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Blood & Shadow

by Winterhymn

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Riding through the Caladim Into the final night Our cold swords sing on the wind As we mount the sacred heights Through ages untold With names unsung We’ve swam the tides of darkness With darkness in our lungs We are the blood of the moon And we gush forth beneath the endless nightsky Severing the backbones of foes Older than death We’ll split our lungs With hymns of old And set ablaze The winter cold Over leagues of ice To the spine of Azagot We slay the fell defilers Dripping with rot Through flesh and bone With faces grim Our fury burns eternal It fuels the Winterhymn Through woods of beasts, we cut our way Spilling blood where others pray They pray for the daylight, but the daylight never comes Our hearts beat with ancient drums We are the blades in the night And the cold breath on the neck of fate Charging through icewinds and mists To penetrate the skies We’ll split our lungs With hymns of old And set ablaze The winter cold
2.
The end we glimpsed Beyond the veil Pulls our feet Like a roaring gale And sings our names throughout the woodlands we hold dear In life and death Our place is here O gods of silver light In death dream of might Flesh heeds the call Sounded by steel All shall fall But none are doomed to kneel And should the sun set on our kind Then this hour will shine throughout the dark forevermore The abyss will shudder as we pass its gates And whisper of the day we made our stand Should my fathers mourn The fruit of their deeds My children’s children grow To be ghosts of a dream Should these hills hear our last breath, let it be this cry By you I’ve lived For you I’ll die O gods of silver light In death dream of might Flesh heeds the call Sounded by steel All shall fall But none are doomed to kneel
3.
Blood Burner 03:19
Deathspells chanted by the deep gods old You’ll see their fires fed Wraiths smite your ruin upon the ancient icefields cold Forever slain but never dead The smoke drawn from your smoldering husk reaches the darkest heights Your blackened flesh takes to the wind and vanishes in starless Night take you all Blood Burner Chaos Calls Blood Burner Immortal souls devoured by forgotten fears With fell lore of the grave Enslaved to astral vengeance for a thousand years They take the weak and the brave Night take you all Blood Burner Chaos Calls Blood Burner
4.
Tail between your legs and arrows in your back can you hear Your mewling men as their skulls are cracked Smell your kinfolk cooking high atop our walls and know their Heads adorn our moonlit halls tonight Our gods look down in wrath upon your traitor’s sin Their lupine gifts make our change begin We hunt our prey With our last breath By the sanguine moon Through realms of death So curse our name You’ll be slaughtered all the same Your legacy in flames Through the trees we fly over roots and remains, led by the Crimson trails from your gushing veins Try to flee, for mercy cry to deafened ears beyond the skies We’ve yearned so long to feel you bleed and die Your feeble siege was doomed the day you raised your swords We are your ruin, your overlords We hunt our prey With our last breath By the sanguine moon Through realms of death So curse our name You’ll be slaughtered all the same Your legacy in flames
5.
Lower helms to hide your fear And wave your torches bright For even moonlight dreads to look Upon our rites Through the trees, profane effigies Stand tall, bathed in the blood of your sons and daughters Hark! The summoning is close at hand You’ll hear us howling in the night With nightmares birthed from hallowed lands We’ll have you bastards bled by morning light As death circles you, usurper, know this: From the putrid carcasses of your hopes, we feed. And die assured; at long last your eyes will look upon your home again. We will carry them there on roads paved with your dead. We’ll ink the ending of your tale In death and fire As you’re flayed amidst the laughter Of those we sired Hark! The summoning is close at hand You’ll hear us howling in the night With nightmares birthed from hallowed land We’ll have you bastards bled by morning light
6.
Seafarer 03:20
Seafarer To where did you depart? Your dark sails filled with a wind as cold as the vengeance in your heart Fear not the gods of the deep Or the thunder that shakes the skies Shout to them all “I know my fate, This is not where I will die” Through blackest night you journey on In bloodied robes of black and blue Search as you may for death It will find you ‘Neath deadened moon On glassy oceans deep When gods and stars Enter final sleep Seafarer To where did you depart? Your dark sails filled with a wind as cold as the vengeance in your heart Fear not the gods of the deep Or the thunder that shakes the skies Shout to them all “I know my fate This is not where I will die”
7.
The woods of ancient Kjellangor call for the spilling of blood The fires of my kinsmen glow from the mountains Your seed will find no purchase here, your bravery turn to rot All of your treacherous words, all for naught We stalk the mists Blades in our hands We are her brood She is our land These roots are strong, with unknown ends Our hearts won’t falter, our knees won’t bend To your cursed shores we will send Your usurper tongues, Silenced by the Northern winds A flame you cannot hope to quench roars beneath the ice On misty heights sits a hatred ever watchful As surely as if they had sunk, your warships have found death It draws closer with each step, with each breath We are the fury Teeth of the void Law of the lawless Etched in bone Unwithered, unweathered We loom eternal Sons of the birthless Cold as stone We’ll fall upon you with the night as you idle in your beds We’ll take your women from your sides, and then we’ll take your heads Through the roar of flames and cries of babes hear the glory of Drathna sung As your pious flesh is ripped and torn, from ancient branches hung These roots are strong , with unknown ends Our hearts won’t falter, our knees won’t bend To your cursed shores we will send Your usurper tongues, Silenced by the Northern winds
8.
Hooves like hammers fall Against the steely ice Scattering crimson snow Through sepulchral winter, we thunder With spirits unbridled by mortal woe In shadow we ride Reaping glory with each stride Through savage nightfall We ride as one, we ride for all To the blind who wait in silence Having spent every breath cursing the skies Who would not dare to dream For fear of waking For you, we rise In shadow we ride Reaping glory with each stride Through savage nightfall We ride as one, we ride for all And as the setting sun kissed our face and passed in silence, we knew That should it ever rise again, we would not, for one moment, scorn its light As doom towers against the raven sky We will not hide our face Night begat us to this hour And its design we will embrace In shadow we ride Reaping glory with each stride Through savage nightfall We ride as one, we ride for all
9.
Huntsman 05:23
The bitter taste of righteous blood stains the oaken lips Spurs the vernal bones Of primal guardians in service of the savage one The gruesome hunt-horn drones Hail! Huntsman! The forest rides tonight! Hail! Huntsman! Rid us of this blight! Over archaic laughs of sport The captives plea and wail Some are dragged underground To be devoured at the horrid feasts of nameless gods To be scraps for Drathna’s hounds Hail! Huntsman! The forest rides tonight! Hail! Huntsman! Rid us of this blight! And lo! Through the brush there came a sight terrible to behold - the stag god, accompanied by his spidery host. He who is brother to the mountains, warden of the untamed, and butcher of the fearful. They marched across the Iron Jaw with sword and helm Seeking fabled woodland doorways to the twilight realms The proudest of their captains are now hunted like boars Their banners lie in gory pools upon the forest floor
10.
Awakened by the creaking trees and spores glistening in the moonlight I come for thee Cosmic behemoth Compass tuned to the earth and stars By wretched fate Stalwart goliath Our mortal coils now intertwined A flash of the blade From limb to heart I cast my aim Down seven halls Infinite ways Accompanied by the sneaking dawn and wisps in the wake of the twilight Onward I trek Fifteen have fallen My waning soul I pin on you From the storms of hell I will bring her back Plucked from the jaws of Leviathan A flash of the blade From limb to heart I cast my aim Down seven halls Infinite ways Consciousness fades From lung to soul my hand is stayed Through hardened veins Unhallowed fane
11.
The mist lies heavy on the heaving bosom of the sea And through the murky depths, her monstrous children stare at me So we strike our oars through the yawning abyss, unable to tell What fate awaits us on the isle ahead What hope can be found in the mouth of hell We reach Su’Lychh Ocean tomb of heroes dead Seeking their aid May they rise from stony beds We’re beset by ghastly warriors in the halls of rot Sent to test our mettle, in this place steel matters not But we breach the inner sanctum, where on an oaken throne Sits the paragon of an ancient line Clutching his sword with hands of bone “The dead take no orders from men who yet breathe. How dear is your conquest?” the wight croaks to me With sword raised, alone I charge the old throne With a smile on my face I rain steel upon bone We battle long and gloriously, ‘til by my own accord I take the knee in honor and my neck meets his sword And lo, throughout that sunken hall, as I meet my end Appears a grim and rotten host Vast and eager to defend The dead take no orders from men who yet breathe “Your spirit proves strong, in death you shall lead The legions of bone No longer alone Arise from the depths and reclaim your throne”
12.
A sudden attack in the night A hundred to one their spears close in like fangs They call from the storm to submit, but there’s blood on the ice and there’s ice in our veins What would you take to your grave? Ancient shackles, or splintered bone? The time to stand is flying Your chance to live is dying We paint the hills with their guts Axes rob their lungs of their last breath And our thoughts are wiped clean by the blood and the bone and the stenches of death And when we are overrun We spit the blood from our mouths in their eyes And we don’t take for granted the feeling of freedom as each of us dies What would you take to your grave? Ancient shackles, or splintered bone? The time to stand is flying Your chance to live is dying

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The second album from American pagan metallers WINTERHYMN, out now via SoundAge Productions.

Draug - Vocals & Guitar
Varrik - Backing Vocals & Guitar
Alvadar - Bass & Vocals
Valthrun - Drums
Extra - Keyboard
Umbriel - Violin

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released June 17, 2016

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Winterhymn Cincinnati, Ohio

"Cold-Blooded American Pagan Metal."
Blood & Shadow available through SoundAge Productions on 6-17- 16.

Winterhymn is an American pagan metal band from Cincinnati, OH. Founded in late 2009, they have been on a continuous conquest of North America, enthralling audiences with their own unique blend of fantasy and heavy/black/power metal.
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