HERMH – The Spiritual Nation Born DVD
 
Label: Pagan Records
Release: June 6 2008
By: Thrudr
Rating: 9/10
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Style: Symphonic Black Metal
URL: Hermh
 

The Spiritual Nation Born is divided into ten sections, each having a mystic name to describe it. It has everything one wants from a metal DVD; band profiles, interview with the founder of HERMH, video-clips, behind the scenes and a full discography and biography chapters.

The DVD starts off with the Deviantoprofilo, which obviously is the band members’ profile. Nothing much here, but it’s nice to get acquainted with the band members and see their metal activity in HERMH and in other bands.

Archivodevilo is the following chapter that contains archives of the band and it’s followed by Vampirodevianto, a ten minute interview with Bart, the fonder of the band. The interview is done really nicely, showing the birth place of HERMH and archives from the bands’ tours in the 90’s. The interview is in Polish with English subtitles. One can see some great Polish country side scenery and some really underground gigs. The only downside of this is, that there’s an interview in Russian (or I think it’s Russian) where there are absolutely no subtitles, so it’s damn hard to guess what they are talking about.
The following chapters, Videovampiro and Gallerographio are collections of HERMH video clips and photographs. Having these on the DVD one can also see the visual evolution of the band.

The fun part of this DVD is definitely the three episodes behind the scenes. They are made during three tours and contain the hilarious adventures of the bands on the tours. If I were to pick the funniest and most exciting of them, it would be the Demigod tour together with Behemoth. There are some funny adventures and happenings there so I wouldn't miss that out.

The Spiritual Nation Born ends with Discodestilatio and Devilographio which is the discography and biography of the band.

Overall is a nice watch, very dense material that provides everything about the band. It’s filled with a lot of funny videos behind the scenes, interesting history of HERMH and some Symphonic Black Metal under Polish signature that just blows away. This is one of this DVD-s that you can watch over and over again. It’s definitely worth having.