1. ASCENT

(Instrumental)


2. INTO MADNESS

Branches tear at your face, my dear
To remind you that you are drawing too near
To a terror most foul, an end of remorse
When you forget that I am too close
Do you feel the shadow that passed through your brain
I will crush you and all will curse my name
Walk on, walk on, your eyes are alight
With curious fear at the mystic dead night

I delve deeper into madness
Slay the mortals and damn the gods
I rise higher into madness
You will see me laughing
As I break your mind and your soul

All paths lead to the terminus fire
Where you shall know me as your pain grows higher
The darkness of my mind towers overhead
Mortality in my hands is temptation I cannot shed
I will provide no fucking solace and it may seem
That all becomes mist as you begin to scream
“Why do my senses pound out of my brain?”
“Why won’t the damned stop screaming my name?”

I delve deeper into madness
Slay the mortals and damn the gods
I rise higher into madness
You will see me laughing
As I break your mind and your soul
As I ascend into madness you will be
Pushed down onto your knees
Helpless as insanity’s cold hand
Forces you into its shadowed land

I care not for purpose, your life will be mine
And all that you feel is ravaged as you lie dying
There is no pleasure so foul as the dark side of light
As the fire you find yourself in burns as black as the night

Fear!
Hate!
Power!

Damn the gods
We are lost
Abandoned world
Left to die
Damn him now
End his reign
Damn him now
He must be slain


3. TO THE SHROUD

Winter tells a story
Of a paradise gone wrong
Where the unjust and treacherous roam
Life will fade forever
And the warriors are caged
But they will burst forth
When my blade points the way
Fires will arise
From a chaotic false empire
Of illuminated disillusioned fiends
Take their word as true
Believe only what they teach
Or arise a valiant victor
Of your own mind’s noble breach
Live a life of ruin
Embrace a dying light
Or venture to the darkness
Where I will unleash my might

To a once-known world we ride
To reclaim our minds
And cast off the shackles
Of poisoned false right
The serpent never lied
I will forge the chaos blade
I’ll allow the night to envelop me
For all I know is rage
Reclaim the shrouded past
Destroy the liar’s throne
For the world will be engulfed in flame
If my vengeance falls in vain

So take away the flame
And what remains
An apocalyptic plight of
A blinded mindless archetype
Do you truly fear
The shadows drawing near
Or do you know the burning
You were told that you would feel

Fear the trying demon-might
That’s been instilled in you
Or ride beneath my banner
For we will rise up anew
You fall before the hell
That the end was sure to tell
But I will sing my fire
Through my hammer and rise higher
I’ll align the furious sentinels
Against the ravager of temples
I shall march into the void
With the fallen by my side

To a once-known world we ride
To reclaim our minds
And cast off the shackles
Of poisoned false right
The serpent never lied
I will forge the chaos blade
I’ll allow the night to envelop me
For all I know is rage
Reclaim the shrouded past
Destroy the liar’s throne
For the world will be engulfed in flame
If my vengeance falls in vain


4. A FALSE PROPHECY

Will you bleed and die for me
Ride on your steed and kill for me
I created you from my flesh so you are mine
Immortality you will never know
For it is mine and mine alone
I summon you forth to fulfill my will without a thought of doubt

They are not his slaves, they stand on equal ground
His purpose is lost, corrupted by his mind
This power is lust, and I must end it now
A hallowed black knife straight through the heart

Let our arrows rain towards the sky
Embedded in his flesh
Barbed poison find its mark
As was foretold
Nothing more than a mortal now
We will charge forth
Brandished iron and no hesitation
He is one of us and he will die

You dare attack when I’ve so graciously allowed your life to last
An attempt to spill my blood and bathe in its waterfall
Idly I will not sit
You’ll suffocate underneath your dead
This is your only warning
You are mine and mine alone

We will be the ones down on our knees
With a knife against our throat
Nothing more than a sacrifice
Death disobeys his call
Ancient rituals dictate who will live
Will he be pleased with our sacrifice
We will pay our debt with our dead
With the blood of our dead

With the blood of your dead!


5. AS TIME FALSE

Behold the one who brings forth his might
Standing resolute yet entombed
By the crushing weight of doom
Alone among the trees where all that can be heard
Is the shout of the broken
An unholy bloody smile

His mind fixated on a path
Through the end of the world
That which will bring pain
Where stands a final enemy
He forces time to fall away and moves towards the foe
That which will bring hate

Pain loses its meaning as he marches through the night
As stars come crashing to the ground and life fades away
The treacherous fall before his hands and meet their closing fate
Bursting forth from the firmament
He will create and devastate

The fire engulfs his mind (What is this)
He burns before the shroud (What is this)
Drawing closer to the fight (What is this)
He will unmake the ground (What is this)
The power in his hands (What is this)
Will guard them as they stand (What is this)
As he enters the fray (What is this)
The mad god they will slay

The mortals share my mind
As one we will not fall
I fell from the abyss
And we shall conquer all
The tyrant that remains
This madness we will crush
I of endless age
At the final foe will rush

Pain loses its meaning as he marches through the night
As stars come crashing to the ground and life fades away
The treacherous fall before his hands and meet their closing fate
Bursting forth from the firmament
He will create and devastate

He stands before this endless night with fire in his hands
As the mountains burst with ash
The chaos that was set by the unfazed king of tyranny
Will escalate as with his pace so the day may once more dawn

The saint holds the knowledge
And the falcon the blade
Now I lend my power
I of endless age

Pain loses its meaning as he marches through the night
As stars come crashing to the ground and life fades away
The treacherous fall before his hands and meet their closing fate
Bursting forth from abyssal nightmare
He will create and devastate


6. BLACK FIRE

Ash falls to the ground
As wind is the only sound
Chaos is the only light
Under starless night
Forsake the lying god
That desires only blood
As the sky ignites
The forge is alight

The hammer creates the might
That will destroy the blight
The night is alive
With those that still survive

The stormy eyes reflect
Black turbulent skies
Which reveal his hatred
Of a burning starless night
Let the lightning strike the steel
And the forge blazes on

Behold the dying sky
A dance through black fire

See! How! They! Run! See! How! They! Run!

Strikes will ascend
To the void which has no end
The smouldering axe and mail
Signifies his world will fail
A demented dance with fire
Brings the blade to life
As I align with thunder and rain
My foe attacks in vain

The stormy eyes reflect
Black turbulent skies
Which reveal his hatred
Of a burning starless night
Let the lightning strike the steel
And the forge blazes on

Behold the dying sky
A dance through black fire

Dance in fire’s embrace
Lose sight of light


7. HARBINGER OF SHADOWS

You will flee before my steel
You will cower and you will kneel
What is life to you but dirt
That I push your body into
Observe my eyes alight with fire
Your heart is wildly pounding
I stand before you with no lie
Cross me and an end is nigh

Fear my soul as you never have before
Know my voice as it echoes through your skull
Feel my pulse as the breaker of your will
Cross my blade or fall before my feet
The beast inside me is released
Flee before my wrath
I will be the harbinger
Of the shadow in your eyes

Do you deny that the land in which you reside is nothing but a lie
Your life is mine, and it will not be long before you are broken
And I will rise against that which I despise

I will rend the sky
With a never-ending cry
That will bring my malice down on you
And will bring me ever higher
Your words are naught but ash
My words will overtake yours
See your final resting place
At the bottom of the list of men who will be missed

Fear my soul as you never have before
Know my voice as it echoes through your skull
Feel my pulse as the breaker of your will
Cross my blade or fall before my feet
The beast inside me is released
Flee before my wrath
I will be the harbinger
Of this ending light


8. IN THE LAND OF DYING TREES

The servant of the slayer has been sent to the fallen
The unyielding tyrant refuses to show himself
All is not lost as the siren has saved us
We will corrupt him and he will not enslave us

The worlds have collided and he will not escape
His master will fall and we have the key

Concrete morals have never faded
Deeper into madness fell the false god
Order calls to me and chaos will fall
Corruption be slain and severed from this world

Nothing more but this hopeless maze
Forgotten thoughts hide away in the dark
A final ally is brought before us by the demon
A guardian to save her land and bring us to his realm

Concrete morals have never faded
Nature calls to me and the warlord will fall
Lead us to breach the void and the warlord will fall
In the land of dying trees

Take my hand
And come with me
Come with me
And you will see

Weeping skies and falling leaves
In this land of dying trees
Blackened clouds fall like broken glass
In this land, in this land of dying trees


9. FLAMES IN THE NIGHT

What do you see in me
Do you see defeat
Am I to fall once more
Or will I once again roar

Murder was my start
Order fills my heart
A knife hid in my hand
I still know where I stand

For I am finally free
Free from treachery
Who am I
No answer in the sky

For I have seen the devil
And he knows my name
My eyes are turning black
And my heart is turning cold

O, falcon, show him steel
The saint will know his evil
The demon shakes his hand
An angel saves this land
Shall I take the storm-forged knife
And save my very life
My blood runs wild with ash
I will fight at last

Oh, my ravaged home
I am not your enemy
I will fight endlessly now

My forlorn mind
Is vanishing in the light
And there are flames
In the night

I do not fear
I do not yield
I do not know
What I’ve become

What have I become?

Who am I
No answer in the sky
My eyes are turning black
And my heart is turning cold


10. VOID

(Instrumental)


11. THE BLACK THRONE

None of us will surrender
To the will of he who would have us on our knees

Crumbling ruins chill our hearts
As we march past the mortal gates
Ash and desolation surround us
In this barren lifeless crypt

We align with thunder and rain
And his forces fall
The mad god that we must slay
Stands at the end of this shadowed hall

He has placed his trust in me, his madness grows
Now the prophecy is to us known
Our unlikely ally waits at the right hand
Of the enemy that will soon be slain
We do not fear, and we do not yield
Time is growing short as five becomes six

Bow as I rip your flesh from bone
As you fall before my throne
Blade will yield before my flame
You will not survive this day
As I gaze upon this mass
Of scum that’s come at last
This resistance will be quelled
Hark, do you hear the knell
One that has killed to sate my lust
Her world will be crushed to dust
One that attempts to save her home
Your life will be overthrown
One that has claimed to know my soul
He hides yet behind them all
One who gives his power to these fools
Now kneel before me as you die

We are the last hope for a dying sky
Now we let loose a battle cry
Against this savage god
As one we will never fall

Oh, the storm flows through me
As I advance upon my foe
Only the final fire greets me
Though my undying will drives me
As we cross blades with our enemy (As the ground is turning red)
We do not fear when we stare into death’s smile (No star to herald triumph rises)
His poisoned mind will be destroyed (The aether has turned to naught but black) [The very ground is shaking]
When his body is given to the dirt (My hate is growing stronger) [With the bones of our dead]

Smoke fills the air and I cannot breathe
The sun is taken by the shadows
Though I’ve seen fires
Bring light even to my darkest days
We are united in disharmony
A single star reveals itself
The endless night will turn to dawn
When we destroy our final foe at last

The smile never left the face of the towering corruptor
His limitless apocalyptic power we may never overcome
Oh see our will being shattered by the doom which we fought
The terror of this final battle may have been all for naught
The branches that have held against the northern wind for years
Have been consumed by flames which the annihilator wields
Yet the crushing weight of our final fate
Consumes us as we fall
What devilry is this
A tyrant that triumphs over all
I do not fear you (Your final mortal lie)
Can we prevail? (Not long and you will die)
Is there hope for us? (Fear not I will quench your life)
I will not bow!

You, I have seen your face before
You have forged the chaos sword
Steel and lightning have aligned
Now I shall quench your fire
I will break your focused mind
And destroy the searching knives
You will cower and you will kneel
As I ravage your will
The one ally I gave trust
Through my back has thrust
A cold prophetic knife
Now you forfeit your life
For his blade alone will not kill
I shall stand and destroy still
The prophecy misread
Soon the ground will run red

Did you design this dark or is it your dying breath
Flee in fear and burn in your death, your vengeance falls in vain
Betrayal you did not foresee, your vision has fallen
Let my power never be forgotten
Your victory is not the tale that will be told
I crushed the forces of men and gods and I will crush you
Kneel before our might and know the faces of those who triumphed over you

The enemy defeated, yet at what cost
One of our own must become what we hate most
The crown of flames must be worn
One must take the blackened throne

Death must always be