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Hero Lux
04:52
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Waxing within the water
Wounding all grimly who dare
Grasp at that blood that burns deeply
Deeply the soul and the bairn
The spirit that guards
Is the spirit that heals this old wounded world
And the spirit that runs from its ancient wyrd
Is the spirit that's bound to break and kneel
Cold black char
Descending like ravens black
Quick like rushing shadows
Forebears of the swarth
Send these thoughts streaming forth
I am the spear that cuts the way
Forebears of the swarth
Send these thoughts streaming forth
The edge of gar that does not sway
Weapon of my kin
Spear head that guides the way
Sharpened by storms and the rain
Onward through gales and grain
Cold black char
Descending like ravens black
Quick like rushing shadows
Forebears of the swarth
Send these thoughts streaming forth
I am the spear that guides the way
Forebears of the swarth
Send these thoughts streaming forth
The edge of gar that does not sway
Forebears of the swarth
Send these thoughts streaming forth
Sharpened by the storms and all the rain
Forebears of the swarth
Send these thoughts streaming forth
Storming through the gales and all the grain
There is a shadow
In every man
In everything
And bound
To the high and low
The sacred space
The darkest thoughts you can't erase
Face that lair
Battle there and remain until the dark becomes your new domain
Crusade, the cause, the truest fight
And resonate the hero light
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Eigi Einhamr
03:21
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Cosmic, shining
Brightflame of the god within
Take me down your pathways
Where thought and time do both fade
Away from my bone and blood
Shapeless in my fate
The hunter as well as the bate
Four winds and coldest rain
A force of not one face
I see a world within my mind
My hero light
Both black as night
And bright as the blistering sun
The darkness it presses me
Slither do I through the cold stone cracks of this god-forsaken abode
Closer towards the cup
Closer towards the grail
Forgive me lord
Forgive myself
I know not what to say
Usher in thy moon
Raise the sun up high
Feed your soul the sky
Watch the dark subside
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Fire of Wode
05:52
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Many trials and tragedies have I seen (have I seen)
But the spirit of the ages finds me as I sleep (as I sleep)
And says
An old friend carved into me
The ancient symbol of the day
It scars now ugly and reminds you of the pain
But a new day rises just the same
Can you find it?
The will of the ancient tongues
The sacred rope that binds and winds
(It forms now as thought from nothing)
A burning shape to quell the night
(For all the lives that echo through time)
A gift of insight a beacon of more
(An enamoured ancient light)
It takes the form, like the wings of the first drawn butterfly
But I search for more
This spell is the gateway of day
For those who question why
From a word to a word
From a work to a work
An old friend carved into me
The ancient symbol of the day
It scars now ugly and reminds you of the pain
But a new day rises just the same
Ancient tongues
Ancient works
Ancient everything
Collapsing the world we all strive to build it all again
From a word to a word
A work to a work
I’m a soothsayer not a saint
The sky is burning
And bleeding
I’m a soothsayer not a saint
For a golden dawn is left to rise
I’m a soothsayer not a saint
The sky is burning
And bleeding
I’m a soothsayer not a saint
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Wield fire to cut the air
Ascend higher to fall
Ignite the sacred flare within
To burn brighter than them all
I seek the ansuz
I crave the answers
To this riddle of blood
Riddle of blood
Stream of life
Flow of death
Riddle of blood
River of blood
The air is thick with silence
A deafening chant of the waste
The wandering seek the translation
They strive to bend their fate
The broken will cherish the dead
Burdened be their minds
For what truly felled those men
Who were led by the blind
The nothingness raised no sword
The silence spoke no spell
Seek the patterns of light in darkness
Traverse your own personal form of hell
We seek so aggressively for the light
That we create the blackest wound
In the subconscious pools of our kind
We’ve birthed the devil anew
A serpent gnaws at the roots
And lurks in the tarn
And fears the thunder we all might wield
If we weren't all so blind
The blood will show us the way
The blood is all that's known
Like an estuary to the lake of life
Connecting us to all that came before
Wield fire to cut the air
Ascend higher to fall
Ignite the sacred fire within
To burn brighter than them all
Than them all
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Standing tall in the light
That bursts forth from my wounds
My mind is the sun
And my body the moon
Thought be the light of the stars
Fathomless and beyond my grasp
Beyond my grasp
A burning ritual, a sacred chase
Neverending ever twisting
Serpents ascending and sure to ensnare
But teeth never bare
But teeth never bare
Apollonian light
Bursting from every small seam
Quickly releasing from all of my wounds
Driven out by the darkest of needs
Dyionisian creed
Howl at the moon to remember the need
The blood is the rhythm
The hunger, the chase
Rip me from marshall embrace
Embers and jewels are one in the same
Founded by madmen caught in the flame
Beauty is found by delving in deep
Under rock and roots where secrets sleep
Heavy a burden may soon be found
Beneath the earth and the ground
In the ground
Standing tall in the light
That bursts forth from my wounds
My mind is the sun
And my body the moon
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Home
05:33
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Do you ever feel like the waves?
Crashing down, rhythmically-sound; enslaved
As I drown, thinking: ‘is this really the path I paved?’
And the light still seems so far away
These days I've been feeling quite blue
They say time will heal all of these wounds
Can't help but think that’s not quite true
Can't help but think time missed a few
Listen to the siren song
I've been here for far too long
Sometimes I wish that we fell through alone
(Fell through alone)
So don't hold your breath
I ain't comin back down
To save you now
No, I won't let you drown
No, I won't let me drown
And my eye is on the crown
Life ascending
The eye of the storm
Forever my home
Cause this ain’t my ending
Life ascending
Now I search through time and space
Hoping to find a world which seems to have been misplaced
Those people I left will turn and say how much I’ve grown
Yet I feel like rag and bone
Yeah I feel like rag and bone
Guess that's the risk you take when you leave home
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8. |
The Athem of I
04:17
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If there was a beast in man
Would you let it dwell?
You chose to shatter the gods
Choke the church and burn the cross
You brought death to the trinity
Show me your divinity
Pain
Hate
Torture
These are the withering spells of man
So be brave and bold
For a worthless soul
Will die on the coals
For its what you’re told
That a worthless soul
Will die on the coals
Birthed through fire
We will now reach to new heights
Through the conjuring of thunder
To the lights beyond the sky
But now my gods can’t hear you
For they dwell within my soul
As my light keeps burning brighter
You will fade into the coals
I summon you to ignite
I see your athem
It’s burning me alive
Walked through the fire of the dark old devil eyes
Still see your athem
Still burning me alive
But now you smolder
And you start to choke
Burning brighter now
I'll leave you in the cold
Raise it high and never you'll die
Lift the soul
I am the crimson boar
Raise it higher and never you'll die
Lift the soul
I am the crimson boar
So be brave and bold
Or be left in the cold
For a worthless soul
Will die on the coals
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Seeking mysteries
Through the farce of all things
Mutilation of the spirit and mind
Coercion of the highest form
Destruction of the breathing storm
That resides within the soul of man
Stalwart wanderers make your peace
For there is no war to be found here
(There is no war to be found here)
Only signals that will poison the mind
Suffocate, disfigure and blind
This is the only holy and sacred war of our time
You've come to seek the pathway home
By roads I cannot tell
Yet he who seeks the highest heavens
Let your roots reach down to hel
The wyrm waxes and wanes at the edge of the light
Seeking for more shadows of prey
Slithering down the path towards the brave one
Will he run or will he stay
Swerdas Uzdaz
Blackspell cruciata
Find your ur
Find your strength
Find your ur
Find your strength
Stalwart wanderers make your peace
For there is no war to be found here
(There is no war to be found here)
Only signals that will poison the mind
Suffocate, disfigure and blind
This is the only holy sacred war of our time
Swerdas Uzdaz
Blackspell cruciata
Find your ur
Find your strength
Find your ur
Find your strength
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The Mourning Shade
07:31
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It stalks me as I walk
The shade that breaks and burns
Fills the air with a thick low rumbling song
I failed to learn
The past has claimed the present
The future now starves in-tow
What shelter might find the broken man
When fate is so cold
Assault the darkness
Attack the unknown
Lunge forth and break the shapeless form
To carve something new from it’s bones
I inhale the ash
Amidst soot and stone
The endless path paved in lesser men
The drowning waters of never again
Assault the darkness
Attack the unknown
Lunge forth and break the shapeless form
Carve something new from its bones
There's a demon on my back
Been there for some time
He whispers courage into me
From a tongue slick with riddles and slime
Never lets me settle
Never lets me catch my breath
Tells me my purpose is to be something more
Says I’m unlike the rest
Until my death
I believe in something more
I believe in the truth
Make not the light your home
But the deepest and the darkest roots
The path is riddled with unlight
So make it your home
For no good can be found in sol
If not for the black and the coal
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Unbowed Ontario
Unbowed is a Melodic Death/Black Metal band formed in Guelph, ON, Canada in 2011. The band has to date released two full- length albums, two EPs, and two Singles. Unbowed is now gearing up to release their third full-length album and strongest effort to date, the 10 song LP “Colour the Soul”. ... more
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