FIMBULVETR
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This was heavily influenced by Amon Amarth, and less so by Mithotyn and Einherjer, partly because they rock and partly because I can do a very good Johan Hegg-style voice. The chorus is a fair imitation of Norwegian but is probably completely wrong. This was recorded for the Tendrils of Burnt Flesh Ensare the Feeble-Willed demo, which ended up never getting issued.
Three winters gone
No light has shown
The snow blowing in from the north
Men's hearts freeze
At last they see
The power of winter come forth
Ragnarokkr - Fimbulvinter
Blasa Gjallarhorn
Komma Jotun, komma Fenrir
Slaget, dauden, og storm
Life to end
Ice descends
Bodies freeze in the fields
Naglfar sails
Through sleet and hail
On Vigrid's plain none shall yield
Ragnarokkr - Fimbulvinter
Blasa Gjallarhorn
Komma Jotun, komma Fenrir
Slaget, dauden, og storm
<solo/lead break>
Ragnarokkr - Fimbulvinter
Blasa Gjallarhorn
Komma Jotun, komma Fenrir
Slaget, dauden, og STORM!
AUTOPSIED WHILE ALIVE
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Another one off Tendrils...., this one was inspired by Atrocity's first album, some of Hypocrisy's earlier stuff, and a lunchtime conversation. Not kidding. The content is kinda sick, so for the benefit of non-brutal-death-fans it's been spoiler-tagged out.
sick death metal lyrics wrote:
Wheeled in for dissection
No life beneath the sheet
Flesh and blood lie cold and still
No spirit, only meat
See where your god has got you
See what you've become
Open flesh and cut the bone
Humanity undone
Naked lying on the slab
Gutters drain your juice away
Scalpels cleansed to razor skin
Tools for rending on the tray
See where your god has got you
See what you've become
Open flesh and cut the bone
Humanity undone
A flow of red, the first cut's made
Blood from one who's died
Screams of terror fill the air
Autopsied while alive
See where your god has got you
See what you've become
Open flesh and cut the bone
Humanity undone
No turning back, the paper's signed
The patient must have died
Doctors work their gruesome task --
Autopsied while alive!
AUTOPSIED WHILE ALIVE!!
DROWNED IN BLOOD AND GRIME
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This one is off the Vexilla regis prodeunt infernii demo, which was issued....in a run of about five copies. This was a concept demo done for credit, based on Dante's Inferno. Yeah, yeah, Iced Earth, all that; I was originally thinking of doing Purgatorio for that reason, but all the good songs came out of Hell.
This one is based on the marshes of the Styx, which is Canto VIII. The musical inspiration is probably equal parts Slayer, Forbidden, and Onslaught; that whole late-thrash-verging-on-death-metal sound.Drowned!
In blood and grime!
Violence!
No place to hide!
In the marshes of the styx
Five planes down to despair
Fighting bleeding dying souls
Millions everywhere
In their anger still they kill
Murder and make strife
But when they're torn to pieces
They just spring back to life
Drowned!
In blood and grime!
Drowned!
In blood and grime!
Drowned in blood and grime!
<solo>
Take no mercy on these damned
Souls merit none at all
As they beg put foot to face
And make the bastard fall
[spoken]:
One of them recognized me, and ran to the boat, covered in filth, begging for mercy. I turned my head, and had none.
[roared]:
I pushed him back
And they tore him
limb
from
LIMB!!
Drowned!
In blood and grime!
Drowned!
In blood and grime!
Drowned in blood and grime!
LAST VIEW OF SKY
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Wow, an actual "internal" song! (Internal, meaning proceeding from within the writer as an emotional response, rather than being written on a topic or because the song needs some words over the music, which is usually called "external".) This is basically a Hypocrisy-style death metal ballad, intended for the same sort of knarled, chunky riffage as an embed medium, and with a typical Tagtgren-esque commitment to lyrical fidelity. This was inspired by the deaths of two friends, one accidental and one not, and has not been recorded yet.
No
Today
Today is the day
Today your life's to end
What do you leave
What do you leave undone
Lift your eyes from passing life
You'll never see the sun
Can you open your eyes
See it all for the last time
Today your life ends
Take in last
View of sky
No
You'll never see
Never know
Your final hour of life
Draw breath -- you must die
Can you open your eyes
See it all for the last time
Today your life ends
Take in last
View of sky
Let the air fill your lungs
Turn your face to the sky
Death is coming for you
Are we ever ready when we die?
Can you open your eyes
See it all for the last time
Today your life ends
Take in last
View of sky
Can you open your eyes
See it all for the last time
Today your life ends
Take in last
View of sky
--K
