Ours Is The Kingdom is the fourth album by English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 metal band Forefather

Forefather

Forefather 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...

. Its title is a play on the line of the Lord's Prayer

Lord's Prayer

The Lord's Prayer is a central prayer in Christianity. In the New Testament of the Christian Bible, it appears in two forms: in the Gospel of Matthew as part of the discourse on ostentation in the Sermon on the Mount, and in the Gospel of Luke, which records Jesus being approached by "one of his...

 "For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory". The lyrics of the track are a statement against Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

 and a defiant will to reclaim the English kingdom from an alien God. The cover art depicts a dead crusader warrior, an image meant to symbolize Christian decay.

"Our hearts lie not in heaven,

Nor Eastern desert sands."

Track listing

1. "The Shield-Wall" – 4:10
2. "Ours is the Kingdom" – 4:53
3. "Proud to be Proud" – 4:54
4. "The Golden Dragon" – 5:26
5. "Smashed by Fate" – 4:25
6. "The Sea-Kings" – 4:28
7. "To the Mountains They Fled" – 4:37
8. "The Folk that Time Forgot" – 4:55
9. "Threads of Time" – 6:18
10. "Keep Marching On" – 6:01
11. "Rebel of the Marshlands" – 4:03
12. "Wudugast" – 6:24