SWORD IN THE STORM (THE SAGA OF EARL HAKON)
Los Alemanes Rebellion, como ya he dicho creada por exmiembros de Grave Digger, son un contundente grupo de power metal
que surge en 2001, tras la trilogía de Grave Digger del "Tunes of war",
"Knights of the cross" y "Excalibur", en la posiblemente mejor época de esa
banda. En ese momento, Tomi Gotttlich y Uwe Lulis, deciden por
desacuerdos con Chris Boltendahl, (fundador líder y cantante de Grave Digger), separar sus caminos, llegando a litigar
incluso por la posesión del nombre de Grave Digger. Finalmente se
decantan por la utilización de Rebellion, uno de los temas más conocidos
de su banda madre.
Comienzan a
sacar material en 2002 y desde ese momento 7 discos de estudio han visto
la luz bajo el nombre Rebellion, así como un EP. Su mejor momento para
mi es la "trilogía vikinga", entre 2005 y 2009. Pero antes de dicha
trilogía ya habían dejado entrever que son una banda de verdad, no una
pataleta de "me separo y creo mi propia banda". El disco del que hoy
quiero hablar en el blog es el primero de la "trilogía vikinga" a la que
me refería. Se trata del disco "Sagas Of Iceland", de
2005, tercera obra de la banda, y un paso adelante en lo que es su
música, con una clara intención conceptual, que como digo tendrá
continuación en sus dos siguientes discos "Miklagard" de 2007 y "Arise,
from Ginnungagap to Ragnarok" de 2009. Hoy quiero volver a dejar en el blog un tema de su discazo "Sagas of Iceland" ya que es posiblemente el que más me guste en su conjunto de su discografía, un disco en el que demostraban que esta trilogía vikinga apuntaba al rigor histórico en sus letras y al rigor metálico en sus composiciones, tremendamente correcto en todos los apartados, alejado de "inventos" y teniendo perfectamente claro el camino que querían abrir y que continuaron en sus dos siguientes obras. La facilidad que tiene este grupo para crear atmósferas épicas sin necesidad de recurrir a samplers, o un exceso de elementos folk es asombrosa, pareciéndose más a las bandas clásicas de heavy metal old school, algo siempre de agradecer el los directos. Muchos, (para mi todos) los temas a destacar, pero hoy quiero dejar en el blog otro de ellos, en esta ocasión "Sword in the storm (The saga of Earl Hakon)", que narra las andanzas del último regente noruego no cristianizado que hubo en Noruega, una canción de la que dejo un enlace a youtube.
Come Skald sit thee with us and tell us of the past
The deeds of viking warriors in your songs they'll ever last
We long to hear of Hakon, the Earl of Norway's shores
Or how he killed the Gravskin and stood the Jomsburg force
He was born the son of Sigurd, his father stabbed by royal hands
He escaped and turned a viking, his frame spread across the lands
And on the day he faced the Gravskin, anger wished just like a burning flood
Hakon the maker of widows taking lives as his blade drinks blood
The fish return now into the fjord, the harvest rich Hakon we hail thy sword
Raising temples where a church did stand. Odin smiles to praise the land
Sword in the storm, the rock in the battle
Hakon you stand and be Odin thy guide
Strong be thy arm, oh sword in the storm
Thor grant you strength to defend what is right
And when the viking of the Jomsburg set their sails against our shores
Strong in numbers famous heroes, Hakon you fought them to the core
And in the middle of the bloodshed, standing strong I saw your hands reach for the sky
Calling for help in the turmoil, Odin took your son as a sacrifice
The fish return now into the fjord, the harvest rich Hakon we hail thy sword
Raising temples where a church did stand. Odin smiles to praise the land
Sword in the storm, the rock in the battle
Hakon you stand and be Odin thy guide
Strong be thy arm, oh sword in the storm
Thor grant you strength to defend what is right
But in the end of people asked for the reign of a christian king
Betraying Hakon they soon forgot the good his rule did bring
In his sleep, killed by a thrall a hero's bitter end
Trygve's son was to succeed to rule the Northern Land
The deeds of viking warriors in your songs they'll ever last
We long to hear of Hakon, the Earl of Norway's shores
Or how he killed the Gravskin and stood the Jomsburg force
He was born the son of Sigurd, his father stabbed by royal hands
He escaped and turned a viking, his frame spread across the lands
And on the day he faced the Gravskin, anger wished just like a burning flood
Hakon the maker of widows taking lives as his blade drinks blood
The fish return now into the fjord, the harvest rich Hakon we hail thy sword
Raising temples where a church did stand. Odin smiles to praise the land
Sword in the storm, the rock in the battle
Hakon you stand and be Odin thy guide
Strong be thy arm, oh sword in the storm
Thor grant you strength to defend what is right
And when the viking of the Jomsburg set their sails against our shores
Strong in numbers famous heroes, Hakon you fought them to the core
And in the middle of the bloodshed, standing strong I saw your hands reach for the sky
Calling for help in the turmoil, Odin took your son as a sacrifice
The fish return now into the fjord, the harvest rich Hakon we hail thy sword
Raising temples where a church did stand. Odin smiles to praise the land
Sword in the storm, the rock in the battle
Hakon you stand and be Odin thy guide
Strong be thy arm, oh sword in the storm
Thor grant you strength to defend what is right
But in the end of people asked for the reign of a christian king
Betraying Hakon they soon forgot the good his rule did bring
In his sleep, killed by a thrall a hero's bitter end
Trygve's son was to succeed to rule the Northern Land
By Nash
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