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I, Sorcerer
03:54
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I am the sorcerer
Hear me, O, Moon!
I shaped the megalith
I carved the runes
Clad in white as midnite strikes
Bloodsoaked scarf and leather tights
Rejoicing in the howls of dogs,
Shrieks of bats and croak of frogs
Gorgo, Mormo,
Thousand-faced moon
Smile upon
My sacrifice
Friend and companion of the night
Wanderer in the shades amongst the tombs
Rejoice in the spilling of warm blood
Receive now - My sacrifice
Brilliant one that strays by night
Friend of gloom and foe of light
Walk again upon the earth
Given life by sorcerous birth
Gorgo, Mormo,
Thousand-faced moon
Smile upon
My sacrifice
Friend and companion of the night
Wanderer in the shades amongst the tombs
Rejoice in the spilling of warm blood
Receive now - My sacrifice
I
I call you forth
I
I feel your heart - beat!
I am the Sorcerer
Grant me your boon
I Hold the witching cane
Draw down the moon
Friend and companion of the night
Wanderer in the shades amongst the tombs
Rejoice in the spilling of warm blood
Receive now - My sacrifice
Crowned by lightning, cloaked in storm
Queen of witchcraft taking form
Voices echo on the wind
Cries of fright and howls of sin
Gorgo, Mormo,
Thousand-faced moon
Convulse with fear
The hearts of men
Friend and companion of the night
Wanderer in the shades amongst the tombs
Rejoice in the spilling of warm blood
Receive now - My sacrifice
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2. |
Oxenhead Bait
05:36
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Dragged down with the oxenhead bait
Laid to rest by the sea
Frenzied caress by a mad swarm of eel
Swan song of my sweet
Bark Up the wind, teach a seadog new tricks
Razordawn ripping the surf
Cry of the albatros, numb off the rum
Revenge and horizon shall Merge
Drench the waters in whale oil
Light The torch, set my love's bane ablaze
Leave the Bay a boiling stew of gargled screams
Dragged out of my sweet icy Cage
The Goose fat rekindles the void
Monsterous mammel, the Hudson Bay beast
Skewered and Slaughtered for oil
From Ventnor to Redburn, the trophy provides
The bowsprit adorned by dead worm
Come sundown the zodiac snake fish is gnashing and slashing
Wherever I turn
Drench the waters in whale oil
Light The torch, set my love's bane ablaze
Leave the Bay a boiling stew of gargled screams
Wretched worm, in Danzig we meet.
Darken the waters in the Zaragoza sea
Stalk the spawn of the eel scum
Stalking on end
Consumed by the scavenger
In a port in the empire of the sun
The reflection had changed
Alluring Jezebel of the night
Hiding serated teeth
In the bath of my quarters
The Sparks they flew
Jezebel flickered in rosewater
Flight though the pipes
Slither across deck
To mate and to breed
Until the feast
Of the Oxenhead bait
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Batrachian Colossus
04:01
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There’s a pond in the woods by the cemetery
Where the legend says a creature dwells
It has nested there since the dark ages
When the pagans called it up from hell
Blood on the altar of the toad god
The thing lurks beneath the stagnant waters
If you venture too close - it will feed
But if you bring it what it most desires
Then it may reward your greed
Kneel at the altar of the toad god
Feed it human flesh and bow before it
It will grant you lore and precious stones
At the bottom of its dreary sinkhole
There’s a pile of gold and virgin bones
Pray at the altar of the toad god
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4. |
Summon the Crusade
03:30
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Fly by night,
with spikes of spite
The towering love hammer roars
Madness strikes
At twelve midnight
A feverish fury enthralls
Summon the crusade
Thunderous stampede
Scale a wall of bones
Crack the whip of rule
Raid the promised land
Pillage All the souls
Pillage All the souls
Upon your green
And pleasant land
The trampling of cloven hooves
From worlds between
Our cold, old hands
Will grasp and strangle you too!
Summon the crusade
Thunderous stampede
Scale a wall of bones
Crack the whip of rule
Raid the promised land
Pillage All the souls
Pillage All the souls
In the stronghold of pleasure
Sits the master tempter
On the master's day off
We step in his place
and we pound on the meek
Ram the gates
Command of fate
Fortune favours the bold
Pound the saints
(The) guts cascade
Torture favours the cold
Summon the crusade
Thunderous stampede
Scale a wall of Bones
Crack the whip of rule
Raid the promised land
Pillage All the souls
Pillage All the souls
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Caught beneath confusion's wheels,
endlessly they grind
Spiders of decay now weave,
their cobwebs in my mind
Fingernails are torn and bloody,
scratching at my eyes
Sinking into deep despair,
as hope and daylight dies
Now I can see my own end
Final dissolution of the mind
Memories dreams all shall fade
All that I was left behind
Coils of life slowly unfasten
Fears will not subside
Entropy the great assassin
Nothing stops the tide
Tears that flow in endless streams,
(like) Rivers of emotion
Through the mountains of my hate,
Flooding every ocean
Whispers of memory fades
All is consumed by the night
Shards of a mind lain to waste
Rage at the death of the light
Mortal life is toil and anguish,
weakness and stagnation
Endless reproductive cycle,
vile proliferation
Glories fade, so clutch your blade,
only Death is real
Pierce the veil to worlds beyond,
break the final seal
Life is a hideous thing
Fleeting like dust on the wind
Descend down the darkened stairwell
Breathe deep the hot wind of hell
O, blessed Angel of Light
Burst through the quivering gates of heaven with your shining spear
Bring down the cosmic tyrant's throne
And let us revel in a new age of joyful wickedness - forever!
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Lichgate Denmark
A coven of soon-to-be corpses, playing blackened heavy metal in a dark, damp crypt, somewhere in Denmark.
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