Severnye Vrata - Ugrum-Reka video free download

Some weird "slavonic metal" stuff from Russia. This song comes from the band's first EP, "Otchizna". The band is also known as "Northern Gates"

The stock-shots are taken from the 1938 movie "Aleksandr Nevskiy" (which is also the nickname of the vocalist) by Sergei Eisenstein.

An attempt to translate the lyrics in english. Fell free to suggest any corrections :)

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The Gloomy River

Sorrow has spilled in a large river

Onto our native land

Shedding tears about the sons

That lie in the moist soil

The crow moves in circles, drunken by blood

He saw a slashing battle

He saw how the damask sword

Crushed the foreign warrior-host

Oh wind, take to the sky

These mothers' bitter cry

Let Kruchina hear the call

And allay the sorrow

The warrior has chosen the wolf's fate

Taking death for other's life

If he celebrated Trizna sacredly

Svarog will accept him in Iriy's paradise

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Notes : Kruchina ans Svarog are slavic gods (respectively the goddess of sorrow and the god of the sun and fire)

Trizna is a funeral ceremony

Iriy is the paradise

See google & wiki for more details ;)