Name: Hellfire & Funeral Bells
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Description: Opening track of "Hellfire & Funeral Bells" to be released late 2011.

Hellfire & Funeral Bells

from Hellfire & Funeral Bells by Faustcoven

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Opening track of "Hellfire & Funeral Bells" to be released late 2011.

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In my study chamber
I write these final lines
By the light of black candles
My tale is taking form

The mansions lies in silence
My servants sent away
Now to the finest whisky
My mind drifts back

Once I was a beggar on the street
Until I met a strange, old priest
His eyes aglow with eerie light
A soft voice somehow drowning out the din of night
He offered me a hundred years of bliss
This crown lain on my head hiding a serpent kiss
My solemn oath was all he asked
And from that day I've not looked back

'Cause fortune followed everywhere I'd go
Immerse wealth was upon me bestowed
Knowledge without boundaries
Life without regret
So on this night I'll face my doom and die just as I lived

Then in the distant sleeping country side,
Silence has been broken by a tolling of great bronze bells
A sound like the marching leaden steps of fate
Hellfire & Funeral Bells - Hellfire & Funeral Bells

Oh Angel of Mercy
When you do return
Will sorrow be read in your eyes?
Or in wings bent by the burden
You alone must bear
Your cold, empty embrace
For when you come calling at my door
I'll have passed far beyond your reach

Out of dust and shadow a mighty form arise
His somber face tells me it is time to go
I have donned my finest clothes - And rise to follow where I must
My last words written down - A hundred years lived to the full
And all that now remains;
Is Hellfire & Funeral Bells

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from Hellfire & Funeral Bells, released February 4, 2012
Music and Lyrics by G. Hansen 2011

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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. ... more

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