CABRAKAÄN - Mictlán

Official music video for MICTLÁN, the first single of CABRAKAÄN's highly anticipated album, Aztlán.

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CABRAKAÄN (kab-ra-kahn): Mexican-Canadian symphonic folk metallers Cabrakaän are breaking barriers and forging new genre-bending paths in the international metal scene. Founded in 2011, drummer Marko Cipäktli and classically trained soprano vocalist Pat Cuikani sought to fuse the pre-hispanic and rich folkloric elements of Mexican folk music with heavy metal. Drawing on instruments, melodies, mythologies, and oral histories of their ancestral Mexica (pronounced “mesh-eek-ah“) people, the band tells powerful, evocative stories that transcend language and culture. Cabrakaän have released two EPs: Songs from Anahuac (2013) and Cem Anahuac My Home (2019).

Their upcoming full-length release, Aztlán, is their most ambitious release to date and will be available on streaming platforms everywhere on November 17th, 2023.


Production: Lunar Ring Sound & Graphics Inc.
Director: Angela Ambrose
Cinematographer: Angela Ambrose

Very Special Thanks:

Dima Kolosov
Rahbek Salomons
Alexander Smith

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LYRICS (SPANISH/NÁHUATL)

Niwinti, nichoka, niknotlamati, nik mati, nikihtoa,
nik ilnamiki: Ma ka aik nimiki In kan ahmikoa

Al despertar
En otro mundo estás
Debes cruzar
Tu xolo te guiará

Quiero ver en el camino
Pluma azul, jade y destino
¿Eres tú? ¿Mictecacihuatl?
¿Lograré pasar las pruebas del Mictlán?

In kan ahmikoa,
in kan on tepetiwa, in ma onkan niaw...
Ma ka aik nimiki, ma Mictlán

Cerros pasar
Vientos te han de llevar
Siempre hacia el sur
Las flechas lloverán

Y al final, alma serena
Líbrame de todas las penas.
¿Eres tú? ¿Mictlantecutli?
He pasado al fin, las pruebas del Mictlán

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LYRICS (ENGLISH)

Nahuatl:
Niwinti, nichoka, niknotlamati,
nik mati, nikihtoa, nik ilnamiki:
Ma ka aik nimiki In kan ahmikoa
(I am intoxicated, I cry, I mourn, I think, I say,
within myself I find it: if it never disappeared).

Open your eyes
In another land afar
You must travers
Your guide awaits you there.

I’ll join you there
On the path you tread
Azul plumes, jade, destiny, light
Is that you, Mictecacihuatl?
I shall boldly take, this passage to Mictlan

Nahuatl:
In kan ahmikoa,
In kan on tepetiwa, in ma onkan niaw...
Ma ka aik nimiki, ma Mictlán
(There, where there is no death, there, where she is conquered, may I go there...
If I never died, I hope, Mictlán...)

Mountains we’ll scale
The winds will take us there
Always heading south
With arrows raining down

In the end, serene spirit
Set me free
From all this torment
Is that you, Mictlantecutli?
At last I have made, my passage to Mictlán