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Draugr
08:28
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Seige
04:38
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The fearless warriors march upon the city walls
As rain of arrows bears down upon their skulls
Follow the call, now march towards war...
(The kiss of death awaits us all)
Unleashed from the wastelands of the North
To slaughter the lambs to the false god
Charge through the city's main gate
(and bring down the mighty stone walls)
Our ships set sail guided by the North Star
Victory set in motion by the Njords
With swords clenched in hand, axe by side
(We lay siege and raise stone for the dead)
Their king could not foresee the end
When the raiders rose up from the fog
As we docked our ships upon Western shores
Panic spread across the land
Charging into war against the greatest of all odds
No pain is felt from the ever bleeding wounds
As their troups advance on ours
We slay every fucking wave
The city sacked and their people enslaved
The kings council meet our blood soaked blade
We hung the survivors of the enemy force
Upon the jagged branches of the oak...
We returned home with gold and thralls
As the head of the king hung along our bow
With the land ravaged by fire and death
Like a mass cremation
Bards shall sing songs of our victory
As we hold our horns to the war god Tyr
Appeased of the battle, bloodshed and death
The Christians faced true Pagan fear
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3. |
Banishment
04:44
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We rise under the purple hazed moonlight
Surrounded by the dark winter chill
Out of the mist that rose through the forest
We'll dance to the overture of dark spirits
Rise up and speak the curse that has been inked
By our ancestors of dark times
Those deemed heretics by the insufferable church of god
Chant with us all in unison
So we may redemite the dead
Malicious servants of god
Cast our people into the darkness of the earth
Out of all dark four corners
Awaiting for our time to attack
Out of damp sovereign caverns
Emerging from vast forests
Our legions rise up fierce
No longer shall we hide in fear
Avenge days' old past scars
Protest ignorant human ways
Cast death evoke dark spirits
Bring victory in bloodshed
Stand up and march on their armies
Staunch and the crusaders will fall
In their own blood
Rise up and fight, stand your ground
Protect your family, land and home
Fight for your creed, follow your king
Crush the Christian scum like dogs
They will regret crossing our path
And chasing us into the banishment
Demolish their legions, smash their idols
Burn down their temples and reclaim the land
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4. |
Fallout
03:00
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The sky blackened and thin
As the air turned to the flame
Vaporizing heat melts to the bone
And souls melt to the wall
The clouds are black as night
As the human existence ceases
Souls vaporize inside the greed of man
Once two proud cities
Now lie in desolate void
Decimated and leveled
This the essence of your dead god's mockery
Boils form upon their backs
As the poisoning from the sun sets in
Disfigured humans melt to the steel
As their life ends in agony
As the skin melts off the bone
Tendons rupture and die
False gods we pray to none
Watch your life as it melts away
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5. |
Inconceivable
05:11
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A somber tone rings out through the ethers
A warrior's time has come
To be carried to the heavens
And live among the gods
The trumpets blow their mournful song
As the soul is carried home
Where honored warriors rest
Forever
A life of loyalty, honor and valour
A man of strength
He travelled this land far and wide
Never straying from his tribe
He kept his word and oath
A testament to true reverence
Can you hear the cry
Of the valkyries in flight
Sent out from above
To take our comrades home
Cross the threshold to the next life
To be among the fallen in Valhalla
All gather together around the parted
As the rain comes down hard and cold
Trees blow from the cry of the Northern winds
As lovers' hearts shatter in pain
a somber affliction befalls all
A mother falls to her knees
And cries for her son
As his father carries him to the pyre
Fires set ablaze, smoke rises
To set his soul free
The gods claim him and take him home
Carried to the heavens
Now his journey is complete
For those of us whom are left behind
Our journey not yet done
I say farewell my brother
Adam
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Njord guides our ships through
the crushing waves of the seas
Sailing onward into battle,
glory, and death
He blew us off course
By storms most great
We were never to see
our homes in the North again
Father of the Twins, Freya and Freyr
Husband to the Skadi, the god of the wind
Your breath fills the sails upon our ships
As crashing waves smash upon the joints of the hull
Postliminary landing upon the ancient desert shores
The pharoh laid seige to our mighty force
We exterminated the might egytian army
Now their carian rot vile upon Necropolis
Hindmost the battle we march through the land
Pushing forward through the blistering heat and sand
Trapped between valleys surrounded by plants that lacerate
Mirages now set in, hallucinations affiliate
the sands fill the lungs desert fever sets in
Absorbed by the heat now abstain from breathing
A legacy gone hopes and dreams now are crushed
Souls leave their bodies, wither away
Devoured by the sands of time
Heat to rival that of muspell
The sun burns the flesh, dries out the skin
One by one, the Norsemen all fall
We despair upon Sutur's fire
Watching as my brothers succumb to the blistering heat
No valkyries will fly to gather our fallen souls
Odin's mighty golden hall we'll never see
Upon the sands we lie withering away towards death
Njord regrets sending us upon this cursed land
Sorrow through the nine realms sent to Niflheim
The Aesir wail as my brothers in arms fall
Sands fill the lungs desert fever sets in
Absorbed by the heat now abstain from breathing
A legacy gone hopes and dreams now are crushed
Souls leave their bodies, wither away
Devoured by the sands of time
Heat to rival that of muspell
The sun burns the flesh, dries out the skin
One by one, the Norsemen all fall
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7. |
Balder's fall
05:57
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Son of Odin, Son of Frey, father of Forseti
and brother to Thor
Nightmares of death cloud my dreams
Causing fear to set in
Odin rides the mighty Slepnir
To the Underworld
Consulting a dead seeress
Who tells a tale of her son's doom
Fearing for the life of her beloved son
Frigg traversed throughout the nine realms
Making all existence swear an oath
Never harm Baldr
all give their word but the mistletoe
For this creature is far too young
Loki depearts out of jeleasy
to find the young shrub
fastening it to a spear
he gave the weapon to Hrod
unbeknownst to the blind god
and ignorent to loki's scheme
He threw the spear at Baldr
Thus His life came to an end
Knowing that this is the first sign of Ragnarok
The gods unable to speak they tremble
with anguish, anger and fear
Frigg compossese her self to ask the gods
please ride to hell
and ask what it will take to have his
soul set free
Hermond rode nine nights through dark thick valleys
with all 8 hooves pounding
they crossed the river Gjoll
begging and pleading with hel
to release balders soul
she said she would under one condition
make all creaters cry for him
All creatures gods and elves cried and wept for Balder
except the wicked witch Thookk asking why she sould cry
unbeknownst to hermond this was indead loki in desguise
so he gave up the cause and returned to valhalla defeated
Sitting in Hlidskjalf odin sees all
Loki won't escape his fate
So they all swear an oath
the gods begin the hunt
Chasing him into a dismal cave
As the others chase his sons and
seize the traitor's kin
Drawing out Nerve's entrails
They bound loki to 3 rocks
Skadi carried a vile snake
and vastened it to the stalagtites
To forever drip venom into his eyes
Writhing in pain all of Yggdrasil quakes and trembles
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8. |
Lord of the gallows
05:45
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Ancient branches twisting through the realms of nine
Web of fate shall always bind
Norns residing keep a watchful eye
Over Midgard where man resides
One root digs deep to Niflheim
Where Nidhogg tears through corpses
Insatiable, he fathoms more
Gnawing at roots' restraints
From the deepest earth to the highest heavens
Traverses the messenger Ratatoskr
So Odin approached the mighty wise spirit alone
Hung by his spear Gungnir
He lie pierced upon the bark of the Ash
For nine days and nine nights
Searching the shadows we wait
Odin lay there pierced in agony
Staring at the worlds below
In my search for knowledge and ancient wisdom
I cast my eye into the old Mimir well
Shrieking I fell back upon siezing
the magick of the Runes
I began to thrive in the wealth of knowledge so clear
One word gained many words
One deed gained many deeds
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Aphotica Mesa, Arizona
Aphotica exists to honor the esteem and devotion to the ancient practices of our
ancestors.
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Guitar - Andrew Holeman
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