Arghoslent - Hornets Of The Pogrom (2008)

[Atli Jarl]

Arghoslent - Hornets Of The Pogrom (2008) - [Skoða]



Grípið til vopna bræður!! Arghoslent eru mættir til leiks á ný til að leiða okkur í bardaga gegn pólitískri réttstöðu hvað kynþáttajafnrétti varðar. Með útgáfu Hornets Of The Pogrom fyrr í ár, þá staðfesta Arghoslent þá staðreynd að þeir hafa aldrei fylgt neinum troðnum stíg er fyrir framan þá er. Þeir ganga til og með svo langt að kalla sig hrokafulla og þessi plata er sannarlega áframhald á þeirra illræmdu arfleifð undir blaktandi fána hroka og rasistískra yfirlýsinga. Engu að síður er hér um að ræða eina bestu dauðarokksplötu áratugarins, ef ekki hreinlega frá upphafi.

Ill-suited for leadership
Nature bestowed her foulest pigmentation
upon them much like a scar

It accompanies them to their nameless grave
On these malaria ridden vessels
A love affair between slaves and sugar
The ones who managed to escape
Dove like cormorants into the Atlantic

Ducats, Cowries, Reals or Silver Pesos
No currency denied in these ports

Beggary becomes a far fetched luxury
The world of noose justice

Það hefur ábyggilega verið sagt milljón sinnum, en Arghoslent spila mjög sérstaka tegund dauðarokks, sem á uppruna sinn rekja til blús og heavy metal jafnt sem dauðarokks fyrri hluta tíunda áratugar síðustu aldar. Þetta gefur þeim heilmikið svigrúm til að kanna þær ótroðnu slóðir sem þeir hafa kosið að halda út á og þeir nota þetta svigrúm til fullnustu þar sem öll áhrif sem þeir eru undir fá að njóta sín. Allt frá beinbrjótandi þungum dauðarokksriffum niður í blúspreguð gítarsóló hreinlega glansa ofan á þrælhressandi heavy metal rythma og melódíum. Hvert einasta lag er minnisstætt og ólíkt öðrum lögum plötunnar en ávallt er þeirra sérstaka tónlistarstíl haldið engu að síður svo platan rennur einstaklega ljúft í gegn. Það má eiginlega segja að hlustandinn sé með í epísku ferðalagi þeirra gegnum sögulega atburði sem var sópað undir teppið og féllu því í gleymsku með tímanum.

Predestined warring defeat
Unbearable beasts of a sizzling sun
No force able to civilize them
Predestined warring defeat

The mysteries and legends
South of the First Cataract
From whence natural wealth
Was traded with the Pharaohs

A boorish fellow traveling on foot
Across the flat plains of the Dongolo Reach

Nánast allt hvað Hornets Of The Pogrom varðar er framför á þeirra sérstaka stíl sem var grunnlagður á fyrri útgáfum þeirra. Lagasmíðar, riff, söngur, textar og trommuleikur, heildarmyndin er algerlega flawless og top-notch. Í stað þess að einstök lög séu bara samansafn af riffum sem slást innbyrðis um athygli, einskonar „riff-salat“ eins og kom fyrir á fyrri útgáfum þeirra, þá eru lögin mun heilsteyptari í uppbyggingu, bæði lógískt og með ákveðnu þema í öllum strúktúr sem svo kemur saman í samheldnu continuity. Til að mynda, í „Swill of the Knaves“, þá byggist lagið stanslaust upp af opnunarriffi lagsins og hvert riff sem fylgir í kjölfarið heldur tónlistarlegu þema þess á óaðfinnanlegan hátt. Uppáhaldslög mín af plötunni, „Manacled Freightage“ og „The Nubian Archer“ taka bókina um lagasmíðar og endurskrifa kaflann um hvernig á að semja lag, sérlega hversu vel Arghoslent fara í smáatriðum ofan í kjölinn á uppbyggingu laganna, hápunkta þeirra, niðurkafla, dynamics ásamt almennra sparka-í-rassa viðhorfa í lagasmíðum. Trommuleikur og söngur á plötunni eru hlutarnir sem halda lögunum saman, framkvæmd þeirra er fullkomin, bæði í flutningi og sem aukaáherslur í kraftmeiri kafla laganna. Söngur Genocider á plötunni, kemur frábærlega skrifuðum textum þeirra á framfæri af sannfæringu og krafti en eins og ég minntist á, þá eru smáatriði í framsetningu þeirra sem gera þá virkilega litríka en samt heldur hann þeim ávallt guttural-as-hell. Trommuleikurinn, eins og ég minntist á fyrr, er fullkominn stuðningur við áherslur í gítarriffunum með góðri blöndu af blast-beats og helling af frumlegum en samt einföldum töktum sem gera ótrúlega mikið aukalega fyrir tónlistina.

Marooned at Sierra Leone
Galleons prepared for the ride
loaded with the nation's raw source of labor
With not a courtesan in the swarthy bunch

So intolerably loathsome was the stench of the kidnapped
that the air was unfit for respiration
The chained turned delirious from the weight of their fate

Their brutish tempers curbed
By ten to twenty lashes
The pain made them abate their
Courage and beliefs

In Coffles They Were Led

Ég gæti haldið áfram lofsöng mínum um þessa plötu í mikið lengri umfjöllun, en þið náið hér lykilatriðunum. Hornets Of The Pogrom er ein besta dauðarokksplata sem ég hef heyrt og klárlega á topplista yfir bestu dauðarokksplötur þessa áratugar. Arghoslent hafa sannað fyrir þeim sem draga úr gildum þeirra sökum pólitískrar rangstöðu og kynþáttaskoðana, („gimmicks“ vilja sumir halda fram), að þeir semja engu að síður tónlist sem fer framúr settum gæðastöðlum og platan stendur sannarlega óstudd fyrir sínu á þann hátt.

HAIL ARGHOSLENT!!

10 af 10

In Coffles They Were Lead
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Manacled Freightage
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Arghoslent - Hornets Of The Pogrom (2008) @ Mediafire
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Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry (2002) @ Mediafire
http://www.mediafire.com/?7jm0wumcjdx


Arghoslent - Galloping Through The Battle Ruins (1998) @ Megaupload
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SLIHVMLA

Upprunaleg ensk útgáfa af dómnum:
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=26007

[Kjarrideath]

Mjög flott umfjöllun um þetta band, hef alltaf ætlað að kíkja á þetta band, mun downloada plötunni þegar ég kem heim

[warhead]

Frábær plötudómur Atli.

Ég elska þessa hljómsveit, HotP er klárlega meðal toppdiska ársins!

[Dedd Schmärt]

Checka á þessu þegar ég kem heim!

[MetalGummi]

hljómar heavy. þarf að tjekka á þessu. METAL [smilie=pdt_03.gif]

[Torturekiller]

Þú sannfærðir mig um snilld þessa disks áður en ég heyrðann. Magnað efni alveg!

gamla efnið er nú ekkert slappt heldur.

[Atli Jarl]

Þú sannfærðir mig um snilld þessa disks áður en ég heyrðann. Magnað efni alveg!

gamla efnið er nú ekkert slappt heldur.

Ónei, Incorrigible Bigotry er á blasti as we speak, frábært band í alla staði.

[Atli Jarl]

Linkar komnir á fyrri plötur þeirra.

[Atli Jarl]

Gott viðtal við 2 meðlimi úr bandinu. Pogrom og Holocausto

http://www.thelefthandpath.com/lefthandpath/index.cfm/event/read/entry/Interview_Arghoslent

Arghoslent's lyrics primarily deal with themes of war, slavery and conquest from the Greeks to 16th century Russian pogroms to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, often from the mindset of the aggressor/conqueror. But you're also not just passively taking examples of history and writing songs about them. You identify with the content of your songs regarding anti-Semitism, the inferiority of other peoples, the right of conquest and the necessity of conflict, going so far as referring to non-whites as 'simian abominations' and have even lambasted one critic as 'the epitome of Jewishness…a meddler, one who goes stirring trouble, judging what he can never create, a muckraker, a liar, vicious, defensive.' What led you toward this attitude and do you view your music as a way of rallying support for your point of view? Is there a desired reaction you wish to produce among listeners? What is it you want to convey through Arghoslent?

Holocausto: I don't know of any reference to all non-whites as 'simian abominations;' it sounds more closely to resemble a broad critical reference to the African lineages, not all non-whites. Because each of our views differ in some of the finer points, I speak for myself when I categorically profess no intrinsic love or honor of all white people. This is utter nonsense. A man is made within, not without. The concept is so basic and fundamental that it is a trite and tiresome topic of discussion. I loathe no man for the melanic concentration in his skin, nor do I admire any man for a fair complexion. The number of miserable and wretched whites on this planet is very great, to be sure (I suspect quite a few of them listen to our 'white power' music). Still, I do generally regard many cultures with a sort of aloof derision.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization. In the United State one constantly endures unpleasant interactions with the descendants of these dark and unaccomplished people, and therein is a source of disappointment and irritation that is manifest in some of the descriptions in our songs.

But do not think for a moment that this implies a belief that if one is born white, one is superior. On the contrary, this country knows its current unenviable position because the whites here are so pathetic. Our scholastic performance is below average, our president is a cowboy buffoon, the value of the dollar is laughable, we are in a recession, culture is a foreign concept, foreign policy is an afterthought, we throw billions of dollars at fighting an immortal and intangible concept in the Middle East, and all this as the country is run by whites that were elected by whites. White power? I think not. In fact, the best thing for this country would be for a certain non-white Democratic candidate to win the presidency (and yes, to point out the obvious, he is a very impressive, accomplished man, not the 'simian abomination' referenced above; people should be more discerning when interpreting blanket statements; a country full of men like him would be a far worthier country than one crammed full of corpulent white trash rednecks). But all this just makes for less interesting song material, hence the focus on historical intrigues.

Pogrom: In layman’s terms, whites are responsible for the pathetic state of affairs, to such a degree that even a half-black presidential candidate is seen with optimism around the country and the world. Have no doubt in your mind that by having a white mother, he’s should not be considered black and that his apparent success, as mentioned by my conspirator Holocausto, would not have been achieved had both his parents been Kenyan immigrants.

Furthermore, what nobody should be worrying about is his complexion, rather his dangerous Democratic Party preference and its consequences for America. About anything out there looks better and sounds more promising that what George Bush has done to this nation. Again, ultimately we are our own enemies. We fell to the toes of Christ and Moses, and soon we’ll be at the mercy of Allah as well. Nobody should blame Jews or other pests for their own miserable situations. The enemy within is cowardice, complacency, ignorance, pacifism, and guilt. Perhaps we should have Rev. Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson as a President instead. Maybe then it’ll create a reaction in the unfathomable potato couch lifestyle of our supposed kin, even though I highly doubt it. For the most part, a full belly, a microwave, a television tuned to Oprah Winfrey, a 7-11 and fast-food drive-thru close by, filthy Jewish porno rags, and a 6-pack of Budweiser constitutes happiness in the basic man.

[dipshit]

Skuggalega gott stykki!

[-]

allar plötunar þeirra eru meistara stykki!

[Viktor]

hahaha, þetta viðtal.... HRAAAAUN!

[Herra Beinagrindarokk]

Ehemm... Atli, heldurðu að þú komist upp með að beinþýða bara plötudóm um plötuna af metal archives orð fyrir orð og birta sem þinn eigin?

Skoðið dóminn sem notandinn "masscows" sendi inn og berið saman. Téður notandi er víst 18 ára Bandarískur táningur:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=159780 (efsti dómurinn)

To arms, my brothers! Arghoslent is here to lead us in our plight to quell the simian surge of political correctness and racial equality yet again with their 2008 opus, Hornets of the Pogrom. Arghoslent never were a band to follow the path laid down in front of them, even going so far as to proclaim themselves as an 'arrogant band', and Hornets of the Pogrom continues their legacy of arrogance and bigotry with not only some of the best death metal I've heard in a long time, but also easily one of the best death metal albums of the decade thus far.

I know it's been said a million times, but Arghoslent plays a very unique brand of death metal, owing as much to blues and traditional heavy metal as it does to early 90's style death metal. This gives them alot of room to explore off of the previously trodden path, and they most definitely use the expanses of all of their influences to the fullest and most fitting potential here, from the crushing death metal riffs to the bluesy solos to the galloping heavy metal rhythms and melody. Each song is completely memorable and different from the last while keeping their same signature style intact, and each one feels like its own epic journey through historical events that were shoved under the rug and forgotten.

Pretty much everything about Hornets of the Pogrom is a vast improvement on Arghoslent's already winning formula they explored on their previous releases. The songwriting, riffs, vocals, lyrics, drumming, literally everything is completely flawless and top-notch. Instead of each song being simply a collection of riffs flowing through each other, essentially a 'riff salad' like on their other releases, the songs seem to be structured much more logically and with thematic continuity in mind. For instance, in "Swill of the Knaves", each riff builds off of the opening one in a thematically sensible way and the song flows perfectly from one movement to the next. Also, my personal favorite track, "The Nubian Archer" completely rewrites the book on how to write a song, showing how well Arghoslent pays attention to buildup, climax, letdown, dynamics and general ass-kickery. The drumming and vocals are the essential pieces holding the songs together, both performed impeccably and fitting with the intensity of the riffs. The vocals, performed by the Genocider, deliver the extremely well-written lyrics with passion and conviction not previously heard of, with close attention paid to annunciation while remaining guttural as hell. The drums, like said before, always compliment the riffs well, with a mix of blastbeats and lots of creative, yet simple beats that add alot to the songs.

I could go on for hours but you get the point. Hornets of the Pogrom is one of the best death metal albums I've heard and is among the top death metal albums released this decade. Arghoslent have proven to their politically correct detractors with Hornets of the Pogrom that despite their 'radical' ideologies ('gimmicks' as some say), they still write music that exceeds all previous standards of quality and stands completely on its own. Hail Arghoslent!

[Atli Jarl]

Upprunaleg ensk útgáfa af dómnum:
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=26007

[Torturekiller]

Hehehe

[Herra Beinagrindarokk]

Úbbosí, best að lesa alltaf smáa letrið. Bið þig að afsaka þetta.

Myndi þó láta hlekkinn (eða útskýringu) fylgja með dómnum á harðkjarna.

[Atli Jarl]

Úbbosí, best að lesa alltaf smáa letrið. Bið þig að afsaka þetta.

Myndi þó láta hlekkinn (eða útskýringu) fylgja með dómnum á harðkjarna.

Si senjór. Það er komið á sinn stað.

[Berserkur]

Upprunaleg ensk útgáfa af dómnum:
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=26007

Editað efst á sama tíma og þetta innlegg er skrifað.

[Atli Jarl]

Upprunaleg ensk útgáfa af dómnum:
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=26007

Editað efst á sama tíma og þetta innlegg er skrifað.

Það var passwordið fyrir dánlódið sem ég henti inn síðast.

[Joseph Curwen]

Já, það er sérdeilis skemmtilegt að sjá anarkista og fjölmenningarsinna hafa gaman af tónlist Arghoslent.

[úlfur]

djöfull er samt hallærislegt að vera svona heimskur.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization. In the United State one constantly endures unpleasant interactions with the descendants of these dark and unaccomplished people, and therein is a source of disappointment and irritation that is manifest in some of the descriptions in our songs.

[Hvíti Djöfullinn]

djöfull er samt hallærislegt að vera svona heimskur.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization.

Ertu s.s að segja að þetta sé rangt?

[úlfur]

djöfull er samt hallærislegt að vera svona heimskur.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization.

Ertu s.s að segja að þetta sé rangt?

þetta er allavega jafn gáfulegt og notendanafnið þitt

[Joseph Curwen]

djöfull er samt hallærislegt að vera svona heimskur.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization.

Ertu s.s að segja að þetta sé rangt?

þetta er allavega jafn gáfulegt og notendanafnið þitt

Já, kommon maður! Þó svo að Suður-Afríka hafi ekki komið með neitt enn sem komið er þá þýðir það ekki að þeir eigi ekki eftir að láta ljós sitt skína! Þeir hafa nú einn og hálfan mánuð!

[warhead]

djöfull er samt hallærislegt að vera svona heimskur.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization.

Ertu s.s að segja að þetta sé rangt?

þetta er allavega jafn gáfulegt og notendanafnið þitt

Þetta eru bara cold hard facts. "Political correctness" er ofmetið fyrirbæri.

[Hamfari]

Þeir styðja samt Obama las ég í viðtali.

[Atli Jarl]

Þeir styðja samt Obama las ég í viðtali.

White power? I think not. In fact, the best thing for this country would be for a certain non-white Democratic candidate to win the presidency (and yes, to point out the obvious, he is a very impressive, accomplished man, not the 'simian abomination' referenced above; people should be more discerning when interpreting blanket statements; a country full of men like him would be a far worthier country than one crammed full of corpulent white trash rednecks)

[Trúboðasleikjari]

sjiiiiiiit þetta var svo langt að ég nennti ekki að lesa það maður váa.
en hei virtist vera fín umfjöllun og læti, tékka ´þessu bandi þegar ég nenni að lesa nafnið á því yeah1 flotter fokkint skotar haha!

[Gunnar]

Ég er svo mikil jarðaber að um leið og ég las að þetta væru einhverjir white supremacist dúfusar þá missi ég áhuga á að hlusta á þetta. Eflaust þrusu mússik en ég held að ég gæti ekki hlustað á þetta án þess að verða pirraður.

[warhead]

Ég er svo mikil jarðaber að um leið og ég las að þetta væru einhverjir white supremacist dúfusar þá missi ég áhuga á að hlusta á þetta. Eflaust þrusu mússik en ég held að ég gæti ekki hlustað á þetta án þess að verða pirraður.

Textarnir þeirra fjalla um white supremacy í sögulegu samhengi, frekar en eitthvað "KILL THE NIGGERS" dæmi. Þó eru meðlimir hljómsveitarinnar aktífir í hatursáróðri og white pride samtökum í Washington DC.

Persónulega gæti mér ekki verið meira sama, tónlist er tónlist. Maður getur auðvitað verið ósammála skoðunum hljómsveitarinnar en tónlistin ætti að vera aðalatriðið. Ég hlusta á satanískan svartmálm án þess að vera sammála boðskap hljómsveitarinnar, þetta er nákvæmlega eins.

[Gunnar]

Ég er svo mikil jarðaber að um leið og ég las að þetta væru einhverjir white supremacist dúfusar þá missi ég áhuga á að hlusta á þetta. Eflaust þrusu mússik en ég held að ég gæti ekki hlustað á þetta án þess að verða pirraður.

Textarnir þeirra fjalla um white supremacy í sögulegu samhengi, frekar en eitthvað "KILL THE NIGGERS" dæmi. Þó eru meðlimir hljómsveitarinnar aktífir í hatursáróðri og white pride samtökum í Washington DC.

Persónulega gæti mér ekki verið meira sama, tónlist er tónlist. Maður getur auðvitað verið ósammála skoðunum hljómsveitarinnar en tónlistin ætti að vera aðalatriðið. Ég hlusta á satanískan svartmálm án þess að vera sammála boðskap hljómsveitarinnar, þetta er nákvæmlega eins.

Já ég skil þig alveg nákvæmlega. Ég er eins með og þú með svartmálminn nefnilega en það er bara eitthvað við þennan boðskap sem fer í mínar fínustu. Ýmsar hljómsveitir sem ég fíla sem eru "breiða út" boðskap sem ég er ekki sammála en sem ég get samt sem áður auðveldlega leitt hjá mér. En ekki þetta. Kjánalegt? líklega. Hræsni? Mögulega. Þetta er eflaust svipað hjá mér og mörgum þætti erfitt að hlusta á kristnilegan metal og leiða boðskapinn hjá sér. Fneee.

[Dagur]

Ég er svo mikil jarðaber að um leið og ég las að þetta væru einhverjir white supremacist dúfusar þá missi ég áhuga á að hlusta á þetta. Eflaust þrusu mússik en ég held að ég gæti ekki hlustað á þetta án þess að verða pirraður.

ditto

[Cygnus]

Rosalega gott band.

Þakka Gaua fyrir að hafa kynnt mér fyrir þeim fyrir einhverjum mánuðum.

[warhead]

Flogging The Cargo er eitt besta intro lag allra tíma, þvílík epík!

[úlfur]

djöfull er samt hallærislegt að vera svona heimskur.

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization.

Ertu s.s að segja að þetta sé rangt?

þetta er allavega jafn gáfulegt og notendanafnið þitt

Þetta eru bara cold hard facts. "Political correctness" er ofmetið fyrirbæri.

from Amazon:

What is classical about Classical Civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or supressed since the eighteenth century--chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers--or Aryans--from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this "Aryan model." They did not see their political institutions, science, philosophy, or religion as original, but rather as derived from the East in general, and Egypt in particular. Black Athena is a three-volume work. Volume 1 concentrates on the crucial period between 1785 and 1850, which saw the Romantic and racist reaction to the Enlightment and the French Revolution, and the consolidation of Northern expansion into other continents. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal makes meaningful links between a wide range of areas and disciplines--drama poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of "modern scholarship."

Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that much of Western civilization was formed on the "Dark Continent"? For almost two centuries, Western scholars have given little credence to the possibility of such scenarios.
In Black Athena, an audacious three-volume series that strikes at the heart of today's most heated culture wars, Martin Bernal challenges Eurocentric attitudes by calling into question two of the longest-established explanations for the origins of classical civilization. To use his terms, the Aryan Model, which is current today, claims that Greek culture arose as the result of the conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers, or "Aryans," of the native "pre-Hellenes." The Ancient Model, which was maintained in Classical Greece, held that the native population of Greece had initially been civilized by Egyptian and Phoenician colonists and that additional Near Eastern culture had been introduced to Greece by Greeks studying in Egypt and Southwest Asia. Moving beyond these prevailing models, Bernal proposes a Revised Ancient Model, which suggests that classical civilization in fact had deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures.

This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic languages--Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how these derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to the sophisticated language of politics, religion, and philosophy. This evidence, according to Bernal, greatly strengthens the hypothesis that in Greece an Indo-European-speaking population was culturally dominated by Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic speakers. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and political controversy since the publication of the first volume.

About the Author
Martin Bernal, formerly a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, is now retired.

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Djöfull er þetta geðveik plata. Textarnir eru meira að segja ágætir ljóðrænt séð, en svo fer maður að rýna í boðskapinn og fær upp í fökkings kok. White pride drullusokkar geta étið skít. Þessir white pride drullusokkar eru samt aðeins of góðir tónlistarmenn til þess að maður geti látið þetta framhjá sér fara. Kaupedekki samt..

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Ég er alls ekkert að dissa aðra kynstofna eða neitt svoleiðis... EN!

þetta

This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic languages--Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how these derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to the sophisticated language of politics, religion, and philosophy. This evidence, according to Bernal, greatly strengthens the hypothesis that in Greece an Indo-European-speaking population was culturally dominated by Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic speakers. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and political controversy since the publication of the first volume.

afsannar ekki þetta

I am sympathetic towards and inspired by civilizations that have given to the world high art, great science, revolutionary technology, and rich culture, and the most interesting examples to me are of white Europeans. Many continents far beyond Europe have known great empires, but conspicuously sub-Saharan Africa has not. One of the oldest lands trod by man has never mastered architecture, cultivation, technology, science, or any other prerequisite for civilization.

Afþví að ,,Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic" er ekki það sama og ,,sub-Saharan Africa"

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Ætla bara að minna ykkur á að checka á Galloping Through The Battle Ruins....hún er mun hrárri heldur en Incorrigible og Hornets, en frábær engu að síður!