Red Cain's first single "Hiraeth" (now available at redcain.bandcamp.com/releases), was written as an anthem to glorious ages past, driven by the band's Eastern European roots. 

Enveloped in Slavic mythology and imagery, the track takes the listener into an era where mysticism and sorcery coexisted with sharp steel, pagan hymns, and a still-present yearning for the restless wild. 

It is a gallop through hidden memories in our blood, and a call to arms from a long-forgotten heritage of renown.

LYRICS:

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!

Red Cain - Hiraeth

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.

Red Cain - Unborn

Red Cain - Dead Aeon Requiem

Red Cain - Guillotine (feat. Wolf Of Transylvania)

Orchestral/electronic backing for the upcoming 2018 Red Cain single "Snakebouquet".

Created and produced by Evgeniy Zayarny (2018).

"Snakebouquet" Orchestration

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