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White Death
04:39
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Thunderclap piercing a hole in the sky
Growling drums pounding heavy from inside
Death's call echoes from the glorious summit
Slopes of Mordwand; avalanche rite
I call upon White Death's strength
Wipe with the might of revenge
Storm, rise and fall, swallowing
Crush, all at one, burying
Fall, chaos frost, blizzard breath
Entomb everyone in frozen death
Ice sepulchre sculpted
At last as White Death is summoned
Moon-freezing crystal pierces us with your spear
Eat with your burning cold into our bones
Erase our roots with the rise of the throne
And proudly reveal sharp edges of stone
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Saturn Return
05:42
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Feel a change in my bones
Feel the moment I grow old
Drawn, Death's gravity hegemony
Drift through middle age
Wisdom far ahead
Youth, color slowly fades behind
Herald of cosmic seas
Within orbital cage
Appear to me, I know you circle me
Planetary Lord, Astronomical
Return, expose to us the true visage of time
Rebirth in coarse and clean volcanic flesh
From regions as far below Hell
As Heaven is above the earth
Still chant the starry choir
Cynosure gone astray
Threnody to aging husk, in Erebus bound no more
Alteration
Saturn return
Embrace the ageing flesh and mind
Embrace the thorns digging into the spine
Embrace the aching grip of time
Embrace Death that slowly rises
Rotting in time
Cycles awry
Spinning around
Direction unbound
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Within its Throat of Ice
02:26
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Stabbing the clouds impaling spear
Rises a moon eclipsing peak
Tempest razoring the pier
Jutting cold surface oblique
Near its summit a glacial breath
Jaws silhouette howling death
Gust a wind, abysmal frost
Scale with entropy crest embossed
We call wintry storm
Breath of frozen realm
Pandemonium roar
Let the spirit scream
A tomb in which to keep
Monument to time
Protected by a siege
Hoarfrost armour rhyme
For ages and ages
Breath will keep the wind alive
Trapped within its throat of ice
Restless frozen heart in cage
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It bursts the realm, it splits the earth
It ravages all the surface world
It roams beneath the living land
Hellfire burning deep in the damned
Down in the abyss, roar the Satanic
It promotes the left-hand path
It grows to form the Devil's horns
It forces further into sin
Cry seditious serpent hymn
Down in the abyss, roar the Satanic
Forge an alliance, to conquer above and rule from below
Open the gate, illuminate, under black flame incendiate
Scorch the betrayed land
The squall that purges all
Sepulchers stir; disinter; obscure it still lives
Clad in night; faces white; under black flame, we ignite
The thunder throng in unison
Scream decrees from the forgotten thrones
Once individual
Now indivisible
A mountain from countless shards
Lords of chaos
Let ring the chord
Immortal hordes thrive
We let the demons out
Loud cries from Hell itself
We smelt the stone, we freeze the fire
Black metal molten on the pyre
Down in the abyss, roar the Satanic
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5. |
The Feast
04:19
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Wolves gather / round a throne / on a dais / made of stone
Baphomet presides
A profane / ritual / on the altar / on the grill
The cauldron gazes into you
As above / so below / so the shadow / is a show
Under steaming velvet veil
In the grave / in the cradle / with a wave / of a ladle
The ceremony begins
Autoharuspicy, see your own guts in the meal
The offal truth revealed
By the laws / of disorder / in a country / with no border
Flesh and fat as brick and mortar
For the bravest / of the fools / by the folly / of the rules
In hand the proper tools
For the glutton / for the waif / will you fit / in your grave
And now the master is the slave
Eat of my flesh, drink my blood
Turning the spit, dripping oil
Gold and blood, spirits to slake, glutton's lust
Sing along, for a last song, for the main course
As if nothing's wrong
When all's done and the song's sung
Seat of honor now a platter
Come, towards the light
Where there's light there's heat
Cooking meat
At the eve / at the dawn / with a yell / with a yawn
Finally the curtain drawn
Like the pigs / of Manannan / or the swine / Sachrimnir
Willing victim sacrifice
To the teeth / to the jowls / link the mind / and the bowels
Now the cheers have turned to howls
Only man / only beast / only famine / at the feast
Only hunger never rests in peace
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Downward, over the hill
Like beasts to oasis, crawl to the well
Closer
Glimpse your reflection
Shallow gaze stops at the surface
Only see yourself...
... Suffering, drowning infinitely, vanishing
Blind as your image; Leap of faith
Throw yourself in the pit
End your...
... Suffering, drowning infinitely, vanishing
No lies left to scream
Stagnant promises fill your lungs
Follow your dreams into the well
Freefall in the bowels of Hell
Heavy is the lie, that drags you down the well
Blackening the sky; all you see is Hell
Hell is deaf to prayer
Promising a debt
Debt that drags you deeper
Swallowed by regrets
Heavy is the lie, that drags you down the well
Blackening the sky; all you see is Hell
Every wish bone is broken; Every shooter star fallen
Every lucky coin tarnished; Every empty fountain dry
Infinite torment; Undying pain
In the black flame; Deceit and shame
No answer is ever heard; No heaven appears in sight
No future offers relief; No wishes will be granted
Infinite torment; Undying pain
In the black flame; Deceit and shame
Abandon all hope who enter here
And be released
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Thorns
06:28
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Filthy prose concealed with roses
Catalyst of dissolution
Scars of war swell
Lasting reward
Harvests from hate and clever seed
Bloom a traitorous bouquet
Through a charming vivid dress
Sting, the devil's teeth
War is created
A vestige, a vision
Of hatred, of horror
Of passion
Astringent asylum turns ashen
Lure of gain and greed
Leads to a foolish defeat
True visage revealed
Shred, the devil's claws
Scars are constructed
In strata, accreted
Inflicted and plaited
Stripping, serrated
Scourging till sated
Heroes will fall over time
Like withered petals crumbling
And dirty barren lands extend
And yet we stand even when only thorns remain
Gracious destroyer
Beligerent caress
Faded flowers
Of death's bowers
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8. |
Throne of Frozen Blood
05:16
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Wash over me, nostalgic ablution to thaw
Bleed over me, carbon memory sharp to a flaw
Blow off the dust, revel in the scent of iron rust
A patina flakes and my body's compelled to
March! Strike! Bleed! Die!
Calling to war the horns through the mist
Ache of the millstone for which we are grist
Running out red we nourish the glade
Spilling a sigh from the edge of the blade
March! Strike! Bleed! Die!
Trumpets distract from the sickening din
Orders to serve are the freedom to sin
Glimpsing a ray through the meshwork of Hell
Drowning the day in a fog that envelopes us all
Almost alive, in the jaws of defeat
Almost alive, where the flesh fails the weak
And time, claims the spoils
The mind, writhes and roils
Then, a fresh drop fell
Sense pulse, tidal swell, single drop, sound a knell of
Rage! Shame!
Everything tinted red, channeling, totemic
Rage! Shame!
All hold the line, no matter how many die
All move forward; among us there are no cowards
Kinship with, former self, ragged breath, slip into the
Dream! Doom!
Spilling blood, any source, bonded to, inertial
Dream! Doom!
Now all that is gone
Of scars and stains
Only shame remains
Heed autumn's coloured warning
And leave this field
Covered in ice
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Issfenn Montréal, Québec
Issfenn is a two-piece black metal band from Montreal, driven by a principle of maximal output from minimal means.
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