I remember I was back in high school when I first discovered this band. I loved them soooo much, then I found better stuff. XD Nevertheless this stuff is still damn good, imo.
Band: Ensiferum
Song: Old Man
Album: Ensiferum
So much farther off than time could reach
Today it would be too late
So much despair he has bled
but will he wither away
No one knows that you must keep
this Old Man wide awake
'cause no one knows that he could feed
our lives with a brighter flame
Hush little dreamer, the bearer of light
has come to set you free
Now little dreamer at last you can sigh
'cause the nightmares will be released
Sweeter far than life from I
found that love was
Sweeter far than love to die as he did
Hush little dreamer, the bearer of light
has come to set you free
Now little dreamer at last you can sigh
'cause the nightmares will be released
The stars fell from the nightsky
as he reached his hands in the air
As the sun peeked between the trees
the Old Man burst to tears
Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Ensiferum!
No more from Eluveitie. Next I will cover two albums from Ensiferum. Their self-titled and Iron.
Band: Ensiferum
Song: Token of Time
Album: Ensiferum
Harvest the field of time
with the old man's scythe
The narrow path of the chosen one
reaches beyond life
I set sails for the ageless winds
No fear of dying or a thought of surrender
I threaten every barrier on my way
I am bound forever with Token of Time
Among the humble people
Everything is torn apart
but I'm blessed with faith
and bravely I shall go on
Are thou the bringer of hope and joy
that I've waited for years
I shall fight to restore the moon
Wisdoms of time are carved on the sacred wood
Do thou possess spiritual powers
that would dispel all my fears
I shall not die until the seal is broken
Token of Time is trusted in the hands of the chosen one
Band: Ensiferum
Song: Token of Time
Album: Ensiferum
Harvest the field of time
with the old man's scythe
The narrow path of the chosen one
reaches beyond life
I set sails for the ageless winds
No fear of dying or a thought of surrender
I threaten every barrier on my way
I am bound forever with Token of Time
Among the humble people
Everything is torn apart
but I'm blessed with faith
and bravely I shall go on
Are thou the bringer of hope and joy
that I've waited for years
I shall fight to restore the moon
Wisdoms of time are carved on the sacred wood
Do thou possess spiritual powers
that would dispel all my fears
I shall not die until the seal is broken
Token of Time is trusted in the hands of the chosen one
Monday, March 14, 2011
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Sempiternal Embers
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Glowing and blazing
In the wind of times
Ever lit
Searching and fathoming
The fires arcane
Consuming flames
Sparks to imbue
Our very souls
Pervading
The very breath of life
Flickering from the depths
Of eternity
Never asleep
Never extinct
Not ever ceasing to gleam
Never sear
The sempiternal embers
Never profaned
Never fail
Not ever ceasing to refine
Never forfeit
Never faint
The sempiternal embers
The essence of being
The form of existence
Forever inflamed with passion
Heart of hearts
Burning so bright
Yet clandestine
Gleaming in the lair
Of the powers to be
The four mighty ones
The high kings concealed
Giving birth to the glimmer within
Incessantly fostering the flames...
Glowing and blazing
In the wind of times
Ever lit
Searching and fathoming
Sparks to imbue
Our very souls
Song: Sempiternal Embers
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Glowing and blazing
In the wind of times
Ever lit
Searching and fathoming
The fires arcane
Consuming flames
Sparks to imbue
Our very souls
Pervading
The very breath of life
Flickering from the depths
Of eternity
Never asleep
Never extinct
Not ever ceasing to gleam
Never sear
The sempiternal embers
Never profaned
Never fail
Not ever ceasing to refine
Never forfeit
Never faint
The sempiternal embers
The essence of being
The form of existence
Forever inflamed with passion
Heart of hearts
Burning so bright
Yet clandestine
Gleaming in the lair
Of the powers to be
The four mighty ones
The high kings concealed
Giving birth to the glimmer within
Incessantly fostering the flames...
Glowing and blazing
In the wind of times
Ever lit
Searching and fathoming
Sparks to imbue
Our very souls
Sunday, March 13, 2011
I haunt your fear
I don't know where Quoth the Raven would fit, but I do know that this is probably one of my favorite songs from them. When Anna does her scream nearing the end of the song, I can't help but get a surge of adrenaline throughout my body. It happens every time @ concerts.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Quoth the Raven
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
I am the mystery
And I am the bringer of moonless night
I bear the wisdom arcane
I, harbinger from the burrowed isle
Once you break forth
Hearken the flap of my wings
I haunt your fears
Though you don't know of my duty
To lead your path
Because I'll take you home to rest
In my black wings enfolding you
I am the icon sublime
The guide of the voyage clandestine
I sing the verses bewailed
I, torch of the radiant way
Once you step out
Hearken the strokes of my wings
Once you will leave your cocoon
I will be there
And death will smile his barefaced smile
Initiating your final anguish
It is not before my arrival
that you will be lead to feel
the natural serenity of leaving this world...
Hear my wings caressing the wind!
Hear my kraaak!
I haunt your fear
Though you don't know my duty
To lead your path
Because I'll take you home to rest
In my black wings, enfolding you
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Quoth the Raven
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
I am the mystery
And I am the bringer of moonless night
I bear the wisdom arcane
I, harbinger from the burrowed isle
Once you break forth
Hearken the flap of my wings
I haunt your fears
Though you don't know of my duty
To lead your path
Because I'll take you home to rest
In my black wings enfolding you
I am the icon sublime
The guide of the voyage clandestine
I sing the verses bewailed
I, torch of the radiant way
Once you step out
Hearken the strokes of my wings
Once you will leave your cocoon
I will be there
And death will smile his barefaced smile
Initiating your final anguish
It is not before my arrival
that you will be lead to feel
the natural serenity of leaving this world...
Hear my wings caressing the wind!
Hear my kraaak!
I haunt your fear
Though you don't know my duty
To lead your path
Because I'll take you home to rest
In my black wings, enfolding you
Saturday, March 12, 2011
This is v!
Kingdom Come Undone brutality after the calm Isara, just like Bloodstained to Anagantios
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Kingdom Come Undone
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
While the noose is tightening
You still sit here on your fleeting throne
So busy with your own little feuds
And your own blinker crowns
But we all are Gauls
And we are free at least by now
So take the fucking plunge
Rise and unite
Arise!
United we'll stand!
This is v for vengeance
This is v for vehemence
This is v for victory
This is v for Vercingetorix
Let them feel the gaulish violence
Impetuous furor
The bite of our blades
Let them see our freedoms ensign
Let us raise our clenched fists in pride
What benefit will it be
To save your crowns but forfeit your freedom at last?
We are one folk and we can make a stand
So lay down your crowns now
Rise and Unite
Bestir!
Wake up!
As one we'll prevail!
This is v for verdict
This is v for valour
This is v for venture
This is reVolt
This is kingdom come undone
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Kingdom Come Undone
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
While the noose is tightening
You still sit here on your fleeting throne
So busy with your own little feuds
And your own blinker crowns
But we all are Gauls
And we are free at least by now
So take the fucking plunge
Rise and unite
Arise!
United we'll stand!
This is v for vengeance
This is v for vehemence
This is v for victory
This is v for Vercingetorix
Let them feel the gaulish violence
Impetuous furor
The bite of our blades
Let them see our freedoms ensign
Let us raise our clenched fists in pride
What benefit will it be
To save your crowns but forfeit your freedom at last?
We are one folk and we can make a stand
So lay down your crowns now
Rise and Unite
Bestir!
Wake up!
As one we'll prevail!
This is v for verdict
This is v for valour
This is v for venture
This is reVolt
This is kingdom come undone
Friday, March 11, 2011
Instrumental inc...
Anagantios is superior to Isara, but that's just my opinion. =p
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Isara
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Isara
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Nil has been compared to Gray Sublime Archon on more than one occasion.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Nil
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Curtains up for this lurid age
Clear the ring for oppression and greed
Welcome to this wasteland
Of blight and havoc
Once known as my home
Deleting fulfilled!
Erasing procedure done!
Cleansing complete!
It's done, my friend,
it's over and done!
There was nothing left
But the smell of salassian blood
Nil and nothing left
But the braying void in our homes
I never forgot the eyes of the kids
Wrested from their moms
To be sold into slavery
I still can hear
The cries of the raped
And the bellow of the flames
The hymn of absurd death
Heed the chronicles
Of lucrative genocide
The annals of effaced tribes
Pages written in blood
Ave Caesar Augustus
It's done my friend
It's over and done
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Nil
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Curtains up for this lurid age
Clear the ring for oppression and greed
Welcome to this wasteland
Of blight and havoc
Once known as my home
Deleting fulfilled!
Erasing procedure done!
Cleansing complete!
It's done, my friend,
it's over and done!
There was nothing left
But the smell of salassian blood
Nil and nothing left
But the braying void in our homes
I never forgot the eyes of the kids
Wrested from their moms
To be sold into slavery
I still can hear
The cries of the raped
And the bellow of the flames
The hymn of absurd death
Heed the chronicles
Of lucrative genocide
The annals of effaced tribes
Pages written in blood
Ave Caesar Augustus
It's done my friend
It's over and done
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Slania #2
Many many people are calling this album Slania #2. People are saying that while the songs are different, it has the same feeling. There is a popular song similar to the popular song on Slania. Thousandfold : Inis Mona... anyways I'll be taking you through what people say are the similarities and let you decide for yourself!
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Thousandfold
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Sprinkled by the trappings
Of words that make the outlines
Blur on the showplace of made history
The folk is willed
To parrot the dished up tale
The lure of a higher meaning
Cheat, you had to create
An enemy stereotype
To retrieve your absolution
A forthy poor excuse for your foray
To disengage from the deeps
of your encumbrance
Behold
All our gold
Thousandfold
Bereave me!
Declined
Truths ensign
Forever mine!
Bereave me!
March in with ten legions
Whilst the crucial weapons not he pillum
But the feather held in your hand
Penned in blood
Your tall tales rule the forum
Altering it into the battlefield
I, the spectral guise
Evoking these baring fears
Pestering your conscript fathers
I smile at my demise and while I die
I cherish the roots of my perseverance
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Thousandfold
Album: Everything Remains as It Never Was
Sprinkled by the trappings
Of words that make the outlines
Blur on the showplace of made history
The folk is willed
To parrot the dished up tale
The lure of a higher meaning
Cheat, you had to create
An enemy stereotype
To retrieve your absolution
A forthy poor excuse for your foray
To disengage from the deeps
of your encumbrance
Behold
All our gold
Thousandfold
Bereave me!
Declined
Truths ensign
Forever mine!
Bereave me!
March in with ten legions
Whilst the crucial weapons not he pillum
But the feather held in your hand
Penned in blood
Your tall tales rule the forum
Altering it into the battlefield
I, the spectral guise
Evoking these baring fears
Pestering your conscript fathers
I smile at my demise and while I die
I cherish the roots of my perseverance
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
This will probably be the last song I'll post from this album, next and last is their album "Everything Remains as It Never Was."
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Omnos
Album: Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Immi daga uimpi geneta,
lana beððos et' iouintutos.
Blatus ceti, cantla carami.
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
pid in cete tu toue suoine,
pid uregisi peli doniobi?
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
pid in cete tu toue suoine
Aia mape coime, adrete!
In blatugabagli uorete,
cante snon celiIui in cete!
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti [x2]
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu.
In cetobi selgin agumi,
selgin blatos tou' iouintutos.
Nu, uoregon, cu, uorigamos,
lamman, cu, suuercin lingamos,
indui uelui cantla canamos!
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu.
In cetobi selgin agumi,
Ne moi iantus gnaton uorega,
iantus drucocunos uoregon,
cante toi in medie cete.
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti [x2]
Cu allate, papon sod urege,
eððiIo de iantu in cridie.
VediIumi: cante moi uosta!
Ne, a gnata, cante t' usstami,
ne uostami, ne te carami.
Ne carami, nec carasumi.
Boua daga uimpi geneta.
Immi trouga, lana nariIas.
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti.
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Omnos
Album: Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Immi daga uimpi geneta,
lana beððos et' iouintutos.
Blatus ceti, cantla carami.
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
pid in cete tu toue suoine,
pid uregisi peli doniobi?
Aia gnata uimpi iouinca,
pid in cete tu toue suoine
Aia mape coime, adrete!
In blatugabagli uorete,
cante snon celiIui in cete!
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti [x2]
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu.
In cetobi selgin agumi,
selgin blatos tou' iouintutos.
Nu, uoregon, cu, uorigamos,
lamman, cu, suuercin lingamos,
indui uelui cantla canamos!
N'immi mapos, immi drucocu.
In cetobi selgin agumi,
Ne moi iantus gnaton uorega,
iantus drucocunos uoregon,
cante toi in medie cete.
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti [x2]
Cu allate, papon sod urege,
eððiIo de iantu in cridie.
VediIumi: cante moi uosta!
Ne, a gnata, cante t' usstami,
ne uostami, ne te carami.
Ne carami, nec carasumi.
Boua daga uimpi geneta.
Immi trouga, lana nariIas.
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti.
Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Acoustic time!
Calling the rain concludes Slania. Next we're going to go into their acoustic album. I won't delve into this album for your sanity. Anything sang isn't of English tongue, so good luck trying to understand it. A lot of the songs are instrumentals and/or chants. Check it out on your own if you like that style of music, but I won't bore you with it here.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Brictom
Album: Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
a senit conectos onda bocca nene.
rionti onda boca ne .on barnaunom ponc nit-
issintor sies eianepian digs ne lisantim ne licia-
tim ne rodatim biont- utu semnanom sagitiont-
ias seuerim lissatim licia- tim anandognam acolut
utanit andognam da bocca diom...ne
inside de bnanom brictom eainom anuana sanander
na brictom uidlaias uidlu tigontias so adgagsona seue rim
tertionicnim lidssatim liciatim eianom uoduiuoderce lunget
..utonid ponc nitixsintor si es duscelinatia ineianon anuana
esi andernados brictom banona flatucias paulla dona politius
iaia duxtir ediagias potita atir paullias seuera du xtir
ualentos dona paullius adiega matir aiias
potita dona primius abesias
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Brictom
Album: Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
a senit conectos onda bocca nene.
rionti onda boca ne .on barnaunom ponc nit-
issintor sies eianepian digs ne lisantim ne licia-
tim ne rodatim biont- utu semnanom sagitiont-
ias seuerim lissatim licia- tim anandognam acolut
utanit andognam da bocca diom...ne
inside de bnanom brictom eainom anuana sanander
na brictom uidlaias uidlu tigontias so adgagsona seue rim
tertionicnim lidssatim liciatim eianom uoduiuoderce lunget
..utonid ponc nitixsintor si es duscelinatia ineianon anuana
esi andernados brictom banona flatucias paulla dona politius
iaia duxtir ediagias potita atir paullias seuera du xtir
ualentos dona paullius adiega matir aiias
potita dona primius abesias
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Calling...
This song is amazing live.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Calling the Rain
Album: Slania
A nexus fruition
Whirling cognition
Ulterior, the failing of words
A pageant to leave me bewildered
Lurch at the sight of the clandestine ascendancy
Pervading anima
An awe-struck principle, an adytum to find our home
Long for the rapture again
Crave for the pristine light
Vastness engulfing the soul
Unfurling this truth, an orbit in sovereignty
Sown into deep darkness
The grain has to die, perish to bestow new life
A vis major painting a rapturous view
Heralding a vivid thema
Heed, it's like calling the rain
It's like bearing in pain
Like embracing life an decaying in death
Heed, it's like calling the rain
It's like the caress of a mother
Like life to go withered, a perennial pneuma
I will not forget what I arose from
Decidual the forests proclaim
The glory primal, the rapturous supremacy
Vanquishing the vile
Burgeoning beyond, bearing the essence of life
Crave for the rapture again
Long for the pristine light
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Calling the Rain
Album: Slania
A nexus fruition
Whirling cognition
Ulterior, the failing of words
A pageant to leave me bewildered
Lurch at the sight of the clandestine ascendancy
Pervading anima
An awe-struck principle, an adytum to find our home
Long for the rapture again
Crave for the pristine light
Vastness engulfing the soul
Unfurling this truth, an orbit in sovereignty
Sown into deep darkness
The grain has to die, perish to bestow new life
A vis major painting a rapturous view
Heralding a vivid thema
Heed, it's like calling the rain
It's like bearing in pain
Like embracing life an decaying in death
Heed, it's like calling the rain
It's like the caress of a mother
Like life to go withered, a perennial pneuma
I will not forget what I arose from
Decidual the forests proclaim
The glory primal, the rapturous supremacy
Vanquishing the vile
Burgeoning beyond, bearing the essence of life
Crave for the rapture again
Long for the pristine light
Friday, March 4, 2011
One of the best songs on the CD, hands fucking down. None of the lyrics are in English as well! XD
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Slania's Song
Album: Slania
Catoues caletoi
Urit namantas anrimius
Ro- te isarnilin -urextont,
Au glannabi rhenus
Ad ardus alpon,
Tou‘ magisa matua
Tou‘ brigas iuerilonas
Budinas bardon
Clouos canenti
Anuanon anmaruon,
Cauaron colliton,
Adio- biuotutas -robirtont
Uolin cridili
Are rilotuten atrilas
A ulati, mon atron,
A brogi‘m cumbrogon!
Exs tou‘ uradiu uorrobirt
Cenetlon clouision
Cauaron caleton
A blatu blande bitos biuon!
A ‚m‘ atriia, a ‚ma helvetia!
Tou‘ mnas et genetas,
Tigernias, tecas,
Tou‘ uiroi uertamoi
In sose cantle cingeton
In- gutoues -beronti.
Cante cladibu in lame
Exsrextos canumi:
A ulati, mon atron,
A brogi‘m cumbrogon!
Exs tou‘ uradiu uorrobirt
Cenetlon clouision
Cauaron caleton
A blatu blande bitos biuon!
A ‚m‘ atriia, a ‚ma helvetia!
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Slania's Song
Album: Slania
Catoues caletoi
Urit namantas anrimius
Ro- te isarnilin -urextont,
Au glannabi rhenus
Ad ardus alpon,
Tou‘ magisa matua
Tou‘ brigas iuerilonas
Budinas bardon
Clouos canenti
Anuanon anmaruon,
Cauaron colliton,
Adio- biuotutas -robirtont
Uolin cridili
Are rilotuten atrilas
A ulati, mon atron,
A brogi‘m cumbrogon!
Exs tou‘ uradiu uorrobirt
Cenetlon clouision
Cauaron caleton
A blatu blande bitos biuon!
A ‚m‘ atriia, a ‚ma helvetia!
Tou‘ mnas et genetas,
Tigernias, tecas,
Tou‘ uiroi uertamoi
In sose cantle cingeton
In- gutoues -beronti.
Cante cladibu in lame
Exsrextos canumi:
A ulati, mon atron,
A brogi‘m cumbrogon!
Exs tou‘ uradiu uorrobirt
Cenetlon clouision
Cauaron caleton
A blatu blande bitos biuon!
A ‚m‘ atriia, a ‚ma helvetia!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Escalate the sense...
This is their staple concert song. It's very easy to listen to, headbang to, and has predictable flow. The bagpipe and flute are very apparent in this song as well.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Inis Mona
Album: Slania
Welcome to the land of questions
Welcome to the isle of lore
Where the veil came crumbling down
There it all began,
The germination
Unveiling a cryptic door
There it was revealed
Hopes and aspirations
unclosing an enthralled door
Escalate the sense
Enhancing to join the dawn
Hey, hey!
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
twenty years I have walked your barrows
Years of emulous youth
I followed the path of the wise
There it all was sown
The inspiration
Removing the seven seals
There it was revealed
Enigma of freedom
Unclosing an unseen door
Escalate the sense
Enhancing to join the dawn
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
Escalate the sense
Enhancing to join the dawn
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Inis Mona
Album: Slania
Welcome to the land of questions
Welcome to the isle of lore
Where the veil came crumbling down
There it all began,
The germination
Unveiling a cryptic door
There it was revealed
Hopes and aspirations
unclosing an enthralled door
Escalate the sense
Enhancing to join the dawn
Hey, hey!
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
twenty years I have walked your barrows
Years of emulous youth
I followed the path of the wise
There it all was sown
The inspiration
Removing the seven seals
There it was revealed
Enigma of freedom
Unclosing an unseen door
Escalate the sense
Enhancing to join the dawn
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
Escalate the sense
Enhancing to join the dawn
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home
Monday, February 28, 2011
This next album has a lot of songs that I really enjoy so we're going to go through most of the album...
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Primordial Breath
Album: Slania
The calling wind on my face
Waving from the summoning of giants
That heals my soul
The virile fragrance of alpine tor
The blowing breath of this fold
That dreams me
Pervading every single nook of existence
Veidon anatlâ
Trireinos koilon monis pantos
Volevos kaion moricos
Ni têrsos tenkos sves nâus-anatia
In litaviâ votno-ûrâ
Mê anatlô
Qe tebô lama deivos skver-ollos
Laden with the burdens of this life
The barque sails through endless waters
Deep and dark
Yet gestated pristinely and free
Escorting to the biding warmth
Of the womb
"I am a bard do not vouchsafe my secrets to slaves
I am a guide a judge if you sow you will labor"
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Primordial Breath
Album: Slania
The calling wind on my face
Waving from the summoning of giants
That heals my soul
The virile fragrance of alpine tor
The blowing breath of this fold
That dreams me
Pervading every single nook of existence
Veidon anatlâ
Trireinos koilon monis pantos
Volevos kaion moricos
Ni têrsos tenkos sves nâus-anatia
In litaviâ votno-ûrâ
Mê anatlô
Qe tebô lama deivos skver-ollos
Laden with the burdens of this life
The barque sails through endless waters
Deep and dark
Yet gestated pristinely and free
Escorting to the biding warmth
Of the womb
"I am a bard do not vouchsafe my secrets to slaves
I am a guide a judge if you sow you will labor"
Sunday, February 27, 2011
"I've been..."
So as you can see from the first 2 songs I've shown you that Eluveitie is vastly different than Elvenking but still in the same genre. I love the range of instruments that Eluveitie utilizes and how it all comes together to rape or soothe your ears depending on the song.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: The Song Of Life
Album: Spirit
I've been fire, fed by the four winds
I've been water in the stream
And a drop of dew on the culm
I've been clay in the hands of a potter
I've been rosin of a tree
And a leaf, by the breeze carried away
I've been a child of seven spirits
I've been an eagle in the skies
And the swashing fish in the lough fulgent
I've been a tear in the wind
And a word within paean
I've been a flower on the green pasture
I've been the song of a bird
And the vast roar of a bear
I am a lump of this vivid soil
I'm the brother of the trees
a chthonian lot of this earth
Breathe this dream, and let your soul inhale it!
Bare and naked, let us dance on the meadows
Revel within this nature which we're all a part of. Free this wolf forever!
Free this child! Indui uelui cantla canamos.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: The Song Of Life
Album: Spirit
I've been fire, fed by the four winds
I've been water in the stream
And a drop of dew on the culm
I've been clay in the hands of a potter
I've been rosin of a tree
And a leaf, by the breeze carried away
I've been a child of seven spirits
I've been an eagle in the skies
And the swashing fish in the lough fulgent
I've been a tear in the wind
And a word within paean
I've been a flower on the green pasture
I've been the song of a bird
And the vast roar of a bear
I am a lump of this vivid soil
I'm the brother of the trees
a chthonian lot of this earth
Breathe this dream, and let your soul inhale it!
Bare and naked, let us dance on the meadows
Revel within this nature which we're all a part of. Free this wolf forever!
Free this child! Indui uelui cantla canamos.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
This song is fucking amazing, I really don't know how else to describe it's amazingness to you people.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: ...Of Fire, Wind, & Wisdom
Album: Spirit
..the endless knot .... the holy grove...
...the threshold ... the place beyond...
...I enter, like a newborn child....
Embracing the eternal
Like a consuming fire
the knowledge grows
when it's cleft
Though still patchworked
yet flooding
the creating touch
washing away the vile.
Embracing the ancient
while trees gently whisper
those intimate
longed-for words
The greet wheel
is still revolving
with untouchable sovereignty
so invulnerable.
Into the sacred grove I drown
The endless knot
draws me into
the fire of hearts, the place beyond
Then I'll be born
then I'll be renewed
...naked spirit ... bare...
spirit
Band: Eluveitie
Song: ...Of Fire, Wind, & Wisdom
Album: Spirit
..the endless knot .... the holy grove...
...the threshold ... the place beyond...
...I enter, like a newborn child....
Embracing the eternal
Like a consuming fire
the knowledge grows
when it's cleft
Though still patchworked
yet flooding
the creating touch
washing away the vile.
Embracing the ancient
while trees gently whisper
those intimate
longed-for words
The greet wheel
is still revolving
with untouchable sovereignty
so invulnerable.
Into the sacred grove I drown
The endless knot
draws me into
the fire of hearts, the place beyond
Then I'll be born
then I'll be renewed
...naked spirit ... bare...
spirit
Friday, February 25, 2011
Eluveitie!
I bet some people were getting tired of hearing Elvenking over and over. It's ok though, no more Elvenking anymore! Next we go to Eluveitie. They are a Folk Metal band, but aren't similar to Elvenking at all! They have a HURDY FUCKING GURDY! I bet you people don't even know what a hurdy gurdy is. Well I will teach you something this post.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a hurdy gurdy. You turn the crank that's on the right side of the instrument (left side in the picture) just as you would a jack-in-the-box. Your other hand would go on the bottom where the strings are and amazing sounds come out when you play it. They also use bagpipes in some songs. You're thinking bagpipes aren't fucking metal. Lemme tell you something.... BAGPIPES ARE FUCKING METAL NOW. Plus some flutes and violin. Overall, their play style/skill is rather simple not too complex as other bands but they sound damn good. To date they have produced 5 albums. 4 full length and 1 live album. I will only be looking at their full lengths.... enough talking, on to the metal.
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Your Gaulish War
Album: Spirit
Fraught with so much greed, imperial needs.
Satisfy your hunger for might and blood!
With greedy claws the eagle flew
Leaving chaos and widows on his hunt.
We do not accept to bear the half-moon on our feet
Nor to bow, to the laurel wreath!
"Haec terra mea est" - the urge of your own want
spurring the horse towards the devastating aint.
It's the pauper that accrouches - bared indigence
Your need should cost unnumbered lives!
might and riches you have sought,
willing to pay the price in human lives!
False and fallacious, killing and omnivorous
depleting the value of human life!
But we always knew: You came with fortune
and one day you'd come with steel!
We did not accept to bear the half-moon on our feet!
A tort that pays it wage death?
Well, how does it feel, the blood on your hands?
I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!
Well, how does it feel, the blood on your hands?
I hope the gold you've won bestows your delight!
...standing at the top of all the ruin you have left...
watch our wives remigrate with crooked backs...
Band: Eluveitie
Song: Your Gaulish War
Album: Spirit
Fraught with so much greed, imperial needs.
Satisfy your hunger for might and blood!
With greedy claws the eagle flew
Leaving chaos and widows on his hunt.
We do not accept to bear the half-moon on our feet
Nor to bow, to the laurel wreath!
"Haec terra mea est" - the urge of your own want
spurring the horse towards the devastating aint.
It's the pauper that accrouches - bared indigence
Your need should cost unnumbered lives!
might and riches you have sought,
willing to pay the price in human lives!
False and fallacious, killing and omnivorous
depleting the value of human life!
But we always knew: You came with fortune
and one day you'd come with steel!
We did not accept to bear the half-moon on our feet!
A tort that pays it wage death?
Well, how does it feel, the blood on your hands?
I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!
Well, how does it feel, the blood on your hands?
I hope the gold you've won bestows your delight!
...standing at the top of all the ruin you have left...
watch our wives remigrate with crooked backs...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
This is the last song that I will be showing from Elvenking... Next is Eluveitie - a much harsher type of metal in comparison to Elvenking.
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Play Of The Leaves
Album: Red Silent Tides
It's time to make a choice
No matter where it leads
Decisions need to be taken
Doesn't matter when
No matter where
The final curtain falls
All the audience's gone
The play has come to the end
Change your acting clothes
Clean up your face
The treasures of your inside
Do they really have a light?
The jewels in your heart
Are they rusting inside?
There are voices there always that are calling for you
Every time you're in need of finding something to cling to
There are choices there waiting for you
Everywhere, you'd better be prepared
Are your leaves covering
The highest top of the trees
with their green and sparkling gold
Or the soil below,
Crackling dead and gone?
Inside what do you feel?
The play of the leaves
performing next to your room
get the final claps
or leave covered in shame
Do you feel this emotion that hides
Are you strong enough to survive
This little whirlwind in motion?
Can you feel the pain that I feel
Do you see all things that I see?
It's all turning and causing commotion
Do you feel this emotion that hides
Are you strong enough to survive
This little whirlwind in motion?
Can you feel the pain that I feel
Do you see all things that I see?
It's all turning and causing commotion
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Play Of The Leaves
Album: Red Silent Tides
It's time to make a choice
No matter where it leads
Decisions need to be taken
Doesn't matter when
No matter where
The final curtain falls
All the audience's gone
The play has come to the end
Change your acting clothes
Clean up your face
The treasures of your inside
Do they really have a light?
The jewels in your heart
Are they rusting inside?
There are voices there always that are calling for you
Every time you're in need of finding something to cling to
There are choices there waiting for you
Everywhere, you'd better be prepared
Are your leaves covering
The highest top of the trees
with their green and sparkling gold
Or the soil below,
Crackling dead and gone?
Inside what do you feel?
The play of the leaves
performing next to your room
get the final claps
or leave covered in shame
Do you feel this emotion that hides
Are you strong enough to survive
This little whirlwind in motion?
Can you feel the pain that I feel
Do you see all things that I see?
It's all turning and causing commotion
Do you feel this emotion that hides
Are you strong enough to survive
This little whirlwind in motion?
Can you feel the pain that I feel
Do you see all things that I see?
It's all turning and causing commotion
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Cabal
Album: Red Silent Tides
I wake up and I feel I was stranded
In a world that hardly represents me
Step by step I collect all my nightmares
Like a modern Renoir I'm painting my life away
Don't you think that I'm not gonna worry
Don't you think that I don't feel sorry
Soon I'll find my way and I'll let you know
Sitting down in my room I feel so empty
Staring with lonely eyes at the words I am laying down
With cold blood I swallow all the absinthe that you gave me
that cold winter night
Don't you think that I'm not gonna worry
Don't you think that I don't feel sorry
Soon I'll find my way and I'll let you know
I feel a decadent poet
Forced to bury his art – forced to bury his own heart
Under the mud of a pigsty
A cabal of murdered broken hearts
Longing for my bitter taste
Lost you, I have lost you, brother
The strength you hid inside your eyes
Makes me believe I can still live my life
I learned from the ashes
Of the tears I dropped for all these years
My love is now living, is living for real
I feel a decadent poet
Forced to bury his art – forced to bury his own heart
Under the mud of a pigsty
A cabal of murdered broken hearts
Longing for my bitter taste
Song: The Cabal
Album: Red Silent Tides
I wake up and I feel I was stranded
In a world that hardly represents me
Step by step I collect all my nightmares
Like a modern Renoir I'm painting my life away
Don't you think that I'm not gonna worry
Don't you think that I don't feel sorry
Soon I'll find my way and I'll let you know
Sitting down in my room I feel so empty
Staring with lonely eyes at the words I am laying down
With cold blood I swallow all the absinthe that you gave me
that cold winter night
Don't you think that I'm not gonna worry
Don't you think that I don't feel sorry
Soon I'll find my way and I'll let you know
I feel a decadent poet
Forced to bury his art – forced to bury his own heart
Under the mud of a pigsty
A cabal of murdered broken hearts
Longing for my bitter taste
Lost you, I have lost you, brother
The strength you hid inside your eyes
Makes me believe I can still live my life
I learned from the ashes
Of the tears I dropped for all these years
My love is now living, is living for real
I feel a decadent poet
Forced to bury his art – forced to bury his own heart
Under the mud of a pigsty
A cabal of murdered broken hearts
Longing for my bitter taste
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
At last.... Red Silent Tides.
This is the final album that Elvenking produced to date. A lot has changed since their first album and every album offers something different. To the music so we can listen to something else! =p
Band: Elvenking
Song: Silence De Mort
Album: Red Silent Tides
I walk in silence
Silence de mort
Every night the same old dream
La fleur du cœur being slaughtered from within
And I know how - I know now - I know how
Every time I can feel, I can hear
The taste of my blood the beat of my heart
And I feel pain - I feel great - I feel pain
...And this is no Wonderland
No Alice, no Cat, no Mad Hatter my dear
Here the silence is real
All the dreams that I hold, all my fantasies unfold
And the things I wanna live
Are just fake happy endings with figures pretending
They've washed all the illusions far away
The marionettes are drinking still
While celebrating their own pile of shit
Like it is great - like it is the main attraction
The stains which remain on my best suit
Are always of the colors I hate the most
While the ones I cherish, they just fade away
...And this is no Wonderland
No Alice, no Cat, no Mad Hatter my dear
Here the silence is real
All the dreams that I hold, all my fantasies unfold
And the things I wanna live
Are just fake happy endings with figures pretending
They've washed all the illusions far away
I walk in silence
Silence de mort
Band: Elvenking
Song: Silence De Mort
Album: Red Silent Tides
I walk in silence
Silence de mort
Every night the same old dream
La fleur du cœur being slaughtered from within
And I know how - I know now - I know how
Every time I can feel, I can hear
The taste of my blood the beat of my heart
And I feel pain - I feel great - I feel pain
...And this is no Wonderland
No Alice, no Cat, no Mad Hatter my dear
Here the silence is real
All the dreams that I hold, all my fantasies unfold
And the things I wanna live
Are just fake happy endings with figures pretending
They've washed all the illusions far away
The marionettes are drinking still
While celebrating their own pile of shit
Like it is great - like it is the main attraction
The stains which remain on my best suit
Are always of the colors I hate the most
While the ones I cherish, they just fade away
...And this is no Wonderland
No Alice, no Cat, no Mad Hatter my dear
Here the silence is real
All the dreams that I hold, all my fantasies unfold
And the things I wanna live
Are just fake happy endings with figures pretending
They've washed all the illusions far away
I walk in silence
Silence de mort
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Misconception? No! Miss Conception!
Our final song for this acoustic album... We are almost done with Elvenking and we'll be looking at Eluveitie next. They are a lot more "metal" if you will than Elvenking so I think people will begin to look/comment more. =p
Band: Elvenking
Song: Miss Conception
Album: Two Tragedy Poets (...And a Caravan of Weird Figures)
Have you ever thought that all of the things you believe
to be right may be just rules they stuck in you mind
they took you by the hand and led you just like you were blind
You learnt we're living in a world that is built on a lie
we are the good ones and we don't care when the others die
god is the answer and the strongest will always survive
Far from our daily chaos, she lives in peace and all of these things don't affect
her passion for life and for what's true.. what's truly right in the heart
Dig in you passions and follow you heart
Miss Conception awaits your arrival tonight
Far in your dreams she'll appear and invite you
When you feel like a man even just for a while
Don't be shy or stupid, wake up and follow her trail
you have been walking the wrong one like a drunken snail
This is the time to end this parody of life and set sail
The trees are covered up with vines look they're running insane
the crows high in the sky and the air filled with smell of rain
This place seems horrible but please don't proceed with disdain
Far from our daily chaos, she lives in peace and all of these things don't affect
her passion for life and for what's true.. what's truly right in the heart
Dig in you passions and follow you heart
Miss Conception awaits your arrival tonight
Far in your dreams she'll appear and invite you
When you feel like a man even just for a while
Oh here she comes, dressed with air and sunshine
Stroking her white legs, sexed and shivering
And there they are, the riot of pure ones
Feasting on her promiscuous banquet
Oh here she comes
I can see her face now
and our tongues
our hands dancing in the moonlight
How far will she go?
I can hear her soft voice whispering
Everlasting words of lust
Dig in you passions and follow you heart
Miss Conception awaits your arrival tonight
Far in your dreams she'll appear and invite you
When you feel like a man even just for a while
Band: Elvenking
Song: Miss Conception
Album: Two Tragedy Poets (...And a Caravan of Weird Figures)
Have you ever thought that all of the things you believe
to be right may be just rules they stuck in you mind
they took you by the hand and led you just like you were blind
You learnt we're living in a world that is built on a lie
we are the good ones and we don't care when the others die
god is the answer and the strongest will always survive
Far from our daily chaos, she lives in peace and all of these things don't affect
her passion for life and for what's true.. what's truly right in the heart
Dig in you passions and follow you heart
Miss Conception awaits your arrival tonight
Far in your dreams she'll appear and invite you
When you feel like a man even just for a while
Don't be shy or stupid, wake up and follow her trail
you have been walking the wrong one like a drunken snail
This is the time to end this parody of life and set sail
The trees are covered up with vines look they're running insane
the crows high in the sky and the air filled with smell of rain
This place seems horrible but please don't proceed with disdain
Far from our daily chaos, she lives in peace and all of these things don't affect
her passion for life and for what's true.. what's truly right in the heart
Dig in you passions and follow you heart
Miss Conception awaits your arrival tonight
Far in your dreams she'll appear and invite you
When you feel like a man even just for a while
Oh here she comes, dressed with air and sunshine
Stroking her white legs, sexed and shivering
And there they are, the riot of pure ones
Feasting on her promiscuous banquet
Oh here she comes
I can see her face now
and our tongues
our hands dancing in the moonlight
How far will she go?
I can hear her soft voice whispering
Everlasting words of lust
Dig in you passions and follow you heart
Miss Conception awaits your arrival tonight
Far in your dreams she'll appear and invite you
When you feel like a man even just for a while
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Get a silly answer!
Very catchy tune that you can't help but sing to, imo. =p
Band: Elvenking
Song: Ask a Silly Question
Album: Two Tragedy Poets
You've been playing snakes and ladders all your life
You never thought that you were wasting all your time
Now I'm gonna tell you: let's play "Pass the Pigs"
So come on throw your pigs and win by reaching number six
A long time ago the gifts were given by the gods
That day you didn't show your face at all
Now I'm gonna ask you: where do you belong?
The human being's supposed to be the best of all
The missionary position's leading back to number one
You thought you had some points, but now you have none
You're just one of the bloody freaking mass
The very best of the breed in your literature class..?
My patience has been worn out by your self esteem
How can you say Lord Byron used to play in your dream team?
Ask a silly question - Get a silly answer
You comedy of contradictions is your final cancer
If this is what you are, then I say: NO!
If this is all you say then I say: NO! NO! NO!
The missionary position's leading back to number one
You thought you had some points, but now you have none
All the natural and good willing forces of the earth
Are worth being respected since your time of birth
But I know you'll betray them - for your dumb regime
Forget your ugly face 'cause you don't count more than anything
Cold is the heart of the empty
In the end you will cry for mercy
Ask a silly question - Get a silly answer
You comedy of contradictions is your final cancer
If this is what you are, then I say: NO!
If this is all you say then I say: NO! NO! NO!
The missionary position's leading back to number one
You thought you had some points, but now you have none
You've been playing snakes and ladders all your life
You never thought that you were wasting all your time
Now I'm gonna tell you: let's play "Pass the Pigs"
So come on throw your pigs and win by reaching number six
Band: Elvenking
Song: Ask a Silly Question
Album: Two Tragedy Poets
You've been playing snakes and ladders all your life
You never thought that you were wasting all your time
Now I'm gonna tell you: let's play "Pass the Pigs"
So come on throw your pigs and win by reaching number six
A long time ago the gifts were given by the gods
That day you didn't show your face at all
Now I'm gonna ask you: where do you belong?
The human being's supposed to be the best of all
The missionary position's leading back to number one
You thought you had some points, but now you have none
You're just one of the bloody freaking mass
The very best of the breed in your literature class..?
My patience has been worn out by your self esteem
How can you say Lord Byron used to play in your dream team?
Ask a silly question - Get a silly answer
You comedy of contradictions is your final cancer
If this is what you are, then I say: NO!
If this is all you say then I say: NO! NO! NO!
The missionary position's leading back to number one
You thought you had some points, but now you have none
All the natural and good willing forces of the earth
Are worth being respected since your time of birth
But I know you'll betray them - for your dumb regime
Forget your ugly face 'cause you don't count more than anything
Cold is the heart of the empty
In the end you will cry for mercy
Ask a silly question - Get a silly answer
You comedy of contradictions is your final cancer
If this is what you are, then I say: NO!
If this is all you say then I say: NO! NO! NO!
The missionary position's leading back to number one
You thought you had some points, but now you have none
You've been playing snakes and ladders all your life
You never thought that you were wasting all your time
Now I'm gonna tell you: let's play "Pass the Pigs"
So come on throw your pigs and win by reaching number six
Friday, February 18, 2011
...And a Caravan of Weird Figures
Next album on the list is their only acoustic album, Two Tragedy Poets (...And a Caravan of Weird Figures). I think there are a lot of awesome songs on here so without anymore from me... the songs!
Band: Elvenking
Song: From Blood to Stone
Album: Two Tragedy Poets
As the lights slowly fade in an emerald whirl
I dig through my broken ideals
As the sun hides his smile from the plain down below
I stand enchanted
I need to find something to fill my whole without falling, falling apart
Something that can give me a reason to hope, falling, falling apart
I can tell from the deep of my heart,
every day I fight to conquer a place in the world
Look around, leave it all with a smile,
taste the blood of Earth and sign your mark on the stone
From the roots in the soil to the branch in the sky
From head to toe I must find
A perfect harmony to help my travel this night
Through my own Wyrd
There is nothing the can frighten me more than myself,
outliving this world
I look around and I suddenly see and realize
I finally live (in the best way it can possibly be)
I can tell from the deep of my heart,
every day I fight to conquer a place in the world
Look around, leave it all with a smile,
taste the blood of Earth and sign your mark on the stone
Turning from blood to stone, be one with the roots of Life
From flesh and from tears to soil, make a promise and choose to live
I have found something to fill my whole without falling, falling apart
Something that has given reasons to hope, I'm not falling, falling no more
I can tell from the deep of my heart,
every day I fight to conquer a place in the world
Look around, leave it all with a smile,
taste the blood of Earth and sign your mark on the stone
In the end I don't care if I'm part of a plan
As long as I'm a part of it
Band: Elvenking
Song: From Blood to Stone
Album: Two Tragedy Poets
As the lights slowly fade in an emerald whirl
I dig through my broken ideals
As the sun hides his smile from the plain down below
I stand enchanted
I need to find something to fill my whole without falling, falling apart
Something that can give me a reason to hope, falling, falling apart
I can tell from the deep of my heart,
every day I fight to conquer a place in the world
Look around, leave it all with a smile,
taste the blood of Earth and sign your mark on the stone
From the roots in the soil to the branch in the sky
From head to toe I must find
A perfect harmony to help my travel this night
Through my own Wyrd
There is nothing the can frighten me more than myself,
outliving this world
I look around and I suddenly see and realize
I finally live (in the best way it can possibly be)
I can tell from the deep of my heart,
every day I fight to conquer a place in the world
Look around, leave it all with a smile,
taste the blood of Earth and sign your mark on the stone
Turning from blood to stone, be one with the roots of Life
From flesh and from tears to soil, make a promise and choose to live
I have found something to fill my whole without falling, falling apart
Something that has given reasons to hope, I'm not falling, falling no more
I can tell from the deep of my heart,
every day I fight to conquer a place in the world
Look around, leave it all with a smile,
taste the blood of Earth and sign your mark on the stone
In the end I don't care if I'm part of a plan
As long as I'm a part of it
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
One thing I forgot to mention that Elvenking does unique to this CD is that they have speech intros and outros in all of the songs that either mention or foreshadow the name of the next song that is going to play. I enjoyed it, though I know some people disliked it very much. This will be the last song I will be showing for this CD. Two more CDs after this and I'll be going into another folk metal band... Eventually I will move out of folk metal and go into the next sub genre.
Band: Elvenking
Song: Dominhate
Album: The Scythe
A day of Life, a night of Sex
I'm going through every kind of excess
Till I find myself hating the mirror
Where a Stranger sees me clad in terror
A lullaby of personalities
Introduce another side of me
A demonic twist of Fate
Trying to dominate my hate
Whip my soul and caress my flesh
'til the whines melody still lasts
A burning wish, a lechery
There's a demon in me
I guess I will be falling,
I can't deny
Into a hole of fire that shines so bright
If I am ready for the calling?
I cannot tell
I'm reaching for the skies or the flames of hell
So the moment has arrived now, it sounds so strange
I though it would be different what has changed?
The love, the proud and the libertine
- remember what you were?
Has left his evil flowers for his Christine
...And with them all her sins
Whip my soul and caress my flesh
till the whines melody still lasts
A burning wish, a lechery
There's a demon in me
The dirty shameful and obscene
- so shameful Was that me?
Has dug a humid grave for another Catherine
...another name to sin...with...
Face the side of me that hates
The side of my disgrace
Where I could not step in
Thanks to all of you who had so much patience
And so much passion for my soul
You can't understand all the importance you had
And how much you have meant
To this little life that I have lived
And to all the rest to whom tried to bring me
Down and to wound my own trust
You stole my innocence destroyed ideals
And you need to be damned
I am cursing you from down below
Look me in the eyes
And face all my blinded hate
I would be afraid cause I will get ya!
Please, remember me and don't forget
Remember me for what I really was
You, a sweet verse of poetry
The flavor of a life that fades away
Time to say good bye, to finish what's undone
Time for a last kiss before she has gone
Save best for last?
Take another night another's passing by
Dark will cover all will eclipse and hide
The lives of all
You, a sweet verse of poetry
The flavor of a life that fades away
On that Night of Nights, She came my way
Under the rain, dirty with agony and pain
Death of sorrow, Death of misery
The scythe has fallen... was it for me?
Band: Elvenking
Song: Dominhate
Album: The Scythe
A day of Life, a night of Sex
I'm going through every kind of excess
Till I find myself hating the mirror
Where a Stranger sees me clad in terror
A lullaby of personalities
Introduce another side of me
A demonic twist of Fate
Trying to dominate my hate
Whip my soul and caress my flesh
'til the whines melody still lasts
A burning wish, a lechery
There's a demon in me
I guess I will be falling,
I can't deny
Into a hole of fire that shines so bright
If I am ready for the calling?
I cannot tell
I'm reaching for the skies or the flames of hell
So the moment has arrived now, it sounds so strange
I though it would be different what has changed?
The love, the proud and the libertine
- remember what you were?
Has left his evil flowers for his Christine
...And with them all her sins
Whip my soul and caress my flesh
till the whines melody still lasts
A burning wish, a lechery
There's a demon in me
The dirty shameful and obscene
- so shameful Was that me?
Has dug a humid grave for another Catherine
...another name to sin...with...
Face the side of me that hates
The side of my disgrace
Where I could not step in
Thanks to all of you who had so much patience
And so much passion for my soul
You can't understand all the importance you had
And how much you have meant
To this little life that I have lived
And to all the rest to whom tried to bring me
Down and to wound my own trust
You stole my innocence destroyed ideals
And you need to be damned
I am cursing you from down below
Look me in the eyes
And face all my blinded hate
I would be afraid cause I will get ya!
Please, remember me and don't forget
Remember me for what I really was
You, a sweet verse of poetry
The flavor of a life that fades away
Time to say good bye, to finish what's undone
Time for a last kiss before she has gone
Save best for last?
Take another night another's passing by
Dark will cover all will eclipse and hide
The lives of all
You, a sweet verse of poetry
The flavor of a life that fades away
On that Night of Nights, She came my way
Under the rain, dirty with agony and pain
Death of sorrow, Death of misery
The scythe has fallen... was it for me?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Band: Elvenking
Song: Romance & Wrath
Album: The Scythe
To cut the strings, to end their lives
No mercy, pity, no false disguise
Morte, Amore, Death and Love
Behold their pain from high above
Pale moon skies
Witnesses of my inner pit of commotion
Chaos rise!
To desecrate my last hidden sense of devotion
Loose like never before the break point of my life is bonded by chance
and reasons frail like crystal glass near to fall on a million spikes
I've never - just never - he never loved as much as he loves her now
My only sweet hearthold - His only sense of bliss
The hangman - merciful abyss - eradicating black souls from the guildty
My wonder - to plunder the sad emotions of a bleeding soul - love - dead heart
Cursed to see her beloved dying by his own hand - by mistake
No mistake for the Lady in black!
Romance and Wrath
See the fire that washes away
the wrath of chaos
Torn is the romance
The illusion is lost again
She is lying on the stake
with no life in her eyes
Torn is the romance
The illusion is lost again
Kiss now the dead skin on her cheek
Useless is my touch my breath my heat
Condemned to suffer for so long
What did I do to deserve this thing
- so wrong?
They destroyed the heart of innocence today
The heart of innocence
Now you enter my reign so I can better feel your pain
It's not your time but you'll soon meet the Lady with the Scythe
I found myself this path through hell - now I realize!
The pain the suffering She's stealing from my eyes - feel my wrath!
Don't want all this to happen - now I understand!
The lady with the Scythe - may She be damned!
Now you're mine all mine!
Your pain speaks books to me so finally everything
I see now I don't need you anymore
It's not your time not yet
I found myself this path through hell - now I realize!
The pain the suffering She's stealing from my eyes - feel my wrath!
Don't want all this to happen - now I understand!
The lady with the Scythe - NO!
See the dusk that runs away
The change of seasons
Born is the romance
The illusion is here to stay
She is lying on the grass
with full life in her eyes
Born is the romance
The illusion is here to stay
She is living once again
and he will never remember - it's not their time
- Not yet
I've never - just never - he never loved as much as he loves her now
My only sweet hearthold - His only sense of bliss
The hangman - merciful abyss - eradicating black souls from the guilty
My wonder - has plundered!!
Pale moon skies
Witnesses of my inner pit of commotion
Chaos rise!
To desecrate my last hidden sense of devotion
Loose like never before to break point of my life is bonded by chance
and reasons frail like crystal glass near to fall on a million million spikes
You're my slave in your grave
Song: Romance & Wrath
Album: The Scythe
To cut the strings, to end their lives
No mercy, pity, no false disguise
Morte, Amore, Death and Love
Behold their pain from high above
Pale moon skies
Witnesses of my inner pit of commotion
Chaos rise!
To desecrate my last hidden sense of devotion
Loose like never before the break point of my life is bonded by chance
and reasons frail like crystal glass near to fall on a million spikes
I've never - just never - he never loved as much as he loves her now
My only sweet hearthold - His only sense of bliss
The hangman - merciful abyss - eradicating black souls from the guildty
My wonder - to plunder the sad emotions of a bleeding soul - love - dead heart
Cursed to see her beloved dying by his own hand - by mistake
No mistake for the Lady in black!
Romance and Wrath
See the fire that washes away
the wrath of chaos
Torn is the romance
The illusion is lost again
She is lying on the stake
with no life in her eyes
Torn is the romance
The illusion is lost again
Kiss now the dead skin on her cheek
Useless is my touch my breath my heat
Condemned to suffer for so long
What did I do to deserve this thing
- so wrong?
They destroyed the heart of innocence today
The heart of innocence
Now you enter my reign so I can better feel your pain
It's not your time but you'll soon meet the Lady with the Scythe
I found myself this path through hell - now I realize!
The pain the suffering She's stealing from my eyes - feel my wrath!
Don't want all this to happen - now I understand!
The lady with the Scythe - may She be damned!
Now you're mine all mine!
Your pain speaks books to me so finally everything
I see now I don't need you anymore
It's not your time not yet
I found myself this path through hell - now I realize!
The pain the suffering She's stealing from my eyes - feel my wrath!
Don't want all this to happen - now I understand!
The lady with the Scythe - NO!
See the dusk that runs away
The change of seasons
Born is the romance
The illusion is here to stay
She is lying on the grass
with full life in her eyes
Born is the romance
The illusion is here to stay
She is living once again
and he will never remember - it's not their time
- Not yet
I've never - just never - he never loved as much as he loves her now
My only sweet hearthold - His only sense of bliss
The hangman - merciful abyss - eradicating black souls from the guilty
My wonder - has plundered!!
Pale moon skies
Witnesses of my inner pit of commotion
Chaos rise!
To desecrate my last hidden sense of devotion
Loose like never before to break point of my life is bonded by chance
and reasons frail like crystal glass near to fall on a million million spikes
You're my slave in your grave
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Still the same band but....
When Elvenking made The Scythe and almost every album after this one, they changed their style. They are more of a Melodic/Power metal band now. I feel this was the first album where a lot of people QQ'd HARDCORE on their forums about their change. The band wasn't sorry at all, they didn't curb into what their fans wanted and just made music how THEY wanted to. +1 to Elvenking.
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Scythe
Album: The Scythe
On this night of Nights, She's coming my way
Under this rain, dirty with agony and pain
Mistress of Doom, winner of all fights
My glance is reflected in the blade of the Scythe
A sparkling golden sickle
Mows down souls whistling in the air
Reddens little by little
The seas of life and mankind's lairs
A fall into the abyss
Deep into agony and pain
Spiral down to the anguish
It had been all in vain
Welcome, please join the fair of failures
Enter into the hall of pleasures
Righteous the act to kill
Wasn't it one of Gods wills?
Leave behind all the trails of winter
The time had come for me to go
The fear has gone, the storm is over
And there's someone at your door
Another name to be carved
For every slash of my blade
Until the day you find
The one reflected is your face
Come, taste blood, rust and terror
Come to the show with no restraint
-It's your time!
Mother of desperation
Death of thunder and rain
Sighs and tears are all in vain
Clad in a cloak of despair
She'll take you away
Welcome, please join the fair of failures
Enter into the hall of pleasures
Righteous the act to kill
Wasn't it one of Gods wills?
Leave behind all the trails of winter
The time as come for me to go
The fear has gone, the storm is over
And there's someone at your door
Hold your ground and watch your back
With the aim of remaining the last
I asked this night for a piece of advice
This time the Scythe won't fall, keep still!
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Scythe
Album: The Scythe
On this night of Nights, She's coming my way
Under this rain, dirty with agony and pain
Mistress of Doom, winner of all fights
My glance is reflected in the blade of the Scythe
A sparkling golden sickle
Mows down souls whistling in the air
Reddens little by little
The seas of life and mankind's lairs
A fall into the abyss
Deep into agony and pain
Spiral down to the anguish
It had been all in vain
Welcome, please join the fair of failures
Enter into the hall of pleasures
Righteous the act to kill
Wasn't it one of Gods wills?
Leave behind all the trails of winter
The time had come for me to go
The fear has gone, the storm is over
And there's someone at your door
Another name to be carved
For every slash of my blade
Until the day you find
The one reflected is your face
Come, taste blood, rust and terror
Come to the show with no restraint
-It's your time!
Mother of desperation
Death of thunder and rain
Sighs and tears are all in vain
Clad in a cloak of despair
She'll take you away
Welcome, please join the fair of failures
Enter into the hall of pleasures
Righteous the act to kill
Wasn't it one of Gods wills?
Leave behind all the trails of winter
The time as come for me to go
The fear has gone, the storm is over
And there's someone at your door
Hold your ground and watch your back
With the aim of remaining the last
I asked this night for a piece of advice
This time the Scythe won't fall, keep still!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Petalstorm
I love this song. The fuckers made it a Japanese Bonus Track. But as I learned, it takes more to release something in Japan, apparently. So bands have to make incentives for the people in those countries to release their CD. Bastards.
Band: Elvenking
Song: Petalstorm [Japan / Korea bonus track]
Album: The Winter Wake
Have you seen?
There is a hidden corner on these lands
Where cold waits patiently
Where, they say, the color of the things is real
Can’t you see?
Take a sit down here
And take a bowl of calamint tea
It will keep you warm until the night is gone
And time after time,
Fall arises, with all his leaves whirling in the sky
The year is passing by
Winter rises, bringing along a cloak full of cries, of cries.
Leaving all your memories far behind
The night brings along four thorns of farewell
Sitting down with my nightgown – unsweetened goodbye,
Everlasting goodbye
Do you believe?
Every change of season memories
Rain like a petals’ storm
And the horizon line dividing right from wrong.
Come with me,
If the silence is a torment
And the wait wounds up your chest
If the grandeur of these lands doesn’t heal your soul
And mile after mile
Spring arrives, and with it, sweet colors for a while
Dawn is turning bright
Summer rises, and bitter tears fall from your eyes, your eyes
Leaving all your memories far behind
The night brings along four thorns of farewell
Sitting here with my nightgown – unsweetened goodbye,
Everlasting goodbye
Everlasting goodbye
When there is a voice recalling, when a whisper is resounding
When a feather’s grazing you again, you start traveling with your mind
When the flowers lose their blossoms, (the) color of your face is withered
Still your mind back to where you lived, to your little garden
Leaving all your memories far behind
The night brings along four thorns of farewell
Sitting here with my nightgown – unsweetened goodbye,
Everlasting goodbye
Friday, February 11, 2011
A slow, different song...
I consider this a love song, a metal love song. Anything metal makes it that much better so fuck ya.
Band: Elvenking
Song: On The Morning Dew
Album: The Winter Wake
At the border of the plain where suddenly the forest dies
On the first day of the season
When the moon will shine full in the sky
I will wait for you there bathed by a magic light
I will wait, I will pray for this moment to become alive
For this night I will see as an elf clad in leaves
You´re going to see myself the fairy of your secret dreams
Even if all this belongs to worlds of fantasy
For this time, only this night everything is fair, belongs to me
One night fantasy...
[Chorus:]
Live my every breath, my every touch, my every single sigh
Seizing hold of every glance
As the day´s passing by begins a wonderful sight
Dancing on the moment dew, the dawn has come only for you
I look up at the sky for the stars to be my guide
At the border of the plain where suddenly the forest dies
On the first day of the season
When the moon will shine full in the sky
I waited for you there bathed by a magic light
I have waited, I have prayed and this moment has become alive
One night fantasy...
[Chorus:]
Live my every breath, my every touch, my every single sigh
Seizing hold of every glance
As the day´s passing by begins a wonderful sight
Dancing on the moment dew, the dawn has come only for you
I look up at the sky for the stars to be my guide
Band: Elvenking
Song: On The Morning Dew
Album: The Winter Wake
At the border of the plain where suddenly the forest dies
On the first day of the season
When the moon will shine full in the sky
I will wait for you there bathed by a magic light
I will wait, I will pray for this moment to become alive
For this night I will see as an elf clad in leaves
You´re going to see myself the fairy of your secret dreams
Even if all this belongs to worlds of fantasy
For this time, only this night everything is fair, belongs to me
One night fantasy...
[Chorus:]
Live my every breath, my every touch, my every single sigh
Seizing hold of every glance
As the day´s passing by begins a wonderful sight
Dancing on the moment dew, the dawn has come only for you
I look up at the sky for the stars to be my guide
At the border of the plain where suddenly the forest dies
On the first day of the season
When the moon will shine full in the sky
I waited for you there bathed by a magic light
I have waited, I have prayed and this moment has become alive
One night fantasy...
[Chorus:]
Live my every breath, my every touch, my every single sigh
Seizing hold of every glance
As the day´s passing by begins a wonderful sight
Dancing on the moment dew, the dawn has come only for you
I look up at the sky for the stars to be my guide
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Winter Wake!
Damnagoras returns to Elvenking for this album and the rest of the albums that they have produced so far.
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Winter Wake
Album: The Winter Wake
As the lights are growing dim
Freezing cold, slowly is fading in
Another Winter night will hold this wicked soul
I will wait for the new Sun to rise
Blind in darkness, witness my demise
Another Winter night is so long...
[Bridge:]
The lands are dressed in the purest white
Pure as I was and I am no more
[Chorus:]
The ones of you who are free of guilt
Wound me with your stones and then step in
Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake
The winter wake
As the steps are leaving trails
Of the side of me I hate
This is the Night when I will face all my disgrace
Cover me, cover all that I see
A little light flake for your heart and the sea
A single flake for all the good ones...
[Bridge:]
The lands are dressed in the purest white
Pure as I was and I am no more
[Chorus:]
The ones of you who are free of guilt
Wound me with your stones and then step in
Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake
The winter wake
[Chorus 2:]
I spent my time gazing at the stars
As silently it snows inside my heart
Someone said that life brings and then takes
The winter wake
Band: Elvenking
Song: The Winter Wake
Album: The Winter Wake
As the lights are growing dim
Freezing cold, slowly is fading in
Another Winter night will hold this wicked soul
I will wait for the new Sun to rise
Blind in darkness, witness my demise
Another Winter night is so long...
[Bridge:]
The lands are dressed in the purest white
Pure as I was and I am no more
[Chorus:]
The ones of you who are free of guilt
Wound me with your stones and then step in
Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake
The winter wake
As the steps are leaving trails
Of the side of me I hate
This is the Night when I will face all my disgrace
Cover me, cover all that I see
A little light flake for your heart and the sea
A single flake for all the good ones...
[Bridge:]
The lands are dressed in the purest white
Pure as I was and I am no more
[Chorus:]
The ones of you who are free of guilt
Wound me with your stones and then step in
Buried in the whitest snow I will suddenly awake
The winter wake
[Chorus 2:]
I spent my time gazing at the stars
As silently it snows inside my heart
Someone said that life brings and then takes
The winter wake
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Named after this blog, you better check out this song!
Band: Elvenking
Song: Poem for the Firmament
Album: Wyrd
[DAWN: Fragments of star]
It's simply too hard
To blow out all these fragments of star
The dawn never shines
I'm condemned to this eternal night
Fly away, far away
Oh, whence I could feel you whole
There's a light in your eyes I'll follow
A spark of endless dreams
There's a light in your eyes while you're
holding me tight it enriches my life, it
holds me spellbound
It crawls all inside
It's the wish to back down and hide
Like the calm sea
It's the haven of forces within
Fly away, far away
Oh, up this path I rode
I was searching for a reason
I lost the thread of tale
Fly away, far away
Oh, whence I could feel you whole
There's a light in your eyes I'll follow
A spark of endless dreams
There's a light in your eyes while you're
holding me tight
It enriches my life, holds me spellbound
[DAY: Autumn runes]
On the scars of old runes, thousands of
forgotten memories and hopes
Are carved in stone, symbols of my childhood
gone, on the wind floats a dream
and hundreds of my broken promises
and oaths
Taken by the stream, artifacts of what I
was
Read the signs on the trees,
written by golden leaves
Winds are howling their serenades,
Ancient chants singing all the good aims
I betrayed
Another night has passed, and with it all
the fears and dreads are gone,
And the shadows have faded
Clouds are leaving the sky, the horizon
point out new ways to be found,
There is always a trail to follow, and it will
take you home
Follow all the scents
before light passes away
Long before the shadows fall
As covering miles in the distance
you will see
What you searched,
you will catch sight of your dreams
Dwelling forevermore, wander aimlessly
It's the fatal falling, on the path we
choose
We're searching for answers
that never appear
We're searching for lands beyond
all limits, we're falling!
Millions of emotions (have) passed
through my heart since I'm on this Earth
But the ones that remain are the ones
we're living for
[TWILIGHT: The chant of the first snow]
It's the sweetest Night of all
It's a moment that lengthens
to eternity and more
While the flakes soundless will fall
I hear the sound of laughter
coming from so high above
And the promise once made
now it's broken
The curtain slowly falls
On the angel that kissed me
It's the Night of cruel remorse
It remains only a distant memory
of things undone
A return to innocence
A travel back in time when everything
seems clear and pure
And the promise once made
now it's broken
The curtain slowly falls
On the angel that kissed me
[DEEP NIGHT: The Dreamcurse]
Cursed, cursed
That lone and threadlike figure
So shapelessly unbounded
Will haunt that empty jar
That is me
Cursed, cursed
I'm deep into transparency
A dreamy spiral staircase
A voice, a whisper echo in the gloom
Cursed (cursed), cursed (cursed)
I sharpen all my sleeping senses
Encircle my own wish
I'll never die!
Cursed, cursed
A gloomy sense of sadness
Impaled my arid heart
To the scepter of melancholy
Cursed (cursed), cursed (cursed)
On the stroke of my halfhour
The token has been shown
Eternal wearing the Red Death masque!
Thousand ways of living
In the end (I) got my reward
I don't feel alone no more
Fly away, far away
Oh, up this path I rode
I was searching for a reason
I lost the thread of tale
Fly away, far away
Oh, whence I could feel you whole
There's a light in your eyes I'll follow
A spark of endless dreams
There's a light in your eyes
while you're holding me tight
It enriches my life, holds me spellbound
...and finally is day again...
On the scars of old runes, thousands of
forgotten memories and hopes
Are carved in stone,
symbols of my childhood gone,
on the wind floats a dream and hundreds
of my broken promises and oaths
Taken by the stream,
artifacts of what I was
Read the signs on the trees,
written by golden leaves
Winds are howling their serenades,
Ancient chants singing all the good aims
I betrayed
It's the fatal falling,
on the path we choose
We're searching for answers
that never appear
We're searching for lands beyond
all limits, we're falling!
Band: Elvenking
Song: Poem for the Firmament
Album: Wyrd
[DAWN: Fragments of star]
It's simply too hard
To blow out all these fragments of star
The dawn never shines
I'm condemned to this eternal night
Fly away, far away
Oh, whence I could feel you whole
There's a light in your eyes I'll follow
A spark of endless dreams
There's a light in your eyes while you're
holding me tight it enriches my life, it
holds me spellbound
It crawls all inside
It's the wish to back down and hide
Like the calm sea
It's the haven of forces within
Fly away, far away
Oh, up this path I rode
I was searching for a reason
I lost the thread of tale
Fly away, far away
Oh, whence I could feel you whole
There's a light in your eyes I'll follow
A spark of endless dreams
There's a light in your eyes while you're
holding me tight
It enriches my life, holds me spellbound
[DAY: Autumn runes]
On the scars of old runes, thousands of
forgotten memories and hopes
Are carved in stone, symbols of my childhood
gone, on the wind floats a dream
and hundreds of my broken promises
and oaths
Taken by the stream, artifacts of what I
was
Read the signs on the trees,
written by golden leaves
Winds are howling their serenades,
Ancient chants singing all the good aims
I betrayed
Another night has passed, and with it all
the fears and dreads are gone,
And the shadows have faded
Clouds are leaving the sky, the horizon
point out new ways to be found,
There is always a trail to follow, and it will
take you home
Follow all the scents
before light passes away
Long before the shadows fall
As covering miles in the distance
you will see
What you searched,
you will catch sight of your dreams
Dwelling forevermore, wander aimlessly
It's the fatal falling, on the path we
choose
We're searching for answers
that never appear
We're searching for lands beyond
all limits, we're falling!
Millions of emotions (have) passed
through my heart since I'm on this Earth
But the ones that remain are the ones
we're living for
[TWILIGHT: The chant of the first snow]
It's the sweetest Night of all
It's a moment that lengthens
to eternity and more
While the flakes soundless will fall
I hear the sound of laughter
coming from so high above
And the promise once made
now it's broken
The curtain slowly falls
On the angel that kissed me
It's the Night of cruel remorse
It remains only a distant memory
of things undone
A return to innocence
A travel back in time when everything
seems clear and pure
And the promise once made
now it's broken
The curtain slowly falls
On the angel that kissed me
[DEEP NIGHT: The Dreamcurse]
Cursed, cursed
That lone and threadlike figure
So shapelessly unbounded
Will haunt that empty jar
That is me
Cursed, cursed
I'm deep into transparency
A dreamy spiral staircase
A voice, a whisper echo in the gloom
Cursed (cursed), cursed (cursed)
I sharpen all my sleeping senses
Encircle my own wish
I'll never die!
Cursed, cursed
A gloomy sense of sadness
Impaled my arid heart
To the scepter of melancholy
Cursed (cursed), cursed (cursed)
On the stroke of my halfhour
The token has been shown
Eternal wearing the Red Death masque!
Thousand ways of living
In the end (I) got my reward
I don't feel alone no more
Fly away, far away
Oh, up this path I rode
I was searching for a reason
I lost the thread of tale
Fly away, far away
Oh, whence I could feel you whole
There's a light in your eyes I'll follow
A spark of endless dreams
There's a light in your eyes
while you're holding me tight
It enriches my life, holds me spellbound
...and finally is day again...
On the scars of old runes, thousands of
forgotten memories and hopes
Are carved in stone,
symbols of my childhood gone,
on the wind floats a dream and hundreds
of my broken promises and oaths
Taken by the stream,
artifacts of what I was
Read the signs on the trees,
written by golden leaves
Winds are howling their serenades,
Ancient chants singing all the good aims
I betrayed
It's the fatal falling,
on the path we choose
We're searching for answers
that never appear
We're searching for lands beyond
all limits, we're falling!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Next album... Wyrd
Well I went to SD for the weekend, tis why I couldn't post yesterday.
One big thing that happened during Wyrd was that Elvenking lost their main vocalist, Damnagoras, due to many reasons the vocalist had lost his interest in the band and he preferred to concentrate on his temporary health problems leaving Elvenking permanently. In any case, the singer for this album, Kleid, has decent similarities to Damnagoras and knows how to sing.
Band: Elvenking
Song: Disappearing Sands
Album: Wyrd
At dawn the ships arrived, they sailed
through seas and foreign skies
To bring another age in lands
that needed no constraints
By the sign of the fire,
all pagan gods were bleeding
To dispossess thousands years
of wisdom and beliefs, oh
Think for a moment, fall astray
First step on sand, meant the last
of their old life
(now it's done, all is gone), so pure,
With dignity all was carried on
What's this fighting for?
Disappearing sands, familiar voices
Every time I stare at the night inside us
All the places I cherish darken
Past memories are the only
true consolation
For what my eyes are forced to see
The tears in her eyes were like rain
come from the gloomiest cloud
Pushed back from their own homes,
the germ of hate seized the heart
In a clear warm spring day,
his spirit left the body
Alone she stood while the ravens
flew away from ruins, oh
Far till sky unites with earth I'll hide you
They cannot dig what's inside of us
Far till sky unites with earth I'll hide you
They cannot dig what's inside of us
My life for you, despair on us,
despair on us
Think for a moment, fall astray
First step on sand, meant the last
of their old life
(now it's done, all is gone), so pure,
With dignity all was carried on
What's this fighting for?
Disappearing sands, familiar voices
Every time I stare at the night inside us
All the places I cherish darken
Past memories are the only
true consolation
For what my eyes are forced to see
One big thing that happened during Wyrd was that Elvenking lost their main vocalist, Damnagoras, due to many reasons the vocalist had lost his interest in the band and he preferred to concentrate on his temporary health problems leaving Elvenking permanently. In any case, the singer for this album, Kleid, has decent similarities to Damnagoras and knows how to sing.
Band: Elvenking
Song: Disappearing Sands
Album: Wyrd
At dawn the ships arrived, they sailed
through seas and foreign skies
To bring another age in lands
that needed no constraints
By the sign of the fire,
all pagan gods were bleeding
To dispossess thousands years
of wisdom and beliefs, oh
Think for a moment, fall astray
First step on sand, meant the last
of their old life
(now it's done, all is gone), so pure,
With dignity all was carried on
What's this fighting for?
Disappearing sands, familiar voices
Every time I stare at the night inside us
All the places I cherish darken
Past memories are the only
true consolation
For what my eyes are forced to see
The tears in her eyes were like rain
come from the gloomiest cloud
Pushed back from their own homes,
the germ of hate seized the heart
In a clear warm spring day,
his spirit left the body
Alone she stood while the ravens
flew away from ruins, oh
Far till sky unites with earth I'll hide you
They cannot dig what's inside of us
Far till sky unites with earth I'll hide you
They cannot dig what's inside of us
My life for you, despair on us,
despair on us
Think for a moment, fall astray
First step on sand, meant the last
of their old life
(now it's done, all is gone), so pure,
With dignity all was carried on
What's this fighting for?
Disappearing sands, familiar voices
Every time I stare at the night inside us
All the places I cherish darken
Past memories are the only
true consolation
For what my eyes are forced to see
Friday, February 4, 2011
Band: Elvenking
Song: Seasonspeech
Album: Heathenreel
Another one of my favorite songs from the same album.
Voice of Fall: Damnagoras
Summerplunge: Pauline Tacey
Spirit of Spring: Laura de Luca
Wintersoul: Jarpen
F: We're going to tell the tale of tales
Su: Are you sure? Or a little story of fancy
F: Seamen W: Dreamen F: Listen all!
W & Sp: The Fall begins his speech
F: So I bring rest upon the earth
Sp: With my seed, wealdcover all thy hearthstones
W: Soothing Su: Trimming W: Hum to sleep!
F & Su: The ornaments of woodnotes!
(Su: Night surrounds, we're roaming through the shades of forgotten fairytales)
Sp: Can you hear the rhymes of winds?
F: The chant of leaves that fall?
W: No, no don't let me fall! F: Be quiet you!
F & Sp: The renaissance of the seals
I rest...
I rest upon the riverbank, worshiper of my thrills
The crackling of the dead leaves counts the steps
that lead me to the sea
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
Su: Look, winter's cloak is numbing all
F: Don't be a fool, you're doing it out of spite!
(Sp: You're unfair!)
W: Whiten, now all is white
Su: But soon you'll pass away
Twitch and twirl, the Wintersoul whirled past us in silence
like a passing whim so...
Woke, reborn, a seed to be swallowed
by the soil caressed in morning's light veils
Twitch and twirl, the Wintersoul has passed dimensions so
Cruel, reborn, no more forlorn...dimensions so cruel
I rest upon the riverbank, worshiper of my thrills
The crackling of the dead leaves counts the steps
that lead me to the sea
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
A piece of a dream, the feel of being part within!
Dream up your own temptation
A piece of a dream, the feel of being part of it!
Build up your own temptation for me!
Cherished and mantled by the open sea
The waves, ebbs and flows are now singing with me
And soundless the sky frays over the land
While a million stars, watch over all men
While a million stars, watch over all men through the lands
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
Night surrounds, we're roaming through the shades
of forgotten fairytales
We have told the tale of tales
I will rest upon the earth
The Wintersoul will pass away
Song: Seasonspeech
Album: Heathenreel
Another one of my favorite songs from the same album.
Voice of Fall: Damnagoras
Summerplunge: Pauline Tacey
Spirit of Spring: Laura de Luca
Wintersoul: Jarpen
F: We're going to tell the tale of tales
Su: Are you sure? Or a little story of fancy
F: Seamen W: Dreamen F: Listen all!
W & Sp: The Fall begins his speech
F: So I bring rest upon the earth
Sp: With my seed, wealdcover all thy hearthstones
W: Soothing Su: Trimming W: Hum to sleep!
F & Su: The ornaments of woodnotes!
(Su: Night surrounds, we're roaming through the shades of forgotten fairytales)
Sp: Can you hear the rhymes of winds?
F: The chant of leaves that fall?
W: No, no don't let me fall! F: Be quiet you!
F & Sp: The renaissance of the seals
I rest...
I rest upon the riverbank, worshiper of my thrills
The crackling of the dead leaves counts the steps
that lead me to the sea
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
Su: Look, winter's cloak is numbing all
F: Don't be a fool, you're doing it out of spite!
(Sp: You're unfair!)
W: Whiten, now all is white
Su: But soon you'll pass away
Twitch and twirl, the Wintersoul whirled past us in silence
like a passing whim so...
Woke, reborn, a seed to be swallowed
by the soil caressed in morning's light veils
Twitch and twirl, the Wintersoul has passed dimensions so
Cruel, reborn, no more forlorn...dimensions so cruel
I rest upon the riverbank, worshiper of my thrills
The crackling of the dead leaves counts the steps
that lead me to the sea
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
A piece of a dream, the feel of being part within!
Dream up your own temptation
A piece of a dream, the feel of being part of it!
Build up your own temptation for me!
Cherished and mantled by the open sea
The waves, ebbs and flows are now singing with me
And soundless the sky frays over the land
While a million stars, watch over all men
While a million stars, watch over all men through the lands
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
Listen to this rigmarole, wake up and follow
Undertone, along with me, it's just a hint murmuring sigh
Hushing the plains for miles it comes from nowhere
I'm aware of my communion, I'll dance from nightfall an' evermore
Night surrounds, we're roaming through the shades
of forgotten fairytales
We have told the tale of tales
I will rest upon the earth
The Wintersoul will pass away
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Elven what?!
Yes! Folk fucking metal. I'll try to go through all the genres I listen to and give some history or information of the band, suggest an album or albums, and post songs with the lyrics!
Elvenking! Yes, you love the name I know. I have been listening to them for a VERY long time. They have changed drastically throughout the years (some might say for the worse) but that's for you to decide for yourself. I will be going through all of their albums to show you just how much they have changed.
First stop, Heathenreel.
Band: Elvenking
Song: Skywards
Your bright enchanting smile
Reminds me of the day when I learnt
That nothing lasts forever
And your goodwill's just another hoax of your kind
Time and time again
That feeling had got lost and ever since
I've tried to understand the meaning of
My inner self conviction I lied (to myself)
As we all know, time consumes our daily gladness
That cannot last 'till the day after
From this I will hide myself
Skywards again, I search for my dimension
People don't know how I am alive
Experience has taught to count every single move
Now I know I'm standing alone
Stone after stone I'm molding my shelter
I watch it grow with endless delight
Carry me, carry me all your devotion
Deep in my heart to see my haven fall once again
The lovely beeches told me to think for myself;
to bury down the lies of other minds...and I know
I cannot be last but first
As we all know, time consumes our daily gladness
That cannot last 'till the day after
From this I will hide myself
Skywards again, I search for my dimension
People don't know how I am alive
Experience has taught to count every single move
Now I know I'm standing alone
Torturize in the night I am falling down - into the dark
Deep within it's a dream I cannot control - It's killing me
My human conscience is dragging me down - into the dark
The temptress whispers..."again"... - It's killing me
Skywards
Recommendation: Their first 3 albums: Heathenreel, Wyrd, and The Winter's Wake.
I feel these 3 are the best of their albums. I love the folk feel that each give, which is what first attracted them to me.
Elvenking! Yes, you love the name I know. I have been listening to them for a VERY long time. They have changed drastically throughout the years (some might say for the worse) but that's for you to decide for yourself. I will be going through all of their albums to show you just how much they have changed.
First stop, Heathenreel.
Band: Elvenking
Song: Skywards
Your bright enchanting smile
Reminds me of the day when I learnt
That nothing lasts forever
And your goodwill's just another hoax of your kind
Time and time again
That feeling had got lost and ever since
I've tried to understand the meaning of
My inner self conviction I lied (to myself)
As we all know, time consumes our daily gladness
That cannot last 'till the day after
From this I will hide myself
Skywards again, I search for my dimension
People don't know how I am alive
Experience has taught to count every single move
Now I know I'm standing alone
Stone after stone I'm molding my shelter
I watch it grow with endless delight
Carry me, carry me all your devotion
Deep in my heart to see my haven fall once again
The lovely beeches told me to think for myself;
to bury down the lies of other minds...and I know
I cannot be last but first
As we all know, time consumes our daily gladness
That cannot last 'till the day after
From this I will hide myself
Skywards again, I search for my dimension
People don't know how I am alive
Experience has taught to count every single move
Now I know I'm standing alone
Torturize in the night I am falling down - into the dark
Deep within it's a dream I cannot control - It's killing me
My human conscience is dragging me down - into the dark
The temptress whispers..."again"... - It's killing me
Skywards
Recommendation: Their first 3 albums: Heathenreel, Wyrd, and The Winter's Wake.
I feel these 3 are the best of their albums. I love the folk feel that each give, which is what first attracted them to me.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
I've never been a good....
writer. So I've decided to start with a push from a friend. Metal is something I've always loved and had a passion for. There is NOTHING like blasting metal in your car while you're at the gym or in your car driving. At least for me, it's a stress release as well! Enough talking on to the metal.
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