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Tears of the Tortured Trees

by Elephant

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1.
Moonslayer 05:10
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He descended from the moon, eyes ablaze with the ardour of strength The last survivor of a great civilization destroyed by a Dragonthrone War Integrity beyond his years, able to see large vistas at once Hero and saviour, seeks not conquest or crusade but peace Three protectors as counterparts transcending the hemispheres The Moonslayer, the Countess and the Wolf interceding against a persistent evil Charging on a nightmare, hurricanes of flame Invoked through spells of vengeance twining skyward To remedy an intolerable pain and oppression Demolition of the axis inside Witness the mystery of this uncorrupted angel Whose volcanic return shall release the elixir of light Taking up the Demonstarsword Roaring out from astral sanctuary Riding a rising swell of anger You should not wound that which cannot be killed!!! Dismal clouds boiling in the glowing storm The prodigious angst of a banished race Ridden with wickedness, lost to fear Usurped by a darkness baptised in devastation He will become air and sky - amorphous and invincible Despair cannot defeat him, he has routed the abyss All the suns shall fall and the beast's mouths not avail When the dead soar over the burning forests he stands a triumphal beacon Embracing the destiny that brought him to such a time To resurrect the forgotten dreams of this final generation As desolate and alienated as a god Driven by the need to create a new home
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The Dragonthrone Wars 04:58
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The drums of war are playing on the wind Legions in a golden blaze advancing The air is riddled with ash and fire A twisting spectre against the heavens Like the sullen scowl of blackest woe, a land grievous and besieged Hammered by storms and pestilence, never to rest Hell beyond hell, eradication, burning ferocity Swords erect pounding at the sky - a desperate tantrum of futility Never will a leader fight his own battles An amphitheatre of fresh fodder Crimson axes, a cold moon in chaos Cannot escape the martyr's curse All for one greedy king's quest for power Only a conqueror following the common ruinous path The powers are bickering while their people are suffering And there is no wise counsel within these fragile walls An exalted scepter, an internecine damnation Baleful causes tending toward chaos and disarray Knights in horned helms on an impotent crusade Without legacy or deeds for remembrance By the ruthless dictatorship of the sword and spear The axis of demolition is crafted For the blood on a cross on the hill of the skull The religion of warfare, deliverance through demise Wave after wave of armored fury broke upon the ranks Berserker rage without any mercy, mountains smashed to dust Driven by the madness of revenge, battle turns to slaughter Victory dies at the hands of annihilation Countless were the dead that fell by my hand I saw them through my tears - those beloved now useless Barbaric devastation, carnage taints the soil Blasted earth and despair, a thousand voices roar in agony Even the gods are silent All the perished weep The eyes of the dragon shall reveal The dark has no end A sole lord throws down his weapons and leaves the battlefield Disgusted by the doom of a poisoned struggle Hailing the few brave enough to wage peace Mortal thrones are like falling leaves in a gale
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Dungeons Of Soaring Oblivion 04:50
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Nighted, mystical, soaring dungeons - demesne of the gallant dead Frozen shrines and blazing palaces, undulating opaline towers Above the coruscating majesty the stone sky casts a pall In the grim and gelid dawn of winter's foul despite Sorcerous winds and turbulent seas Rise and fall like a dirge Monstrous suns and fiendish storms An armada of cruelty and horror The new universe - a strange thrill - a five-sided equation Divergent paroxysm of Anaak Gigas, atavistic pestilence Bone and blood - obdurate permanence - spawn of the nemesis star A towering sphere of glowing ichor, the forest far beneath The lilies have turned to asphodel Panacea which was once liberation Anodyne into living death Your womb shall become your grave Sycophants of the hybrid dictator Sentinels of the island empire The creator needs an author to justify his land Occulted in the lore that dragons keep As some lamed master bereft of theurgy An equinox of mordant fear A malignant ferocity in the ebon lake Beneath the revenant of the dolorous moon Inverted abysms within the mind's lair A riot of raving madness and paramnesia Falling upward through invisible gates Vertigo of mirrored portals This baffling prescence A suspended void of cosmic hate I saw the gleam of my ambition And I saw the machinery behind it
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The Matrix Spells Of Countess Gilmau 04:54
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I demand to see a sacrifice By the Icesword of the Invisible Empress Eruptions in the depths of a labyrinthine mind Concentric rings of orgasmic fire Proffer a venom of amorphous malevolence On the meridians of the nocturne forest Gaze into the soul of the being who created The portals in the veil of this twilight abyss Balancing on the delicate matrix Poised in awareness Tampering in weird dimensions A theatre of processes Swirling mists weaving countless realms and forces A kinetic glow in the crypts of frozen light The air shimmers with a tapestry of power A column of glimmering argent twined with a vine of darkness Winds of sorcery beyond imagination Ridden by Moonslayer and caressing the Wolf Not even the gods could imagine such power Uniting the universe at its essence The inward eye and the sightless sea She is the water of transformation Beyond the emerald frontiers Structured within a web of sentient spells An elaborate trance of incantations Screaming for the spectral jewels of Aldebaran Rarefied by bloodstone vengeance, beauty has turned to rust I will never feel the love of you
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The Predator 04:11
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I ride the black waves on the oceans of night The demon who makes trophies of man A journey giving chase across the galaxies The chameleon adapting to any environment Amongst the violence and the conflict I will be Drawn to the fighting and the craving for the kill Indefatigable in my pursuit Ruthless in my attack and taking no prisoners Curvilinear hieroglyphs on subterranean pyramids An alien labyrinth under eternal mountains of ice The solar storm radiates deep phosphorescent shadows The hunter's moon is full in the sky - Let the sport begin! Consumed by the slashing knives And the laser's blast Garish in my bloody vision Ripping out the spines Harvesting the skull A token from the corpse of my prey Atop the grey dawn In the first heat of the new day Harsh sunlight upon the valley at war Into the battle the dragonangel descends From the auroral dust of the spirit world To the sleeping dunes of the holy desert Spears of lightning desolate between the clouds The darkbringer stalking the ethereal planes Calling with the voice of one you know, turn around and kiss the blades Glimpse the disappearing eyes camouflaged by bending light Suffer from the fear that curses souls before the final strike With the inescapable certainty of an execution Stealth and silence through the forests, jungles, caves incarnadine A warrior's noble conquest spiting ignominious defeat At safari's end I prepare destruction to scorch this no man's land Victorious I continue glorious supremacy
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Pyramids Of The Everliving 05:49
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Transform this decayed form into that of The Everliving Regenerate me in the horrid embrace of my sarcophagus Isolate me from the cruelty of my twisted reflection Grant me immortality in exchange for perpetual servitude Necromancer of the pyramid in the darkness of Third Earth Lifeforce from the foci of the merciless four winds Jagged teeth, glowing red eyes, bound hands mummified Relentless, invincible my wrath shall be Time travel through mirrors In the wizard's dreams Eternities into the sky The dreadnaught will arrive Daunting spires beneath a cluster of veiled suns descending From the draconian majesty of the black rainbow Prisms of shifting angles, internal alienage Threshold of inverted light trembles on the unknown Colossal serpents walk as men beneath a morbid Sphinx Avian monstrosities brooding in the primal wastes Mutants in the pits of doom initiating fate The menacing dark core of the circinate stronghold I've survived upheavals of cosmic savagery In the seething twilight of this living abyss These ruins obscure, an immemorial sadness Whispers from the east, Ancient Spirits of Evil Divine water moves within a swirling void Prophecies and frenzied rites now lost to silence I am blight and anguish dancing in the plague Devastating galaxies in the sight of the sleepless stars My kingdom unchanged by the passing of aeons The heavens await my return
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Ghost Of Space 04:53
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Haunted By Scorn 04:56
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Haunted by scorn The Wolf retreats amongst the tortured trees Grim, alone and betrayed A doomed son hangs his head Lost to dying, a hideous sensation Brooding in desolate gloaming Beasts of darkness, demons of light Have hunted in my dreams since the last extinction of man Those of the sky Those with hearts of iron Those who have loved Have long since died The entity unknown has awakened to its ancient name The heaving serpent in chains of the underworld He makes the deep sea boil and leaves a shining wake Commander of the falling waters and of all the creatures within The dragon wears a crown of stars Serenading the return of The Countess and the one from the moon Exploring the seas of distant planets Melding with the benighted waves to where no man durst follow
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Tears Of The Tortured Trees 06:21
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"The light from the trees is gone," the old dwarf sighed Frigid swells like blossoming stars on the waft of a threnody Transience arrives in requiem They've stolen the moon and depression once more haunts the woods Roam the forbidden path in the shadows forlorn Their spoken names echo amongst twisted agony Buried in a tangle of secrets is mankind's greatest gift Hope lies in a deep grave where the sun is seldom seen Steel rules the night Forged by an elder hammer I gaze into the ebon lake Reflecting tears of ice Trolls in the menacing fog Dim, grey nightmares howling in the rain In the cold eclipse, by the sleeping hills of Glom Whispers caress in the wind mocking the tortured cries Peals of lamentation - the plaint of a thousand mourning their loss Endless hours of thirst and fear decay in thought In the darkness I shall dream under an aegis of viridian leaves As soothing as the breeze between the planets - sanctuary from the lords Cleanse the forests with flame Sorcery without reason The glorious past lies in ashes And the dead will soar Once again the three are together The Moonslayer, The Countess and The Wolf A trove of knowledge beyond imagination Ivory towers of an ideal future Those afflicted with the humor Laughing in the mantle of time Together shall wait And watch it all

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released February 21, 2006

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