1. |
Lunar Horizon
03:39
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2. |
Behemoth of the North
08:04
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Far out in the North
An ancient place abandoned by the light
In a nethermost primal sea
The waves roughly whip my thighs
Like the slaves of the South
I'm on my knees
Staring at my hands of stone
Sculpted by the sea, cracked over time
Hanging heavy close to the surface
The shield arm tries to hold the past
The sword hand wants to catch the unknown weight
Of the uncertain
Let me be without those burdens
Being one, stuck on the ocean floor
Entombed in time as the forgotten lands
A desire just to be
A peaceful fraction of myself
A lifeless piece
Thrown away to sink alone
Deeper than the light
Deep into the endless void
But there will be no ray of hope
War cries yelling in the gorges of my head
Echoes of my fierce fighting
I rather wanna die upright
Than to live on my knees
Stand up proud
Even if all should crumble and fall
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3. |
Morbid Mind
07:45
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Old morbid fingers
Lead the notes
The eyes are lost in distance
They also could be blind
Time took everything
But the carnage is still heavy in my guts
My fellow, my mind, Where have you gone?
When did you overpower me?
Betray me? Conquer and start to rule me?
Like an unseen parasite
With any note I unleash I guard myself harder
Against your darkened narratives
Prophecies of pain and annihilation
To feed you and lead me to believe to be you
I feel like a weak autumn leaf
Unstable in a gale
I need all my strength
Not to lose myself again
In your labyrinthine worlds
Nailed to my forsaken oak
High on the top
Of your crumbling tower of void
My skinned skull
Covered by your diabolic grimaces
Deaf by your encircled
Pack of burning wolves
Who never will die
My old morbid fingers
Still lead the notes
To escape from your
Eternal masquerade
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4. |
A Fragile Dawn
07:51
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Pitch black blossoms on the winter sky
Conquered the bare crowns
In the old mist of a fragile dawn
A frozen sculpture
Born from a true heart
Two bodies so lovingly intertwined
Within the iced soil of the human life
Your gentle hand still resting heavy
On my cold cheek
As the never melting ice of the north
My strong hands unable to caress
Along your scars of time
But I'm still in love with all of them
All words are lost in our frozen throats
But I feel your vigorous fear
Of decaying in this frozen cage of life
I want to leave this dormant witchcraft, too
But these glaciers of time will not melt away
And I feel we can't break through
Without breaking us apart
Your last broken parts
Still knotted to my solitary heart
But these remains are so cold
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5. |
Old Wars
08:37
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All those victories that I never reached
All these wounds of grief that don't heal
But I have to honor
All these scars of my choices
If I don't want to get overwhelmed
By all these ghosts and demons
Of my forgotten ruins
Mesmerized by eyes
Where I could find whole kingdoms
Bewitched by a gorgeous pale skin
But however how tempting
Those divine breasts may be
My sense of life still riding apart
On a blackened nebulous horse
But I am still bound to the beast
Which has teeth as I have fears
Its ivory horns bending high
As the morbid towers of Hel
The legion of doubts
Reached the battlefield
But I remain stalwart in forefront
Also if I'll never be
The emperor of all this warfare
I will survive in blood
With a pile of my enemies' corpses
Under my feet and their
Disembodied heads in my hands
Tell me with the tongue of truth
The number of slaves that we need
To carry all those victims home
Over the sea of agony
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6. |
Beast of Misery
08:00
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With naked feet through the snow
Along the trail of the wolf, misery read
My frozen lips, yes I'm in love
With your heavy roots of sorrow
Don't seduce me to caress
Your finely shaped mountains
Don't force me to cross your
Darkened cold forests
I'm too weak to not
To keep from twisting and turning you
To not blaze the path through your flesh
Inside your realm
Wild crimson rivers arise
My beat of life turns to a quake
That pervades me as I enter your
Throne room of void
Shuttered by the blackest bile
Ohh beast of misery
Even if we sing the same notes
Marching to the same restless beat
We could not be together
Lying in your rotten limbs
Staring at the non existent stars
Can I be at all, where misery ends?
Overwhelmed by your
Gorgeous shapes
An unknown fascination
I guess I'm still lying there
Ohh beast of misery
Even if we sing the same notes
Marching to the same restless beat
We could not be together
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7. |
Steel Coffins
10:23
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Over a myriad of winters
I, haunted by howling lullabies
A burning inferno in my infantile forge
Deformed my vitreous corpus
A glowing needle of faith
Sewed shut my eyes of doubts
A giant forge hammer in my hands
I stand guard at sun and moon
Over my rotten childhood
A layered dungeon of fear
Raised up to cliffs
At my unendurable blackened sea
Out of this gaping wound they creep out
As starving maggots from a dried-out carcass
Resurrected creatures I cut in pieces
Knee-deep in their freshly skinned flesh
Frantically, incessantly I forged the iron
For thousands of coffins
Heaviest steel overloaded with their bloody bones
To exile them over the cliffs
Back into my blackest sea
Ignite the fire
Tend the fire
I infuriate the burning flame
Raise the hammer
Strike the hammer
I forge the iron to heaviest steel
Slay the creature
Skin the creature
I throw the bones on the steel
Fill the coffin
Exile the coffin
Over the cliffs
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8. |
March to Midgard
08:08
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Born to march the unknown miles
A valley of candles carried by
Beings faces distorted to black
The lights tempt me to follow
But it's too late as I realize
That I can not reach this world
Without being socially impaled
With a bleeding stomach
Filled with stones at every step
So I am still heading
The path of the leprous and the stoned
Balancing along the backbones of earth
Tailwind towards the abyss
My frozen fingers embrace
The ashes of my past
I let it go with my yelling voice
Of my alleged folk
Death to the Norns
Who had promised me to take me home
A home that I'd never seen …
But what does it mean, home
Wading in thoughts
Like through overfilled swamps
Last fireflies jittering
Over the heart water of giants
Deadlocked in a white muted dawn,
At the last root of Yggdrasil
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Crouched together in the dark flesh of mother
Embraced by a perpetual beat of life
From the beginning of my time
Until they tear me out of my dark shelter
Into a cold glaring world
That I have to pass through
Meanwhile the death
Sings the hymn of the hurting moment
And laughs out loud about the living
I still hear the yelling voices
Of my comrades who have fallen
I still see the mercy in her essence
And her beauty in the first light of the day
After a never ending night of love
All those moments seem so endless
As the paths we forged together
But only the mirage will be my fellow
Until I disintegrate into the realm of death
No sacrifice will stop
The relentless march of the sun
Resistance is senseless
Against their legion of shades
The treasure of infinity
A bitter melting illusion
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10. |
The Blackened Sea
11:31
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I'm a blackened sea
My consciousness a lonely boat
In the dark
Constantly driven
By the breeze of thoughts
Everything else lies in the depth
Or haunts me from the infinite vastness
But they are there
They live within the ocean that is me
Eaten by white walls of torn apart
And twisted recreated memories
No foghorn to prevent
No stars to stay on target
No anchor heavy enough to hold
I sail through undead creatures
Beyond any myths
Lost among cruel personalities
Disturbed by forbidden desires
That appear and disappear
Until I make my peace with them
They are there and scare me
Dancing madly through my dark water
They whisper and scream
Rise up the waves
I feel alone outside of my high sea
I'm afraid
They make me sick
They drive me insane
Tormented by my emotions
A restless surface that lets me know
I'm still alive
I, Struggling against the whimpering wind
that's howling its mendacious narratives
I maintain the equilibrium
In their conjured storm of fear
A never ending maelstrom
From here to the end of my horizon
Evil spirits spin their mournful yarn
Of indifference around my rotten
Hull of dreams
They drag me down
Into a lunatic void
Hollow screams underwater
A loneliness that is not heard
That never wants to be heard
There will be
Never enough scope
For the inscrutable ocean
Of the lone man
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11. |
Headless Gods
08:26
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Land of nowhere
Poisoned, quiet and poor of all
Spirits reign the people
Prayers are heard from everywhere
Deformed by the rulers and their slaves
It doesn't matter if we all die
There where the light ends
We are wholehearted
With their headless gods
They suffocate our fear
Of the angel of death
We die one after the other
Full of pride for their lies
The legends of the old gods
Beheaded and enslaved
Poisoned by the alleged saviors
All my brothers
Are raised in their poison
Which wrecks lives
A mortal venom
That could be thicker than blood
For me there was never enough poison
I was born in the antidote
My heretic sword will be sharpened
To crack into pieces
Those headless gods
Until the bitter end
If my brothers should awake
In the antidote
Nothing will be left
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12. |
Heavy Rain
08:10
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I'm out there in the heavy rain
The disembodied told me
That I can't stay in the rain
If I want to find joy
But here I am
Under firs in a lightless forest
Still buried under corpses of time
I lie in ambush to focus on
The goddess of rain
My sleepwalking ghost
Stands numb beside me
Watching how my life passes by
Thunderbolts cut me out
Of my hypnotic voyage
A blossoming feeling remains
Followed by the void
Of all the deceased
And unfelt moments
Swallowed by the tyrants of time
Locked up again into my insatiable
Growing fortress in the sky
Thoughts raise up the walls
Under the spell of the insidious future
And the undead past
Obsessed by the myth of the perpetual joy
My body rushes blindly through
The machinery of life
Towards one to the other hopeful light
Still lost in time
I'm straying through
My clouds of life
The last horizon
Tore my eyes open
But it's too late
I'm rotten
I'm old
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13. |
Northern Love
06:02
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I gathered pain and corpses
But hatred still kept my chains
Am I the horned beast, that it feels like?
Am I still submitted to the foolish child?
Who doesn't want to rot
Frozened and buried
At the foot of my northern wall
So I'm still the keeper of my moribund pride
But I'm still heading north
I'm heading north
I'm heading north
Oracles of terror
Cover my pathetic being
Am I blinded to the truth?
Am I condemned to stare forever
Into those unknown corners of hell?
Too many catastrophes I lived
Because of believing
If only I could cut out all
These empty pale eyes
Nevertheless I step forward through
My forest of gallows
So I'm heading north
I'm heading north
I'm still heading north
I'm heading north
I've slaughtered hordes
Of devils and angels
I've fed the starving good and evil souls
No matter how far I've bore
My vitreous heart
Nowhere was redemption
Deeds which chase me through
A maze of distorted perspectives
When death arrived
There will be no difference
Between me and the slaughtered
Starving soul
Now I banish the clockwork of time
By consciously heading further north
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14. |
Chalice of Blood
12:34
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Again I lose myself on your barren, deserted path
Where I've been looking for you for ages
Only accompanied by your twisted body
Crawling on all fours
Led on a chain by the devil
I tried always to set you free
But my fighting voice had died away like
The roars of the ravens on a whiteout day
Your abandoned body didn't answer
Probably you couldn't, but just maybe
Just maybe you didn't want to
We dive into the blood of demons
A tempting warm bosom of a mother
A deaf heaven against all anxieties
We get overwhelmed by deceptive bravery
But there is a rising desire
A malicious call to dive deeper
Into the depths of blood
The chalice of blood rooted like a body part
It weaves its way through your flesh
To incarcerate your soul
Your glassy pale eyes
Stare contemptuously at me
Were those pathetic ruins
All that have been left of your great wisdom?
Rotten dreams and crippled philosophy
Was it you, who has promised all those lies?
Convinced to find the strength
In the depths of the blood
To defeat the greedy fat devil
You felt the burning drop of demons
And you had known that an overfilled ocean
Would never be enough
To suffocate this craving pain
I dive into the blood of demons as you did
I awake in front of the gate where hell awaits me
The Crumbling steps
Back to the world of the living
Steadily get longer
I'm on the run like a wounded animal
With the predators on my heels
I mustn't be possessed
By the demonic blood
Where you have drifted for so long
Until your death occurs
In harmony with the art of mother nature
I see you diving through the forest
Under the dragon's rock
Where your ashes rest
In hope that you are freed
From the agony craving to feed the cruel demon
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15. |
Ember | hoffnungsträger
08:56
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The ember of the unforgiven
Relics of fallen deeds
Cursed with furious pain until forgiveness
To show Mercy for all the hateful infernos
Billions of sparks out of control
And the power of the birds of fire
Far beyond any might
The beat of the burning wings
Bound to my birds of fire
As the blood to my heart
A pure flaring impulse of my instincts
Fused with my gained experience
A legion to inflame all my decisions
I must have been a fool to believe
To have a will of my own
I could only live the life that I could lead
Under the reign of the colossus flock of fire
That can't be tamed as my breath of life
So I can only be with my flock of fire
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Corpus Vitreum Bonn, Germany
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