The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Occupation
- Vocals: Martin Walkyier
- Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals: Steve Ramsey
- Bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals: Graeme English
- Violin: Mike Evans
- Drums, percussion Keith Baxter
The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth is the first studio album by British folk metal band Skyclad, and is one of the first folk metal albums ever. Especially the song Widdershins Jig is considered groundbreaking for the genre. The album cover is by Garry Sharpe - Young.
A new edition for the Russian market appeared in 2005.
Title list
All songs were written by Walkyier and Ramsey, except A Minute 's Piece and Moongleam and Meadowsweet, are the old English songs.
Style
Music
On the album Skcylad thrash metal combined with irish / Celtic folk. In almost all the songs thrash metal elements dominate, only The Widdershins Jig is strongly influenced by folk music.
Texts
In the texts Walkyiers reflects his ( poetic ) vision of life. A theme of almost all texts is the irresponsible use of nature. "I do not preach and do not try to impose my opinion, but I would encourage people to think ," said Walkyier. All texts are written in English.
Criticism
There are few reviews that have been written shortly before or immediately after its publication to the album. Therefore, many reviews are from the last few years, and were thus written subsequently.
The German metal magazine Rock Hard, awarded the album 9 out of 10 and praised the concept of the album:
" Offers more variety than with his former band, with medieval -sounding violins and other impostors, some is transported by these instruments even the main musical idea throughout the song. The expected link between old English folk tradition and speed metal is in its infancy actually succeeded. In direct comparison with the new album of his ex-colleagues Sabbath Mr. Walkyier cuts ( despite his limited vocal abilities, but eventually he is also no " Heideröslein " sing ) for me from better, which is expressed in nine thick points. But: Thrash purists, hands off "!
Metalstorm.ee rated the album 8 out of 10 and compares especially the album with the recent publications Skyclads:
"A heavier Skyclad, much more dense and less folky, that's what you're gonna get When you purchase this, a damn fine record from a band did what about to create a whole new genre did ten years later would become very popular. A harder, more compact and less folky album; that you get when you buy this album, a nice CD from a band that created a new genre, and ten years later was famous. "