1. |
Three Seas
05:25
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Still
This twilight air
A clouded sky
Conceals these hands
Raise
A hidden peak
From deep beneath
This callous sea
Listen
Hear the sombre heart of winter
Feel the currents pull and circle
As this cauldron breathes and wakens
As this vortex parts the seas
From the west, a song of promise
From the east, a song of loss
From the north, a song of anguish
In this mouth they join as one
As the waters come to boil
As horizons spark and burn
As the stone now falls as ashes
From these depths I now return
Pry sealed eyes, open
Break old chains, within
Free these storms, from their
Cold cocoons, below
Stare
the visions swirl
A plaid of pristine snow
Gathered nightmares now unfurl
Eldritch glow that churns below
This evening light
That wakes the winter-bound
The quickened tide, the drawing night
Bones that stir in graves long drowned
Pry sealed eyes, open
Break old chains, within
Free these storms, from their
Cold cocoons, below
Weights removed and gate unbarred
Whispers echo through the dark
Hunger stirs, the locks consumed
Her voice awakens the exhumed
Surface torn as torrents burst
Bellows out the winter thirst
Twist and rise from ocean floor
Now manifest the opened door
Pry sealed eyes, open
Break old chains, within
Free these storms, from their
Cold cocoons, below
Winds compel me
Stars ensnare me
Moon light lifts me
Three seas wake me
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2. |
Fell Reigns
05:06
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Old bones
Reborn
Raised upon the winds
Answer to the call
Wake
My faithful
In death undone
Summer succumbs
Rejoin me
As winter sings
Let twilight
Lift silver wings
Rage
Fuelling this flesh
igniting bones, searing the skin
under this harsh winter sky
Reigns
Dragging me back
Into the skies, summoned to her
Compelled to bring, this, long night
Burning horizons that call, me
Moonlit the aether that lifts, me
Red as the stars now that guide, me
Back to the cauldron where, she
Calls, for the eight
Turns the wheel
Breaks the days
Once more
Wake
My faithful
In death undone
Summer succumbs
Rejoin me
As winter sings
Let twilight
Lift silver wings
Bones, offers this vessel, worn
Souls, drained from bodies torn
Hearts of stone and blood of brine
Hands of the hag, reborn divine
Calls, for the eight
Turns the wheel
Breaks the days
Once more
Wake
My faithful
In death undone
Summer succumbs
Rejoin me
As winter sings
Let twilight
Lift silver wings
Hush
The moment
Hold close this gift
The water clear
Delve deeper
Grasp memories
That weigh you
Now drown them all
Fly
From here
And fall
Break
Become
Her storms
Bring, this long night
Choke these skies
Tears to rains
Song to gales
Earthbound, we descend
Recast this land
Release the breath
Condemn this
Reign
My faithful
In life undone
Summer succumbs
Reshaped now
The season sings
Let twilight
Bring silver wings
(Reign
Raise
These
Wings
Reign
Break
These
Days)
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3. |
Dìoghaltas
05:01
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Teich (flee)
Fàg ana sheo (leave here)
Mo mhallachd ort (i curse you)
Agus air do shliochd (and your descendants)
Fàillig (fail)
Fàg mar sin e (leave it)
Bris is paisg (shatter and fold)
Sìos dhan doimhneachd (sink to the depths)
Bàthadh (drowning)
Òl am muir (drink the sea)
cuimhnich do mhearachd (remember your mistake)
Anns a' choire seo (in this cauldron)
Tuit (fall)
Air ithe le tuinn (eaten by waves)
Feòil a' grodadh (rotting Flesh)
Fo a rìgh-chathair (Beneath her throne)
Dìoghaltas
Agus
Fuath (revenge and hatred)
Ceartas anns an teine (justice in the fire)
Aig
Meadhan-
Oidhche (at midnight)
Deònach agus deiseil (willing and ready)
Mìle
Gearradh
Domhain (a thousand deep cuts)
Salann anns na lotan (salt in the wounds)
Fulaing
agus
searg (suffer and fade)
tachdte san doimhe (choked in the deep)
Oh
Those whispered uncertainties
Keen, it flows
Amidst this haze a true
Cold reflection
Paid in blood
This never settled debt
Mournful cycle
Beanntan (mountains)
briste agus aosta (Broken and old)
Tuit air do chnàmhan (fall on your bones)
A' bruthadh do bhriathran (crushing your words)
An dorchadas a tha feitheamh ort (the darkness that waits for you)
Is e teintean an aon chuimhne a bhios agad (Fires will be the only memory you have)
Iarann
Air a chruthachadh sa mhuir (iron, forged in the sea)
Cho geur ri teangannan nan naimhdean fealltach (as sharp as the tongues of the treacherous enemies)
Òran nan sgeinean a lìonas an t-èadhar seo (The song of the knives that fills this air)
Ceòl an dìoghaltais a tha a’ seirm nam chluais (the music of vengeance that rings in my ear)
Bris e (break it)
Cleachd an t-òrd (use the hammer)
Sgap na th’ air fhàgail (scatter the remains)
Air taobh na beinne (on the side of the mountain)
Gun dòchas (hopeless)
Lag agus air seargadh (weak and withered)
Air chall gun nì sam bith (lost without anything)
Air sgrios agus gun fheum (destroyed and useless)
Air fhògradh (exiled)
Air a thilgeadh sìos (thrown down)
Falbh leat fhèin agus (go alone)
Na bi air ais (and do not return)
Pàigh airson na pèin a dh'adhbhraich thu (pay for the pain you caused)
Bidh am peanas trom air d’ anam (the punishment will weigh down your soul)
Dìoghaltas
Agus
Fuath (revenge and hatred)
Ceartas anns an teine (justice in the fire)
Aig
Meadhan-
Oidhche (at midnight)
Deònach agus deiseil (willing and ready)
Mìle
Gearradh
Domhain (a thousand deep cuts)
Salann anns na lotan (salt in the wounds)
Fulaing
Agus
Searg (suffer and fade)
Tachdte san doimhe (choked in the deep)
Oh
Silence these doubts that stir
Keen, it flows
Amidst this haze a truth
Cold reflection
Paid in blood
A never settled debt
Mournful cycle
Silver tongues
Cut loose from devil jaws
Taste this justice
Graves beneath
The whisper of old bones
Speak of vengeance
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4. |
Cirein-cròin
04:32
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Faint, it glimmers
Through sound
So turbid
The sgadan, a mask
Conceals leviathan
Silvered the scales
Conceal this serpentine kin
Malice the gift the sea gave
Deliverance
Moment transformed
The sgadan facade now warps
Maelstrom of scales as
Ocean itself contorts
Tainted the hooks
That stirred this fluidic flesh
Condemned the lost
The blood and the souls to thresh
Tearing the veil
Breaking the space
Changing the form
Trans dimensional resonance
Seachd sgadain, sàth bradain
Seachd bradain, sàth ròin
Seachd ròin, sàth mial mhòr mara
Seachd mial, sàth Cirein-cròin
Ah, the awe
That breaks the mind
The teeth in eyes
Madness entwined
Splitting the sea
Draconic, the carnivore
Thunderous waves, the heralds
That shatter shores
Cracking dimensions
Merge under weight of curse
Freeing this hellbeast
deep from this ancient earth
Erupting still
This flesh seared with enmity
Filling the depths
The silver eternity
Hunting us all
Ending it here
Terror itself
Serpentine God manifested
Seachd sgadain, sàth bradain
Seachd bradain, sàth ròin
Seachd ròin, sàth mial mhòr mara
Seachd mial, sàth Cirein-cròin
Deep in dreams
The song that Calls
Wake the sea
Devour this all
Dire the beast
Unmatched the dread
The hunt reversed
Unfurled this end
Seachd sgadain, sàth bradain
Seachd bradain, sàth ròin
Seachd ròin, sàth mial mhòr mara
Seachd mial, sàth Cirein-cròin
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5. |
Deathless
03:13
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Pale as the stars
Grim as the sea
Deathless
Timelines
Elusive
Visions
Transcending
Cycles
Unending
Deathless
Persisting
Pulling the reigns
Turning the storm
Deathless
Torn apart
Across the mountains strewn
Rejoined in arcs
Under a hunters moon
Vengeance dire
On cursed lost
The oceans rise
The hand that bring the frost
Deeper
Through the tides
To the source
Breathe
In the brine
And behold
Surface
Lifting
On aether
Rising
From dreaming
Waking
The loyal
Raising
Remaking
Drowning the light
Choking the sky
Deathless
Ashes rise
As the fell wind sings
Cracks reseal
In these silvered wings
Illusion fades
As the waves loom high
Fingers raised
Over the churning eye
Deeper
Through the tides
To the source
Breathe
In the brine
And behold
Witness
Break the surface to the
Shattered twilight
Feel the currents quicken
Under baleful moonlight
She arises again
Ushers in the new night
Now the waters grasp you
Pulling you down
Into the maw
Deathless
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6. |
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Trì fàidhean o Lochlann (three prophets from Scandinavia)
Seallaibh dhomh an t-slighe (show me the way)
Ciad nighean na mara (the first Daughter of the sea)
Thoiribh dhomh a làmh (give me her hand)
Brazen
From afar
From the eastern lochlands
Here brimming
With the pride
Of a regal scion
Now seeking
Here the hand
Of an island heiress
Face trial
By the turns
Of the maidens cauldron
Slaves, weave these ropes
Hemp, wool and hair
Tie these anchors firm
To glory bind me there
Brazen
From afar
From the eastern lochlands
Here brimming
With the pride
Of a regal scion
Now seeking
Here the hand
Of an island heiress
Face trial
By the turns
Of the maidens cauldron
Night falls, fates near
As hubris meets fear
When third rope frayed fails
She grins, maidens tales told
Brazen
From afar
From the eastern lochlands
Here brimming
With the pride
Of a regal scion
Now seeking
Here the hand
Of an island heiress
Face trial
By the turns
Of the maidens cauldron
A wedding to the waves
The hubris of the groom
Deceived by maidens false
The waters dark consume
The bride, a goddess white
The dowry, season's snow
The ring, the vortex deep
The bed, the rocks below
Sink down
Reach deep
As light, fall
As stone, sleep
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7. |
Unbroken You Remain
04:13
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Scored and flayed
A body torn
The spirit drowned
Misanthrope born
Waves that break
Over the sound
A clarity
Bleak and profound
That bitterness
A promise dies
A hope that fades
From bloodshot eyes
Of salt and blood
These stories tell
Providence lost
A sky that fell
Fates can yet be remade
Currents sing
Weight of time erodes, this
Fragile light fades
Whispers deep
Tides will wash these wounds, heal
Winds will raise you
Relentless
The millstone grinds
To bone and dust
The spirit binds
The ropes pulled tight
The knots entwined
The frictions burn
Within this mind
Long since lost
The summer path
The mountains break
Before this wrath
Omens shine
The hope consumed
Draw close the kin
Of the exhumed
Yet from this wreck
Old iron forged
A future glimpsed
A heart restored
Unshackled flesh
To surface rise
Exhale the frost
To crimson skies
Tear down these prophecies
Currents sing
Weight of time erodes, this
Fragile light fades
Whispers deep
Tides will wash these wounds, heal
Winds will raise you
In this ruin
Beneath this shattered sky
Within this weary mind
Restore this sanctuary
Reseal these weathered scars
Embrace this bitter cold
Unbind these fractured bones
As silver wings unfold
The gales upon the air
The surge beneath the sea
The ice that carves the earth
The reigns that pull you free
Feed anguish to the pyre
Relight forgotten flame
Unearthed, you are returned
Unbroken, you remain
Currents sing
Weight of time erodes, this
Fragile light fades
Whispers deep
Tides will wash these wounds, heal
Winds will raise you
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8. |
The Cauldron
02:52
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Felled, and slain
A mortal bled and pale
Yet summoned here
To wreak this will
As thunderstorm and windswept hail
Gates above
Flung wide to eyes that yearn
To grasp the light behind the veil
The host of snows makes her return
Turning tides
Draw the edges
Summit dark
Sealed beneath me
Clouded mind
Flesh that falters
As you break
In this cauldron
Silt
And bone
With mountain still to climb
The hidden voice compels the lungs
Undeath exalted and sublime
The winter roar
Within this cauldron wrought
And brought to boil
Through eldritch toil
The eightfold rains that man forgot
Faded frames
Leave your memory
Clean, the slate
Pure and holy
Flesh resewn
Sear the wounds clean
As you rise
From this cauldron
Raised
Remade
to join the gathered squalls
And ravage lands
Now cast the cloak
The omen bright, forsaken call
On wings that shine
The back no longer bowed
The burning stream
From promised dreams
That rage that echoes in the clouds
Restored
We soar
Once more
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9. |
Of Twilight and the Pyre
06:54
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Daylight wanes
Autumn skies unfold
New moonrise
In dark dreams it burns
Before me
These bone white veins
Cross your hands
Chill air leaves your lungs
This scene, the last frame
Old eyes behold
Deep unbound
Ashen ruins drowned
Where I lay thee down
You must stay this time
Farewell
Weathered eyes
Under loose earth lie
Whispers mourn the faithful
On twilight winds
Listen
Buried here
Ages fade through mists
Their laments drive
Shards deeper in
Build pyres starward
Oceans turn
Songs of tides whisper
As the current calls me
To depths deep
Pull me under
Hearts
Stir under seas
Blackened and burned
Rise and return
Meld
Red and grey
Flame and ash
This plaid
Aons pass
As stars burst and wither
Through this twilight
Looking back,
To see, but never hold their flames again
Through a wall of glass that splits the candles from the shades
The screams that only echo in the void
I curse their fell names
Small sun dims
Courts of shade take hold
Hopes that fade
Through paths long
That lead to this ceaseless cauldron
Desolate, this shoreline
driftwood, lines the pyre
Now mark this farewell from
Summer's sorrow
Heart be still
Hand be firm in deed
Voice be heard
Invoke
Light this pyre
Now, bring them twilight
Burn
You will not fade away
Ascend and blaze a path
I will persevere
Lead, guide me starward
Sever
Curse and Immolate this waning sky
Rain ash upon this earth
And boil seas
Reign, remake us from
The glass you shatter
Bestow your glittered flesh
As frost upon the air
The maelstrom that you turn
The flame you will become
We hold until the end
In twilight and the pyre
Arise, rise, rise and greet me
There
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Hand of Kalliach Edinburgh, UK
Hand of Kalliach play a blend of melodic death metal with atmospheric Gaelic and Celtic influences, inspired by Scottish folk music.
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