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Buried by ice and frost
Resurrected by flame and fire
Vengefully soaring across the dark skies
Unfolding the rise of my empire
With vehemence I spread my black wings
As the skies become my throne
Black storms extend across the dismal horizon
The seeds of a dark age have been sown
I am the overlord of this dismal wintery realm
I am the winged emperor
My rise shall mark the dawn of the apocalypse
The coming age of sorrow and of war
From centuries deep in slumber
I have awakened
And with vehemence
I shall tear their world apart
I gaze at the landscapes below
Shadowed by the spread of my wings
I gaze toward the sky and behold
A blackened moon rising
A sign that I shall conquer
A sign of the coming dissolution
Of the coming ravage
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The sun refuses to shine bright in its presence
As its colossal wings spread to the Earth’s corners
Unfolding the burning fate of our dismal world
As all empires collapse into the churning seas
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The Sunless Winter
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Wallowing in the catacombs of a forgotten mountainous abyss
The skies have darkened
The soils have frozen
As I’m left forsaken in this sunless, graceless winter
A dismal haze has consumed the aura of the entire world
As all familiar deeds and patterns have become unfruitful
Strangely emptied of all value
As if all meaning to this existence has vanished
Into the eyes of a dark Herald which calls me forth
The dark ghost who’s haunted my worst dreams
Holding the key to a destiny where the golden dawn awaits
Awaiting beyond the deadly Labyrinth
The ghastly forests, the black horizon before me,
The dark deities, ultimately bearing the eternal light
The distant land where the sun shines once more:
Manifestations of the primeval Calling, that which calls me forth
…That which calls me forth….
My spiritual center of gravity has shifted
As I embark upon this ultimate voyage
A shift from the mundane world to a zone unknown
Guided by the ancient threshold guardian
This story has been told before, thousands of years prior
And thousands of years hence it shall be told evermore
For it is the story of our roots, the story of our ancestors
The story of man’s evolution
The story of every myth told upon this Earth
And thus I embark!
And thus I embark!
And thus I embark!
I am Stratorus!
(to be continued)
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Roaming and treading through labyrinthian valleys
With burning torch in hand traversing lands older than time
Consumed by abysmal forests, ageless and boundless
Dark is the path upon which my burning torch shines
An unending voyage
Across horizons cold and desolate
Towards the kingdoms far beyond this abysmal world
Where the sun shines once more
Adorned with the armor and amulets
Forged and granted by an Earth Goddess
That shall protect and guide me
Through the tumultuous paths of the nightside
Echoing are the distant cries of a civilization I have left behind
The kingdom of the lost ancestral star I yearn and seek to find
An ancient, glorious light that has nourished the strongest and bravest
Now gone from a world consumed by the petrifying void
A journey beyond the wasteland I once called Home
To retrieve the fallen sun god beyond the unknown
Into the labyrinth
Devouring mind and soul
Nigh is the underworld
Null and void is the light of grace
The skies grow dimmer and dimmer
But the void shall not consume me
The venomous auras of my homeland
I have left far behind eternally
Walking through the obsidian gates
With fury in heart and weapon in hand
Falling through darker layers of time and space
Engulfed by hellish and baneful shadowlands
Towards the ethereal light faintly shining in the west
A light embraced by those who’ve walked this treacherous path
Covered with the thorns of creatures who dare not let me pass
Tonight I go as nemesis bearing cataclysmic wrath
Amidst a dark lost world I search
For purpose, answer, and meaning
Riding death’s wings through endless darkness
Seeking the sun of the morning…
In the darkness of this labyrinth
I have found that I have fallen prey
To an ancient spell of its ancient currents
Knowing what I’ve harvested is a fate worse than death
Still, onwards I march with an opened heart
Through the labyrinthian valleys
Guided by the flame of ominous deities
As I hunt by dusk, and sleep by dawn
Through the remains of my ancestors’ cities
Along rivers cold as ice
A journey beyond the wasteland I once called Home
A journey to retrieve our fallen sun
The call I have answered, so it shall be written
This quest to the primal depths of existence
Across the primeval threshold
Into the hungry abyss
Bearing cataclysmic wrath
Tonight I go as nemesis
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The path goes ever on and on
Into the vast forests beyond
For years I’ve lingered, but tonight I shall no more
My yearning for the lands of gold has won
As the skies grow dimmer
And resounds the evening bells
The time has come for me to depart
The time has come for me to bid farewell
The night is upon us, and the endless forlorn paths
Of this vast middle earth beckon me
Into their grasp
Treading on uncharted soils
Towards the lonely mountain
Far beyond the world of the shire
Far over the misty mountains
COLD!
(Riffs and lyrics originally created in 2015)
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Stratorus Eagle, Colorado
One-Man Pagan Black Metal from the mountains of Colorado (USA).
Originally started as a viking metal project in 2016.
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