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Rīga, Latvia (1995 – present)
The first of these was unleashed from the forge in 1997. Titled Semigalls’ Warchant, the demo-album told tales of the last free pagan tribes of the Baltic peoples; and their struggles with Christian invaders throughout the thirteenth century. The album’s music is heavily inspired by the Scandinavian black metal of the early nineties. Harsh and cold, the extremity is balanced by traditional folk instruments, which anchor the venomous brutality firmly in the past; never loosing sight of the ancestral legends the music seeks to describe.
These tales of ancient tribal Latvia and its heathen tradition were to be expanded upon in Skyforger’s first CD, 1998’s Kauja Pie Saules (‘The Battle of Saule’). Later in 2000 followed their third release, the First World War themed Latvian Riflemen.
At the end of 2002 Skyforger signed to German label Folter Records.
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| Son of the Mare | 5:25 |
| The Battle of Saule | 4:50 |
| FULL TRACK In Life's Darkest Hour | 5:01 |
| Night of the Winter Solstice | 5:48 |
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De Witte Non, Hasselt, Belgium
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