Russian. For the earlier albums anyway. The English recordings had too many changes. I just don’t like censorship or localisation. Actually for Anyone with some level of multilingualism the original usually better. Moving to another language requires changes in timing and phrasing to fit the words to music. Bands like Тату (Russian, later written in English and released in Russian) Sabaton (Swedish, English), Therion (French, English, German, Italian m, and dozens more), all sound better in the original writing. Some bands like Gray (Gypsm/Gypsy) take the extreme in using a source language, and most people from east European countries can understand them somewhat. Finders uses Proto-Germaic which for anyone who speaks a Goth or Nordic language, or English, is quickly recognisable, if not understandable.
My spoken Russian is passable, but my Cyrillic is problematic since I learned Russian Standard which was never adopted in Russia. go figure!
For anyone looking to learn language through music and likes rock or metal, try Sabaton, Therion, Fintroll, and any of the variation of Rhapsody (In/of fire or just Rhapsody). For the darker music fans DimmuBorgir. All write in multiple languages and take Poly to the extreme.
Therion remains one of my favs simply because they’ve covered every musical classing in existence. Starting as early second wave black metal, the most public albums are a range of Rock, Power Metal, symphonic (as in real symphony) metal, opera rock and metal, jazz, blues, oldies (a whole album covering 1940-1970 French pop songs), disco, opera… a good way to get kids into other styles of music. Plus they actually have songs in multiple languages. Along with Rhapsody and Gray they will actually change language multiple times in the same song. Throw together a complete list of Therion’s releases and set it to random play and you have an adventure in 500+ years worth of musical style. In dozens of languages. They were from 2005-2016 the biggest revolving door supergroup in music history for their live shows. Their acoustic compilation releases are dream. Like Rammstein did with Liebe they show that some artists in the extreme end have legitimate credentials in music theory! Hearing “brutal slamming black metal” on three acoustic guitars and folk percussion with soft sung lyrics gives you a whole new look at the training and skill some writers and groups have.
But we’re way off topic now. Not that I care that much. :)
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