Forefather - Havoc On Holy Island

HAVOC  ON  HOLY  ISLAND 

Casi una década de silencio compositivo se antoja algo demasiado largo para una banda como Forefather, los británicos vikingos que desde 2017 no editan nada y ese último trabajo fue además en formato EP, para encontrar su última publicación en formato larga duración hay que retroceder un par de años más, hasta 2015 con su "Curse of the Cwelled" que hoy quiero recuperar de nuevo. La buena noticia es que se supone que la banda sigue en activo, no hay notocia de que se hayan separado, la parte mala es esa década larga ya de silencio desde su anterior LP. Quiero dejar en el blog la canción "Havoc on holy island" del citado trabajo de 2015, una canción de la que dejo un enlace a youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800yCmON37U 

 

In placid halls beside the tide
The tiresome scrape of quill on hide
Passes every plodding hour
In the care of a hollow power
Lying alone, treasures abound
Spells sent forth throughout the lands
But stubborn hearts are not beguiled
Beyond the waves a wrath is riled

Longships break the waters
Dragonfire paints the sky
Anger rends the silence
Harried by a wild warcry
Relics through ravaged altars
White Christ servants flee
Havoc on Holy Island
Punishment from the sea

A lonesome life they embrace
Walled within this hallowed space
Toiling for a higher cause
Loyal slaves to heavenly laws
Macabre rites with rag and bone
Praise to corporal idols shown
But empty words cannot resist
Whirlwinds wreck the fragile bliss

Solo: Wulfstan

So he bade them go, carry forth
To the daunting halls of the north
Promise of salvation they brought
Pilgrims in a distant domain
Wily words spreading like a plague
So was a land led astray

'Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðhymbra land,...ormete þodenas and ligrescas, and fyrenne dracan wæron gesewene on þam lifte fleogende. Þam tacnum sona fyligde mycel hunger,...[and] earmlice hæþenra manna hergunc adilegode Godes cyrican in Lindisfarnaee...' - AS Chronicle 793

(Here came dreadful forewarnings over the land of the Northumbrians: huge whirlwinds and flashes of light, and firey dragons flying in the sky. After these tokens soon followed much hunger, and the harrying of wretched heathen men destroyed God's church on Lindisfarne.)

Longships break the waters
Dragonfire paints the sky
Anger rends the silence
Harried by a wild warcry
Relics through ravaged altars
White Christ servants flee
Havoc on Holy Island
Punishment from the sea 

By Nash