A barbarian is a human who is perceived to be uncivilized or primitive. The designation is usually applied as generalization based on a popular stereotype; barbarians can be any member of a nation judged by some to be less civilized or orderly (such as a tribal society), but may also be part of a certain "primitive" cultural group (such as nomads) or social class (such as bandits) both within and outside one's own nation. Alternatively, they may instead be admired and romanticized as noble savages. In idiomatic or figurative usage, a "barbarian" may also be an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person.
The term originates from the Greek:βάρβαρος (barbaros). In ancient times, Greeks used it mostly for people of different cultures, but there are examples where one Greek city or state would use the word to attack another (e.g. haughty Athenians calling the Boeotians barbarian); in the early modern period and sometimes later, Greeks used it for the Turks, in a clearly pejorative way. Comparable notions are found in non-European civilizations, notably China and Japan. In the Roman Empire, Romans used the word "barbarian" for many people, such as the Germanics, Celts, Iberians, Thracians and Parthians.
Barbarian is a fighting video game developed by Saffire and published by Titus Software. The game was first released in North America in 2002, and then in Europe in December 2003.
Gameplay
The game features 11 different fighters, each with different weapons and abilities. The player may freely destroy the environment, and use destroyed objects as weapons against their opponents. The characters each have alternate costumes, which, depending on which the player chooses, may change their default weapon. However, it does not affect the weapon's damage capabilities or uses.
The game plays much like Power Stone with its arena-style gameplay.
Release
The GameCube version was originally planned for a U.S. release in late 2002 and in Europe in 2004, but was canceled while it was released in Japan in 2003.
A scaled-down port of Barbarian was originally planned for release on the Game Boy Advance, but was later canceled.
Reception
The game received "mixed reviews" on all platforms according to video game review aggregatorMetacritic. Many video game websites and publications gave earlier reviews and average scores on the GameCube and Xbox versions in late 2002, months before the release dates for both of those versions were canceled in the U.S. due to mediocre reception for the PS2 version.
The barbarian is based on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Gardner Fox's Kothar and to a lesser extent Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition
The first official barbarian character class was introduced by Gary Gygax in Dragon #63 (July 1982), as a sub-class of fighter. The barbarian later appears in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons manual, Unearthed Arcana in 1985. The barbarian, along with the cavalier, received a revision in Dragon magazine #148, as the author David Howery felt that the class as described in Unearthed Arcana was "too powerful and too vaguely defined."
Another version of the barbarian appeared as a character class in the original Oriental Adventures in 1985. According to a reviewer for White Dwarf, the barbarian was "altered to fit into an Eastern pattern", and was "primarily a steppes warrior, or a forest and jungle dweller".
Unedited/Original Clip of Legendary Techno Viking:
Techno Viking is a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin. The 4-minute video shot by experimental video artist Matthias Fritsch at the F--kparade on 8 July 2000 begins with the title "Kneecam No. 1" and shows a bare-chested man wearing a Thor's hammer pendant grabbing the arms of and pointing his finger at another man who has just shoved a woman, drinking from a bottle of water offered to him upside down by another man, then dancing down the street to techno music. Fritsch intended it to raise questions of whether the action was real or staged. A man offers an upside-down bottle of water to the Techno Viking
Fritsch uploaded the video to the internet in 2001. It was posted on YouTube and went viral in 2007. After being posted on Break...
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Barbarian Swords - I'm Your Demise (WORMS) (2016)
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Please welcome Barbarian Swords, a very dark, personal and disturbing band from Barcelona, Spain. They have a very unique sound: mixing the various subgenres of Black and Doom Metal in addition to a smattering of Punk and Noise. Barbarian Swords was formed in 2011, and quickly released their first demo, ‘Crusaders of the Apocalypse’ in 2012, which has been sold out for a while now. In 2014 they released their debut full-length, ‘Hunting Rats’, which while promoted by Blood Fire Death, received excellent reviews in top journals such as Rock Hard (Germany), Legacy, Metalegion (Portugal)...
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Clayfacer - Halfway Crooks - HARD DANCE 2012
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Unedited/Original Clip of Legendary Techno Viking:
Techno Viking is a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin. The 4-minute video shot by experimental video a...
Unedited/Original Clip of Legendary Techno Viking:
Techno Viking is a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin. The 4-minute video shot by experimental video artist Matthias Fritsch at the F--kparade on 8 July 2000 begins with the title "Kneecam No. 1" and shows a bare-chested man wearing a Thor's hammer pendant grabbing the arms of and pointing his finger at another man who has just shoved a woman, drinking from a bottle of water offered to him upside down by another man, then dancing down the street to techno music. Fritsch intended it to raise questions of whether the action was real or staged. A man offers an upside-down bottle of water to the Techno Viking
Fritsch uploaded the video to the internet in 2001. It was posted on YouTube and went viral in 2007. After being posted on Break.com, it peaked on 28 September at more than 1 million views per day and was watched by over 10 million people over 6 months. More than 700 responses and remixed versions were posted. It was the #1 clip on Rude Tube's series-three-episode Drink and Drugs. Mathew Cullen and Weezer wanted to include Techno Viking in their compilation of Internet memes for the "Pork and Beans" music video but were unable to. Techno Viking was also rendered in oils as part of a series on internet memes. By mid-2010, the video had generated over 20 million hits on YouTube alone. Techno Viking has a Know Your Meme page, which documents aspects of the meme, such as a picture of Techno Viking with his finger raised and the word "Obey", and formerly had an Encyclopedia Dramatica page.
Fritsch mounted an installation and the online Techno Viking Archive "to research the strategies of participatory practice in digital social networks and presented lectures on the reception of the video. His Music from the Masses project was suggested by the Techno Viking experience: it explores web collaboration by providing silent films for artists to provide soundtracks. In response to legal action by the man featured in the video, access to the Techno Viking video itself has been restricted and annotations on YouTube blocked since late 2009.
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Unedited/Original Clip of Legendary Techno Viking:
Techno Viking is a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin. The 4-minute video shot by experimental video artist Matthias Fritsch at the F--kparade on 8 July 2000 begins with the title "Kneecam No. 1" and shows a bare-chested man wearing a Thor's hammer pendant grabbing the arms of and pointing his finger at another man who has just shoved a woman, drinking from a bottle of water offered to him upside down by another man, then dancing down the street to techno music. Fritsch intended it to raise questions of whether the action was real or staged. A man offers an upside-down bottle of water to the Techno Viking
Fritsch uploaded the video to the internet in 2001. It was posted on YouTube and went viral in 2007. After being posted on Break.com, it peaked on 28 September at more than 1 million views per day and was watched by over 10 million people over 6 months. More than 700 responses and remixed versions were posted. It was the #1 clip on Rude Tube's series-three-episode Drink and Drugs. Mathew Cullen and Weezer wanted to include Techno Viking in their compilation of Internet memes for the "Pork and Beans" music video but were unable to. Techno Viking was also rendered in oils as part of a series on internet memes. By mid-2010, the video had generated over 20 million hits on YouTube alone. Techno Viking has a Know Your Meme page, which documents aspects of the meme, such as a picture of Techno Viking with his finger raised and the word "Obey", and formerly had an Encyclopedia Dramatica page.
Fritsch mounted an installation and the online Techno Viking Archive "to research the strategies of participatory practice in digital social networks and presented lectures on the reception of the video. His Music from the Masses project was suggested by the Techno Viking experience: it explores web collaboration by providing silent films for artists to provide soundtracks. In response to legal action by the man featured in the video, access to the Techno Viking video itself has been restricted and annotations on YouTube blocked since late 2009.
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This is a quick video of my barbarian Hota Build. If you have any question, please leave it in the comment down below. Thank you for watching.
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Purchase: https://cimmerianshaderecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worms
Streaming in full at No Clean Singing: http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/11/09/an-ncs-albu...
Purchase: https://cimmerianshaderecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worms
Streaming in full at No Clean Singing: http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/11/09/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-barbarian-swords-worms/
Please welcome Barbarian Swords, a very dark, personal and disturbing band from Barcelona, Spain. They have a very unique sound: mixing the various subgenres of Black and Doom Metal in addition to a smattering of Punk and Noise. Barbarian Swords was formed in 2011, and quickly released their first demo, ‘Crusaders of the Apocalypse’ in 2012, which has been sold out for a while now. In 2014 they released their debut full-length, ‘Hunting Rats’, which while promoted by Blood Fire Death, received excellent reviews in top journals such as Rock Hard (Germany), Legacy, Metalegion (Portugal) and RockZone (Spain), as well as in a wide variety of specialized websites and fanzines all over the world. Backed by a noisy and sometimes even violent live act, they soon earned the reputation of being one of the most rotten and sickest bands in the Spanish metal scene. This reputation allowed them to be drafted for the Primavera Club Festival, the club-based autumn festival organized by the renowned Primavera Sound, where they shared the stage with Monarch! and Bell Witch.
They have recently finished recording their second album, in which they squirm deeper than ever into a mud of absolute evil and heretic derangement with 71 minutes of pure devilish trance. Their lyrical themes revolve around total war, mass raping, and cruel and vile prosecution of any sign of religion or creed, with the nihilist conviction that the world should go down in flames.
For the recording, mixing and mastering, they have been lucky to count upon an indisputable master such as Javi Félez and his Moontower Studios (Teitanblood, Graveyard, Körgull the Exterminator, Nominon, Ered, Lux Divina, Avulsed, Balmog, Primigenium…), whom already did a flawless job with their debut album. The cover and layout have been designed by César Valladares (Krisiun, Asphyx, Grave Miasma, Under the Church, Balmog, Graveyard…), whose work completely captures the blind hatred that emanates from their sound.
The band have just secured an appearances at the Inner Metal Fest and Catalonia Extreme Winter Festival next January.
Their upcoming full-length ‘Worms' leaves no doubt that there is not a single trace of positive feelings or thoughts in Barbarian Swords.
"Total Nihilism" playing at The Sludgelord: http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2016/10/track-premiere-total-nihilism-by.html
"In short, Barbarian Swords have released a powerful album that oozes evil and true passion for the Extreme Metal, so if you are fans of this genre, give a chance to this album, because it will not disappoint." - 8/10 brokentombmagazine.com
"I truly believe that I had never heard anything so foul a band here. If one day there is a final judgment, or a zombie apocalypse, do not doubt for a moment that the soundtrack for this event will be this or something very similar." - Larry Runner, Diario de un Metalhead
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarbarianSwordsMetal
Bandcamp: https://barbarianswords.bandcamp.com/
Barbarian Swords is:
Von Päx (voice)
Voice Of Noise (guitar)
Steamroller (guitar)
Panzer (bass)
Joe Beltza (drums)
Mixing/Mastering: Javi Felez (Moontower Studios)
Artwork: Cesar Valladares
CD Jewel Case: Satanath Records/The Ritual Productions: https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat162-barbarian-swords-worms-2016
Discography:
- Crusaders Of The Apocalypse (demo, 2012)
- Hunting Rats (album, 2014)
- Worms (album, 2016)
Purchase: https://cimmerianshaderecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worms
Streaming in full at No Clean Singing: http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/11/09/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-barbarian-swords-worms/
Please welcome Barbarian Swords, a very dark, personal and disturbing band from Barcelona, Spain. They have a very unique sound: mixing the various subgenres of Black and Doom Metal in addition to a smattering of Punk and Noise. Barbarian Swords was formed in 2011, and quickly released their first demo, ‘Crusaders of the Apocalypse’ in 2012, which has been sold out for a while now. In 2014 they released their debut full-length, ‘Hunting Rats’, which while promoted by Blood Fire Death, received excellent reviews in top journals such as Rock Hard (Germany), Legacy, Metalegion (Portugal) and RockZone (Spain), as well as in a wide variety of specialized websites and fanzines all over the world. Backed by a noisy and sometimes even violent live act, they soon earned the reputation of being one of the most rotten and sickest bands in the Spanish metal scene. This reputation allowed them to be drafted for the Primavera Club Festival, the club-based autumn festival organized by the renowned Primavera Sound, where they shared the stage with Monarch! and Bell Witch.
They have recently finished recording their second album, in which they squirm deeper than ever into a mud of absolute evil and heretic derangement with 71 minutes of pure devilish trance. Their lyrical themes revolve around total war, mass raping, and cruel and vile prosecution of any sign of religion or creed, with the nihilist conviction that the world should go down in flames.
For the recording, mixing and mastering, they have been lucky to count upon an indisputable master such as Javi Félez and his Moontower Studios (Teitanblood, Graveyard, Körgull the Exterminator, Nominon, Ered, Lux Divina, Avulsed, Balmog, Primigenium…), whom already did a flawless job with their debut album. The cover and layout have been designed by César Valladares (Krisiun, Asphyx, Grave Miasma, Under the Church, Balmog, Graveyard…), whose work completely captures the blind hatred that emanates from their sound.
The band have just secured an appearances at the Inner Metal Fest and Catalonia Extreme Winter Festival next January.
Their upcoming full-length ‘Worms' leaves no doubt that there is not a single trace of positive feelings or thoughts in Barbarian Swords.
"Total Nihilism" playing at The Sludgelord: http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2016/10/track-premiere-total-nihilism-by.html
"In short, Barbarian Swords have released a powerful album that oozes evil and true passion for the Extreme Metal, so if you are fans of this genre, give a chance to this album, because it will not disappoint." - 8/10 brokentombmagazine.com
"I truly believe that I had never heard anything so foul a band here. If one day there is a final judgment, or a zombie apocalypse, do not doubt for a moment that the soundtrack for this event will be this or something very similar." - Larry Runner, Diario de un Metalhead
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarbarianSwordsMetal
Bandcamp: https://barbarianswords.bandcamp.com/
Barbarian Swords is:
Von Päx (voice)
Voice Of Noise (guitar)
Steamroller (guitar)
Panzer (bass)
Joe Beltza (drums)
Mixing/Mastering: Javi Felez (Moontower Studios)
Artwork: Cesar Valladares
CD Jewel Case: Satanath Records/The Ritual Productions: https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat162-barbarian-swords-worms-2016
Discography:
- Crusaders Of The Apocalypse (demo, 2012)
- Hunting Rats (album, 2014)
- Worms (album, 2016)
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Here's something a littl...
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Here's something a little different from me. This was an extremely fun song to make and I plan to make more tunes similar to this in the 2012 year. Enjoy the preview, out soon on Pandemic Digital!
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Here's something a little different from me. This was an extremely fun song to make and I plan to make more tunes similar to this in the 2012 year. Enjoy the preview, out soon on Pandemic Digital!
Unedited/Original Clip of Legendary Techno Viking:
Techno Viking is a video from the 2000 Fuckparade in Berlin. The 4-minute video shot by experimental video artist Matthias Fritsch at the F--kparade on 8 July 2000 begins with the title "Kneecam No. 1" and shows a bare-chested man wearing a Thor's hammer pendant grabbing the arms of and pointing his finger at another man who has just shoved a woman, drinking from a bottle of water offered to him upside down by another man, then dancing down the street to techno music. Fritsch intended it to raise questions of whether the action was real or staged. A man offers an upside-down bottle of water to the Techno Viking
Fritsch uploaded the video to the internet in 2001. It was posted on YouTube and went viral in 2007. After being posted on Break.com, it peaked on 28 September at more than 1 million views per day and was watched by over 10 million people over 6 months. More than 700 responses and remixed versions were posted. It was the #1 clip on Rude Tube's series-three-episode Drink and Drugs. Mathew Cullen and Weezer wanted to include Techno Viking in their compilation of Internet memes for the "Pork and Beans" music video but were unable to. Techno Viking was also rendered in oils as part of a series on internet memes. By mid-2010, the video had generated over 20 million hits on YouTube alone. Techno Viking has a Know Your Meme page, which documents aspects of the meme, such as a picture of Techno Viking with his finger raised and the word "Obey", and formerly had an Encyclopedia Dramatica page.
Fritsch mounted an installation and the online Techno Viking Archive "to research the strategies of participatory practice in digital social networks and presented lectures on the reception of the video. His Music from the Masses project was suggested by the Techno Viking experience: it explores web collaboration by providing silent films for artists to provide soundtracks. In response to legal action by the man featured in the video, access to the Techno Viking video itself has been restricted and annotations on YouTube blocked since late 2009.
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This is a quick video of my barbarian Hota Build. If you have any question, please leave it in the comment down below. Thank you for watching.
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Purchase: https://cimmerianshaderecordings.bandcamp.com/album/worms
Streaming in full at No Clean Singing: http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/11/09/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-a-review-barbarian-swords-worms/
Please welcome Barbarian Swords, a very dark, personal and disturbing band from Barcelona, Spain. They have a very unique sound: mixing the various subgenres of Black and Doom Metal in addition to a smattering of Punk and Noise. Barbarian Swords was formed in 2011, and quickly released their first demo, ‘Crusaders of the Apocalypse’ in 2012, which has been sold out for a while now. In 2014 they released their debut full-length, ‘Hunting Rats’, which while promoted by Blood Fire Death, received excellent reviews in top journals such as Rock Hard (Germany), Legacy, Metalegion (Portugal) and RockZone (Spain), as well as in a wide variety of specialized websites and fanzines all over the world. Backed by a noisy and sometimes even violent live act, they soon earned the reputation of being one of the most rotten and sickest bands in the Spanish metal scene. This reputation allowed them to be drafted for the Primavera Club Festival, the club-based autumn festival organized by the renowned Primavera Sound, where they shared the stage with Monarch! and Bell Witch.
They have recently finished recording their second album, in which they squirm deeper than ever into a mud of absolute evil and heretic derangement with 71 minutes of pure devilish trance. Their lyrical themes revolve around total war, mass raping, and cruel and vile prosecution of any sign of religion or creed, with the nihilist conviction that the world should go down in flames.
For the recording, mixing and mastering, they have been lucky to count upon an indisputable master such as Javi Félez and his Moontower Studios (Teitanblood, Graveyard, Körgull the Exterminator, Nominon, Ered, Lux Divina, Avulsed, Balmog, Primigenium…), whom already did a flawless job with their debut album. The cover and layout have been designed by César Valladares (Krisiun, Asphyx, Grave Miasma, Under the Church, Balmog, Graveyard…), whose work completely captures the blind hatred that emanates from their sound.
The band have just secured an appearances at the Inner Metal Fest and Catalonia Extreme Winter Festival next January.
Their upcoming full-length ‘Worms' leaves no doubt that there is not a single trace of positive feelings or thoughts in Barbarian Swords.
"Total Nihilism" playing at The Sludgelord: http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2016/10/track-premiere-total-nihilism-by.html
"In short, Barbarian Swords have released a powerful album that oozes evil and true passion for the Extreme Metal, so if you are fans of this genre, give a chance to this album, because it will not disappoint." - 8/10 brokentombmagazine.com
"I truly believe that I had never heard anything so foul a band here. If one day there is a final judgment, or a zombie apocalypse, do not doubt for a moment that the soundtrack for this event will be this or something very similar." - Larry Runner, Diario de un Metalhead
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarbarianSwordsMetal
Bandcamp: https://barbarianswords.bandcamp.com/
Barbarian Swords is:
Von Päx (voice)
Voice Of Noise (guitar)
Steamroller (guitar)
Panzer (bass)
Joe Beltza (drums)
Mixing/Mastering: Javi Felez (Moontower Studios)
Artwork: Cesar Valladares
CD Jewel Case: Satanath Records/The Ritual Productions: https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat162-barbarian-swords-worms-2016
Discography:
- Crusaders Of The Apocalypse (demo, 2012)
- Hunting Rats (album, 2014)
- Worms (album, 2016)
Follow me on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/clayfacer
Like me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clayfacer/278083428895225
Here's something a little different from me. This was an extremely fun song to make and I plan to make more tunes similar to this in the 2012 year. Enjoy the preview, out soon on Pandemic Digital!
A barbarian is a human who is perceived to be uncivilized or primitive. The designation is usually applied as generalization based on a popular stereotype; barbarians can be any member of a nation judged by some to be less civilized or orderly (such as a tribal society), but may also be part of a certain "primitive" cultural group (such as nomads) or social class (such as bandits) both within and outside one's own nation. Alternatively, they may instead be admired and romanticized as noble savages. In idiomatic or figurative usage, a "barbarian" may also be an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person.
The term originates from the Greek:βάρβαρος (barbaros). In ancient times, Greeks used it mostly for people of different cultures, but there are examples where one Greek city or state would use the word to attack another (e.g. haughty Athenians calling the Boeotians barbarian); in the early modern period and sometimes later, Greeks used it for the Turks, in a clearly pejorative way. Comparable notions are found in non-European civilizations, notably China and Japan. In the Roman Empire, Romans used the word "barbarian" for many people, such as the Germanics, Celts, Iberians, Thracians and Parthians.