1. DEATH OF THE GODS

Through the darkness and the dawn
Picts wage war on Hyrkania
Aquilonia bathed in blood
All share the spoils of Hyboria

Know O prince
Even the gods may die
When kings and warriors fall
And enter the great hall
Know O prince
If the souls of those who died
Are charged over the odds
Behold the death of the gods

Then it came, the glacial age
Before earth's last convulsion
Nordic tribes did swarm south
Spreading carnage and destruction

On this night warlords fight
Merchants of gore, march off to war


2. AND ENDING IN FIRE

Hyborian wars brought chaos and doom
Plunged our weary world in gloom
Men and gods fought their best
In sacrifice their fate was cast

An ending in fire
Hyboria burns away
An ending in fire
Hyboria burns away

The ghost kings depart for aye
On crystal ships they sail away
One last glimpse unto their time
Desolation left behind

Under a blood red sky warriors died
Funeral of the gods to hall up high

Thrones of ruins forevermore
Hyboria cleansed by flames of war
Sons of Aryas rise from the fall
An age reborn awaits us all


3. OVERLORDS OF CHAOS

Into the depths of the earth
Beneath the azure sea
We've passed the gateways of slumber
Our final destiny

Dead but dreaming
The old one waits for a sign
From his dwelling in R'lyeh
Cthulhu shall rise

Times of despair, times of turmoil
Yet loathsome forms beyond uncoil
Forsaken hope, forsaken kind
Madness shall wreck the mortal mind

No gods left to bow before
They sleep now forevermore
Before mankind lays waste once more
The old ones will stride to the shore

Overlords of chaos
Overlords of chaos

Prepare to perish, prepare to strive
As unknown nightmares come alive
Forget the glory, forget the pride
And honour is but to survive

Temples and altars crumbled to dust
The lyrics of bards are flecked with rust
Fading away echoes of their rhyme
Their magic forever engulfed by time

Empires rise, empires fall
From high thrones man craved it all
Battles won, battles lost
All the conquests have their cost


4. BLOOD AND HONOR

The day dawns rending the sky
Unsheathed swords held up high
Gods of war hear my battle cry
For many warriors today shall die
Marching with a trumpet's din
As each king boasts their kin
I fight the battles in glory vain
So that braggart kings may reign

Ride maidens ride
Across the battle plain
Ride maidens ride
Choosers of the slain

Valhalla's gates open wide
For fallen heroes that have died
White winged steeds sweep the field
Yet my spirit I shall not yield

Ride maidens ride
Across the battle plain
Ride maidens ride
Choosers of the slain

Whatever toils I faced before
The scent of treachery I bore
I've fed on wrath and on hate
Their own bane forged my fate
Kings choked in their own moans
Let the vultures pluck their bones
They have tried to put me down
Now their heads roll on the ground


5. CIMMERIA

Dark horsemen hordes
At dawn they ride
For the riddle of steel
My father has died
Two snakes together
Facing each other
I'm sworn to revenge
Seeking this standard

Cimmeria...Cimmeria...

Gladiator and pirate
Mercenary and thief
Treading the jewelled thrones
Under my sandaled feet
I've roamed in kingdoms
Lay spread across the world
And I shall be king
Where once chaos whirled

Cimmeria...Cimmeria...

My fate was forged
In that distant land
The name men called me
Forgotten, banned
It was long ago
Innocence, callow
And hunts and wars
Are like shadows

Cimmeria...Cimmeria...
Cimmeria...Cimmeria...


6. WRATH OF CROM

We seldom call
For the grim lord of the mound
Or he shall cast upon us
Doom and death unbound
If you beseech for aid
Like many did before
Cimmerian's chief god
Will laugh forevermore

Crom - Wrath of Crom
Crom - Wrath of Crom

The savage gloomy one
Has gifted man at birth
Valour pleases Crom
So honour thee with mirth
Use the strength and courage
Wisely on your way
The fire in your heart
The will and might to slay

Crom - Wrath of Crom
Crom - Wrath of Crom

Before his high throne
One day you shall kneel
A riddle must be solved
The discipline of steel
May the dead depart
With shield, sword and helm
Their souls will wander
In Crom's grey misty realm


7. HYPERBOREAN HORDES

Beyond the cold
And grim northern winds
Stands a kingdom
On the snowy plains
Fabled empire
At the edge of the world
Within its fortress
Fiery magic reigns

From the skull gate they shall ride
A dreadful race side by side

Hyberborean hordes

White hand coven
And queen Vammatar
Once more gathered
To spawn forth their allies
Muttering spells
In eerie arcane tongue
Legions of the dead
From the crypt now rise

From the skull gate they shall ride
A dreadful race side by side

Hyberborean hordes

We came to fight
Against ancestral foes
The blades hissed
And the arrows sang
White masked lackeys
Pursue us without rest
Until we perish
In this accursed land

From the skull gate they shall ride
A dreadful race side by side

Hyberborean hordes


8. ROAD WARRIORS

We were born to conquer and rule the night
It's in our blood we live to fight
We quench our hunger with loot and war
And crave the realms of evermore

We are road warriors
We are road warriors

With my brothers on my side
To raging battles with death we ride
Show no mercy and kill at will
Victor warlords praise only steel

We are road warriors
We are road warriors

Make us your kings, none shall defy
For we shall never let metal die
Bow to the masters, heirs to the throne
We grasp the power of fire and brimstone

We are road warriors
We are road warriors


9. FEAR THE NIGHT

Drum thrumming raised an exulting grunt
At each full moon savage bands hunt
Under paling stars a pit of charred bones
Sacrificed victims on shadowy palm groves

Fear...the night
Fear the night
Fear...the night
Fear the night

The demon-god worship revels in death
Their hideous hunger for human flesh
Ancestral rites, embodying the beast
Squatted to glut, cannibal feast

Fear...the night
Fear the night
Fear...the night
Fear the night


10. DARK SHADOWS OF STYGIA

Beyond the red horizon
A Stygian citadel lies
Veiled in a purple mist
Entombed in time
Thieves travel miles
Amazed by jewels and gold
They do not care or fear
The stories bards have told

Dark shadows of Stygia
Dark shadows of Stygia

The gates are wide open
Stalk among the ruins
So ancient yet enchanted
Slumbering in lurid nimbus
Enter the black stone temple
Behold the priesthood scrolls
And the great serpent of gold
Once worshipped in ways of old

Dark shadows of Stygia
Dark shadows of Stygia

Plumbed deep into evil depths
You awoke the snake-god yet again
The fiery sparkling ruby eyes of Set
Mesmerised, soon to join the dead

Lost in desert retreats
And brooding river Styx
Remnants of an impious past
A Stygian curse still lives
Bards will always tell
About a citadel lost
But many still will venture
To sack at all cost

Dark shadows of Stygia
Dark shadows of Stygia


11. CROWN OF IRON

There was a time when by the axe we ruled
And Aquilonia was at our feet
We were men before we were kings
That never knew the word defeat

Crown of iron
Crown of iron

There is a time the burden drags ever on
Adders conspire betrayal schemes
A toast with wine to all the battles fought
Let others dream imperial dreams

Crown of iron
Crown of iron

Now we look back with sadness in our eyes
Adventure and lust are memories past
Glory days are over, honour is what we've kept
Thus to die free at last

There comes a time of great weariness
And the throne room becomes a cage
Upon our brows the crowns cease to sparkle
We're fat, bald and bent with age


12. CALL OF CTHULU

In the days of yore
They have ruled the earth
The stars are aligned
They shall soon come forth

So it is written, it shall be done
So it is written, it shall be done

R'lyeh rise
Chaos unleashed
Binding spells broken
Cthulhu released

So it is written, it shall be done
So it is written, it shall be done

"That is not dead
Which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons
Even death may die"

The old ones were
The old ones are
And shall be again
In worlds afar


13. THE PYRE OF KINGS

The feast is over
This was your time
Until we meet again
May rest you find

Farewell my king
Your spirit lives on

I will carry the torch
To your funeral pyre
All fled, all gone
And the lamps expire

Farewell my king
Your spirit lives on