals. If John Smith in London, England wants his own Zebulon
Kosted album, I will make a 45 minute album (one side of a 90 minute
tape), 2 hand drawn mini posters, I will name the album after him
(Zebulon Kosted - John Smith), and the fan will retain all rights to
the recording (for use of any future release, sampling, or broadcasting
rights). One copy of the album will remain in my personal collection,
and one will be sent to the customer, so that the only copy that will
be in circulation will be John Smiths copy! Each album is available for
the ridiculously low price of $10 (not including shipping), and will be
shipped in its completed form no later than 6 weeks from the date of
purchase!!!
Hey what's up? we have uploaded one new song: LEPRECHAUN, write us your comment about it, also you can read the new interview we gave to vilenoise, you can read it at www. vilenoise. com keep in touch!
Que tranza banda, ya subimos una nueva rola: LEPRECHAUN, escribenos tu comentario. Tambien puedes leer la entrevista que dimos a la pagina vilenoise, ingresa a www. vilenoise. com y ahi puedes checarla, andamos en contacto!
Regards, Giants of Stone invites you to listen to our song " Blood and Heroism ", taken of the Demo Heathen Woods of 2007 remade, Soon Full-length in 2009, Pagan Black Metal!!! Greetings from Colombia..
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