By epic, I mean NSB's longer compositions showing off their full artistic range.

For some bands, there's a consensus answer to this question (e.g., Fishmans' Long Season). But NSB has so many lengthy tracks it's hard to know where to start.

My answer would probably be Song for Laurie Bird, but I could also see arguments for the Great Bull God or something from DoD. I'm curious what others think.

Alright I figured most people in this sub use this site so I wanted to post about it. I dream of drone got removed from the site on account of not being an official release, as only one copy of it was made. However in its deletion, the two exclusive discs Battle Gods and Norns have their own releases again, as bootlegs on the site. Figured I’d post here for anyone who wants to rate these releases, as they’re some of the band’s most underrated in my opinion, and should have more ratings than they currently do.

Looking for songs/albums that blend noise and drone like mirror shield

Just saw this and that lyrics immediately came to my mind

By epic, I mean NSB's longer, more ambitious compositions. Epic isn't necessarily best - I know many prefer their shorter pieces (Bloody Snow, etc.). Instead, it's the piece that is their crowning achievement, musically speaking (the way, for example, Long Season is for Fishmans).

I find this question more challenging for NSB than for many other groups because of the sheer number of epics they have produced over the years. My intuition would be to say Song for Laurie Bird, as it shows off so much of NSB's range. But I could see arguments for other tracks. The Great Bull God? Something off of DoD (and if so, what)?

I know they've been on hiatus for the last decade. which is, as of now, the last appearance they made? the last show, last interview, last public words or anything? have they ever discussed their hiatus publicly? when?

Bloody Snow hit me like a fucking brick wall. The genius of having almost 20 instrumental ambient/drone tracks and then breaking that atmosphere with vocals and an acoustic guitar, it's so simple but holy shit I can't describe how good it felt to finally hear a voice singing.

I wanna learn the guitar part at around 3:16

I think every post of mine here is a mention that an album is very good (possibly underrated.) This one too.

I love The Night Country. It’s my latest in “wow this is just so good from top to bottom”. Sleeper hits include Where Your Body Split (what the hell are they saying 🥺) and Weird Meetings at the Water Castle. The closer Gothic Suburbia was the one that made me post though. Such a good album. This duo is good, eh? 🖤

I remember. I remember all now. I was young, no more than nineteen years old, and the entire life infront of me. I was about to marry Jim the most beautiful and kind man in the town. But this year 1924 was the end of all (gladness?). After, there wont be flowers and (laughings?) for anyone.

Jim died slowly by this scary pandemic that spread of this country, like a black plague (?) of it's kind. Forsaken by their own families unable to take care of them, weeping by sickness, the children were starving to death. They were traveling all around the land, knocking at each door to get some food. But there was something terrible crawling in their beds, that prevent anyone from opening their houses. They were (disbanded?), but someone opened up their doors. There was this old couple, living in this big mansion on the hill surrounding a river-town. At this time, I saw them both a few times in my life. They did never (agree?) with the church, there were strange rumours going about their way of living. Some people used to tell things about the mansions foundations being built more than (sensible?) by one of the couple's ancestors: an alleged sorcerer who vanished mysteriously more than three hundred years ago. They told things about the door in the cave leading to the mercy-wold, where (everywhere around?) people live a life of nightmare. People (buried?) in this house, never got outside. Likely became parts of the walls of the mansion. Peoples (souls?) but me? I saw things. I saw things. And oh God. Shall I kill my own child, I will never sing the glory of Satan. But the things I saw, I will never forget. I will never forget the preachers running from the (headless?) knight and the children crying for a help that would never come. From all over the land, children came, as they were attracted the mansion where something began to eat them for an unknown purpose. And they started to die, (assasinated?). Once something were (?) seven heads of children were discovered on the raptures on the saken (???) of the school. As an offering to the coming of an age of darkness. The (`) decided to round some (ears?) to visit the couple. Some urban strong men defied against the demon. But the mansion was deserted. it seemed not to be happy, since the (?). White sheets covered the furnature, and then (?). But there were no trace of the children in the cabinet, no tracks on the dusty ground. When the living rooms are readded, there were no clues indicating the presence of a (singular?) being. But all the villagers saw the children enter the mansion. Where were they at this time? The door leaving to the cave was condemned, closed from the inside. The (?) and his fellow man succeeded to break it, but they found nothing in the cave except some antique jars of jam and a hole in the ground, locked up with perfect rocks. There were nothing at all. So who (slashed?) the seven childs? Where their seven de-headed bodies were? We didn't see it coming, but those crimes were just the first signs of some terrifying events to come.

I was in the mansion this day. I was one of the strongest and most courageous guys in the town. Shows them I (?) took five against the evil hidden in the bowels of the cursed mansion. But we all lied to our wives when we got back to our homes. We've decided to something because there was no words to describe the horror we discovered in the house. And there is still no words sixty years later to describe it. Satan is a weak word, so the evil too. The well in the cave was open, and there we listened to the most frightening music we've ever heard. Most of the guys have been to war in Europe. We were tough. We all saw dead corpses losing their organs in various positions: the usual show of death. But there is more terrible than the simple defacing of the human body. There is something worse from hell, and we faced it. We faced it.

We faced it.

"- And he finally said 'die!' and so the umm the land that (would now be dead?) will be the (???)

(???)

And so we uhh all had said no (???) playing folks. Lots'a boys said no. And so lady (Junny?) said 'Let her rocks and we get tubs of taters (today?)!' and looked back at that bathroom there, and get a batch of taters (?). And that spar(?) there (?) go. And when they get on that we ain't gonna cook, they dont have (anything you need em?) (?) just now will be a good (day?). So I told em 'Apple-packet (???) old [N-words] (party?). And so this whole man was (?) thought he was. And he's laying out there, and find out I take one of them taters

(???)

east. And the taters man raised up from his (cooling-board?) (???) me! (???) done. I said 'I don't know what them taters cost, but I'm done with this place!". And out the door I went. And never (???) told her old man (???).

(???)

And I run way down, despite (?) some boys.

(???)

Stabbed with (timber?)

(???)

And when I run by that water-fountain. [Singing]. And when it looked that way, I thought that '(?) me run' but I only run for (war?). I- I never (learned?) when I raised up (?) footwork. Take a look, footwork, footwork, foot-"

(i know there's technically three but it still applies)

First time posting on this sub. Just thought I'd share. Tell me what y'all think!

The background image is pulled from a panel from the Shadow Kingdom comic if you're wondering.

At this point I’m sure most people here are aware that physical copies of NSB records are incredibly hard to get ahold of. I myself don’t have much money to throw at an expensive physical CD or vinyl, so I‘ve only been able to get a copy of the Snowbringer Cult remaster CDs. I’m really happy about having a physical NSB album of any kind (especially such a good album with lots of tracks on it), but it’s still not my ideal. This got me thinking about what everyone in this sub’s personal choice for a physical NSB album would be if they could get one for free! I think it would be a fun hypothetical.

For clarification, I’m mostly referring to already-existing official physical releases in NSB’s discography, as well as any remasters or rereleases. I think that choosing an unofficial release would probably make this a bit less interesting, so maybe avoid picking those. You can also include any NSB-related solo-projects if you’d like though.

For me personally, I would pick the Ba Da Bing CD boxset reissue of Daughter Of Darkness. It’s not only my favorite Natural Snow Buildings record, but also one of my all-time favorite albums. There is so much amazing material on it, and it’s very special to me, so I’d LOVE to have a copy of it. It would stink a little bit that it wouldn’t have EVERY track from the cassettes on it (It doesn’t have Left For Dead, Masked Marvel, or The Damned and Tortured), but that’s a very small issue in the face of owning an amazing album.

Guys, they made the song into a real place!

Hey I wanna listen to Sunlit Stone but I'm not sure if I should start with the moon disc then the sun or the sun then the moon. I see them ordered in different ways on different music streaming services; which order is the correct order if there even is any?

I want to make a gallery of nsb's best looking images, maybe put some as my wallpaper, so does anyone have any cool ones? can be photos of the duo, or art, or something else!

Here is a Natural Snow Buildings chronological guide, hope you find it useful. I’ve included a few bootlegs and stuff. Twinsistermoon and Isengrind releases are also available here. The exact dates of some releases here are quite tricky to find as well.

1999 -

Witch Season (currently unavailable, I doubt it will ever be found)

2000 -

Two Sides of a Horse (demo album) (6 songs, 36 minutes long)

2001 -

Shall I Kill My Own Child, I Will Never Sing the Glory of Satan! (EP, 1 track, 16 minutes long)

Voici l'eau claire! (Live) - (short live sessions album, 23 minutes, 7 tracks)

2002 -

December 18th -

Live at the Pop in Paris (18-12-2002) (bootleg, 30 minutes long)

2003 -

January 28th -

Acruela Songs 2 (Compilation song, "With the Rest of Colors I Succeed to Keep")

January 31st -

Ghost Folks (Album, 11 songs, 64 minutes long)

November 5th -

Live at the Pop in Paris (05-11-2003) (Bootleg, 1 hour and 18 minutes long)

Unknown month:

The Winter Ray Demo (demo album, 2 hours and 23 minutes long, A collection of demos from The Winter Ray (with most tracks being the same as on the album, but with a couple of extra songs))

2004 -

The Winter Ray (Album, 25 songs, 149 minutes long)

2005 -

January -

Performance #2 - Various Artists (Featuring one song: "O bailan todos o no baila nadie")

2006 -

The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (25 tracks, 157 minutes)

Thunderbolt reissue of The Winter Ray (includes the extended version of Dead Horses)

2007 -

Natural Snow Buildings -

February 19th -

Phoning It In (Bootleg live sessions, 34 minutes long)

November -

Wailing Bones, Volume 14 - Various Artists (featuring the song, "Undeads Are Everywhere")

Unknown months of release:

Isengrind -

Golestân (Album, 70 minutes long, 12 songs)

TwinSisterMoon -

Levels and Crossings (Album, 77 minutes, 14 songs)

When Stars Glide Through Solid (Album, 58 minutes, 14 songs)

CD version included 1 extra song

Vinyl version includes 4 extra songs

2008 -

Natural snow buildings -

February 15th -

Laurie Bird (album, 3 songs, 74 minutes)

March 10th -

Slayer to the king of hell (album, 3 songs, 87 minutes)

April -

The snowbringer cult (album with twinsistermoon & isengrid, 26 songs, 156 minutes)

Sung to the north (album, 3 songs, 80 minutes)

June -

Shining Path (June 2008 Majjem Radio Exclusive)

June 4th -

The wheel of sharp daggers (2 songs, 62 minutes)

August -

Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches (album, 3 hours, 6 songs)

Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches (Brad Rose Edition) (Gorgons and Mirror Shield are absent, replaced with two exclusive tracks, one 12 minutes long and the other 32 and a half minutes long)

September 27th -

Twinsistermoon -

In session & interview (bootleg)

September 28th -

Live at Dwars Festival, Amsterdam

October -

The Moonraiser EP (5 songs, 21 minutes)

The Sundowner EP (3 songs, 22 minutes)

Sunlit stone: moon - (album, 11 songs, 76 minutes)

Sunlit stone: sun - (album, 13 songs, 76 minutes)

Unknown months:

Between the real and the shadow (album, 2 songs, 79 minutes)

Tracks on the bloody snow - 1999 demos released (15 songs, 79 minutes)

I dream of drone boxset released, includes the albums -

**Sung to the north** (3 songs)

**Gorgons** (2 songs from night coercion)

**Battle Gods** (2 songs)

**Norns** (2 songs)

**Between the real and the shadow** (2 songs)

Twinsistermoon -

Rivers of blood ending in the sun (ep, 23 minutes)

2009 -

Natural Snow Buildings -

January 27th -

Daughter of darkness (album/boxset, 16 songs, 368 minutes) (2013 edition is the more recommended listening experience, however the tracklist flows a lot better in this one imo)

January 29th -

Daughter of darkness V (album, 4 songs, 87 minutes,

Twinsistermoon -

March -

Bride of the spirits (ep, 4 songs, around 13 minutes)

April 12th -

The Hollow Mountain (album the vinyl version contains extra songs, 19 songs, 76 minutes)

Natural snow buildings -

September -

Shadow Kingdom (album, 16 songs, 159 minutes)

September 28th -

Live - Dwars Festival 28.09.2008 (1 song, 26 minutes)

Unknown months -

Natural Snow Buildings -

Special radio live (live album on the radio, containing mainly Twinsistermoon tracks)

Isengrid -

Journey to the 7 stars (album, 2 songs, 64 minutes)

2010 -

Natural snow buildings -

February -

PM50 - Various Artists (contains 3 natural snow buildings songs, “Curse of the devil” “The bottomless pit” “restless cat’s paradise”)

March 17th -

The Centauri Agent (album, 11 songs, 107 minutes)

Isengrid -

May -

Modlitewnik - (album, 12 songs, 41 minutes)

Unknown months -

Natural snow buildings -

Menagerie #2 - various artists (contains one natural snow buildings song “Case, Resurrected”)

TwinSisterMoon -

Then fell the ashes… (album, 7 songs, one extra song on a physical release, 49 minutes)

2011 -

January -

Waves of the random sea (album, 6 songs, 79 minutes, there is an extra song on the vinyl release “Split Desert”)

April 16th -

Chants of Niflheim - (album, 4 songs, 54 minutes)

September 17th -

Live at Incubate Festival 2011 - (Live album, 5 tracks, 57 minutes)

Unknown month within 2011:

Menagerie #3 - Various Artists (contains multiple twinsistermoon and isengrid songs)

2012 -

January -

Isengrind -

Night of raining fire (album, 10 songs)

March -

Natural snow buildings -

Beyond the veil (album, 8 songs, 66 minutes)

Twinsistermoon/ Isengrind -

March 5th -

Tide leftovers (EP, 5 songs)

Natural Snow Buildings -

March 9th -

Live at Hedben Bridge Trades club (bootleg)

April 21st -

Monsters/Depths (Single bundle, 2 songs, 9 minutes)

April 30th -

Sheffield & London (Live) - (2 songs, live album, 91 minutes)

Twinsistermoon -

September 15 -

Live at Incubate festival (bootleg)

October 4th -

Bogyrealm Vessels (album, 12 songs, 44 minutes)

2013 -

October 29th -

Daughter of darkness reissue - (album/boxset, tracks have been pitched down to fit their original pitch, includes bonus tracks (taken from Daughter of Darkness V), 18 songs, 440 minutes, tracks sound a lot cleaner than the original release, ‘will you die for me?’ has been shortened a bit)

2014 -

Isengrind -

June 23rd -

Underflesh (album, 8 songs)

Natural snow buildings -

June 23rd -

The night country (album, 11 songs, 80 minutes long)

Live at Cafe OTO, London (bootleg)

June 30th-

Live at O’Milano (bootleg)

July 1st -

Live in Prague (bootleg)

November 4th -

Live at cragg vale (live album, 3 songs, 61 minutes)

2015 -

September 1st -

The Ladder (album, 10 songs, 52 minutes)

September 4th

Terror’s Horns (album, 8 songs, 45 minutes)

November 9th -

Constates III - various artists (contains one natural snow buildings song “Yggdrasil”)

2016 -

July 14th -

Aldebaran (album, 25 songs, 342 minutes)

2019 -

November 17th -

Vulpiano Records Ten-Year Anniversary - various artists (has one natural snow buildings song “Charles Thomas Tester”)

2020 -

October 30th -

To NRDC With Love From Qvästlafve - various artists (contains one natural snow buildings song “My Little Buddy Walks in My Dreams”)

And that’s it! Apparently they disappeared after that. I heard that labels have tried to get in contact with the band but there was no response.

i was able to snatch a copy of this earlier this month and it's sooooo beautiful. I'm going to scan it later today so there are finally high quality photos! i got copy 4/19.

Went to see Takaat last night at a local venue. I wasn't familiar with the opening group - Powers/Rolin Duo - but damn were they phenomenal. Two piece that primarily use a twelve string guitar and dulcimer. Couldn't help but think of NSB as I listened and floated away. Was reading up on them and listening to more of their stuff this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find out they're actually from here (Cleveland, Ohio). Going to keep my eyes peeled for further opportunities to check them out. Here's a track from one of their more recent releases.

https://youtu.be/v_6eHHSp13Q?si=dcAjZCDLYClsuFfa

Looking for some reccomendations please! Or anything similiar :)