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SWR008 SYMBEL - 'Gyddigg...' limited cassette.
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Limited black and gold tape of the 2013 album by Symbel. If you want it signed, just ask.
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The enclosure acts of England began in the 12th Century and culminated in the almost complete dispossession of common land by the 18th. The peasantry were forced into industrial servitude...a model which the English ruling class first tested on its own people, and then exported across the world.
lyrics
Once I lived with my land
and tilled the earth with my hands
the sun bore down on my bare back
the rain it ran down my face
the law as clear as the skies
the days went by as the bird flies
through primogeniture I
can till this piece of green
and only I can afford it
my life was one with pride
I walked around armed to the teeth!
my life was in my own hands
Who has the land we had?
The kingdom drew its lines
that no one else could see
the lines of the earth ignored them
but beaten and cheated by
traitors and money thieves
the lines of the earth moved for them
they took us into darkness
and chained us to machines
that bit and tore at our misery
so when you hear of slaves
you saw it here first
in English woollen slum dwellery
Who has the land we had?
We look back at the green
and the sheep have devoured the people
The scorched earth
precursor of doom
enclosing with time
We're left with the tale of how
sheep devoured people.
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This has been staple listening for me since I first got the CD in 2006. Raw but not to the extent that it is unlistenable, the riffs are heavy and memorable, with each song having it's own identity.
Wartooth's vocals are certainly a highlight of Bretwaldas' sound. Rough and gritty, in the best way, as he snarls out lyrics about Dark Ages warriors, heathenism and nature. If you can imagine if Lemmy was a Brummie and sang on an early Black Sabbath album then you're getting somewhere near the sound of this Midlands duo.
This album is class from beginning to end but if I was to have to choose highlights I'd go for album opener The Haunted Ride, Iron Skies (a song of two gloriously different halves) and Beneath the Eaves. The latter appeared on a CD with Zero Tolerance magazine way back and was the undisputed stand out track on there. Grimslath