New FSOTM: Primordial - Empire Falls
So I've had
Primordial's latest album "
To The Nameless Dead" kicking around my itunes/ipod for a while now, but for the longest time nothing really jumped out at me.. until now that is, in the last 2 weeks i haven't been able to stop listening to it, specifically this song, "
Empire Falls".
Primordial are an Irish Folk/Black metal band, with "screamed" vocals used sparingly, mainly used to salt and pepper the rough, yet clean vocals. The music isn't crazy blasterbation at 108342907238947 bpm with droning high pitched guitars, but rather it is driving and melodic, powerful where it needs to be and easing up when it fits.
The lyrics are based largely on ancestry and history and are rather interesting (not to mention decipherable). This song in particular speaks of the importance of retaining the truth, rather than modifying your history to make yourself seem like a greater person.
Anywho, go listen, lyrics and link below, enjoy.
A cold wind is blowing
Through the graves it is blowing
And it bares a poisoned tongue
And the foul breath of deceit
I am my fathers son
And his deeds
Cannot be undone... be undone
You trade in his blood
Writing your history
In the sacrifices of the dead
Where is the fighting man?
Am I he?
You would trade every truth
For hollow victories
Every empire will fall
Every monument crumble
Forgotten men who watch the centuries
Whose silent words
Rise up in betrayal
We will rise up in betrayal
Where is the fighting man?
Am I he?
You would trade every truth
For hollow victories
Every empire falls
And the earth to ashes turn
The lands of my birth
Shall be my tomb
The are the lands, the lands of my birth
Soon to be ruins, the ruins of my past
And when the sky should fall
The earth to ashes turn
Then you know they shall be my tomb
Where is the fighting man?
I am he
You would trade every truth
For hollow victories
