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Artist
Uruk Hai
12+ albums
about
There are at least three artist by this name 1. Uruk Hai was the first project by Varg Vikernes before he formed the legendary black metal outfit "Burzum" 2. Uruk Hai are a black metal band from Spain 3. Pagan battle ambient-project. URUK-Hai was founded by Hugin (HROSSHARSGRANI, ELISABETHA) in the autumn of 1999. Everything began with Hugin’s work on new HROSSHARSGRANI-material, which was planned to be entitled “Uruk-Hai”. After finnishing the production he sent out six advance-copies to a few friends and after listening to the material for himself for a couple of times, he decided that the stuff could not be released under the HROSSHARSGRANI-monicker. So the first URUK-HAI-demo was born. It was entitled “In Durins Halls” and - equipped with a new sound and some bonusmaterial – recently released by ECLIPSE LIVE PROMULGATION from Germany. During the recording process of ‘In Durins Halls’ and still under the name HROSSHARSGRANI Hugin also composed the 78 minute long song ‘Quenta Silmarillion’ (wo which a newer version was also recently released as strictly limited CDR via the bulgarian label A.M.F. Production). The first real URUK-HAI (rehearsal)demo ‘Elbenwald’ was recorded in the cold winter of 1999/2000 and was released as a label-split between lithuanias BEVERINA-Production and ELVEN WITCHCRAFT. A new sound called PAGAN BATTLE AMBIENT was invented and mixed with a few black metal-elements. A few more rehearsals followed. ‘Darkness’ and ‘Orcish Battle Hymns’ were both
