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Skyclad -Forward Into The Past lp [red]

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Red vinyl with lyric insert. Limited 300 copies

British heavy metal band Skyclad’s thirteenth studio album, “Forward Into The Past”, is the follow-up to 2009’s “In The… All Together” and it marks the return of guitarist Dave Pugh to Skyclad’s line-up as a permanent member. Since their inception, Skyclad have created songs out of a highly original and influential sound mixing heavy metal and traditional folk. Their lyrics have been generally permeated by political, social and environmental matters and the new album seems to be no exception, as vocalist Kevin Ridley comments: “The songs are about politics, the environment and the music business and so on. These are mixed with the standard Skyclad fayre of traditional bawdy/drinking type of songs and songs with blues and more ‘ethnic’ feels.” The cover artwork for “Forward Into The Past” was painted by Duncan Storr, who has previously worked with Edge Of Sanity, Rage and Hawking. The cover displays the mesmerizing face of a man made out of trees and branches. Ridley elaborates: “The ‘green man’ or ‘storyteller’ image used here is a traditional image (from Roman times at least in the U.K.) which is usually taken as ‘showing the close interdependence between man and nature”. That natural feel is also largely expressed in the album production. “I think the new album sounds, warm, natural and ‘real’ (i.e. not processed or overproduced),” Ridley says.

Track listing:
1. A Storytellers Moon-intro
2. State Of The Union Now
3. Change Is Coming
4. Starstruck
5. A Heavy Price To Pay
6. Words Fail Me
7. Forward Into The Past
8. Unresolved-instrumental
9. The Queen Of The Moors
10. Last Summer’s Rain
11. The Measure
12. Borderline
13. A Storytellers Moon-outro

Additional information

Label

Listenable Records

Catalogue Number

POSH368

Release Year

2017