Forefather - Steadfast (Steadfast)

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Title Track from Forefathers 'Steadfast' Album.
Lyrics:
Steadfast as a weathered mighty stone
Weary of this furious raging storm
Defy, and resist the endless war
Withstand, and uphold the sacred law
Though I may faulter on my journey
And I will suffer pain with time
I know I'll keep my head up high
Bring forth your gods
Your sacred strife
With truth I crush your wretched life
Roots so deep this oak will now be swayed
Core unwavering, edges burn and frayed
Enduring as all else wilts and wanes
Earth-red blood is coursing through my veins
Steadfast!
Noble, Glorious
Ever victorious
Entwined everlong
Steadfast forever
Loyal is this friend who rides with me
Ever true companion reigns supreme
Smashing all deluded false belief
Laughing at their feeble self-deceit
No one can take this strength away
I will resist the fearsome tide
And I will keep my head held high
Bring forth your gods
Your sacred strife
With truth I crush your wretched life

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@Survivethejive 12 лет назад

the Anglo-Saxons were not just angles and saxons but also Jutes from Jutland and other germanic tribes.

@Angelcynn937 27 дней назад

History.

@impyshmimpy 15 лет назад

It's strange that these guys haven't caught on like the other more popular "viking metal" bands. Their music is so crushingly epic, much better than most of the stuff out there right now. God I love this album.

@Survivethejive 12 лет назад

welsh is anglo saxon for "strange one"

@c011in 10 лет назад

I love this song. Also, the shield on the cover looks like a pokemon ball.

@Survivethejive 12 лет назад

Harold Godwinsson was half Danish and he was the last saxon king, his successor William was a descendent of Hrolfr the Viking

@Marc-hm6bz 7 лет назад

Legio gloria. Evropa.

@gbuhnoezqayusioehf 9 лет назад

Riff after riff after riff...

@barfchugger 8 месяцев назад

They took this off Spotify 😔 I had a whole playlist inspired by it. Hopefully they will add it back someday!

@lysetsfyrste 6 месяцев назад

I saw this just now. Why was it removed? So good music

@barfchugger 5 месяцев назад

@@lysetsfyrste Usually when things like that happen it's because of licensing/copyright issues... but that means it could be available in other countries. It's unavailable here in the USA but maybe with a VPN it would be possible to still listen to it.

@faravid1045 2 месяца назад

Yup, Ive noticed that aswell... really sad...

@PaleolithicMind 12 лет назад

And remember, you guys, the *family* is the foundation of the folk-- not the field of strife: 'Roots so deep this oak will not be swayed; Core unwavering, edges burned & frayed.' See? It's that *core * of things that stays steadfast, not the evanescent outer trappings....

@BeardedBushman71 13 лет назад

a most epic song and story ! \m/

@ragstoriches3257 11 лет назад

This song always puts me in a good mood. WIsh they would tour the states!

@francescolaruffa3441 7 лет назад

One of the best song of everytime

@MetalGearSolidNick1 11 лет назад

Found these guys by accident last night haha way too cool i like how all the tracks are consistent but still sound different

@Sonyfreak 15 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this great song!

@boudica75 8 лет назад

Great song this off of a solid album of the same name.

@heavendissection 8 лет назад

Maybe not as solid as Phoenix Rising (:

@SapphireSkies1976 9 лет назад

Absolute Class !!!

@kingsotall 12 лет назад

my jam!!!!

@WhatManCan 11 лет назад

Angles, Saxons, Jutes and the Nordic peoples are all Germanic, same people. Most Saxons came from Denmark before the Viking period even began. If they had stayed, they would have probably ended up Viking. So as before, the same people! And most north Englishmen can trace their bloodline to the Danelaw, when the Danish Vikings had conquered and ruled England for around 60 years. I think it's as high as 70% in some areas! I myself can trace this on my mothers side. Til Valhal my friends!

@projectalgiz6864 4 года назад

Everyone ended up being converted though. It doesn't matter that they got converted earlier.

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 15 лет назад

Probably because they dont play live shows, while the other ones all do. I really hope Forefather hires some session musicions and plays live someday!

@azraelnightt 14 лет назад

technically the anglo saxons were a germanic tribe that separated from the northern germanic tribes , which is why the vikings from norway and sweden raided there , they were considered traitors

@puje 13 лет назад

What I love about viking metal (yeah I said it, viking metal!) is that it is about standing up for yourself, never backing down. Remaining steadfast.

@ValfodrMN 15 лет назад

Great!

@Survivethejive 12 лет назад

no, it means raider, its something you do - to go a viking (raiding). the AS called them Danes but many of them were not from denmark, the otherness and alien aspect that united them was the fact they were all pagan not that they were raiding. norsemen raided eachothers countries too y'know

@Angelcynn937 27 дней назад

Where there's fjords to be razed...

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 16 лет назад

I ordered Forefather Merchandise about a month ago and it was awesome. They ship the stuff themselves and it only took 6 days for a package from Britain to make it to West-coast Canada. Not to mention affordable. Verg

@HunterG89 14 лет назад

@maarhoefe the anglo part comes from the fact that they were NOT just Saxons. The Saxons settled primarily in the south of England. The Angles (where Anglo comes from), another Germanic tribe, settled in the middle and north of the country, while the Jutes settled in Kent. All three of these tribes were Germanic and spoke Old English dialects. Therefore, most outsiders just called them Saxons.

@WhatManCan 11 лет назад

exactly.

@Red23791 12 лет назад

Yeah that's quite true.

@WardenOfSouls 13 лет назад

a band about the ancestors from northumbria,wessex , mercia and co?...how cool is that!

@nixer0007 15 лет назад

nice

@fleshlovers 13 лет назад

HOLLY SH*T WHAT A GREAT SONG. dont care what are they, just close the office door and headbang my brain, I AM MEEETAAALLLLL

@RB621337 12 лет назад

ANGLO SAXONS FTW!

@Radbod1 13 лет назад

Question: Does anybody know, when the new album comes out? Since months I check their website, but there are no news! As a true fan I need to know, what´s up! Hail to all Forefather-Fans!

@isabiggles1 16 лет назад

One of the finest English bands ever. Easily rivals Judas Priest, Iron Maiden etc.

@pclodius 15 лет назад

i expected more complexity... but they r good!

@gall-goidil-bastardoftheno9902 5 лет назад

we are saxons engla tocame

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 14 лет назад

Melechesh are very good, give them a shot if you haven't already,

@DMU555 13 лет назад

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft The Angles and Saxons were two separate tribes that migrated to England and diffused becoming known as the Anglo-Saxons. England gets its name from the Angles not the other way around.

@1966human 12 лет назад

@maarhoefe The Angels ( anglo ) were a tribe that came from between Germany and Denmark

@Waiguurd 12 лет назад

@austpom333 The Angles (not Angels) came from nowadays Northern Germany, the landscape named Angle (Scheswig-holstein). It's lying between the river Eider and the border to Denmark. In this area lived also the Jutes and the Frisians. The Saxon tribe of Holsten, who lived south from the river Eider to the river Elbe founded together with Angles, Jutes and Frisian their new home- land England. They called it England because the Angles were the strongest of the tribes.

@Red23791 12 лет назад

I'm pretty sure it meant explorer; the actual word being Vikingr. I could be wrong though. But to an Anglo-Saxon battle-ready on a beach ready to repel an attack, a viking was very a much of a people; a foreign people from Scandinavia who threatened their very lives.

@DMU555 12 лет назад

I was talking abut the naming I know about the Jutes but thanks for the input. (No Sarcasm)

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 15 лет назад

Don't Forget Wudugast, Eostre, Miri It Is, and Theodish Belief!

@redcoatsrule 14 лет назад

@maarhoefe Angles were a Germanic tribe that settled in Britain.

@PaleolithicMind 12 лет назад

So, relax! We can hail to Thor as well as Thunor! It's all good! The gods do not always call their names by the same name in every land; every land has its folkways!

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 13 лет назад

@DMU555 Shit yea I meant it like you put it. I just re-read my way and it makes no sense how I worded it aha.

@Red23791 15 лет назад

Well actually the helmet they are wearing is based off a real Anglo-Saxon helmet that was found. There isn't much difference between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings at first glance but they are two completely different cultures and lived in different countries. You just have to learn more about them and then the differences will show.

@smagator 12 лет назад

the saxons were a mix of different tribes who joined together to be a storm group for the roman empire they were mercenary their name comes forom a big knife called sax wich all saxons have , the angle were another tribe o germans from the north of germany and netherlands , both tribes unite to invade britania

@DMU555 14 лет назад

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft The Angles and the Saxons were two different but similar Germanic Tribes. They both took Britain from the Romans and basically assimilated into each other. You have it backwards the Anglo-Saxons gave England its name not the other way around.

@DMU555 13 лет назад

@crusaderp Yeah they're all Germanic. The Angles and Saxons were West Germanic (Although if the Angles were Danish they were more likely North Germanic) and the Scandinavians were all North Germanic with the exception of the Finns who weren't Indo-European at all.

@redcoatsrule 16 лет назад

do you have to buy forefather albums online

@DMU555 14 лет назад

@Red23791 They both invaded Britain about the same time together. The diffused culturally. Hence Anglo-Saxon.

@Red23791 14 лет назад

@maarhoefe It came from the Angles. I think they were a people before the Saxons arrived.

@cmur078 11 лет назад

Yes, but if you go back far enough all people groups are related, so it doesn't always mean a huge amount.

@Red23791 12 лет назад

Yeah of course they did, hence the name Saxons; they came over from Germany so all of them pretty much have common ancestry, however the 400 year gap did change them and there was a slight difference between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings obviously, Vikings were explorers/raiders and Anglo-Saxons had to repel them. There's a common ancestry and similar traditions but there is still a barrier. Think about what the Angles, Saxons and Jutes created when they merged and settled.

@maarhoefe 14 лет назад

the anglo saxons were saxons thet emigrated to england were the anglo part came from i dont know but the anglo saxons were just saxons

@HerewardtheWake23 13 лет назад

@benhendershott1990 Viking Metal: Moonsorrow Ensiferum Tyr Bathory Enslaved Equilibrium Einherjar

@Ancestral_Roots 7 лет назад

3:00-3:33

@Survivethejive 12 лет назад

vikingss were never a people, that is a vocation - it means pirate. AS and norse are culturally very similar, and the AS arrived as raiders so were technically viking and may have described themselves with that very word

@oscarstenberg2745 6 лет назад

Survive the Jive Viking doesn't mean pirate..

@PaleolithicMind 12 лет назад

Well, uh, okay.... but the point that I was kinda trying to make is that that stuff doesn't really *matter*....The details of ancient politics are more academic than.... Anything else.... But the old heathen culture of the Saxon can speak to us; Odin is ahistorical; that's my perspective.

@DMU555 13 лет назад

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft haha that's okay dude i made a similar mistake with wording on an Amon Amarth video.

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 15 лет назад

I Have to say I like Forefather much more then IM... >> Verg

@PaleolithicMind 12 лет назад

C'mon guys, lighten up! Sure, sometimes Saxon kings saw Danish kings on the field of strife, but does that mean that these two northern lands share nothing of speech, or of the old ways? After all, even the Celts have old ways, it's just that the Saxons spell things after the far more awesome custom of the Anglecynn....

@PaleolithicMind 12 лет назад

I mean, take the Welsh, for example. (And English & Welsh get on better than they two do with, uh, the other two.) The Welsh live in Britain; Britain is a land; the English folk live on this same land. The English share folk customs with the Danish, land with the Welsh. It's just that to spell 'land' in Welsh would require 72 letters, since Celts love words with too many letters. ^^

@Demonicpayne 11 лет назад

Smagator, I think you will find that no one knows whether the Angles and Saxons actually arrived as one large invasion or as a slow migration...

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 14 лет назад

The Anglo part came from the fact that they lived on the land that is now England. Hence why Anglo Saxons were different from the Saxons who remained in mainland Europe.

@PaleolithicMind 12 лет назад

And, yes, sometimes you must be 'smashing all deluded false belief', just like Odin.... To use his Norway name.; to the English & Dutch (the Saxon folk!) he is Wodan, of Wednesday fame. Perhaps there is some guy from Scotland or China who is vaguely like him, who knows. *shrugs*

@VerginixAbbyAirsoft 15 лет назад

No... Most of their lyrics feature Anglo-Saxon themes

@Red23791 15 лет назад

They base their music on Anglo-Saxons. Calling it Viking doesn't make sense cos the Anglo-Saxons fought the Vikings.

@puje 14 лет назад

I'm SURE I'll get much shit for saying this, but doesn't one else think this sang sounds a bit like a punk song?