HEATHER WASTELAND - The Cimmerian Fjords

Special guests feature in this new track by the band to be available in a future album..

The Cast:

Masha “Scream” Arkhipova (ARKONA) – vocals 

Boggarth – war drums 

Väderhatt – 6-string bass, music and lyrics

SLN – 5-string bass

AR – 4-string bass, lyrics editing & translation, art & visual concept

Sergey Lazar' (ARKONA) - mixing of vocal parts at CDM Records (Moscow Sound)

Alex “Swede” (THE LONE DARK SIDE) – orchestral arrangement

Alex Hellsound (BLOODSHOT) – mixing & mastering

SOLЯRIS Video – visual digital wizardry 

Nickholas Mortem (MERKNET) – art magick

Konstantin Bogaevsky (1872 - 1943) – mysteries of the Cimmerian landscapes

In memory of the great bard of Cimmeria, 

Konstantin Bogaevsky, 

whose Art will glorify 

the majesty and mysteries 

of the Cimmerian land 

for all eternity. 

…this song is taken from our maxi single “Cimmerian Fjords” (2021) leading up to Heather Wasteland’s upcoming full-length Heretical Folk Art album to be released in a clouded time to come...  

This song has nothing to do with the fantastic Cimmeria of Robert E. Howard’s books about Conan the Barbarian, because the song represents our own fantasies based on some topics of Antiquity. At the same time, we are talking about really existed and existing Cimmeria, where some members of the Heather Wasteland love to wander among the hills, mountains and wastelands. Nevertheless, the chthonic images in our story have something in common – both with some ancient myths and with Howard Lovecraft’s stories, who, by the way, was a friend of Robert Howard.

The song mentions a strong earthquake in ancient Cimmeria, after which the coastal landscape had fundamentally changed. The oldest earthquake of this kind, confirmed by historical sources, was the Panticapaeum earthquake in 63 BC.

The chronicles also describe natural disasters of September - October 480 AD. This earthquake lasted about 40 days. One can only imagine how much it changed the landscape after 40 days of the ground’s macabre dance.

Nowadays, in Cimmeria, there are no such long and narrow bays, reminiscent of the Scandinavian fjords, but if you look at the coastline from a great height, you will still find some similarities with the landscapes of Norway and Denmark.

Thanks to this similarity, our imagination finds its embodiment in this message. The message is addressed to connoisseurs of creativity of such different people of art as the painter Konstantin Bogaevsky, poet Maximilian Voloshin, and writers Robert Howard and Howard Lovecraft.