1. WITCHING HOUR

(Instrumental)


2. A WITCH IS BORN

Three hags around a fire
Of ugliness unseen
In a grim and murky mire
From a cauldron rises steam
Murmuring weird rhymes
Into the winter night
Their laughter barks and chimes
Their reeky breath's a blight
Their noses stir the brew
The nauseating stew

[Pre-Chorus]
Cauldron bubble, cauldron swell
In the rhythm of this spell
Wing of bat and leg of road
A brat shall be bestrowed

[Chorus]
A witch is born
A witch is born
Cauldron-born
A witch is born tonight
A witch is born
A witch is born tonight

A penerrating yell
A savage infant cry
The priest strikes the death knell
In the village nigh
Four hags around a fire
In the grim and murky mire

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]


3. THE BLOCKSBERG RITE

Uh, they gather in the mountains
Where rain falls not far to the ground
Among the primal fountains
And forests of silence profound
A secret glade elected
'Tween tall stony walls
From unbidden sights protected
The rite begins as dusk falls

The fullmoon rises
Beyond the wooden crest
Fires ignite everywhere
For their highest guest
At his arrival the feast shall now unfold
The thirtyfirst of April as it is foretold

[Chorus]
Demons ride the moonlit sky
Torches light their way up high
To unclose walpurgis night
In the feral mountainside
Witches of all age and kin
Give themself to lust and sin
Come as maiden - Leave as bride
Satans's joy - The blocksberg rite

As if in trance they revel
Dance through the nightly sphere
In honour of the devil
Whom they all hold dear
At dawn it ends with a sudden turn
Witches dissappear - Fires cease to burn
The sun on the horizon hail the mountain seam
Another year must pass til flames again shall gleam

[Chorus]

The blocksberg rite


4. CANNIBAL WITCH

Where the wild winds blow
In their most desolate roar
Where lone pines bow
Their heads in grief
Where flowers cease to grow
And where the birds
Don't sing no more
Deep in forests
That none can ever leave

There you can see her fly
Across the evening sky
In her mortar - A pestle she swings
Even the moon does hide
From her despiteous ride
For she is evil
Amongst all other things

Bone-Mother
Deathless
Crone

[Chorus]
The cannibal witch
She feasts on human flesh in secrecy
The cannibal witch
Crushing them bones
In grinding glee
Her hunger is enormous
So are her iron teeth
Baba Yaga Bony Legs
The cannibal witch

Her crooked hut lays concealed
In a grove unsound
Wreathed by a fence
Made of skulls and bones
Even the night congreals
When it hears the sound
Of snoring nostrils and horrid groans
She came to lunacy
Through endless sorcery
And thousand days of lonesomeness
She is the arch-crone
Godess unknown
She brings rebirth
Which implies death

Bone-Mother
Deathless
Crone

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5. THE WOOD HAG

Lost in forest endlessly deep
Betrayed by their kin - Exposed to decease
Where darkness prevailed and the wind blew cold
Despair grew within these little souls

There appeared a hut in the dark
(The wood, the wood, the wood hag call)
They knocked at the door with a trembling heart
Dismal it seemed but was there a choice?
(The wood, the wood, the wood hag call)
A portal then opened in blood-curdling noise

[Chorus]
What do you fear when the moon stands tall?
The wood, the wood, the wood hags call
Who lures the young and the lonesome kids?
The wood, the wood, the wood hag 'tis
Who is as grim as the winter's cold?
The wood, the wood, the wood hag old
Who cooks them all in her stove in bliss?
The wood, the wood, the wood hag 'tis

Locked in a cage to be a mere dish
Cattle they were of the evil wood witch
How could they escape from this dreadful impasse?
(The wood, the wood, the wood hag call)
Waiting for death to be eaten at last

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6. HEXENMEISTER

Heretic, Sorcerer, fallen Son
Tied by A Promise to the infernal One
A Pact was to be signed in Blood
To renounce the Holy Spirit and God

At A Crossroad A Circle was drawn
Into the Magic of the burning Pentagram
Summoning the fiery Prince of Hell
Conjured by an old necromantic Spell
The Smell of Sulphur filled the Night
Seven Demons appeared in the Unlight
The handed him the Pact in bliss
And descented back into the black Abyss

[Chorus]
Faustus
Spiritus
Rector
Strigarum
Nekromant
Faustus
Hexenmeister
Disclaimer of the Sacrosanct

Granted he was with Youth
Thirty Years of Joy, Wisdom and Truth
He indulged in the fleshly Delight
A Witchking he became of the greatest Height
When the Time came for the fallen Son
He went to Hell with the infernal One
For A Pact was signed in Blood
To blaspheme the Holy Spirit and God

[Chorus]

Faustus
Spiritus
Rector
Strigarum
Nekromant
Faustus


7. PRESTA APPROACHES

From where she came no one could tell
The greatest Evil of its Time
Medieval Curse sent from the depth of Hell
That covered all in deathly Grime

First she swept the Cities
Inexorable
Her Name was written in the Sky
Then she reached the Realms of the forlorn Lands
And there you saw Pesta fly

[Chorus]
In the pompous Halls
And the Beggars Lairs
She crept upwards the Stairs
From the mighty Fjords
To the desolate Shores
In the northern Sky
Pesta fly

With rake and broom she traveled
All Corners she would clean
Over Sea and River and in the Forests deep
Her Sanguinary Shape was seen

She rode the Night Sky, on icy Winds of Death
And all was covered soon by her putrid Breath
Reaching the most deserted Plain
Leaving them all in their Plague-ridden Pain

[Chorus]

In the pompous Halls
She crept upwards the Stairs
From the mighty Fjords
In the northern Sky
Pesta fly


8. THE VALKYRIE

The grim Madness of the Battlefields
Of Violence, Bloodshed and Death
Crushed Bodies and broken Shields
Brave Man take their last Breath
Thither was called the Valkyrie
Death Angel, A Saviour in Guise
But grim, so cold and wintery
Armored with desired Demise

[Chorus]
Over the Mountains
The glorious Ride
Out of the Darkness
Into the Light

Wonderous their Enigma
Beauteous and cruel
Phantasm or Reality
Lightbearer or Ghoul?

In all the Chaos and the earthen Weight
Of Torment, Torture and Pain
She elects the Ones to elevate
From the perished and the Slain
The Ride is wild and ominous
Empyreal and arcane
In her Arms the Answer's found
To all Quests profound

[Chorus]

Out of the Darkness
Into the Light