Saltatio Mortis - Darkenguard feat. Blind Guardian (Official Video) Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- My reaction to Saltatio Mortis-Darkenguard ft. Blind Guardian.
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Thank you for your reaction. The whole album is based on the big german tabletop RPG "The Dark eye". The orcs are an german orc larping clan, who are wearing there selfmade outfits. There is also a novell about the stroy and you can see the author (Bernhard Hennen) dieing while passing the scroll in the begining of the video.
The surviving guards are the bandmembers.
The captain is the singer (Alea), the guy who died first is Luzy one of the backpipe players, the guy who died at the tree is the bassplayer (Brother Frank) the guy who sacrificed himself in the battle is Till the Guitarplayer. The last survivors are Jean the drummer (with the black hair) and Christian the second backpiper. The last survivor is Falk and he playes the hurdy gurdy, he also playes the flute. In fact most of them are multi instrumentalists and can play several instruments. Most of the extras aren't actors (if any) but friends and fans from our local medieval and LARP scene. They also bring their own constumes, thats why SaMo can afford such migthy videos.
Falk also wrote an adventure module for The Dark Eye (together with a former band member) twenty years ago.
Which was a lovely nugget of information I just found out very recently.
A nice reaction! :)
A bit of background:
Finsterwacht (as the original title of the song) was the first single from Saltatio Mortis' concept album Finsterwacht ("dark watch" or "Darkenguard"), an hommage to the famous German tabletop RPG Das Schwarze Auge (DSA)/The Dark Eye (TDE) for it's 40 years aniversary, and for their "Burgentour 2024" (castle tour) with many concerts at castles. The box contains the CD, a novel (one of the authors - Bernhard Hennen - is the one, who dies on the field after handing out the map), a tabletop adventure book (solo adventure, choose your own adventure style) and dice. Saltatio Mortis is a German medieval rock band, but they also mix in different music styles - the band members all play different instruments, nearly all backpipes. There are 5 singles out: Fintserwacht, "Schwarzer Strand" ("black beach"), "Feuer und Erz" ("Fire Ore" - also with the choir), "Der Himmel muss warten" ("Heaven has to wait") and "We might be giants". There are also (German) making of videos for most of the music videos.
DSA/TDE might be the RPG with the longest living history worldwide. The Finsterwacht (Darkenguard) are a line of towers/beacons in the mountains of Finsterkamm, as last line of defense between the lands of humans and orcs (as seen in the video) at Heldentrutz, a part of Weiden in the Middenrealm at the continent of Aventuria. Their function is to warn the people as seen in the video. Saltatio Mortis (latin for "dance of the death") is the group trying to reach this goal in the video - all 7 members are in the video. The orkensturm was an event, when the orcs attacked the Middenrealm some years ago (ingame). Rondra, who is sung about in the chant/prayer, is the goddess of honorable fight etc.
The video took only 4 days of shooting at Burg Lichtenberg (Lichtenberg Castle), Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with a lot of LARPers - which is why they have such good costumes. The choir at the beginning and end is the Prague orchestra (there is also a making of). Hansi from Blind Guardian sings most of the chorus and also the chant, sometimes alone, sometimes with Saltatio Mortis' lead singer Alea (the blonde, bearded guy - second last one who dies).
And there is a director's cut with a narrator, telling the story of the video (so not an music video) - but only in German yet. But I think you got most of it :)
ruclips.net/video/kSgBbfep4vU/видео.html
Aaaand there is an 1:20 h ambiance album, as accompaniment for novel and solo: ruclips.net/video/po3ZdP1az4c/видео.html
This is the English translated version of their song "Finsterwacht". That's why their mouthing is a bit off in the group chanting scene. The lyrics are extremely close to the German ones, I'm actually surprised how well that transfer went.
The Finsterwacht album is related to the tabletop role-playing game "Das Schwarze Auge" (aka DSA, translates to The Black Eye), launched in 1984, which has spawned computer games and novels too. In the English speaking areas, it was marketed as "Realms of Arkania" and "The Dark Eye".
The guy who dies on field in the beginning after handing over the map (5:00 in your reaction), is Bernhard Hennen, who had co-authored the tie-in novel for the album and has written some DSA novels prior. Nikolai Hoch, the DSA chief editor at Ulisses Spiele (game publisher who holds the rights for DSA since 2007) plays an armorer at the castle/ on the wall (16:40).
You've missed a little easteregg at the very end of the video.
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the voiceover in the german version is read by a german writer called Bernhard Hennen.....i think the englisch version also
call them SaMo
The band members are all German (both of Saltatio Mortis and of Blind Guardian), and even if most of them speak and sing a decent English, they are no voice actors. The German version of the intro was read by a professional voice actor (who I think had also read the audiobook of the tie-in-novel for the project mentioned below). The English narrator is someone else, but so far, I have not yet found out, who. I'd guess it is a native speaker or very close to that.
As for the Song: SaMo do a mixture of medieval music, folk and metal, while BG mostly do (Fantasy themed) Power Metal - I think this song is a perfect mix of the best of both bands.
Some of the band members are not only into medieval music, but also in LARP and Cosplay and decidedly have fun doing stuff like that.
(If you don't have already, check out "Pray to the Hunter" by them.)
This, however, is by far their most epic video so far (which says a lot, IMHO, because the others are quite amazing, too).
It is also the first one for which they hired a professional camera crew because the production was too big and there were too many scenes to be shot at night.
Most scenes were shot at and in close distance to Burg Lichtenberg, a medieval German castle, during 4 consecutive days. (As Blind Guardian had another assignment that very weekend, they can be heard in the song, but were unable to take part in the video. Just in case you wondered were they were.)
Call them samo , makes it easyer
Thank you for the reaction!
This is the English version of their original German song "Finsterwacht" feat. Blind Guardian too. I have loved the original, I also love this one.