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Surprisingly Gentle Song: 'Autumn Leaves' on Written in Waters is a comparatively soft track, as it features harmonic singing, relatively simple structure and clean guitars.

Ultimately, the three have seemingly appeared in some capacity or other in just about every major avant-garde black metal band from Norway except Solefald and Manes (the one from Trondheim, that is) - in particular, Skoll has been Arcturus' bassist since La Masquerade Infernale. Skoll and Eide both played in Ulver (Skoll on Bergtatt through Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Eide on Vargnatt), while Vicotnik is the only remaining founding member of Dødheimsgard.

Supergroup: In a sense they were one of the first in Black Metal, although this didn't ultimately become clear until later.

Carl-Michael Eide also goes by Czral and Aggressor in various bands.

Stage Names: Skoll (real name Hugh Mingay) and Vicotnik (real name Yusaf Parvez).

Songs intended for the aborted second album Ved Buens Ende intended to record during their first reunion wound up on Virus' The Black Flux instead.

Czral's band Virus was essentially the continuation of Ved Buens Ende, before being disbanded in favor of the former band's reunion.

This Manes should not be confused with the much better-known Manes (formed in Trondheim, Norway) seemingly just to compound the confusion, these two bands released a split record of old demo material in 2009.

To an obscure band named Manes (formed in Askim, Norway), which released two demos before it became Ved Buens Ende.

Soprano and Gravel: Eide's eerie crooning vocals interlaced with Vicotnik's standard black metal shrieks.

Literary Allusion Title: 'Remembrance of Things Past' is named after Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdù ( In Search of Lost Time), which was first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past a massive literary work that is usually split into seven volumes.

Lead Drummer: Eide's intricate, unconventional drumming style was central to the band's sound.

Skoll is an adept and creative bassist, and his playing is given good prominence in the band's mixes.

Genre Mashup: Combines elements of Black Metal, Avant-Garde Metal, Jazz, Post-Rock, and arguably more.

The band name, of course, is also an example.

Foreign Language Title: 'Den saakaldte' apparently means 'The So-Called' in Danish, though it's more commonly spelt 'såkaldt'.

Fading into the Next Song: Quite a few songs do this.

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The longest (fittingly, given the length of the book series it's named after) is 'Remembrance of Things Past' at 8:55, followed closely by 'Den saakaldte' at 8:50.

Epic Rocking: About half of their songs.

Design Student's Orgasm: The original cover of Written in Waters, pictured on the right.

This rendered him unable to play the drums, though he still does vocal and guitar duties. On March 26, 2005, Eide fell from a four-story building, badly injuring his legs, and needed to be hospitalized.

Black Metal: The Trope Maker for the dissonant avant-garde style.

'.went away with my fathers, to gather the tropes.' (And much like Slint, they've released very little material despite reuniting at least twice a single album is responsible for the bulk of their reputation and their band members have performed with numerous other bands, many of whom are extremely important in their own right.) They are notoriously the Trope Makers for the avant-garde branch of black metal, exploring the genre years before bands such as Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, and Dødheimsgard (the last of which in fact was founded by VbE's Vicotnik).Īs if that didn't already give them a position of supreme importance in metal history, they're also one of the most convincing Ur-Examples of Black Metal/ Post-Rock fusions note Arguably, only Fleurety give them a run for their money, with many of their quieter passages resembling the twisty, dynamic work of Slint.

and simply Ved Buens Ende on various album covers) is a Black Metal formation from Oslo, Norway. (Norwegian for 'at the end of the bow', referring to the mythological rainbow Bifröst also seen as Ved Buens Ende.