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Abbath
Abbath
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Olve Eikemo
Olve Eikemo
Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Cleanse steel in carnage, unleash chthonic darkness
Scud stochastic vortex, blitz the vicious bastards
Sheath blades in carcass, and disembowel tangled skein
Upon ripe flesh we harvest, human grain, mortal pain
[Verse 2]
Reaper rides
Genocides, arc of scythes
[Verse 3]
Combat casts the warrior, warfare marks the age
Stone to bronze to iron, steel is our rage
Blood soaked grimoires spell, Hell a million ways
Vellum spills the venom, a poison chalice sprays
[Verse 4]
Gods of War
Extort the hordes as battle roars
Dragon dives
Belching hives of serpent flies
Scribes skewer history
Truth dies in the telling
Scribes skewer history
Truth dies in the yelling of lies
[Verse 5]
Afford us our sins, bloodlust our wings
In death's domain of Winterbane
[Verse 6]
Death wept that grim day, gutting ghosts from viscera
Flaying soul from the clay, cleaving mind from terror
Reapers rode roughshod, 'cross the skull-crushing plain
Legions mass the grave, where the spirits shriek insane
[Verse 7]
Fire drakes dive
Burn ranks alive, dead worlds collide
Ravens glide
Swoop and pluck the Hero's eyes
Scars carve the memory
Truth lies in the cutting
Scars carve the memory
Truth lies in the culling of lies
[Verse 8]
Seraphim soar above the ichor
The sea of slain at Winterbane
[Verse 9]
Wilderness will not claim the beast
Nor civilized state deny its feast
Not gibberish of madman, hysteric chant of priest
Nor lovers' brutal sighs lend the savage peace
[Verse 10]
A demon raised in flames must stride
Stricken trails in stark divide
The frozen waste of Winterbane
To face the monster still inside
Deep within its burning eyes
A killer stirs and starts to rise
Reavers ride the ice-crest tides
Thunderous hooves churn the skies
Written by: Olve Eikemo
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