Shattered forth from a glacial womb

Seeded under wings of winter storm

Pulsing and writhing in embryonic Aurora

A gleaming dragon new-born


Birthed from a chrysalis of ice


Its lair burrowed in the highest icy peak

Watching man spew shadow and pain

A winter serpent seasoning into adulthood

From the ice it was spawned and for the ice it will reign


The sky glittering hail with its passing

Returning to its haunt after glimpsing war

This species it shares this world with

Destined to destroy the realm and more


Now legacy and lineage will be incinerated by blue fire

As the dragon takes its flight, flapping its wings, ascending higher

Travelling further to the encroaching dominion of men

Unleashing an arctic furnace, ensuring they meet their end

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
Awakening of the ice dragon.]

A nocturnal peregrination, a moonlit wandering

Preternatural fear provoked, an uneasy lingering sense

Heart beats like a mechanical drum, a vicious confrontation in sight

To meet an end in rabid frenzy, prey to a stalker of the night


Metamorphosis and mutilation leaves a bleeding and butchered

Mauled by malevolence, by a flesh and blood engine of wrath

Gore spreads like crimson roots in the soft and falling snow

Causality of the winter moon’s phosphorus conjuring glow


Slaughtered in the moonlight

Devoured by indomitable feral will


A death becomes a number becomes a story they will tell

Of a trail in the woods where those rumoured have fell

Ripped by yellowed teeth, blood pooled in icy sleet

Human meat for a beast, full moon shining at its peak


In the moonlight

They go missing

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
The beast attacks during a full moon.]

The campaign stole years from us, the enemy fought tirelessly

We conquered but lost so many, a fruitless victory

Now the blistering journey home, from

icy edges of frontier

Exhausted, wounded, caught in a blizzard, looks like the end is near


Alas fortune favours us, destiny marks us

For as we blindly forge, we discover a whale carcass


So near the ocean sobers, we’ve circled and wandered in vain

Tonight’s haven however, a carrion tomb, within we nurse our pain

And so we carve and we chisel blubber and hunks of flesh

To gore ourselves a cocoon and be saved from the brink of death


The blizzard howls and moans like a beast desperate for it’s prey

Beating at the walls tonight until the break of day

But at this twilight we are safe, within our rotting haven

This encounter proving fate has deemed our lives worth saving

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
Survival in the corpse of a beached whale.]

The prince has matriculated

And been rewarded

With his very own kingdom

Overlooked by a sky fortress


A magnificent pillar high above the sea of clouds

Where he can gaze the people of his shepherd

A floating tower, sentinel of altruism and safeguard

For the adolescent royal to prosper safe and unscarred


And maybe I could join him too

And together we could view

The dawn of us all from a legendary past

The forming of ego, from where war is cast

The rise and fall of empires and men

The survivors rebuilding to do it again


And we would see it all

From the sky fortress

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
A floating fortress high above the kingdom.]

The steel blue sky streaked by lightning strikes

As the apparition reforges his sword of frost

The tundra winds echo triumphant as the winter weapon mends

Now the icy blade gleams and the wraith wars once again


An unlikely protagonist, the saviour none envisioned

Under no banner he marches, above the tainted works of men

Heart wreathed with contrition, he resolves to save the weak

Conflict for the ages, against overwhelming odds, outlook bleak


And this is the last imposition of his will

To forge amends for his sins and remain fighting still

With a blade clutched in his hand, he rides out on his saddle

To redeem himself in war and slay his foe in battle


Wielding the sword, he now defends those in another life he condemned

The wraith fighting on their side and protecting all of humankind

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
Redemption of the wraith armoured with a mythic weapon.]

Spurred with stalactites, spinning wheels extend permafrost

A sonic aurora blast from war horn, declaration, the battle begins

And on this hallowed arctic battlefield who dares wins



And two titanic armies clash

Circled by chariots of frost

Headed by deer snorting icy fire

Soundtracked by cataclysmic choir


Winter apparitions contact and cleave, wounds bleeding sleet

A northern lit sky tears open, hailing on this apocalyptic soap opera

Countless bodies fall, retreating back into tundra, into slumber

And for the victorious let there ring a brief rolling thunder


Now drowsiness creeps, sea-saw lazily to sleep, like snowflakes falling from a mountain steep

And both victor and slain, return to glacial graves

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
Icy warriors arise to battle.]

Tundra winds howl ferocious, hail shattering down

Can’t glimpse what lays ahead, but I can hear the sound


An enormous ancient cry

Resounding through the winter storm


Now through the frosted tempest I begin to see

A gargantuan shape lumbering towards me


A bellowing colossus

Silhouetted within the blizzard


The earth does shake and the avalanches fall

As the ageless giant moves within his squall

Unsure if near-death vision or a mythic sight

In goliath shadow, there’s no use to run or fight

Though of my presence he seems not to notice

And so luck favours for I’m frozen with hypnosis

Walking forward in his kingdom, extending his glacial reign

It's hoped he’s a guardian, not a harbinger of pain

[ABOUT THIS TRACK:
A sighting of a legendary figure.]

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