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Red Cain

by Red Cain

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John Roach
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John Roach With the plethora of major metal releases this year, it is easy to miss potential diamonds in the rough.

Red Cain is a diamond. A unique sound coming from the Great White North that wears it's European influences proudly, while still maintaining their own flavour of metal.

Their sound is grandiose and ambitious. For the price of a Starbucks latte, you can have four epic tracks that challenge current Canadian metal trends.

Buy it! Favorite track: Hiraeth.
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Melodic death jazz great ep! can't wait to see what they have to offer next. anyone who likes communic will love this! a very unique take on power/prog with this short, but full of creativity ep that brings a sort of cold, darkness to the music. this is a must buy! can't wait till I get the physical copy in the mail! Favorite track: Hiraeth.
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1.
Welcome, children of men Your only choice is how to join me Laugh and pretend You’re in control of your destiny This is the end Forfeit your pitiful lives Now bow before me Can no longer deny… I’ll be your final confession Push you over the precipice Into nothingness or purgatory, I care not Everything that lived By my hand will die I am unmerciful death Black guillotine And no one lives in vain The herald of the end draws near Unmerciful death Black guillotine I will edify your sins The curtain of your life draws near You vile, filthy, wayward souls Embracing rotten pride The Morningstar, for all you are, Has shown he was right Your vile children of the Sun Consumed by endless vice Processions of prisons of flesh… I am the kind gentle voice To lure the unwashed mass I break the fiction in your heads I crave your ignorance Empires will keep on falling Your prayers remain the same Devour the apple of discord And soon you shall know my name I am unmerciful death Black guillotine And no one lives in vain The herald of the end draws near Unmerciful death Black guillotine I will edify your sins The curtain of your life draws near
2.
Snowblown garden Fire in the hearth Simple songs moving the silence Wine, dreams, and mirth White lands, soft sighs And worlds uncovered How could I foresee this violation All of this devoured? And I… Hide… From the light… Tell me what went wrong Was it me? All my words What lay deep inside? Coarse whispers That you hide A wolf we have set free! And it builds Towers of red Deliver me from your grace To cerulean skies I’m wed Unthinking Comes the end Unfeeling I descend Dogs lick empty streets Is it you Calling for me? Does it satisfy the greed? Living deep In all that you see? On your throne of dirt Under the crescent moon Do they scream With tongues that are split? Destroyer, I am calling your name Stand with me a moment Look upon the human race Centuries I’ve waited Unlock the skies, I come Dissonance and hope Lead me on and on Destroyer, I am calling your name Stand with me a moment Look upon the human race Holding all the fire Of creation in our hands Breathing death and starlight We rise Destroyer, I am calling your name Stand with me a moment Look upon the human race And the aeons call, And their voice is fire On the battered grounds of heaven I - the only one alive.
3.
Hiraeth 05:18
Veles gazes east Fire burns his eye The wolf has no master Except his savage pride Where have they gone, the ring of steel The glory of our fathers In svarga’s halls yet burn The fires of the Sun Ho, Europa Carpathian cold The empires that have risen The stories we have told Father in the night, come take us up Into the skies of old The hunting horns, they call They call us home Into the lair of the beast Through the Siberian Yule Forests of sorcerous light There we rule Can you hear us? Until our blood is cold Can you see us? The horns will call us home Can you hear us? Until the night breaks day And Mara’s serenade Is calling out our names We fight... Veles gazes east Fire burns his eye Your time has not yet come, my friend To fall upon his scythe So burn! And rise, and be released Into the skies so blue Into our ancient war And our verses true! Can you hear us? Until our blood is cold Can you see us? The horns will call us home Can you hear us? Until the night breaks day And Mara’s serenade Is calling out our names We fight!
4.
Unborn 07:04
Still I whisper to the moon “Send me birds of prey” How many more can there be? In a snowy mound my body lay Nightmares born and leveraged there For the truth I have the power to provoke the shadows Watching when we meet Cold and black, baby don’t look back We’re a dying, dying, dying breed Bleed Die Hound of the night Watching when we meet Cradled terrors that you freed Now, divide Soiled sheets and eyes for lies From your hands we'll feed Artemicia Star of venom All the ecstasies await here Dare to dream and fall apart Among cigarettes and desomorphine You find who you are Calling me Crawling here All through my body, now I'm Kissing the silence Now I know... Unborn Unborn Unborn Unborn Bleed Die Hound of the night Watching when we meet Cradled terrors that you freed Now, divide Soiled sheets and eyes for lies From your hands we'll feed Artemicia Star of venom

about

Red Cain is a concept album, with the tracks mirroring the four “Faces of Man”.

Guillotine is War. Dead Aeon Requiem is Ascendance. Hiraeth is Yearning, future and past. Unborn is the Primordial.

This album is a cutaway representation of Red Cain’s sound and a saga of the ongoing cycle of rise and fall of man, his Faustian war between his own serpentine Promethean urges and the ordered optimism of a virtuous transhumanist existence.

We were inspired by a variety of themes on these tracks, primarily pagan mythology, the occult, and transhumanist human ideals. There is influence from Slavic myths and hymns to the Sun-god, Akira Yamaoka’s Silent Hill, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, and Lovecraftian horror, Isaac Asimov and Alastair Reynolds, and medieval conceptions of death and rebirth as well as pure, killer balls-to-the-wall metal.

We leave it to you to discover the references in the tracks or simply immerse yourself in our musical ritual.

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released November 25, 2016

Created and produced by Red Cain

Recorded and engineered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Studios, Calgary, Canada
Mastered by Robert Kukla, Alan Sacha Laskow, Evgeniy Zayarny

Lyrics by Evgeniy Zayarny
Orchestration & electronic elements by William Lancaster
Additional songwriting by Andrei Buldan
Additional engineering by William Lancaster, Evgeniy Zayarny

Album artwork by Peter Mohrbacher
Logo artwork by Daniel Louden, Evgeniy Zayarny, Rissy Marentette
Photos by DM Photography

Special Guest: Andrei Buldan (Wolf of Transilvania) -
Guitar solo on "Guillotine"

RED CAIN is:
Evgeniy Zayarny - vocals Brendan Doll - guitar Allan Chuley - guitar Rogan McAndrews - bass Taylor Gibson - drums

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Booking and other inquiries: redcainarmy@gmail.com
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Thank you to our families, friends, and fans for your belief and support.

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Red Cain Calgary, Alberta

Red Cain is a powerful, melodic metal project with European roots, known for intricate storytelling and ambient elements paired with heavy, technical guitarwork and a rich, epic musical presence.

Red Cain is proud to be influenced by acts such as Kamelot, Symphony X, Marilyn Manson, Tesseract, and Alter Bridge.
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