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Agathodaimon
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Current | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) (1995-2014, 2020-present) |
Member(bands): Nocte Obducta | |
Ashtrael | Vocals (2008-2014, 2020-present) |
Member(bands): Sapiency, A.Death.Experience, Asyringe, By the End of Grace, mAgnamerra, Nightmare after Eden | |
Von Yanesh | Bass (2020-present) |
Member(bands): All Will Know, Ravage Fields | |
Mortos | Drums (2020-present) |
Member(bands): Cravenhall, The Morgrotuskthululustoccultobskullty Horrormance, Noctura | |
Nakhateth | Guitars (2020-present) |
Member(bands): Omega Point, Sektor, Reborn, Projekt 8 | |
Past | |
Marko Thomas | Bass (1995-2002) |
Matthias Rodig | Drums (1995-2008) |
Member(bands): Age of Aggression, Necrorgasm, Nocte Obducta, The Wright Valley Trio, Apsis, Misanthropic, Dinner auf Uranos | |
Hyperion | Guitars (1995-2002) |
Member(bands): Megalith | |
Vlad Dracul | Keyboards (1995-1999), Vocals (1995-2002) |
Member(bands): RA, Drusus | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Guitars (1998), Vocals (1998-2007) |
Member(bands): Svarthaueg, No Credits Left, Asaru, Varulv, Bösedeath, Endzeit, Legacy of Life, Modular Green, Sodden Squirrels | |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards (1998-2002) |
Member(bands): Demonic Symphony, Sharkrage | |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards (2002-2010) |
Member(bands): All Will Know, The Legacy, Opalessence | |
Eddie | Bass (2003-2006) |
Member(bands): Asmyraii, Forging the Storm, Deztroyer, Kalögena | |
Till Ottinger | Bass (2006-2014) |
Member(bands): Misanthropic, Steorrah, Skidbladnir | |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars (2007-2010) |
Member(bands): All Will Know, Nothgard, Adorned Brood, Suidakra, Parasite Inc. (live), Opalessence | |
Manuel Steitz | Drums (2008-2014) |
Member(bands): The Spirit, Ancient Ceremony, Crimson Moon | |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars (2010-2014), Keyboards (2013) |
Member(bands): Viron, Seduction, Asaru | |
Past (Live) | |
Nicolao Dos Santos | Guitars |
Member(bands): Hadean, Steorrah | |
Vampallens | Keyboards (1998-2000) |
Member(bands): Kamera Obskur, Nocte Obducta, Desîhra, Dinner auf Uranos | |
Shoggoth | Vocals (2000) |
Member(bands): Insignium, Nordafrost | |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars (2001-2010) |
Member(bands): Viron, Seduction, Asaru | |
Sebas | Drums (2006) |
# | Discography | Type | Year | |
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1 | Carpe Noctem | Demo | 1996 | Show album |
2 | Near Dark | Demo | 1997 | Show album |
3 | Tomb Sculptures | Compilation | 1997 | Show album |
4 | Blacken the Angel | Full-length | 1998 | Show album |
5 | Bislang | EP | 1999 | Show album |
6 | Higher Art of Rebellion | Full-length | 1999 | Show album |
7 | Chapter III | Full-length | 2001 | Show album |
8 | Serpent’s Embrace | Full-length | 2004 | Show album |
9 | Phoenix | Full-length | 2009 | Show album |
10 | In Darkness | Full-length | 2013 | Show album |
Carpe Noctem
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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April 1996 | Independent | Cassette | ||
April 1996 | Independent | Cassette | ||
May 24th, 2017 | Diabolicurst Productions | DP 21 | Cassette | Limited edition, Slipcase |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Sathonys Voluptas Asmoday | Guitars |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Carl Lang | Guitars |
Vlad Dracul | Vocals, Keyboards |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Sathonys | Layout, Concept, Typography |
Matthias R. | Logo |
A. Theisen | Mixing, Engineering |
Vlad Dracul | Lyrics |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Intro (Quo Vadis, Peregrine) | 02:44 | |
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2. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:41 | Show lyrics |
Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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3. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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4. | În umbra timpului | 06:34 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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5. | Tristețea vehemență (Part 1) | 08:50 | Show lyrics |
Viata Dormiteaza Germinind Si-O Simt In Jur Universala Intr-o Nesfirsita Oboseala Si-n Absenta Ultimului Cind Iar Taina Aerului Otravit Intr-un Inceput De-nnoptare Alacelui Orizont Nemarginit Adoarme Fara Desteptare My ruined world ’s denying the earthly time Drained of all emotions... Immortality: Now be mine! My ruined dreams - remains of tortured years Who will be left to wipe away my bitter tears? Words of sorrow... sail, travelling on cold winds Words of tranquility... fail, dancing on my wounded lips I’m dying mostly alone Within life’s thin disguise And I can’t tame the blood And the heart THEY have baptized The scars burn deeply into my soul My smile has lost it’s brilliance My words become so trivial... Loosing all desire, Loosing all, but pride. Cu vehementa miniei tristetea Difuza se strecoara Printre-ncheieturi Ca un ghimpe de-otrava al florii vietii vestejite "Moartea succede vietii, viata succede la moarte Alt sens u-are lumea asta, n-are akt slop si-alta soarta!" ...Caci demult, aici, la marginea vietii Sub lumina siderala, nu mai traiesc in timp... Iar calendarul a reintrat in forma lui astrala "Te vad, Te aud, te cuget, Tinara si dulce veste, dintr-un cer cu-alte stele cu alte vise si alti zei" ...Pe drumuri delirind, pe-o vreme de toamna Ma urmareste-un Gind, Ce ma-ndeamna: "Dispari cit mai curind!" ...Caci visu-mi nu-i un dis pamintesc My ruined world’s grasping for a mystic thought Though the soul’s already tired of search My ruined dreams - Out of reach And the hopeless soul keeps on waiting, for whom? But who’s to know? |
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6. | Dies Irae | 04:15 | |
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7. | Outro (When Night Is Falling) | 02:14 | |
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34:18 |
Near Dark
Members | |
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Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Carl Lang | Guitars |
Vlad Dracul | Vocals, Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Ophelia | Vocals (female) (track 2) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Sathonys | Layout |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Oli Steinberger | Engineering, Mastering |
Vlad Dracul | Lyrics |
Alex Theissen | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Single-sided | |||
1. | Banner of Blasphemy | 05:37 | Show lyrics |
Trei cruci de lemn, trei cruci enorme de lemn Vopsite cu trei culori, pazesc pe marginea soselei Fintina celor... crediciosi! Trei cruci pe marginea soselei cu gesturi largi de miini bolnave Opresc din drum pe calatori si parca-s trei spinzuratori De care atirna trei crisosi... Intr-o zi impinsi de-acelasi funerar indemn Ca dou-armate puse una-n fata alteia Cumintii se-ntilnira cu nebunii Copiii mortilor de miine se-ntilnira cu parintii... "Si-armatele-ncepura lupta la umbra crucilor de lemn Deoparte flutura stindardul credintei... alb... curat..." ...ca albul cel curat, al florilor de nufar Iar tricolorul nebuniei, inchis cu grija-n cite-in cufar De craniu omenesc... Sta gata sa se desfasoare la cea dintii ingenuncheare A albului domnesc... Insa-n ziu-aceea cerul innegrit de fum parea Un tavan de catedrala ce se naruia "Iar fumul din clopotnitele-aprinse deschidea-n albastrul:" Drumul altui fum, mai greu, mai negru si-albastrul se-nnegrea... Si-n ziu-aceea cerul innegrit de fum parea Un tavan de catedrala ce se naruia Si multimea-nspaimintata, spre clopotnitele-aprinse Se-ndrumeaza grupuri, grupuri, cei cuminti privesc plingind Pling ca resturile unei armate-nvinse, iar nebunul sta deoparte Si zimbeste ... fredonind: BLASFEMIE !!! "Iar tricolorul nebuniei adapostea pe-nvingatori!!!" English translate: Banner Of Blasphemy Three wooden crosses Three huge crosses of wood Painted with three colors On the margin of the road Guarding the fountain of the believers Three crosses On the margin of the road With gestures made by morbid hands They hinder wanderers whilst passing Like three gallows on holy lands Where three christians are hanging... Inclined by a funeral stir On a fatal sky, so blur Like two armies enticed to war The mad have fallen upon the brave The children of ’morrows dead Their parents had met In the shade of the wooden crosses The armies began their battle Aside... the banner of creedance flattered White and clean Like the cleanest white men have seen And the blasphemic flag of madness Safely embedded in each human skull Was ready to unfold at the first Subjugation of the royal white On the same day, blackened by fumes The heavens seem to be the ceiling Of a collapsing cathedral, bleeding And the fumes of the burning steeples Opened in the celestial blue The way of another fume Blacker, heavier, and the blue Has become black, too So the horrified people Hasten to the burning steeples The brave behold whilst crying Like the remnants of a defeated army And the madmen stay aside Grinning and humming: Blasphemy And the tricolor of madness was sheltering The conquerors! |
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2. | Near Dark | 16:10 | Show lyrics |
Near Dark (...Und Der Tod Wird Vor Neid Erblassen) [Part One] This is a world blessed by the victims Of carnal tragedy The humans ritual of love and adoration Dense-woven history Sentiments decide existance, the artwork that I’ve bled Bizarre she defined her presence With the lament of the undead When her eyes have bathed in danger And the moon had new design In the cradle of our desire all the blood has turned to wine But the love no longer remained than just a stir to survive In this labyrinth of perfidity for my mistress to recover I’ll forever strive... [Part Two] Dem Sterbenden - die Hoffnung Dem Propheten - Der Fluch Der Liebe - die Dichtung, die dem Sterben entsprung... The night is crystal clear - words are sent from pictures Sounds that I can’t hear - as weakness wins my body Selling cheap my soul - and its bleeding heart Eclipsing the whole - planet, history and light... [Part Three] Sometimes, when the sun hides in the back of the earth When the hungry souls, to whom pain gave birth Embalm their coldness with the blood’s warmth... then I can clearly hear the calling of a lonely and distant star In the shade of the abhorrent Yet in the still of the nights - In the still of the moment When the moment dies There she gently approaches With the new meaning of life... In a haze of hazard, in the withering chill Baleful’s the passion, when hearts stand still A flood of sentiments entwined Rattle thru my falling soul I slumber against the spirit of time Like a stranger in a foreign world! In a park, along the alleys, stained with blood and tears In the hour, when dusk disperses Its colors on the white statues Then I’ll wander as a phantom of the posthumous regrets And my fiery lips I’ll freeze With the kiss of these unrivalled statues "Si-n asta noapte sfirsese printr-un sarut Poeme - agonizate de-un infinit si-un inceput" [Part Four] "The all-engulfing dawn of habitude shows his claws again- Do you still remember our oath? - Til light do us part!?" Come forth, Feline Mere moment of melancholy Drink deep of my desire The quenchless fire That unites our tameless embers... Come forth, Feline Tortured by our final duet Let thy pale fingers slide on the petals of the flowers That thee stained with mortal, coagulated blood... On the walls, midnight closes even the stoical eyes Of the unsleeping portraits And the white-eye of a lonely candle falls asleep Into its own startling solitude... [Part Five] Silent heart desires The balm that drives away the human waste Oh come, infidel duchess Shrouds of frost fall furiously down... of thee I taste again Deciphering eternity of its ruined scripts Of the tenebrious river I pleasantly sip Upon lifeless leaves autumn has banished Arises my lovelorn aura’s odyssey "Un ornic cu rostiri funebre, suna amiaza-ndirjit Iar ceru-mprastia tenebre, peste parcul amortit" ...Returned into that park as a whole Under the questioning eyes of stars and heavens Dreaming away on the lost love I’ve recovered Death suddenly rises Annoyed that he couldn’t save me He turns pale from envy The seasons vanish and so does this story As the same poets hand raises the pen He pictured this spectacle with... The actors fade on the dreary alleys of that elder park Only two nightshades remaining - Celebrating the sunset of ages while their sullen laughter Lustfully haunts the mortal seeds of ruin... Nights were crystal clear - words were sent from pictures The colors have seared - these pages, whereas The darkest hour revealed - the mysterious hand Which dutifully sealed This episode’s arcane End. |
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3. | Noaptea neființei | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Ach, Nacht, wie lieb du mir warest Wenn die Sterne du ausloschen wurdest Ihre Strahlen murmeln unbekannte Gesange... Und ich wunsche mir alles Dustere und Stumme alles Entblo?te und Verschwommene All das Finstere liebend - Meine Aura verangstigte Als ein blinder Gedanke knabberte An Raum und Zeit Oh Seele, wanderndes Gebein, meinen Frieden du erbittest Ich lege mich nieder, erfrischendes Dunkel Von schweren Todestraumen durchdrungen Und wickle mich in deinen Schleier Mit meinen Gedanken trotze ich allem, was Sie Gott nennen Ach, du Morder der Kunst, du falsche Lebensweisheit Aus meinem atheistischen Glauben Wirst Du gewi? sie nimmer rauben Die entweihte Krone meiner wahren Unsterblichkeit Ach Nacht, wie lieb du mir warest Wenn die Sterne du ausloschen wurdest Der Tumult der Existenz... Fragwurdig, ungewohnlich edel Dein Schatten murmelt unbekannte Gesange Endlich, Nacht... steck deine schwarze Flagge In meinen stummen Schadel In deinem teuflischen Blick - ein dusteres Paradies Von tiefer, eingeschlafener Dunkelheit Oh gottliche Vorstellung, die ich oft pries Verstummter Jammer eines sanften Lachelns Meine Seele geht verloren Im nostalgischen Inferno Visionen des Todes - meiner Selbstverschwendung Die Nacht wacht uber die Ikone der Geburt im Chaos Ich wu?te nichts von ihrer Existenz Nichts, bis sie mich anlachelte Ach Nacht, wie lieb du mir warest Mit deinem milden Weinen Wenn Sterne die bittere Vergiftung ausloschen wurden Welche dieses abstrakte Leben in mich hineinpumpt Wie der erste Schmerz. Jedoch trist und still Ist der Leichnam Der sich aus meinem Inneren davonschleicht Hinein In die Nacht des Unwesens |
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4. | Outro | 02:10 | instrumental |
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27:37 |
Tomb Sculptures
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Miscellaneous staff | |
Oli Steinberger | Producer |
Mike Theissen | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Cover art |
Dinu Ciuca | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Tristețea difuză | 08:47 | Show lyrics |
Viata Dormiteaza Germinind Si-O Simt In Jur Universala Intr-o Nesfirsita Oboseala Si-n Absenta Ultimului Cind Iar Taina Aerului Otravit Intr-un Inceput De-nnoptare Alacelui Orizont Nemarginit Adoarme Fara Desteptare My ruined world ’s denying the earthly time Drained of all emotions... Immortality: Now be mine! My ruined dreams - remains of tortured years Who will be left to wipe away my bitter tears? Words of sorrow... sail, travelling on cold winds Words of tranquility... fail, dancing on my wounded lips I’m dying mostly alone Within life’s thin disguise And I can’t tame the blood And the heart THEY have baptized The scars burn deeply into my soul My smile has lost it’s brilliance My words become so trivial... Loosing all desire, Loosing all, but pride. Cu vehementa miniei tristetea Difuza se strecoara Printre-ncheieturi Ca un ghimpe de-otrava al florii vietii vestejite "Moartea succede vietii, viata succede la moarte Alt sens u-are lumea asta, n-are akt slop si-alta soarta!" ...Caci demult, aici, la marginea vietii Sub lumina siderala, nu mai traiesc in timp... Iar calendarul a reintrat in forma lui astrala "Te vad, Te aud, te cuget, Tinara si dulce veste, dintr-un cer cu-alte stele cu alte vise si alti zei" ...Pe drumuri delirind, pe-o vreme de toamna Ma urmareste-un Gind, Ce ma-ndeamna: "Dispari cit mai curind!" ...Caci visu-mi nu-i un dis pamintesc My ruined world’s grasping for a mystic thought Though the soul’s already tired of search My ruined dreams - Out of reach And the hopeless soul keeps on waiting, for whom? But who’s to know? |
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2. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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3. | Carpe Noctem | 04:58 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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4. | În umbra timpului | 05:13 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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5. | Dies Irae | 05:48 | |
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6. | Stindardul blasfemiei | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
Stindardul Blasfemiei Trei cruci de lemn, trei cruci enorme de lemn Vopsite cu trei culori, pazesc pe marginea soselei Fintina celor... crediciosi! Trei cruci pe marginea soselei cu gesturi largi de miini bolnave Opresc din drum pe calatori si parca-s trei spinzuratori De care atirna trei crisosi... Intr-o zi impinsi de-acelasi funerar indemn Ca dou-armate puse una-n fata alteia Cumintii se-ntilnira cu nebunii Copiii mortilor de miine se-ntilnira cu parintii... "Si-armatele-ncepura lupta la umbra crucilor de lemn Deoparte flutura stindardul credintei... alb... curat..." ...ca albul cel curat, al florilor de nufar Iar tricolorul nebuniei, inchis cu grija-n cite-in cufar De craniu omenesc... Sta gata sa se desfasoare la cea dintii ingenuncheare A albului domnesc... Insa-n ziu-aceea cerul innegrit de fum parea Un tavan de catedrala ce se naruia "Iar fumul din clopotnitele-aprinse deschidea-n albastrul:" Drumul altui fum, mai greu, mai negru si-albastrul se-nnegrea... Si-n ziu-aceea cerul innegrit de fum parea Un tavan de catedrala ce se naruia Si multimea-nspaimintata, spre clopotnitele-aprinse Se-ndrumeaza grupuri, grupuri, cei cuminti privesc plingind Pling ca resturile unei armate-nvinse, iar nebunul sta deoparte Si zimbeste ... fredonind: BLASFEMIE !!! "Iar tricolorul nebuniei adapostea pe-nvingatori!!!" English translate: Banner Of Blasphemy Three wooden crosses Three huge crosses of wood Painted with three colors On the margin of the road Guarding the fountain of the believers Three crosses On the margin of the road With gestures made by morbid hands They hinder wanderers whilst passing Like three gallows on holy lands Where three christians are hanging... Inclined by a funeral stir On a fatal sky, so blur Like two armies enticed to war The mad have fallen upon the brave The children of ’morrows dead Their parents had met In the shade of the wooden crosses The armies began their battle Aside... the banner of creedance flattered White and clean Like the cleanest white men have seen And the blasphemic flag of madness Safely embedded in each human skull Was ready to unfold at the first Subjugation of the royal white On the same day, blackened by fumes The heavens seem to be the ceiling Of a collapsing cathedral, bleeding And the fumes of the burning steeples Opened in the celestial blue The way of another fume Blacker, heavier, and the blue Has become black, too So the horrified people Hasten to the burning steeples The brave behold whilst crying Like the remnants of a defeated army And the madmen stay aside Grinning and humming: Blasphemy And the tricolor of madness was sheltering The conquerors! |
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7. | Near Dark | 15:37 | Show lyrics |
Near Dark (...Und Der Tod Wird Vor Neid Erblassen) [Part One] This is a world blessed by the victims Of carnal tragedy The humans ritual of love and adoration Dense-woven history Sentiments decide existance, the artwork that I’ve bled Bizarre she defined her presence With the lament of the undead When her eyes have bathed in danger And the moon had new design In the cradle of our desire all the blood has turned to wine But the love no longer remained than just a stir to survive In this labyrinth of perfidity for my mistress to recover I’ll forever strive... [Part Two] Dem Sterbenden - die Hoffnung Dem Propheten - Der Fluch Der Liebe - die Dichtung, die dem Sterben entsprung... The night is crystal clear - words are sent from pictures Sounds that I can’t hear - as weakness wins my body Selling cheap my soul - and its bleeding heart Eclipsing the whole - planet, history and light... [Part Three] Sometimes, when the sun hides in the back of the earth When the hungry souls, to whom pain gave birth Embalm their coldness with the blood’s warmth... then I can clearly hear the calling of a lonely and distant star In the shade of the abhorrent Yet in the still of the nights - In the still of the moment When the moment dies There she gently approaches With the new meaning of life... In a haze of hazard, in the withering chill Baleful’s the passion, when hearts stand still A flood of sentiments entwined Rattle thru my falling soul I slumber against the spirit of time Like a stranger in a foreign world! In a park, along the alleys, stained with blood and tears In the hour, when dusk disperses Its colors on the white statues Then I’ll wander as a phantom of the posthumous regrets And my fiery lips I’ll freeze With the kiss of these unrivalled statues "Si-n asta noapte sfirsese printr-un sarut Poeme - agonizate de-un infinit si-un inceput" [Part Four] "The all-engulfing dawn of habitude shows his claws again- Do you still remember our oath? - Til light do us part!?" Come forth, Feline Mere moment of melancholy Drink deep of my desire The quenchless fire That unites our tameless embers... Come forth, Feline Tortured by our final duet Let thy pale fingers slide on the petals of the flowers That thee stained with mortal, coagulated blood... On the walls, midnight closes even the stoical eyes Of the unsleeping portraits And the white-eye of a lonely candle falls asleep Into its own startling solitude... [Part Five] Silent heart desires The balm that drives away the human waste Oh come, infidel duchess Shrouds of frost fall furiously down... of thee I taste again Deciphering eternity of its ruined scripts Of the tenebrious river I pleasantly sip Upon lifeless leaves autumn has banished Arises my lovelorn aura’s odyssey "Un ornic cu rostiri funebre, suna amiaza-ndirjit Iar ceru-mprastia tenebre, peste parcul amortit" ...Returned into that park as a whole Under the questioning eyes of stars and heavens Dreaming away on the lost love I’ve recovered Death suddenly rises Annoyed that he couldn’t save me He turns pale from envy The seasons vanish and so does this story As the same poets hand raises the pen He pictured this spectacle with... The actors fade on the dreary alleys of that elder park Only two nightshades remaining - Celebrating the sunset of ages while their sullen laughter Lustfully haunts the mortal seeds of ruin... Nights were crystal clear - words were sent from pictures The colors have seared - these pages, whereas The darkest hour revealed - the mysterious hand Which dutifully sealed This episode’s arcane End. |
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8. | Noaptea neființei | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Ach, Nacht, wie lieb du mir warest Wenn die Sterne du ausloschen wurdest Ihre Strahlen murmeln unbekannte Gesange... Und ich wunsche mir alles Dustere und Stumme alles Entblo?te und Verschwommene All das Finstere liebend - Meine Aura verangstigte Als ein blinder Gedanke knabberte An Raum und Zeit Oh Seele, wanderndes Gebein, meinen Frieden du erbittest Ich lege mich nieder, erfrischendes Dunkel Von schweren Todestraumen durchdrungen Und wickle mich in deinen Schleier Mit meinen Gedanken trotze ich allem, was Sie Gott nennen Ach, du Morder der Kunst, du falsche Lebensweisheit Aus meinem atheistischen Glauben Wirst Du gewi? sie nimmer rauben Die entweihte Krone meiner wahren Unsterblichkeit Ach Nacht, wie lieb du mir warest Wenn die Sterne du ausloschen wurdest Der Tumult der Existenz... Fragwurdig, ungewohnlich edel Dein Schatten murmelt unbekannte Gesange Endlich, Nacht... steck deine schwarze Flagge In meinen stummen Schadel In deinem teuflischen Blick - ein dusteres Paradies Von tiefer, eingeschlafener Dunkelheit Oh gottliche Vorstellung, die ich oft pries Verstummter Jammer eines sanften Lachelns Meine Seele geht verloren Im nostalgischen Inferno Visionen des Todes - meiner Selbstverschwendung Die Nacht wacht uber die Ikone der Geburt im Chaos Ich wu?te nichts von ihrer Existenz Nichts, bis sie mich anlachelte Ach Nacht, wie lieb du mir warest Mit deinem milden Weinen Wenn Sterne die bittere Vergiftung ausloschen wurden Welche dieses abstrakte Leben in mich hineinpumpt Wie der erste Schmerz. Jedoch trist und still Ist der Leichnam Der sich aus meinem Inneren davonschleicht Hinein In die Nacht des Unwesens |
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Blacken the Angel
Members | |
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Hyperion | Guitars (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Sathonys | Guitars (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Marko T. | Bass (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Akaias | Vocals (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Vlad Dracul | Keyboards (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Matthias R. | Drums (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Guest/Session | |
Miron Panaitescu | Composition (track 6) |
Vampallens | Keyboards (tracks 1-5 & 7-10) |
Ophelia | Vocals (female) (track 3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Sathonys | Translations |
Vlad | Translations |
Sander N. | Artwork |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Barbara Stiller | Photography |
Gerhard Magin | Producer |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
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1. | Tristețea vehemență | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
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2. | Banner of Blasphemy | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
Stindardul Blasfemiei Trei cruci de lemn, trei cruci enorme de lemn Vopsite cu trei culori, pazesc pe marginea soselei Fintina celor... crediciosi! Trei cruci pe marginea soselei cu gesturi largi de miini bolnave Opresc din drum pe calatori si parca-s trei spinzuratori De care atirna trei crisosi... Intr-o zi impinsi de-acelasi funerar indemn Ca dou-armate puse una-n fata alteia Cumintii se-ntilnira cu nebunii Copiii mortilor de miine se-ntilnira cu parintii... "Si-armatele-ncepura lupta la umbra crucilor de lemn Deoparte flutura stindardul credintei... alb... curat..." ...ca albul cel curat, al florilor de nufar Iar tricolorul nebuniei, inchis cu grija-n cite-in cufar De craniu omenesc... Sta gata sa se desfasoare la cea dintii ingenuncheare A albului domnesc... Insa-n ziu-aceea cerul innegrit de fum parea Un tavan de catedrala ce se naruia "Iar fumul din clopotnitele-aprinse deschidea-n albastrul:" Drumul altui fum, mai greu, mai negru si-albastrul se-nnegrea... Si-n ziu-aceea cerul innegrit de fum parea Un tavan de catedrala ce se naruia Si multimea-nspaimintata, spre clopotnitele-aprinse Se-ndrumeaza grupuri, grupuri, cei cuminti privesc plingind Pling ca resturile unei armate-nvinse, iar nebunul sta deoparte Si zimbeste ... fredonind: BLASFEMIE !!! "Iar tricolorul nebuniei adapostea pe-nvingatori!!!" English translate: Banner Of Blasphemy Three wooden crosses Three huge crosses of wood Painted with three colors On the margin of the road Guarding the fountain of the believers Three crosses On the margin of the road With gestures made by morbid hands They hinder wanderers whilst passing Like three gallows on holy lands Where three christians are hanging... Inclined by a funeral stir On a fatal sky, so blur Like two armies enticed to war The mad have fallen upon the brave The children of ’morrows dead Their parents had met In the shade of the wooden crosses The armies began their battle Aside... the banner of creedance flattered White and clean Like the cleanest white men have seen And the blasphemic flag of madness Safely embedded in each human skull Was ready to unfold at the first Subjugation of the royal white On the same day, blackened by fumes The heavens seem to be the ceiling Of a collapsing cathedral, bleeding And the fumes of the burning steeples Opened in the celestial blue The way of another fume Blacker, heavier, and the blue Has become black, too So the horrified people Hasten to the burning steeples The brave behold whilst crying Like the remnants of a defeated army And the madmen stay aside Grinning and humming: Blasphemy And the tricolor of madness was sheltering The conquerors! |
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3. | Near Dark | 15:37 | Show lyrics |
Near Dark (...Und Der Tod Wird Vor Neid Erblassen) [Part One] This is a world blessed by the victims Of carnal tragedy The humans ritual of love and adoration Dense-woven history Sentiments decide existance, the artwork that I’ve bled Bizarre she defined her presence With the lament of the undead When her eyes have bathed in danger And the moon had new design In the cradle of our desire all the blood has turned to wine But the love no longer remained than just a stir to survive In this labyrinth of perfidity for my mistress to recover I’ll forever strive... [Part Two] Dem Sterbenden - die Hoffnung Dem Propheten - Der Fluch Der Liebe - die Dichtung, die dem Sterben entsprung... The night is crystal clear - words are sent from pictures Sounds that I can’t hear - as weakness wins my body Selling cheap my soul - and its bleeding heart Eclipsing the whole - planet, history and light... [Part Three] Sometimes, when the sun hides in the back of the earth When the hungry souls, to whom pain gave birth Embalm their coldness with the blood’s warmth... then I can clearly hear the calling of a lonely and distant star In the shade of the abhorrent Yet in the still of the nights - In the still of the moment When the moment dies There she gently approaches With the new meaning of life... In a haze of hazard, in the withering chill Baleful’s the passion, when hearts stand still A flood of sentiments entwined Rattle thru my falling soul I slumber against the spirit of time Like a stranger in a foreign world! In a park, along the alleys, stained with blood and tears In the hour, when dusk disperses Its colors on the white statues Then I’ll wander as a phantom of the posthumous regrets And my fiery lips I’ll freeze With the kiss of these unrivalled statues "Si-n asta noapte sfirsese printr-un sarut Poeme - agonizate de-un infinit si-un inceput" [Part Four] "The all-engulfing dawn of habitude shows his claws again- Do you still remember our oath? - Til light do us part!?" Come forth, Feline Mere moment of melancholy Drink deep of my desire The quenchless fire That unites our tameless embers... Come forth, Feline Tortured by our final duet Let thy pale fingers slide on the petals of the flowers That thee stained with mortal, coagulated blood... On the walls, midnight closes even the stoical eyes Of the unsleeping portraits And the white-eye of a lonely candle falls asleep Into its own startling solitude... [Part Five] Silent heart desires The balm that drives away the human waste Oh come, infidel duchess Shrouds of frost fall furiously down... of thee I taste again Deciphering eternity of its ruined scripts Of the tenebrious river I pleasantly sip Upon lifeless leaves autumn has banished Arises my lovelorn aura’s odyssey "Un ornic cu rostiri funebre, suna amiaza-ndirjit Iar ceru-mprastia tenebre, peste parcul amortit" ...Returned into that park as a whole Under the questioning eyes of stars and heavens Dreaming away on the lost love I’ve recovered Death suddenly rises Annoyed that he couldn’t save me He turns pale from envy The seasons vanish and so does this story As the same poets hand raises the pen He pictured this spectacle with... The actors fade on the dreary alleys of that elder park Only two nightshades remaining - Celebrating the sunset of ages while their sullen laughter Lustfully haunts the mortal seeds of ruin... Nights were crystal clear - words were sent from pictures The colors have seared - these pages, whereas The darkest hour revealed - the mysterious hand Which dutifully sealed This episode’s arcane End. |
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4. | Ill of an Imaginary Guilt | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
Ill Of An Imaginary Guilt I gave you light I seared off the oceans To show you my devotion I’ve lived your fright I wanna be the infamy I wanna wound your caprice I need to try your malice You should tame my misery I wanna lick your beauty I wanna scar your sweetened wounds To reap your rotten fruits Your loving gotta suit me Oh, let me be the one Who sets you free See how love unveils Her incomparable mystery I wanna feel your hungry skin I wanna be the sacrificed I’ll make you the holy praised Whore... of my radiant sin I wanna see you sacrificed I wanna be the hungry skin To share with you the greatest sin My holy, capricious whore! I’ve been kissin’ the filth My tongue’s been bleedin’ I’ve been stealing you a wing My dark, sinister angel Oh, let me touch your guilty soul Let me be your hungry skin Let me be your thrilling dream Let me rape your open wounds Oh, let me see your other face We belong to the same disgrace I was the dead you fettered ... you were the angel I raped... |
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5. | Die Nacht des Unwesens | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Noaptea Nefiintei (Die Nacht Des Unwesens) Ach, Nacht, wie lieb du mir wärest Wenn die Sterne du auslöschen würdest Ihre Strahlen murmeln unbekannte Gesänge... Und ich wünsche mir alles Düstere und Stumme alles Entblößte und Verschwommene All das Finstere liebend - Meine Aura verängstigte Als ein blinder Gedanke knabberte An Raum und Zeit Oh Seele, wanderndes Gebein, meinen Frieden du erbittest Ich lege mich nieder, erfrischendes Dunkel Von schweren Todesträumen durchdrungen Und wickle mich in deinen Schleier Mit meinen Gedanken trotze ich allem, was Sie Gott nennen Ach, du Mörder der Kunst, du falsche Lebensweisheit Aus meinem atheistischen Glauben Wirst Du gewiß sie nimmer rauben Die entweihte Krone meiner wahren Unsterblichkeit Ach Nacht, wie lieb du mir wärest Wenn die Sterne du auslöschen würdest Der Tumult der Existenz... Fragwürdig, ungewöhnlich edel Dein Schatten murmelt unbekannte Gesänge Endlich, Nacht... steck deine schwarze Flagge In meinen stummen Schädel In deinem teuflischen Blick - ein düsteres Paradies Von tiefer, eingeschlafener Dunkelheit Oh göttliche Vorstellung, die ich oft pries Verstummter Jammer eines sanften Lächelns Meine Seele geht verloren Im nostalgischen Inferno Visionen des Todes - meiner Selbstverschwendung Die Nacht wacht uber die Ikone der Geburt im Chaos Ich wußte nichts von ihrer Existenz Nichts, bis sie mich anlächelte Ach Nacht, wie lieb du mir wärest Mit deinem milden Weinen Wenn Sterne die bittere Vergiftung auslöschen würden Welche dieses abstrakte Leben in mich hineinpumpt Wie der erste Schmerz. Jedoch trist und still Ist der Leichnam Der sich aus meinem Inneren davonschleicht Hinein In die Nacht des Unwesens |
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6. | Contemplation Song | 02:26 | instrumental |
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7. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Sfintit Cu Roua Suferintii Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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8. | Stingher / Alone | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
When dusk is the most solemn When clouds do shine bright Melancholic them I sight And remain with a mournful eye Sadly staying, is it maybe My verse that weeps so mild Like a storm on oceans far A sign of a sooner death? With autumn approaching Could I be the leaf carried by winds And finally falling down Already being forgotten? When dusk breeds utmost When clouds do shine bright Melancholic them I sight My eyes bitterness host When dusk is the most solemn Oceans mirror in the moonlore Splenetic and lonely shore My heart sad anthems hosts |
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9. | After Dark | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
Alone with my shadows I’ve come To sing the twilight’s hymn every time A new day dawns into a place most desirable Grateful disembodiment ...to pierce some holes into our horizon of perception which new imaginations could penetrate thru... Our dreams will shine like thunder On a senseless rainy day Wrapped in the dank breathing Of both nature and man The stars look all too near The senses lie so far But it’s not the way we fear It’s more the thing we are The stars look all too near The seasons, oh, so dark It’s not the way we fear It’s more the way we are Didn’t pain prove life With its reasons all hallowed Didn’t light prove darkness With its shadows eclipsed? ...und die Maschine der Welt kehrt zurück... Auspressend den Lebenssaft aus meinen Knochen Bin erneut Vergangenheit, ohne Herz, trist und kalt Die tote Zeit legt ihren kalten Körper auf meine feuchte Haut ...und wird zur Ewigkeit... Didn’t pain prove life With its reasons all hallowed Didn’t light prove darkness With its shadows eclipsed? Alone with my shadow I’m gone Still I hear the twilight’s hymn every time Life continues its sculptures Like poetry without rhyme! |
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10. | Ribbons / Requiem | 07:21 | Show lyrics |
Ribbons / Requiem Random raining, ribbons of melancholy The moment dies right here, before me Grey horizons tarred to my days The curtain fell, still the solitary plays Dance with me, me dear The dance of those, who’ll never return Bleeding traces left behind, for the living Hear life forging with death It’s a gorgeous storm unfurling I’ve awaited for so long Now you taste like honey, dear, on my rigid tongue It’s soothing as you delve Into my crescent agony Your lips of tragedy licking my requiem I am betrayed by your kiss... "Would you bleed for me again, For I adore its pounding On your fetid, lifeless shell, it becomes like satin No love existing, oh, my darling, see I am the architect of this bitter-sweet abstract" A key, a door, a vision, remnants of a dream Corridor of conclusions thru wide ribbons seen Like a statue starring with the same cold eyes Honey, kill me again, for know now what I am Lay down with me, my dear Listen to this requiem, You always loved to hear Through you knew the words You did sing them wrong |
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Bislang
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Matze | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad Dracul | Vocals, Keyboards |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals, Guitars |
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1. | Bedeviled | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Life is Death - postponed Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed Hell is paved with Paradise Lovelorn serenades into my heart I swallow Life pervades my scary eyes Bedeviled, thee, whom I won’t be whom I antagonize Scarlet lips of indecency In search for a splintered tongue Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love Scarlet lips of perversity Matching each face unmasked Words lose intensity Whithin our vacuum world Sapience Pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Life decays and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance ... the rape of "darling" in my eyes Decrepitude Pierce my tongue with your womanliness Searching for another fetid romance Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am the godless son, thus I am sin Immune to live, I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, soon death will come Again with his reaping scythe behind Bedeviled, thee, whom I refuse to be |
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2. | Estrangement | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtile perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness Deepened in eternal sleep, where nothing breeds weakness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the fanthoms of one’s heart To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, when everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide..in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... Oh, didn’t light prove the dark? Didn’t distress prove life, With it’s seasons all hallowed? But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows "There’s as much difference between me and myself As between me and the vassals of time But, however, life continues it’s sculptures Like poetry without rime..." We both exist and do know that we exist and Rejoice in this existence and this knowledge... |
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3. | În umbra timpului | 05:13 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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4. | Wretchedness | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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5. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Streifen von schwarzen Schleiern bedecken langsam die Sonne Oh Mond meines Lebens, verhulle dich mit Schatten... Nahere dich mir, oh Stern, Sei grausam, Sei duster... Meine einzige Konigin, Mein ganzes Wesen verehrt dich, Jede Faser meines Ich Streckt sich dir entgegen (Dunkle Schatten begraben sich tief in der Nacht) Trummer! Wir sind ein Blut, feierlich jede Nacht Doch das Fleisch ist kalt, Durchbohrt von deinem Schatten Alles, was du mir schenkst, macht mich trunken Seien es Schmerzen oder endloser Traum! Versklavt von deinem Blick Trinke ich aus dem Zauber Deiner Augen Wahrend du mich bis zum Blut streichelst, Mit rabenahnlichen Krallen In deinem Bett, Abgrund des Vergnugens Verschwindet jeder qualende Gedanke Dein Mund; eine nicht austrocknende Quelle, Verstromend ein Gift, das langsam verbrennt... Verbrennend meine Seele, meine Essenz In den Flammen, die du, Wesen der Finsternis, In meinem Herzen heraufbeschworen hast! Doch du scheinst den Zenit von meinen Augen zu entfernen Die zu den schwarzen Unendlichkeiten ausgestreckt sind Und jedes Mal, wenn der Mond verschwindet Wenn die Nacht zu gehen scheint... Und Schatten langsam verbrennen Halte ich gierig meine Konigin in den Armen Wie ein Sterbender, der leidenschaftlich sein Grab liebkost (Viele Schatten habe sich tief in dieser Nacht begraben) Blood began to clog Still in the rain, Some things can’t be remembered And some are harder to forget... |
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26:52 |
Higher Art of Rebellion
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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November 29th, 1999 | Nuclear Blast | NB 422-2 / 27361 64222 | CD | |
1999 | Mystic Production | MP-NB 042 | Cassette | |
1999 | Wizard | WNB 200.578 | Cassette | |
November 8th, 1999 | Nuclear Blast | NB 422-2, NB 27361 | CD | Limited edition |
February 2000 (Unofficial) | Moon Records | Cassette | ||
2002 | Irond Records | IROND CD 02-168 | CD | Reissue |
August 25th, 2008 | Metal Mind Productions | Mass CD 1223 DG | CD | Reissue, Limited edition, Digipak |
Members | |
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
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1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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Chapter III
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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November 5th, 2001 | Nuclear Blast | NB 657-2 / 27361 66572 | CD | Digipak |
November 5th, 2001 | Nuclear Blast America | NB 6657-2 | CD | |
2001 | Irond Records | IROND CD 01-130 | CD | |
2001 | Nuclear Blast | NB 657-1 / 27361 66571 | 12" vinyl | |
2001 | Psychic Scream Entertainment | PSCL 9080-4 | Cassette | |
2001 | Rocris Disc | ROC 119-01, ROC 113-01 | Cassette | |
2001 | Wizard | WNB 200.776 | Cassette | |
2002 | Irond Records | IROND MC 02-45 | Cassette | |
2002 | Mystic Production | MP-NB 088 | Cassette | |
2002 | Nuclear Blast | NB 657-2, 27361 66571 | CD | |
August 25th, 2008 | Metal Mind Productions | MASS CD 1224 DG | CD |
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Band members | |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
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1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
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4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
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7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Serpent’s Embrace
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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June 21st, 2004 | Nuclear Blast | NB 1257-2 / 27361 12572 | CD | Enhanced |
2004 | Irond Records | IROND CD 04-856 | CD | Enhanced |
2004 | Nuclear Blast | NB 1257-2, NB 1258-2 | 2CD | Limited edition |
August 25th, 2008 | Metal Mind Productions | MASS CD 1225 DG | CD | Limited edition, Digipak, Remastered |
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Eddie | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Ruth Knepel | Vocals (female) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Recording, Producer |
Katja Piolka | Photography, Artwork, Design |
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1. | Cellos for the Insatiable | 04:05 | Show lyrics |
Once again, Jekyllish I follow the trail of fireflies and diamond eyes And moving like a fog, I starve to raise Sleepwalking hunter in the night Step into an ongoing nightmare Go - ride into blistering trails below - tear heart and soul Stop - for jekyllsih I’ll haunt you, though A sleepwalking hunter in despair - take care of you I brave for sin - Sheeding my skin Curtains fall over my shroud, around my wrists the orchestra plays Frozn, this bosom aches, piercing lullabies, piercing preys Only cellos, black robes and gowns, dimly dance for air in grief And looming portraits of a mother gazing at my inner pleas Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow I invoke the Queen of spades... and slowly breathe the verse of fate I reap the mists of grace to bid farewell to faith Clenched cries, her drowning sweet hands bygone, waving and fleeting Dull slave to my mournful twists she bled, like a rainbow leaking Wax victims in a ritual, echoes to quench my frailty at dawn The Fifth Horseman I become, riding those whispers spawned Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow Soon forgotten faces shine on shattered mirrors, remnants of rape Supremely, skin cellos play the ghost of melodies and darkest shade Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow A warm tune for claws and chaos I breed the rust of wind While, holding back loss, shame and tears I brave for sin - Shedding my skin |
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2. | Serpent’s Embrace | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
She was the dawn of a new day The crystal voice inside my head And at times she showed me eden Untrodden paths, a sky that’s bleeding Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace Darkness waiting in her eyes, her gaze Kissed by a fraudulent snake A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace She was the dawn of a new day but all it brought was pure dismay The sky and sun turned black Nailed black as ebony And there was no turning back No turning back A golden sun in past times, floating high above Looking back from now, a collection of strange days for, love And at times I realized Everything must surely end - some day Darkness waiting in her eyes Darkness waiting in her gaze She gave birth to a worm of lies A place of shadows mourn A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Every dawn of a new day Too far away, but death is cheap There’s a giant, black sun bellow Maybe just below the ground, about six feet deep - Beneath the undertow Beneath the undertow |
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3. | Rebirth | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
I have seen how the same human souls Wander through different bodies Drifting through the centuries When flesh decayed For ages drifting in the wind Through landscapes unknown Among worlds where the suns never die Where moonlight is bright as day Beyond timeless void Beyond all the spheres In a realm where the powers of earth Are bound in the fathomless sky An endless journey Perpetual suffering When heartbeat has died And earthly life has ended The trip through the emptiness begins Vultures free your bones From flesh and blood Make your spirit soar Your soul lost in space Struggling for a new life Awaiting rebirth To be captures In a human body again |
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4. | Light Reborn | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
On a though I’d rest Like a sigh in a glorious gloom I crawl under her skin To divinely kiss her sin I just claim on my purity In external community I’m not searching for (any) solutions But trying to avoid confusions Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance If you are here to obey me You get what you deserve When thoughts pursue me Can’t decide what’s true in me Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance To disguise desire’s utopia To feed THE emotional idea |
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5. | Faded Years | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
To not forget our loving, should I a sign implore? I’d ask for you, but dearest, you are your own no more Nor do I beg a flower from in your golden hair Forgetfulness, beloved is but my single player Oh what a sad sensation, when joy that soon did wane Not swift with it to vanish, but ever here remain! When through tits life to wander it has been writ, it seem A dream made out of shadow, a shadow made of dream No matter when I die, this or some later day My wish is out of the mind of all to I pass away And you forget the dream that our two hearts endears When you loom back, beloved, upon the faded years Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time As though those hours of wonder in fact we did not live That I so deeply love you dear one can you forgive? My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now Afar of in distance a flock of crows arise And darken all the heavens before my sightless eyes Beyond the earth’s steep margin a hurricane does start Flinging to the world my dust and to the wind my heart Yet as in spring the blossom do you remain the while With gentle eyes and humid and tender, childish smile So much a child, yet seeming each day to younger grow And of my fate know nothing as I too nothing know My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now |
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6. | Solitude | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
One wish alone have I In some calm land beside the sea to die Upon its strand That I forever sleep The forest near, a heaven near Stretched over the peaceful deep That no one weeps my end Nor for me grieves But let the autumn lend Tongues to the leaves No candles shine Nor tomb I need, instead Let them for me a bed Or twigs entwine When brooklet ripples fall With murmuring sound And moon is found Among the pine trees tall While softly rings The wind it’s trembling chime And over me the lime In blossem flings As I will then no more a wanderer be Let them with fondness store my memory And Lucifer the while Above the pine, good comrade mine Will on me gently smile? In mournful mood The sea sing sad refrain... And I be earth again In solitude |
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7. | Limbs of a Stare | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
A garden of seeds lost, ashen spirits embrace me in pain Like scars that shed the plague of flames, my thirst awakes Aceless to my feelings, inimicial to my pulse, like disease Sand in my eyes, I am hiding from pleasure, yearning for breeze Draw my bare tears from this melody now that I can’t flee Take refuge in me or vanish, my beauty, bring or tear the silk To weave the drops of passion or strike the winds of misfortune Mourning I stand, my senses in abyss, under skies of torture Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I an crawling to feel desire To shape your truth and fire Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare To dream a leaf without it’s tree, to follow it’s silence I hear no sense, but a scream of lips and sighs in vastness A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar Bear witness to my memories of flesh that will never rise The dice of desperation reveals a black rose lays on my mind Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I am prowling to feel desire To yield to bounds and pyres Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare... A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar |
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8. | The Darkness Inside | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Life sometimes feels like a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? They say that time does slowly heal But memories amplify the pain I feel Forever haunting me, it’s so unreal And still we dream... as we walk down the line... We forever sleep Since ages dead inside A plunge red shrine Emotions and hope subside Foul like altar wine Life sometimes into a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? Not when luck has gone And I said Not when luck has gone Living a life beyond light With darkness to pattern my fate Feelings left aside Left with despair and nothing but hate Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Life sometimes even seems like it goes on Still every step you take is a wrong one Maybe you can wake up anytime you like But you can never leave You will never achieve The feeling that life goes on Or are we already gone? Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Floods my heart and mind A lifeless thing in living guise Leaping off to quick demise A blind man in a cave of eternal light Remnants of a dream that fades Life at times is hard to comprehend But every step leads further to the end Still even death is but a guess And darkness weaves with many shades Darkness weaves with many shades Take a look beyond the silver glades See darkness weave with many shades |
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9. | Bitter End | 03:37 | Show lyrics |
Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... The thought has aged me whole It ruined body, mind and soul Oh, thoughtless if I’d been born Couldn’t wail, nor could I’ve been torn Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are I’d want to live without knowing In this world or in it’s following Since then, misanthropy My alibi you should be And when the grand dark hour falls I’d be far from mankind’s calls Into the great wide I would dive Unaware if I am dead or alive! Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are |
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10. | Feelings | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
Endless fear, darkness holds me I don’t know if I’m wrong or right Where’s my world that I loved so before? All has gone, bleeding and dying I don’t know what you have done to me Left me hollow inside, feel like dirt I wanna slam you, just wanna kill you All I want to see is you, lying down in pain Forever I’ll hate you Was all that I could say Leaving the ghost of you behind Tears of sorrow I’ll never spill again Scratchin your face out of my mind Are you really sure what you wanna be now? It’s just a fake to me, yes Fuck yourself and die a painful death I don’t need you to love me anymore Get away and leave my life alone One step away from twisting your neck The crown of the human race Fuck you, is it really you Loving you, killing you, loving you Killing you |
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Phoenix
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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March 20th, 2009 | Massacre Records | MAS CD0630 | CD | |
March 20th, 2009 | Massacre Records | MAS DP0630 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
2009 | Irond Records | IROND CD 09-1578 | CD | |
2009 | Scarecrow Records | SR0441-0 | CD | |
October 27th, 2009 | Koch Records | KOCR 2064 | CD |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Ashtrael | Vocals |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals (tracks 11, 12) |
Jonas Iscariot | Vocals (track 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Sathonys | Photography, Layout |
Rares.C | Cover art |
Andrea Reitmeyer | Photography, Layout |
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1. | Heliopolis | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Heliopolis in flames alight, a flickering and rebirth Enlightened night overthrown by a place of shame The scorched sky converts night You wish for light to call Face to face with the madness The call of fate to save us all Daily horror that brings you sadness When smoke arises from the planes With a loud, triumphant sigh I always bleed, I always heal I live to die anew, it breaks me, it burns me... All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] When the darkest tempest roars Passes by with quiet wings Landscapes swiftly burn away and fall apart to dust All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] The memories, the pictures, the melodies, the wars Everything I was, everything I earned Grasped in my claws All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I just cared about -- me No more years of waiting The final days, the conflagration Feathers falling from my wings now - Here comes sunset [Repeat chorus] |
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2. | Devil’s Deal | 04:33 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears, crawl against the floor This body of clay may need no more He gives you hope, he shows his care Or is your patience a form of despair? For a moment I feel embraced Now that I’m unbound My eyes have lost their grace I scream a demonic sound Shed all your tears, my friend, Come release them all We have flooded heavens, Hear their desperate call While death becomes angels,death becomes real All of god’s work, you know,it’s devil’s deal Will you be... lost struggling in vain? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Cry with my tears, my dear, The waters are coming down Call my name, aloud, But before you drown Cause god and satan, you know They reach out their hand So they are reconciled within me, my friend Shed all your tears, my dear, All these words as such Cause in this world of lies, all your words Don’t mean much Or will I come once more to rescue you again? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, give me your hand Look into my eyes, make your final stand Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, (and give) Give me your hand Look into my eyes, (and make) Make your final stand It’s been so long, I hope you don’t forget Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret |
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3. | Decline | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
You drown in stagnation, in a world of frustration Your chance for salvation is to weave a cell of fears This stainless collection of countless imperfection A mild satistfaction, a sea of rotten tears This serpentine throne suits you well A place to reign the deepest hell Faded memories, they crawl across the years Reveal your hidden fears A short hesitation on your way to desperation You’ll fell the agravation before devline begins I gaze into a darkened well With madness that erodes my shell Decay’s burning bleakly in my eyes No way to save our wasted lives Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near What I was meant to be, what I was born to be What will set me free, I was too blind to see Too blind to realize Too blind to turn the tides Too blind to see your lies I was too blind to see This serpentine throne suits me well A place where vilest worms do dwell Faded memories They crawl across the years Enraged by all your fears Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams,it’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near, it is near It’s in your dreams,it’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is near,death is near Oh, how dare you come into my lair Here in this void, this sanctum Reigns despair... …and sombearly it sleeps it winds, it slowly creeps The end is near… The end is near The end is near Take a look around - this evil lurks behind you Two thousand years of lies And arrogance that blinds you Nightmares crawl , the serpent in your eye The road of Cain widns on until you die Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is here, it’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear The end is… here |
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4. | Ground Zero | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Peering into darkness without prospect, The future to be left in despair A presage gorn of plenty filled with plague and famine Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero From a distand dream to be seen, Surely undreamt yet unbelieved Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity Forever there, forever deceived No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are Your thoughts are sparkles in despair Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions Confusing future threatening ahead Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul Into the valley of sore thoughts Like that insignificant refuge of lies That make you shiver, that make you cry No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars |
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5. | Ghost of a Soul | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Way down to heaven Your needless resource It’s a forecast of cruelty and dismay Cast into mirrors An ambush on its course You are blemish, frailty and decay Will I get at something Will I ever be complete Built by dust, born to slave away Taste an angel’s life blood So pure and bitter sweet Buil of nothing, born to decay Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Lust prevails my temper Endless rapture turns to grief A silent scream which fraudulent arises Without shelter, your wounds lead me to lambency Spouts truth above your lies Step by step, piece by piece Cut by cut, we reach the end together Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Take this cloak from me, Your offer I will not embrace A failure once for me, not to be driven into hate Will I ever be set free Will I ever be complete Will I ever be set free Will I, can I, ever be complete? Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Be set free Come set me free Set me free |
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6. | Winterchild | 05:34 | Show lyrics |
You’re standing numb Looking back How long already? How could you fool flee to the world Just right before the break of winter? And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests You’re standing pale Damned to go off on your winter-travel Just like the smoke that’s always seeking Colder, chiller, higher skies And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn Save your prayers before they swoon This bitter cold that came so soon Every story has its end His future dreams forever banned Oh my dearest Winterchild Overwhelmed by coldness, ice and snow at night The crows are screaming And fly whirring towards town Soon it will snow Woe betide those who don’t, have home And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn |
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7. | Time Is the Fire | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
Skies above the endless seas Engulf horizons till they disappear At a sign a ship shaking its masts Passes by like a fortress floating on wastelands Flocks of cranes sail to the skies Where never ending paths arise Neath the blunt and timid sun Skies above the endless seas The shil, the ocean, the days are gone Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by And die Skies full of stars above endless seas Horizons till they disappear An enormous ship shaking its masts Passes by like a floating keep Skies above the endless seas The ship, the ocean, the days are gone But till I’m not six feet underground My angels bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over again Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie, But till I’m not six feet underground My angels, bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over With the passion of a new born lover Again And then, I will look behind to the world Like those who don’t have much to tell (eachother) When they can’t say what they want In the shadow of these ancient walls In their silence, I lay down to rest In the same silence that swallowed the travelers Who fell asleep in time Who are now forgotten by aeons Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by and die (and die) Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn |
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8. | To Our Ashes | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
It is the mind, which creates the world about us And even though we stand side by side My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours My heart won’t respond to your touch Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs And hardens evermore her heart But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs All things come to the those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late Cause I am sick of this way of life As life is sick of the way we pretend But I have walked with death hand in hand And death’s own hand is warmer than my own! Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay All things come to those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late |
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9. | Amongst the Vultures | 03:22 | Show lyrics |
He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Before the blade penetrates his skin (penetrates his skin) A versant cloud enwraps his body (enwraps his body) Slowly and dreadfully (and dreadfully) A subtle cut brings liverty His path of blasphemy Atrocious angels lead his way To apathy, an apathy revealed by sway By Cains force assigned, Ferocious demons crawl to mate Black altar wine flows to blur his fate Beyond the veil, amongst the vultures Beneath the sky, he lives his dream Inside his veins throbs mortal poison The netherworld has opened its gates (has opened its gates) Wide and enormous, (wide and enormous) A final cut brings liberty The candles leave their set All sounds extinguish in the dark No hope and no regret Silence rules his heart No whisper sent to god Abysmal hate turns to dismissal Cold becomes hod His soul leaves in a glorious bliss He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns, The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Inside his veins the poison dries (the poison dries) The netherworld has closed its gates (has closed its gates) Amongst the vultures (Amongst the vultures) He will make all his dreams come true (Come true) |
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10. | Oncoming Storm | 06:26 | Show lyrics |
Years of ignorance have gone Mankind destroys and rapes the earth The world withers and the end comes soon Will I, can I, ever be unbound and flawless Will I, can I, ever be so alive? Another step to peace Another memory has gone Another time we’ll see the end The setting of the sun And all the shades seem now so clear Every cloud has disappeared The sun encases all the moments We wish to be seared What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life The years went by And the earth still falls and decays Slowly, we unfurl the storms Will we, can we,ever be thougher, Stonger than the rest Can we, ever be so alive? We’ve gone finally but why The wave of fortune passes by The thirteen demons burn the gates And so the earth enrages What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life Can’t you see all the blindness in their eyes Can’t you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise Don’t you know I’m the sinner in disguise I sense your dirty lies What brings the end,what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life What brings the end, what brings the end What brings the end, what brings the time What brings the end, what brings the time |
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11. | Throughout the Fields of Unshaded Grace | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Throughout the field Of unshaded grace Within the land Of the neverending sun With all the appropriate compliance I strive for the sunset For all time from now to then I can not free myself from the memory Warmth surrounding me In the darkest corner of my mind A childish joy overwhelming me While aggrieving insects Smashing rocks on them A wholeheartedly joy Aggrieving, crushing It fills me from the navel to the chaff Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others It’s getting cold, deep inside of me It’s been a decision of my mind, not of heart A coldness that makes me shiver Catches up to me, displaces warmth Abiding my decision I ache for the times I was free To unleash this childish joy and warmth The decision was made somehow To unleash this childish joy and warmth Without my anticipation It’s a long way fromn home one to the other side A fucked up journey When you try to walk away from yourself From the darkest corner of your mind The decision was made somehow Without your anticipation Into the never-ending sunset The memory, a so called friend, Is always accompanying me, Torturing me by reflecting what I was I can not free myself from the memories In the land of the never-ending sun |
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12. | Grey Whisper | 06:50 | Show lyrics |
Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling… And sip of me, and drink of me, at last As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same I’d live twice the pain to even be the flowers You’d hold for me in vain Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game I’m like lost chapters of an old an welken book Please wipe your tears, my dear, And my funeral look Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling And sip of me, and drink of me, at last Where are the sweet poems Pieces of the whole Pictures of you, violins To indulge my broken soul Rain, music you wrote For your bloved dead Word splintered before They could have been said I’d die once more To live this moment again To hold you near To soothe my pain Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade |
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01:03:00 |
In Darkness
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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June 28th, 2013 | Massacre Records | MAS CD0833 | CD | |
June 28th, 2013 | Massacre Records | MAS DP0833 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
2013 | Mazzar Records | MZR CD 623 | CD |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars, Keyboards |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Ash | Vocals |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Faerynia | Violin |
Kohle | Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals (backing) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vlad Dracul | Lyrics (tracks 7, 8) |
Alex Schmidt | Lyrics (tracks 2, 6) |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Natalia Kempin | Photography |
Hicham Haddaji | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | In Darkness (We Shall Be Reborn) | 06:20 | Show lyrics |
There on the fields of death we meet again Surrounded by all the light - in vain This is our fortune – this is our burden - this is our last home This is the ending – this is absolution - this is our final tomb In Darkness we shall be reborn – In Darkness we shall be reborn The shadow gods call with a wolves howl Oh great Akasha, let me rest Under a radiant moon I pass your last test This is our ending – our last goodbye Death is calling with his sweetest lullaby Destroy my shell to settle my ghost Carry me amongst the few of the lost The knife is sharpened – my skin is free O Mother Night – bring me to thee In Darkness we shall be reborn |
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2. | I’ve Risen | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
Through my eyes, with one hand For my will, within a breath I grabbed, owned... and brought terror to all the foreign lands I took the precious gift of life... throughout any realm of existence I have risen I have risen I gave life to thousands of sons and I saw them all fall before me I ruled the weak, I ruined worlds in my endless decades of might Uncountable is the amount of suns I’ve seen rise, pass and sink Unnamable all the kingdoms I’ve seen, conquered and destroyed I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence (You still) see my tales on the wall of any grave in forgotten lands (You can) see my shrunken temple, my body, once the house of a god (You can still) see the statues standing on my kingdoms soil, showing my pride (You might) realize my triumph above all flesh and steel, the god and devil am I I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have created paradise and hell, in my era of domination |
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3. | Favourite Sin | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
People go to church for the same reasons, The same reasons,they go to a tavern. To stupify themselves, To forget their misery, To imagine themselves, Even only for minutes, Free and happy. ...So I looked behind and beheld a pale horse And his name who sat on him was Death And Hell followed with him... Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth To do all that one is able to do Is to be a man, To do all that one would like to do Is to be a God. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Imensitate, vesnicie, Tu, haos,care toate-aduni... In golul tau e nebunie, Si-i faci pe toti nebuni. Imensitae, vesnicie, Pe cand eu tremor in delir, Cu ce suprema ironie Arati in fund-un cimitir. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility |
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4. | Oceans of Black | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Beckon our last goodbye when you hear this call You can’t face the fires once you feel them all Another time - another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Lay down with me and listen closely to the sounds of the old blue Tellin’ stories long forgotten - can’t you hear they’re just for you Another time, another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin Once we will meet again in the burning halls Where all the sorrow flows and slowly death befalls Oceans of black shall carry us throughout the night Where only death is real they shall be our guiding light Swim, let yourself be carried with the tide And on a lovelorn day, put all your fears aside Behind the dreary path, look back to all that’s past To realize that life is just the way to endless death at last Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin |
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5. | Adio | 05:21 | Show lyrics |
Young, wild, green with a children’s mind and a heart so loyal and bright But stigmatized and sacrificed by the feedings of the light I turned away, head from the sway and find my only path In the blessings of the flaming ones, an aeon formed with a new oath Hold your head up high on the causal, sparkling rays of the barren, false and blind Or follow me where you can see the power of the blackest light Once the wolves will howl together and sing their mighty song And the blackest sun alights the world and saves us from all wrong [Chorus:] The solace of death can’t revoke The pain of a thousand years and lies The solace of death can’t remove - those bitter times I break down as the stars burn cold Burn bitter and cold - inside my heart Yawns a wound so deep - so deep and old Darkness filled with a mind so skilled and loyal to the blackest arts Concerned with light in her last rite to open up the darkest hearts We have found our final ground to evocate her bright In the shining of the silver moon into the mystic night Willing now to sacrifice and look beyond the ghastly ice Then break the mirror - set the knife and free yourself from life We who wander beyond the sun are blessed with her last kiss Damned to walk among the dead and cursed with human bliss [Chorus] De-acuma nu te-oi mai vedea, Rămâi, rămâi, cu bine! Mă voi feri în calea mea De tine. De astăzi dar tu fă ce vrei, De astăzi nu-mi mai pasă Că cea mai dulce-ntre femei Mă lasă. Căci nu mai am de obicei Ca-n zilele acele, Să mă îmbăt și de scântei Din stele, Când degerând atâtea dăți, Eu mă uitam prin ramuri Și așteptam să te arăți La geamuri. O, cât eram de fericit Să mergem împreună, Sub acel farmec liniștit De lună! Și când în taină mă rugam Ca noaptea-n loc să steie, În veci alături să te am, Femeie! Din a lor treacăt să apuc Acele dulci cuvinte, De care azi abia mi-aduc Aminte. Căci astăzi dacă mai ascult Nimicurile-aceste, Îmi pare-o veche, de demult Poveste. Și dacă luna bate-n lunci Și tremură pe lacuri, Totuși îmi pare că de-atunci Sunt veacuri. Cu ochii serei cei dentâi Eu n-o voi mai privi-o... De-aceea-n urma mea rămâi - Adïo! |
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6. | Somewhere, Somewhen | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
When all the dust of gone times Is blown apart through the world’s new spheres All pain of forgotten dark times, Is broken by the light of a bright growing day Somewhere, somewhen... Empty new world, unknown surrounding The power of creation is now in our own hands Beyond the knowledge of everything outside our realm We are forever to be Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again |
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7. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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8. | Höllenfahrt der Selbsterkenntnis | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Wir haben den Augenblick, den lebenswichtigen Strahl Der noch andauert, der, wenn er erlischt Alles vergehen lässt... Ein Schatten in tiefer Dunkelheit. Die Sterne sind verloschen Wie im Herbst die Blätter fallen Für immer entschwunden In der endlosen Ödnis herrscht keine Regung mehr In der Nacht des Unwesens stürzt alles nieder Alles schweigt, alles schweigt Und die Maschine der Welt kehrt zurück - Doch mit euch vergeht die Zukunft Was einst war, wird nie mehr sein Wir sind erneut Vergangenheit, ohne Herz, trist und kalt... Wenn Schlaf, des Todes Bruder, würdig die Welt regiert Mit geschlossenen Lidern und seinen stillen Träumen Altert um mich die Zeit Wie eine alte Tanne auf hohem Felsen verdorre ich auf meinem Thron Bald wird der mächtige Tod Seinen schwarzen Mantel über mir ausbreiten... Und seine Flügel meinen Hauch auf ewig tragen Denn ich bin und werde immer Vergangenheit sein Ohne Seele, trist und kalt.... Alles fällt, alles schweigt Und alles ist mir fremd... Hier... |
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Sathonys "Voluptus" Asmoday | Guitars |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Carl Lang | Guitars |
Vlad Dracul | Vocals, Keyboards, Lyrics |
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Sathonys | Layout, Concept, Typography |
Matthias R. | Logo |
A. Theisen | Mixing, Engineering |
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1. | Intro (Quo Vadis, Peregrine) | 02:44 | |
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2. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:41 | Show lyrics |
Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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3. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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4. | În umbra timpului | 06:34 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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5. | Tristețea vehemență (Part 1) | 08:50 | Show lyrics |
Viata Dormiteaza Germinind Si-O Simt In Jur Universala Intr-o Nesfirsita Oboseala Si-n Absenta Ultimului Cind Iar Taina Aerului Otravit Intr-un Inceput De-nnoptare Alacelui Orizont Nemarginit Adoarme Fara Desteptare My ruined world ’s denying the earthly time Drained of all emotions... Immortality: Now be mine! My ruined dreams - remains of tortured years Who will be left to wipe away my bitter tears? Words of sorrow... sail, travelling on cold winds Words of tranquility... fail, dancing on my wounded lips I’m dying mostly alone Within life’s thin disguise And I can’t tame the blood And the heart THEY have baptized The scars burn deeply into my soul My smile has lost it’s brilliance My words become so trivial... Loosing all desire, Loosing all, but pride. Cu vehementa miniei tristetea Difuza se strecoara Printre-ncheieturi Ca un ghimpe de-otrava al florii vietii vestejite "Moartea succede vietii, viata succede la moarte Alt sens u-are lumea asta, n-are akt slop si-alta soarta!" ...Caci demult, aici, la marginea vietii Sub lumina siderala, nu mai traiesc in timp... Iar calendarul a reintrat in forma lui astrala "Te vad, Te aud, te cuget, Tinara si dulce veste, dintr-un cer cu-alte stele cu alte vise si alti zei" ...Pe drumuri delirind, pe-o vreme de toamna Ma urmareste-un Gind, Ce ma-ndeamna: "Dispari cit mai curind!" ...Caci visu-mi nu-i un dis pamintesc My ruined world’s grasping for a mystic thought Though the soul’s already tired of search My ruined dreams - Out of reach And the hopeless soul keeps on waiting, for whom? But who’s to know? |
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6. | Dies Irae | 04:15 | |
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7. | Outro (When Night Is Falling) | 02:14 | |
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Sathonys "Voluptus" Asmoday | Guitars |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Carl Lang | Guitars |
Vlad Dracul | Vocals, Keyboards, Lyrics |
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Sathonys | Layout, Concept, Typography |
Matthias R. | Logo |
A. Theisen | Mixing, Engineering |
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1. | Intro (Quo Vadis, Peregrine?) | 02:44 | instrumental |
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2. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:41 | Show lyrics |
Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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3. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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4. | În umbra timpului | 06:34 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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5. | Tristețea vehemență (Part 1) | 08:50 | Show lyrics |
Viata Dormiteaza Germinind Si-O Simt In Jur Universala Intr-o Nesfirsita Oboseala Si-n Absenta Ultimului Cind Iar Taina Aerului Otravit Intr-un Inceput De-nnoptare Alacelui Orizont Nemarginit Adoarme Fara Desteptare My ruined world ’s denying the earthly time Drained of all emotions... Immortality: Now be mine! My ruined dreams - remains of tortured years Who will be left to wipe away my bitter tears? Words of sorrow... sail, travelling on cold winds Words of tranquility... fail, dancing on my wounded lips I’m dying mostly alone Within life’s thin disguise And I can’t tame the blood And the heart THEY have baptized The scars burn deeply into my soul My smile has lost it’s brilliance My words become so trivial... Loosing all desire, Loosing all, but pride. Cu vehementa miniei tristetea Difuza se strecoara Printre-ncheieturi Ca un ghimpe de-otrava al florii vietii vestejite "Moartea succede vietii, viata succede la moarte Alt sens u-are lumea asta, n-are akt slop si-alta soarta!" ...Caci demult, aici, la marginea vietii Sub lumina siderala, nu mai traiesc in timp... Iar calendarul a reintrat in forma lui astrala "Te vad, Te aud, te cuget, Tinara si dulce veste, dintr-un cer cu-alte stele cu alte vise si alti zei" ...Pe drumuri delirind, pe-o vreme de toamna Ma urmareste-un Gind, Ce ma-ndeamna: "Dispari cit mai curind!" ...Caci visu-mi nu-i un dis pamintesc My ruined world’s grasping for a mystic thought Though the soul’s already tired of search My ruined dreams - Out of reach And the hopeless soul keeps on waiting, for whom? But who’s to know? |
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6. | Dies Irae | 04:15 | |
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7. | Outro (When Night Is Falling) | 02:14 | instrumental |
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Carpe Noctem
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Sathonys "Voluptus" Asmoday | Guitars |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Carl Lang | Guitars |
Vlad Dracul | Vocals, Keyboards, Lyrics |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Sathonys | Layout, Concept, Typography |
Matthias R. | Logo |
A. Theisen | Mixing, Engineering |
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1. | Intro (Quo Vadis, Peregrine) | 02:44 | |
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2. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:41 | Show lyrics |
Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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3. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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4. | În umbra timpului | 06:34 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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5. | Tristețea vehemență (Part 1) | 08:50 | Show lyrics |
Viata Dormiteaza Germinind Si-O Simt In Jur Universala Intr-o Nesfirsita Oboseala Si-n Absenta Ultimului Cind Iar Taina Aerului Otravit Intr-un Inceput De-nnoptare Alacelui Orizont Nemarginit Adoarme Fara Desteptare My ruined world ’s denying the earthly time Drained of all emotions... Immortality: Now be mine! My ruined dreams - remains of tortured years Who will be left to wipe away my bitter tears? Words of sorrow... sail, travelling on cold winds Words of tranquility... fail, dancing on my wounded lips I’m dying mostly alone Within life’s thin disguise And I can’t tame the blood And the heart THEY have baptized The scars burn deeply into my soul My smile has lost it’s brilliance My words become so trivial... Loosing all desire, Loosing all, but pride. Cu vehementa miniei tristetea Difuza se strecoara Printre-ncheieturi Ca un ghimpe de-otrava al florii vietii vestejite "Moartea succede vietii, viata succede la moarte Alt sens u-are lumea asta, n-are akt slop si-alta soarta!" ...Caci demult, aici, la marginea vietii Sub lumina siderala, nu mai traiesc in timp... Iar calendarul a reintrat in forma lui astrala "Te vad, Te aud, te cuget, Tinara si dulce veste, dintr-un cer cu-alte stele cu alte vise si alti zei" ...Pe drumuri delirind, pe-o vreme de toamna Ma urmareste-un Gind, Ce ma-ndeamna: "Dispari cit mai curind!" ...Caci visu-mi nu-i un dis pamintesc My ruined world’s grasping for a mystic thought Though the soul’s already tired of search My ruined dreams - Out of reach And the hopeless soul keeps on waiting, for whom? But who’s to know? |
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7. | Outro (When Night is Falling) | 02:14 | |
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1. | Intro (Quo Vadis, Peregrine) | 02:44 | |
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2. | Sfințit cu rouă suferinții | 04:41 | Show lyrics |
Cînd lumea se preschimbã-ntr-o umedã-nchisoare În care-n van speranta, biet liliac se zbate Lovindu-se de ziduri, cu-aripi sovãttoare Si dînd mereu cu capu’-n tavanele surpate Deodatã, mînioase, prind clopote sã sarã Si catre cer urlã-ngrozitoare Lungi si nesfîrsite convoaie mortuare Încet si fãrã muzici prin suflet trec mereu... M-ati sfintit cu roua suferintii Si mi-ati pus venin în sînge Iar speranta-nvinsã plînge Ca sufletul meu Si muta-i gura-dulce a altor vremi Cind timpul creste-n urma mea Iar eu mã-ntunec! E-o orã grea si mare Aripile-mi negre în ceruri se-ntind Astfel lume amuteste la-ntunecãri solare Astfel mare amuteste vulcane cînd s-aprind... Cînd prin a vietii visuri ostiri de nori apar A mortii umbrã slaba cu coasa si topor Tãcetil cumtac în spaimã, crestinii din popor Cînd evul asfinteste si sumnezeii mor! Se mistuie-n moarte si durere Vãpaia care-n mine a stralucit Ciudata întristare ce creste ca sie marea Pe-un tãrm stincos, pustiu... Peste flãcãri, peste fumuri, pe cadavre descãrnate Pe cîmpii deserte, pe altare profanate Vino, s-asezi pe ele tronul tãu de oseminte Înalta-te în culinea fumegîndelor morminte! Cãci eu nu mã las înrobit de tine, Crestine! |
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3. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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4. | În umbra timpului | 06:34 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion Monuments of distant knowledge and remains Stare undying from this end into the life They are the dark inside the night The ghosts of which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! O, suflet sparge-odata, ingustati inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-alest lut pamintesc! Oh, the scarlet skies drown the cold sun Onto the funeral cries of the dying eve And there’s a foreign shade in mine It’s the time’s greedy scythe! Eu te slavesc nocturna, cu bolta innoptarii O, doamna a tacerii, O, vas al intristarii Vreau sa m-agat detine, spre cer navala dind cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! |
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5. | Tristețea vehemență (Part 1) | 08:50 | Show lyrics |
Viata Dormiteaza Germinind Si-O Simt In Jur Universala Intr-o Nesfirsita Oboseala Si-n Absenta Ultimului Cind Iar Taina Aerului Otravit Intr-un Inceput De-nnoptare Alacelui Orizont Nemarginit Adoarme Fara Desteptare My ruined world ’s denying the earthly time Drained of all emotions... Immortality: Now be mine! My ruined dreams - remains of tortured years Who will be left to wipe away my bitter tears? Words of sorrow... sail, travelling on cold winds Words of tranquility... fail, dancing on my wounded lips I’m dying mostly alone Within life’s thin disguise And I can’t tame the blood And the heart THEY have baptized The scars burn deeply into my soul My smile has lost it’s brilliance My words become so trivial... Loosing all desire, Loosing all, but pride. Cu vehementa miniei tristetea Difuza se strecoara Printre-ncheieturi Ca un ghimpe de-otrava al florii vietii vestejite "Moartea succede vietii, viata succede la moarte Alt sens u-are lumea asta, n-are akt slop si-alta soarta!" ...Caci demult, aici, la marginea vietii Sub lumina siderala, nu mai traiesc in timp... Iar calendarul a reintrat in forma lui astrala "Te vad, Te aud, te cuget, Tinara si dulce veste, dintr-un cer cu-alte stele cu alte vise si alti zei" ...Pe drumuri delirind, pe-o vreme de toamna Ma urmareste-un Gind, Ce ma-ndeamna: "Dispari cit mai curind!" ...Caci visu-mi nu-i un dis pamintesc My ruined world’s grasping for a mystic thought Though the soul’s already tired of search My ruined dreams - Out of reach And the hopeless soul keeps on waiting, for whom? But who’s to know? |
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7. | Outro (When Night is Falling) | 02:14 | |
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Higher Art of Rebellion
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
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1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Sathonys | Cover art |
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1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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Side B | |||
8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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Higher Art of Rebellion
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Sathonys | Cover art |
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Side A | |||
1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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Side B | |||
7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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Higher Art of Rebellion
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Sathonys | Cover art |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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12. | Ribbons / Requiem ’99 | 06:49 | |
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13. | Body of Clay (remix) | 04:29 | |
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Higher Art of Rebellion
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Sathonys | Cover art |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Ne cheama pamintul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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6. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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7. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les posedes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Sathonys | Cover art |
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1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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13. | Body of Clay (remix) | 04:29 | |
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Higher Art of Rebellion
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Marko T. | Bass |
Matthias R. | Drums |
Hyperion | Guitars |
Vlad | Vocals, Lyrics |
Christine S. | Keyboards |
Akaias | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Byron | Vocals (clean) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Mihai Coman | Producer |
Vlad Dracul | Producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Axel Jusseit | Photography |
Tom Breuer | Cover art |
Sathonys | Cover art |
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1. | Ne cheamă pămîntul | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Ne Cheamă Pămîntul [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] La voi cobor acuma, voi suflete-amăgite, Și ca să vă ard fierea, o, spirite-amețite, Blestemul îl invoc; Blestemul mizantropic, cu vânăta lui gheară, Ca să vă scriu pe frunte, ca vita ce se-nfiară Cu fierul ars în foc... O, fiarbă-vă mânia în vinele stocite, În ochii stinși de moarte, pe frunți învinețite De sânge putrezit Ce am de-alege oare în seaca-vă ființă? Ce foc făr-a se stinge, ce drept fără să-mi mință, O, oameni morți de vii Vedeți cum urna crapă, cenușa reînvie, Cum murmură trecutul cu glas de bătălie Poporului roman; Cum umbrele se-mbracă în zale ferecate, Și frunțile cărunte le nalță de departe Un Cezar, un Traian. Cad putredele tronuri în marea de urgie, Se sfarmă deodată cu lanțul de sclavie Și sceptrele de fier; În două părți infernul portalele-și deschide, Spre-a încăpea cu mia răsufletele hâde Tiranilor ce pier! O, sfinte firi vizionare Ce făceați valul să cânte, ce puneați steaua să zboare, Ce creați o altă lume pe-astă lume de noroi; (Noi reducem tot la pravul azi în noi, mâini în ruină,) Proști și genii, mic și mare, sunet, sufletul, lumină, - Toate-s praf... Lumea-i cum este... și ca dânsa suntem noi. [Chorus:] Și singur stau și caut, ca uliul care cată În inima junimii de viața-i dezbrăcată Un stârv spre-a-l sfâșia... [English translate: Earth Summoning Us] to you I now descend, oh you, deluded souls. and to purge your sorrow, you forlorn spirits, the curse I shall invoke the misanthropic curse, with its sordid, purple claws to carve your forehead, instead of cattlebrand with iron burnt in fire in vain will pride be seethed in veins dried up and scorched in death-swallowed eyeballs, on foreheads purple-hued by putrid blood that died what can I ever chose from your exhausted entity no fires free from dying, no undeceiving right oh, you dead men walking see, how urns now burst, the ashes resurrect alike the past, which murmurs with the battle-cry of the roman empire see the far-off shadows, they dress in steely armour and raise their noble foreheads that gone grey great traian and great cesar the rotten thrones are crumbling swept by tempests waters the rulers iron scepters, the heavy chain of slaves together are now crushed the gates of the inferno outrageously wide-opened engulfing now by thousands the filthy, depraved breaths of tyrants grim who perish oh, holy visionary minds, who set the stars to sing... who create another world on this realms of mud and grime fools and wise, young and old, sound, soul and light all is dust, the world’s like this, and so we all are |
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2. | Tongue of Thorns | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Tongue Of Thorns A dying romance, bleeding for my sensation Would Death unmask the azure of the creation? Oh, stay far from my crown of certainties A dying romance, the blindman’s torch of ideals Men of stories, don’t try to robe my morningstar Cause it will never shine in your eden A dying romance, withered by your naivity The scent that I perceive comes from words Which escaped your mouth of flies Selfish, fetid romance You lick the shit of this world Men’s quintessence sways in streams of hope Drowning in silvercups always used at funerals Marvellous, when even Death tries to flee from you The flames leave their candles, soon they will die, too Immune to life... I’ll always die In the palms of heaven, where serpents lie Bedeviled Paradise... web of all sin Ethereal shadows rise, postmortem redeemed! Selfish, fetid romance You lick with a tongue of thorns!!! |
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3. | Glasul artei viitoare | 08:38 | Show lyrics |
Glasul Artei Viitoare [The lyrics in the booklet are littered with spelling mistakes; the following lyrics are correct.] Străinule ce bați la poartă... de unde vii și cine ești?... Străinule de lumea noastră, răspunde-ne de unde vii, Prin care lumi trăiși coșmarul nepovestitelor povești Și-n care stea găsiși coloarea decoloratei nebunii?... "De unde vin? De unde pot veni, când ochii-mi, Plini de regrete și tristeți par 2 candele aprinse în cripta morților poeți?" Priviți... sunt gol căci calea-mi fuse lungă Și-n calea mea-întâlnii pe rând Pe toți câți vrură să vă vândă Podoabe noi ce nu se vând, Pe cei ce vrură să vă-ndrumeze spre mai bine - Spre-acel îndepărtat întrezărit În armoniile eterne dintr-un sfârșit și-un infinit "De unde vin? Eu vin din lumea creată dincolo de zare - Din lumea-n care n-a fost nimeni din voi" Deschideți poarta dar, veniți în jurul meu degrabă, Porniți cu mine împreună spre lumea-n care nu-s castele cu punți și șanțuri feodale, Nici ruginite porți de-aramă, la care bat cei noi sosiți... Veniți cu toții cât mai e vreme, și mai puteți cânta! Veniți, să vă aprind în suflet lumina stinselor făclii Și-n versuri fantasmagoria și vraja noilor magii Iar cânturile voastre cu care azi cerșiți o pâine - Să le-ncunun cu strălucire aureolelor de mâine Dar poarta a rămas închisă la glasul artei viitoare! [English translate: Chant Of ’Morrow’s Art] Oh, stranger, who’s knocking on the portal Who are you, and where are you from? Oh, stranger to our world Answer, where do you come from? Where have you been living the nightmare Of these untold stories...? And in which star have you finally found The colour of our faded madness? ..."Where I come from? Where could I come from, when my eyes, full of sadness and regrets, look like two candles glowing in the crypt of the dead poets!!!" Behold, naked I am now, as I’ve trodden a long way Where I’ve been encountering, one by one, all those, - who wanted to sell jewels, that cannot be sold... - who wanted to lead the world towards "better times" towards that distant horizon... ...within the eternal harmony between end and infinity... "Where do I come from? I come from the world beyond horizons from the world, where no one of you has ever been before!!!" So open up the gates, gather all around me And we’ll walk together towards the world Where no castles and bridges exist, nor feudal ditches... Nor corroded bronze porches, which newcomers knock at Arrive yet, while time’s not up and you still may chant Come now, let me set ablaze the xtinguished torches in your soul Its phantasmagoria and the spell of new magiks, And those chants, you’re begging today for bread with I shall put together with the glowing of ’morrow’s aurorae... Though, the gates are still closed to the chant of ’future art... |
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4. | When She Is Mute | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There’s I don’t know what I don’t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She’s but a girl as they, and yet There’s something more, I don’t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don’t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There’s I don’t know why I don’t know what |
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5. | A Death in Its Plenitude | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
A Death In Its Plenitude Screaming day and night at the dark-forboding walls Lights dim before me and enthralls all I’ll always look the same in this cold, forsaken dark Teach me to drip own tears For the pain of other’s hearts Not the essence, but the woe of mankind To weep within my crying Root the strength of love and hatred Let blood flow in purest red Root the angels’ rage into my soul Let it grow There is something infidel that’s gonna happen today Be the witness, now and ever, abandoned angel of decay The obscurity’s curtain I paint as the blind Life’s tumult in the free fall The ghouls chasing its trace Oh, dreams, here ended all Is there something in us all That can last forever? I feel the strange penetrating my fibres Mocking at my vacant sferes Body parts cut cold evolving to a rotting culture A death in its plenitude!!! |
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6. | Body of Clay | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
Body Of Clay Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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7. | Novus Ordo Seclorum | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Novus Ordo Seclorum Putrid cross of ignorance, loss of reverence, whip of innocence Been listening to your mourning, watching you falling Deeper, farer, until your calling Evoked an eerie tone, that only you alone As a warning have known Guess, you’ve tried everything To be as me, to winback the soul I’ve kindly been Treating like my only son God’s shiny angel, I am gone and you what the hell have you become? Abandoned son, my fairly fallen angel, come on And tell your father, what will we become!? Angels, we dwell in hell, humiliating and sad as well The world succumbed, some tell And there I stand stone-still, hence In my own non-existance and muse upon consequence! Blood stained clay, forth from our sacred dissaray Someone will walk a new way And will close the door ’twixt us and common core Angel, did you really want this war? Scarlet lips of indecency (Scarlet lips of perversity) In search for a splintered tongue (Matching each face disguised) Sharpened words of intimacy They’ll need (all) my love (They’ll need my hatred) Sapience, pierce my flesh with your thorns of irony Angel falls and twists her wings and her gleaming breasts will rot like foul flesh, hence worms will dance to a macabre romance... the rape of sweetness in my eyes Decrepitude, pierce my tongue with your womanliness Suck the honey of my breath and tear faith apart Scratching suicidal love on life’s putrid skin I am your mortal son, so I am sin!!! Oh ye, in hell we are, humiliated and bizarre How only I have reached so far, my star And you, across that melting sky Waiting for me to die For everything must die, and within everything am I |
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8. | Back into the Shadows | 06:39 | Show lyrics |
Back Into The Shadows In the night of my final sacrifice I sent my soul Into the vast and fathomless unknown to find a word A word, that indicates the beyond. It came back later and spoke: "I am myself heaven and hell!" Sculptured in time as another chapter of life Sharp are the thorns of the roses, which lay dank upon me For too long I knew that I had to arrive Yet destination isn’t as linear as humanity Touch the feeling - touch the soul Touch the morning dew and see the glamour In my stark eyes reflecting The icon of a setting in a serene summer So many flowers give away to mystery and loneliness Their subtle perfume and their indifference So much jewelry’s forgotten in the soil, in darkness But who dares to tread the silent meadows That lie beyond the mirror of one’s self? Who dares to reach the phantoms of one’s heart? To behold the murderer of life and art? And what is death? What gives birth? What sells good or has no worth, When everything you feel is cold? Why am I? Who’s this hand? Whose decisions I can’t comprehend... But isn’t history foretold? There’s a tide... in the affairs of men Which, taken of it’s flood, leads on to fortune But all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries... But if you desire to see the light... As it truly is, clear and bright You must move - back into the shadows |
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9. | Les Posédes | 04:45 | Show lyrics |
Les Possedes Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O, suflet sparge-odata, ingusta-ti inchisoare Si scutura-te-odata de-acest lut pamintesc! Vreau sa m-agat de tine, spre cer navala dind Cum viermii de-un cadavru s-agata misunind! English translation of last verse: O, soul, break away from your tiny cage And shake off your body of clay I want to cling on to you, rushing towards heavens As maggots cling on to a dead body, creeping!!! |
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10. | Neovampirism | 06:12 | Show lyrics |
Neovampirism Grele ginduri, anemie, nocturn complot Noaptea-I vie, iar o mie de stele Ma privesc si eu tinjesc la ele Oglinda-I sparta si in ea se oglindeste tot! Desarte ginduri, lacomie, in mine tu Un inger, un demon, un univers apus Ca Marte de rosu, de moarte sedus Oglinda-s eu si in ea te oglindesti si tu Apropie-te, tirindu-te spre sinul natiunii In somnul calm al nestiutorilor Se vaita sufletele blestematilor Ce ca lacrimi rosii se scurg din cupa ratiunii Sterse pleoape-n adormire Peste voi, razvratire, iara mie Insomnie Eyes I’ve kept always open, never meaning to see Your white wings dipping into my crescent agony I love your bleeding, for it keeps me seeking And I won’t ever cease, cause it tastes like honey On my wounded lips For whom was that smile You wiped off so unpleased With your indecent fingertips? Would you bleed for me again For I adore its pounding on my seared tongue |
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11. | Heavens’s Coffin | 05:09 | Show lyrics |
Deep into the darkness peering Long I stood there fearing Dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before... But the silence was unbroken And the stillness gave no token And the only word there spoken Was the whispered word: "Veritas" This the dark whispered And an echo murmured back the word Merely this and nothing more! Fools and faith conspire Questions of desire That they never owned before Kings without their armour Men without their honour We all slip into oblivion We are the dark inside the night The ghosts about which the poets write And the dreams that night’s embrace That slowly leave without a trace... O! Suflet, sparge-odată îngusta-ți închisoare Și scutură-te-odată de lutul pământesc! Vreau să m-agăț de tine, spre cer năvală dând, Cum viermii de-un cadavru se-agață mișunând! |
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12. | Ribbons / Requiem ’99 | 06:49 | Show lyrics |
Random raining, ribbons of melancholy The moment dies right here, before me Grey horizons tarred to my days The curtain fell, still the solitary plays Dance with me, me dear The dance of those, who’ll never return Bleeding traces left behind, for the living Hear life forging with death It’s a gorgeous storm unfurling I’ve awaited for so long Now you taste like honey, dear, on my rigid tongue It’s soothing as you delve Into my crescent agony Your lips of tragedy licking my requiem I am betrayed by your kiss... "Would you bleed for me again, For I adore its pounding On your fetid, lifeless shell, it becomes like satin No love existing, oh, my darling, see I am the architect of this bitter-sweet abstract" A key, a door, a vision, remnants of a dream Corridor of conclusions thru wide ribbons seen Like a statue starring with the same cold eyes Honey, kill me again, for know now what I am Lay down with me, my dear Listen to this requiem, You always loved to hear Through you knew the words You did sing them wrong |
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13. | Body of Clay (remix) | 04:29 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears Cry with my pain Still in the cold Neverending rain With one of your kisses My words you’d freeze From one of your kisses My bleeding would cease Shed all my tears The flood devours all The earth, us, rushing... A shy, whispered call Death becomes angels Who won’t turn away Defying all my yearing And my body of clay Cry with my crying You end up like (a) mole Death loves the angels Retired into my soul As I’m drained and welken My last wish I sigh Let me be, darling Tears in your eye. |
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01:13:04 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Band members | |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
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4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
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7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
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4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
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7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Tracks | |||
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1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
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4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
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4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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Side B | |||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
|||
3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
|||
4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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Side B | |||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
---|---|
Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
|||
2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
|||
3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
|||
4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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Side B | |||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
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4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
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Side B | |||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Tracks | |||
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1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
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2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
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3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
|||
4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
|||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
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6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
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8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Chapter III
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Christine Schulte | Keyboards |
Marko Thomas | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Randu Menulesco | Vocals (track 8) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Melanie Starklauf | Model (Photography) |
Gerald Axelrod | Photography |
Sathonys | Cover art, Design |
Johannes Rau | Photography (band) |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering |
Gerhard Magin | Mixing |
Markus Staiger | Executive producer |
Vera Stieger | Model (Photography) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | An Angel’s Funeral | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
A weeping procession, moving through the snow Silent pale faces, perceptible pain Winter silence - terrible tranquillity Cold eyes starin’ far away Mirrors of mourning, nothing else Blinded by grief they are...everyone Awaitin’ your final way Watchin’ the frozen pit and see We’ve lost reality A field of crystal tears, the downfall of heaven Snow softly falls, frozen tears from above This bitter loss...an angel’s funeral A casket filled with beloved flesh Cold as the world around I can’t believe what my eyes see through clouds of icy breath No bird sings in dead trees No sound fills the frozen air I stand at the angel’s tomb... alone A whole world ending to exist |
|||
2. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | Show lyrics |
Spirit is your fate and burden Spirit is your destination Long times ago, in a dark night You felt body and soul unite In a dream of epiphany You were given perspecuity, Dignity, autonomy, supremacy! Ancient spirits cursed though your veins The sparks in you turned into flames You heard battle drums thundering Was this a dream or an awakening? A destining, foreshadowing offering? The gods have marked you for your life and death The gods will guide you up to your last breath [Chorus] You will lead a secret life sheltered by darkness Up to the day that the Spiritsoldiers will conquer, and then... The twilight mountains you will climb Brighter than the sun you will shine Louder than thunder you will roar Above the world your voice will soar Through the universe you will fly Expand the earth, tear up the sky Once your spirit will break free A new spring will bring liberty The gods blessed you with power and a vision The gods gave you life to accomplish a mission Being a soldier of spirit in a cold and shallow world Will at times seem to you rather a curse than a gift Sometimes you damn the ancient spirits Everything seems grim and senseless They tell you that there’s no forgiveness For the thousand "sins" you could confess Then you envy the blind fools Who thrive in mediacracies Who love and hate as they are told Devoted to trivialities Spirit Soldier Sometimes your dreams take you to the land Of purity, silence and soul Where you feel unchained and alive Where fate is under your control Then you thank the great omnipotent Creators of life and spirit That with the dawning of a new age You’ll be united with the infinite Spiritsoldier The gods sent you to provide for enlightenment The gods have placed you in line of their descent [Repeat Chorus] |
|||
3. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | Show lyrics |
Where the wind blows over the mountaintops into the ancient sky And the flowers whither in the shadows of an autumn night Misty fog arises from the valleys and hides the face of the moon Underneath the ground lies a forgotten wisdom deep entombed As long as ravens ride the nights As long as the spirit of the earth takes seat between the spheres The path beyond was locked behind the gates of consciousness - the mirror of the soul Time is passing by the mist, is creeping through the deserted land And all the forests throw their leaves into the growing realm of sand A whispered cry which told the tale of earth is hurt from above It drowns the night into bright light and breeds a paradise beyond And the wind unveils the hidden treasure from the soil A sweet melancholy fills the plain with a lovely sound Unleashing the key to the gates of consciousness Take my hand I’ll show you heaven And walk the path beyond with me Together we will stand the night and flee from the void |
|||
4. | The Ending of Our Yesterday | 04:32 | Show lyrics |
And when the moon enrapts the streams And trembles on the fen A thousand years have flown it seems Since then For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Little I knew in youth’s enchantment That it is alike absurd Or to lean against a shadow Or believe a woman’s word For if today I part the veil And see what time portended I feel that long ago the tale Was ended Though she once betrayed Though empty words spoken I wished she’d have stayed Remain with a heart that’s broken For I no longer am confined In that sweet country’s spell I have left you far behind Farewell Fair autumn still its breeze delays Upon the springs that wail and sigh And through the leaves the whisper strays Of my sad dreams that now must die |
|||
5. | Past Shadows | 05:02 | Show lyrics |
Now far I am from you, before my fire alone, And read again the hours that so silently have gone, And it seems that eighty years beneath my feet did glide, That I am old as winter, that maybe you have died. The shadows of the past swift stream across life’s floor The tale of all times, nothings that now exist no more; While the wind with clumsy fingers softly fumbles at the blind And sadly spins the fibre of the story in my mind... I see you stand before me in a mist that does enfold, Your eyes are full of tears, and your fingers long and cold; About my neck caressing your arms you gently ply And it seems you want to speak to me yet only sigh. And thus I clasp entranced my all, my world of grace, And both our lives are joined in that supreme embrace... Oh, let the voice of memory remain forever dumb, Forget the joy that was, but that nevermore will come, Forget how after an instant you thrust my arms aside, For now I’m old and lonely, and maybe you have died. |
|||
6. | Yesterday’s Reprise | 01:46 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
7. | Departure | 05:22 | Show lyrics |
We part for ever from today Farewell beloved one And I, unto may death, your way Will shun. I care not now where you may go You can no more bereave me Today the sweetest girl I know Does leave me. [Chorus:] And the air still moves my curtain As it used in times of yore... Moonlight down the lane uncertain Only you come nevermore Nor shall I as in former hours Build spanish castles high With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, When, shivering with bitter cold Through winter nights uncertain I watched lest you perhaps unfold Your curtain. O what delight to stroll with you Beneath that flowering trees When poured its light their branches through, The moon. [Repeat Chorus] That I might catch with rapturous thrill The words that you let fall And that today I barely still Recall. How often did I secretly pray Swift night her sails would furl That we might thus forever stray Fair girl. [Repeat Chorus] |
|||
8. | Sacred Divinity | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
In peaceful silence she lies there and sleeps Dreaming of secrets conceiled in the deeps Of our long forgotten history. Those who are devoted to her know that she keeps In her pure soul the key To our identity. I will guard your ancient dreams Protect my lovely sleeping beauty. I will give my life and love For my Sacred Divinity. Now the wintersun paints her in shining gold. Smiling she wakes up and asks me to hold Her gentle hand in mine. Her graceful white body trembles in the cold. She knows today the forces will aline - Forces hating the divine. I will save you from their blind And unreflecting treachery. I will guard your soul and life My Sacred Divinity. I will always stand by your side, Save you from their tyranny. Or I will die for my love, My Sacred Dininity. Hear the storm blowing, see the skies darkening, On marketplaces and in churches crowds of them are gathering! Here they come marching, betraying and lying, To take our love, and our souls, to destroy everything! They do not care for your soul and your purity! Nothing do they feel for you except of everlasting envy! Neither do they know nor understand your biography, They hate your beauty, hate all beauty, and fear your ascendency! After this cold day of sadness and grief She is left without any hope or belief In a day after this night. Will she in death find at last a relief, A place of silence and light Where everything is alright? I broke down and cried in sorrow In despair and mistery. I cried for my love and passion, My Sacred Divinity. All that I could do was stand there Helplessly in agony, And watch them dishonouring My Sacred Divinity. |
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9. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | Show lyrics |
Tumbling against walls of stone Arcades filled with silence The frozen hand of nothingness breaks my mind Crazed eyes follow my stars Echoes fill the air Locked in halls of solitude End my pain Exitless rooms, paths without end Useless days increase the burden of time Stonecast faces stare at me Prayin´ for release Every day another scar Break these chains I don’t see summer’s sun, Dark is my tomb I don’t feel autumn rain, My senses numb I don’t see winter’s snow, Blind are my eyes I don’t feel rising spring, Burden of time |
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42:44 |
Serpent’s Embrace
Members | |
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Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Eddie | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Ruth Knepel | Vocals (female) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Recording, Producer |
Katja Piolka | Photography, Artwork, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Cellos for the Insatiable | 04:05 | Show lyrics |
Once again, Jekyllish I follow the trail of fireflies and diamond eyes And moving like a fog, I starve to raise Sleepwalking hunter in the night Step into an ongoing nightmare Go - ride into blistering trails below - tear heart and soul Stop - for jekyllsih I’ll haunt you, though A sleepwalking hunter in despair - take care of you I brave for sin - Sheeding my skin Curtains fall over my shroud, around my wrists the orchestra plays Frozn, this bosom aches, piercing lullabies, piercing preys Only cellos, black robes and gowns, dimly dance for air in grief And looming portraits of a mother gazing at my inner pleas Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow I invoke the Queen of spades... and slowly breathe the verse of fate I reap the mists of grace to bid farewell to faith Clenched cries, her drowning sweet hands bygone, waving and fleeting Dull slave to my mournful twists she bled, like a rainbow leaking Wax victims in a ritual, echoes to quench my frailty at dawn The Fifth Horseman I become, riding those whispers spawned Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow Soon forgotten faces shine on shattered mirrors, remnants of rape Supremely, skin cellos play the ghost of melodies and darkest shade Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow A warm tune for claws and chaos I breed the rust of wind While, holding back loss, shame and tears I brave for sin - Shedding my skin |
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2. | Serpent’s Embrace | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
She was the dawn of a new day The crystal voice inside my head And at times she showed me eden Untrodden paths, a sky that’s bleeding Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace Darkness waiting in her eyes, her gaze Kissed by a fraudulent snake A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace She was the dawn of a new day but all it brought was pure dismay The sky and sun turned black Nailed black as ebony And there was no turning back No turning back A golden sun in past times, floating high above Looking back from now, a collection of strange days for, love And at times I realized Everything must surely end - some day Darkness waiting in her eyes Darkness waiting in her gaze She gave birth to a worm of lies A place of shadows mourn A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Every dawn of a new day Too far away, but death is cheap There’s a giant, black sun bellow Maybe just below the ground, about six feet deep - Beneath the undertow Beneath the undertow |
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3. | Rebirth | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
I have seen how the same human souls Wander through different bodies Drifting through the centuries When flesh decayed For ages drifting in the wind Through landscapes unknown Among worlds where the suns never die Where moonlight is bright as day Beyond timeless void Beyond all the spheres In a realm where the powers of earth Are bound in the fathomless sky An endless journey Perpetual suffering When heartbeat has died And earthly life has ended The trip through the emptiness begins Vultures free your bones From flesh and blood Make your spirit soar Your soul lost in space Struggling for a new life Awaiting rebirth To be captures In a human body again |
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4. | Light Reborn | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
On a though I’d rest Like a sigh in a glorious gloom I crawl under her skin To divinely kiss her sin I just claim on my purity In external community I’m not searching for (any) solutions But trying to avoid confusions Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance If you are here to obey me You get what you deserve When thoughts pursue me Can’t decide what’s true in me Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance To disguise desire’s utopia To feed THE emotional idea |
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5. | Faded Years | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
To not forget our loving, should I a sign implore? I’d ask for you, but dearest, you are your own no more Nor do I beg a flower from in your golden hair Forgetfulness, beloved is but my single player Oh what a sad sensation, when joy that soon did wane Not swift with it to vanish, but ever here remain! When through tits life to wander it has been writ, it seem A dream made out of shadow, a shadow made of dream No matter when I die, this or some later day My wish is out of the mind of all to I pass away And you forget the dream that our two hearts endears When you loom back, beloved, upon the faded years Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time As though those hours of wonder in fact we did not live That I so deeply love you dear one can you forgive? My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now Afar of in distance a flock of crows arise And darken all the heavens before my sightless eyes Beyond the earth’s steep margin a hurricane does start Flinging to the world my dust and to the wind my heart Yet as in spring the blossom do you remain the while With gentle eyes and humid and tender, childish smile So much a child, yet seeming each day to younger grow And of my fate know nothing as I too nothing know My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now |
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6. | Solitude | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
One wish alone have I In some calm land beside the sea to die Upon its strand That I forever sleep The forest near, a heaven near Stretched over the peaceful deep That no one weeps my end Nor for me grieves But let the autumn lend Tongues to the leaves No candles shine Nor tomb I need, instead Let them for me a bed Or twigs entwine When brooklet ripples fall With murmuring sound And moon is found Among the pine trees tall While softly rings The wind it’s trembling chime And over me the lime In blossem flings As I will then no more a wanderer be Let them with fondness store my memory And Lucifer the while Above the pine, good comrade mine Will on me gently smile? In mournful mood The sea sing sad refrain... And I be earth again In solitude |
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7. | Limbs of a Stare | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
A garden of seeds lost, ashen spirits embrace me in pain Like scars that shed the plague of flames, my thirst awakes Aceless to my feelings, inimicial to my pulse, like disease Sand in my eyes, I am hiding from pleasure, yearning for breeze Draw my bare tears from this melody now that I can’t flee Take refuge in me or vanish, my beauty, bring or tear the silk To weave the drops of passion or strike the winds of misfortune Mourning I stand, my senses in abyss, under skies of torture Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I an crawling to feel desire To shape your truth and fire Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare To dream a leaf without it’s tree, to follow it’s silence I hear no sense, but a scream of lips and sighs in vastness A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar Bear witness to my memories of flesh that will never rise The dice of desperation reveals a black rose lays on my mind Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I am prowling to feel desire To yield to bounds and pyres Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare... A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar |
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8. | The Darkness Inside | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Life sometimes feels like a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? They say that time does slowly heal But memories amplify the pain I feel Forever haunting me, it’s so unreal And still we dream... as we walk down the line... We forever sleep Since ages dead inside A plunge red shrine Emotions and hope subside Foul like altar wine Life sometimes into a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? Not when luck has gone And I said Not when luck has gone Living a life beyond light With darkness to pattern my fate Feelings left aside Left with despair and nothing but hate Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Life sometimes even seems like it goes on Still every step you take is a wrong one Maybe you can wake up anytime you like But you can never leave You will never achieve The feeling that life goes on Or are we already gone? Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Floods my heart and mind A lifeless thing in living guise Leaping off to quick demise A blind man in a cave of eternal light Remnants of a dream that fades Life at times is hard to comprehend But every step leads further to the end Still even death is but a guess And darkness weaves with many shades Darkness weaves with many shades Take a look beyond the silver glades See darkness weave with many shades |
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9. | Bitter End | 03:37 | Show lyrics |
Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... The thought has aged me whole It ruined body, mind and soul Oh, thoughtless if I’d been born Couldn’t wail, nor could I’ve been torn Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are I’d want to live without knowing In this world or in it’s following Since then, misanthropy My alibi you should be And when the grand dark hour falls I’d be far from mankind’s calls Into the great wide I would dive Unaware if I am dead or alive! Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are |
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10. | Feelings | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
Endless fear, darkness holds me I don’t know if I’m wrong or right Where’s my world that I loved so before? All has gone, bleeding and dying I don’t know what you have done to me Left me hollow inside, feel like dirt I wanna slam you, just wanna kill you All I want to see is you, lying down in pain Forever I’ll hate you Was all that I could say Leaving the ghost of you behind Tears of sorrow I’ll never spill again Scratchin your face out of my mind Are you really sure what you wanna be now? It’s just a fake to me, yes Fuck yourself and die a painful death I don’t need you to love me anymore Get away and leave my life alone One step away from twisting your neck The crown of the human race Fuck you, is it really you Loving you, killing you, loving you Killing you |
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Serpent’s Embrace
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Eddie | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Ruth Knepel | Vocals (female) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Recording, Producer |
Katja Piolka | Photography, Artwork, Design |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Cellos for the Insatiable | 04:06 | Show lyrics |
Once again, Jekyllish I follow the trail of fireflies and diamond eyes And moving like a fog, I starve to raise Sleepwalking hunter in the night Step into an ongoing nightmare Go - ride into blistering trails below - tear heart and soul Stop - for jekyllsih I’ll haunt you, though A sleepwalking hunter in despair - take care of you I brave for sin - Sheeding my skin Curtains fall over my shroud, around my wrists the orchestra plays Frozn, this bosom aches, piercing lullabies, piercing preys Only cellos, black robes and gowns, dimly dance for air in grief And looming portraits of a mother gazing at my inner pleas Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow I invoke the Queen of spades... and slowly breathe the verse of fate I reap the mists of grace to bid farewell to faith Clenched cries, her drowning sweet hands bygone, waving and fleeting Dull slave to my mournful twists she bled, like a rainbow leaking Wax victims in a ritual, echoes to quench my frailty at dawn The Fifth Horseman I become, riding those whispers spawned Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow Soon forgotten faces shine on shattered mirrors, remnants of rape Supremely, skin cellos play the ghost of melodies and darkest shade Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow A warm tune for claws and chaos I breed the rust of wind While, holding back loss, shame and tears I brave for sin - Shedding my skin |
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2. | Serpent’s Embrace | 04:17 | Show lyrics |
She was the dawn of a new day The crystal voice inside my head And at times she showed me eden Untrodden paths, a sky that’s bleeding Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace Darkness waiting in her eyes, her gaze Kissed by a fraudulent snake A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace She was the dawn of a new day but all it brought was pure dismay The sky and sun turned black Nailed black as ebony And there was no turning back No turning back A golden sun in past times, floating high above Looking back from now, a collection of strange days for, love And at times I realized Everything must surely end - some day Darkness waiting in her eyes Darkness waiting in her gaze She gave birth to a worm of lies A place of shadows mourn A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Every dawn of a new day Too far away, but death is cheap There’s a giant, black sun bellow Maybe just below the ground, about six feet deep - Beneath the undertow Beneath the undertow |
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3. | Rebirth | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
I have seen how the same human souls Wander through different bodies Drifting through the centuries When flesh decayed For ages drifting in the wind Through landscapes unknown Among worlds where the suns never die Where moonlight is bright as day Beyond timeless void Beyond all the spheres In a realm where the powers of earth Are bound in the fathomless sky An endless journey Perpetual suffering When heartbeat has died And earthly life has ended The trip through the emptiness begins Vultures free your bones From flesh and blood Make your spirit soar Your soul lost in space Struggling for a new life Awaiting rebirth To be captures In a human body again |
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4. | Light Reborn | 04:04 | Show lyrics |
On a though I’d rest Like a sigh in a glorious gloom I crawl under her skin To divinely kiss her sin I just claim on my purity In external community I’m not searching for (any) solutions But trying to avoid confusions Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance If you are here to obey me You get what you deserve When thoughts pursue me Can’t decide what’s true in me Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance To disguise desire’s utopia To feed THE emotional idea |
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5. | Faded Years | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
To not forget our loving, should I a sign implore? I’d ask for you, but dearest, you are your own no more Nor do I beg a flower from in your golden hair Forgetfulness, beloved is but my single player Oh what a sad sensation, when joy that soon did wane Not swift with it to vanish, but ever here remain! When through tits life to wander it has been writ, it seem A dream made out of shadow, a shadow made of dream No matter when I die, this or some later day My wish is out of the mind of all to I pass away And you forget the dream that our two hearts endears When you loom back, beloved, upon the faded years Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time As though those hours of wonder in fact we did not live That I so deeply love you dear one can you forgive? My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now Afar of in distance a flock of crows arise And darken all the heavens before my sightless eyes Beyond the earth’s steep margin a hurricane does start Flinging to the world my dust and to the wind my heart Yet as in spring the blossom do you remain the while With gentle eyes and humid and tender, childish smile So much a child, yet seeming each day to younger grow And of my fate know nothing as I too nothing know My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now |
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6. | Solitude | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
One wish alone have I In some calm land beside the sea to die Upon its strand That I forever sleep The forest near, a heaven near Stretched over the peaceful deep That no one weeps my end Nor for me grieves But let the autumn lend Tongues to the leaves No candles shine Nor tomb I need, instead Let them for me a bed Or twigs entwine When brooklet ripples fall With murmuring sound And moon is found Among the pine trees tall While softly rings The wind it’s trembling chime And over me the lime In blossem flings As I will then no more a wanderer be Let them with fondness store my memory And Lucifer the while Above the pine, good comrade mine Will on me gently smile? In mournful mood The sea sing sad refrain... And I be earth again In solitude |
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7. | Limbs of a Stare | 05:28 | Show lyrics |
A garden of seeds lost, ashen spirits embrace me in pain Like scars that shed the plague of flames, my thirst awakes Aceless to my feelings, inimicial to my pulse, like disease Sand in my eyes, I am hiding from pleasure, yearning for breeze Draw my bare tears from this melody now that I can’t flee Take refuge in me or vanish, my beauty, bring or tear the silk To weave the drops of passion or strike the winds of misfortune Mourning I stand, my senses in abyss, under skies of torture Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I an crawling to feel desire To shape your truth and fire Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare To dream a leaf without it’s tree, to follow it’s silence I hear no sense, but a scream of lips and sighs in vastness A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar Bear witness to my memories of flesh that will never rise The dice of desperation reveals a black rose lays on my mind Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I am prowling to feel desire To yield to bounds and pyres Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare... A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar |
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8. | The Darkness Inside | 05:01 | Show lyrics |
Life sometimes feels like a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? They say that time does slowly heal But memories amplify the pain I feel Forever haunting me, it’s so unreal And still we dream... as we walk down the line... We forever sleep Since ages dead inside A plunge red shrine Emotions and hope subside Foul like altar wine Life sometimes into a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? Not when luck has gone And I said Not when luck has gone Living a life beyond light With darkness to pattern my fate Feelings left aside Left with despair and nothing but hate Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Life sometimes even seems like it goes on Still every step you take is a wrong one Maybe you can wake up anytime you like But you can never leave You will never achieve The feeling that life goes on Or are we already gone? Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Floods my heart and mind A lifeless thing in living guise Leaping off to quick demise A blind man in a cave of eternal light Remnants of a dream that fades Life at times is hard to comprehend But every step leads further to the end Still even death is but a guess And darkness weaves with many shades Darkness weaves with many shades Take a look beyond the silver glades See darkness weave with many shades |
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9. | Bitter End | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... The thought has aged me whole It ruined body, mind and soul Oh, thoughtless if I’d been born Couldn’t wail, nor could I’ve been torn Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are I’d want to live without knowing In this world or in it’s following Since then, misanthropy My alibi you should be And when the grand dark hour falls I’d be far from mankind’s calls Into the great wide I would dive Unaware if I am dead or alive! Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are |
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10. | Feelings | 05:29 | Show lyrics |
Endless fear, darkness holds me I don’t know if I’m wrong or right Where’s my world that I loved so before? All has gone, bleeding and dying I don’t know what you have done to me Left me hollow inside, feel like dirt I wanna slam you, just wanna kill you All I want to see is you, lying down in pain Forever I’ll hate you Was all that I could say Leaving the ghost of you behind Tears of sorrow I’ll never spill again Scratchin your face out of my mind Are you really sure what you wanna be now? It’s just a fake to me, yes Fuck yourself and die a painful death I don’t need you to love me anymore Get away and leave my life alone One step away from twisting your neck The crown of the human race Fuck you, is it really you Loving you, killing you, loving you Killing you |
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12. | Noaptea neființei | 03:39 | |
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56:43 |
Serpent’s Embrace
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Eddie | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Ruth Knepel | Vocals (female) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Recording, Producer |
Katja Piolka | Photography, Artwork, Design |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
1. | Cellos for the Insatiable | 04:05 | Show lyrics |
Once again, Jekyllish I follow the trail of fireflies and diamond eyes And moving like a fog, I starve to raise Sleepwalking hunter in the night Step into an ongoing nightmare Go - ride into blistering trails below - tear heart and soul Stop - for jekyllsih I’ll haunt you, though A sleepwalking hunter in despair - take care of you I brave for sin - Sheeding my skin Curtains fall over my shroud, around my wrists the orchestra plays Frozn, this bosom aches, piercing lullabies, piercing preys Only cellos, black robes and gowns, dimly dance for air in grief And looming portraits of a mother gazing at my inner pleas Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow I invoke the Queen of spades... and slowly breathe the verse of fate I reap the mists of grace to bid farewell to faith Clenched cries, her drowning sweet hands bygone, waving and fleeting Dull slave to my mournful twists she bled, like a rainbow leaking Wax victims in a ritual, echoes to quench my frailty at dawn The Fifth Horseman I become, riding those whispers spawned Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow Soon forgotten faces shine on shattered mirrors, remnants of rape Supremely, skin cellos play the ghost of melodies and darkest shade Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow A warm tune for claws and chaos I breed the rust of wind While, holding back loss, shame and tears I brave for sin - Shedding my skin |
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2. | Serpent’s Embrace | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
She was the dawn of a new day The crystal voice inside my head And at times she showed me eden Untrodden paths, a sky that’s bleeding Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace Darkness waiting in her eyes, her gaze Kissed by a fraudulent snake A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace She was the dawn of a new day but all it brought was pure dismay The sky and sun turned black Nailed black as ebony And there was no turning back No turning back A golden sun in past times, floating high above Looking back from now, a collection of strange days for, love And at times I realized Everything must surely end - some day Darkness waiting in her eyes Darkness waiting in her gaze She gave birth to a worm of lies A place of shadows mourn A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Every dawn of a new day Too far away, but death is cheap There’s a giant, black sun bellow Maybe just below the ground, about six feet deep - Beneath the undertow Beneath the undertow |
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3. | Rebirth | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
I have seen how the same human souls Wander through different bodies Drifting through the centuries When flesh decayed For ages drifting in the wind Through landscapes unknown Among worlds where the suns never die Where moonlight is bright as day Beyond timeless void Beyond all the spheres In a realm where the powers of earth Are bound in the fathomless sky An endless journey Perpetual suffering When heartbeat has died And earthly life has ended The trip through the emptiness begins Vultures free your bones From flesh and blood Make your spirit soar Your soul lost in space Struggling for a new life Awaiting rebirth To be captures In a human body again |
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4. | Light Reborn | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
On a though I’d rest Like a sigh in a glorious gloom I crawl under her skin To divinely kiss her sin I just claim on my purity In external community I’m not searching for (any) solutions But trying to avoid confusions Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance If you are here to obey me You get what you deserve When thoughts pursue me Can’t decide what’s true in me Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance To disguise desire’s utopia To feed THE emotional idea |
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5. | Faded Years | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
To not forget our loving, should I a sign implore? I’d ask for you, but dearest, you are your own no more Nor do I beg a flower from in your golden hair Forgetfulness, beloved is but my single player Oh what a sad sensation, when joy that soon did wane Not swift with it to vanish, but ever here remain! When through tits life to wander it has been writ, it seem A dream made out of shadow, a shadow made of dream No matter when I die, this or some later day My wish is out of the mind of all to I pass away And you forget the dream that our two hearts endears When you loom back, beloved, upon the faded years Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time As though those hours of wonder in fact we did not live That I so deeply love you dear one can you forgive? My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now Afar of in distance a flock of crows arise And darken all the heavens before my sightless eyes Beyond the earth’s steep margin a hurricane does start Flinging to the world my dust and to the wind my heart Yet as in spring the blossom do you remain the while With gentle eyes and humid and tender, childish smile So much a child, yet seeming each day to younger grow And of my fate know nothing as I too nothing know My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now |
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6. | Solitude | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
One wish alone have I In some calm land beside the sea to die Upon its strand That I forever sleep The forest near, a heaven near Stretched over the peaceful deep That no one weeps my end Nor for me grieves But let the autumn lend Tongues to the leaves No candles shine Nor tomb I need, instead Let them for me a bed Or twigs entwine When brooklet ripples fall With murmuring sound And moon is found Among the pine trees tall While softly rings The wind it’s trembling chime And over me the lime In blossem flings As I will then no more a wanderer be Let them with fondness store my memory And Lucifer the while Above the pine, good comrade mine Will on me gently smile? In mournful mood The sea sing sad refrain... And I be earth again In solitude |
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7. | Limbs of a Stare | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
A garden of seeds lost, ashen spirits embrace me in pain Like scars that shed the plague of flames, my thirst awakes Aceless to my feelings, inimicial to my pulse, like disease Sand in my eyes, I am hiding from pleasure, yearning for breeze Draw my bare tears from this melody now that I can’t flee Take refuge in me or vanish, my beauty, bring or tear the silk To weave the drops of passion or strike the winds of misfortune Mourning I stand, my senses in abyss, under skies of torture Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I an crawling to feel desire To shape your truth and fire Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare To dream a leaf without it’s tree, to follow it’s silence I hear no sense, but a scream of lips and sighs in vastness A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar Bear witness to my memories of flesh that will never rise The dice of desperation reveals a black rose lays on my mind Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I am prowling to feel desire To yield to bounds and pyres Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare... A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar |
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8. | The Darkness Inside | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Life sometimes feels like a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? They say that time does slowly heal But memories amplify the pain I feel Forever haunting me, it’s so unreal And still we dream... as we walk down the line... We forever sleep Since ages dead inside A plunge red shrine Emotions and hope subside Foul like altar wine Life sometimes into a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? Not when luck has gone And I said Not when luck has gone Living a life beyond light With darkness to pattern my fate Feelings left aside Left with despair and nothing but hate Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Life sometimes even seems like it goes on Still every step you take is a wrong one Maybe you can wake up anytime you like But you can never leave You will never achieve The feeling that life goes on Or are we already gone? Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Floods my heart and mind A lifeless thing in living guise Leaping off to quick demise A blind man in a cave of eternal light Remnants of a dream that fades Life at times is hard to comprehend But every step leads further to the end Still even death is but a guess And darkness weaves with many shades Darkness weaves with many shades Take a look beyond the silver glades See darkness weave with many shades |
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9. | Bitter End | 03:37 | Show lyrics |
Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... The thought has aged me whole It ruined body, mind and soul Oh, thoughtless if I’d been born Couldn’t wail, nor could I’ve been torn Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are I’d want to live without knowing In this world or in it’s following Since then, misanthropy My alibi you should be And when the grand dark hour falls I’d be far from mankind’s calls Into the great wide I would dive Unaware if I am dead or alive! Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are |
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10. | Feelings | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
Endless fear, darkness holds me I don’t know if I’m wrong or right Where’s my world that I loved so before? All has gone, bleeding and dying I don’t know what you have done to me Left me hollow inside, feel like dirt I wanna slam you, just wanna kill you All I want to see is you, lying down in pain Forever I’ll hate you Was all that I could say Leaving the ghost of you behind Tears of sorrow I’ll never spill again Scratchin your face out of my mind Are you really sure what you wanna be now? It’s just a fake to me, yes Fuck yourself and die a painful death I don’t need you to love me anymore Get away and leave my life alone One step away from twisting your neck The crown of the human race Fuck you, is it really you Loving you, killing you, loving you Killing you |
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1. | Spirit Soldier | 05:36 | |
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2. | Paradise Beyond | 05:31 | |
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3. | Burden of Time | 04:07 | |
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4. | Sacred Divinity | 06:31 | |
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5. | Banner of Blasphemy | 05:37 | |
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6. | Near Dark | 16:10 | |
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7. | Noaptea neființei | 03:40 | |
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8. | Outro | 02:10 | |
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49:22 |
Serpent’s Embrace
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Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Matze | Drums |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Eddie | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Ruth Knepel | Vocals (female) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Recording, Producer |
Katja Piolka | Photography, Artwork, Design |
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1. | Cellos for the Insatiable | 04:05 | Show lyrics |
Once again, Jekyllish I follow the trail of fireflies and diamond eyes And moving like a fog, I starve to raise Sleepwalking hunter in the night Step into an ongoing nightmare Go - ride into blistering trails below - tear heart and soul Stop - for jekyllsih I’ll haunt you, though A sleepwalking hunter in despair - take care of you I brave for sin - Sheeding my skin Curtains fall over my shroud, around my wrists the orchestra plays Frozn, this bosom aches, piercing lullabies, piercing preys Only cellos, black robes and gowns, dimly dance for air in grief And looming portraits of a mother gazing at my inner pleas Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow I invoke the Queen of spades... and slowly breathe the verse of fate I reap the mists of grace to bid farewell to faith Clenched cries, her drowning sweet hands bygone, waving and fleeting Dull slave to my mournful twists she bled, like a rainbow leaking Wax victims in a ritual, echoes to quench my frailty at dawn The Fifth Horseman I become, riding those whispers spawned Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow Soon forgotten faces shine on shattered mirrors, remnants of rape Supremely, skin cellos play the ghost of melodies and darkest shade Fear me for Jekyllish I’ll haunt your trail of fireflies and diamond eyes Moving like a fog, I starve too raise. Sleepwalking fiend, Caligarish sorrow A warm tune for claws and chaos I breed the rust of wind While, holding back loss, shame and tears I brave for sin - Shedding my skin |
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2. | Serpent’s Embrace | 04:15 | Show lyrics |
She was the dawn of a new day The crystal voice inside my head And at times she showed me eden Untrodden paths, a sky that’s bleeding Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace Darkness waiting in her eyes, her gaze Kissed by a fraudulent snake A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Serpent’s embrace She was the dawn of a new day but all it brought was pure dismay The sky and sun turned black Nailed black as ebony And there was no turning back No turning back A golden sun in past times, floating high above Looking back from now, a collection of strange days for, love And at times I realized Everything must surely end - some day Darkness waiting in her eyes Darkness waiting in her gaze She gave birth to a worm of lies A place of shadows mourn A soul eater - Serpent’s embrace Every dawn of a new day Too far away, but death is cheap There’s a giant, black sun bellow Maybe just below the ground, about six feet deep - Beneath the undertow Beneath the undertow |
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3. | Rebirth | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
I have seen how the same human souls Wander through different bodies Drifting through the centuries When flesh decayed For ages drifting in the wind Through landscapes unknown Among worlds where the suns never die Where moonlight is bright as day Beyond timeless void Beyond all the spheres In a realm where the powers of earth Are bound in the fathomless sky An endless journey Perpetual suffering When heartbeat has died And earthly life has ended The trip through the emptiness begins Vultures free your bones From flesh and blood Make your spirit soar Your soul lost in space Struggling for a new life Awaiting rebirth To be captures In a human body again |
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4. | Light Reborn | 05:03 | Show lyrics |
On a though I’d rest Like a sigh in a glorious gloom I crawl under her skin To divinely kiss her sin I just claim on my purity In external community I’m not searching for (any) solutions But trying to avoid confusions Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance If you are here to obey me You get what you deserve When thoughts pursue me Can’t decide what’s true in me Till fades the very earth and sky Your heart completely broken And all the world hangs on a sigh A word but partly spoken I’m looking for resistance And you’ll feel my persistance To disguise desire’s utopia To feed THE emotional idea |
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5. | Faded Years | 05:42 | Show lyrics |
To not forget our loving, should I a sign implore? I’d ask for you, but dearest, you are your own no more Nor do I beg a flower from in your golden hair Forgetfulness, beloved is but my single player Oh what a sad sensation, when joy that soon did wane Not swift with it to vanish, but ever here remain! When through tits life to wander it has been writ, it seem A dream made out of shadow, a shadow made of dream No matter when I die, this or some later day My wish is out of the mind of all to I pass away And you forget the dream that our two hearts endears When you loom back, beloved, upon the faded years Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time As though those hours of wonder in fact we did not live That I so deeply love you dear one can you forgive? My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? Let in the depths of shadow my memory be gone As though we midst our loving each other had not known A chant of lamentation within cold walls of chime To beg for me in weeping the peace of endless time While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now Afar of in distance a flock of crows arise And darken all the heavens before my sightless eyes Beyond the earth’s steep margin a hurricane does start Flinging to the world my dust and to the wind my heart Yet as in spring the blossom do you remain the while With gentle eyes and humid and tender, childish smile So much a child, yet seeming each day to younger grow And of my fate know nothing as I too nothing know My face turned to the desert you left me all alone And cold beneath my eyelids my eyes have turned to stone And when at last death’s soil my body does reclaim Then who will know me or know from whence I came? While then... should they my body into the gutter throw Still that would be far better than what I suffer now |
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6. | Solitude | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
One wish alone have I In some calm land beside the sea to die Upon its strand That I forever sleep The forest near, a heaven near Stretched over the peaceful deep That no one weeps my end Nor for me grieves But let the autumn lend Tongues to the leaves No candles shine Nor tomb I need, instead Let them for me a bed Or twigs entwine When brooklet ripples fall With murmuring sound And moon is found Among the pine trees tall While softly rings The wind it’s trembling chime And over me the lime In blossem flings As I will then no more a wanderer be Let them with fondness store my memory And Lucifer the while Above the pine, good comrade mine Will on me gently smile? In mournful mood The sea sing sad refrain... And I be earth again In solitude |
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7. | Limbs of a Stare | 05:27 | Show lyrics |
A garden of seeds lost, ashen spirits embrace me in pain Like scars that shed the plague of flames, my thirst awakes Aceless to my feelings, inimicial to my pulse, like disease Sand in my eyes, I am hiding from pleasure, yearning for breeze Draw my bare tears from this melody now that I can’t flee Take refuge in me or vanish, my beauty, bring or tear the silk To weave the drops of passion or strike the winds of misfortune Mourning I stand, my senses in abyss, under skies of torture Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I an crawling to feel desire To shape your truth and fire Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare To dream a leaf without it’s tree, to follow it’s silence I hear no sense, but a scream of lips and sighs in vastness A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar Bear witness to my memories of flesh that will never rise The dice of desperation reveals a black rose lays on my mind Devour my womb, these obscure roots Release my dying touch, unchain me from my doom I am prowling to feel desire To yield to bounds and pyres Crawling towards you, with the limbs of a stare... A thirteenth shadow in my nightmare you become And it’s you in every rain, in every ballet and sun Within my nest I bleed the coming of eves, hollow heart Slave to this blessed state which sends my dreams afar |
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8. | The Darkness Inside | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
Life sometimes feels like a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? They say that time does slowly heal But memories amplify the pain I feel Forever haunting me, it’s so unreal And still we dream... as we walk down the line... We forever sleep Since ages dead inside A plunge red shrine Emotions and hope subside Foul like altar wine Life sometimes into a nightmare When every step you take is a wrong one With only binary choices there Seeming fair? Not when luck has gone And I said Not when luck has gone Living a life beyond light With darkness to pattern my fate Feelings left aside Left with despair and nothing but hate Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Life sometimes even seems like it goes on Still every step you take is a wrong one Maybe you can wake up anytime you like But you can never leave You will never achieve The feeling that life goes on Or are we already gone? Left to witness The final fall of mankind No outcome of existence Floods my heart and mind A lifeless thing in living guise Leaping off to quick demise A blind man in a cave of eternal light Remnants of a dream that fades Life at times is hard to comprehend But every step leads further to the end Still even death is but a guess And darkness weaves with many shades Darkness weaves with many shades Take a look beyond the silver glades See darkness weave with many shades |
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9. | Bitter End | 03:37 | Show lyrics |
Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... The thought has aged me whole It ruined body, mind and soul Oh, thoughtless if I’d been born Couldn’t wail, nor could I’ve been torn Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are I’d want to live without knowing In this world or in it’s following Since then, misanthropy My alibi you should be And when the grand dark hour falls I’d be far from mankind’s calls Into the great wide I would dive Unaware if I am dead or alive! Once I sat down and pondered About a sense I have wondered I have searched my deep, inner core And I said... to think I shall not anymore... Fetid thought, spawning curse I shouldn’t invoke thee anymore Only pain and suffering you brought The worst disappointment you are |
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10. | Feelings | 05:26 | Show lyrics |
Endless fear, darkness holds me I don’t know if I’m wrong or right Where’s my world that I loved so before? All has gone, bleeding and dying I don’t know what you have done to me Left me hollow inside, feel like dirt I wanna slam you, just wanna kill you All I want to see is you, lying down in pain Forever I’ll hate you Was all that I could say Leaving the ghost of you behind Tears of sorrow I’ll never spill again Scratchin your face out of my mind Are you really sure what you wanna be now? It’s just a fake to me, yes Fuck yourself and die a painful death I don’t need you to love me anymore Get away and leave my life alone One step away from twisting your neck The crown of the human race Fuck you, is it really you Loving you, killing you, loving you Killing you |
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Phoenix
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Ashtrael | Vocals |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals (tracks 11, 12) |
Jonas Iscariot | Vocals (track 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Sathonys | Photography, Layout |
Rares.C | Cover art |
Andrea Reitmeyer | Photography, Layout |
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1. | Heliopolis | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Heliopolis in flames alight, a flickering and rebirth Enlightened night overthrown by a place of shame The scorched sky converts night You wish for light to call Face to face with the madness The call of fate to save us all Daily horror that brings you sadness When smoke arises from the planes With a loud, triumphant sigh I always bleed, I always heal I live to die anew, it breaks me, it burns me... All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] When the darkest tempest roars Passes by with quiet wings Landscapes swiftly burn away and fall apart to dust All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] The memories, the pictures, the melodies, the wars Everything I was, everything I earned Grasped in my claws All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I just cared about -- me No more years of waiting The final days, the conflagration Feathers falling from my wings now - Here comes sunset [Repeat chorus] |
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2. | Devil’s Deal | 04:33 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears, crawl against the floor This body of clay may need no more He gives you hope, he shows his care Or is your patience a form of despair? For a moment I feel embraced Now that I’m unbound My eyes have lost their grace I scream a demonic sound Shed all your tears, my friend, Come release them all We have flooded heavens, Hear their desperate call While death becomes angels,death becomes real All of god’s work, you know,it’s devil’s deal Will you be... lost struggling in vain? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Cry with my tears, my dear, The waters are coming down Call my name, aloud, But before you drown Cause god and satan, you know They reach out their hand So they are reconciled within me, my friend Shed all your tears, my dear, All these words as such Cause in this world of lies, all your words Don’t mean much Or will I come once more to rescue you again? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, give me your hand Look into my eyes, make your final stand Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, (and give) Give me your hand Look into my eyes, (and make) Make your final stand It’s been so long, I hope you don’t forget Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret |
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3. | Decline | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
You drown in stagnation, in a world of frustration Your chance for salvation is to weave a cell of fears This stainless collection of countless imperfection A mild satistfaction, a sea of rotten tears This serpentine throne suits you well A place to reign the deepest hell Faded memories, they crawl across the years Reveal your hidden fears A short hesitation on your way to desperation You’ll fell the agravation before devline begins I gaze into a darkened well With madness that erodes my shell Decay’s burning bleakly in my eyes No way to save our wasted lives Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near What I was meant to be, what I was born to be What will set me free, I was too blind to see Too blind to realize Too blind to turn the tides Too blind to see your lies I was too blind to see This serpentine throne suits me well A place where vilest worms do dwell Faded memories They crawl across the years Enraged by all your fears Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams,it’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near, it is near It’s in your dreams,it’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is near,death is near Oh, how dare you come into my lair Here in this void, this sanctum Reigns despair... …and sombearly it sleeps it winds, it slowly creeps The end is near… The end is near The end is near Take a look around - this evil lurks behind you Two thousand years of lies And arrogance that blinds you Nightmares crawl , the serpent in your eye The road of Cain widns on until you die Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is here, it’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear The end is… here |
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4. | Ground Zero | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Peering into darkness without prospect, The future to be left in despair A presage gorn of plenty filled with plague and famine Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero From a distand dream to be seen, Surely undreamt yet unbelieved Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity Forever there, forever deceived No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are Your thoughts are sparkles in despair Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions Confusing future threatening ahead Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul Into the valley of sore thoughts Like that insignificant refuge of lies That make you shiver, that make you cry No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars |
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5. | Ghost of a Soul | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Way down to heaven Your needless resource It’s a forecast of cruelty and dismay Cast into mirrors An ambush on its course You are blemish, frailty and decay Will I get at something Will I ever be complete Built by dust, born to slave away Taste an angel’s life blood So pure and bitter sweet Buil of nothing, born to decay Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Lust prevails my temper Endless rapture turns to grief A silent scream which fraudulent arises Without shelter, your wounds lead me to lambency Spouts truth above your lies Step by step, piece by piece Cut by cut, we reach the end together Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Take this cloak from me, Your offer I will not embrace A failure once for me, not to be driven into hate Will I ever be set free Will I ever be complete Will I ever be set free Will I, can I, ever be complete? Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Be set free Come set me free Set me free |
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6. | Winterchild | 05:34 | Show lyrics |
You’re standing numb Looking back How long already? How could you fool flee to the world Just right before the break of winter? And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests You’re standing pale Damned to go off on your winter-travel Just like the smoke that’s always seeking Colder, chiller, higher skies And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn Save your prayers before they swoon This bitter cold that came so soon Every story has its end His future dreams forever banned Oh my dearest Winterchild Overwhelmed by coldness, ice and snow at night The crows are screaming And fly whirring towards town Soon it will snow Woe betide those who don’t, have home And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn |
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7. | Time Is the Fire | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
Skies above the endless seas Engulf horizons till they disappear At a sign a ship shaking its masts Passes by like a fortress floating on wastelands Flocks of cranes sail to the skies Where never ending paths arise Neath the blunt and timid sun Skies above the endless seas The shil, the ocean, the days are gone Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by And die Skies full of stars above endless seas Horizons till they disappear An enormous ship shaking its masts Passes by like a floating keep Skies above the endless seas The ship, the ocean, the days are gone But till I’m not six feet underground My angels bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over again Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie, But till I’m not six feet underground My angels, bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over With the passion of a new born lover Again And then, I will look behind to the world Like those who don’t have much to tell (eachother) When they can’t say what they want In the shadow of these ancient walls In their silence, I lay down to rest In the same silence that swallowed the travelers Who fell asleep in time Who are now forgotten by aeons Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by and die (and die) Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn |
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8. | To Our Ashes | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
It is the mind, which creates the world about us And even though we stand side by side My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours My heart won’t respond to your touch Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs And hardens evermore her heart But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs All things come to the those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late Cause I am sick of this way of life As life is sick of the way we pretend But I have walked with death hand in hand And death’s own hand is warmer than my own! Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay All things come to those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late |
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9. | Amongst the Vultures | 03:22 | Show lyrics |
He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Before the blade penetrates his skin (penetrates his skin) A versant cloud enwraps his body (enwraps his body) Slowly and dreadfully (and dreadfully) A subtle cut brings liverty His path of blasphemy Atrocious angels lead his way To apathy, an apathy revealed by sway By Cains force assigned, Ferocious demons crawl to mate Black altar wine flows to blur his fate Beyond the veil, amongst the vultures Beneath the sky, he lives his dream Inside his veins throbs mortal poison The netherworld has opened its gates (has opened its gates) Wide and enormous, (wide and enormous) A final cut brings liberty The candles leave their set All sounds extinguish in the dark No hope and no regret Silence rules his heart No whisper sent to god Abysmal hate turns to dismissal Cold becomes hod His soul leaves in a glorious bliss He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns, The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Inside his veins the poison dries (the poison dries) The netherworld has closed its gates (has closed its gates) Amongst the vultures (Amongst the vultures) He will make all his dreams come true (Come true) |
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10. | Oncoming Storm | 06:26 | Show lyrics |
Years of ignorance have gone Mankind destroys and rapes the earth The world withers and the end comes soon Will I, can I, ever be unbound and flawless Will I, can I, ever be so alive? Another step to peace Another memory has gone Another time we’ll see the end The setting of the sun And all the shades seem now so clear Every cloud has disappeared The sun encases all the moments We wish to be seared What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life The years went by And the earth still falls and decays Slowly, we unfurl the storms Will we, can we,ever be thougher, Stonger than the rest Can we, ever be so alive? We’ve gone finally but why The wave of fortune passes by The thirteen demons burn the gates And so the earth enrages What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life Can’t you see all the blindness in their eyes Can’t you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise Don’t you know I’m the sinner in disguise I sense your dirty lies What brings the end,what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life What brings the end, what brings the end What brings the end, what brings the time What brings the end, what brings the time |
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11. | Throughout the Fields of Unshaded Grace | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Throughout the field Of unshaded grace Within the land Of the neverending sun With all the appropriate compliance I strive for the sunset For all time from now to then I can not free myself from the memory Warmth surrounding me In the darkest corner of my mind A childish joy overwhelming me While aggrieving insects Smashing rocks on them A wholeheartedly joy Aggrieving, crushing It fills me from the navel to the chaff Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others It’s getting cold, deep inside of me It’s been a decision of my mind, not of heart A coldness that makes me shiver Catches up to me, displaces warmth Abiding my decision I ache for the times I was free To unleash this childish joy and warmth The decision was made somehow To unleash this childish joy and warmth Without my anticipation It’s a long way fromn home one to the other side A fucked up journey When you try to walk away from yourself From the darkest corner of your mind The decision was made somehow Without your anticipation Into the never-ending sunset The memory, a so called friend, Is always accompanying me, Torturing me by reflecting what I was I can not free myself from the memories In the land of the never-ending sun |
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12. | Grey Whisper | 06:50 | Show lyrics |
Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling… And sip of me, and drink of me, at last As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same I’d live twice the pain to even be the flowers You’d hold for me in vain Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game I’m like lost chapters of an old an welken book Please wipe your tears, my dear, And my funeral look Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling And sip of me, and drink of me, at last Where are the sweet poems Pieces of the whole Pictures of you, violins To indulge my broken soul Rain, music you wrote For your bloved dead Word splintered before They could have been said I’d die once more To live this moment again To hold you near To soothe my pain Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade |
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01:03:00 |
Phoenix
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ashtrael | Vocals |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals (tracks 11, 12) |
Jonas Iscariot | Vocals (track 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Engineering, Mixing, Producer |
Rares.C | Cover art |
Andrea Reitmeyer | Photography, Layout |
Sathonys | Photography, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Heliopolis | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Heliopolis in flames alight, a flickering and rebirth Enlightened night overthrown by a place of shame The scorched sky converts night You wish for light to call Face to face with the madness The call of fate to save us all Daily horror that brings you sadness When smoke arises from the planes With a loud, triumphant sigh I always bleed, I always heal I live to die anew, it breaks me, it burns me... All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] When the darkest tempest roars Passes by with quiet wings Landscapes swiftly burn away and fall apart to dust All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] The memories, the pictures, the melodies, the wars Everything I was, everything I earned Grasped in my claws All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I just cared about -- me No more years of waiting The final days, the conflagration Feathers falling from my wings now - Here comes sunset [Repeat chorus] |
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2. | Devil’s Deal | 04:33 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears, crawl against the floor This body of clay may need no more He gives you hope, he shows his care Or is your patience a form of despair? For a moment I feel embraced Now that I’m unbound My eyes have lost their grace I scream a demonic sound Shed all your tears, my friend, Come release them all We have flooded heavens, Hear their desperate call While death becomes angels,death becomes real All of god’s work, you know,it’s devil’s deal Will you be... lost struggling in vain? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Cry with my tears, my dear, The waters are coming down Call my name, aloud, But before you drown Cause god and satan, you know They reach out their hand So they are reconciled within me, my friend Shed all your tears, my dear, All these words as such Cause in this world of lies, all your words Don’t mean much Or will I come once more to rescue you again? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, give me your hand Look into my eyes, make your final stand Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, (and give) Give me your hand Look into my eyes, (and make) Make your final stand It’s been so long, I hope you don’t forget Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret |
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3. | Decline | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
You drown in stagnation, in a world of frustration Your chance for salvation is to weave a cell of fears This stainless collection of countless imperfection A mild satistfaction, a sea of rotten tears This serpentine throne suits you well A place to reign the deepest hell Faded memories, they crawl across the years Reveal your hidden fears A short hesitation on your way to desperation You’ll fell the agravation before devline begins I gaze into a darkened well With madness that erodes my shell Decay’s burning bleakly in my eyes No way to save our wasted lives Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near What I was meant to be, what I was born to be What will set me free, I was too blind to see Too blind to realize Too blind to turn the tides Too blind to see your lies I was too blind to see This serpentine throne suits me well A place where vilest worms do dwell Faded memories They crawl across the years Enraged by all your fears Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams,it’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near, it is near It’s in your dreams,it’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is near,death is near Oh, how dare you come into my lair Here in this void, this sanctum Reigns despair... …and sombearly it sleeps it winds, it slowly creeps The end is near… The end is near The end is near Take a look around - this evil lurks behind you Two thousand years of lies And arrogance that blinds you Nightmares crawl , the serpent in your eye The road of Cain widns on until you die Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is here, it’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear The end is… here |
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4. | Ground Zero | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Peering into darkness without prospect, The future to be left in despair A presage gorn of plenty filled with plague and famine Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero From a distand dream to be seen, Surely undreamt yet unbelieved Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity Forever there, forever deceived No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are Your thoughts are sparkles in despair Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions Confusing future threatening ahead Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul Into the valley of sore thoughts Like that insignificant refuge of lies That make you shiver, that make you cry No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars |
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5. | Ghost of a Soul | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Way down to heaven Your needless resource It’s a forecast of cruelty and dismay Cast into mirrors An ambush on its course You are blemish, frailty and decay Will I get at something Will I ever be complete Built by dust, born to slave away Taste an angel’s life blood So pure and bitter sweet Buil of nothing, born to decay Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Lust prevails my temper Endless rapture turns to grief A silent scream which fraudulent arises Without shelter, your wounds lead me to lambency Spouts truth above your lies Step by step, piece by piece Cut by cut, we reach the end together Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Take this cloak from me, Your offer I will not embrace A failure once for me, not to be driven into hate Will I ever be set free Will I ever be complete Will I ever be set free Will I, can I, ever be complete? Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Be set free Come set me free Set me free |
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6. | Winterchild | 05:34 | Show lyrics |
You’re standing numb Looking back How long already? How could you fool flee to the world Just right before the break of winter? And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests You’re standing pale Damned to go off on your winter-travel Just like the smoke that’s always seeking Colder, chiller, higher skies And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn Save your prayers before they swoon This bitter cold that came so soon Every story has its end His future dreams forever banned Oh my dearest Winterchild Overwhelmed by coldness, ice and snow at night The crows are screaming And fly whirring towards town Soon it will snow Woe betide those who don’t, have home And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn |
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7. | Time Is the Fire | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
Skies above the endless seas Engulf horizons till they disappear At a sign a ship shaking its masts Passes by like a fortress floating on wastelands Flocks of cranes sail to the skies Where never ending paths arise Neath the blunt and timid sun Skies above the endless seas The shil, the ocean, the days are gone Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by And die Skies full of stars above endless seas Horizons till they disappear An enormous ship shaking its masts Passes by like a floating keep Skies above the endless seas The ship, the ocean, the days are gone But till I’m not six feet underground My angels bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over again Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie, But till I’m not six feet underground My angels, bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over With the passion of a new born lover Again And then, I will look behind to the world Like those who don’t have much to tell (eachother) When they can’t say what they want In the shadow of these ancient walls In their silence, I lay down to rest In the same silence that swallowed the travelers Who fell asleep in time Who are now forgotten by aeons Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by and die (and die) Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn |
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8. | To Our Ashes | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
It is the mind, which creates the world about us And even though we stand side by side My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours My heart won’t respond to your touch Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs And hardens evermore her heart But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs All things come to the those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late Cause I am sick of this way of life As life is sick of the way we pretend But I have walked with death hand in hand And death’s own hand is warmer than my own! Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay All things come to those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late |
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9. | Amongst the Vultures | 03:22 | Show lyrics |
He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Before the blade penetrates his skin (penetrates his skin) A versant cloud enwraps his body (enwraps his body) Slowly and dreadfully (and dreadfully) A subtle cut brings liverty His path of blasphemy Atrocious angels lead his way To apathy, an apathy revealed by sway By Cains force assigned, Ferocious demons crawl to mate Black altar wine flows to blur his fate Beyond the veil, amongst the vultures Beneath the sky, he lives his dream Inside his veins throbs mortal poison The netherworld has opened its gates (has opened its gates) Wide and enormous, (wide and enormous) A final cut brings liberty The candles leave their set All sounds extinguish in the dark No hope and no regret Silence rules his heart No whisper sent to god Abysmal hate turns to dismissal Cold becomes hod His soul leaves in a glorious bliss He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns, The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Inside his veins the poison dries (the poison dries) The netherworld has closed its gates (has closed its gates) Amongst the vultures (Amongst the vultures) He will make all his dreams come true (Come true) |
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10. | Oncoming Storm | 06:26 | Show lyrics |
Years of ignorance have gone Mankind destroys and rapes the earth The world withers and the end comes soon Will I, can I, ever be unbound and flawless Will I, can I, ever be so alive? Another step to peace Another memory has gone Another time we’ll see the end The setting of the sun And all the shades seem now so clear Every cloud has disappeared The sun encases all the moments We wish to be seared What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life The years went by And the earth still falls and decays Slowly, we unfurl the storms Will we, can we,ever be thougher, Stonger than the rest Can we, ever be so alive? We’ve gone finally but why The wave of fortune passes by The thirteen demons burn the gates And so the earth enrages What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life Can’t you see all the blindness in their eyes Can’t you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise Don’t you know I’m the sinner in disguise I sense your dirty lies What brings the end,what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life What brings the end, what brings the end What brings the end, what brings the time What brings the end, what brings the time |
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11. | Throughout the Fields of Unshaded Grace | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Throughout the field Of unshaded grace Within the land Of the neverending sun With all the appropriate compliance I strive for the sunset For all time from now to then I can not free myself from the memory Warmth surrounding me In the darkest corner of my mind A childish joy overwhelming me While aggrieving insects Smashing rocks on them A wholeheartedly joy Aggrieving, crushing It fills me from the navel to the chaff Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others It’s getting cold, deep inside of me It’s been a decision of my mind, not of heart A coldness that makes me shiver Catches up to me, displaces warmth Abiding my decision I ache for the times I was free To unleash this childish joy and warmth The decision was made somehow To unleash this childish joy and warmth Without my anticipation It’s a long way fromn home one to the other side A fucked up journey When you try to walk away from yourself From the darkest corner of your mind The decision was made somehow Without your anticipation Into the never-ending sunset The memory, a so called friend, Is always accompanying me, Torturing me by reflecting what I was I can not free myself from the memories In the land of the never-ending sun |
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12. | Grey Whisper | 06:50 | Show lyrics |
Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling… And sip of me, and drink of me, at last As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same I’d live twice the pain to even be the flowers You’d hold for me in vain Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game I’m like lost chapters of an old an welken book Please wipe your tears, my dear, And my funeral look Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling And sip of me, and drink of me, at last Where are the sweet poems Pieces of the whole Pictures of you, violins To indulge my broken soul Rain, music you wrote For your bloved dead Word splintered before They could have been said I’d die once more To live this moment again To hold you near To soothe my pain Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade |
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13. | Alone in the Dark (Death Angel’s Shadow) | 04:43 | Show lyrics |
I wander through a desolate land On a cold and barren day I wander beneath a shadow Under a light so chill, so gray My thoughts beneath the shadow That will not pass away My thoughts beneath the shadow That will not fade away Faces that avert are pale Voices thin with fear Silent streets and alleys wind Windless skies so drear Wither beneath the shadow What is this grisly visage That sears their souls with dread? What demon constant follows me And tints the sun so red? What is this fiend whose shadow Taints lands wherever I tread? Faces that avert are pale Voices thin with fear Silent streets and alleys wind Windless skies so drear Wither beneath the shadow Faces that avert are pale Voices thin with fear Silent streets and alleys wind Windless skies so drear Writhing whispers that I hear To turn and look Upon its face Brought fear I’d never known The shadow Has ever haunted me As I walk the earth so alone When I turned, no face I saw For the shadow was my own When I turned, no face I saw For the shadow was my own Wither beneath the shadow Faces that avert are pale Voices thin with fear Silent streets and alleys wind Windless skies so drear Writhing whispers that I hear |
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14. | Alone in the Dark (Soundtrack Version) | 04:52 | Show lyrics |
Cold and barren day* I wander beneath a light A light so chill, so gray That will not pass away Faces ever pale Voices thin with fear Wither beyond the veil Writhing whispers that I hear To turn and look upon its face Brought fear I’d never known I’m alone, I’m alone in the dark Shadows haunt me As I walk the Earth alone What is the grisly visage That sears their souls with dread? What demon constant follows me And tints the sun so red? Faces ever pale Voices thin with fear Wither beyond the veil Writhing whispers that I hear To turn and look upon its face Brought fear I’d never known I’m alone, I’m alone in the dark And when I turned No face I saw For the shadow was my own Faces ever pale Voices thin with fear Wither beyond the veil Writhing whispers that I hear (Writhing whispers that I hear) To turn and look upon its face (To turn and look upon its face) Brought fear I’d never known (Brought fear I’d never known) I’m alone, I’m alone in the dark (Writhing whispers that I hear) I’m alone, alone in the dark I’m alone, alone in the dark Alone in the dark |
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01:12:35 |
Phoenix
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ashtrael | Vocals |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals (tracks 11, 12) |
Jonas Iscariot | Vocals (track 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Producer, Engineering |
Rares.C | Cover art |
Andrea Reitmeyer | Photography, Layout |
Sathonys | Photography, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Heliopolis | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Heliopolis in flames alight, a flickering and rebirth Enlightened night overthrown by a place of shame The scorched sky converts night You wish for light to call Face to face with the madness The call of fate to save us all Daily horror that brings you sadness When smoke arises from the planes With a loud, triumphant sigh I always bleed, I always heal I live to die anew, it breaks me, it burns me... All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] When the darkest tempest roars Passes by with quiet wings Landscapes swiftly burn away and fall apart to dust All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] The memories, the pictures, the melodies, the wars Everything I was, everything I earned Grasped in my claws All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I just cared about -- me No more years of waiting The final days, the conflagration Feathers falling from my wings now - Here comes sunset [Repeat chorus] |
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2. | Devil’s Deal | 04:33 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears, crawl against the floor This body of clay may need no more He gives you hope, he shows his care Or is your patience a form of despair? For a moment I feel embraced Now that I’m unbound My eyes have lost their grace I scream a demonic sound Shed all your tears, my friend, Come release them all We have flooded heavens, Hear their desperate call While death becomes angels,death becomes real All of god’s work, you know,it’s devil’s deal Will you be... lost struggling in vain? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Cry with my tears, my dear, The waters are coming down Call my name, aloud, But before you drown Cause god and satan, you know They reach out their hand So they are reconciled within me, my friend Shed all your tears, my dear, All these words as such Cause in this world of lies, all your words Don’t mean much Or will I come once more to rescue you again? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, give me your hand Look into my eyes, make your final stand Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, (and give) Give me your hand Look into my eyes, (and make) Make your final stand It’s been so long, I hope you don’t forget Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret |
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3. | Decline | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
You drown in stagnation, in a world of frustration Your chance for salvation is to weave a cell of fears This stainless collection of countless imperfection A mild satistfaction, a sea of rotten tears This serpentine throne suits you well A place to reign the deepest hell Faded memories, they crawl across the years Reveal your hidden fears A short hesitation on your way to desperation You’ll fell the agravation before devline begins I gaze into a darkened well With madness that erodes my shell Decay’s burning bleakly in my eyes No way to save our wasted lives Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near What I was meant to be, what I was born to be What will set me free, I was too blind to see Too blind to realize Too blind to turn the tides Too blind to see your lies I was too blind to see This serpentine throne suits me well A place where vilest worms do dwell Faded memories They crawl across the years Enraged by all your fears Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams,it’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near, it is near It’s in your dreams,it’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is near,death is near Oh, how dare you come into my lair Here in this void, this sanctum Reigns despair... …and sombearly it sleeps it winds, it slowly creeps The end is near… The end is near The end is near Take a look around - this evil lurks behind you Two thousand years of lies And arrogance that blinds you Nightmares crawl , the serpent in your eye The road of Cain widns on until you die Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is here, it’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear The end is… here |
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4. | Ground Zero | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Peering into darkness without prospect, The future to be left in despair A presage gorn of plenty filled with plague and famine Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero From a distand dream to be seen, Surely undreamt yet unbelieved Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity Forever there, forever deceived No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are Your thoughts are sparkles in despair Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions Confusing future threatening ahead Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul Into the valley of sore thoughts Like that insignificant refuge of lies That make you shiver, that make you cry No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars |
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5. | Ghost of a Soul | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Way down to heaven Your needless resource It’s a forecast of cruelty and dismay Cast into mirrors An ambush on its course You are blemish, frailty and decay Will I get at something Will I ever be complete Built by dust, born to slave away Taste an angel’s life blood So pure and bitter sweet Buil of nothing, born to decay Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Lust prevails my temper Endless rapture turns to grief A silent scream which fraudulent arises Without shelter, your wounds lead me to lambency Spouts truth above your lies Step by step, piece by piece Cut by cut, we reach the end together Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Take this cloak from me, Your offer I will not embrace A failure once for me, not to be driven into hate Will I ever be set free Will I ever be complete Will I ever be set free Will I, can I, ever be complete? Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Be set free Come set me free Set me free |
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6. | Winterchild | 05:34 | Show lyrics |
You’re standing numb Looking back How long already? How could you fool flee to the world Just right before the break of winter? And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests You’re standing pale Damned to go off on your winter-travel Just like the smoke that’s always seeking Colder, chiller, higher skies And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn Save your prayers before they swoon This bitter cold that came so soon Every story has its end His future dreams forever banned Oh my dearest Winterchild Overwhelmed by coldness, ice and snow at night The crows are screaming And fly whirring towards town Soon it will snow Woe betide those who don’t, have home And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn |
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7. | Time Is the Fire | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
Skies above the endless seas Engulf horizons till they disappear At a sign a ship shaking its masts Passes by like a fortress floating on wastelands Flocks of cranes sail to the skies Where never ending paths arise Neath the blunt and timid sun Skies above the endless seas The shil, the ocean, the days are gone Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by And die Skies full of stars above endless seas Horizons till they disappear An enormous ship shaking its masts Passes by like a floating keep Skies above the endless seas The ship, the ocean, the days are gone But till I’m not six feet underground My angels bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over again Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie, But till I’m not six feet underground My angels, bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over With the passion of a new born lover Again And then, I will look behind to the world Like those who don’t have much to tell (eachother) When they can’t say what they want In the shadow of these ancient walls In their silence, I lay down to rest In the same silence that swallowed the travelers Who fell asleep in time Who are now forgotten by aeons Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by and die (and die) Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn |
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8. | To Our Ashes | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
It is the mind, which creates the world about us And even though we stand side by side My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours My heart won’t respond to your touch Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs And hardens evermore her heart But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs All things come to the those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late Cause I am sick of this way of life As life is sick of the way we pretend But I have walked with death hand in hand And death’s own hand is warmer than my own! Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay All things come to those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late |
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9. | Amongst the Vultures | 03:22 | Show lyrics |
He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Before the blade penetrates his skin (penetrates his skin) A versant cloud enwraps his body (enwraps his body) Slowly and dreadfully (and dreadfully) A subtle cut brings liverty His path of blasphemy Atrocious angels lead his way To apathy, an apathy revealed by sway By Cains force assigned, Ferocious demons crawl to mate Black altar wine flows to blur his fate Beyond the veil, amongst the vultures Beneath the sky, he lives his dream Inside his veins throbs mortal poison The netherworld has opened its gates (has opened its gates) Wide and enormous, (wide and enormous) A final cut brings liberty The candles leave their set All sounds extinguish in the dark No hope and no regret Silence rules his heart No whisper sent to god Abysmal hate turns to dismissal Cold becomes hod His soul leaves in a glorious bliss He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns, The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Inside his veins the poison dries (the poison dries) The netherworld has closed its gates (has closed its gates) Amongst the vultures (Amongst the vultures) He will make all his dreams come true (Come true) |
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10. | Oncoming Storm | 06:26 | Show lyrics |
Years of ignorance have gone Mankind destroys and rapes the earth The world withers and the end comes soon Will I, can I, ever be unbound and flawless Will I, can I, ever be so alive? Another step to peace Another memory has gone Another time we’ll see the end The setting of the sun And all the shades seem now so clear Every cloud has disappeared The sun encases all the moments We wish to be seared What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life The years went by And the earth still falls and decays Slowly, we unfurl the storms Will we, can we,ever be thougher, Stonger than the rest Can we, ever be so alive? We’ve gone finally but why The wave of fortune passes by The thirteen demons burn the gates And so the earth enrages What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life Can’t you see all the blindness in their eyes Can’t you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise Don’t you know I’m the sinner in disguise I sense your dirty lies What brings the end,what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life What brings the end, what brings the end What brings the end, what brings the time What brings the end, what brings the time |
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11. | Throughout the Fields of Unshaded Grace | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Throughout the field Of unshaded grace Within the land Of the neverending sun With all the appropriate compliance I strive for the sunset For all time from now to then I can not free myself from the memory Warmth surrounding me In the darkest corner of my mind A childish joy overwhelming me While aggrieving insects Smashing rocks on them A wholeheartedly joy Aggrieving, crushing It fills me from the navel to the chaff Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others It’s getting cold, deep inside of me It’s been a decision of my mind, not of heart A coldness that makes me shiver Catches up to me, displaces warmth Abiding my decision I ache for the times I was free To unleash this childish joy and warmth The decision was made somehow To unleash this childish joy and warmth Without my anticipation It’s a long way fromn home one to the other side A fucked up journey When you try to walk away from yourself From the darkest corner of your mind The decision was made somehow Without your anticipation Into the never-ending sunset The memory, a so called friend, Is always accompanying me, Torturing me by reflecting what I was I can not free myself from the memories In the land of the never-ending sun |
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12. | Grey Whisper | 06:50 | Show lyrics |
Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling… And sip of me, and drink of me, at last As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same I’d live twice the pain to even be the flowers You’d hold for me in vain Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game I’m like lost chapters of an old an welken book Please wipe your tears, my dear, And my funeral look Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling And sip of me, and drink of me, at last Where are the sweet poems Pieces of the whole Pictures of you, violins To indulge my broken soul Rain, music you wrote For your bloved dead Word splintered before They could have been said I’d die once more To live this moment again To hold you near To soothe my pain Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade |
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Phoenix
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ashtrael | Vocals |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals (tracks 11, 12) |
Jonas Iscariot | Vocals (track 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Producer, Engineering |
Rares.C | Cover art |
Andrea Reitmeyer | Photography, Layout |
Sathonys | Photography, Layout |
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1. | Heliopolis | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Heliopolis in flames alight, a flickering and rebirth Enlightened night overthrown by a place of shame The scorched sky converts night You wish for light to call Face to face with the madness The call of fate to save us all Daily horror that brings you sadness When smoke arises from the planes With a loud, triumphant sigh I always bleed, I always heal I live to die anew, it breaks me, it burns me... All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] When the darkest tempest roars Passes by with quiet wings Landscapes swiftly burn away and fall apart to dust All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] The memories, the pictures, the melodies, the wars Everything I was, everything I earned Grasped in my claws All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I just cared about -- me No more years of waiting The final days, the conflagration Feathers falling from my wings now - Here comes sunset [Repeat chorus] |
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2. | Devil’s Deal | 04:33 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears, crawl against the floor This body of clay may need no more He gives you hope, he shows his care Or is your patience a form of despair? For a moment I feel embraced Now that I’m unbound My eyes have lost their grace I scream a demonic sound Shed all your tears, my friend, Come release them all We have flooded heavens, Hear their desperate call While death becomes angels,death becomes real All of god’s work, you know,it’s devil’s deal Will you be... lost struggling in vain? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Cry with my tears, my dear, The waters are coming down Call my name, aloud, But before you drown Cause god and satan, you know They reach out their hand So they are reconciled within me, my friend Shed all your tears, my dear, All these words as such Cause in this world of lies, all your words Don’t mean much Or will I come once more to rescue you again? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, give me your hand Look into my eyes, make your final stand Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, (and give) Give me your hand Look into my eyes, (and make) Make your final stand It’s been so long, I hope you don’t forget Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret |
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3. | Decline | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
You drown in stagnation, in a world of frustration Your chance for salvation is to weave a cell of fears This stainless collection of countless imperfection A mild satistfaction, a sea of rotten tears This serpentine throne suits you well A place to reign the deepest hell Faded memories, they crawl across the years Reveal your hidden fears A short hesitation on your way to desperation You’ll fell the agravation before devline begins I gaze into a darkened well With madness that erodes my shell Decay’s burning bleakly in my eyes No way to save our wasted lives Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near What I was meant to be, what I was born to be What will set me free, I was too blind to see Too blind to realize Too blind to turn the tides Too blind to see your lies I was too blind to see This serpentine throne suits me well A place where vilest worms do dwell Faded memories They crawl across the years Enraged by all your fears Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams,it’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near, it is near It’s in your dreams,it’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is near,death is near Oh, how dare you come into my lair Here in this void, this sanctum Reigns despair... …and sombearly it sleeps it winds, it slowly creeps The end is near… The end is near The end is near Take a look around - this evil lurks behind you Two thousand years of lies And arrogance that blinds you Nightmares crawl , the serpent in your eye The road of Cain widns on until you die Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is here, it’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear The end is… here |
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4. | Ground Zero | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Peering into darkness without prospect, The future to be left in despair A presage gorn of plenty filled with plague and famine Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero From a distand dream to be seen, Surely undreamt yet unbelieved Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity Forever there, forever deceived No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are Your thoughts are sparkles in despair Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions Confusing future threatening ahead Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul Into the valley of sore thoughts Like that insignificant refuge of lies That make you shiver, that make you cry No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars |
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5. | Ghost of a Soul | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Way down to heaven Your needless resource It’s a forecast of cruelty and dismay Cast into mirrors An ambush on its course You are blemish, frailty and decay Will I get at something Will I ever be complete Built by dust, born to slave away Taste an angel’s life blood So pure and bitter sweet Buil of nothing, born to decay Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Lust prevails my temper Endless rapture turns to grief A silent scream which fraudulent arises Without shelter, your wounds lead me to lambency Spouts truth above your lies Step by step, piece by piece Cut by cut, we reach the end together Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Take this cloak from me, Your offer I will not embrace A failure once for me, not to be driven into hate Will I ever be set free Will I ever be complete Will I ever be set free Will I, can I, ever be complete? Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Be set free Come set me free Set me free |
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6. | Winterchild | 05:34 | Show lyrics |
You’re standing numb Looking back How long already? How could you fool flee to the world Just right before the break of winter? And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests You’re standing pale Damned to go off on your winter-travel Just like the smoke that’s always seeking Colder, chiller, higher skies And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn Save your prayers before they swoon This bitter cold that came so soon Every story has its end His future dreams forever banned Oh my dearest Winterchild Overwhelmed by coldness, ice and snow at night The crows are screaming And fly whirring towards town Soon it will snow Woe betide those who don’t, have home And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn |
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7. | Time Is the Fire | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
Skies above the endless seas Engulf horizons till they disappear At a sign a ship shaking its masts Passes by like a fortress floating on wastelands Flocks of cranes sail to the skies Where never ending paths arise Neath the blunt and timid sun Skies above the endless seas The shil, the ocean, the days are gone Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by And die Skies full of stars above endless seas Horizons till they disappear An enormous ship shaking its masts Passes by like a floating keep Skies above the endless seas The ship, the ocean, the days are gone But till I’m not six feet underground My angels bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over again Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie, But till I’m not six feet underground My angels, bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over With the passion of a new born lover Again And then, I will look behind to the world Like those who don’t have much to tell (eachother) When they can’t say what they want In the shadow of these ancient walls In their silence, I lay down to rest In the same silence that swallowed the travelers Who fell asleep in time Who are now forgotten by aeons Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by and die (and die) Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn |
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8. | To Our Ashes | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
It is the mind, which creates the world about us And even though we stand side by side My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours My heart won’t respond to your touch Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs And hardens evermore her heart But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs All things come to the those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late Cause I am sick of this way of life As life is sick of the way we pretend But I have walked with death hand in hand And death’s own hand is warmer than my own! Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay All things come to those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late |
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9. | Amongst the Vultures | 03:22 | Show lyrics |
He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Before the blade penetrates his skin (penetrates his skin) A versant cloud enwraps his body (enwraps his body) Slowly and dreadfully (and dreadfully) A subtle cut brings liverty His path of blasphemy Atrocious angels lead his way To apathy, an apathy revealed by sway By Cains force assigned, Ferocious demons crawl to mate Black altar wine flows to blur his fate Beyond the veil, amongst the vultures Beneath the sky, he lives his dream Inside his veins throbs mortal poison The netherworld has opened its gates (has opened its gates) Wide and enormous, (wide and enormous) A final cut brings liberty The candles leave their set All sounds extinguish in the dark No hope and no regret Silence rules his heart No whisper sent to god Abysmal hate turns to dismissal Cold becomes hod His soul leaves in a glorious bliss He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns, The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Inside his veins the poison dries (the poison dries) The netherworld has closed its gates (has closed its gates) Amongst the vultures (Amongst the vultures) He will make all his dreams come true (Come true) |
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10. | Oncoming Storm | 06:26 | Show lyrics |
Years of ignorance have gone Mankind destroys and rapes the earth The world withers and the end comes soon Will I, can I, ever be unbound and flawless Will I, can I, ever be so alive? Another step to peace Another memory has gone Another time we’ll see the end The setting of the sun And all the shades seem now so clear Every cloud has disappeared The sun encases all the moments We wish to be seared What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life The years went by And the earth still falls and decays Slowly, we unfurl the storms Will we, can we,ever be thougher, Stonger than the rest Can we, ever be so alive? We’ve gone finally but why The wave of fortune passes by The thirteen demons burn the gates And so the earth enrages What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life Can’t you see all the blindness in their eyes Can’t you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise Don’t you know I’m the sinner in disguise I sense your dirty lies What brings the end,what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life What brings the end, what brings the end What brings the end, what brings the time What brings the end, what brings the time |
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11. | Throughout the Fields of Unshaded Grace | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Throughout the field Of unshaded grace Within the land Of the neverending sun With all the appropriate compliance I strive for the sunset For all time from now to then I can not free myself from the memory Warmth surrounding me In the darkest corner of my mind A childish joy overwhelming me While aggrieving insects Smashing rocks on them A wholeheartedly joy Aggrieving, crushing It fills me from the navel to the chaff Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others It’s getting cold, deep inside of me It’s been a decision of my mind, not of heart A coldness that makes me shiver Catches up to me, displaces warmth Abiding my decision I ache for the times I was free To unleash this childish joy and warmth The decision was made somehow To unleash this childish joy and warmth Without my anticipation It’s a long way fromn home one to the other side A fucked up journey When you try to walk away from yourself From the darkest corner of your mind The decision was made somehow Without your anticipation Into the never-ending sunset The memory, a so called friend, Is always accompanying me, Torturing me by reflecting what I was I can not free myself from the memories In the land of the never-ending sun |
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12. | Grey Whisper | 06:50 | Show lyrics |
Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling… And sip of me, and drink of me, at last As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same I’d live twice the pain to even be the flowers You’d hold for me in vain Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game I’m like lost chapters of an old an welken book Please wipe your tears, my dear, And my funeral look Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling And sip of me, and drink of me, at last Where are the sweet poems Pieces of the whole Pictures of you, violins To indulge my broken soul Rain, music you wrote For your bloved dead Word splintered before They could have been said I’d die once more To live this moment again To hold you near To soothe my pain Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade |
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01:03:00 |
Phoenix
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Ashtrael | Vocals |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Jan Jansohn | Guitars, Guitars (acoustic) |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Felix Ü. Walzer | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Frank "Akaias" Nordmann | Vocals (tracks 11, 12) |
Jonas Iscariot | Vocals (track 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Mixing, Producer, Engineering |
Rares.C | Cover art |
Andrea Reitmeyer | Photography, Layout |
Sathonys | Photography, Layout |
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1. | Heliopolis | 04:36 | Show lyrics |
Heliopolis in flames alight, a flickering and rebirth Enlightened night overthrown by a place of shame The scorched sky converts night You wish for light to call Face to face with the madness The call of fate to save us all Daily horror that brings you sadness When smoke arises from the planes With a loud, triumphant sigh I always bleed, I always heal I live to die anew, it breaks me, it burns me... All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] When the darkest tempest roars Passes by with quiet wings Landscapes swiftly burn away and fall apart to dust All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I always only cared about me [Repeat chorus] The memories, the pictures, the melodies, the wars Everything I was, everything I earned Grasped in my claws All around us is just decay There’s no means to wash the pain away You will turn your head and say I just cared about -- me No more years of waiting The final days, the conflagration Feathers falling from my wings now - Here comes sunset [Repeat chorus] |
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2. | Devil’s Deal | 04:33 | Show lyrics |
Cry with my tears, crawl against the floor This body of clay may need no more He gives you hope, he shows his care Or is your patience a form of despair? For a moment I feel embraced Now that I’m unbound My eyes have lost their grace I scream a demonic sound Shed all your tears, my friend, Come release them all We have flooded heavens, Hear their desperate call While death becomes angels,death becomes real All of god’s work, you know,it’s devil’s deal Will you be... lost struggling in vain? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Cry with my tears, my dear, The waters are coming down Call my name, aloud, But before you drown Cause god and satan, you know They reach out their hand So they are reconciled within me, my friend Shed all your tears, my dear, All these words as such Cause in this world of lies, all your words Don’t mean much Or will I come once more to rescue you again? Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, give me your hand Look into my eyes, make your final stand Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret Within the fields of sorrow, I pass to the other side Facing my deepest hollow, Which mirrors my dark light Shed all your tears, (and give) Give me your hand Look into my eyes, (and make) Make your final stand It’s been so long, I hope you don’t forget Where ever you will go, hence, go without regret |
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3. | Decline | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
You drown in stagnation, in a world of frustration Your chance for salvation is to weave a cell of fears This stainless collection of countless imperfection A mild satistfaction, a sea of rotten tears This serpentine throne suits you well A place to reign the deepest hell Faded memories, they crawl across the years Reveal your hidden fears A short hesitation on your way to desperation You’ll fell the agravation before devline begins I gaze into a darkened well With madness that erodes my shell Decay’s burning bleakly in my eyes No way to save our wasted lives Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near What I was meant to be, what I was born to be What will set me free, I was too blind to see Too blind to realize Too blind to turn the tides Too blind to see your lies I was too blind to see This serpentine throne suits me well A place where vilest worms do dwell Faded memories They crawl across the years Enraged by all your fears Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams,it’s always near Death in your soul dear It is near, it is near It’s in your dreams,it’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is near,death is near Oh, how dare you come into my lair Here in this void, this sanctum Reigns despair... …and sombearly it sleeps it winds, it slowly creeps The end is near… The end is near The end is near Take a look around - this evil lurks behind you Two thousand years of lies And arrogance that blinds you Nightmares crawl , the serpent in your eye The road of Cain widns on until you die Death in your soul dear It’s in your dreams It’s always near… Death in your soul dear It is here, it’s in your dreams It’s always near Death in your soul dear The end is… here |
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4. | Ground Zero | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Peering into darkness without prospect, The future to be left in despair A presage gorn of plenty filled with plague and famine Unbroken mind case dramatic ground zero From a distand dream to be seen, Surely undreamt yet unbelieved Seem to be, with me, in severe insanity Forever there, forever deceived No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Your life is doomed, a misplaced soul you are Your thoughts are sparkles in despair Fighting the cold, inconsiderate emotions Confusing future threatening ahead Deep down the abyss of my crystalline soul Into the valley of sore thoughts Like that insignificant refuge of lies That make you shiver, that make you cry No disguise of fevered innocence A lovers fear in mourning, epiphany Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Edacious burning, destroying, turning What was living to death Walking, stalking, going, gone Another life, another time Dream of stars but proclaim fire As flames meet earth , I throw you down To watch your flesh blister and char I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars I annoint you, dress you in white Attempt to allay those fever dreams These pitiful dreamers… Witnessed the reconstruction of fallen stars |
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5. | Ghost of a Soul | 04:30 | Show lyrics |
Way down to heaven Your needless resource It’s a forecast of cruelty and dismay Cast into mirrors An ambush on its course You are blemish, frailty and decay Will I get at something Will I ever be complete Built by dust, born to slave away Taste an angel’s life blood So pure and bitter sweet Buil of nothing, born to decay Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Lust prevails my temper Endless rapture turns to grief A silent scream which fraudulent arises Without shelter, your wounds lead me to lambency Spouts truth above your lies Step by step, piece by piece Cut by cut, we reach the end together Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Take this cloak from me, Your offer I will not embrace A failure once for me, not to be driven into hate Will I ever be set free Will I ever be complete Will I ever be set free Will I, can I, ever be complete? Deep in my mind there rests the ghost Of an innocent soul Capped by darkness and dismay Out of these depths I slay so cruel and so confident Will I ever be set free Be set free Come set me free Set me free |
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6. | Winterchild | 05:34 | Show lyrics |
You’re standing numb Looking back How long already? How could you fool flee to the world Just right before the break of winter? And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests You’re standing pale Damned to go off on your winter-travel Just like the smoke that’s always seeking Colder, chiller, higher skies And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn Save your prayers before they swoon This bitter cold that came so soon Every story has its end His future dreams forever banned Oh my dearest Winterchild Overwhelmed by coldness, ice and snow at night The crows are screaming And fly whirring towards town Soon it will snow Woe betide those who don’t, have home And nothing in this world will change All just stays the same The world, a gate To a thousand deserts, silent and cold And one who’s lost what you have lost Does stop at nothing, never rests Fly, bird, and sing your song In the way of the desert bird And hide, you fool this bleeding heart In ice and snow, in chill and scorn |
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7. | Time Is the Fire | 04:59 | Show lyrics |
Skies above the endless seas Engulf horizons till they disappear At a sign a ship shaking its masts Passes by like a fortress floating on wastelands Flocks of cranes sail to the skies Where never ending paths arise Neath the blunt and timid sun Skies above the endless seas The shil, the ocean, the days are gone Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by And die Skies full of stars above endless seas Horizons till they disappear An enormous ship shaking its masts Passes by like a floating keep Skies above the endless seas The ship, the ocean, the days are gone But till I’m not six feet underground My angels bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over again Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie, But till I’m not six feet underground My angels, bow to my mourning sound And sing along my weeping, over and over With the passion of a new born lover Again And then, I will look behind to the world Like those who don’t have much to tell (eachother) When they can’t say what they want In the shadow of these ancient walls In their silence, I lay down to rest In the same silence that swallowed the travelers Who fell asleep in time Who are now forgotten by aeons Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn Likewise lives and youth pass by They pass away, like a lie Likewise lives and youth pass by and die (and die) Time is the water in which we drown Time is the fire in which we burn |
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8. | To Our Ashes | 06:40 | Show lyrics |
It is the mind, which creates the world about us And even though we stand side by side My eyes will never see what is beheld by yours My heart won’t respond to your touch Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs And hardens evermore her heart But when I start to laugh, she mocks And when I cry she laughs All things come to the those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay Three death gently descends, from spheres up high Staring into my cold and humid eyes You’re closing your eyes, try turning your head Away from the gloom, trying to forget But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late Cause I am sick of this way of life As life is sick of the way we pretend But I have walked with death hand in hand And death’s own hand is warmer than my own! Out of the caverns of the pain Like a child from the womb, stillborn Like a ghost from the tomb I arise and unbuild it again We don’t see things as they are We see them as we are And all that we see or seem to be Is but a dream within a dream I see life blorred and shallow every day by day In this world’s theatre in which I stay All things come to those who wait I say these words to make me glad But something answers, soft and sad They come but often come too late |
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9. | Amongst the Vultures | 03:22 | Show lyrics |
He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Before the blade penetrates his skin (penetrates his skin) A versant cloud enwraps his body (enwraps his body) Slowly and dreadfully (and dreadfully) A subtle cut brings liverty His path of blasphemy Atrocious angels lead his way To apathy, an apathy revealed by sway By Cains force assigned, Ferocious demons crawl to mate Black altar wine flows to blur his fate Beyond the veil, amongst the vultures Beneath the sky, he lives his dream Inside his veins throbs mortal poison The netherworld has opened its gates (has opened its gates) Wide and enormous, (wide and enormous) A final cut brings liberty The candles leave their set All sounds extinguish in the dark No hope and no regret Silence rules his heart No whisper sent to god Abysmal hate turns to dismissal Cold becomes hod His soul leaves in a glorious bliss He hears the call which destines his fall A fire burns that slowly pierces his soul And now the tide turns, The blackest flame still burns Immortally he’s waiting so unconcerned Inside his veins the poison dries (the poison dries) The netherworld has closed its gates (has closed its gates) Amongst the vultures (Amongst the vultures) He will make all his dreams come true (Come true) |
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10. | Oncoming Storm | 06:26 | Show lyrics |
Years of ignorance have gone Mankind destroys and rapes the earth The world withers and the end comes soon Will I, can I, ever be unbound and flawless Will I, can I, ever be so alive? Another step to peace Another memory has gone Another time we’ll see the end The setting of the sun And all the shades seem now so clear Every cloud has disappeared The sun encases all the moments We wish to be seared What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life The years went by And the earth still falls and decays Slowly, we unfurl the storms Will we, can we,ever be thougher, Stonger than the rest Can we, ever be so alive? We’ve gone finally but why The wave of fortune passes by The thirteen demons burn the gates And so the earth enrages What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life Can’t you see all the blindness in their eyes Can’t you feel that the spiteful ghosts arise Don’t you know I’m the sinner in disguise I sense your dirty lies What brings the end,what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes the world we’re living in, A better place at a better time What brings the end, what brings the time What keeps my memories alive What makes this world we’re living in, A better place for a better life What brings the end, what brings the end What brings the end, what brings the time What brings the end, what brings the time |
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11. | Throughout the Fields of Unshaded Grace | 05:10 | Show lyrics |
Throughout the field Of unshaded grace Within the land Of the neverending sun With all the appropriate compliance I strive for the sunset For all time from now to then I can not free myself from the memory Warmth surrounding me In the darkest corner of my mind A childish joy overwhelming me While aggrieving insects Smashing rocks on them A wholeheartedly joy Aggrieving, crushing It fills me from the navel to the chaff Now, as I refuse to soar myself above others It’s getting cold, deep inside of me It’s been a decision of my mind, not of heart A coldness that makes me shiver Catches up to me, displaces warmth Abiding my decision I ache for the times I was free To unleash this childish joy and warmth The decision was made somehow To unleash this childish joy and warmth Without my anticipation It’s a long way fromn home one to the other side A fucked up journey When you try to walk away from yourself From the darkest corner of your mind The decision was made somehow Without your anticipation Into the never-ending sunset The memory, a so called friend, Is always accompanying me, Torturing me by reflecting what I was I can not free myself from the memories In the land of the never-ending sun |
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12. | Grey Whisper | 06:50 | Show lyrics |
Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling… And sip of me, and drink of me, at last As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same I’d live twice the pain to even be the flowers You’d hold for me in vain Dust and oblivion lay down onto my name My stone they’ve raped with the rules of the game I’m like lost chapters of an old an welken book Please wipe your tears, my dear, And my funeral look Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade As if you didn’t know, me, memory, to tame I should have known it would never be the same A grey whisper dying New grey day upon me Fetters all the colors That once used to be No, you can’t deny it Can’t deny the raining Catch my tears falling And sip of me, and drink of me, at last Where are the sweet poems Pieces of the whole Pictures of you, violins To indulge my broken soul Rain, music you wrote For your bloved dead Word splintered before They could have been said I’d die once more To live this moment again To hold you near To soothe my pain Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Driven by suffering Haunted by hate Whatever tomorrow brings I sharpened my blade |
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01:03:00 |
In Darkness
Members | |
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Band members | |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars, Keyboards |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Ash | Vocals |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Faerynia | Violin |
Kohle | Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals (backing) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Vlad Dracul | Lyrics (tracks 7, 8) |
Alex Schmidt | Lyrics (tracks 2, 6) |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Natalia Kempin | Photography |
Hicham Haddaji | Artwork, Layout |
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1. | In Darkness (We Shall Be Reborn) | 06:20 | Show lyrics |
There on the fields of death we meet again Surrounded by all the light - in vain This is our fortune – this is our burden - this is our last home This is the ending – this is absolution - this is our final tomb In Darkness we shall be reborn – In Darkness we shall be reborn The shadow gods call with a wolves howl Oh great Akasha, let me rest Under a radiant moon I pass your last test This is our ending – our last goodbye Death is calling with his sweetest lullaby Destroy my shell to settle my ghost Carry me amongst the few of the lost The knife is sharpened – my skin is free O Mother Night – bring me to thee In Darkness we shall be reborn |
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2. | I’ve Risen | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
Through my eyes, with one hand For my will, within a breath I grabbed, owned... and brought terror to all the foreign lands I took the precious gift of life... throughout any realm of existence I have risen I have risen I gave life to thousands of sons and I saw them all fall before me I ruled the weak, I ruined worlds in my endless decades of might Uncountable is the amount of suns I’ve seen rise, pass and sink Unnamable all the kingdoms I’ve seen, conquered and destroyed I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence (You still) see my tales on the wall of any grave in forgotten lands (You can) see my shrunken temple, my body, once the house of a god (You can still) see the statues standing on my kingdoms soil, showing my pride (You might) realize my triumph above all flesh and steel, the god and devil am I I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have created paradise and hell, in my era of domination |
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3. | Favourite Sin | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
People go to church for the same reasons, The same reasons,they go to a tavern. To stupify themselves, To forget their misery, To imagine themselves, Even only for minutes, Free and happy. ...So I looked behind and beheld a pale horse And his name who sat on him was Death And Hell followed with him... Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth To do all that one is able to do Is to be a man, To do all that one would like to do Is to be a God. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Imensitate, vesnicie, Tu, haos,care toate-aduni... In golul tau e nebunie, Si-i faci pe toti nebuni. Imensitae, vesnicie, Pe cand eu tremor in delir, Cu ce suprema ironie Arati in fund-un cimitir. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility |
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4. | Oceans of Black | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Beckon our last goodbye when you hear this call You can’t face the fires once you feel them all Another time - another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Lay down with me and listen closely to the sounds of the old blue Tellin’ stories long forgotten - can’t you hear they’re just for you Another time, another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin Once we will meet again in the burning halls Where all the sorrow flows and slowly death befalls Oceans of black shall carry us throughout the night Where only death is real they shall be our guiding light Swim, let yourself be carried with the tide And on a lovelorn day, put all your fears aside Behind the dreary path, look back to all that’s past To realize that life is just the way to endless death at last Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin |
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5. | Adio | 05:21 | Show lyrics |
Young, wild, green with a children’s mind and a heart so loyal and bright But stigmatized and sacrificed by the feedings of the light I turned away, head from the sway and find my only path In the blessings of the flaming ones, an aeon formed with a new oath Hold your head up high on the causal, sparkling rays of the barren, false and blind Or follow me where you can see the power of the blackest light Once the wolves will howl together and sing their mighty song And the blackest sun alights the world and saves us from all wrong [Chorus:] The solace of death can’t revoke The pain of a thousand years and lies The solace of death can’t remove - those bitter times I break down as the stars burn cold Burn bitter and cold - inside my heart Yawns a wound so deep - so deep and old Darkness filled with a mind so skilled and loyal to the blackest arts Concerned with light in her last rite to open up the darkest hearts We have found our final ground to evocate her bright In the shining of the silver moon into the mystic night Willing now to sacrifice and look beyond the ghastly ice Then break the mirror - set the knife and free yourself from life We who wander beyond the sun are blessed with her last kiss Damned to walk among the dead and cursed with human bliss [Chorus] De-acuma nu te-oi mai vedea, Rămâi, rămâi, cu bine! Mă voi feri în calea mea De tine. De astăzi dar tu fă ce vrei, De astăzi nu-mi mai pasă Că cea mai dulce-ntre femei Mă lasă. Căci nu mai am de obicei Ca-n zilele acele, Să mă îmbăt și de scântei Din stele, Când degerând atâtea dăți, Eu mă uitam prin ramuri Și așteptam să te arăți La geamuri. O, cât eram de fericit Să mergem împreună, Sub acel farmec liniștit De lună! Și când în taină mă rugam Ca noaptea-n loc să steie, În veci alături să te am, Femeie! Din a lor treacăt să apuc Acele dulci cuvinte, De care azi abia mi-aduc Aminte. Căci astăzi dacă mai ascult Nimicurile-aceste, Îmi pare-o veche, de demult Poveste. Și dacă luna bate-n lunci Și tremură pe lacuri, Totuși îmi pare că de-atunci Sunt veacuri. Cu ochii serei cei dentâi Eu n-o voi mai privi-o... De-aceea-n urma mea rămâi - Adïo! |
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6. | Somewhere, Somewhen | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
When all the dust of gone times Is blown apart through the world’s new spheres All pain of forgotten dark times, Is broken by the light of a bright growing day Somewhere, somewhen... Empty new world, unknown surrounding The power of creation is now in our own hands Beyond the knowledge of everything outside our realm We are forever to be Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again |
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7. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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8. | Höllenfahrt der Selbsterkenntnis | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Wir haben den Augenblick, den lebenswichtigen Strahl Der noch andauert, der, wenn er erlischt Alles vergehen lässt... Ein Schatten in tiefer Dunkelheit. Die Sterne sind verloschen Wie im Herbst die Blätter fallen Für immer entschwunden In der endlosen Ödnis herrscht keine Regung mehr In der Nacht des Unwesens stürzt alles nieder Alles schweigt, alles schweigt Und die Maschine der Welt kehrt zurück - Doch mit euch vergeht die Zukunft Was einst war, wird nie mehr sein Wir sind erneut Vergangenheit, ohne Herz, trist und kalt... Wenn Schlaf, des Todes Bruder, würdig die Welt regiert Mit geschlossenen Lidern und seinen stillen Träumen Altert um mich die Zeit Wie eine alte Tanne auf hohem Felsen verdorre ich auf meinem Thron Bald wird der mächtige Tod Seinen schwarzen Mantel über mir ausbreiten... Und seine Flügel meinen Hauch auf ewig tragen Denn ich bin und werde immer Vergangenheit sein Ohne Seele, trist und kalt.... Alles fällt, alles schweigt Und alles ist mir fremd... Hier... |
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44:17 |
In Darkness
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars, Keyboards |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Ash | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Kohle | Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals (backing) |
Faerynia | Violin |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Vlad Dracul | Lyrics (tracks 7, 8) |
Alex Schmidt | Lyrics (tracks 2, 6) |
Natalia Kempin | Photography |
Hicham Haddaji | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | In Darkness (We Shall Be Reborn) | 06:20 | Show lyrics |
There on the fields of death we meet again Surrounded by all the light - in vain This is our fortune – this is our burden - this is our last home This is the ending – this is absolution - this is our final tomb In Darkness we shall be reborn – In Darkness we shall be reborn The shadow gods call with a wolves howl Oh great Akasha, let me rest Under a radiant moon I pass your last test This is our ending – our last goodbye Death is calling with his sweetest lullaby Destroy my shell to settle my ghost Carry me amongst the few of the lost The knife is sharpened – my skin is free O Mother Night – bring me to thee In Darkness we shall be reborn |
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2. | I’ve Risen | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
Through my eyes, with one hand For my will, within a breath I grabbed, owned... and brought terror to all the foreign lands I took the precious gift of life... throughout any realm of existence I have risen I have risen I gave life to thousands of sons and I saw them all fall before me I ruled the weak, I ruined worlds in my endless decades of might Uncountable is the amount of suns I’ve seen rise, pass and sink Unnamable all the kingdoms I’ve seen, conquered and destroyed I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence (You still) see my tales on the wall of any grave in forgotten lands (You can) see my shrunken temple, my body, once the house of a god (You can still) see the statues standing on my kingdoms soil, showing my pride (You might) realize my triumph above all flesh and steel, the god and devil am I I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have created paradise and hell, in my era of domination |
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3. | Favourite Sin | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
People go to church for the same reasons, The same reasons,they go to a tavern. To stupify themselves, To forget their misery, To imagine themselves, Even only for minutes, Free and happy. ...So I looked behind and beheld a pale horse And his name who sat on him was Death And Hell followed with him... Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth To do all that one is able to do Is to be a man, To do all that one would like to do Is to be a God. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Imensitate, vesnicie, Tu, haos,care toate-aduni... In golul tau e nebunie, Si-i faci pe toti nebuni. Imensitae, vesnicie, Pe cand eu tremor in delir, Cu ce suprema ironie Arati in fund-un cimitir. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility |
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4. | Oceans of Black | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Beckon our last goodbye when you hear this call You can’t face the fires once you feel them all Another time - another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Lay down with me and listen closely to the sounds of the old blue Tellin’ stories long forgotten - can’t you hear they’re just for you Another time, another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin Once we will meet again in the burning halls Where all the sorrow flows and slowly death befalls Oceans of black shall carry us throughout the night Where only death is real they shall be our guiding light Swim, let yourself be carried with the tide And on a lovelorn day, put all your fears aside Behind the dreary path, look back to all that’s past To realize that life is just the way to endless death at last Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin |
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5. | Adio | 05:21 | Show lyrics |
Young, wild, green with a children’s mind and a heart so loyal and bright But stigmatized and sacrificed by the feedings of the light I turned away, head from the sway and find my only path In the blessings of the flaming ones, an aeon formed with a new oath Hold your head up high on the causal, sparkling rays of the barren, false and blind Or follow me where you can see the power of the blackest light Once the wolves will howl together and sing their mighty song And the blackest sun alights the world and saves us from all wrong [Chorus:] The solace of death can’t revoke The pain of a thousand years and lies The solace of death can’t remove - those bitter times I break down as the stars burn cold Burn bitter and cold - inside my heart Yawns a wound so deep - so deep and old Darkness filled with a mind so skilled and loyal to the blackest arts Concerned with light in her last rite to open up the darkest hearts We have found our final ground to evocate her bright In the shining of the silver moon into the mystic night Willing now to sacrifice and look beyond the ghastly ice Then break the mirror - set the knife and free yourself from life We who wander beyond the sun are blessed with her last kiss Damned to walk among the dead and cursed with human bliss [Chorus] De-acuma nu te-oi mai vedea, Rămâi, rămâi, cu bine! Mă voi feri în calea mea De tine. De astăzi dar tu fă ce vrei, De astăzi nu-mi mai pasă Că cea mai dulce-ntre femei Mă lasă. Căci nu mai am de obicei Ca-n zilele acele, Să mă îmbăt și de scântei Din stele, Când degerând atâtea dăți, Eu mă uitam prin ramuri Și așteptam să te arăți La geamuri. O, cât eram de fericit Să mergem împreună, Sub acel farmec liniștit De lună! Și când în taină mă rugam Ca noaptea-n loc să steie, În veci alături să te am, Femeie! Din a lor treacăt să apuc Acele dulci cuvinte, De care azi abia mi-aduc Aminte. Căci astăzi dacă mai ascult Nimicurile-aceste, Îmi pare-o veche, de demult Poveste. Și dacă luna bate-n lunci Și tremură pe lacuri, Totuși îmi pare că de-atunci Sunt veacuri. Cu ochii serei cei dentâi Eu n-o voi mai privi-o... De-aceea-n urma mea rămâi - Adïo! |
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6. | Somewhere, Somewhen | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
When all the dust of gone times Is blown apart through the world’s new spheres All pain of forgotten dark times, Is broken by the light of a bright growing day Somewhere, somewhen... Empty new world, unknown surrounding The power of creation is now in our own hands Beyond the knowledge of everything outside our realm We are forever to be Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again |
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7. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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8. | Höllenfahrt der Selbsterkenntnis | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Wir haben den Augenblick, den lebenswichtigen Strahl Der noch andauert, der, wenn er erlischt Alles vergehen lässt... Ein Schatten in tiefer Dunkelheit. Die Sterne sind verloschen Wie im Herbst die Blätter fallen Für immer entschwunden In der endlosen Ödnis herrscht keine Regung mehr In der Nacht des Unwesens stürzt alles nieder Alles schweigt, alles schweigt Und die Maschine der Welt kehrt zurück - Doch mit euch vergeht die Zukunft Was einst war, wird nie mehr sein Wir sind erneut Vergangenheit, ohne Herz, trist und kalt... Wenn Schlaf, des Todes Bruder, würdig die Welt regiert Mit geschlossenen Lidern und seinen stillen Träumen Altert um mich die Zeit Wie eine alte Tanne auf hohem Felsen verdorre ich auf meinem Thron Bald wird der mächtige Tod Seinen schwarzen Mantel über mir ausbreiten... Und seine Flügel meinen Hauch auf ewig tragen Denn ich bin und werde immer Vergangenheit sein Ohne Seele, trist und kalt.... Alles fällt, alles schweigt Und alles ist mir fremd... Hier... |
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9. | Adio (acoustic version) | 03:27 | Show lyrics |
Let’s go together with a flare As for today we do not care And we will leave this world behind Drunken of love and also blind Pre-chorus: O, Holy Death, take us away On your black wings into the night O, Holy Death, take us away Goodbye Chorus (x2): We break down as the stars burn cold Burn bitter and cold inside our hearts Yawns a wound so deep, so deep and old One last embrace, a final kiss As for tonight no one will miss (us) And I follow you to hell Farewell Pre-chorus Chorus (x2) |
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47:44 |
In Darkness
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Till Ottinger | Bass |
Sathonys | Guitars, Vocals (clean) |
Thilo Feucht | Guitars, Keyboards |
Manuel Steitz | Drums |
Ash | Vocals |
Guest/Session | |
Kohle | Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals (backing) |
Faerynia | Violin |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Kristian Kohlmannslehner | Producer, Engineering, Mixing |
Vlad Dracul | Lyrics (tracks 7, 8) |
Alex Schmidt | Lyrics (tracks 2, 6) |
Natalia Kempin | Photography |
Hicham Haddaji | Artwork, Layout |
Tracks | |||
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1. | In Darkness (We Shall Be Reborn) | 06:20 | Show lyrics |
There on the fields of death we meet again Surrounded by all the light - in vain This is our fortune – this is our burden - this is our last home This is the ending – this is absolution - this is our final tomb In Darkness we shall be reborn – In Darkness we shall be reborn The shadow gods call with a wolves howl Oh great Akasha, let me rest Under a radiant moon I pass your last test This is our ending – our last goodbye Death is calling with his sweetest lullaby Destroy my shell to settle my ghost Carry me amongst the few of the lost The knife is sharpened – my skin is free O Mother Night – bring me to thee In Darkness we shall be reborn |
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2. | I’ve Risen | 04:49 | Show lyrics |
Through my eyes, with one hand For my will, within a breath I grabbed, owned... and brought terror to all the foreign lands I took the precious gift of life... throughout any realm of existence I have risen I have risen I gave life to thousands of sons and I saw them all fall before me I ruled the weak, I ruined worlds in my endless decades of might Uncountable is the amount of suns I’ve seen rise, pass and sink Unnamable all the kingdoms I’ve seen, conquered and destroyed I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence (You still) see my tales on the wall of any grave in forgotten lands (You can) see my shrunken temple, my body, once the house of a god (You can still) see the statues standing on my kingdoms soil, showing my pride (You might) realize my triumph above all flesh and steel, the god and devil am I I have risen I have risen For my will be done! I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have grown up with demons and angels, in struggle and silence I have risen, between the strong, above the weak I have created paradise and hell, in my era of domination |
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3. | Favourite Sin | 05:44 | Show lyrics |
People go to church for the same reasons, The same reasons,they go to a tavern. To stupify themselves, To forget their misery, To imagine themselves, Even only for minutes, Free and happy. ...So I looked behind and beheld a pale horse And his name who sat on him was Death And Hell followed with him... Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth To do all that one is able to do Is to be a man, To do all that one would like to do Is to be a God. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Power was given unto them Over the fourth part of earth To kill with the sword With famine and death By the wild beasts of the earth When the sun turned black And the moon bloodred And the stars fell down to earth Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Imensitate, vesnicie, Tu, haos,care toate-aduni... In golul tau e nebunie, Si-i faci pe toti nebuni. Imensitae, vesnicie, Pe cand eu tremor in delir, Cu ce suprema ironie Arati in fund-un cimitir. Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility Woman, make a stand Come crawling to my hand Put away your fear, It’s only me, my dear Man, if there were dreams to sell What would you buy, tell ? Eternally, your favourite sin Is pride that apes humility |
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4. | Oceans of Black | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
Beckon our last goodbye when you hear this call You can’t face the fires once you feel them all Another time - another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Lay down with me and listen closely to the sounds of the old blue Tellin’ stories long forgotten - can’t you hear they’re just for you Another time, another day - maybe once we can return We together in the oceans of great darkness we will burn Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin Once we will meet again in the burning halls Where all the sorrow flows and slowly death befalls Oceans of black shall carry us throughout the night Where only death is real they shall be our guiding light Swim, let yourself be carried with the tide And on a lovelorn day, put all your fears aside Behind the dreary path, look back to all that’s past To realize that life is just the way to endless death at last Feed the flames of the pictures I adore We come together for the end while he’s calling us for more Play the violins of death upon your naked skin Kiss me one last time and let us die in sin |
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5. | Adio | 05:21 | Show lyrics |
Young, wild, green with a children’s mind and a heart so loyal and bright But stigmatized and sacrificed by the feedings of the light I turned away, head from the sway and find my only path In the blessings of the flaming ones, an aeon formed with a new oath Hold your head up high on the causal, sparkling rays of the barren, false and blind Or follow me where you can see the power of the blackest light Once the wolves will howl together and sing their mighty song And the blackest sun alights the world and saves us from all wrong [Chorus:] The solace of death can’t revoke The pain of a thousand years and lies The solace of death can’t remove - those bitter times I break down as the stars burn cold Burn bitter and cold - inside my heart Yawns a wound so deep - so deep and old Darkness filled with a mind so skilled and loyal to the blackest arts Concerned with light in her last rite to open up the darkest hearts We have found our final ground to evocate her bright In the shining of the silver moon into the mystic night Willing now to sacrifice and look beyond the ghastly ice Then break the mirror - set the knife and free yourself from life We who wander beyond the sun are blessed with her last kiss Damned to walk among the dead and cursed with human bliss [Chorus] De-acuma nu te-oi mai vedea, Rămâi, rămâi, cu bine! Mă voi feri în calea mea De tine. De astăzi dar tu fă ce vrei, De astăzi nu-mi mai pasă Că cea mai dulce-ntre femei Mă lasă. Căci nu mai am de obicei Ca-n zilele acele, Să mă îmbăt și de scântei Din stele, Când degerând atâtea dăți, Eu mă uitam prin ramuri Și așteptam să te arăți La geamuri. O, cât eram de fericit Să mergem împreună, Sub acel farmec liniștit De lună! Și când în taină mă rugam Ca noaptea-n loc să steie, În veci alături să te am, Femeie! Din a lor treacăt să apuc Acele dulci cuvinte, De care azi abia mi-aduc Aminte. Căci astăzi dacă mai ascult Nimicurile-aceste, Îmi pare-o veche, de demult Poveste. Și dacă luna bate-n lunci Și tremură pe lacuri, Totuși îmi pare că de-atunci Sunt veacuri. Cu ochii serei cei dentâi Eu n-o voi mai privi-o... De-aceea-n urma mea rămâi - Adïo! |
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6. | Somewhere, Somewhen | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
When all the dust of gone times Is blown apart through the world’s new spheres All pain of forgotten dark times, Is broken by the light of a bright growing day Somewhere, somewhen... Empty new world, unknown surrounding The power of creation is now in our own hands Beyond the knowledge of everything outside our realm We are forever to be Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again Survived the wildest waves Climbed the highest hills to see Crept through the most forgotten valleys And fought unimaginable wars Somewhere, somewhen... We’ll meet again |
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7. | Dusk of an Infinite Shade | 04:42 | Show lyrics |
Fâșii de văluri negre pe soare se-aștern Tu, lună-a vieții mele infăsură-te-n umbră Vino, zână, fii crudă și fii sumbră Cufundă-te-n hăul urâtului etern... .. Fii tot ce vrei, fii noapte sau roșie-auroră O singura-mi regină făptura-mi-ntreagă te-adoră Și-n mine orice fibră te-ntâmpină voioasă... Umbre multe se-ngroapă adânc în noapte. Ruini! Suntem un sânge, solemni în fiecare noapte lar carnea-i rece, străpunsă de-a ta umbră Ma-mbată tot ce-mi dărui - dureri sau vis etern... Robit de-a ta privire, din vraja ochilor îți sorb Tu mă mângâi pân’la sânge, cu ghearele-ți (ca) de corb... .. Și-mi arde sufletul, esența, într-un foc aprins în inimă De ființa ta nocturnă; dar tu-mi pari ca-ndepărtezi ironic Adâncile zenituri de brațele-mi întinse spre negre infinituri... Și de fiecare dată, când luna, ea dispare Când noaptea dă să plece și umbre-ncep să ardă Atunci, eu lacom, strâng regina-mi palidă-n brațe Ca un muribund ce-n taină mormântul și-l dezmiardă..! Umbre mute se-ngropau adânc în noapte.. |
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8. | Höllenfahrt der Selbsterkenntnis | 06:00 | Show lyrics |
Wir haben den Augenblick, den lebenswichtigen Strahl Der noch andauert, der, wenn er erlischt Alles vergehen lässt... Ein Schatten in tiefer Dunkelheit. Die Sterne sind verloschen Wie im Herbst die Blätter fallen Für immer entschwunden In der endlosen Ödnis herrscht keine Regung mehr In der Nacht des Unwesens stürzt alles nieder Alles schweigt, alles schweigt Und die Maschine der Welt kehrt zurück - Doch mit euch vergeht die Zukunft Was einst war, wird nie mehr sein Wir sind erneut Vergangenheit, ohne Herz, trist und kalt... Wenn Schlaf, des Todes Bruder, würdig die Welt regiert Mit geschlossenen Lidern und seinen stillen Träumen Altert um mich die Zeit Wie eine alte Tanne auf hohem Felsen verdorre ich auf meinem Thron Bald wird der mächtige Tod Seinen schwarzen Mantel über mir ausbreiten... Und seine Flügel meinen Hauch auf ewig tragen Denn ich bin und werde immer Vergangenheit sein Ohne Seele, trist und kalt.... Alles fällt, alles schweigt Und alles ist mir fremd... Hier... |
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