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01. To War!

Speed demon spread thy shanks wide
Shower offense! Defile
Citadel pure desires' vice
Damnation nigh Behemoths feast
Old bloodlines die -
Warrior caste feed raging beast
Hear the roar of battle-horn. To War!

Dread Reavers rise from dismal mist
Ghouls emerge - Catalyst
Form jagged, spike - studded fist
Lean years breed - a skeletal corps
Deviant yield - Omnivore
Tide devour craven shore
To battlefield stream the warm. To War!

Mephitic mob - torch the havens
Chew the ribs of temple-maidens
Blackened babes - hung on high
Nourish the hawks circling sky
Talons to flesh - a hook-beak strips
Long pig to shreds - tongue from lips
Wild Reavers pledge - their guts to pour
Blizzard kin Raise the skulls

Talisman shield - the sword our prophesy
Grail Quest - benighted destiny
War paths - must terminate in blood
Pit erupt - spray ochre upon the mud

Plague Weavers spread Y-pestis far
Thin armoured ranks
Marauders close - Decimate guard
Hammer blade on anvil forge
Hel know our name
Wade knee deep - in sod of fore
Once more unto the breach. To War

02. Winterbane

Cleanse steel in carnage, Unleash chthonic Darkness
Scud stochastic vortex, Blitz vicious bastards
Sheath blades in carcass, Disembowel tangled skein
Upon ripe flesh we harvest, Human grain mortal pain


Reaper rides on, Genocides' arc of scythes


Combat casts the warrior, Warfare marks the age
Stone to bronze to iron, Steel is our rage!
Blood soaked grimoires spell, Hell a million ways
Vellum spills the venom, A poison chalice sprays


Gods of War, Exhort the hordes as battle roars
A Dragon dives, Belching hives of serpent flies
Scribes skewer history, Truth dies in the telling
Scribes skewer history, Truth dies in the yelling of lies


Afford us our sins, Bloodlust our wings
In death's domain of Winter Bane


Death wept that grim day, Gutting ghost from viscera
Flaying soul from the clay, Cleaving mind from terror
Reavers rode roughshod, 'Cross the skull-crushed plain
Legions mass the grave, Where spirits shriek insane


Fire drakes dive, Burn ranks alive, Dead worlds collide
Ravens glide, Swoop and pluck the Hero's eyes
Scars carve the memory, Truth lies in the cutting
Scars carve the memory, Truth lies in the culling of lies


Seraphim soar above the ichor
The sea of slain at Winter Bane


Wilderness will not claim the beast
Nor civilized state deny its feast
Not gibberish of madman, hysteric chant of priest
Nor lovers' brutal sighs, lend the savage peace


A demon raised in flames must stride
Stricken trails in stark divide
The frozen waste of Winterbane
To face the monster still inside
Deep within its burning eyes
A killer stirs, starts to rise...
Reavers ride the ice-crest tides
Thunderous hooves churn the skies

03. Ashes Of The Damned

Ashes of the Damned, Born on pestilential winds
Zephyrs flay the sky, Cinders bath in blaze

Scorch raw starry vault, Above the earth accursed
Carnage beyond despair, Souls seared in gaze
Embers of warriors, Fuel legends heroes bled
Seidmen weep the tears, Valkyries fear to shed


Ashes of the Damned


Serpent-tongue sick with thirst, In thy venom we immerse
Necrotic Lord Bless Our Chains, Baptize heathen flesh in flames
But free of all rapture's stain, From ash the Damned will rise


Again


Rats, spread deadly spore, Bubonic swarm
Claws, of vermin rake, Ancient graves
Belch, necrotic maw, Kisses blistering
Melt, Death's face to yours, Decay with Grace

Frost, bite iron lung, Demonic storm
Spit, last heathen words, Against the hail
Flesh, raise heavy chains, Curse the skies
Spark, suck lightening strike, The final nail


Ashes of the Damned, Born on pestilential winds
Zephyrs flay the sky, Cinders bath in blaze
Scorch raw starry vault, Above the earth accursed
Carnage beyond despair, Souls seared in gaze

Ashes of the Damned

04. Ocean Of Wounds

Club-foot cripple's withered stride
Disturbs the dust of barren tide
Lifetime spun from martial pride
Graft of scars on calloused hide

Weathered vet of many campaigns
Knuckles grip anew the reigns
Charger harnessed, Standard raised
Sombre stroke to crown aspire

Drown fears in void of infernal Styx
Warrior's doubt in terror cicatrix
Drown the sound of doom in cobalt depths
Submerge grief in the Ocean of Wounds

In hateful breeze the guillotine hum
Of axe descent to nape of scum
Wed to pain, To horror numb
Crimson world will soften the slum

Short cuts burn when u seek fire
Bone-deep become the demon sired
Strong through trials, Torments dire
Sombre stroke to crown aspire

Drown fears in void of infernal Styx
Warrior's doubt in terror cicatrix
Drown the sound of doom in cobalt depths
Submerge grief in the Ocean of Wounds

05. Count The Dead

Grimshard Lord of northern Reach
Heed the dread Hel can teach
Despair in halls of burning keep
Taste the tears kinfolk weep
See the twilight realm you rule
Land aflame, flesh our fuel

Inspire men at arms, the brave who have not fled
Lead ire on final charge, until no soul is left
To Count the Dead

Greybeard swing your broken sword
In killing arcs' terminal stroke
Let battle-cry rip from throat
As lungs fill with acrid smoke
Swallow bile of livid fear
On which you choke so cavalier

Inspire men at arms, the brave who have not fled
Lead ire on final charge, until no soul is left
To Count the Dead

Cataracts cloud your streaming eyes
Glory fades in dying light
Banners bright drained of colour
Grey in dusk of deadly night

Old Lion maimed draw your knife
End your worthless life
Kneel before the Raven Hordes
Of Ice, Fire and Strife

Lord Warden where's your flock
Sons lie slain at your feet
Daughters shamed by reaver's cock
Your champions butchered meat

Grimshard Lord of northern Reach
Heed the dread Hel can teach
Despair in halls of burning keep
Taste the tears kinfolk weep
See the twilight realm you rule
Land aflame, flesh our fuel
Upon the carcass of the world
Cenotaph for the scourged

Inspire men at arms, the brave who have not fled
Lead ire on final charge, until no soul is left
To Count the Dead

06. Fenrir Hunts

Rank and file of Legions vile form their battle lines
Clad in armour black as night Northern Darkness sines
Banners raised skin of slaves slap in Vanir's breeze
Seidmen cut rune wards deep Hel thaws all shall freeze

Release the flood a rampant tide of blood
Will fill this black lagoon
Warriors weened on gore and gruel must heed
The carrion call of doom

Pack Master, Unleash the Reavers eager for rapine
Emerge from lair of ice and gneiss cave and ravine
Vulpine scouts, winter, lean, scent meat on ripe spore
A feast awaits the frenzy of rabid fang and claw

Volcanic shores bleed a gush of iron ore
From ashes Death will bloom
Howl for Hel Voracious Dogs of War
Fenrir hunts Snaps jaws of doom

Skills to hone, swords to whet to keen edge damascene
Spear tip to taper, arrow fletch, hammerhead to clean
In spleen

Shield to boss, helm to crest, battle axe to grind
Wound to stitch, gut to void, Berzerker, rage to blind
Sick mind

Beneath a shroud of bludgeoned sky
We tread the dust on corpse, strewn roads
Hum laments of requiems
Half, remembered odes
Of orphaned brats, weeping widows

We march to crack of thunder Ragnarok in our eyes
To drumbeat of the Damned we salute your sacrifice
We march for love of slaughter drunk on wine of blades
We fight for eternal night until the End of Days

Release the flood a rampant tide of blood
Will fill this black lagoon
Warriors weened on gore and gruel must heed
The carrion call

Volcanic shores bleed a gush of iron ore
From ashes Death will bloom
Howl for Hell Voracious Dogs of War
Fenrir hunts Snaps jaws of doom

07. Root Of The Mountain

Stooped now the wraith
More shadow than flesh
Once mighty hews lie sunken in chest
Spectral hoar frost spat on breath
A pulse ebbs
Yet, still Lord of Death
A silent tongue whispers tumours in head
Bending will of wardogs led

To glorious carnage
Armies were fed
Leech to thrombosis
Nations were bled
A world quailed in terror
Stricken with fear
Parents slew children
As juggernaut drew near

Beneath vast crush of crag
Entombed in gut of molten slag
An Archon, King cursed to live
As regent in Abyss of eldritch Necropolis

Stalking caverns'
Gargantuan scope
Revenant sits on his throne
Emperor infernal
In City of Bone
And shattered stone

At World's Edge a mighty range
Cuts through cloud impaling Heaven
Follow fissures down, Behold:
The Root of the Mountain

08. Endless

Phoenix in a frozen flame
Trapped in Arctic, Winter crypt
Scars of past have cast the chains
From Book of Ages we are ripped
Raven glide on Polar, winds
Hailstones sharp shards of glass
Banish thoughts of lesser men
In the end flesh is grass

Divided we fall
United we rule
Hybrid stand tall
Ignite freak with fool

Phoenix soar as sunlight thaws
Glacier and frigid earth
Shake the ice from fiery mane
Torch the skies emblazon birth
Raven dive through lightning strike
Whip cirrus into swell
Pierced by deadly shrike
Spirit flies, no man can fell

Divided we fall
United we rule
Steadfast we toil
Rebellion our tool

Dauntless Fearless Tireless Relentless
Dauntless Fearless Tireless Relentless


Phoenix rise and conquer Time
Temper fate
Reclaim the zeitgeist in its prime
Rejuvenate
Raven dive through lightning strike
Whip cirrus into swell
Pierced by shrike
Spirit flies, no man can fell

Divided we fall
United we rule
Steadfast we toil
Rebellion our tool

Dauntless Fearless Tireless Relentless
Dauntless Fearless Tireless Relentless

09. Nebular Ravens Winter

Damnation calls
Final blasts close the earth
Immortal victory
Winters Bane upon the masses
Snow spiraling towards auroral clouds
Clear nebulous visions sight
Soulwinds fall into the dark ice realms
Where you now reach far

Blackwinged ravens cry for tragedies to come
Lurking with snowfall
By doom they drag the robe of ice
Frozen of heart you now reach far

In the Nebular Ravens Winter
Winds are known from where they blow
Nebular ravens winter
Strength comes from us above

Ravens season has begun
Melancholic ageless and unknown
Mesmerized you fall in our domain
Freezing in the heart

Sojourn from the elder ravens
Beauteous winter birth
An eerie mage
Emblazoned with the biting winds
Damnation calls
With staring glowing yearning eyes
Poised they strike again and drag
Us all below

In the Nebular Ravens Winter
Winds are known from where they blow
Nebular ravens winter
Might bestowed from us above

Ravens season has begun
Melancholic ageless and unknown
Mesmerized you fall in our domain

Inhale the effluence of the demonworlds
Freezing in the heart