1. MARCH OF THE WINTER MOON

(Instrumental)


2. THE FORGOTTEN WAR

Our crimson blades rise before the stars
Afire in the winter moon
Frosted landscape pallid writhes
With lifeless forms bestrewn

The fires of war shall lift our wings
Crusted blood adorns our pom
All that rise to meet our steel
To ruin shall succumb

The night grows cold
To the ire of darkness we are bound
Sanguine painted sky
Endless bodies pile
Staining the ground
With shattered bones and claret fur
My fallen brothers 'neath me lie
Countless graves before
The Gods that we defy

To lay our lives down before the king
Exalted in glory fall
The realm its heart bequeaths to thee
That heed the battle's call

Lost before the wrath divine
Caught within benighted swarm
Take up arms, to victory cry
For fate redeems the battle worn

Blessed are the pious few
That fight within a frozen hell
Blinded by the primal claws
That curse the hearts in which they dwell

The cry still resounds
Where mists are churning
Aflame and forsaken
In the clamour of war

In fury set the night ablaze
Hopeless and wayward
The last guard of an ancient kin
Abandoned by the Gods we serve

A shadow falls
As hope breathes its last
An endless maw
To which we are cast

Rise to your final call
As the kingdom we sought
Burns as our banners fall
Our last stand
Where mortals and Gods collide
Let our swords be the last
To break in the ashen tide

Divine tongues decay
Damned by the souls
That they betray


3. STARLIGHT SONG

Cold steel and dragon song
Bespeak a mournful battle cry
As fires of a holy war
Tear through the sky
Our lives, the battleground
Broken, lost and left to die
Cursed by the endless war
That our hearts deny

'Neath cloaks of crimson
On starlit night
A chosen few would brave the Winter's bite
We'll see their legend
Lives ever on
When every soul by this pyre hears our starlight song

Cold days and hopeless nights
For those of loss and famine born
Sheltered in shattered streets
From battle torn
Still from the ruins rise
A few toward the helpless drawn
Who walk forbidden paths
Their only wish that we may see the dawn

'Neath cloaks of crimson
On starlit night
A chosen few would brave the Winter's bite
We'll see their legend
Lives ever on
When every soul by this pyre hears our starlight song

The pallid ground, a deathly white
In frigid air, 'neath freezing stars
Those broken hearts
Still pray for shelter from the fading light

Lost in the darkness
Within the thrall
Of Winter
And drawn by the light of your flame

Saint of the weaver
Your knights will stand eternal
Flames in the cold night
In scarlet cloaks veiled
We'll keep the fires burning in your name

'Neath cloaks of crimson
On starlit night
A chosen few would brave the Winter's bite
We'll see their legend
Lives ever on
When every soul by this pyre hears our starlight song


4. JUST ANOTHER SINNER

Lost are the idols
To their decay
As runs the blood of hallowed lambs
That feeds the altar
To which they pray

Graves of the fallen
Defiant, stand
A boundless dark that crafts the blade
To rise and claim salvation for the damned
Reviled

Reprisal's jagged threads converge
Upon a frost-born child

Fate pale as Edelweiss
Heretic
Your frozen saint
Resides in dreams of ice

Cursed
By the verse of their father's hymn
Cold words of law divine
'Neath spires of mourning
Another sinner
Breaks away from unseen hands malign

Sire of the mourning
Your sallow young
Exalt the cold eidolic words
That fall upon
Your blackened tongue

Curse the opposer
To face your sword
The snowbound wraith that pounds her fists
Against the ashen spires that Heaven's ward

Drawn in the tide of the shadows cast
Faint call of voiceless song
Obscures abandoned past

Cursed
By the verse of their father's hymn
Cold words of law divine
'Neath spires of mourning
Another sinner
Breaks away from unseen hands malign

By a hollow throne deceived
A slave who reveres the open wounds from which they bleed

The accused are in sin adorned
As virtue they benight
Breaking free from the righteous chains our Gods have feigned as holy right

Myopic light
That covers all
Reveals their withered land depraved
And by her hand will fall


5. DIAMOND DUST

Gaze upon the crystal realm
Spellbound to enchanted kingdom
Forgotten land of frost and snow
(Where rivers freeze and cold winds blow)

Peaks upon a diamond fortress
Jewels within a frozen crown
Those icy spires rise as monoliths
From the permafrost below

Her will unbound
Her hand extends
A glimpse of beauty as the freezing wind descends

Cold her anger, swift her vengeance
Freezing hearts within their chest
Snowbound and buried as the countless graves
Of the souls she lays to rest

Let every thrall
Her will entice
Slaves to resplendent Queen upon a throne of ice

Let frozen blades be held aloft unto the snowfall
Flash of steel to pierce the sky
Blazing t'ward the evenfall
With fires burning, may our souls
Defy the creeping grasp of winter madness
Until the blood runs cold
Fade not b'fore the light is gone
Nor wither when the night takes hold

A burning sky
Upon its descent
Light passing crystal fall
A frozen veil from Heaven sent

A thousand souls, t'ward her drawn
No one to light your path
Nor hear your prayers to see the dawn

Lost in the snowfall
A world is still, beneath her frozen hand

No dawn can stay the wintry bite
Nor break the grey to reach
The ground to which her hands benight
Spoils of the light will be undone
Flash of untempered gaze
That gleams as ice beneath the winter sun

Cold wreath enshrines the queen
Of ice and diamond dust


6. CLARENT WINGTHOR

Sullen, 'neath the azure sky
Through sylvan veil obscured
He walks amongst the towering pine
That ancient mountains ward

The heavy tone of tempered steel
Disturbs the sober air
Graceful hand and gleaming axe
That dance before the Winter's glare

Imposing branches break the frozen shroud
Falling 'pon the earthen trail
Of giants hewn and bowed

Lord of the hammer's fall
His potent strikes, the fires ordain
Chorus of embers
Of molten hymn and iron refrain
The stalwart form of his will
In pyre born
Enchants voracious hands
Ardent thralls, t'ward forge and anvil drawn

Lost 'neath the barren crags
Where horizons swell and the steppes divide
He seeks archaic scars
Where open veins and quiescent blood reside

In the furrows of aeons

Dull stone of forgotten paths
That the seasons gnaw and years erode
Will run with the ferrous gore
Of hermetic seam and unbroken lode remote

Call of unfathomed breach
Pull of the twilight glow
He roams from soaring peak
To sweeping vale below

Fortunes of chasm deep and sundered titan fell
Could not his longing sate
Nor fervent hunger quell

Lord of the hammer's fall
His potent strikes, the fires ordain
Chorus of embers
Of molten hymn and iron refrain
The stalwart form of his will
In pyre born
Enchants voracious hands
Ardent thralls, t'ward forge and anvil drawn

Solemn journey, forgotten song
Unspoken calling that leads him ever on

Lord of the hammer's fall
His potent strikes, the fires ordain
Chorus of embers
Of molten hymn and iron refrain
The stalwart form of his will
In pyre born
Enchants voracious hands
Ardent thralls, t'ward forge and anvil drawn

T'ward the hammer
Of Clarent Wingthor


7. HORIZONS CURSED BY WINTERTIDE

(Instrumental)


8. WREATH OF FROST

Silence
As ancient as the freezing stars
The Gods are muted
Their tongues grow cold

Lifeless
As soil beset with frozen scars
'Cross empty landscapes
The ardent Winter's sweeping tides remold

The bitter cry of scathing air
Portends relentless squall
Horizons breeding umbral dark
'Neath which the crystal realm will fall

Crest of violent maw
That swallows all

Proclaimed, our ruined fate accursed
Within her frozen crown
'Neath falling skies from dreams we wake
'Neath ire of crescent waves we drown

Darkness
Her veil divines the fading light
Sweeping dominion
Of Winter's might

Tempest
A herald of our everlasting night

Forespoken words obscured
By idle sight

Proclaimed, our ruined fate accursed
Within her frozen crown
'Neath falling skies from dreams we wake
'Neath ire of crescent waves we drown

And the artifice of rule is lost
As the sallow queen adorns
Her wreath of frost

'Neath Ashen skies our hearts succumb
Resigning to embrace
The pallid wreath of kingdom come

Awaiting the crowning tide
Our world undone


9. SPINE OF THE ICE WYRM

Lachrymose and funereal wasteland
Of weathered peaks and abandoned trails
Where the whispers of sorrow
Permeate every somber vale
An ethereal vestment
Rests adorned on the lifeless air
'Neath the sprawl ancient summits ascend
As effigies mute in eternal prayer

Obscure as the years that have fallen in silence
Lost paths that erstwhile had led t'ward the old Gods
Now host to the footfalls of ruin

Frozen wounds carve a landscape of scars
Born of Winter, 'cross horizons torn
In the twilight stirs a creeping dark
For the shadows are beholden to the dawn

The eons are stillborn
As time cannot rule the dead
A shroud of inertia
Obscures the abyss t'ward which we're led

Beyond empyreal veil we have fallen
Before the fields of despair we have come

Night eternal
Invokes a yearning forlorn
Desires that wander
And gather in the moonlight
Their wounded hearts succumb
In darkness led astray

Vast forms of colossal remains
And towering pillars of bone
In death, but a shrine to the end
A cenotaph set in the ancient stone
We pass through the hollows of death
Pervading the earth they decay
Drawn down by the call of the grave
And the withering vestige of light fading away

The weeping hollows pray
In silent hymn
T'ward shadows we will fall
Their frozen tongues, our hearts enthrall
Abandoned Gods
Wander the sky
Their ruined will divine
Cursed by our vengeful hearts malign

As our effigies fall
The wounded will break in the fray
The accursed, ever chasing the lies
Our fervent longings betray
Writhing in torment
The pain ever keeping our demons at bay

The throe of arcane verse
Whispered through the void
Predestine and forespoken
The darkness lingers in the air
And calls to thee unbroken
As shadows cast before the pyre
Our flames portend our fall
From spark to all-consuming blaze
The endless reach of night comes for us all


10. WARRIORS OF LIGHT

The heirs of darkness
Shadows 'neath the deathly grey
Cold of unmoving
Mere relics of the world's decay
A storm unyielding
Herald to a fading dawn
Four crystals guide the hand
Of chosen few that to the light are sworn

The crescent lake resounds
With ancient verse
Prophetic words
Of raging seas and barren earth
The ages have foreseen
As they collide
Will eons fade
And the restless tides of a dying world will rise

Before a kingdom forsaken
Forged in the bloodshed
That stains the crimson skies
Defiant souls
From the darkness awaken
Drawn through the restless night
Disciples hewn from the fated course they ride

Ill-spent are benighted prayers
That exalt a hallowed land
No hearth, nor grave
But where we make our stand

As ascendant Gods emerge
The archaic burn
The ebb and flow
That the wheels of fate forever churn
When the withered star of morn
Falls to demise
Neath umbral veil
We whisper tales that another Sun will rise

Upon a kingdom forsaken
Piercing the bloodshed
That stains the crimson skies
Defiant souls
From darkness awaken
Drawn through the restless night
With hearts aflame
To oblivion we ride

The coming age ignites a spark
In heart and blade withal
Where goes the light, so goes the dark
The Gods that rise, so too will fall

Rise
Defy the chaos ascending
Cut through the bloodshed
And in the dark unite
We are but pawns
In cycles unending
As break and wane the tides
Of primal fiends and warriors of light