Lombolo - Ofärd || MUSIC VIDEO (Folk Metal / Pagan Metal / Viking Metal 2021)

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A big thank you to everyone involved in the making of the video! This video is totally DIY by us in Lombolo and our friends. When we had the idea for this video, we never imagined it could turn out as well as it did. The idea for Lombolo actually came during a D&D session, so it felt really natural to get some friends from our D&D group to star in it.

Out of the dark Swedish forests comes Lombolo, a Folk Metal band set on evoking a sense of adventure and glory in a modern metal context. "Ofärd", based on the novel of the same name by Dick Harrison, is a song about a Swedish warrior who becomes a mercenary for the French queen in the 7th century. Its catchy flute and mandolin melodies will make any modern warrior want to roam the lands of Medieval Europe in search of adventure and glory or drink mead at the closest inn.

CREDITS:
Producer - Leonard Walerius
Director - Johan Maxén
Assist. directors - Leonard Walerius, Lennart Lanström
Written by - Leonard Walerius
Editing & Effects - Johan Maxén
Makeup - Deborah Winberg
Character design & wardrobe - Everyone
Graphics - Lennart Lanström
Color grading - Leonard Walerius

ACTORS
Benji the Tranquil - Felix Brown
Maddeus Throatcutter - Amadeus Kamsvåg
Falcon Ashwood - Anton Falck
Dubious Dorothy, Fan - Deborah Winberg
Mirage, Fan - Adrian Lydén
Luurchai the Mirage Master - Lennart Lanström
Jó-Hân Smith, Dungeon Master, Mirage - Johan Maxén
Valério el Esgrimidor - Leonard Walerius


LYRICS (translation below):
Han kommer från Götarnas land
Ett hedniskt folk från nordens rand
Fångad, såld som serv efter en
Misslyckad räd i Kventavik

Eld och blodsfejder och ett avgrundsskri
Med sitt svärd högg han sig fri
En främling i ett främmande land
En lejd krigare utan band

I hans band finns allemaner, saxer, franker och lombarder
Hjälm och brynja, svärd och yxa, hänsynslösa. Nu ska du dö!

[Chorus]
Sjung! Valans sång den bringar ära eller ofärd
I alla åldrar, tidernas stormar
Sjung! Svärdets stål det skär igenom nattens mörker
Tänd alla eldar, segern den väntar

Ett odjur i människogestalt
Ett öga som glittrar likt en vargs
Mörkrets kraft har honom helt besatt
Död och makt skall bli hans arv

Balthilds fiender, de dräper han utan kval
Neustrien, Austrasien, Aquitaine och Burgundien

Han är drottningens omärkt gömda hand
Stramar åt sitt grepp om frankers land

Han dräper för drottningen
Kyrkor och helgon skyddar ingen
Svärdet svingas, huvudet flyger,
Blodet sprutar, dådet är gjort

[Chorus]

När hans nidingsdåd var utförda
Försökte hon få honom dödad
Men odjuret kunde inte slukas
Nu är han på jakt efter hämnd

[Chorus]

English:
He comes from the land of the Geats (Götaland)
A heathen people on the edge of the north
He was captured and sold as a serf
After a failed raid on Quentovic

Feuds, fire, an abyssal roar
Set free by the blood upon his sword
Strange people, stranger lands
For a man who’s untethered by morale

In his troupe are Alemanni, Saxons, Franks and Vandals
Sword and axe, helmet and hauberk. Now you will die!

Sing! Like the seeress' song bringing honour or ruin
Storm over ages, the time rages
Sing! Like the steel of the sword that splits the darkness
Light every fire, victory’s nigh

Made like a beast, but shaped like a man
A wolfish glimmer in his lonely eye
Blood and darkness grip him like a vice
To be an heir of death and might

He slays the enemies of Balthild without inhibition
Neustria, Austrasia, Aquitania and Burgundia

He is the hidden hand of the queen
Tightening her grip on the realm of the Franks

He does the queen’s ungodly work
Church nor saint won’t save you when
The sword is swung, your head is flung
Your warm blood runs, the deed is done

[Chorus]

When his shameful deeds were done
Balthild tried to have him killed
But the beast could not be eaten
Now he is thirsting for revenge

[Chorus]