Formados: 2019
Estilo: Black
Temática: Luchas de clases en la Edad Media.
Miembros:
- Ayloss Batería, guitarra, teclados y voces
- Castles Conquered and Reclaimed CD 2020
- Empires Vanquished and Dismantled CD 2021
CASTLES CONQUERED AND RECLAIMED (2020)
Primer álbum para Mystras, one man band griega cuyo único integrantes también lo es de Spectal Lore. Este nuevo proyecto abandona un tanto el black metal de corte cosmológico para centrarse en un black de influencias medievales, tanto en lo musical como en la temática, incluso el nombre Mystras está relacionado con una fortaleza. El grueso de este "Castles Conquered and Reclaimed" lo forman cinco temas que se relacionan entres si por partes de black atmosférico en forma de pasajes acústicos en donde aflora una vena entre el folk y el pagan. Los temas más extensos, en donde Ayloss da rienda suelta a un black más directo, suelen comenzar de forma acústica, guitarras limpias y algunos teclados logran crear una ambientación de corte medieval, sin embargo esta primera toma de contacto con los temas pronto da paso a un black mucho más directo y visceral de vocea agresivas, distorsionadas y mucho más directas, mientras que el plano musical también construye un muro de sonido a base distorsión y agresividad no exento de cierta crudeza. Sin embargo la relativa amplitud de los temas en cuanto a duración permite que algunos interludios se sucedan y vuelvan a hacer acto de presencia las atmosferas más medievales que rodean a todas las composiciones. El álbum, sin llagar a hacer abuso de ello, si que es cierto que por momentos se deja envolver en una ambientación más épica que nos traslada al fervor de las batallas en la Edad Media. Ayloss sabe muy bien lo que tiene entre manos, su extensa carrera al frente de Spectral Lore le ha servido para pulir su estilo, y aunque este "Castles Conquered and Reclaimed" no tenga prácticamente nada que ver son su otra banda, no podemos pasar por alto el sello personal que ha sabido plasmar en el álbum. Sin lugar a dudas un álbum impregnado de una magnifica ambientación, que encuentra un equilibrio perfecto entre la agresivad y la ambientación medieval. (8,1).
1. Castles Conquered and Reclaimed 06:37
Through the deep starry night they march
Common people turned into brethen of war
Unmounted and armorless
With bleeding feet and aching hands
Carrying the tools of their work
That by coercion and deceit they gave away
For their whole lifetime to others
Scorned, ignored and vilified for generations
Same story in different times and realms
These scythes will not crop grain any more
Tonight the shadows of the forest are our allies
By surprise we charge like wolves into their prey
Aim the guards! Climb the Walls! Strike them down!
By tomorrow our flag shall be raised high into the sky
May the ravens spread everywhere the word
That our rebellion has begun
2. The Cutty Wren 02:12 instrumental
3. The Murder of Wat Tyler 12:39
To those that have been degraded
Written off the books that chronicle
The passing of time and the greatness of mankind
Yet gave all their blood and bone
Wat Tyler represents them
One generation after the Black Death
Swept the world with his Scythe
Man and woman saw there was more in life
Than servitude and misery
To the old winners of wars
I am not my father nor my mother
Then with what right do you inherit
The earth that blossoms and the steel that shines bright
What makes you worthy of them?
So said the people throughout all England
And Wat Tyler, the roof tiler from Kent
Put cold steel in he who thought himself to be so powerful
To assault his daughter's innocence in front of his eyes
Thus the people of Kent marched to London
While Essex, Suffolk and Northfolk fought their own battles
Fires burned across the city
Broken gems, silver plate and gold filled the streets
"With King Richard and the true Commons of England"
So the people said to show they loved their King
They hated not him, but serfdom and rotten gentry
And the King trusted them and gave them charters
To Smithfield then he rode to meet them all
And Tyler came, he who with his mighty bow in France
Fell countless men for the King
Now He called him among the crowd
History is always written by victors
They said that he was rude when he asked for water
But the threads had been already spun before he walked
And Wat Tyler was cut down by the treacherous leaders of men
The people had freedom in their grasp of their bow
And every right to strike down the killers of Wat Tyler
But the King rode and appeased them with his golden tongue
Promises and more charters he handed over
And thus they all came back to their homes
To be slaughtered like cattle
For the charters meant not freedom but their death
Thus the people all over the world learned
That what is best and what is most pure in this beast called man
The trust, the faith, the love
Is not to be given to those that want to stand above all men
The brave peasants of England did not die for nothing
For the Crown started to crack and crumble
And their memory will live on.
4. Contre Dolour 01:31 instrumental
5. Storm the Walls of Mystras 08:40
Traversing the mists of Arcadia
While the wind carries the far away
Whispers of the Neiads
The mighty walls of Mystas
Begin to emerge from the horizon
Built by William of Villehardouin
Great Frankish Prince who was hiding in a barrel
Conquered by the Palaiontologoi
Worthless schemers into each other's throat
Poverty, hunger and imminent invasion
The hallowed gift of every Godsend King
I, pagan son of the forest,
Join my Albanian brothers and sisters
With whom we share no language
But the shackles that we must break
Storm the Walls of Mystras!
These giant halls, these mighty Keeps
The treasures and knowledge they hold
Built with our toil and sweat
By us will be reclaimed!
All Empires Fall
The end of Byzantium is near
6. O Tsakitzis 01:39 instrumental
7. The Zealots of Thessaloniki 09:58
Thessaloniki, Great City, envied and sought after
Liberated from the hands of Saracens, Francs and Normans
Now caught up inbetween civil war
Conquered by a pretender that favours the wealthy
Fifty noble families hold land and every position of authority
Enslaving common people with chains of debt
Siding with the pretender to the throne
While famine and misery reap
In the worker's unions, the whisper of rebellion spreads
Old dusty books are opened, new ideas fervently discussed
To give power back to the people, to create an ideal Poleitia
Many congregate at the teachings of Barlaam of Calabria
Historians will call them Zealots
Democracy, separation of church and state
Social and philosophical ideas enshrouded in religious debate
Under immense danger we rouse the people
Motivate the passionless, appease the fearful
Confront the reactionaries
Τhe time for swords to sing has come
Avenge the murderers of the people
Hurl them from the walls of the citadel!
"Α servant dragged his master
Τhere a slave his purchaser
While the peasant struck the strategos
Αnd the labourer beat the soldier"
We have risen, a beacon of light in a tyrannic world
We shall endure proud and free until the end
Until our story is heard to all downtrodden in the world
Long live the commune of Thessaloniki!
8. Ai vist lo lop 02:00
"Here, we toil laboriously all the year
To earn some coins,
And after one month,
I saw the wolf, the fox and the hare,
We have nothing left"
9. Wrath and Glory 05:09
Who said there's no beauty in the mighty sword that cuts
In the song that fills our hearts with wrath
And makes us lift our fists to roar like boars
Who said that honour is meaningless
For humanity is lost and doomed
That there's no glory in our struggle
That our eyes see red and that our spirit is black
Who weeped that the fight is futile
When death is certain
From the Jacquerie to the Spanish Irmandades
From Flanders to the Swabian highlands to Kinai
The fight against injustice is eternal
And Eternal we shall become
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