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The Dread March Of Solemn Gods

by Ninkharsag

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sachavonkarl74 If the band's ambition was "just to" reproduce old melodic BM classics like Dissection and early Emperor, I'd say it is a grand success, shit even the cover art reminds me of the "Storm" album... However, I wish this album had a bit more personality to it. These guys are from the U.K., after all. The first half is majestic, the second half a bit less. Still it's a very enjoyable melodic BM album. Favorite track: Lunar Hex; The Art Of Mighty Lycanthropy.
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stevenamckay I miss Dissection, but these guys are keeping that spirit alive. Superb album! Favorite track: The Dread March Of Solemn Gods.
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Dan Hébert A great blend of Dissection and Emperor. Gorgeous album art, too. Favorite track: Strigoi Diabolicum.
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Night Wrath 02:41
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‘ARISE! From ancient graves sealed with mighty spells, breakable by the will to crush all life!’ I feel the dark, embrace my flesh. The north winds cry their siren’s wail until the bitter end of light. The stars align, the paths entwine to lead me further in to endless night. I feel their call. I hear the wisht hounds howl in celebration. With frozen chains, the dread King reigns, the Lord of Winter ‘throned ‘til the very end of days…. Spectres of the ancient world. Unholy ones gathering to ride out of ice once more… I see the congregation rise above the snowy peaks, over crumbling ruins and the strongholds of old. Through the deepest valleys and over castle walls, the never-ending cavalcade, a portent to be feared. Ancient is their wisdom, bound by holy night. Hunters clad in hoary iron descending from the skies. The horses march with rotten hooves above the icy ground, spreading fear and chaos, to conquer all light. With the blessing of nightfall, our forces gather. From stygian depths they ascend. Crypt and tomb has emptied, the vaults of kings storied and grim. Ancient warriors lusting for death. Sleep in fear ye feeble ones, for cold death is at hand. The windowpanes shatter and the earth starts to growl, and the dead rise all around you. Sacred night, o’ holy night, our swords burn with celestial fire. Twilight forged armour reflects the black stars, under winter constellations, ‘til the end.
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Descend the crumbling stairway to the labyrinth within. My hands caress the mossy walls, the corpse-light guiding me to unholy lands of shattered bones and toppled stones. Through the frozen gateway where nameless horrors roam. Offerings adorn the walls, relics hewn from bone, dust bound horrors, candle wax and faces carved in stone. The drapes are worn and tattered from the cold embrace of time. Ancient is this sorrow, unbound this lust of mine. Can you hear the howling on the night winds? Sweet temptation calling from the grave! Oaths I’ve sworn to liberate this darkness. Her splendour all around, enthralls me. The Moon is on the rise, black wings fill the sky, they’re calling, in dead of night, through pale moonlight. With lips of ice, I kiss the frozen mother, with cold delight, Under the Dead Of Night! The shadows rise around me, I feel their call, from hallowed graves. To shun the light, and bask in purest darkness, for all time, Under the Dead of Night! Spires bathed in moonlight in a land of sunken graves, the ghosts are shining beacons, the dead ones speak my name. Rising from the top soil, writhing insects crawl; drenched in putrid essence, born of death and nightmares. A thousand curses bind her tomb until the Earth unbound, the secrets of the netherworld, within her womb are found. The bonds are cut, the shackles loose, my veins are open wide, sanguine drips unto her mouth, bringing death unholy life. Interred in shrouds of cerecloth, she slept in solitude, until a million suns have fell, devoured by conquering moon. Her acolytes hunt and gather, supreme nocturnal might. To drink the blood of purity under Luna light. The chalice raised in offering, in these crimson vaults, where horrors reign and midnight spells are cast against the cross. Her sacrilegious bloodline once again shall rule, an empire now eternal, under the triumphant moon. Can you hear the howling on the night winds? Temptation crawling from the grave. The Moon is on the rise, black wings fill the sky, they’re calling, in dead of night, through pale moonlight. With hands of ice, I caress the frozen mother, With cold delight, Under the Dead Of Night! The shadows rise around me, I feel their call, from empty graves. To shun the light, and bask in purest darkness, for all time, Under the Dead of Night!
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Come forth, come forth, ‘O Mighty Ones, take me in thy maws. Cast my shell on to the wind, let my spirit pass. Through the seven gateways, up the treacherous path, beyond the bloody stones, bound with runes and wax. The mountains are my fortress wherein my soul shall roam, nocturnally, forever more, at one with soil and blood. Possessed by lunar magic, beneath moon, wing and star, I raise my sword up to the sky to honour eternal night. The wolves gather before me, eternity in their eyes. The forest beckons inwards as we leave this dead world behind… The frozen kiss of aeons, the solitude of night, the wisdom of the wolven arts, rise deathless. The purity of shadows, the everlasting hunger, the oath that binds forever more, rise deathless ones. Before me, I see the endless frozen vistas beckoning me on into realms beyond the dark. I see the moon rise from the underworld. Its icy halo burns. The last sliver of humanity cast aside. Forever ensorcelled by lycanthropic spells. With ravening jaws and claw of steel, a conquering wolf to slay. I stalk the night under horrid lunar blessings, for all time.
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Darkest shrines to Death lay hidden deeply underground, in ancient, ‘nighted catacombs, where wrathful souls are bound. Hoary roots suck the soil, a feast of filth and slime. Spewing black atrocities ‘til the end of time. I hear the howling on the wind, the blackest of voids that rips through the light. The gates are blasted open wide, my mind is aflame with chaotic might, and slaughter is all around you. Elemental forces in the dark. Burn the bones and eat the chyldes heart. Sacrifice the lamb to blackest night. The Gates of Death are open, now you die… Leagues below this shadowed kingdom, where molten veins doth reign. Assemblies lead by faceless men, the scions of long dead kings. Wrapped in armour obsidian, mouths carved with dusky runes, calling forth the nameless one, spells cast in forbidden tongues. Under the crown of northern mountains, where sunlight cannot be found. Temples raised in honour of the fallen one, Lucifer, I am thy son! Rise now, in reverence, in devotion to thy burning splendour! We offer this human swine O' Lord, grant us thy blessings profound! The sacrifice made, your blood turns to ice in the darkness. Lord of All Death approaches with fiery eyes.
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Through fire, through water, through temples carved of stone. My quest for dark solitude, beyond the realms of men. From the highest astral pulpit, to the subterranean vaults. I piss on the graves of billions, I mock, and rise again. This gift of frozen ashes, the blessings of the noose. These treasures I bestow upon thee, ye fools of a cursed line. My scorn shall ye receive, poison in the hearts of men, tormenting all with pestilence, and plagues until the end. From far beyond the twilight realm, I call this evil forth. Malignant forms of holy dark, attack at my command! Rise! Rise! From the abyss to cover the world in chaos. Rise! Rise! With iron scythes this world defiled. No mercy, no redemption, no paradise saved. Thundering hearts, swollen black in night graves. Nightfall comes roaring on the shadowed wings of death, under skies lit by primordial fires! Luciferian magick, this holy burning pyre. Plundering chaos will strip the fabric of reality. I am the lord and master of this ancient source of fear. Cold, dark blood in my veins. Rise! Rise! From the abyss to cover the world in darkness! Rise! Rise! With iron scythes this flesh defiled. No mercy, no redemption, no paradise saved. Necrotic hearts, swollen black in night graves. Through starlight and corpselight these rabid wills come forth, to dissolve this world with unholy night-force.
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The wind whips through my flesh, no robe can quell this chill, for I am the one who walks in solitude. No tears are left to fall, my heart is cold as ice. My will shall manifest death incarnate. The scythes are sharp, the graves are wide, the reaping has begun. No sun shall rise. No dawn shall come. No mercy bestowed. To drink the blood of Kings. To reign the twilight throne. My power shall echo through void. I can know no peace under the burning sun. I walk this land of graves. I embrace this realm of sorrow. My footsteps are Black Death upon the soil. I call upon the elder Gods to subjugate all life. Their dominion of this realm be eternal. Within these halls and crumbling vaults, disciples draw their blood. Swords unleashed to start the greatest chaos. Beneath the weight of a thousand burning temples, Wisdom obtained. The power of death be upon us. Through the piercing eyes of The Serpent, They shall come forth again under the sign of eleven fold stars. In a grave dug long ago, I lay my head between the rot and bones Thou art the bane of all life; cursed and unholy. Grant me thy strength to put this world to heel.
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Beneath the dim of the moon's hoary light, they await and assemble their force. Wrapped in death shrouds, chainmail gleams on bone, helmeted skulls seek to behold. The stench of grave leather and dread tempered steel, the malignant gaze of their eyes. Up through the valley where thousands impaled, the forests are flaming yet the night hordes await for the sign. The sign to ride, from voids beyond the sundered stars. From graves, from hell, from plundered vaults arise. On the strident form of dragon wings, deaths head march with flaming hearts, from shadows and darkness, fear the wrath of dark gods. Bow thy head in devotion to the master of this world, hear his grave song, the wail of piping madmen, in a world gone mad from the fear of death, we gleefully open our veins, to venerate the dark blood, for we are the will of the gods. Pale death comes sweeping from frozen land to burning sea, The axe has now fallen, the great end is nigh, and the guardians await. Eternally. Thorns embrace me, grant me the sweet kiss of death. Silence possess me, release me from the bonds of the flesh.
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My blood is burning, my skin is aflame. I feel the hungry moon rise in its splendour, once again. The snow lies solemn on this grave filled earth, the lonesome church bell resounds. The reek of death lies thick in the air. The funeral pyres are lit to bring darkness to bear. The winter fog surrounds me, On this bleak December night. The winter moon enthrals me, Possessed by lunar might. I am the cursed one, forever scorned. I am the wretched one, but never mourned. In the grip of night-bound madness, I stalk through wood and mire, Beneath the cloak of darkness, forgotten paths my shrine. I bear the robe of human form, yet more akin to beasts, who plagued the Earth in centuries, now lost, but never ceased. The studded vaults of heaven, reflect within mine eyes, these old dead worlds a treasure trove, untouchable, and never mine. I am the scourge of woman-kind, the bastard son of god. My claws sink deep into the soil, my jaws sink on human throats. I am the vague shadow of death. The howling wind that bespeaks the coming of nocturnal terrors. Sanguine my jaws, black my coat, putrid my breath. The winter mist enrobes me, on this cold December night. The winter moon enthralls me, possessed by lunar might. I am the cursed one, forever scorned. I am the wretched one, but never mourned. Through this realm of blessed torment, I am the one divine. The saviour and devourer, the crushing grip of time. Dead faces stare in reverence, their faith in God dissolved. Wide eyed unholy death stare, I am the fear that comes to life. The gravestones turned upside down. My cries shall chill the blood and snuff out the light.

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Tracklist:

1. Night Wrath
2. The Dread March of Solemn Gods
3. Under the Dead of Night
4. Lunar Hex; The Art of Mighty Lycanthropy
5. The Necromanteion
6. Discipline Through Black Sorcery
7. The Tower of Perpetual Twilight
8. Spectres of the Ancient World
9. Strigoi Diabolicum

10. The Lord of Death and Midnight (Digipak bonus track)

Released by Vendetta Records on April 30th, 2021.

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released April 30, 2021

All music written by Ninkharsag
Lyrics by K.R.N.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Fielding at Foel and Skyhammer Studios
Art by MFA XII
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel

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Ninkharsag England, UK

Ninkharsag was formed in 2009 to create uncompromising Black Metal in the traditional style. Their first album, 'The Blood of Celestial Kings' was released on Candlelight Records in 2015. Their second album, 'The Dread March of Solemn Gods' is out now on Vendetta Records. ... more

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