Music Teacher Reacts: Valhalleluja by Nanowar of Steel
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2023
- Music teacher reaction and analysis to Valhalleluja by Nanowar of Steel.
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Watching people listen the first time to Nanowar of steel never gets old.
100% true, always fun and lmao 😂😂😂
Listening to Nonowar of Steel the first time is like being born again! 😂
I agree, especially when it's this song with its off-the-charts awesomeness!
I believe that the "we don't know where they are" line was because the vikings never visited those places.
The pronunciation of the words like "guitar" is just because they have some Italian accent, so the pronunciation is not canonic American slang or perfect British accent.
"Gloria patri fornituribus" (Glory to the Father of the fornitures) is in latin (fornituribus is not proper latin but a mock of the English word "forniture"), the purple-pinkish part is Hebrew and it's inspired to the "shemà Israel" (שמע ישראל י*ה*ו*ה אלהינו י*ה*ו*ה אחד - Listen, Israel. YHWH is our God. YHWH is one.), possibily the most important prayer in the Jewish religion, but it's referred to Odin by saying something that can roughly be translated into "Listen, Yggdrasill (The Nordic Tree of Life). Odin is God. Odin is one."
thank you for the last explanation, very appreciated , never got it until now
Nice info! Also, Yggdrasil is the tree where Odin hang himself in act of self sacrifice to gain the favour of the 'nornas' and learn the power of the runes. The more you know, the more deep you can go on the joke 😂 nanowar of steel are a band of genius 🦝
FURNITURE..
Nicely done, except on the Yggdrasill part: It's often called the "Tree of Life" or some such nonsense in pop culture. Yggdrasill is the world tree that stretches over all Nine Realms. It is never explicitly associated with life in any Old Norse sources, it's just the foundation of pre-Christian Norse cosmology. Another fun fact is that Yggdrasill literally means "Odinhorse" (Yggr being one of Odin's many names), likely a reference to Odin hanging himself from it, thus "riding" the tree. However, the one and only primary source we have of Odin hanging himself doesn't actually make it explicit that the tree in question was Yggdrasill (though it likely was).
@@cristianstark9411 "Nornir" if you want the Old Norse plural, "Norns" if you wanna anglisise it. Don't know where you're getting "nornas" from. Anyway, the Nornir are not at all mentioned in the context of Odin's self-sacrifice and learning the runes. Funnily enough, it is also not explicit that the tree in question even was Yggdrasill, though it is in all likelihood, as the name "Yggdrasill" ("Odinhorse") itself seems to reference the myth.
Nanowar of Steel are really a comedian band. They do hilarious songs about everything you can thing. Also cometimes they have collaborations with other artists.
In this song, "Odin" is "Angus McFife", in those moments vocalist of another satiric metal band called "Gloryhammer". They have a lot of hillarious songs, like one about "Uranus" with the vocalist of Steel Panther (another comedian metal band), or "Norweian Reagetton" with Gigatron, another metal spanish band also really funny.
The band consist in 5 members, all of them really good musicians.
and they are full time scientists XD
One small correction - Thomas is not with Gloryhammer any more and now calls himself Angus McSix ;)
They are funny jokers. I would like to add "The Call of Cthulhu", "Then I Noticed She was a Gargoyle", "The Quest For a Carrefour", "Armpits Of Immortals" and so on.
Currently Thomas Winkler who plaued "Odin" is lead singer of Angus McSix project after he left Gloryhammer in 2022 - he is releasing album with his band "Angus McSix and the Sword of Power"
Nanowar of Steel are the Monty Pythons of the heavy metal, and the best of all is that they are very humble, very friendly, very close people and they manage not only to five you a good song, but also to make you laugh and at the same time the lyrics are very intelligent.
My congratulations for discover this awesome band.
In Norse mythology, the entire world is a tree at the center of the universe, named Yggdrasil. But the language of those subtitles where you saw Yggdrasil is Hebrew.
You're absolutely correct about the Easter eggs in this; it's practically nothing *but* Easter eggs, and you need to be fluent in several languages and familiar with the customs of several different countries to get all of them. I don't come anywhere close.
There are a few things I can tell you. When Christianity was spreading more and more throughout the pagan world, one of the ways it spread was to take pagan gods and rename them and attach new legends to them, turning them into Christian saints. One of the reason for Saints' Days is that those were the days those gods had originally been worshipped on, so it was easier for pagans to convert to Christianity because they could continue praying to the same god as before, just with a different name. There is a theory that Saint Nicholas was based on Odin; which is why Odin was wearing a Santa hat at the beginning of his appearance.
The horse meatballs are a reference to a scandal a few years ago when someone tested a sample of the Swedish meatballs sold at Ikea and discovered small quantities of horse meat in it.
Valhalleluja "features" Angus McFife. But Angus McFife isn't the name of a person; it's a song by Gloryhammer, a symphonic power metal band. In the song, Angus McFife was played by Gloryhammer's former vocalist, Thomas Winkler, and Thomas Winkler is the one who starred as Thor in Valhalleluja. Thomas Winkler is Swiss, which I believe makes him the closest thing to an actual Scandinavian involved in the making of Valhalleluja, since Nanowar of Steel is located in Rome.
It should be mentioned that the theory that Odin has anything whatsoever to do with Santa Claus is as supported by evidence as is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I wouldn't be surprised if Nanowar of Steel were fully aware of that and still decided to include it for the lols.
I dont think people appreciate how talented these people are. The musicianship/arrangements is amazing and they are writing puns in multiple languages simultaneously.
The parts where the choir were chanting brand names followed by product descriptions is accurate, by the way. Those are actual Ikea brands selling products matching those exact descriptions. The 'sofa with a big heart' bit is pulled directly from Ikea's website. While 'knisa gray' is a color, 'Sasha Gray' is an actress (+former porn star). And that movie in the background at the end was the Dan Akroyd/Eddie Murphy/Jamie Lee Curtis _comedy classic_ Trading Places...Known in Italy (where it plays around Christmas) as 'An Armchair For Two'...It's one final (visual-linguistic) furniture gag. It's convoluted, it's dumb, and it's brilliant.
NoS have been active for 20 years and they have huge backlog of really good music and videos. They are very versatile and put a lot of emphasis into making good music and great singing. They sing in many different languages, their bassist speaks at least 10 languages fluently. :D
BTW if you are really into this: the guitarrist has a "second group" that is called BardoMagno, and their music video for "Nel mio Feudo" is really hilarious, imo. :D
Assoluyamente vero..
They're Italians
in this song they made a collaboration with an italian gospel choir.
Some of their other great songs... Barbie MILF Princess of the Twilight, And Then I Noticed That She Was a Gargoyle, Norwegian Reggaeton, and Uranus. They are both fantastic musicians and do hilarious music. Think of them as the Italian version of Electric Callboy.
Vegan Velociraptor too 😂
FEUDALESIMO E LIBERTA'....
" NANOWAR of STEEL was founded in Rome in 2003 "
@@PokerMaster1982 that's Bardomagno, not NoS.
Italy has an incredibly long tradition of huge comedic bands and musicians. Most of them being also great musicians and intellectuals. NoS sits comfortably in this tradition, except they are also multilingual. I suggest you look up also the following (coming up in the next comments because I want to add links).
The one doing the guitar solo on the cliff is Pipi Longstockings.
The skipstep little dance is straight out of 'The Blues Brothers" (with Dan Ackroyd, among others), and the movie playing on the TV is "Trading Places", traditionally a Christmas movie in Italy, Greece, and elsewhere (also starring Dan Ackroyd)/
Also, another easter egg for the part where Angus plays Odin. Odin was one of the figures that got merged into the modern myth of Santa, hence the beard and hat.
Learn something new everyday.... Blues Brothers and Trading Places are legendary comedies.
and one thing people tend to not point out is, the part before odin appears and says im a gentle god is old testament, and then after that part the "preacher" says we understood your message and it becomes new testament
"shema Israel, Adonai eloheinu, Adonai ehad" (more or less listen Israel , the Lord is our God , the Lord is one) to "Shema yggdrasil (the cosmic tree) Odinai eloheinu Odinai Echad (Odin is our God , Odin is One).
and for non italian speaking the FALEGN-AMEN joke , falegname is the italian word for carpenter.
Yggdrasil is the world tree in Norse mythology, and they mixed it in with Hebrew to play on the biblical/gospel choir mixed with Norse gods, like mixing Halleluja with Valhalla
They are a very intelligent band, doing this in their free time as far as I understand.
There are a lot of possible recommendations to go from here, but one of my personal favorites is Norwegian Reggaeton. I'm pretty sure you will like that one.
Horse meatballs is interesting within Italian culture. In italy there are regions where we eat horse meat and consider it a delicacy (a Apulia, Emilia, Piedmont, parts of Lombardy and Veneto). In Rome, though,"tastes like horse meat" means a really vad meat. And the guys are from Rome.
The horse meatballs thing is a reference to a scandal many years back where horse DNA (and so horse meat) was found in IKEA meatballs.
They are italian band... and they are absolutely amazing. Smile and laugh is guaranteed with any of their songs.
Yggdrasil is a tree from scandinavian mythology. This song is inspired by the swedish furniture shop called IKEA - especially by the furniture catalogue.
In the beginnig of the song the are mentions about two known swedish metal bads - Amon Amarth and Hammerfall...
I was wondering what those two names were referencing. Thanks!
The Nicaragua and Azerbaidzhan thing is a reference to some of the goofiest Viking related alternate history conspiracy theories that are circulated on the Internet, earnestly or tongue in cheek. Vikings did actually go to all places that they sing to, but they did not go to Azerbaidzhan or Nicaragua, or at least we have no evidence they did. However, there once was a theory that it was the Vikings who sailed to Central America and built the pyramids that you can find there, which raises the question why they didn't build similar pyramids in Scandinavia but whatever. Another one is that Vikings were actually a turkic people that originated in Azerbaidzhan.
Correction: Vikings did reach the Caspian Sea, so it is entirely plausible that they may have visited Azerbaidzhan and probably they did. I don't know whether or not evidence of that exists. But they sure as hell did not originate from there.
I saw noone mentioning another joke that gets lost in translation: towards the end they say FALEGN - AMEN!
Falegname means carpenter/woodworker in Italian :D
Love your reaction! I play this song at least once a day. I love it so much and it brightens up my day. 😂
From a Gospel-style opening to the best damn IKEA commercial you’ve ever seen.
Do more reaction videos to NoS songs please 💜
This song should be played every holiday season in IKEAs worldwide
Definitely need to check out "Norwegian Reggaeton" next. Also check out "Sneeztem Of A Yawn". The lyrics really speak to you, but they'll never be legally allowed to play that song live.
Well they actually tried to play - unannounced and without knowledge of IKEA - at some stores but were thrown out.
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The part when Odid appear need some explanation.
The main referral is to the "Shema Yisrael" praier of the ebraic religion (christianity and ebraism have some common roots). But... Nanowar adapted it to vikings religion so the word Yisraely became Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree of the nordic religion plus referrals to the same Odin.
The way the music transitions is genius level - gospel choir singing Christmas like carol while the chorus itself “VALHALLELUJAAAA” sounds like it was taken from an opera by Wagner, since the outline is Nordic.
So many little in-jokes, like Ikea meatballs being found to contain horse at one point. :D
I love this song and really like you reaction to it, you seem like nice person :)
11:58 I have to digress a bit about Yggdrasil. If you've seen one or the other Marvel film, you've heard a thing or two before. Yggdrasil, the world ash, is the embodiment of creation as a whole: spatial, temporal and substantive. It is the world tree because it stands at the center of the world and connects all worlds together. Even if it is no longer quite represented in research, the general view is that the tree is divided into three levels and on each of these levels there are worlds. In the top level, the upper world is e.g. Asgard, home of the Aesir. This is what the gods are called in Nordic mythology, e.g. Odin or Thor. These are Aesir. In the middle level is e.g. Midgard settled. The world of people. In the lowest level, the underworld is e.g. settled in the world of Helheim. It is believed that the word hell was derived from Helheim. The Nordic goddess of death is also called Hel. Also known from Marvel.
Shemá Yggdrasil is a retelling (in viking style ) of the famous biblical verse Shemá Israel taken from the book of deuteronomy based on the similarity sound between ppronounce of words "Israel" and "Yggdrasil".
The second verse ""Odinai eloheinu" is based on the same joke with the hebrew' "Adon -Adonai".... in this viking version "Odin" becomes "Odinai". Original religious verse was "Adonai eloheinu".
And the third verse is conceptually identical to the second with "Adonai Ehad" becoming "Odinai Ehad"
Congratulation for the video.
Best reaction of this particular vid, or at least I think so
Wow, thank you!
They have released a new single on dandruff last week i think and it also a headbanger
These guys are absolutely amazing.... they might have help but the music writing and singing and ridiculous hilarious song ideas...... dang, these guys are amazing.
They are all great singers
1: yggdrasil is the world tree in norse mythology
2: the man playing odin is angus Mcfife from gloryhammer, he is trained in opera singing originally but changed course at some point
Former Angus McFife from Gloryhammer, now Angus McSix from... Angus McSix! haha
Yggdrasil is the tree of life otherwise known as The World Tree, in the Norse religion a.k.a. Asatro (Asabelief). It represents the different layers of our planar existence, like heaven, middle earth (us), Hel (Hell), and a few other planes where Elves and Giants have their homes.
Another joke that might have gotten overlooked : "Knisa grey is better than Sasha Grey", Knisa grey being a color tone at Ikea, and Sasha Grey being a p*rnstar
I did catch that, just chose not to react lol.
Every reactor tries to keep a straight face at that part ... always...
If you want to focus on music making by the band
perhaps one of their songs
in Italian or German
might be worth checking out
La Polenta Taragnarock - about the polenta of North Italy - in a Folk Metal style
or
Der Fluch des Käpt'n Iglo - about Captain Birdseye (the frozen food giant - who sell fish sticks in Europe)
- in the style of Pirate Metal
Viking furniture Evangelists..... hilarious.
Nanowar chooses a band and kind of mimics their style and lyrics, also a lot of times they invite people from the original band to sing along.In this case they are mocking power epic metal and choose the former lead singer of Glory Hammer as Odin.
Yggdrasil, the World Tree. The tree itself is basically a circle, with the roots and the crown of the tree "touching" at the sides. Yggdrasil is technically the Universe and a symbol for how it is all connected, with the different layers of existence placed in it, like Helheim being within the roots, Helheim is not to be confused with Hell. Ancient mythology did not have a specific place that is evil, though it has a place for those who did evil, which is an entirely different thing.
Anyhow, Yggdrasil is a symbolism for everything being connected and dependent on each other. Just like roots of Yggdrasil reached into Asgard, they also reached into Niflheim and Jötunheim. Midgard is placed along the middle line. And here's the interesting part, while a root of Yggdrasil reaches into Asgard, Asgard itself is likely placed in the crown of the tree.
Thus the symbolism behind it.
And, after the Ragnarok, which is poorly translated as apocalypse, the World Tree, Yggdrasil, is shaken, but not broken and the source of new life. Ragnarok is not just the end of things, it is also the beginning of things. In Norse mythology, the World doesn't end with Ragnarok, it begins anew.
But if Yggdrasil dies, the Universe dies. It is the, poorly translated, the World Tree. In fact, it is so much more than just that.
NoS are experts at mimicking all genres with their parodies. They are inherently Italian power metal tho (imho).
The two phases of reacting to Nanowar of Steel:
1) Try not to laugh
2) fail miserably
Now they have done a great video with J. Broden of SabatoN, it is called Pasadena 1994, this made me laugh to tears.
The only Christmas song you need! Check out Gloryhammer and Angus McSix (Odin). Angus (real name: Tomas Winker) used to be in Gloryhammer, but they had a falling out. His solo album is every bit as awesome and crazy as this.
I absolutely recommend "And Then I Noticed She Was A Gargoyle"! It's hilarious and brilliant... And she's got to be watched all the way through to the credits.The band is made up of 5 Italian guys from Rome who do something else for work and normally work in various parts of Europe. As often happens, irony and comedy are paired with brilliant and intelligent minds, in fact all the members do highly qualified jobs. Now I don't remember exactly but in practice they are all scientists in various fields... One seems to me to be an aerospace engineer, another a physicist, etc.
The Yggdrassil is the world ash- The world tree. It is pronounced "yig draseel".
Yggdrasil is the World Tree from Norse Mythology and it is pronounced Yig-dra-sil.
Your reaction was spot on. Big smile from beginning to end. What you initially tried to analyse was pointless. Just plain fun.
The people of the Viking Age seem to have seen the world roughly as a round plate or disk, in the middle of which stood a huge tree - the world tree Yggdrasil.
Yggdrasil is "The Great World Tree"
It contains
+ Midgard (the world of humans)
+ Aasgard (the world of gods)
+ Jotunheim (the world of the evil giants)
Aaand I forgot the rest : ))
But,
The great 'Tree'
That contains all
"Yggdrasil"
12:00 they just mix Hebrew language (read from right to left) and how a God would be "announced" in Hebrew, but using the Viking terms instead like "Yggdrasil" being kind of a "Life Tree" in Viking Mythology and "Odin" of course as the song is about Odin and not "God".
The middle eight is Hebrew. It is a modification of "Shema Yisroel! Adonai Eloahu! Adonai Ehad".
"Shema Yggdrasil" is a parody of "Shema Yisrael"
which is Deuteronomy 6:4
and is one of the oldest Jewish prayers
used everyday in Jewish prayers.
I first encountered the "Shema Yisraeli"
first in Schönberg's cantata "A Survivor from Warsaw"
where the choir sing "Shema Yisrael"
in this moving memorial to the Shoah.
ruclips.net/video/rGWai0SEpUQ/видео.html
But my musical experiences are weird / unique
in that I can and do "sing" parts of Schönberg's works LOL
I believe the bassist who is a professional Astrophysicist
has worked in Jerusalem and speaks Modern Hebrew, I believe.
Yggdrasil is the Tree of Life in Norse mythology, which coicidentally exist as another concept in Kabbalah and Judaism. Shema is Hebrew and means "listen" or "hear".
A few things to point out here, both hammerfall (power/heavy metal) and amon amarth (melodic death metal influenced by the viking era) are Swedish metal bands. As for the dude playing odin, he is Thomas Winkler the former lead singer of the band gloryhammer. I don’t think i need to point out that IKEA is a Swedish chain. Yggdrasil is the world tree in norse mythologi.
Nanowar of steel is an Italian group and yes, the choir is
a separate choral group, they are called Flowing Chords (also Italian) who participated in the piece.
www.youtube.com/@FlowingChords/featured
che ci fai qui? 🤣
@@pf1740 : Potrei chiederti lo stesso ;)
Diciamo solo che ho interessi variegati
sistem bolage btw is where swedes are allowed to buy alcohol,
I would love a reaction to Nanowar of Steel - Norwegian Reggaeton, Feuerschwanz - Warriors of the World United or Berserkermode or Dark Side of the Moon - Legends Never Die, The Gates of Time, May it Be or New Horizons
Just recorded Reggaeton. Will be coming out shortly!
Try the 10 or 12th listen. I still occasionally hear a joke in this song I completely missed.
Since you don't know Amon Amarth, mentioned in this song, might I suggest checking out their song "Twilight of the Thunder God"? ruclips.net/video/edBYB1VCV0k/видео.html
More Viking metal, but this is the serious variant :)
Powerwolf is also a great band to react to
Yggradsil is the sacred tree in Norse mythology. And this section is in -HEBREW-, not Latin. You must have noticed the letters that don’t look like letters you’re used to. It’s Hebrew, and it’s actually a sendup of the most sacred prayer in Judaism, called the Shema, where they’re replaced some of the terms in the prayer with Odin & such. (I’m OK with it, given that they send up Christianity and Norse beliefs as well.)
I recommend Uranus by Them!
Nanowar is the proof of you can merge Monty Python and Heavy Metal. Os music in general. By checking the discography we can find different genres - not only metal. They are good.
you should watch/listen to Norwegian Raggaeton and Disco Metal
a teacher with a discord called "the bone zone".... where were you all my live?!
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the language at 11:46 seems to be drawn from hebrew, but yggdrasil is a mythologig tree in norse culture.
For non EU people, when they joke about horse-meatballs it's because in EU they find horse meat in meatball they sold.
The central part is in Hebrew
Mostly. The word Yggdrasil is nordic and refers to an ash tree that holds the world.
@@Skyldyel yes and also written in Hebrew. The mix of the two is what works best. They did a pretty good job with Norwegian Reggaeton mixing death metal and reggaeton, the result is absolutely hilarious.
I recommend also their last Video: Disco Metal
Historical correct: The vikings never made it to Nicaragua or Adzerbaidjan, so they don‘t know where they are.
You should really watch Uranus once
He'd need a mirror. Or leave it to a pro and go see a proctologist
I dunno, what could be more metal than hiring a gospel choir to sing songs to Odin?
Check out Gloryhammer.
From all reactions of this music almost no one recognizes the hebrew part. Since US have a great number of jewish artists it is weird how people are not exposed of such kind of culture. In europe there is a plethora of languages- even in Italy the made a huge effort to unify all dialects in a single form - so perhaps is more common be exposed of such alphabets and terms.
Nanowar's whole schtick is to take themselves as unseriously as possible as a reactionary force to all the pretentious, over-serious gatekeeping dolts the metal community attracts.
Do 'Uranus' and 'Norwegian Reggaeton'. :D Yggdrasil is the world-tree that birthed the nine realms in Norse mythology. The Latin in the song is a bit fakey-comedy-Latin but translates approximately to "Glory to the father of furniture, in the name of IKEA'.
You should react Uranus...!
You should hear and see Norwegian Reggaeton