Corvus Corax Era Metallum - Yggdrasill (Official Music Video)

The newest, metallic offshoot of the medieval band CORVUS CORAX is a tough chunk! Already with the beginning of the work on old Norse songs on the successful album “SVERKER” (2011) band founder Castus Karsten Liehm had planned to implement the material as a metal project. Since then it has been brewing in the heads of Castus and Norri, who are also the producers of all releases of the band. This iron is now to be forged with heavy guitars - contributed by the absolute master among the axe swingers, Sami Yli-Sirniö (KREATOR, WALTARI) - and CORVUS CORAX drummer Norbert "Norri" Dreschers (Ex-DEPRESSIVE AGE) fat double bass blasts. This is the birth of CORVUS CORAX ERA METALLUM! This new project of CORVUS CORAX, who otherwise stand for the highest level of authentic medieval instruments, is walking far off the beaten path of common medieval rock. Massive thrash grenades instead of lively rock songs, Old Norse prophecies instead of German-language sing-along choruses, bagpipes weave atmospheric sounds instead of folkloristic melodies. The result can be heard on the upcoming second single "YGGDRASILL" (released April 24, 2020), the lyrical depiction of the real self-sacrifice on the world ash in honor of Odin. Embedded with sawing guitar riffs and hypnotic flute and bagpipe sounds, Castus’ sonorous overtone singing tells us the victims experience being intoxicated by toadstools and henbane, hanging on the tree, bleeding and in trance, announcing the wisdom of the all-father Odin. "YGGDRASILL" will appear on April 24th, 2020 on all streaming and download portals. The corresponding album "CORVUS CORAX ERA METALLUM" will be released on September 4th, 2020. Yggdrasill (Old Norse - from the Hávamál Rune Chapter) Veit ek, at ek hekk Vindga meiði á Nætr allar níu Geiri undaðr Ok gefinn Óðni Sjalfr sjalfum mér Á þeim meiði Er manngi veit Hvers af rótum renn Oft ór skörpum belg Skilin orð koma Þeim er hangir með hám Ok skollir með skrám Ok váfir með vílmögum (transl.) I trow I hung on that windy Tree nine whole days and nights stabbed with a spear, offered to Odin myself to mine own self given high on that Tree of which none has heard from what roots it rises to heaven. Often out of a shrivelled skin a clear word comes to whom hangs ‘with’ the skin and keeps aside with scrolls and dangles with harshness-children. Corvus Corax Era Metallum are: Castus Karsten Liehm Norbert “Norri” Drescher Hatz Micha Aldo Xandru Special Guest: Sami Yli-Sirniö Camera 1 Castus Karsten Liehm Camera 2 Aldous Fiore Backdrop Assistant: Vanessa Sánchez Corona Edited by Aldous Fiore Management Doro Peters #erametallum #corvuscorax #yggdrasill #yggdrasil #metal #medieval #guitar #drums #release #single #musicvideo #trailer #heavymetal More information: Homepage: https://www.corvuscorax.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorvusCoraxBand Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corvuscorax... Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2tDwLMo

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