Fleshgrind - The Seeds Of Abysmal Torment (2000)

FLESHGRIND LYRICS
The Seeds Of Abysmal Torment (2000)

1. Destroying Your Will
2. Desire For Control
3. Monarch Of Misery
4. Disdain The Mournful
5. The Deviating Ceremonies
6. Hatred Embodied
7. Seas Of Harrow
8. A Legion Of Illusions
9. The Supreme Art Of Derangement
10. Hogtied And Hatefucked


1. Destroying Your Will

I have the tenacity to take what is yours,
As you will forever persevere, you are mine!
Take what I give, my unceasing punishment

My fading of lives, drainer of desires
Watching your mind slowly demise
Bringing me pleaseure, this is my contentment

Consuming my sanity, raping your thoughts
Violating, incessantly, your bruised, tainted flesh!

Destroying your will, to lavish my own!
You feed from my hate, I leave you in sorrow
With thoughts of empathy you feel you deserve
Draining what is mine, fainting your fortitude
Your conscience realizes your inevitably nothing!
You feed from my hate, I leave you in sorrow
With thoughts of empathy you feel you deserve
Draining what is mine, fainting your fortitude

Destroying your will to lavish my own!
You're becoming desolate of your sources
A useless, monumental, misery

A portrait of what once was
As I strip you of all your worth
Beg me for your soul

I detest your empty carrion
As you wear your shroud of sadness

I will destroy your will!
Destroying your will, to lavish my own!

You feed from my hate, I leave you in sorrow
With toughts of empathy you feel you deserve
Draining what is mine, fainting your fortitude
Your conscience realizes your inevitably nothing!
You feed from my hate, I leave you in sorrow

With thoughts of empathy you feel you deserve
Draining what is mine, fainting your fortitude
Destroying your will to lavish my own!


2. Desire For Control

Unstoppable Killings
Driven by greed and power
A troop of desensitized soldiers

Built to abolish all
That challenge this obdurate machine
Emotionless murder

Audacious and indiscriminate
It's exorbitant capacity is immeasurable
Hundreds executed
These devils never lie quiescent

Fueled by their rage and desire for control
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control
DESIRE...FOR...CONTROL!!

Soldiers who terminate life
Jut as god promiscuously kills
Just as promiscuously as life itself kills
Just as I promise your time will come

That you will be killed! [2x]

Humanity left frightened
And surreptitous, covert, cloaked
In this underworld benighted

By plagues, and calamities
Quarrels, fatal confrontations
Devastating needs for imperium

Emotionless murder
Audacious and indiscriminate
It's exorbitant capacity is immeasurable

Hundreds executed
These devils never lie quiescent

Fueled by their rage and desire for control
These devils never lie quiescent
Fueled by their rage and desire for control!
DESIRE...FOR...CONTROL!!

Soldiers who terminate life
Jut as god promiscuously kills
Jut as promiscuously as life itself kills
Just as I promise your time will come

That you will be killed! [2x]


3. Monarch Of Misery

Imploring the abstract
Needs undefined
Contemptible and devious
A corroded reality

Your everlasting fear, so stimulating
As you conform to the blackness of my thoughts

Imagine such lunacy
My lust is becoming climatic
As is the horror I see in your eyes

Monarch of misery
Imploring the abstract
Needs undefined

Contemptible and devious
A corroded reality
Your everlasting fear, so stimulating
As you conform to the blackness of your thoughts

Imagine such lunacy
My lust is becoming climatic
As is the horror I see in your eyes

Monarch of misery
Feel the treachery
In my misery!


4. Disdain The Mournful

Your mind perceives impulsive thoughts of violence,
A release from the pain of living by addicting to the pain of others
A release so fulfilling...

Deprivation of senses
Your opaque thoughts cloaking your frailty
Overwhelming portrayals of a life perishing

Like the birth of an unexpected still
Fading feelings of guilt, flux, solidifying into temptation
Of relieving a useless existence just to pacify a greed
The itch of your fingers, pressing on the choking, twitching neck

The rush of senseless life slipping away
As you scrape their existence, you can hear their faint helpless heaving
Although overwhelming, sick, dependant, twisted passion
Is what finally fails them sadly of their lives

Extracting their last breath, the ridding of the primitive [repeat]

You disdain the mournful!!


5. The Deviating Ceremonies

A generation of instinctual assassins
A lifetime of human deviations
In a place of confidence and adulation

A world you now realize, has deceived your every thought
You listen in detail, the prevalant screams
Emanating through the vacant halls!!!

You sense the tranquillizing
Feelings of accomplishment
Yet this personal ritual means death

In the eyes of those that have manipulated our very minds!
Reprisal is instinct a form of survival
Placing their darkness in veil

As death comes life fades
Where bullets fade soak in
Their unmerciful passion honed for you... this time

You're doubting your own convictions
Skepticism greets your fading thoughts
As you are thrown into an unmarked grave

On the verge of your passing
Feeling the damp cold soil penetrate your
Bleeding wounds blanket your

Crippled, cramping body
As you discern your killers
You realize your certain mockery

Of honor demands death
Reprisal is instinct a form of survival
Placing their darkness in veil

As death comes life fades
Where bullets fade soak in
Their unmerciful passion honed for you... this time

You're doubting... your own convictions


6. Hatred Embodied

Cursed into reality, a hopeless netherworld
Where your fear culminates, wretchedness prevails
Mastering your misery, call upon your agony!

Look to me for I am the one who dominates your soul
Look to me for I am the one, destroy your only hope
Mastering your misery, call upon your agony!

I will make you see the horror
Conjuring your every thought
Twisted rapture manifesting

Terrorizing your worthless being
Tearful, useless, imprecations
Illustrates your weakness

Decrepit being
Crawling, scratching
Fingers gripping

Where do you think you are going?
There's no escaping
From this dominion

You are now fucked!
Summoning all my hate
Choking you

Gasping for your last breath
I will not let you leave this existence
You have failed you fucking fool, this is forever!


7. Seas Of Harrow

I rejoice from the grief
Your incessant pain brings
Such gratification

As I reign sovereign over you!
Escape is unthinkable
Your pain is unbearable

Escape is unthinkable
Your pain is unbearable!
I don't sympathize as you are trapped
Within your own dimensions and grief

Within the abysmal waters where you drown
Within the seas of harrow!
Within the abysmal waters where you drown
Within the seas of harrow!

Within the abysmal waters where you drown
Within the seas of harrow!
Within the abysmal waters where you drown
Within the seas of harrow!

My dominance prevails as you beseech me for guidance
Through your amaranthine misery
You have been reduced to nothing
I am the father of pain, now proven through you!


8. A Legion Of Illusions

As I'm choking her
What could she be thinking
That her life is seconds from ending

That there is no hope for her
As I feel her frantic plea at my fingers
Her hands grasping at her surroundings

Her waving legs wrapped around myself
The madness in my eyes is amazing
As I feel her piercing stare to be a reflection of my own

A legion of illusions, to escape in her thoughts
As uncontrollable as her frenzy, her delerium
As uncontrollable the desire for every one of her last breaths

She should just give up...
What does she have to live for?
What motivates her?
What makes her resist the imperative?

Her frivolous attempts remain futile
As her body twists, trying to defeat her imminent fate
What would relief be now?
As she has been the victim of a most guesome violation

Termination....or her release [2x]

The ropes are unfastened as she is weakened
Hope pours back into her eyes as if she has defied death

As if it was over
She hastily exhales extinction
As she relaxes her pale bruised body

She seems to be reveling in some new found hope
As if something has given her a chance

I don't thnk so
She must die
The fascination I get from watching the
Skin on her tired face turn into pure terror

This is all so overwhelming, again she begins to struggle
Please accept your fate, as yours is in my hands

She should just give up
What does she have to live for?
What motivates her?
What makes her resist the imperative?

Her frivolous attempts remain futile
As her body twists, trying to defeat her imminent fate
What would relief be now?
As she has been the victim of a most guesome violation

Termination...or her release [2x]


9. The Supreme Art Of Derangement

I am your mind, I am your thought
Confined with my on disturbed existence
Through the sickening, supreme art of derangement

Regretfully, you disdain my art
As you become my next victim
That of death, and domination

You will soon see my developed system
I have called the supreme art of derangement

I control you
Waiting, hunting, so patiently
You're like a child, so naive to the fact

That I will strip you of life
Your ignorance is so pathetic
Strategically, to my advantage

In these depths that I call my mind
Desensitized to the fact that you are now dead
You lay there calm and quiet

So serene and tranquil, still
I am your blood, I am your rupture
I am your dominion
I am your suffering

You have since expired, but who is really truly dead
I, I am your power, I am your God
Dictating your actions, I am your only light

All hope, of us escaping, is completely gone
Come with me my children, don't forget you chose this
I control your life now, I have since perfected..

The supreme deed, the supreme need
Supreme art of derangement
Why can't I see, how can't I see?

That it is I, who is deranged
I cannot see, how could it be
Since it is I who perfected

The supreme deed, the supreme need,
The supreme art of derangement!


10. Hogtied And Hatefucked

My face shapes a cruel smile
My tainted embrace, firmly around your throat
Breath coming quicker,

To the tune of your stifled cries
I bask in the soiled femininity
And the squeals of my stultified sow

Where pleasures and pain blend as one
My bonds, though macabre, have found warmth
The cold steel and iron on tender flesh

Restrained, yet erotic, I have you bound
Your pain arouses my senses
Your agony is my ecstasy!
Your shame, I leave its mark embedded in your flesh

It burns, it binds, my ropes caress your transient veneer
Precious little pig... slender and pale
So tempting a victim!

Sadistically, I probe your most inner moistness
Arouse my disgust!

Tainted, my member, with your filthy secretions
Arouse my delight!
With lust, I tremble at the sight of your writhing
Consumed by desire!

The redolence of your debauched, violated cunt
Consumes my desires!

Though sincere, those tears are futile
Ravished and deflorated
Though sincere, those tears are futile
Ravished and deflorated ...
Then left alone! [4xs]

When pleasure and pain blend as one
Then left alone!
Your agony is my ecstasy
Then left alone!



[2000 Olympic/Century Media, 2000 Season of Mist]

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Fleshgrind - Destined For Defilement (1997)

FLESHGRIND LYRICS
Destined For Defilement (1997)

1. Whacked
2. Burning Your World
3. Chamber Of Obscurity
4. Sordid Degradation
5. Rape Culture
6. Lurid Impurity
7. Organ Harvest
8. Frozen In A Voiceless Scream
9. Litany Of Murder


1. Whacked

Watching the victim plead
For an immediate death
Torture is the worst kind

Of brutal punishment
Life slowly erodes
Never ending agony

Unbearable pain
In and out of conciousness
Hoping for a fast death

That seems so far away
Beg for your death
Hoisted upon the meathook

Anally impaled
Rectum engulfing the meathook
In excruiating pain

Your screams cause delight
Watching in horror as your
your fucking sodomized

As this wasn't enough
Your knee caps were smashed
With hammers

Methodical torturing
Torture everlasting
Electric shocks to the ball sack

Cattle prod just warming up
Deprived of your manhood
Through the use of a cattle prod

pouring water on your genitalia
Blistered and burnt testicles
Turning and twisting

Ripping your rectum wide
Burnt flesh in the air
Down on the meathook you slide

Screams of pain being at the end
Gates of pain open up wide
If burnt testicles wasn't enough

Ice pick pierces burnt flesh
Fluid and blood leak through
wound just made
your screams are so loud

But no one can hear
It's living not dying is your fair
Shoved into your ureatha

Repitive stabbing of gentalia
Crimson streams exit your prick
Bludgeoned cock lies hopeless, not much left

taking your last breath in the last moments
Died upon the meathook, Mob boss satisfied

Body finally lies lifeless
Eyes sunken in, turn green
Your coffin is a trunk of a car
Homemade funeral for the past
Another victim has been whacked!


2. Burning Your World

The smell of burning cinder
The crackle and pop of human flesh
The screams of my victims

I hear as I fade into the dark
Sit around the corner
With success in my obession

As I admire my work of art
Molotovs, gasoline, or a match
Or through any technique

I know how to acheive
To work my work of wonder
To my pure delight!

I want to see it burn, I wanna see you burn
The more people I can burn, the better I feel
I want to see it burn, I want to see you burn!

Sometimes I see my victims
Choke on the dense smoke
But the ones I like best are

Burnt running flesh
See my victims running and rolling
Trying to put themsleves out

But I have them in my trap
Of death and fire
There is nowhere to run
There is nowhere to hide
There is no way out

Surrounded by fire, engulfed in flames
I want to see you burn alive!!
I want to see it burn, I wanna see you burn

The more people I burn, The better I feel
I want to see it burn, I want to see you burn!
I want to play a game of smoke and fire

I want to burn your house to fulfill my lust
My heart starts beating fast as I douse your house
I know in a few minutes my goal will be achieved

Burn your house to the ground!
Burn it down!!!!!


3. Chamber Of Obscurity

I wil take your soul!!!
Come into my chamber of obscurity
Why don't you come with me

Where violence is pleasure and so sweet
Horrible certainty
Never mind the blood stained walls, the human bones

They're just a memory
The putrid stench of rotten flesh is sickening
A fragrance that I love

As I lure you into my chamber
Your skin turns a ghostly white
Submit now to my ghastly pleasures

or suffer the consequence
As I rape the life out of you
your life seems so worthless

Chamber of obscurity
Wretched and unthinkable
Torture and depravity

Chamber of obscurity
As you start to gasp for air, to plead for your life
You won't be living long

You start to bleed, you start to choke
the swelling starts
Beatings will never stop

As you lay in your own piss and feces
Vomit spews from your mouth
You feel like the lowest form of human life
a life that will soon be gone

As I lure you into my chamber
Your skin turns a ghostly white
Submit now to my ghastly pleasures
or suffer the consequence

As I rape the life out of you
your life seems so worthless

Chamber of obscurity
Wretched and unthinkable
Torture and depravity

Chamber of obscurity!


4. Sordid Degradation

Expressionless
Your limp now dead body
I have seen the death and horror

That makes me want to spew!
...Spew...

Writhing, contorting unleashing your soul
Your shrilling is music to my ears
Your terror in your eyes before you die
excites me

The illusion of you living is now gone
As you slowly slip away
My pleasure grows as you decay

As you think
Though of hopelessness
How much longer can this be

The hopelessness and agony
As you scream
Please God let me live
Screaming anguish never ending
Pleasure growing never dying

As you die
..Forgotten..
Memories and have been forgotten

You are no one just a passing victim
For my pleasures for my fornication
For your nightmares, for your satisfaction

Sordid Degradation!


5. Rape Culture

Deep in the rainforest of Brazil
A tribe of fornicators
The raping ceremony from long ago

To violate the newborn
Once the infant is out of the womb
The village starts to line up

The baby is raped everyday of his birth
Until the day of his death
The elder fuck the younger ones
the young ones rape the elder

Primitive perversions
Retarded children are being born
Abuse the mother after labor

All they do is rape and fuck
Orally... anally... incest...
Sodomoize the tribal chief

Anally invade the ugly wife
Pull her by the fucking hair
Jam a dick into her mouth

Listen to her gurgle cum
Like the fucking whore she is
Brutally raped by your best friend
Ambushed by behind, the bastard

What can you do its tradition?
Beat and gang raped by four others
Taking turns while they're laughing

But you know their days are coming
It's a lovely young girl's day
When the village takes their turn

They tie her to a wooden post
She starts to scream
She's knocked unconscious
and then probed with a fist

Starts to bleed profusely
From her tight little ass
Raping... fucking... it's tradition, can't escape it
Rape Culture


6. Lurid Impurity

Lurid Impurity
Lusting for the feeling of impurity
A feeling I cannot hold back, uncontrollable

Wanting, needing, lurid impurity
Dreaming of a time when my needs are fulfilled
Embracing the feeling of impurity, my need for filth
Fulfilling.. satisfying.. lurid impurity

Looking for a victim for my needs to be violated
Sickness, in my mind, twisted thoughts, insane, they
control me
Controlling every thought, every move, delving,
into madness

Innocent people pray for my soul, lurid impurity
Lurid impurity

I cannot believe the thoughts that cross my mind
They make some people puke, they make me
get a hard on

Insanely sick and twisted, I love it
I love it
Fulfilling... Satisfying... Lurid Impurity


7. Organ Harvest

My sweet pretty victim
Destined for defilement
Experience a horrible pain
Her heart will beat in my hands

Knock her out, rip her organs
Rip them out, tear them out!
Knock her out, rip her organs
Rip them out, tear them out!

Methodically take out her organs
With surgical steel and bare hands
I'll fuck her when she's screaming
I'll fuck her when she's dead

Knock her out, rip her organs
Rip them out, tear them out!
Knock her out, rip her organs
Rip them out, tear them out!

I slice her belly open
Expose the large intestine
And watch the crimson flow
Strech incision open

Organ harvest, appendages from a virgin
As I fuck her, I disemboweled, desecrate
Organ Harvest, wrap her neck with intestines
As I eat her I ejaculate on her heart

Smash the ribs, then grab the the lungs, rip them out
Murder, rape, dissection, necrophilia

Her ass is still warm as I invade it
I told her I loved her as I jizzed on her liver
My body shaked, seizured, as I ripped apart my love!


8. Frozen In A Voiceless Scream

In your terror
Whipers in the somber night
Frozen in a voiceless scream
Reflections of your life are senseless

Hoping for a second chance
The dark wind calls your name
ever so gently
Imminent death is here

Cannot be accepted
Fearing your end, your life has expired
In your terror
Whispers in the somber night

Out of sight, You are
Frozen in a voiceless scream
In your last breath
The dark wind closes in
Your time has come

To leave this pathetic
world of shit, of shame
This life that you've chosen

To rebel against
to turn your back on
has repaid you
in full with your life

Dishonor of your family has left you
Frozen in a voiceless scream


9. Litany Of Murder

I'm killing you, motherfucker!
Suffer for your deceitfulness
I will not take these things lightly
As you fuck me I will fuck you

You think you are invincible
Fuck with me and you will be dead
You are as good as dead!
I am certain of your death!

Deep throat my gun
Taste the cold steel
Pull the tigger
you're still alive!

Take my hammer upon your bleeding head
Cranium smashed in, spilling your blood
Now you will die, I'll make sure of it
what can you do, you are now dead!

Stuffing your corpse into a 55 gallon drum
Entombed in your coffin, solidified by cement
As your head sticks out, I will smash it in
Your head is now severed, stuffed in your tomb!

Litany of Murder
I am listening to you die!



[1997 Pulverizer, 2000 Pavement, 2003 United Guttural]

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Emperor - Scattered Ashes - A Decade Of Emperial Wrath (2003)

EMPEROR LYRICS
Scattered Ashes - A Decade Of Emperial Wrath (2003)

1. Curse You All Men
2. The Tongue of Fire
3. The Majesty of the Night Sky
4. Cosmic keys to my Creations and Times
5. Wrath of the Tyrant
6. The Loss and Curse of Reverence
7. An Elegy of Icaros
8. I am the Black Wizards
9. Thus Spake the Nightspirit
10. Ye Entrancemperium
11. In the Wordless Chamber
12. With Strenth I Burn
13. Inno a Satana
14. A Fine Day to Die
15. Aerie Descent
16. Cromlech
17. Gypsy
18. Funeral Fog
19. I Am
20. Sworn (Ulver remix)
21. Lord of the Storms
22. My Empire's Doom
23. Moon Over Kara-Shehr
24. The Ancient Queen
25. Witches' Sabbath
26. In Longing Spirit
27. Opus a Satana


1. Curse You All Men

[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[4:41]

Curse you, all men
whose coil is strong.
I recognise the sparrows heart
beneath the theatre of misery.
Disbelivers shalt by dawn
be forced to forever mourn.

Curse you, all men
that resent my empire.
Cause I have risen again,
at war this time.

The truth I speak is your decease.
My word is your defeat.

And thou shalt not
be able to hide anymore.
The prophecy will conquer at last
Your sense of reality.

With mission to kill,
the theatre of misery.

He has risen again,
armed with the source of sin.
And as humans shalt fade,
he shalt inherit their strength.
Men of the damned,
you will reluctantly
secure His eternal victory.

Curse you, all men
whose coil is strong.
I recognise the sparrows heart
beneath the theatre of misery.
Disbelivers shalt by dawn
be forced to forever mourn.

The truth I speak is your decease.
My word is your defeat.

Yes, you are indeed the few.
I am the one.


2. The Tongue of Fire

[Originally released in 2001 on the album "Prometheus - The Discipline of Fire and Demise".]

[Music: Ihsahn.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[7:10]

Teach me the tongue of fire,
so that I may set the world ablaze.
For it is cold,
and this blindness can no longer give me shelter.
Teach me the tongue of fire,
so that I may cry out loud my wrath
and my passion,
or else my coil will blister and decay.

[Guitar lead: Ihsahn]

The tongue of fire.

The soul is never silent,
but wordless, held imprisoned in a cursed tomb,
wherein reflections never fade, never die.
Slowly maddened by (the) emptiness.

[Guitar lead: Ihsahn]

Left to perish in the ever-dark coil.
Yet, always alert it its slumber.
Scorned by the drops of light
piercing through the surface,
and it screams.

The soul is never silent,
but wordless.

Teach me the tongue of fire,
so that I may set the world ablaze.
For it is cold,
and this blindness can no longer give me shelter.
Teach me the tongue of fire,
so that I may cry out loud my wrath
and my passion,
or else my coil will blister and decay.


3. The Majesty of the Night Sky

[Originally released in 1994 on the album "In the Nightside Eclipse".]

[Music: Ihsahn.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[4:53]

Like the tide, shadows flow towards the shore of light.
The night comes whirling like a maelstrom.
Warring waves of crackling clouds embrace this nightside landscape.
The heavens bleed, through open wounds, the dim light of the Moon.
The winds are crying mournfully and tears fly with the gusts.
They whip my clenched faces freezing skin with ice-cold burning cuts.

Too long I have suffered the desert sands of time.
But as I drown in darkness it will release the sign.
My soul will leave this mortal coil of flesh and earthly life,
to fly into the mist of night, into the nightside eclipse,
and experience existence on the other side.

As a stone of scorching enthusiasm
I refract the reflecting surface of this unfathomable sea.
Growing circles of grief and pain slides across the land
as an omen of the horror yet to come.

The strength of a thousand fire-breathing demons
breed in my infernal, sinking soul.
And as I reach the surface once again
these powers are under my control.
Now I am one with the night sky majesty.


4. Cosmic keys to my Creations and Times

[Originally released in 1993 on the EP "Emperor".]

[Music: Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[Words: Mortiis.]
[6:21]

The heavens are lit by the stars
where years of secrets of universal forces lay hid.
They shine so bright, but yet
they have seen more evil than time itself.
Reflected in the deepless lakes
(they are drowning in black elements).

They are the planetary keys to unlimited wisdom
and power for the Emperor to obtain.
(They) being the gods of the wolves
whom upon they bark at night,

requesting their next victim in thirst of blood.
I enjoy those moments I may haunt with these beats of the night.

What kinds of beings are existing at the deeps of my lakes?
They surely must be of an evil race,
for no friendly thing can live
in such depressive waters.

(Here is also a planet similar to the Moon, but its phases is only one
and it is in its most powerful for all and ever...
There passes no light without the barking of the wolves.)

All these landscapes are timeless,
and this is all just a part of cosmos,
(but) all is mine and past and future is yet to discover...
Much have been discovered, but tomorrow
I will realise I existed before myself.

I will be reborn
before I die.

I will realise planets ages old,
created by a ruler with a crown of dragon claws,
arrived with a stargate...
a king among the wolves in the night...
An observer of the stars.

I will realise planets ages old,
created by a ruler with a crown of dragon claws,
arrived with a stargate...
a king among the wolves in the night...
An observer of the stars.

An observer of the stars.
An observer of the stars.


5. Wrath of the Tyrant

[Originally released in 1993 on the EP "Emperor".]

[Music: Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[Lyrics: Mortiis.]
[4:13]

The wolves bark with wind in summertime.
As the moon passes the shadows. It was a grim tale.
The wolves pry the limbs from the conquered ones.

Carnage consumes the emptiness.
Wait till my spirits come forth.
Violate all his chosen ones.
Drink the fires of death.

Carrying the deaths of his fallen warriors
deep inside of him, in his eyes.
Walk upon this Earth tonight,
carrying the staff of cold souls.

Appear the sign of evil will.

They appear, Death and Destruction,
to a time (when) the angel cries.
Open your eyes again now, he is here.
He is the master of fear.

He is the wind, He is the storm.
He is the woods, He is the roots.
Nobody will escape the wrath of the Tyrant.
Forever the Beast shall wander the Earth.


6. The Loss and Curse of Reverence

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[Music: Ihsahn & Samoth.]
[Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
[6:09]

Memories of torment strikes me.
Attemps were made to suffocate me at birth.
Fools, I was already ancient.
Thou can not kill what breeds within Thee.

Alas, this agony, the emptiness of earthborn pride
hath stirred my faithful heart which guided me to darker paths.
Far away from their pestilent ways
cleansed was I from deceitful grace.

Yet, put to scorn was I
by those unclean.
Enslaved by ignorance
they blindly spat upon
the deity of hate.
Awake is the darkest fiend.

By the fallen one I shall arise.

Upon bewildered masses,
to whom the indulgence of my soul portray as sin made god,
I shall revile and quell the source
whence mockery of my kind derive.

This I know: Facile shalt my quest not come to pass.
Deathwish be my gift to all at last.

Honour. Commended no longer as virtue.
Yet, shalt be extolled by light's demise.

By the fallen one I shall arise.

Arise.

[Guitar lead.]

Believer,
speak not to me of justice,
for none have I ever seen.
By God, I shall give as I receive.
Betrayer,
speak not to me at all.
You and this world
ripped my fucking heart out.

Again... again... and again...
Again... and again...


7. An Elegy of Icaros

[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Music: Ihsahn.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[6:39]

Icaros, I dare you.
For I possess the wings of faith.
Though, heavy on my shoulders,
no measurement can prove their weight.
Still, a burden are they not to me.
I am the challenger of gravity.

The fear is not the fate I seek.
My destiny will build upon
the mighty turbulence beyond.
And if I fall, I will rise... again.

Some of envy, some of fear,
admonish by the graves of those who fell.
Praise the fool that pure of heart
leaps off your finger into grace.

Icaros, your voice once melted
into the choir of the fallen ones.

I have heard, I have seen
the purity of their song.

Icaros, Icaros.

Icaros, your fate embrace
a manifold of angels.
I summon thee from shattered graves,
and call upon the wind.
Recieve my bow of reverence.
Then spread your wings
and fly into oblivion.


8. I am the Black Wizards

[Originally released in 1994 on the album "In the Nightside Eclipse".]

[Music: Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[Words: Mortiis.]
[6:00]

Mightiest am I,
but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine.
For the black hills consists of black souls,
souls that already dies one thousand deaths.
Behind the stone walls (of centuries) they breed their black art.
Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold.

Far up in the mountains,
where the rain fall not far,
yet the Sun cannot reach.
The wizards, my servants,

summon the souls of macrocosm.
No age will escape my wrath.
I travel through time and I return to the future.
I gather wisdom now lost.
I visit again the eternally ancient caves,
before a mighty Emperor thereupon came.
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles, guarded
by the old demons, even unknown to me.

Once destroyed their souls are being summoned
to my timeless prison of hate.
It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
that were destroyed in my future.

How many wizards that serve me with evil, I know not.
My empires has no limits.

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
I am them.

(I am them.)
(I am them.)

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
My wizards are many, but their essence is mine.
Forever they are in the hills in their stone homes of grief.
Because I am the spirit of their existence.
I am them.

I am them.
I am them.


9. Thus Spake the Nightspirit

[Original recording originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]
[This live recording orginally released in 2000 on the live album "Emperial Live Ceremony".]

[Lyrics, music and arrangements: Ihsahn.]
[4:19]

[This next one is from Anthems.
It's called "Thus Spake the Nightspirit".]

Close your eyes and gaze into
this realm that I reveal.
See where eternities are born.
Close your eyes, behold the powers
of the broken seal.
See the liars bound in thorns.

Fear
and you shall fall.
Weakness suffocates your will.
Dare,
yet never fail.
Wisdom guides the one,
the strong who can defy
Death.

[Guitar solo]

So I speak, though, am I heard...?
Wasting visions on a world of blinded fools.

Still I scorn
the vacant contradiction of life,
if only to bewilder.
The final truth shall speak my name.

Thus spake the nightspirit.

Nightspirit, spirit,
spirit, embrace my soul.
[Repeat]


10. Ye Entrancemperium

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[Music: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
[Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
[Opening theme originally composed by Euronymous.]
[5:14]

Drawn towards these lands again.
Seeking death and sacred soil.
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul,
growing stronger once I enter my empire beyond.

Emperium!
Behold my coming.

The fullmoon rise above me,
enlightening my realm in a silvery glow.
Yet the shadows crawl beneath my storming sky,
guarding treasures from forbidden light.

I still remember,
though ages ago it seems,
the first time I entered the gates,
the revelation of ritual death
by which I became divine.
Sacrifice of the life I had
among the flesh of the light.

And now I enter again.
Even stronger, yet amazed by what I see.
In ecstasy I mock the world.

Suddenly I memorize,
asking what I left behind.
Nothing.

Can I ever comprehend?
Will my longing ever end?
Never.

Drawn towards these lands again.
Seeking death and sacred soil.
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul
eternally.


11. In the Wordless Chamber

[Originally released in 2001 on the album "Prometheus - The Discipline of Fire and Demise".]

[Music: Ihsahn.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[5:12]

In the wordless chamber
they feared Death
desperately.
Thus they clustered
to the fruits of the Earth.
Craving diversion,
as if to avoid knowing why.

In the wordless chamber
they feared life
desperately.
Thus they proclaimed
any given truth
and swallowed,
as if to justify their fear.

He knew that there had been hordes of seers
before him who set out to cure.
Though, the sick wished not to part with their decease,
as if it made them feel alive.

In the wordless chamber
he accepted desperation
and the unpredictable manifestations
of hope.


12. With Strenth I Burn

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrical concept: Ihsahn & Samoth.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[Music: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
[Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
[8:17]

Deep Green Dark Chaos.
Blinded I run down these paths.
By heart I know them.
They lead to the soaring cliffs.
Stout they stand above the water's edge,
lifeless.

And this is my foundation:
Cold stone.
Formed only by winds and time.
How invulnerable,
lifeless.

Ahh... I have longed to be at one with this
Yet, the waters call my name

For once I wish to see
the entity behind the voice.
The face of this seduction,
the beauty of my pain.

Am I blessed or am I cursed by thy presence?
What is my crime, what is my deed?
Is this life my redemption?
Shall I repent or proceed?

I hate my flesh.
Its dimension poisoned my soul with doubt.
It made me question
the essence of the "I".
Slaves are those of this world
given freedom to lay chains upon The Master.
Master, master.

The wolf is no longer free.
Release the chains and come for me.

[The Elder:]
"Suddenly, his mournful cries were stunned. Out of the cold mist
came three enthralling ships. Sails torn by many a storm, and the
bows adorned by the most fierce gargoyles he'd ever laid eyes upon.
Yet, the crew they bore... Three times twelve in numbers. They stood
motionless, wrapped in grey, worn gowns. And from behind their
shadowed faces the seductive chanting. Bidding him on board.
Without besitation, he accepted. And away they sailed..."

Upon these seas,
wherein I drowned so many times,
I scatter the ashes of destiny.
Still my flames are in hunger.
With fire in my heart
shall I greet the shores ahead.
Though, I know not what will burn.

Desire...
Ahh...
In the distance
I hear the waves wash over solid ground.
And in this moment I am struck blind.

Grant me sight so I can see
that which lies ahead of me.
Cursed be my mortal eyes
for dying in the realm of Death.

Hear my call...

I return to the soaring cliffs.
They truly shine of strength.
Even though, I nothing learned.
With strength I burn...

[Guitar lead.]


13. Inno a Satana

[Originally released in 1994 on the album "In the Nightside Eclipse".]

[Music: Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[4:48]

O' mighty Lord of the Night. Master of beasts. Bringer of awe and derision.
Thou whose spirit lieth upon every act of oppression, hatred and strife.
Thou whose presence dwelleth in every shadow.
Thou who strengthen the power of every quietus.
Thou who sway every plague and storm.
Harkee.

Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou hath the power to force any light in wane.
Sans mercy. Sans compassion
nor will to answer whosoever asketh the why.

Thy path is capricious but yet so wide.
With no such thing as an impediment to strong.

Every time thou consecrate me to another secret of Thine,
I take another step towards Thy Pantheon.

O' mighty Lord of the Night. Master of beasts. Bringer of awe and derision.
Thou whose spirit lieth upon every act of oppression, hatred and strife.
Thou whose presence dwelleth in every shadow.
Thou who strengthen the power of every quietus.
Thou who sway every plague and storm.
Harkee.

Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou hath the power to force any light in wane.
Sans mercy. Sans compassion
nor will to answer whosoever asketh the why.

Forever wilt I bleed for Thee.
Forever wilt I praise Thy dreaded name.
Forever wilt I serve Thee.
Thou shalt shalt forever prevail.

Inno a Satana. Inno a Satana.
Inno a Satana. Inno a Satana.

Inno a Satana.


14. A Fine Day to Die

[Originally released by Bathory in 1988 on the album "Blood Fire Death".]

[Music and lyrics: Quorthon.]
[8:28]

Orgy of silence, conspiracy of peace.
Only the sound of the cold northern breeze.
Twinsun sink fading behind the black lake.
Asleep is the mountains, yet the night is awake.

Strange is the night. Now black stars rise.
And many Moons circle through silent the night.

[Guitar solo]

Along the black mountainside, scattered
by the campfires awaiting the dawn.
Two times a hundred men in battles.
Tried by the steel in the arrow, axe and the sword.

By battle worn, hunger torn, awaiting
for the Sun to break through the cold haze
and for the banners of Ebal to appear
on the hill in the Sun's first warm rays.

The elder among the men looked deep into
the fire and spoke loud with pride.
Tomorrow is a fine day to die.

[Guitar solo]

Now the morning advance from far East.
Now the Sun breaks through dustclouds and haze.
Now a forest of spears appears on the hill
and steel shines bright in the Sun's first rays.

[Guitar solo]

Die.
Die.
Die.


15. Aerie Descent

[This recording originally released by Emperor in 1999 on the split album "Thorns versus Emperor".]

[Music and lyrics: Snorre Ruch.]
[5:58]

By the Moon's haze and Northern Moonlight.
Upon the Earth he rode.
He seeks that which never was
and never (is) to become.
The Moon rose, it was crimson in color,
as if the night saw the coming fall
that once crushed your domain.
It ever comes again.

And again. [6x]

The moon shone with a fuller red.
As a cross he was drawn to the Earth.
What once has been shall be no more.
Death, he craves his next.
It is decreed.

Oh, Lord, hide me from the secret council of the wicked
and from these wretched words of iniquity.
For my enemies be against me,
and they have laid waste my soul in council together.
Defend me from he that rises up against me.
Save me from he that bears horns...
cloven hooves.
For he lies in wait for my soul
and desires to take it down a fiery pit.

The wraith descends to a world
to feed upon Man's soul.
See you perished, fall.
So by the stone, decrees of faith.
Their kingdom lost.

The Moon rose, it was crimson in color.
Tolled one bell.
What once crushed your domain,
it ever comes again.

And again [6x]


16. Cromlech

[Originally released by Darkthrone in 1990 on the album "Soulside Journey".]
[4:14]

Into the abyss I fall
and Dark is the reich of the dead.
A portal to reach to the side
where bodies fall from the sky.

Solitude and Peace of Mind.
Entombed in Cromlech.

Yes, flee over the River Styx
and join the dead with joy.
An ocean of Blasphemy, Heathenish realm
and "Do What Thou Wilt" as decoy.

My Prophecy is true...
We'll all make it through.

[Guitar solo]


17. Gypsy

[Originally released by Mercyful Fate in 1984 on the album "Don't Break the Oath".]

[Music: K. Diamond and M. Denner.]
[Words: K. Diamond.]
[2:25]

This magic winter night I see a light.
Again I hear that tune, some sort of croon.
Oh no, no, no, oh, my brain.

I see them gypsy waggons left in the snow.
Oh, I must see that lady, I have to know.
Gypsy woman, let me inside.

[Guitar solo]

They say you know the secret, secret of all time.
So gaze into your crystal and tell me all you see.
Gypsy woman, let me know.

"Oh, my son, you were never gone.
You are the Devil's child, and so am I."

[Guitar solo]

Gypsy now I know you're not my mother.
You're a part of my soul, it's dear for all to see.
Oh no, no, no, I am you.
Gypsy, you're inside of me.


18. Funeral Fog

[Originally released by Mayhem in 1994 on the album "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas".]

[5:12]

Every time this year
this dark fog will appear
up from the tombs it comes
to take one more life that can be near
In the middle of Transylvania
All natural life has for a long time ago gone,
it is thin and so beautiful
but also so dark and mysterious

Once again the priest is messing
may the God bless us all
The fog is here again
that will complete this funeral
From a place empty of life
Only dead trees are growing here
as it comes from a far
Only dead trees are growing here

Funeral fog. [4x]


19. I Am

[Originally released in 1999 on the split album "Thorns versus Emperor".]

[5:06]

I am the Emperor!
[Repeat multiple times.]


20. Sworn (Ulver remix)

[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Revamped by Garm of Ulver at Endless Studios.]
[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
[5:40]

Four eyes as two in one.
The forward circular view that never ends.
An orbital voyage throughout this endless sphere of all
where time is lost and everything transcends.

A graceful presence
at stolen time.

As ghosts to the world.

Four eyes as two in one. Thus appear the truly sworn.
As ghosts to the world. Thus appear the truly sworn.
For ice outside, are we apart? Thus appear the truly sworn.
Cold and eerie mist. Burning. Thus appear the truly sworn.

Burning.

To be seen,
to be feared,
yet, not to be reached.


21. Lord of the Storms

[Originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]

[Lyrics by Mortiis.]
[Music by Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[2:08]

Earthquakes are breaking the silence,
a vision of hate.
A wicked, foul spell of evil.
Dark winds command the throne.
Cleansed by the evil hand,
a crusade of the burning land.
A servant in the shape of a snake
blackens the bodies red.

Then it appears, the storming wind,
a challenging scar burns through the light.
A cloud of darkness prepared for me
to complete the circle of death.
The serpent gains mastery of the wind
through the storms and through the streaming snow.
Sorrow blackens the Earth when the Moon fades.
Dark winds command the throne.

Earthquakes are breaking the silence,
a vision of hate.
A wicked, foul spell of evil.
Dark winds command the throne.
Cleansed by the evil hand,
a crusade of the burning land.

An embrace from Death.


22. My Empire's Doom

[Originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]

[Lyrics by Mortiis.]
[Music by Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[4:30]

Once our lord has come again,
all black hearts will celebrate
the darksome fiend
in the kingdom of sorrow.

Nocturnal fiends,
the beings of the night and shadows
calling forth the pure spirit
of the night.

Our reign may come secretly.
Your Lord's castle is gone.
His glory is no more,
and nothing can stop the purifying.
They remember how you conjured
all those years of sorrow.

Blasting winds of darkness conquer.
Dark lords and their minions coming through.
Hate and sin to remain.
Empty hearts fearing thy name.

Darkness hammers through on the priests.
Darkness hammers forward on the cross.
Servants of God, we will desecrate your coward race
with darkness.

Darkness hammers through on the priests.
Darkness hammers forward on the cross.
Servants of God, we will desecrate your coward race
with darkness.

Once our lord has come again,
all black hearts will celebrate
the darksome fiend
in the kingdom of sorrow.

When he returns his spirits must choose purity.
When he conquers kingdoms of death
our dead shall all reign again.

Our reign may come secretly.
Your Lord's castle is gone.
His glory is no more,
and nothing can stop the purifying.
They remember how you conjured
all those years of sorrow.

Awakened from the shadows to create.
Riding with me and with all his chosen.
Our lord to be has come again.
Riding from the past.
Little you know your life fades.


23. Moon Over Kara-Shehr

[Original recording originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]
[This recording orginally released on a Nordic Metal compilation CD.]

[Lyrics by Mortiis.]
[Music by Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[5:11]

Our time is upon us.
Master! Appear!
Over the nocturnal sky
from the mountains of black we ride.
Fly!

All thy servants fly
though the serpent's darkened sky.
Hears the opponent cry,
ravaged by his terror.

Master! We ride with the storm
in his name, the sire, wolves' king.
Enter the power coursing
through veins of the night.

Who gathers winds, summons thunder,
summons rain, summons might?

Power ripples through me.
Armageddon's thunder will bring others to my side.
The throne is mine.
A blackened storm of evil.
Evil.
Evil.
Evil.

Master! We ride with the storm to take
revenge in the sky upon the one
who cast thee from his side.


24. The Ancient Queen

[Original recording originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]
[This recording orginally released in 1994 on the EP "As the Shadows Rise".]

[Lyrics by Mortiis.]
[Music by Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[3:41]

The Ancient Queen.
Deadly hate, deadly love.
Dark under the shadow.
Death has been resisted.
The Ancient Queen,
ruler of the domain.
Keeper of the fury,
the Queen dwells in shadow.

Dark rivers run though me.
Darkness follows everwhere.
Kingdoms falling again and again.

Crawl to thee over again.
The Ancient Queen, the darkest woman.
Stepping through her shadow.
She who sees the soul.
Black is her blood.
Keeper of the fury.

Stepping through her shadow.
Do you see her soul?
Black is her blood.
Keeper of the fury.

Dark under the shadow.
Thy destiny lies with her.
The Ancient Queen,
ruler of the domain.
Keeper of the fury.
In shadow... shadow.


25. Witches' Sabbath

[Original recording originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]
[This recording orginally released in 1994 on the EP "As the Shadows Rise".]

[Lyrics by Mortiis.]
[Music by Ihsahn and Samoth.]
[5:56]

Shifting shadows guide my way in the autumn.
From this fell alliance eternal night shall arise.
Hear the scream of the wolves calling again.
Legions are wreaking destruction upon the fortress.

They must beware his rage.
Once again he is risen.
Towns are burning, the gods arise.
Welcome the nocturnal nightmare

And suffer again.
And suffer again.

He shall suffer. Dying breed of stalwart men.
We will never deny what you can see.
In malice.

They will understand my pain.

Shifting shadows guide my way in the autumn.
From this fell alliance eternal night shall arise.
Hear the scream of the wolves calling again.
Legions are wreaking destruction upon the fortress.


26. In Longing Spirit

[Originally released in 1997 on the EP "Reverence".]

[Lyrics: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
[Music: Ihsahn.]
[Arrangements: Ihsahn & Samoth.]
[5:55]

Landscapes...
Entrance my mind with thoughts of ancient times.
I wonder...
Did they walk this path?

Open seas...
An endless horizon they seem.
I wonder...
Where did they go?

Nightsky,
source of light and dark.
I wonder...
Did they comprehend?

Did they comprehend?
Did they comprehend?
Did they comprehend?
Did they comprehend?

Seasons running through my veins,
like snow melting on my skin.
They crawl beyond my flesh
and gasp my yearning soul.

Alas!
The force of divinity.
What caused its end?
What caused this?

What caused its end?
What caused its end?
What caused its end?
Oh... the end.

I drown in thoughts.
Yet, answers have abandoned this place
long ago.
Blood runs cold from my arm...

Another one is now to die.
Is he the last to see
the graceful entity of Nature?
Is he the last to have his heart and soul
nailed to Her embrace?

He passes on...


27. Opus a Satana

[Originally released in 1997 on the EP "Reverence".]
[4:17]

[Instrumental.]



Emperor - "Scattered Ashes - A Decade of Emperial Wrath"
2003, Candlelight Records
Double CD "best of"/rarities album

Total playing time: 2:23:00.
Disc one (tracks 1-13): 1:13:50.
Disc two (tracks 14-27): 1:09:10.

EMPEROR are:
Ihsahn - vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, keyboards, bass, programming.
Samoth - lead and rhythm guitar.
Trym - drums and percussion.

Former members:
Faust - drums (on "Wrath of the Tyrant" - "In the Nightside Eclipse").
Mortiis - bass (on "Wrath of the Tyrant" - "Emperor").
Tchort - bass (on "In the Nightside Eclipse").
Alver - bass (on "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk").

Guest musicians:
Tyr - bass (on "Emperial Live Ceremony").
Charmand Grimloch - keyboards (on "Emperial Live Ceremony").

Emperial regards go out to all the people
that we have worked with throughout the years,
our friends and family, and to everybody who
has been supporting Emperor one way or another...
a mighty hail to all our fans,
you are the true Emperor Horde!

Official website: www.emperorhorde.com
Officiel collector's discography: www.emperordiscography.com

All tracks published by Abstract Sounds LTD/Tanglade Music.

"Now that I am gone,
lay thorns on my grave."

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Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise (2001)

EMPEROR LYRICS
Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise (2001)

1. The Eruption
2. Depraved
3. Empty
4. The Prophet
5. The Tongue Of Fire
6. In the Wordless Chamber
7. Grey
8. He Who Sought The Fire
9. Thorns On My Grave


1. The Eruption

... and after years in dark tunnels
he came to silence

there was nothing...

he realised that the cheering cries of worship
were but echoes of his harsh outspoken word
reflecting back at him from cold and naked walls
in hollow circles fled illusions of wisdom he had heard

"From nothing came all I ever knew"

and he beheld the ruins
of an empire torn apart
yet, no grief nor rage did bind him
just silent and bewildered
by the emptiness
he stumbled off his throne

suddenly, the walls around him cracked wide open
and an endless void appeared in flickering, grey light
"What force, but silence, has deprived me of my coil?

No trail to guide me. No point of reference in sight."

"By nothing, resurrection will be pure."

and he beheld the ruins
of an empire torn apart
wiping dust off his shoulders
just silent now
in this emptiness
leaving all behind

step by step
past all past
slowly he approached the surface
nothing left
to sacrifice
the mirrors mocked him on the way


2. Depraved

... he looked upon the world
and saw that it was still depraved

as him
though not like him
for him, as all

but closed
like them
not him

unaware
he was
already caught within
their cycle
with them
outside
depraved

instinctive
rebellion
possessed
by bestial despair
he fought
this law
and broke
the spell

"So, this is why I built my empire
fled from the truths unto which they conspire"

in spirit born a stranger
a counterpart in mind
the seeker raised to bury
a freak among the blind

encountered with mysteries
on his mission to reverse their ways
he sought a life among the dead
with refuge in an endless maze

...before the silence...

"This can not be the purpose of my presence.
What then is the call of my return?"


3. Empty

he is an empty shell
- shell-shocked luciferian soul

he is an empty shell
- drained and sealed
he is an empty shell
- penetrating cold
he is an empty shell
- empty luciferian soul

how furiously and bombastic
he proclaimed his destruction
of a mortal coil

in the end it seemed
this was his only possession

long past were his "glorious" days
of filth and lies
and he has reached out to stop time
at its end

he is an empty shell
- shell-shocked luciferian heart
he is an empty shell
- drained and sealed
he is an empty shell
- penetrating cold
he is an empty shell
- empty luciferian soul

the constant struggle for a moment of quiet indulgence
eventually stirred and quaked the earth so hard
it swallowed him in a dark and heavy cloud
slowly and gently starving him into insanity

an inferno of ice
with an ever burning
bleeding
heart


4. The Prophet

... and as if awaken from eternal sleep
he sought a mentor

for he no longer knew his position

"It is time after miracles
and I am its prophet
I have not come to cure
but to bear witness decease"

"It is the place where blood and soil
lie beyond the boundaries of the sun
and I am its prophet
I cast the shadow
I absorb the light"

"I am the prophet
I bear witness
I absorb
I cry"

"As I die
I shall burst wide open
As I die
I shall release the apocalypse
my prophecy
Thus, I hold on to faith
Thus, I keep the hope
That it will prosper
and devour"

"It is time after miracles
and I am its prophet
I have not come to cure
but to bear witness decease"

... and pain joined his urge to perceive


5. The Tongue Of Fire

teach me the tongue of fire
so that I may set the world ablaze
for it is cold
and this blindness can no longer give me shelter
teach me the tongue of fire
so that I may cry out loud my wrath
and my passion
or else my coil will blister and decay

the soul is never silent
but wordless
held imprisoned
in a cursed tomb
wherein reflections never fade
never die
slowly maddened
by the emptiness

left to perish in the ever-dark coil
yet, always alert it its slumber
scorn by the drops of light
piercing through the surface
and it screams

the soul is never silent
but wordless

teach me the tongue of fire
so that I may set the world ablaze
for it is cold
and this blindness can no longer give me shelter
teach me the tongue of fire
so that I may cry out loud my wrath
and my passion
or else my coil will blister and decay


6. In the Wordless Chamber

in the wordless chamber
they feared death
desperately
thus they clustered to the fruits of the earth
craving dispersion
as if to avoid knowing why

in the wordless chamber
they feared life
desperately
thus they proclaimed any given truth
and swallowed
as if to justify their fear

he knew that there had been hordes of seers
before him
who set out to cure
though, the sick wished not to part with
their decease
as if it made them feel
alive

in the wordless chamber
he accepted desperation
and the unpredictable manifestations
of hope


7. Grey

when all is dark
there are no points of reference
and we no longer navigate
by the stars
we just end up somewhere

...nowhere...

where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey
time appears like a golden calf
while the moments slip away
a search for the freedom in the future
when the hours fall behind
I can always die
another day
desperately I seize tomorrow
all out of my reach
that is what I learned
this is what I teach
corruption seems to flourish
while promises decay
where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey

where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey
from the moment of arrival
we are led astray
with nothing but a distant cry
from deep within a soul
a wordless voice
to guide us on the way
desperately we name the voice
and make the cries our own
as if to deny the fact
that we are all alone
in solitude we mingle
disillusioned we fall prey
where lights are dim
and shades of black are grey

I can always live
another day...


8. He Who Sought The Fire

and again he came to cherish
the comfort of mysteries
inspiring and far away
timeless in the moment
they painted immortality

forever drawn towards the centre
of this ensorcelling flame
yet, still in fear of the sacrifice
it would take to know its name

"Do not despair", said the mystery
"You will always have a friend in me
until the day you break my code
then I will be gone and you are free...
...to manifest another"

towards the heavens he did aspire
now he shall burn who sought the fire
some will mourn the ashes cold
while others behold the inferno unfold

forever drawn towards the centre
of this ensorcelling flame
yet, still in fear of the sacrifice
it would take to know its name

now he shall burn who sought the fire
to manifest another


9. Thorns On My Grave

"I hereby commit my body to the ground
sterilised and wrapped in plastic foil
being an object of this space and time
this body should remain concealed

for it holds every disease
ever exposed
it holds all pain and death
I could ever unleash

beneath deceiving, fragile skin
breathes the ever growing hate within

since the first glimpse of my existence
I have fed this greedy infection

an aimless search for potential persistence
found no escape from the fatal injection of life

for it holds every disease
ever exposed
it holds all pain and death
it could ever unleash

beneath deceiving, fragile skin
breathes the ever growing hate within

I am the father

I am the son
my refugee soul has escaped
this body depraved
of final wishes I ask none
but one
now that I am gone
lay thorns on my grave"

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Emperor - Emperial Live Ceremony (2000)

EMPEROR LYRICS
Emperial Live Ceremony (2000)

1. Curse You All Men
2. Thus Spake The Nightspirit
3. I Am The Black Wizards
4. An Elegy Of Icaros
5. With Strength I Burn
6. Sworn
7. Night Of The Graveless Souls
8. Inno A Satana
9. Ye Entrancemperium
10. Empty (Video Clip)
11. The Loss And Curse Of Reverence (Video Clip)




1. Curse You All Men

[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth, Lyrics: Ihsahn]
[4:26]

["Curse You All Men"!]

Curse you, all men
Whose coil is strong.
I recognise the sparrows heart
Beneath the theatre of misery.
Disbelivers shalt by dawn
Be forced to forever mourn.

Curse you, all men
That resent my empire.
Cause I have risen again,
At war this time.

The truth I speak is your decease.
My word is your defeat.

And thou shalt not
Be able to hide anymore.
The prophecy will conquer at last
Your sense of reality.

With mission to kill,
The theatre of misery.

He has risen again,
Armed with the source of sin.
And as humans shalt fade,
He shalt inherit their strength.
Men of the damned,
You will reluctantly
Secure His eternal victory.

Curse you, all men
Whose coil is strong.
I recognise the sparrows heart
Beneath the theatre of misery.
Disbelivers shalt by dawn
Be forced to forever mourn.

The truth I speak is your decease.
My word is your defeat.

Yes, you are indeed the few.
I am the one.


2. Thus Spake The Nightspirit

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrics, music and arrangements: Ihsahn.]
[4:20]

[This next one is from Anthems. It's called "Thus Spake the Nightspirit".]

Close your eyes and gaze into
This realm that I reveal.
See where eternities are born.
Close your eyes, behold the powers
Of the broken seal.
See the liars bound in thorns.

Fear
And you shall fall.
Weakness suffocates your will.
Dare,
Yet never fail.
Wisdom guides the one,
The strong who can defy
Death.

[Guitar solo]

So I speak, though, am I heard...?
Wasting visions on a world of blinded fools.

Still I scorn
The vacant contradiction of life,
If only to bewilder.
The final truth shall speak my name.

Thus spake the nightspirit.

Nightspirit, spirit,
Spirit, embrace my soul.
[Repeat]


3. I Am The Black Wizards

[Originally released in 1994 on the album "In the Nightside Eclipse".]

[Music: Ihsahn and Samoth, Words: Mortiis.]
[5:23]

[You know this next song. I want you to really bang your heads on this this one. "I am the Black Wizards"! One, two, three, four...]

Mightiest am I,
But I am not alone in this cosmos of mine.
For the black hills consists of black souls,
Souls that already dies one thousand deaths.
Behind the stone walls (of centuries) they breed their black art.
Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold.

Far up in the mountains,
Where the rain fall not far,
Yet the Sun cannot reach.
The wizards, my servants,

Summon the souls of macrocosm.
No age will escape my wrath.
I travel through time and I return to the future.
I gather wisdom now lost.
I visit again the eternally ancient caves,
Before a mighty Emperor thereupon came.
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles, guarded
By the old demons, even unknown to me.

Once destroyed their souls are being summoned
To my timeless prison of hate.
It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
That were destroyed in my future.

How many wizards that serve me with evil, I know not.
My empires has no limits.

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
I am them.

(I am them.)
(I am them.)

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
My wizards are many, but their essence is mine.
Forever they are in the hills in their stone homes of grief.
Because I am the spirit of their existence.
I am them.

I am them.
I am them.


4. An Elegy Of Icaros

[Originally released in 1999
On the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Music: Ihsahn, Lyrics: Ihsahn]
[6:09]

[So, you guys heard the new Emperor album, "IX Equilibrium"? Here's another song from that one, called "An Elegy of Icaros".]

Icaros, I dare you.
For I possess the wings of faith.
Though, heavy on my shoulders,
No measurement can prove their weight.
Still, a burden are they not to me.
I am the challenger of gravity.

The fear is not the fate I seek.
My destiny will build upon
The mighty turbulence beyond.
And if I fall, I will rise... again.

Some of envy, some of fear,
Admonish by the graves of those who fell.
Praise the fool that pure of heart
Leaps off your finger into grace.

Icaros, your voice once melted
Into the choir of the fallen ones.

I have heard, I have seen
The purity of their song.

Icaros, Icaros.

Icaros, your fate embrace
A manifold of angels.
I summon thee from shattered graves,
And call upon the wind.
Recieve my bow of reverence.
Then spread your wings
And fly into oblivion.


5. With Strength I Burn

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrical concept: Ihsahn & Samoth.]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn, Music: Samoth & Ihsahn, Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn]
[7:36]

[Do you know the ones from "Anthems..."? Another headbanger. This one's called "With Strength I Burn"!]

Deep Green Dark Chaos.
Blinded I run down these paths.
By heart I know them.
They lead to the soaring cliffs.
Stout they stand above the water's edge,
Lifeless.

And this is my foundation:
Cold stone.
Formed only by winds and time.
How invulnerable,
Lifeless.

Ahh... I have longed to be at one with this
Yet, the waters call my name

For once I wish to see
The entity behind the voice.
The face of this seduction,
The beauty of my pain.

Am I blessed or am I cursed by thy presence?
What is my crime, what is my deed?
Is this life my redemption?
Shall I repent or proceed?

I hate my flesh.
Its dimension poisoned my soul with doubt.
It made me question
The essence of the "I".
Slaves are those of this world
Given freedom to lay chains upon The Master.
Master, master.

The wolf is no longer free.
Release the chains and come for me.

[The Elder:]
"Suddenly, his mournful cries were stunned. Out of the cold mist
Came three enthralling ships. Sails torn by many a storm, and the
Bows adorned by the most fierce gargoyles he'd ever laid eyes upon.
Yet, the crew they bore... Three times twelve in numbers. They stood
Motionless, wrapped in grey, worn gowns. And from behind their
Shadowed faces came the seductive chanting. Bidding him on board.
Without hesitation, he accepted. And away they sailed..."

Upon these seas,
Wherein I drowned so many times,
I scatter the ashes of destiny.
Still my flames are in hunger.
With fire in my heart
Shall I greet the shores ahead.
Though, I know not what will burn.

Desire...
Ahh...
In the distance
I hear the waves wash over solid ground.
And in this moment I am struck blind.

Grant me sight so I can see
That which lies ahead of me.
Cursed be my mortal eyes
For dying in the realm of Death.

Hear my call...

I return to the soaring cliffs.
They truly shine of strength.
Even though, I nothing learned.
With strength I burn...

[Guitar lead.]


6. Sworn

[Originally released in 1999 on the album "IX Equilibrium".]

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth, Lyrics: Ihsahn]
[4:21]

[This next one is from "IX Equilibrium". It's called... "Sworn"!]

Four eyes as two in one.
The forward circular view that never ends.
An orbital voyage throughout this endless sphere of all
Where time is lost and everything transcends.

A graceful presence
At stolen time.

As ghosts to the world.
Ghosts to the world.
For ice, outside, are we apart?
As cold and eerie mist to the hand.
Ever floating on its course
Towards the heights of shadowland.

Thus appear the truly sworn.

To be seen,
To be feared,
Yet, not to be reached.

Four eyes as two in one. Thus appear the truly sworn.
As ghosts to the world. Thus appear the truly sworn.
For ice outside, are we apart? Thus appear the truly sworn.
Cold and eerie mist. Burning. Thus appear the truly sworn.

To be seen,
To be feared,
Yet, not to be reached.

Burning.

A graceful presence
At stolen time.

Thus appear the truly sworn.


7. Night Of The Graveless Souls

[Originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]

[Lyrics by Mortiis, Music by Ihsahn and Samoth]
[3:08]

[Ready for something older? Let Trym introduce this one to you.]

Night of the graveless souls.

When night comes creeping in,
Dark restless shades arise.
Graveless souls are gathering.
Seem to ignite the flame.

Stalking shadows reign the night,
As a merciless rain is closing upon.
Demons coming to sever the Sun,
Bring us the night of yore.

Darkness reigns in the Cosmos.
Forces of the Devil's lair
Give and take our life
To return to the smoking Hell.

A terrible blight declaring revenge
As a merciless rain is closing upon.
Demons coming to sever the Sun,
Bring us the night of yore.

Come on!

When night comes creeping in,
Dark restless shades arise.
Prepare to run for your life,
Or prepare to fade.

Night of the graveless souls.


8. Inno A Satana

[Originally released in 1994 on the album "In the Nightside Eclipse".]

[Music: Ihsahn and Samoth, Lyrics: Ihsahn]
[4:03]

[Come on, I know you know this one: "Inno a Satana"!]

O' mighty Lord of the Night. Master of beasts. Bringer of awe and derision.
Thou whose spirit lieth upon every act of oppression, hatred and strife.
Thou whose presence dwelleth in every shadow.
Thou who strengthen the power of every quietus.
Thou who sway every plague and storm.
Harkee.

Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou hath the power to force any light in wane.
Sans mercy. Sans compassion
Nor will to answer whosoever asketh the why.

Thy path is capricious but yet so wide.
With no such thing as an impediment to strong.

Every time thou consecrate me to another secret of Thine,
I take another step towards Thy Pantheon.

O' mighty Lord of the Night. Master of beasts. Bringer of awe and derision.
Thou whose spirit lieth upon every act of oppression, hatred and strife.
Thou whose presence dwelleth in every shadow.
Thou who strengthen the power of every quietus.
Thou who sway every plague and storm.
Harkee.

Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the Emperor of Darkness.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou art the king of howling wolves.
Thou hath the power to force any light in wane.
Sans mercy. Sans compassion
Nor will to answer whosoever asketh the why.

Forever wilt I bleed for Thee.
Forever wilt I praise Thy dreaded name.
Forever wilt I serve Thee.
Thou shalt shalt forever prevail.

Inno a Satana. Inno a Satana.
Inno a Satana. Inno a Satana.

Inno a Satana.

[Thank you, London, and good night.]


9. Ye Entrancemperium

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrics: Ihsahn, Music: Samoth & Ihsahn, Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn]
[Opening theme originally composed by Euronymous.]
[5:50]

["Ye Entrancemperium"...]

Drawn towards these lands again.
Seeking death and sacred soil.
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul,
Growing stronger once I enter my empire beyond.

Emperium!
Behold my coming.

The fullmoon rise above me,
Enlightening my realm in a silvery glow.
Yet the shadows crawl beneath my storming sky,
Guarding treasures from forbidden light.

I still remember,
Though ages ago it seems,
The first time I entered the gates,
The revelation of ritual death
By which I became divine.
Sacrifice of the life I had
Among the flesh of the light.

And now I enter again.
Even stronger, yet amazed by what I see.
In ecstasy I mock the world.

Suddenly I memorize,
Asking what I left behind.
Nothing.

Can I ever comprehend?
Will my longing ever end?
Never.

Drawn towards these lands again.
Seeking death and sacred soil.
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul
Eternally.

[Thank you, London, you've been great.]


10. Empty (Video Clip)

[Originally released in 2001 on the album "Prometheus - The Discipline of Fire and Demise".]
[Video clip.]
[Found on DVD version only.]

[Music: Ihsahn, Lyrics: Ihsahn]
[4:16]

He is an empty shell. Shell-shocked luciferian heart.
He is an empty shell. Drained and sealed.
He is an empty shell. Penetrating cold.
He is an empty shell. Empty luciferian soul.

How furiously and bombastic
He proclaimed his destruction of a mortal coil.
In the end it seemed
This was his only possession.

Long past were his "glorious" days
Of filth and lies.
And he has reached out to stop time
At its end.

He is an empty shell. Shell-shocked luciferian heart.
He is an empty shell. Drained and sealed.
He is an empty shell. Penetrating cold.
He is an empty shell. Empty luciferian soul.

The constant struggle for a moment of quiet indulgence
Eventually stirred and quaked the Earth so hard.
It swallowed him in a dark and heavy cloud,
Slowly and gently starving him into insanity.

An inferno of ice
With an ever-burning, bleeding heart.


11. The Loss And Curse Of Reverence (Video Clip)

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]
[Video clip.]
[Found on DVD version only.]

[Lyrics: Ihsahn, Music: Ihsahn & Samoth, Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn]
[6:09]

Memories of torment strikes me.
Attemps were made to suffocate me at birth.
Fools, I was already ancient.
Thou can not kill what breeds within Thee.

Alas, this agony, the emptiness of earthborn pride
Hath stirred my faithful heart which guided me to darker paths.
Far away from their pestilent ways
Cleansed was I from deceitful grace.

Yet, put to scorn was I
By those unclean.
Enslaved by ignorance
They blindly spat upon
The deity of hate.
Awake is the darkest fiend.

By the fallen one I shall arise.

Upon bewildered masses,
To whom the indulgence of my soul portray as sin made god,
I shall revile and quell the source
Whence mockery of my kind derive.

This I know: Facile shalt my quest not come to pass.
Deathwish be my gift to all at last.

Honour. Commended no longer as virtue.
Yet, shalt be extolled by light's demise.

By the fallen one I shall arise.

Arise.

[Guitar lead]

Believer,
Speak not to me of justice,
For none have I ever seen.
By God, I shall give as I receive.
Betrayer,
Speak not to me at all.
You and this world
Ripped my fucking heart out.

Again... again... and again...
Again... and again...



Emperor - Emperial Live Ceremony
2000/2004 Candlelight Records
Live album

Available as CD and DVD.
CD contains only tracks 1-9 (released 2000).
DVD contains tracks 1-11 (released 2004).

Total playing time:
CD: (Lookup)
DVD: 55:41.

EMPEROR are:
Ihsahn - vocals, lead guitar (studio keyboards and bass).
Samoth - lead and rhythm guitars.
Trym - drums and percussion.

Guest musicians:
Tyr - bass.
Charmand Grimloch - keyboards.

Recorded live at LA2, London, UK 14th of May 1999.
Produced and directed by Wildcat Productions.

"The Loss and Curse of Reverence" video recorded
In Norway, autumn 1996. Produced and directed by DP.

DVD authoring by Panache Productions.

(P) Tanglade Ltd 2004.
(C) Abstract Sounds/Tanglade Music 2004.

Www.candlelightrecords.co.uk
Www.emperorhorde.com

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Emperor - IX Equilibrium (1999)

EMPEROR LYRICS
IX Equilibrium (1999)

1. Curse You All Men
2. Decrystallizing Reason
3. An Elegy Of Icaros
4. The Source Of Icon E
5. Sworn
6. Nonus Aequilibrium
7. The Warriors Of Modern Death
8. Of Blindness & Subsequent Seers


1. Curse You All Men

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

Curse you all men
Who's coil is strong
I recognise the sparrows heart
Beneath the theatre of misery
Disbelivers shalt by dawn
Be forced
To forever mourn

Curse you all men
That resent my empire
Cause I have risen again
At war this time
The truth I speak
Is your decease
My word is your defeat

And thou shalt not
Be able to hide anymore
The prophecy will
Conquer at last
Your sense of reality
With mission to kill
The theatre of misery

He has risen again
Armed with the source of sin
And as humans shalt fade
He shalt inherit their strength
Men of the damned;
Your will reluctantly
Secure His eternal victory

Yes, you are indeed the few;
I am the one.


2. Decrystallizing Reason

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

Reason
This demigod
Unto which you cluster
Sacrilege
You sacrifive the purity
Of the air beneath your wings
A slow and painful ritual
To burn the youth you lost

Demigod
Blasphemers walk among your flock

Despite your blindfold
Proudly you carry the stone on your back
Disillusioned
You plant your feet safely to the ground

Demigod
Blasphemers walk among your flock

As the stone
You have become

Not once did you cry
For the lost ones of your world
Your care is limited
To this demigod
Onto which you cluster

Reason
Decrystallize me
Demigod
I do blaspheme

The fallen you condemn
Your heart even free of hate
Yet, scared todeath by their disbelief
To ordinary common sense

And with autumn closing in
Forcing life away
No mercy wil impale your sin
Dead are your tears


3. An Elegy Of Icaros

[Music: Ihsahn]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

Icaros, I dare you
For I possess the wings of faith
Though, heavy on my shoulders
(No measurement can prove their weight)
Still, a burden are they not to me
I am the challenger of gravity

The fear is not the fate I seek
My destiny will build upon
The mighty turbulence beyond
If I fall I will rise again

Some of envy
Some of fear
Asmonish by the graves of those who fell
Praise the fool that pure of heart
Leaps off your finger
Into grace

Icaros, your voice once melted
Into the choir of the fallen ones
I have heard, I have seen
The purity of their song

Icaros
Your fate embrace
A manifold of angels
I summon thee
From shattered graves
And call upon the wind
Recieve my bow of reverence
Then spread your wings
And fly into oblivion


4. The Source Of Icon E

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

The land was created
In the name of the chosen
And the waves thrown
For men to see
The one who made men
To be
Prevailed from the source
Of Icon E

The waves of fury
Prevailed from the source
Of Icon E
Were mine to be
Ordered to destroy and bury
No remorse!

The destiny of the wave
Was not to be found
Nor was I travelling
The deadly sea alone
The sun never rose
And my rose
Was not to be

For what purpose
I gave my return
Is stil standing alone
And as the raven dropped
A feather on me
I was again to be
The chosen one...


5. Sworn

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

Four eyes as two in one
The forward circular view
That never ends
An orbital voyage
Throughout the endless sphere of all
Where time is lost and everything transcends

A graceful presence
At stolen time

As ghosts to the world
Ghosts to the world

For ice, outside, are we apart
As cold and eerie mist to the hand
Ever floating on its course
Towards the heights of shadowland

Thus appear the truly sworn

To be seen
To be feared
Yet, not to be reached

Four eyes as two in one
Thus appear the truly sworn
As ghosts to the world
Thus appear the truly sworn
For ice outside, are we apart
Thus appear the truly sworn
Cold and eerie mist. Burning
Thus appear the truly sworn

A graceful presence
At stolen time

Thus appear the truly sworn


6. Nonus Aequilibrium

[Music: Ihsahn]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

Hark
For I speak of purity

I am unconquerable
In my worship
I am invincible
On my crusade
However hard the strikes may be
However deep the wounds
This blood immortal
Bleeds for thee

In every breath I hear
The silent whisper of your name
In every harmony
In every thought
You make my water into wine
Remember
I am ever thine

Blessed was I with the consecration
To indomitable dedication

Two bound as one
In a trinity
Where I comprise
Infinite forms of unity

In unity reborn
To a state
Where all past burdens
No longer shall be worn

I pledge to perfection
No compromise can touch my woe
Nor questions reach my faith
In immortality

In the name of
Nonus Aequilibrium
I am thine
IX times IX...


7. The Warriors Of Modern Death

[Music: Ihsahn]
[Lurics: Ihsahn]

All raised
To be men
Given image and path
Supreme
Idolised warriors
Bright steel
Burning rage
Never too late to try
Stand tall
Never plead
Live and let die

I see the spirit
Of those ancestors
And reconsider the faith
A primitive sword
Can not win my war
Cold fury
Flaring eyes
Calculated verbal gun
My pride
Justified
Spiritual steel shines bright
Beyond the sun

The pride of the warrior
Is far from dead
The colours of death
Are still black and red
Though modernised
Blood wil be shed


8. Of Blindness & Subsequent Seers

[Music: Ihsahn, Samoth]
[Lyrics: Ihsahn]

Ever behind me
Rise a shadow
Taller than I
Yet, with a certain resemblance

How many times
Do I have to contemplate my own reflection
And say; I have been blind?

I have been blind
Yet, I saw the search and dreams
Of my rejection
Walking behind me

Every time
I am bound to have been granted
The gift of better sight

But my anxiety
Built one more brick
Fearing again
To choose the wrong step

Vaguely I remember
The blurred eyes
Of someone small
These strangers often come as blind
A troubled mind
I left behind

Yet, was it I
Of my shadow
Walking in the past?

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Emperor - Emperor / Wrath Of The Tyrant (1998)

EMPEROR LYRICS
Emperor / Wrath Of The Tyrant (1998)

1. I Am The Black Wizards
2. Wrath Of The Tyrant
3. Night Of The Graveless Souls
4. Cosmic Keys To My Creations And Times
5. Introduction
6. The Ancient Queen
7. My Empire's Doom
8. Forgotten Centuries
9. Night Of The Graveless Souls
10. Moon Over Kara-Shehr
11. Witches' Sabbath
12. Lord Of The Storms
13. Wrath Of The Tyrant


1. I Am The Black Wizards

[6:16]

Mightiest am I,
but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine.
For the black hills consists of black souls,
souls that already dies one thousand deaths.
Behind the stone walls (of centuries) they breed their black art.
Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold.

Far up in the mountains,
where the rain fall not far,
yet the Sun cannot reach.
The wizards, my servants,

summon the souls of macrocosm.
No age will escape my wrath.
I travel through time and I return to the future.
I gather wisdom now lost.
I visit again the eternally ancient caves,
before a mighty Emperor thereupon came.
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles, guarded
by the old demons, even unknown to me.

Once destroyed their souls are being summoned
to my timeless prison of hate.
It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
that were destroyed in my future.

How many wizards that serve me with evil, I know not.
My empires has no limits.

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
I am them.

(I am them.)
(I am them.)

From the never ending mountains black, to the bottomless lakes.
I am the ruler and has been for eternities long.
My wizards are many, but their essence is mine.
Forever they are in the hills in their stone homes of grief.
Because I am the spirit of their existence.
I am them.

I am them.
I am them.


2. Wrath Of The Tyrant

[Originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]
[Re-recorded.]

[3:56]

The wolves bark with wind in summertime.
As the moon passes the shadows. It was a grim tale.
The wolves pry the limbs from the conquered ones.

Carnage consumes the emptiness.
Wait till my spirits come forth.
Violate all his chosen ones.
Drink the fires of death.

Carrying the deaths of his fallen warriors
deep inside of him, in his eyes.
Walk upon this Earth tonight,
carrying the staff of cold souls.

Appear the sign of evil will.

They appear, Death and Destruction,
to a time (when) the angel cries.
Open your eyes again now, he is here.
He is the master of fear.

He is the wind, He is the storm.
He is the woods, He is the roots.
Nobody will escape the wrath of the Tyrant.
Forever the Beast shall wander the Earth.


3. Night Of The Graveless Souls

[Originally released in 1992 on the demo album "Wrath of the Tyrant".]
[Re-recorded.]
[3:10]

When night comes creeping in,
dark restless shades arise.
Graveless souls are gathering.
Seem to ignite the flame.

Creeping shadows roam the night,
as a merciless rain is closing upon.
Demons coming to sever the Sun.
Fearsome beasts come to life.

Darkness reigns in the Cosmos.
Forces of the Devil's lair.
Innocent or brave,
they appear to rape your world.

Children of the evil and demonic
curse his love again.
Graveless souls awake,
seem to ignite the flame.

When night comes creeping in,
dark restless shades arise.
Prepare to crawl and run.
The Black is here tonight.


4. Cosmic Keys To My Creations And Times

[6:22]

The heavens are lit by the stars
where years of secrets of universal forces lay hid.
They shine so bright, but yet
they have seen more evil than time itself.
Reflected in the deepless lakes
(they are drowning in black elements).

They are the planetary keys to unlimited wisdom
and power for the Emperor to obtain.
(They) being the gods of the wolves
whom upon they bark at night,

requesting their next victim in thirst of blood.
I enjoy those moments I may haunt with these beasts of the night.

What kinds of beings are existing at the deeps of my lakes?
They surely must be of an evil race,
for no friendly thing can live
in such depressive waters.

(Here is also a planet similar to the Moon, but its phases is only one
and it is in its most powerful for all and ever...
There passes no light without the barking of the wolves.)

All these landscapes are timeless,
and this is all just a part of cosmos,
(but) all is mine and past and future is yet to discover...
Much have been discovered, but tomorrow
I will realise I existed before myself.

I will be reborn
before I die.

I will realise planets ages old,
created by a ruler with a crown of dragon claws,
arrived with a stargate...
a king among the wolves in the night...
An observer of the stars.

I will realise planets ages old,
created by a ruler with a crown of dragon claws,
arrived with a stargate...
a king among the wolves in the night...
An observer of the stars.

An observer of the stars.
An observer of the stars.


5. Introduction

[1:09]

[Instrumental.]


6. The Ancient Queen

[3:15]

The Ancient Queen.
Deadly hate, deadly love.
Dark under the shadow.
Death has been resisted.
The Ancient Queen,
ruler of the domain.
Keeper of the fury,
the Queen dwells in shadow.

Dark rivers run though me.
Darkness follows everwhere.
Kingdoms falling again and again.

Crawl to thee over again.
The Ancient Queen, the darkest woman.
Stepping through her shadow.
She who sees the soul.
Black is her blood.
Keeper of the fury.

Stepping through her shadow.
Do you see her soul?
Black is her blood.
Keeper of the fury.

Dark under the shadow.
Thy destiny lies with her.
The Ancient Queen,
ruler of the domain.
Keeper of the fury.
In shadow... shadow.


7. My Empire's Doom

[4:30]

Once our lord has come again,
all black hearts will celebrate
the darksome fiend
in the kingdom of sorrow.

Nocturnal fiends,
the beings of the night and shadows
calling forth the pure spirit
of the night.

Our reign may come secretly.
Your Lord's castle is gone.
His glory is no more,
and nothing can stop the purifying.
They remember how you conjured
all those years of sorrow.

Blasting winds of darkness conquer.
Dark lords and their minions coming through.
Hate and sin to remain.
Empty hearts fearing thy name.

Darkness hammers through on the priests.
Darkness hammers forward on the cross.
Servants of God, we will desecrate your coward race
with darkness.

Darkness hammers through on the priests.
Darkness hammers forward on the cross.
Servants of God, we will desecrate your coward race
with darkness.

Once our lord has come again,
all black hearts will celebrate
the darksome fiend
in the kingdom of sorrow.

When he returns his spirits must choose purity.
When he conquers kingdoms of death
our dead shall all reign again.

Our reign may come secretly.
Your Lord's castle is gone.
His glory is no more,
and nothing can stop the purifying.
They remember how you conjured
all those years of sorrow.

Awakened from the shadows to create.
Riding with me and with all his chosen.
Our lord to be has come again.
Riding from the past.
Little you know your life fades.


8. Forgotten Centuries

[2:54]


9. Night Of The Graveless Souls

[2:54]

When night comes creeping in,
dark restless shades arise.
Graveless souls are gathering.
Seem to ignite the flame.

Creeping shadows roam the night,
as a merciless rain is closing upon.
Demons coming to sever the Sun.
Empty eyes come to life.

Darkness reigns in the Cosmos.
Forces of the Devil's lair.
Innocent or brave,
they appear to rape your world.

Children of the evil and demonic
curse his love again.
Graveless souls awake,
seem to ignite the flame.

When night comes creeping in,
dark restless shades arise.
Prepare to crawl and run.
The Black is here tonight.


10. Moon Over Kara-Shehr

[4:23]

[This lyric was deciphered from the version
of the song found on the "Scattered Ashes" album.]

Our time is upon us.
Master! Appear!
Over the nocturnal sky
from the mountains of black we ride.
Fly!

All thy servants fly
though the serpent's darkened sky.
Hears the opponent cry,
ravaged by his terror.

Master! We ride with the storm
in his name, the sire, wolves' king.
Enter the power coursing
through veins of the night.

Who gathers winds, summons thunder,
summons rain, summons might?

Power ripples through me.
Armageddon's thunder will bring others to my side.
The throne is mine.
A blackened storm of evil.
Evil.
Evil.
Evil.

Master! We ride with the storm to take
revenge in the sky upon the one
who cast thee from his side.


11. Witches' Sabbath

[5:40]

[This lyric was deciphered from the version
of the song found on the "Scattered Ashes" album.]

Shifting shadows guide my way in the autumn.
From this fell alliance eternal night shall arise.
Hear the scream of the wolves calling again.
Legions are wreaking destruction upon the fortress.

They must beware his rage.
Once again he is risen.
Towns are burning, the gods arise.
Welcome the nocturnal nightmare

And suffer again.
And suffer again.

He shall suffer. Dying breed of stalwart men.
We will never deny what you can see.
In malice.

They will understand my pain.

Shifting shadows guide my way in the autumn.
From this fell alliance eternal night shall arise.
Hear the scream of the wolves calling again.
Legions are wreaking destruction upon the fortress.


12. Lord Of The Storms

[2:08]

Earthquakes are breaking the silence,
a vision of hate.
A wicked, foul spell of evil.
Dark winds command the throne.
Cleansed by the evil hand,
a crusade of the burning land.
A servant in the shape of a snake
blackens the bodies red.

Then it appears, the storming wind,
a challenging scar burns through the light.
A cloud of darkness prepared for me
to complete the circle of death.
The serpent gains mastery of the wind
through the storms and through the streaming snow.
Sorrow blackens the Earth when the Moon fades.
Dark winds command the throne.

Earthquakes are breaking the silence,
a vision of hate.
A wicked, foul spell of evil.
Dark winds command the throne.
Cleansed by the evil hand,
a crusade of the burning land.

An embrace from Death.


13. Wrath Of The Tyrant

[3:56]

The wolves bark with wind in summertime.
As the moon passes the shadows. It was a grim tale.
The wolves pry the limbs from the conquered ones.

Carnage consumes the emptiness.
Wait till my spirits come forth.
Violate all his chosen ones.
Drink the fires of death.

Carrying the deaths of his fallen warriors
deep inside of him, in his eyes.
Walk upon this Earth tonight,
carrying the staff of cold souls.

Appear the sign of evil will.

They appear, Death and Destruction,
to a time (when) the angel cries.
Open your eyes again now, he is here.
He is the master of fear.

He is the wind, He is the storm.
He is the woods, He is the roots.
Nobody will escape the wrath of the Tyrant.
Forever the Beast shall wander the Earth.



Emperor - Emperor/Wrath of the Tyrant
1998, Candlelight Records
Remastered reissue on one CD,
containing the "Emperor" EP
and the "Wrath of the Tyrant" demo.

Total playing time: 50:48.
Emperor (tracks 1-4): 20:02.
Wrath of the Tyrant (tracks 5-13): 30:46.

EMPEROR:
"Emperor" line-up:
Ihsahn - vocals, lead guitar, keyboards.
Samoth - guitar.
Mortiis - bass.
Faust - drums.

"Wrath of the Tyrant" line-up:
Samoth - drums.
Ihsahn - guitars and vocals.
Mortiis - bass.

"Emperor" was recorded under December 1992 at Studio S.
"Wrath of the Tyrant" was recorded on a 4-track home studio in May 1992.
Produced by Emperor.

Remastered at Strype Audio by Tom Kvalsvoll and Samoth.
However, the "Emperor" recording has been kept very close to its original sound.
"Wrath of the Tyrant" has by nature a very "necro" sound, and nothing was done to hide that.

All music by Ihsahn and Samoth, 1991-92.
All lyrics by Mortiis, 1991-92.

"Death" and "Leviathan" illustrations by Gustave Dor©.
Layout by Samoth and Adrian Wear.

"He is the wind, He is the storm.
He is the woods, He is the roots.
Nobody will escape the Wrath of the Tyrant.
Forever the Beast shall wander the Earth."
- Mortiis, anno 1991

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