Nivis Canto
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.
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Digital Track
Immediate download of Nivis Canto 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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Buy the Full Digital Album
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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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Chris says: Any of our (supremely intelligent, perceptive) fans who can read or understand Latin will get the pun in the title of this song- for those of you who don't understand Latin, 'Nivis Canto' simply means 'Song of Snow' or 'Snow Song'. Since we just kept calling this song 'Snow Song' while we were working on it, and I initially wrote it after a) watching lots of Planet Earth (especially the episode where they filmed a snow leopard) and b) listening to a crap-tonne of Sigur Ros while walking around in the snow, it made sense just to keep that name in some form. For a little while, the song was known as 'Cold Indifference', but that title didn't really stick, so we went with the Latin route to make it slightly less obvious. And also to make us seem massively pretentious. :D
This was a very organic song for me to write; it developed very naturally from the clean guitar + harmonics introduction that I came up with in the middle of the aforementioned snow leopard episode of Planet Earth (which is, for the guitar nerds, just a very reverb-laden clean sound with long delay on it) into the arpeggios that make up the first half of the song. We worked out the transition and the heavy guitar at the end in the practice room; the black metal chords came from Catie pushing me to just "play anything", at which point I just grabbed the neck of my guitar randomly and strummed a chord- only for the chord to sound great and just what we were looking for. I like coincidences like that. :D
This was a very organic song for me to write; it developed very naturally from the clean guitar + harmonics introduction that I came up with in the middle of the aforementioned snow leopard episode of Planet Earth (which is, for the guitar nerds, just a very reverb-laden clean sound with long delay on it) into the arpeggios that make up the first half of the song. We worked out the transition and the heavy guitar at the end in the practice room; the black metal chords came from Catie pushing me to just "play anything", at which point I just grabbed the neck of my guitar randomly and strummed a chord- only for the chord to sound great and just what we were looking for. I like coincidences like that. :D
lyrics
If you could gaze into a snowflake, what would you find in each one? Those crystalline structures of unearthly perfection, as they fall they transform their environment into a sparkling wonder.
I can only find a rival for their beauty in mankind, those myriad beings messily constructed from hopes and beliefs. With aspirations that defy all measurement but they are no stronger than when they act with one mind.
As they continue to fall, blanketing their surroundings, suffocating them. How can one do anything but marvel at their tyranny? Their cold indifference to all they consume.
No matter how many line the foundations,
whether it be one or a million.
All are lost without a trace
beneath their advance.
I can only find a rival for their beauty in mankind, those myriad beings messily constructed from hopes and beliefs. With aspirations that defy all measurement but they are no stronger than when they act with one mind.
As they continue to fall, blanketing their surroundings, suffocating them. How can one do anything but marvel at their tyranny? Their cold indifference to all they consume.
No matter how many line the foundations,
whether it be one or a million.
All are lost without a trace
beneath their advance.
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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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