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By Flame and Steel
03:24
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Stand within the purifying fire
Sear the flesh from the bone
Blow upon the embers of your fire
Ascend on your path to the throne
Go forth and
Ride for your kingdom as Úlfhéðnar
Force an end to this war
Defend this solitary bastion
Send them back to their shores
Stand and repel this invasion with axe and shield
Fight 'til the sands flow red, we shall never yield
Stand within the purifying fire
Sear the flesh from the bone
Blow upon the embers of your fire
Ascend on your path to the throne
Go forth and
Die! The light will shine upon your memory
Your foes will cry out in pain
Leave no one among the living
Fight 'til your strength starts to wane
Light the match and set the fire
Cleanse yourself upon the pyre
Laughing as the flames grow higher
Moving towards your heart's desire
Raise your sword and charge the onslaught
Glory in a death that's well-fought
Give your life fighting Hardrada
Ride your longship towards Valhalla
(lead: Barnet)
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2. |
Live Your Truth
05:19
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Too long in darkness
You've been forced to hide
Keeping your glory
Locked deep down inside
Raise your torch
Raise it high
Don't give in to
Their fear of the light
Raise your torch
To the sky
Open up your
Wings and fly
Live your truth and you'll fly free
Soar above them endlessly
Live your truth and make them see
All along it's been within
Just light the spark and you'll begin to rise
The pain, the fear
That's built by their hate
Can only be beaten
By the love that you make
Raise your torch
Raise it high
Don't give in to
Their fear of the light
Raise your torch
To the sky
Open up your
Wings and fly
Live your truth and you'll fly free
Soar above them endlessly
Live your truth and make them see
All along it's been within
Just light the spark and you'll begin to rise
Raise your torch
Raise it high
Don't give in to
Their fear of the light
Raise your torch
To the sky
Open up your
Wings and fly
(lead: Gustafson)
(lead: Barnet)
Live your truth and you'll fly free
Soar above them endlessly
Live your truth and make them see
All along it's been within
Just light the spark and you'll begin to
Live your truth and you'll fly free
Soar above them endlessly
Live your truth and make them see
All along it's been within
Just light the spark and you'll begin to rise
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3. |
Celestial Echoes
04:13
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Ghost of the sun
The fading remnant of what we've done
Cosmic atrophy
Chaotic death of humanity
Celestial soot and grime
Blackened dust of space and time
The stars are calling me home
No life, no god, no consequence
Fate could not determine this provenance
With the slow crawl of the hand of time
Amongst the ruins, I become divine
Gravity pushes, pulls, crushing itself
Endothermic reactions, unable to resist
For a split second, all becomes one
The building blocks of life become undone
Once what was, upon its end
Will seek the stellar realms
Upon the whims of the quantum gods
New life shall be endowed
(lead: Barnet)
Creation with no providence
The cosmic balance shall not be betrayed
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4. |
The Spaces Between
04:54
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Silver thread, from me to nowhere here
Life lived, life brought, fought, and fraught
The moment lost, cast adrift
Former troubles gone but somehow near
Soul, now bonded here
Caught in loops
So thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories fetter me
Caught in loops
Determination setting in
Hate and spite and fear driving me
An ending for the end, there must be
Break my loop and peril the journey
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see,
I hear them,
I scream I'm not heard
Soul, now bonded here
Caught in loops
So thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
The weight of deeds
Bind me here
Caught in loops
So thoughtlessly
Things unsaid
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Caught in loops
Faceless beasts, gaseous fumes I breathe
Silk webs encoat my very being,
I'm caught, I'm lost, I'm gone, I'm drowned
No. I cant. Not here. Not now.
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see,
I hear them,
I scream but I'm not heard
(lead: Barnet)
A sign of truth, painful it may be
Inner demons turned outward against me
A simple truth, residing somewhere near
Dark paths their endings I fear
I carry on, I push myself through
The ending that I dread was the end that I knew
Unshrug my burden, fetters now shed
I've found my rest, I join the dead
The colors are muted and
Bleeding out
Quintessence lost in
Webs not seen but I see,
I hear them,
I scream I'm not heard
Soul, now bonded here
Caught in loops
So thoughtlessly
Things undone
Can I break free
Memories, fetter me
Now I may rise
My conscience clear
Closure for those I hold dear
Things now done
I've broken free
Memories, releasing me
Break the loop
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5. |
Succumb
04:36
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Grey, unending grey
The barren landscape stretching every way
The flame I carried has burned low
The embers fade with every passing day
My empty kingdom, once so full
Neglected splendor marks my shame
And now I wander on my own
The cast down sovereign of decay
I never thought it'd end this way
But I have nothing left to say
Across the void my soul is strewn
And it'll all be over soon
Grim eminence of failure
Decrepit monuments of stone
Eroded will, degraded mind
The weight of time is crushing down
I have retread these paths enough
Give me an ending to this road
In impotent affectation
I press the dagger to my throat
(lead: Gustafson)
Time and again, I stay my hand
The end I long for never comes
To eternity, I am condemned
To permanence, I have succumbed
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6. |
The Magus and the Mire
05:28
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In the depths of the strangled marshes, this cruel mistress he calls home,
There lives a recluse beggar, he’s just brown rags over bone
His crooked nose stays buried in each tome that he can find
In hopes to learn new magic, break the shackles of his mind!
In the swamp lies
Mystic treasure
For those who survive
If you don’t have
Pure intentions
You will meet your demise
Our beggar travels to the heart
Of this hallowed land
He opens up and bares his heart
And reaches out a shaking hand
In the man lies
Untold anger
His past takes its toll
If he can’t grasp
His emotions
The magic will control
Who has called to me?
Woke me from my dreams?
I won’t abdicate
I decide your fate
(lead: Gustafson)
(lead: Barnet)
A mind cracked, broken beyond repair
A mind shackled, lights on with no one there
A fight decided by ancient dogma
The swamp beckons, beacons in the fog again
(lead: Barnet)
Who now lives to tell the tale?
Of power, madness. Who prevails?
An aging soul lost to the deep
A tepid slumber forced to keep
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7. |
Bad Moon
04:35
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Late at night and you’re feeling scared
You know it’s soon, becoming aware
Those monsters feared before, behind closet doors
Don’t compare to ones trusted before
Bad moon invites bad dreams and I’m
Sleepwalking through endless night
Bad moon ignites bad dreams, behold
Above us now the burning sky
Bad moon incites bad dreams and we’ll
Riot in the streets until we make it all right
Bad moon rewrites bad dreams, have to
The innocent are those who will pay this time
(lead: Gustafson)
Racing through inky black, ragged gasping
The mob so close behind, ears catch the rasping
The slide of steel on steel, don’t slow your flight
Friends turned foe by the fear of night
Bad moon invites bad dreams and I’m
Sleepwalking through endless night
Bad moon ignites bad dreams, behold
Above us now the burning sky
Bad moon incites bad dreams and we’ll
Riot in the streets until we make it all right
Bad moon rewrites bad dreams, have to
The innocent are those who will pay this time
(lead: Barnet)
(lead: Gustafson)
(lead: Barnet)
(lead: Gustafson)
(lead: Barnet)
(dual lead)
Freedom seems so near, you’re tasting pennies
The trap closes in on created enemy
“Mutant, devil spawn!” come the cries
The world slips to red before your eyes...
Bad moon invites bad dreams and I’m
Sleepwalking through endless night
Bad moon ignites bad dreams, behold
Above us now the burning sky
Bad moon incites bad dreams and we’ll
Riot in the streets until we make it all right
Bad moon rewrites bad dreams, have to
The innocent are those who will pay this time
(lead: Barnet)
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8. |
Called From Beyond
05:19
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In darkest dreams of choking umber
It is stirring from an ancient slumber
Tearing, gnashing, clawing, grinding
To escape its planar binding
I have seen beyond the veil
Lurking in our blackest dreams
Rend the fragile walls of real
Torn asunder at the seams
Beyond the walls of space and time
It comes alive
And if it should escape
We'll have no chance to survive
It lives
A spectral village, a city unseen
An ancient cult beginning to scheme
To break the boundary of the real and the nightmare
Subject the world to the Great Ones' regime
Call forth the stillborn godling from beyond
To grant them sight beyond all seeing
Blinking, blurring, burning, sliding
First glimpse of the light is blinding
The moon bleeds from the sky
Into the earth it pools
From its depths, a shape arises
The Paleblood
It looms, shrieking a cry
Its voices toll our doom
Profane amalgamation
Sanguine flood
Great beast of many bodies
Lord of many souls
The stillborn lives again
Freed from undeath's control
A seething mass of corpses
From their slumber torn
To give this evil shape, behold:
The One Reborn
Grant us eyes
The end is nigh
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Based in the Twin Cities, Incriminating Silence focuses on metal with beefy riffs, soaring dual guitar harmonies, and keeping it fresh. Incriminating Silence formed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 2010 and underwent a series of lineup changes until the core of the band formed. The band doesn't write to a genre. It has one rule - if it sounds good, do it. ... more
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