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The Wicked Dead
05:01
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...On whom doth fall
The shadows of the risen dead
Shall surely be consumed
By the glamour of the grave
In the dead of night
Traveller beware
A doom lies dormant
In the crypt of Asa
- infernal witch
In the quiet countryside
Wanderer take heed
And pray for dawn
Thrice she will rise
In the church of Pannochka
- conjuress of demons
In your stately homes
Lovers be forewarned,
A terror feeds off lust,
Radiant and ruinous
In the castle of Marcilla
- daughter of the pit
What pious men can lay to rest
Innocent blood can revive
To the infernally endowed
Deaths chains are as air
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The Devil's Share
06:15
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Lead (GMH)
While God he taketh and he giveth
His angels are naught but winged sinners
Begging for scraps from the masters table
Who pities this poor ragged host of heaven
Thus fiery fumes doth make their ascent
But the devil keeps ninety eight percent!
You've tried to lead a virtuous life
When you werent dead drunk and wielding a knife
Then all too soon your days are through
Saint Peter will open his book on you
You'll realize counting how your days were spent
That the devil took ninety eight percent!
Saint Magdalena had a lady burned for her sins
Long mourned her man by the shores of Loch Lomond
Little millstones round their neck, children watched him from the lake
A scar ran through his heart (so cold);
A corrupted core like black, rotting wood
Drums of anguish beats for all,
Saint or imp; the trial calls
As foul weeds inch by inch grows o'er the graves of men
Grows o'er the grave of all mankind
Is this the god that Twain so scorned?
In a drunken stupor on the floor
But Satan saw and Satan waited
While God was being kept sedated
And all the sinners he should have saved?
The devil takes ninety eight percent!
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Yet He Walks
04:23
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Lead (GMH)
Plantation by moonlight
Unending sea of waving grass
Cold feet thread a cold path
No will, no pulse, only purpose
Oh wearily they stumble on along their way
As in a dream, they glide through the night
But the unearthly silence is soon cut short
By chanting, revelry and the beat of ritual drums
Rise voodoo moon, glitter of putrescence
Plantation at Night, unending sea of grass
Here at the ends of the earth,
Where even stars come to die,
No will, no pulse, only purpose
And yet he walks
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And so it must begin
This weary journey without end
Set spinning on its dreadful path
By machinations of a mad god
Day of judgement - day of doom
Born of the grave - Interred in the womb
An empty vessel
An empty promise
And so now it all has come to pass
A feeble quest without purpose
Opening your eyes, you beheld infinity
And yet you saw nothing at all
We are marching in the shadow of doom
Pierced by the gaze of distant eyes
Callous watcher in the skies
Whom but the blind led by the blind led by the dead could think benign
Lead (GMH)
From endless night I call to thee!
Listen fools!
It is the pulse of the lord of this world
The sound of nails
Hammered into a coffin
Forever
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Sign of Satanic Victory
03:15
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Lead (ESB)
Followers of the walking corpse
Obsessed by sin and holy ghosts
Deepest infection in shallowest mind
Your lord must die to free mankind
Our ultimate weapon
Risen from the depths
An axe crafting leads that will reap your soul
Ears bleed like skulls pierced by thorns
A timeless tool hammering out metal riffs
The nails come down, inch by inch
Lead (GMH)
Don’t need no seven strings
or edgy new design
This V is all I want
Axecutioner of Gods
I was made a mercenary
In the legions of the V
Monument to a golden age
The Sign of Satanic Victory
Lead (ESB)
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Lair of Rats
05:09
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To these bleak ancestral lands
I have returned
Where the ruins of my name
haunt the ruins of my keep
Desperate homicidal escape
Generations spent in exile
Fallen priory on the hill
A dread that lives ever on
Thus hatred, fear and scorn is all I get
But The loathing of peasants is naught to me
Now let these walls rise again
Again my crest crowns these gates
Gothic towers risen from rubble
Vaults reclaimed from the abiding darkness
Foundations as old as the stones
Lead (GMH)
Lead (ESB)
Lead (GMH)
And deeper still
Where the roots of the earth lies black
A spectral swarm is stirring
And dreadful hunger swells
Is this madness come calling?
Howling through the cracks in the walls?
Scurrying through dim corridors?
Like the cursed blood in my veins
Bursting out of darkness
Running for the light
A crawling infestation
An all consuming force
Tainted inheritance
I heed your call!
Madness of the tombs
Here I come
Lead (ESB)
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I saw her coming from afar
at first faint light of day
The lady riding on a horse
as white as she was pale
She bade me take her by the hand
and ride with her away
Her promise whispered at my birth
the one that never fails
She’ll take me down a winding road
she’ll take me through the gates
And when at last the crossroads come
I’ll see which path she’ll take
Lead (GMH)
Now I must bid farewell my friends
we shall never meet again
So raise your glass and sing old songs
make sure that you live well
Cause in the end a day will come
when you too have lost your way
You’ll meet the lady on her horse
as white as she is pale
To those who rush to meet your gods
Know that you may fail
Close your eyes, pray she rides fast
There are Black Hounds on your trail
Black Hounds…
Black Hounds on your trail!
Black Hounds…
Black Hounds on your trail!
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Quis Est Iste Qui Venit
08:20
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Among shifting dunes
Of a windswept coast
Desolate ruins
of a Templar shrine
Hidden in masonry
Clay, granite, bones
Bronze artefact
forebodingly inscribed
Oh take care!
Give it a try
Oh Whistle My Lad
Know there will be
an answer
Quis est iste qui venit
Quis est iste qui venit
Quis est iste qui venit
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Faustcoven Norway
Faustcoven was formed by Gunnar Hansen in 2002 and have ever since been dedicated to the ways of old. Black Sabbath &
Bathory. Horror & riffs from the grave. BLACK DOOM METAL!
“In the Shadow of Doom” was released on Nuclear War Now in August 2018. Thus so far four foul full lengths have seen the light of day, before quickly retreating into the darkness of the crypts from whence they came.
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