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In mournful winds
06:10
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I had seen it all
In times long past
At the glory of wars
Fought by legions in my name
I ruled a kingdom
From sky reaching towers
No escape from my wrath
I was terror upon a black steed
But now I wander
A realm stranger to mortal men
I stand in shadows
Everlasting hatred
Deprived and hollow
Caught in this lightless sphere
Spiritless roaming
Hate fills my spirit
My fate was forged
By the brighter of lusts
Hands of despair took everything
And so I wished the light of the world
For myself
Once I was feared
Sacrifices pleased my magnificence
But light would be no conquered
For she is a mistress most cruel
There, where I lost my life
In nights of freezing cold
The wind carries my cries
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Forsaken Realms
05:47
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Spectral apparition
The place I saw in dreams
As clear as light
So close its countless towers
The waking world
Pulls my soul away (from those shores)
Oh! forgotten gods
Take me back to its splendour
My spirit falters
Obsession grows
How much longer shall I endure?
This abscence?
My frantic quest
By oceans plunged in blackness
Through ancient beasts
Forward to the city
Lying at nightfall
I've forgotten time
Pale light suns
Led to flaming moons
Skies of twisting clouds
The primeval waters
Lunar deserts
"At last
After countless eons
I find myself at the gates
Of the jeweled reign"
Centuries of frozen majesty
Undying realm
The blazing streams from the sky
Upon the untold gilded paths
The cold burns my hands
Mist steals my sight
Unbearable is the flame in my soul
But at the forbidden kingdom
With the losing of my spirit
I rise to eternity
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Night eternal
Immutable eons
Scatter at my feet
I walk through ancient paths
I behold events to come
The essence of the universe (speaks to me)
The language of the void
Before the endless spheres
I hung in eternal presence
Oh! Celestial beings
Pour thy knowledge
Upon these eyes
That watch thee now
Source of all the stars
Journey through astral landscapes
The cold paths of cosmos opened
Pour thy knowledge
Upon these eyes
That watch thee now
Source of all the stars
Does time exists here?
Below the blazing signs
Of astral idols
Humanity should never behold
I enter the wound
At the center of all
Unspeakable are the things
That brand my sight
And with every step
I watch, ever present
As an all consuming mist
The eye of they who decide fate
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Empire beyond dusk
06:42
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The banner is risen
Darkening the sun
Here in my shadow kingdom
No mercy below my fist
My tongue is the spear
My will is a spell
My kingdom is death
Skies shall fear my pressence
To delight in their suffering
In this age of malice
From fathomless pits
Shadows are born
A dead moon
Beholds my rule
The coming of torments
Crowned by burning stars
Here lies the end of all joy
I'm he of crimson hunger
In my empire beyond dusk
No more dawn you shall see
Subdued and enslaved
Tyranny's yoke
Their flesh
Bears my branding
Behind dead horizons
My throne of human misery
Those who predate time
Have laid their conscience
And I am one of them
Madness takes control
In eternal shackles
Of those who laid their sight
On my empire beyond dusk
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Maze of centuries
05:35
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Maze of centuries
Endless paths
Beyond fog of time
No sign of gods
At this gate
To unearthly worlds
A lone monolith
Under frozen clouds
Testimony of forgotten times
Eternal bleakness
Hidden by dark mountains
There where the air lies still
Walls forgotten by ages
The voices
Of the ancient ones
They call
In eternal echoes
From every dark pit
Their will
Is manifested
Twisting towers
No mind can comprehend
Eternally shifting
In lifeless stillness
The void legacy
Of those that came before
Behold the dead splendour
Of this dwelling caves
Crowned by dust
Of ages forgotten
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The sun is setting
Upon a forgotten land
Rivers run in yellow
From old mountains
Mist descends
Spirits dance
In the growing darkness
The ritual unfolds
Through the misty trees
As from ancient times
Skies are dyed in autumn
From distant lands
Dusk beigns arrive
Pale moon
Beholds all
The forest
Exalted
Melancholy reflected
Upon the cold lakes
Of these autumnal woods
"Circling the woods
As nature's spirits
Rise to the sky
In perpetual dance"
And it beckons
Those rejected by light
In welcoming ceremony
Away from pestilent light
Many have come
Out from the dark
Down from the hills
Through the rivers
Inside this congregation
Flames begin to burn
Fires dancing
Crimson Shadows
All sing in praise
As every soul
Beholds
Nature in the flesh
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Ancient voices
Profound calling
From a time Before
In this wretched land
My blood burns
As my spirit roars
After the great slaughter
Of every moral call
The pillars shall be crumbled
And every stone broken
No monument of weakness
Shall bar this path
Black waves come crashing
These bleak shores
All life under a dead sun
In the bliss of ignorance
I awake at the ruins
Of a world at unlight
No more shackles
To contain my anger
Lifeless fortress
Is forever crushed
The shrouded mountain
Of perseverance
I shall climb
To crown this killing of idols
In dust and blood
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This gate to forgotten worlds is opened by Ildrac, who performs all instruments and vocals.
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