Abbath
Dread Reaver
1. Acid Haze
In Hattusa's 'lithic ruin
In the tombs beneath Lagash
In the bowels of sunken ziggurats
Lost worlds carve me like a lash
Hear lost echoes howl, spirits of the Pyre
Martyrs of the dusk, dawn saw them fry
Detritus coats their bloodstained shrines
Chaos haunts the vale. Order unwinds
Singe an Acid Haze
Thresher carve the grain
Singe an Acid Haze
Thresher spear the skein
Heed, scratches in the clay, scrape arcane cuneiform
Tablets baked in blood, a past left forlorn
Annihilate the scribes but voices live forever
In shattered Hall of Records time cannot sever
Singe an Acid Haze
Thresher dog the bane
Singe an Acid Haze
Pleasure welcome pain
Thresher sow the plague
Reap the burning glade
Singe an Acid Haze
Thresher carve the grain
Singe an Acid Haze
Thresher spear the skein
Singe an Acid Haze
Thresher dog the bane
Singe an Acid Haze
Pleasure welcome pain
2. Scarred Core
Too fierce for the flares of hell
Too tempestuous for the swell
Too bloody for the leech
Too brazen for the breech
Too sharp-edged for the razor
Too bright for stellar gazer
Too sentient for the brain
Too hungry to be tamed
Too succulent a tongue to taste
Too potent-bred to be chaste
Tumescent tied to dying root
Tumult tends to overshoot
Tenacity smashed will inculcate
Tomorrows torn from loop of Fate
To lose is not the end of war
'Tis but the dawn we hunger for
Too toxic for the viper's fang
No noose too tight, condemned to hang
Catch sabre tooth by the tail
Too committed to fail
Built from scar of every flaw
Cut from shard fragmenting core
Standard raised we march on high
Too rock 'n' roll to die
3. Dream Cull
On blistered screen of pockmarked veil
Torn from face of lonely grail
I recall visage that drew a smile on
Rorschach blot begrimed in bile
Tapped from tumors tucked in gut,
Marred malign and keened corrupt
The ink that seared a ragged leer split
Pallid skull yet lent no cheer
This winters eve where stormwinds
Cleave outside our creaking walls
We clasp the chains that anchor us
To monolithic halls
All within the weal of spine arrive
Here lost in wound of mind
For what's another fraught traveler
Fragmenting frayed unraveler?
In crooked realm of twisted hell
So bid the specter enter!
This winters eve where stormwinds
Cleave outside our creaking walls
We clasp the chains that anchor us
To monolithic halls
Incise thy name. Bow heads in shame.
Let the nightmares die.
Split in twain - then again!
Splinter in a mote's eye
I dream cull! I dream cull!
4. Myrmidon
I stake my grail through gut of foe
Embed my flail, watch skull explode
Shield-rim smash teeth from maw
One fell slash cleaves hanging jaw
Skid in entrails, dispatch the knave
Commit culled scum to open grave
Die with a smile, stare glassy-eyed up
At boiling skies!
Valkyries descend to gore-caked fen
Fallen warriors arise!
Carry me out upon my shield
In soil stained red of blood congealed
Fall on our swords before we yield
Bury my corpse on the battlefield
Demonize to foulest distance
Follow trench of most resistance
Hack a trail through intellect
Twist in pith so introspect
Choice splinter us asunder
Beyond rolls endless tundra
Carry me out upon my shield
In soil stained red of blood congealed
Fall on our swords before we yield
Bury my corpse on the battlefield
Hoplites assemble. Don thy bronze
Grip aspes in phalanx of Myrmidon
Spirits torched as afterthought
Honor stained Loyalties bought
Free to seep betwixt the cracks
Insert the fuse my Animus lacks
Reinvent nightmares we forget
At the crossroads of our one regret
Deep in gallows' shadow
All paths dissect!
Etched in cryptic vistas Fate will stroke each strand erect,
Direct artistic fistulas through bowels of pure neglect.
At intersect of nexus, hub of angst connects
Traumas forged to vex us, demon spawn reflect.
Spread wings so wide membranes stretch,
Lend flight to lowly wretch
Rogue ascend from carnal crèche unfurled of livid flesh.
Reap the ruin we inseminate.
Create a vice to violate.
We bask in shade of writhing flame.
Flay our souls in scaulding shame.
5. The Deep Unbound
Death winds' breath blisters septic hide
Chaos reigns in shadows shifting with the tides
Between the suck and surge, jagged rocks are beckoning
On crest of dive of breakers, waves will force a reckoning
With amnion of human kind's mucoid call
Utopia lies beyond the cave wall
Bound with entrails, seamen drowned, bind the draft we ride
So precarious against the shore
We lash a craft of sailors drowned
Brave the pitch and churn of errant currents
Seeking that which must be found
Onwards towards the shore
Seeking that which must be found
Onwards to the shore
The Corpse Barque carries our Deep Unbound
Encased in scales on Bight of sound
The skins of corsairs serve as sails
And from our prow a stricken siren wails
Where Bastards wrecked were run aground
But we, once lost, are now profound
A kraken's limbs will carry us
Across the vast hunting range of ancient mariners
We lash a craft of sailors drowned
Brave the pitch and churn of errant currents
Seeking that which must be found
Towards the shore with scurvy crew
Seeking that which must be found
6. Septentrion
Borne on storm, thrashed cobalt grey
Skade's tongue sears our way
Burning path through boiling cloud
To burst from melt of molten shroud
Arctic Thule whips scalp from skull
Septentrion
Beneath us merciless ocean heaves
Waves claw the scales of Raiders' beast
Serpent wings thrust us high
Above the surge that rips the sky
Like plough 'cross charnal field
The firmament shall yield
Septentrion
Septentrion's northern swarm rides the swell
Wolfpack storm our shores
A blizzard raised from Hell
Seven plagues sever necks
Seven gates to sunken wrecks
Sevenfold the demon realm
Southward bound to overwhelm
Septentrion
7. Trapped Under Ice (Metallica cover)
[Verse 1]
I don't know how to live through this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore
[Chorus]
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
[Verse 2]
Crystallized as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
From deep sleep, I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say
[Chorus]
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
[Bridge]
(Scream) From my soul
(Fate) Mystified
(Hell) Forevermore
(Scream) From my soul
(Fate) Mystified
(Hell) Forevermore
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
No release from my cryonic state
What is this? I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me
[Chorus]
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
8. The Book of Breath
Icon of the ages
Make my way with will
Favored by the sages
Tempered in the furnace
Flames fanned by bellows
Of a breath infernal.
Hammer and anvil
Beat impurities from ore
Inhale The Book of Breath
Melt fissure from core
In heap of iron slag
Steam shrouds the forge
Demon's face stares back
They shall hear Hell roar!
In flush of ember's afterglow
Cauterize our weeping gashes
Wash our filth away with ashes
Inhale The Book of Breath
Vulcan's craft lend art
Burn our blistered palms
The forge will melt the dark
Scab lungs to fry out spit of spark
And we shall sink like lead
No inch of flesh left unscarred
Distant echoes, boiling bellows
Scorch ether crisp and charred
"We sink like lead
No soul unscathed
The echo of bellows
Forever engraved
Our mystic lore will die with us
We do as Guild commands"
Inhale The Book of Breath
Exhale
9. Dread Reaver
Deny sunlight purchase on a Winter soul of ice
Brightness withers us,
'neath Stygian cowl our brethren thrive
In gnawing ache of famished shadows
Cadavers limp, creak from gallows
On a corpse-road lined with makeshift scaffolds
In lethal wake of hungry kobolds
Dread Reaver cannot aught but rip
Compell momentum from the pit
Dread Reaver cannot aught but whip
Chain from mail and leer from lip
We leave a trail of weeping beggars
Orphaned brood and grieving widows
Gladius of Gehenna fill the foul arena
Cleave for all eternity thigh-deep in viscera
Dread Reaver cannot aught but rip
Compell momentum from the pit
Dread Reaver cannot aught but spit
In face of Death and yawn of Pit
Commit your soul to pyre and brimstone
With battle-lust compact in every bone
Upon sulphuric sand – you stand
Hell's grim champion, raptor of No Man's Land
Challenge fate let Fury reign supreme
Unite in Blood – scum the violent stream
Dread Reaver cannot aught but rip
Compell momentum from the pit
Dread Reaver cannot aught but strip
Cuirass from breast and steel from grip
Dread Reaver cannot aught but sip
The gore his animus thrills to drip
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