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To the weald I have returned
To reclaim what seethes in my blood
I call to you, graven ashen whore
Sitting upon your stolen throne
A cackle emits from the skies above
Heralding of our confrontation
We meet again within this frostbitten cabin
Where prior arms had held such might
Unyielding scaffolds to this abode
As dying flames lick the hearth
And then that wooden door flies open
To entrance those frozen souls
Shivering between these barren walls
Collapsing the image of legitimacy
Screaming as banshees from the cold
Howling winds of judgment and injury
Surrounded by the pale sky as eternal winds summon nothingness!
Beleaguered by the coming storm of blight and sickened history!
Mesmerized by the dismal squall as seething forces lay dominion!
Lost within the blizzard of destiny to claim the lasting monarchy!
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Enslaved By The Frost
03:42
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When the ice began and their songs had ended
When warmth could no longer ease their pain
I beheld that ancient wisdom
And drawn by their sorrow I came
Into the frost I lured them
Follow me to be saved
When their desires became woeful
When weakness became their cloth
Into the frost I lured them
Into the frost I lured them
To a new frozen life enslaved
A chilling mire of enchantment and wonder, my mask distilled down to a mere frosted vessel to which I dazzled each of them one by one as they came to me
Once smoldering remnants of humanity but now tipped with the shards of winter’s tears - cancerous icicles
I am the frosted wizard!
I proclaimed upon promontory cold
Bear my reflection through ice
And kneel before my cape of wonder!
Enslaved by the frost
Forever chilled in ecstasy
Cold, torn from humanity
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Quiet comfort I did seek
Escaping from the storm
A settlement nestled deep
Within that hidden valley
Forlorn faces peer among the candlelight
Wailing at my frosted arrival
Whirling tantrum of winter’s gaze
Seeking out my flailing warmth
No refuge am I rewarded
From its ancient icy grasp
Distant rumbling of moving earth rattling our frozen bones
Maelstrom of murky waves crash down from glaciers cracked
And when those icy waters roil forth sweeping them into cold misery
Then they will know the plight of my ancestry
Swirling, churning, they all are carried away
Washing, roiling, plunged into the depths
An entire village submerged in floe
My bloodline hex has drowned them in my woe
Whirling tantrum of winter’s vortex
Dampening their flailing warmth
No solace of death rewarded
From my sanguine frosted curse
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Moon Oath
04:36
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Wind breaking, solemn and dire, I walked with you into that other realm
Feverish they called to me, spirits adrift in old time passages
Remember them, you had shouted to me, remember this moment!
Among leaves we climbed ever driven by those beyond dark forces
I can still recall now the visage that formed before us
An ashen frown with dark eyes aglow by the moon’s embrace
You were there with me
I took the Moon Oath
Among those old statues
In the pine grove of our ancestors
Where the dusk fell silent
I took the Moon Oath
Blood call to our past
Solicited animus
A baneful tapestry
Scared yet heedless we wept upon the stones
Winged creatures enshrouded calling aloud
What havoc, you shouted, have we wreaked?!
When tears and blood meet Earthen wonder?
I the summoner, staring aghast
Among the flames no shadow cast
I broke the Moon Oath
And you were there to witness
Seamless in stride
Plunging the blade of oppression
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Roaming across that frigid landscape
My woolen cape flickers in the wind
Feet slipping over ice trodden pathways
Eyes blinded by the shimmering snow
Muscles frozen, skin frostbitten
I conjure up the strength to go on
I shiver with the ghosts of tyrants old
I freeze with their somber despair
I glaciate with the hills and the sky
I embrace winter to become you all
Over frozen rivers I cross that arctic plain
Pushing against the coming ancestral storm
Gelid wonders delight and dazzle me
To embrace the numbing atrophy
Who comes to us, foolish wanderer?
Who dares enter our brumal kingdom?
Frozen whispers, tongues of frost
Within the tornado of ice and snow
Lashing torment, biting frenzy
Stinging fingers of gods of yore
Plunging down into the crevasse
I escape their polar ferocity
Deposited into those bromine waters
Flailing among the algid relics
To freeze at sea
Weakness triumphant, body dormant
I collapse on the tundra ice floe
Bleak encampment, frozen misery
Forever shivering with the ghosts of tyrants old
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Frostbitten Serpents
04:29
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Coiling within those azure depths
A sign of my history, of stagnant might
Hidden numbed resistance
Frostbitten serpents, vipers of ice
Crystalline bolus of swarming power
Calcified relic, venom in my veins
Beckoning beneath these foaming arctic waves
Writhing
Amassing
Floating
Thawing
Ripples breaking that frozen surface
Brined tension rising all around me
I see them breaking from the deep
Frigid scales whorl among the ice field
I hear them hiss my name
Cackling at my circumstance
Frostbitten serpents, vipers of ice
Crystalline bolus of swarming power
Calcified relic, venom in my veins
Beckoning beneath these foaming arctic waves
I feel their bites across my wind burnt skin
I bear their mark within my icy spirit
I merge with their serpentine memory
I empowered by ophidian sanguinity
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Snowblind and delirious from the arctic kiss
I the frosted wizard arrive at the frigid monolith
Glacial titan felled among the frozen stars
Petrified weeping stone of icy blood
The rigid corpse of a forgotten giant
Final muffled northern breath from this ancient tyrant
I wail for you, o great one!
This pilgrimage I have made
So many have fallen in my quest
Drowned for your frigid rage
Serpents cold, shivering gods
Eternal winds of nothingness
These all I have embraced
To feel again your polar caress
Glacial titan felled among the frozen stars
Petrified weeping stone of icy blood
Collapsing at your feet
I unsheathe the blade of oppression
For here I must end myself
Beneath your barren, fossilized husk
This my dirge for the last glacial titan
Crystalline tears that bear our name
This my dirge for the last glacial titan
Freezing vapours lost in the blizzard of time
This my dirge for the last glacial titan
Shattered bones that merge in gelid ecstasy
This my dirge for the last glacial titan
Sullen dusk over ice trodden arteries
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Gloamus Toronto, Ontario
Bleak and icy black metal from Toronto, Canada
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