By the Sword of My Father
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By the Sword of My Father is the second studio album of the musical project Folkearth
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Lithuania
Austria
United Kingdom
Sweden
Germany
United States
Italy
Folkearth
Folkearth is an international music project created in 2003 by musicians playing folk and viking metal. The name symbolizes musicians from all over the world playing folk music...
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Track listing
- "Introduction" — 4:24
- "The Lady's Gift" — 3:48
- "By the Sword of My Father" — 5:26
- "Naglfar Sets Sail" — 5:18
- "The Death of Beowulf" — 6:04
- "Instrumental" — 4:24
- "Skaldic Art" — 4:04
- "Domain of Darksome Ravens" — 5:39
- "Returne to Waelhalle" — 4:41
- "Heathenpride" — 8:43
- "Elves" — 1:29
- "Invictus" — 6:08
- "Wisdom of Wolves" — 2:50
- "Sailing A'Viking" — 2:08
- "Tribute to Viking Gods" — 4:04
- "Journey Ends (outro)" — 3:23
- I:"Heathenpride" is FalkenbachFalkenbachFalkenbach is a Viking metal group from Germany that is currently signed to Prophecy Productions. The name means "Falconbrook" in German. The one permanent member is Vratyas Vakyas.-History:...
coverCover versionIn popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
recorded for tribute albumTribute albumA tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...
An Hommage to Falkenbach, Part I
Instruments
GreeceGreece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
- Marios "Prince Imrahil" Koutsoukos (Dol Amroth) - vocalVocal musicVocal music is a genre of music performed by one or more singers, with or without instrumental accompaniment, in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally considered instrumental music Vocal music is a genre of...
, keyboardElectronic keyboardAn electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:... - Stefanos Koutsoukos (Dol Amroth) - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Nikos Nezeritis (Dol Amroth) - acoustic guitarSteel-string acoustic guitarA steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...
- Hildr Valkyrie (Hildr Valkyrie) - vocal, keyboard
Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
- Ruslanas - spoken vocal
Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
- Alex "Hugin" Wieser (Uruk-Hai) - keyboard
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
- Athelstan (ForefatherForefatherForefather are a folk metal band from Surrey, England.-History:The Forefather project was born in September 1997 in Surrey, England by founding members and brothers Athelstan and Wulfstan...
) - electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, drum programmingDrum machineA drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
, vocal - Wulfstan (ForefatherForefatherForefather are a folk metal band from Surrey, England.-History:The Forefather project was born in September 1997 in Surrey, England by founding members and brothers Athelstan and Wulfstan...
) - vocal
Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
- Magnus Wohlfart (Nae'blis) - acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard, vocal
- Jeremy Child (Yggdrasil) - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Niklas Olausson (Broken Dagger) - vocal
- Daniel Fredriksson (OtygOtygOtyg was a folk metal band from Sweden, featuring Andreas Hedlund, the frontman for Vintersorg.During their existence, Otyg released two albums with songs written in traditional Scandinavian folk style, featuring traditional Scandinavian instruments not frequently heard in heavy metal, such as the...
) - medieval luteLuteLute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
, jaw harp - Simon Frodeberg - bass
- Kristofer Janiec - violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Michelle Maas - violin
- Daniel Pettersson (Pettersson & Fredriksson) - keyed fiddleNyckelharpaA nyckelharpa , sometimes called a keyed fiddle, is a traditional Swedish musical instrument. It is a string instrument or chordophone. Its keys are attached to tangents which, when a key is depressed, serve as frets to change the pitch of the string.The nyckelharpa is similar in appearance to a...
Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
- Tobias Andrelang - bass
- Achim Eberle - percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
- Ralf Gruber - drums, percussion
- Bernd Intveen (Van Lagen) - electric guitar
- Sabine Stelzer (Van Lagen) - bagpipesBagpipesBagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, schalmeyShawmThe shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the 12th century until the 17th century. It was developed from the oriental zurna and is the predecessor of the modern oboe. The body of the shawm was usually turned from a single piece of wood,...
, percussion - Marcus Van Langen (Van Lagen) - acoustic guitar, sazBaglamathumb|180px|Cura and bağlamaThe bağlama is a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and Central Asia....
, bass, percussion, Viking flute, vocal - André Groschopp (Thiasos Dionysos) - acoustic and electric guitar, keyboard, vocal, tin whistleTin whistleThe tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
, violin, drums
United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
- Mark Riddick (The Soil Bleeds BlackThe Soil Bleeds BlackThe Soil Bleeds Black is a pagan Neo-Medieval band from Ashburn, Virginia.-History:The Soil Bleeds Black was conceived in the year 1992 as a project that focused on the experimental visions of twin brothers, Mark and Michael Riddick...
) - recorderRecorderThe recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
, percussion
Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
- Axel (Death Army) - acoustic and electric guitar, bass, vocals
- Becky - celtic harpHarpThe harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
- Alessandro Caruso (Hysterya) - drums, percussion
- Francesca Crotti - violin
- Igor Saviola - vocals
- Raven - celtic harp
- Ulven (Draugen) - acoustic guitar
Writing and production
- all lyrics except "The Lady's Gift" and "A Tribute to Viking Gods" by Marios Koutsoukos
- lyrics for "The Lady's Gift" by Wulfstan
- lyrics for "A Tribute to Viking Gods" by Marcus Van Langen
- music on "Returne to Waelhalle" by Hildr Valkyrie
- artwork and cd design by Mark Riddick