Into The Forest
from Monuments by Northern Oak
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Monuments CD
-Printed by Sound Performance Studios- 16 page, full-colour booklet with lyrics included.
-As well as the physical CD, you also get an immediate download of the album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you feel like, so you can listen to the tracks while waiting for the CD to arrive. When you click 'Buy Now', it will ask you which format you'd like to download the songs in.
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Monuments CD + Tshirt
-Printed by Sound Performance Studios- 16 page, full-colour booklet with lyrics.
-This package deal also includes a t-shirt; two designs are available, the Northern Oak Tree design and the dark green Flourish design. Please specify which design you would like!
-Green Flourish Shirts are available for in Small, Medium, and Large; the Treeshirt design is available in Small, Medium, Large, XL and Girl's Medium sizes.
-As well as the physical CD, you also get an immediate
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Immediate download of Into The Forest in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you feel like.Buy Now ₤0.33 GBP or more
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Digital Album + Tshirt
-Immediate download of 11-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you feel like.
-The download also includes a bonus instrumental version of the album and a .pdf of the album booklet as extra material!
-This package deal includes a t-shirt; two designs are available, the Northern Oak Tree design and the Yorkshire Teashirt. Please specify which design you would like!
-Green Flourish Shirts are available for in Small, Medium, and Large; the Treeshirt design is available in Small, Medium, Large, XL and Girl's Medium sizes.Buy Now ₤8 GBP or more
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Green Flourish Tshirt
For those of our fans who feel that their wardrobe might be a little bit too black, and who also love green...
Screen printed on Forest Green Gildan Heavy Cotton, this shirt will profess two things to the world: your appreciation of the music of Sheffield's premier purveyors of progressive folk metal and waistcoats, and your love of green twiddly flourish things.
These shirts are available in Small, Medium, and Large.
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This shirt is also available in the 'Monuments CD & Tshirt' deal, which gets you a shirt and an album for a mere £10!Buy Now ₤7 GBP
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Northern Oak Treeshirt
If you like folk metal, and you like trees, you should like this tshirt!
Screen printed on black Gildan Heavy Cotton, this shirt will profess two things to the world: your appreciation of the music of Sheffield's premier purveyors of progressive folk metal and waistcoats, and your love of trees. You big hippy, you. It's okay, we're just as bad as you are. We love trees too!
These shirts are available in Small, Medium, Large, XL and Girl's Medium.
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Martin says: Chris had been playing with an idea for an intro to Sylvan Lullaby which initially consisted of about 30 seconds of what you hear now, entitled Into the Forest. At which point I thought it would be great to turn it into a clean track, with me providing some spoken word, to break up our set a bit and give my throat some respite for a couple of minutes! I believe I sold my idea to Chris by saying it would be to our next album as Opeth's Benighted is to Still Life. Ladies and gentlemen, know your audience! ;)
The subject is a photo shoot we did in the Peaks a while back. We'd parked the cars and gone off in search of a decent photo opportunity and ended up finding a series of ruined buildings which we had explored and discussed. I think we concluded that it was a farmhouse but that's not especially relevant, it had been a good day followed by a particularly good pub dinner at the Ladybower Inn which I wanted to capture for you all.
The final stanza is a veiled reference to a page in the history of Northern Oak, one we will happily leave turned.
The subject is a photo shoot we did in the Peaks a while back. We'd parked the cars and gone off in search of a decent photo opportunity and ended up finding a series of ruined buildings which we had explored and discussed. I think we concluded that it was a farmhouse but that's not especially relevant, it had been a good day followed by a particularly good pub dinner at the Ladybower Inn which I wanted to capture for you all.
The final stanza is a veiled reference to a page in the history of Northern Oak, one we will happily leave turned.
lyrics
Into the forest,
taking memories, leaving only footprints
but the trees would not let it be easy.
Forcing our route in much deeper.
What were we to find there?
Discovering ruins
devoured by moss and roots
draped in an eerie silence
in this place a sense of mourning
We pulled aside the plants and branches,
climbing in amongst the few remaining walls.
Is it disrespect or reverence?
Exploring what was once a life...
We questioned ourselves, each other,
what had these rooms once contained?
Did children run through here laughing?
What pain left this place abandoned?
Into the forest,
We may be fated to end
Just as those before us.
But if we lay foundations
that inspire those who follow,
Then our time
will not be spent
In vain.
taking memories, leaving only footprints
but the trees would not let it be easy.
Forcing our route in much deeper.
What were we to find there?
Discovering ruins
devoured by moss and roots
draped in an eerie silence
in this place a sense of mourning
We pulled aside the plants and branches,
climbing in amongst the few remaining walls.
Is it disrespect or reverence?
Exploring what was once a life...
We questioned ourselves, each other,
what had these rooms once contained?
Did children run through here laughing?
What pain left this place abandoned?
Into the forest,
We may be fated to end
Just as those before us.
But if we lay foundations
that inspire those who follow,
Then our time
will not be spent
In vain.
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Founded in early 2006 during a wintry excursion to the Peak District, Northern Oak have been spreading their unique brand of
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flute-heavy progressive folk metal across Sheffield and the rest of the UK ever since.
Our music sounds like Jethro Tull played by extreme metal fans with an appreciation for everything from Pink Floyd to Emperor.
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Mar 2008
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