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Skyforger - New Album Details, Song Online


Skyforger have posted the following update regarding a new upcoming album:

"Finally this is time for big news package about our new album Kurbads, which will be released by Metal Blade on 23/26 April in Europe, 11 May in North America. Today we would like to post the first song of new album Kurbads online and reveal the album cover and song titles.

Skyforger recorded Kurbads at the Latvian studio Lauska in 2009 together with the band's own bagpipe player Kaspars Barbals handling engineering duties. The band members also produced the album themselves. The artwork was created by Skyforger's guitarist Martins and is connected to the whole story of Kurbads. More information regarding the concept of Kurbads will be revealed shortly.

Meanwhile you can enjoy the new song "Son Of The Mare", the first single of the new album. Check out the song by clicking here (you can find the music player at the right of the screen).


Kurbads [cover art] tracklist:

01. Curse Of The Witch
02. Son Of The Mare [featured]
03. The Nine-Headed
04. Bewitched Forest
05. In The Yard Of The Father's Son
06. The Devilslayer
07. The Stone Sentinel
08. In The Underworld
09. Black Rider
10. The Last Battle
11. Kurbads [bonus]

Source: skyforger.lv
Band profile: Skyforger
Posted: 03.03.2010 by Abattoir


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03.03.2010 - 19:55
Marcus
Doit Like Bernie
Wow thats a hideous album cover. Song is okay tops.
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03.03.2010 - 22:04
Ag Fox
Angel No More
Cover art looks like it's by a kid
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03.03.2010 - 22:30
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Pretty good one, good lyric, seems thay changed style, but havnt read lyric, I liked specely part ''Kam Dzīvot, kam Mirt'' into song, awesome
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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03.03.2010 - 23:14
Arhippigo

I, too, make my band's album art in paint.
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04.03.2010 - 00:30
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
Oh my...

Cover art...you're doing it wrong...
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04.03.2010 - 00:54
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
One of the most amateur album covers I've ever laid eyes upon...
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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04.03.2010 - 04:17
Symmachus

I think the album art is interesting; there is rarely an album cover that is animated like this. IT's also interesting seeing the negative commentary toward it. To each person their own.
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04.03.2010 - 09:32
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
According to me - there are some borders...and they was crossed this time...

the song is quite good, but "thanks" to cover art, this album wont ever find its way into my collection (not even at the time when i will be the billionaire able to buy every metal album in the world )
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04.03.2010 - 10:48
Lady Margoth

Kurbads ir the hero from one Latvian fairy-tale. And cover art clearly express a fragment from this fairy-tale when Kurbads kills the dragon.
I'm waiting for this album.
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04.03.2010 - 16:59
W-Lash
Metal Master
What's wrong with cover art? Does it improve or make worse songs? You are talking like children - "I don't like that picture. I don't want that album! It sucks!!!".


But i don't like the song... I hoped they could make something similar to Latvian Riflemen but...Maybe next time.
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04.03.2010 - 18:55
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
Album art is simply serious part of the release...of course that i can download the music only and dont care about some picture, but i simply wont buy original cd, if the cover is crap
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04.03.2010 - 23:08
Ragana
Rawrcat
Written by W-Lash on 04.03.2010 at 16:59

But i don't like the song... I hoped they could make something similar to Latvian Riflemen but...Maybe next time.

I hoped they'll make something like "Pērkoņkalve"! I guess I'll just check this one out later.
I don't like the cover art as well. It's clear that paintings are paintings but this one simply doesn't seem to be good as a cover art - there's something missing... The good thing is that it has nothing to do with the music.
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05.03.2010 - 09:09
W-Lash
Metal Master
Written by Ellrohir on 04.03.2010 at 18:55

Album art is simply serious part of the release...of course that i can download the music only and dont care about some picture, but i simply wont buy original cd, if the cover is crap


If you keep your cd collection just to "enlarge your dick" (look guys, I got huuuuge CD collection. They look so awesome all together!) then probably artwork is important.
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05.03.2010 - 15:06
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
You often spend your money for things you DON'T like? just not to be considered "narrowminded" or "elitist" by someone you only know over internet?
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09.03.2010 - 11:35
W-Lash
Metal Master
You didn't get my idea at all.
Why do you buy a CD? For music or for cover?
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09.03.2010 - 21:51
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
For both...but whats more - music i can download...buying the "real" thing, it means that i like the recording so much, that i find it worth to invest my money in...and the matter of being "worth" consists from both "how it sounds" and "how it looks like" things...the end
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Finally I got my dead man sleep


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31.03.2010 - 11:51
W-Lash
Metal Master
Another song online available.
As bad as the first was.
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