The Vision Bleak

views and pond'rings, I have felt alone.
Beauty I had savored in other sights than all.
And a twisted grandeur I've seen in things that fall.

I always found fulfillment, being on my own.
And in my plays and passions I hit my distinct tone.
From their source of delights, peace I never found.
But from deep within me, my true self was unbound.

Enter the wolf!

Night hunt, so cold!
Wolf heart, so lone!

Soul eyes, so blind!
Dark star, so bright

Sprawling was my anger, being chained to their,
notions uniforms and ambitions so austere.
But that wrath transcended to a thing divine.
Creations and catharsis and pride, they were all mine.

Pride alike the peacock, I felt it to the core.
From every cell and marrow, its results did outpour.
Like the bird's adornment the wheel magnificent.
It had manifested in beauty of no end.

Now spread thy wheel!

3. The Kindred of the Sunset 04:55


Like a drapery falling downward,
the dark spreads out in exquisite elegance.
Melancholy reaching climax,
betimes you feel its wraith in all the elements.

Aflame, the heavens seem to burn now untamed.
While the earth is clad in a luscious blueish dress.
Ignite, these candles need to burn now.
The night unveils its echoing spook of death!

We are the kindred of the sunset.
We are to fade!
We seem like a blackened silhouette.

We are the children of the sunset!
We know we are,
to burn a blaze of night ahead.

We are the kindred of the sunset!
We are the children of the sunset!

We are to fade, we seem...
We know, we are to burn...

Nocturnal haze is coming forth,
a ghost devouring my secrecies.
Gliding over fields as mist,
wailing grievously.

Extinct, the heavens seem to burn no more.
The earth is clad in a funeral dress.
Elapse, the hourglass got turned once more.
So pleased we sip the elixir of death.

We are the kindred of the sunset.
We are to fade!
We seem like a blackened silhouette.

We are the children of the sunset!
We know we are,
to burn a blaze of night ahead.

We are the children of the sunset!
We are the kindred of the sunset!
A blackened silhouette!


4. Into the Unknown 06:35


Step into the dark, drag yourself along the twine.
That's been out there and was spun for you since a long time.
Allow the pain, so agony can teach its exalted secrecy.
Overcome the fear, take yourself into the great maelstrom's whirling eye.

With mind aloof and heart aflame,
I shall never be the same.
Into the unknown where the obscure reigns,
I shall never be again, the same again!

Nocturnal pathways call, hear them now, summon you.
Heavy fogs that enshroud the mind, dim your view.
Look upward and from the firmament, pluck the stars inflame.
From the light and from the dark within, you will know your very name.

With mind aloof and heart aflame,
I shall never be the same.
Into the unknown where the obscure reigns,
I shall never be again.

With mind aloof and heart aflame,
I shall never be the same.
Into the unknown where the obscure reigns,
I shall never be again, the same again!

I shall never be the same!
I shall never be again, the same again!


5. Ancient Heart 05:34

The heart,
the heart is old...

Antiqua nobilis et fortis Anima.

Precious and strong, unrivaled heart.
Invincible and never wrong,
wise from the start!

Antiqua nobilis et fortis Anima.
The heart, the heart is old...

Let loose from the chain!
Untamed and arcane is my ancient heart.
Most sublime blood in endless flood,
through my ancient heart.

Fire and flame of unwavering aim.
My ancient heart, my ancient heart.

Antiqua nobilis et fortis Anima.
The heart, the heart so pure...

Most sublime blood in endless flood,
through my ancient heart.
Let loose from the chain!
Untamed and arcane is my ancient heart.

Ravishing pride, the Self undefiled.
In my ancient heart, the ancient heart.


6. The Whine of the Cemetery Hound 06:39


Forgotten and forlorn, graveyard corridors.
Remains with mold adorn, voiceless orators.

Been haunting here so long.
Observing everything decompose.
Tombstones that sink into the ground,
until they are all gone.

Assimilating stillness into grave poetry.
In these vaults so lightless, being home to me.

This is my kingdom!
Reich of the dead!
Where shapes sepulchral,
in patience outspread.

The Quietus, the fall!
O' ruin and decay.
Ash and dust, earth and stone!
O' gray pits of dismay.

Time has no sense in the realm of the dead.
Where silver-tonqued souls are quietly met.

This is my kingdom!
Reich of the dead!
Shrouded in myth,
the idle imbed.


7. How Deep Lies Tartaros? 05:40


I know the entrance to a place,
where dark shadows reign!
Once you've fallen in disgrace,
in their spell you will remain.

Tartaros, chasm vast!
Tartaros, abyss of past!

Tartaros, Tartaros!

Trembling, naked I lie!
Licked by tongues of flames so cold.
Here abandon has no ally!
Notions so cruel that endlessly unfold.

Where the pain, where regret,
where the dark compulsion dwells!

Tartaros, Tartaros!

There is no exit from this place,
Where past shadows dwell!
For in their tight embrace,
lies the deepest Hell.

Where the pain, where regret,
where the dark is the truth!

Tartaros, no way to flee.
Tartaros, abyss within me.
Tartaros, no way to flee.
Tartaros, abyss within me.

8. Who May Oppose Me? 02:49 instrumental


9. The Fragrancy of Soil Unearthed 07:35


Moonrise, at last.
Sufferer, join the enigma.
Nightfall, the call.
Ponderer unto the omega.

In the truthful light of this starlit hall,
I am yet to fall!

Until the stars die, until the fate.
Until the end's nigh and all the hollow mirth is spent.
Until the sun fails, until the worm.
Until the earth hails, until my body shall descent.

Here I am king!
Here I am truth alone.

Star-dome extend!
Wanderer into night transcend.
When silence then encompasses all,
I am yet to fall!

Here I am king!
Here I am truth alone.

Fall, fall!
Light is gone
Fall and fall!
O' dying sun.

Fall, fall!
Light is gone
Fall and fall!
O' dying sun.

Darkness, be my guest!
When all the hollow noise,
the soundless shrieks,
and senseless words are gone.

Gazing up into the stars,
into velvet crimson skies.
Conducting from the earth,
the great orchestra of silence.