Written about L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. The only known Norse settlement in North America. This song is not intended to make the settlers look like villains and it isn't intended to make the First Nations peoples look like villains either. Mankind will collapse upon itself regardless of what piece of land your mother's vagina vomited you onto.
lyrics
Across the sea
Lands of ice and green
Sailing along the spine
Of the World Serpent
A world of elk and bears
Beauty everywhere
Paths of red
Where the Northmen went
The light of the stars above
Shining on blood and ice
The darkness within man
Drowns his own light
On the shores of Vinland...
Another place
A different faith
Hammer, axe, and spear
In the end we all die
Blood of wife and son
On ice and green, it runs
No one will survive
Hail falls from the sky
The light of the stars above
Shining on blood and ice
The darkness within man
Drowns his own light
On the shores of Vinland...
Across the mighty ocean we sailed
Across the mighty ocean we failed
credits
from The Red Demo,
released February 4, 2012
Music and lyrics: R A Weeks
supported by 5 fans who also own “Shores of Vinland”
This is my favorite metal album of all time. The only bad thing is that the vocals are somewhat buried in the mix. Otherwise, the record perfectly blends a mix of metal genres with excellent songcraft. A record you'll listen to again and again. The Real Nick House
supported by 5 fans who also own “Shores of Vinland”
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
supported by 4 fans who also own “Shores of Vinland”
While this album has many higher tempo sections, it nonetheless presents imposing funeral doom. Organ, and choirs aid in delivering all the dread of the impending apocalypse, as displayed in the opening track Crossing the Burned Wasteland, which sets the listener up with a burning crescendo; only setting us up for our inevitable downfall. Matt Richardson