Forefather - Steadfast (Steadfast)

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

[@impyshmimpy]

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]

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

[@Angelcynn937]

History.

[@c011in]

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

[@barfchugger]

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

[@lysetsfyrste]

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

[@barfchugger]

@@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]

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

[@Malaneth]

@@barfchugger Unavailable here in Europe as well

[@Survivethejive]

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

[@PaleolithicMind]

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....

[@Marc-hm6bz]

Legio gloria. Evropa.

[@Survivethejive]

welsh is anglo saxon for "strange one"

[@BeardedBushman71]

a most epic song and story ! \m/

[@gbuhnoezqayusioehf]

Riff after riff after riff...

[@ragstoriches3257]

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

[@francescolaruffa3441]

One of the best song of everytime

[@boudica75]

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

[@heavendissection]

Maybe not as solid as Phoenix Rising (:

[@puje]

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.

[@HunterG89]

@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.

[@MetalGearSolidNick1]

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

[@Sonyfreak]

Thank you for sharing this great song!

[@kingsotall]

my jam!!!!

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

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!

[@SapphireSkies1976]

Absolute Class !!!

[@WardenOfSouls]

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

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

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

[@Trefalas]

still kickin

[@ValfodrMN]

Great!

[@JordanSwailes]

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]

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

[@azraelnightt]

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

[@fleshlovers]

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

[@nixer0007]

nice

[@Survivethejive]

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]

Where there's fjords to be razed...

[@Red23791]

Yeah that's quite true.

[@JordanSwailes]

exactly.

[@DMU555]

@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.

[@Red23791]

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.

[@RB621337]

ANGLO SAXONS FTW!

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

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

[@Waiguurd]

@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.

[@Radbod1]

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]

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

[@pclodius]

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

[@DMU555]

@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]

@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.

[@1966human]

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

[@SpiritualBlackDimensions]

The band removed this song from Spotify with most of their other music. I see why, but gutted all the same

[@redcoatsrule]

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

[@DMU555]

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

[@Red23791]

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.

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

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

[@Red23791]

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

[@PaleolithicMind]

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!

[@smagator]

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]

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

[@Red23791]

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.

[@cmur078]

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

[@maarhoefe]

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

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

@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.

[@Ancestral_Roots]

3:00-3:33

[@PaleolithicMind]

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.

[@Survivethejive]

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]

Survive the Jive Viking doesn't mean pirate..

[@HerewardtheWake23]

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

[@redcoatsrule]

do you have to buy forefather albums online

[@PaleolithicMind]

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....

[@DMU555]

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

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

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

[@VerginixAbbyAirsoft]

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.

[@Demonicpayne]

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...

[@PaleolithicMind]

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. ^^

[@Red23791]

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

[@PaleolithicMind]

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]

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

[@puje]

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?

[@william232323]

@JimmyCos -.- Fought not fighted. If your going to educate people do it right please.

[@gall-goidil-bastardoftheno9902]

we are saxons engla tocame