I believe this song is quite a bit deeper in meaning than taken at face value. The best position is that this song is about the fall from the Viking age, the rise of modern Odinism and the Swedish black metal scene. How can we reconcile the following verses?
Falling down
Now your soul returns to paradise
7734
I believe the best answer is that 7734 is a distorted reflection of hell, as in, "one man's hell is another's heaven" and Falling down is not about a descent to hell - but about dying in battle so your soul can be transported to Asgard, which is paradise for a viking warrior. From the point of view of someone who believes the meek shall inherit the earth, Norse paganism must certainly look like a religion from hell and the practitioners as needing conversion. The math which turns 7734 to 777 (heaven) into 666 (hell) can be viewed along similar lines of point of view inversions.
So the song uses some word inverts and reverse spellings to remind us that point of view is very important.
"Do glatem live" has earlier been shown to be "evil metal god" spelled backwards (another stark point of view element). The full verse is:
Do glatem live, creator of all
What is ironic is that the creator in the Norse pantheon is Odin (along with his brothers). So Odin is the evil metal god, which is problematic as this is not really supported in Norse paganism. To reconcile this inconsistency we must also view the song as a description of the Swedish black metal scene's evolution from essentially embracing Satanic views (which they realized actually validates the religion they typically decry) to embracing Germanic Neopaganism or paganism in general.
The position of this song within this album is also instructive, it comes after "Shadows" a song derived from Tolkien's fantasy (which Tolkien intended as the mythology of England and is about a mythical age in Europe, and after "Burn Your Crosses" an anti-religion song. 7734 basically combines the elements of the previous two songs into one. Also in Sabaton's catalog is the song "Swedish Pagans" a non-subtle glorification of the viking age.
So there you have it - a self-consistent song meaning for an enigmatic set of verses.
@vilewrench maybe with Do glatem live it means a reverse of the meaning of the word its reversed from, it is not an evil god but is portrayed that way by all those who don't practice the religion itself, they see a separate pantheon from their own as evil, reversing what they actually are: good
@vilewrench maybe with Do glatem live it means a reverse of the meaning of the word its reversed from, it is not an evil god but is portrayed that way by all those who don't practice the religion itself, they see a separate pantheon from their own as evil, reversing what they actually are: good
I believe this song is quite a bit deeper in meaning than taken at face value. The best position is that this song is about the fall from the Viking age, the rise of modern Odinism and the Swedish black metal scene. How can we reconcile the following verses?
Falling down Now your soul returns to paradise 7734
I believe the best answer is that 7734 is a distorted reflection of hell, as in, "one man's hell is another's heaven" and Falling down is not about a descent to hell - but about dying in battle so your soul can be transported to Asgard, which is paradise for a viking warrior. From the point of view of someone who believes the meek shall inherit the earth, Norse paganism must certainly look like a religion from hell and the practitioners as needing conversion. The math which turns 7734 to 777 (heaven) into 666 (hell) can be viewed along similar lines of point of view inversions.
So the song uses some word inverts and reverse spellings to remind us that point of view is very important.
"Do glatem live" has earlier been shown to be "evil metal god" spelled backwards (another stark point of view element). The full verse is:
Do glatem live, creator of all
What is ironic is that the creator in the Norse pantheon is Odin (along with his brothers). So Odin is the evil metal god, which is problematic as this is not really supported in Norse paganism. To reconcile this inconsistency we must also view the song as a description of the Swedish black metal scene's evolution from essentially embracing Satanic views (which they realized actually validates the religion they typically decry) to embracing Germanic Neopaganism or paganism in general.
The position of this song within this album is also instructive, it comes after "Shadows" a song derived from Tolkien's fantasy (which Tolkien intended as the mythology of England and is about a mythical age in Europe, and after "Burn Your Crosses" an anti-religion song. 7734 basically combines the elements of the previous two songs into one. Also in Sabaton's catalog is the song "Swedish Pagans" a non-subtle glorification of the viking age.
So there you have it - a self-consistent song meaning for an enigmatic set of verses.
@vilewrench maybe with Do glatem live it means a reverse of the meaning of the word its reversed from, it is not an evil god but is portrayed that way by all those who don't practice the religion itself, they see a separate pantheon from their own as evil, reversing what they actually are: good
@vilewrench maybe with Do glatem live it means a reverse of the meaning of the word its reversed from, it is not an evil god but is portrayed that way by all those who don't practice the religion itself, they see a separate pantheon from their own as evil, reversing what they actually are: good