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WHERE SHADOWS RIDE
Racing pulse and frozen heart
Chasing shadows in the dark
Horse-hooves thunder through the gloom
Gunfire rings untimely doom
Sounds of buckshot whistling by
Crimson blood-clots blush the sky
Silver sands stained scarlet red
Contraband and restless dead
Flintlocks flash in fiery waltz
Hammer of the law
Quagmire claims an unnamed corpse
Lost forevermore
Birds of omen swoop and scream
Living nightmares flung to life from loathsome dreams
Coves betrayed by turning tides
Phantoms roam where outlaws died; shadows ride
Muzzle-blasts of burning breath
Language of the Law
Blockade lurking, stench of death
Strangling the shore
Butchered infants bawl and scream
Heathen nightmares flung from loathsome dreams
Coves betrayed by turning tides
Where long-forgotten truth resides; shadows hide
Shadows lurking in the dark
Ambushed as they disembark
Where turncoats plot and rogues are shot
Dead men wend to meet their end
And all that’s passed begins again…
Witness the end
Clean shots seem to miss their mark
Chasing shadows in the dark
Justice served; forgotten knaves
Sentenced fast to sodden graves…
Revenants relive their crimes
Mysteries of modern times
Doomed to haunt where once they’d fled
Contraband and restless dead
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SUMMON THE HUNTER
Dweller in the outer dark
Lend to me your strength
Brand me with The Hunter's Mark
And sear my mortal flesh
Hunter from within
Heed this summoning
Burn in me to find
The Monsters in my mind
Like the spear that slew the raging boar
Like the wolf of ancient pagan lore
Like the Thunder cracks a silent sky
Summoning the Hunter with a violent cry...
Watcher from the rushing trees
Lend to me your sight
Show me what The Hunter sees
Beyond the shroud of night
Beasts and Demons roaming free
In forests dense and deep
Hiding deep inside of me
Never shall they sleep
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Veronica - Remastered
05:06
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VERONICA
Many hundred thousand goodnights my daughter
innocent and doomed I etch these words in woe
only through misfortune, torment and torture
have they forced a false confession from my soul
6 nobles named
6 witches shamed
6 hundred more to be sent to the flames
My pleading bone-whipped cries
have chilled the guards enough
to aide these shackled hands and tell you of my love
Deity in highest Heaven have mercy
desecrating holy sacraments, I'm loath
Men of greed have sewn the seed of Adversary
No more hope as I forsake the sacred oath
Judas...
the Priest will not pray for this
cursed soul...
The Church is betraying us
We're told...
that Fate won't be merciful
I'll go...
alone to the Sabbath in black
Forced to confess
Forced to confess
Forced to confess
Avowing to witchery under duress
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Undying War - Remastered
05:13
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Those who hear these words, take heed
High-hearted men of fearless breed
More oft' succumb to Beauty’s bane
Than by the swords of foes are slain
Guided by the Hanged God’s helm
Two warring tribes once reached this realm
The northernmost of Britain’s isles
Where Woden’s woman them beguiles
Full-moon’s light
Rise and fight!
Death shall be
No victory
Sons of Thor forever haunt this shore
Undying War
Her name means “Battle” in their tongue
Her spell amongst the dead is sung
The clash of sword on sea-axe rings
Dead men return as Hildr sings
She weaves deep magic o’er these men
To wreak a Valkyrie’s revenge
Upon the Prince who raped and stole her
And the father who’d have sold her
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WOUNDED ILLUSION
Liar! Liar! the truth is hard and cold
And cuts like steel through stories you have told
Cracks forming in the armour of your lies
Scales falling from these jaded, eagle eyes
...from my eagle eyes
Now I realise...
Prince of empty promises
Serpent's silver tongue
Forked and sharp and poison-tipped
Deception's web is spun
Clearing storm of confusion
My soon-dead delusion
Your wounded illusion
Crier! Crier! The courage of a cur
To walk with wolves and dare to wear their fur
Fools flocking as you prey upon the sheep
Truth mocking when the lies you've sewn are reaped
...when lies sewn are reaped
My screams tear wounds in your illusions
My screams tear wounds in your illusions
I've been blind
Truth unkind
Your lies won't take me under
And drive my mind insane
Prince of empty promises
Serpent's silver tongue
Twisted, tied and turned to lead
Betrayal's veil is flung
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BLACK WINGS OF TREACHERY
Thrash! blackened wings, seraphs sing of betrayal
Arias of insurrections failed
Storm the gates, seizing fate like the grail
As roaring storm-winds wail
Prophecies; loss and greed, no respite
From the cold black wings of night
Demons of dark mystery
No match for human history
Evil is primeval
In all people who are truly free
Scars have marred our destiny
Charred black wings of treachery
Blood! Once divine, tainted wine on dead lips
Occulting red eclipse
Out of sight the light of virtue slips
Deception’s mask lies ripped
White-hot lies that twist and coil in shame
Like serpents wreathed in flame
Like serpent’s wreathed in…
Thick-ravened skies
Fear me and revere me
Black wings of treachery
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Smash our shrines and claim our gods
Cull our customs, change our words
Hack our culture, crush and quell
Hew the stone and block the well.
Starve the mind and spirit first
Break the heart then slake the thirst…
Hope and pride shall pay the cost
Wolf-heads in the wasteland, lost
Taste the poison, bliss is all you’ll find
Silent suicide
Feed our fathers to the lustrate blaze
Unmake this land’s ancient ways
Glut the ground with gouts of blood
Crimson fields where brave men stood
Dowse the heart that burns with pride
Force all outward love inside
Cut the throat that sings her name
Silence talk of England’s fame
Twisting vipers coiled like vines
Venom’s tincture turned to wine
The Sands of Time are running out...
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DASH TO DESTRUCTION
A Ghostly braying haunts my dreams,
in nightmares neighing from the dark.
A prisoner woken into screams,
on death’s cold journey I’ve embarked…
The sky was dim and grey and dull
an icy mist around me lulled.
My captors dragged me down the track
and strapped me to a horse’s back.
Lashed tightly to that angry steed
whose rage was like an all-out war,
unwilling to repent my deed
my curse upon them evermore
was lost beneath their laughter’s roar.
I swore that they would rue the day
when I became a cuckold’s prey…
The courser’s wild career was freed;
we hurtled forth with reckless speed
racked haplessly through blackness, sent
to faster reach destruction’s end.
We charged for many days and nights.
Away! We charged toward the light
of blood-red dawn, where heavens bled
and birds of prey upon me fed.
Struggling hard against my bonds;
the beast of burden hurtled on.
My reeling brain was ringing sore,
my tethered limbs were wet with gore
and as I braced the noonday sky
with sun-baked lips burned black and dry,
a rasping throat that couldn't cry
and one last wish: my dying sigh…
The splendour of his mighty mane
was marred by sweat and blood and pain,
his homeland’s fields were reached, with pride
he snorted, reeled, he fell and died.
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WRETCHED SOUL Canterbury, UK
Blackened Heavy Metal from the historic city of Canterbury, UK.
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