Shaman's Harvest - Red Hands Black Deeds (Prelude) Lyrics

That shit's moving

Is it just me or is that hyena(?) Moving?

god i wish this track was 30 min long.... soo fricking goood

Saw them open for Nickelback. Never heard of them and this was first song they played..instantly loved it..bought cd that night.

I really wish this song had developed into something longer, it has a nice power in the beat and word.

This band music saved my life, thank you shaman harvest.

Do I hear the drone of a hurdy gurdy?

I love this!"

I went to your concert lol 😊

BSC should be opening for these guys! Going to see them tonight!

Here in 2018

I feel like even among the fans of Shaman's Harvest, this album is highly underappreciated. Sure when you compare it track-to-track with Smokin' Hearts and Broken Guns it's vastly inferior (there's no Ten Million Voices or Silent Voice on this album). However, Red Hands Black Deeds is one hell of a concept album (I assume intentionally). This whole album seems to tell the story of a man who is brought up in a bad environment, which leads him to become a bad person and eventually do some horrible things (some "black deeds" if you will):
The prelude sets the tone, mood and scene for the album.
"Broken Ones" describes the nature of the person in question (a broken man who would one day do horrible things).
"The Come Up" shows him briefly fighting his nature before properly falling and becoming what he didn't want to become; even asking for help ("I could use a hand getting off of the floor. Don't you hear me callin'?").
The songs "A Longer View" through to "Long Way Home" describe various aspects of his life and character traits he exhibits after becoming the person he is.
"The Devil in Our Wake" starts when he finally commits a truly "black deed", with him needing to skip town and live on the run (although this song also ties in well with "Tusk and Bone" later on as a description of man's progression through time and eventual destruction of everything in our path).
This leads into "Blood Trophies"'s more direct story-line, starting with him at a lake hiding what is assumed to be a murder weapon, and blatantly mentioning federal law enforcement are on his trail. The line "now my work is almost done. They'll take my breath but not my deeds." shows that by this point he has truly become an evil man and feels little remorse for his actions (i.e. he's made it his purpose to do these deeds, even at the cost of his own life). The title "Blood Trophies" would support this, as many serial killers and other such people tend to take trophies from their victims.
"Tusk and Bone" is a breakaway from the main story, as this song is more of a link between the concepts in the main story and the "black deeds" that human beings do and have done to the ecosystem since our inception. It's as accusatory of a song as it is touchingly beautiful.
Finally, "Scavengers" describes his final moments. His final thoughts are laid out in the lyrics as he finally calls it as his time to die. He decides he wants to die as he lived: with red hands doing black deeds. At this point he seems to have lost all hope in achieving happiness in life. Instead, he simply asks that he is not woken from death, but instead left to sleep "between the notes", as he goes down in what is presumably a gunfight.

Yuno Gasai This is a good goddamn summary.

+100 Respect

You're crazy, Ten Million Voices and Silent Voice aren't even the best Shaman's songs. Go check out The Offering and Cardinal Syn. I really really encourage you to check out their earlier work, it's up on their artist page now.

LIKE SO EVERYBODY CAN SEE!

Sun won't shine down here in this valley
The moon don't glow beneath these trees
Some lonesome baby, won't you come save me
From these red hands and black deeds
From these red hands and black deeds

Sun don't shine down here in this valley
The moon don't glow beneath these trees
Some lonesome baby, won't you come save me
From these red hands and black deeds
From these red hands and black deeds

Worm dude

This song reminds me of us working down in man made hell....where its very dark and very very hot.....we work and work for our families up on surface....in darkness we work hard and bust our asses as we all laugh with each other and fight....but yet we all are brothers underground

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

These guys should seriously be massively huge. So much talent

These guys should seriously be massively huge. So much talent

Just saw them in concert with daughtry n Nickelback. They went first and this was their first song. Loved it within seconds. 2017..mystical and tribal very cool.

greato80 Hey, so did I. They were great, all three bands. Nickelback's intro, tho 🔥🤘

In Chicago so did we!!!! Loved them!

greato80 HAHAHA!!! I was just gonna say the same thing!!!!

Same here, seen them in the woodlands on that tour

Loving this song! I have seen Shaman's Harvest 3 times and have not been disappointed. Bonus - I got to meet Nathan, and he was so nice!

I saw these guys as an Opening act for a Nickelback concert I was at and I ended up buying 2 of their albums and they were loud af

I saw them in the woodlands, opening for Daughtry and nickleback. Awesome show.

I so love this album! This band is too freaking good!

I have been following this wonderful band for a long time. A Brazilian fan from the interior of Brazil

cannot express how obsessed I am with this band! love this. its so spiritual and has a native American vibe

This has got to be one of the best things I've ever heard. wish it was longer! can't wait for the album release

Jackie Stewart That’s my only complaint....it ends

just saw u in pac center i all ready got people like this thanks

Hi, I'm new and I'm getting confused with this band's genre. Are they rock or country?

they are them. why do they have to be confined or defined by one genre?

+Silverstreak3984 I just like knowing what genre each band I listen to is, sorry I hit a soft spot.

Jughead Jones the III not a soft spot just a weird question to me.

+Silverstreak3984 If you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in and I don't want to fit in.

It's a pretty 50/50 mix, They have some heavy stuff and then they have a song literally called "Country as fuck", Then there's this. They can't be defined

new fan

waiting for the album to be released. I love this band so much.

Got goose-pimples! That hill-billy-Celtic renaissance-Viking-Gypsy all stirred into this song. Oh Lord...ya'll nailed it on this one!!!

*goose-pimples*

Hill Billy's were not Celtic, they were Protestant

tell me this isn't better suited as the Vikings theme song!!!!

I said the same thing..

you know it really is. hadn't put it in that perspective till you mentioned it

Black Sails for sure. Maybe even as just a trailer song. Too bad they ended it 😢

I am so pumped for the new album love this band

And Then There Was Darkness

HØody The Cartoonist definitely

this fucking song lul. Incredible and its just the preclude

This is going to be so fucked..!!!!!!!

Hell yes!!

I DEMAND MORE!!!!! * throws cup *

Very nice intro ^^

Pero que agradable sorpresa, tremenda atmósfera muy de raíces... que llegue pronto este nuevo disco shaman's harvest

wish you guys would come tour the UK (Scotland)

Got the spiritual soul of the old deep south...the blessed kiss of Apalachia...this *should* sound a little tired and stale because it's been done before...but it doesn't. Nailed me to the wall, boys!

can you recommend me another similar songs? thanks

it was amazing live.

Color me jelly af!

this is amazing

kinda gives me the same vibes as "if I had a heart" from fever ray - awesome!

Oh boy, this is awesome!!!!!

Rock'll live for ever!!

So excited for this new album!

sending good vibes from South Africa \m/