Darkenhöld A Passage to the Towers... 1. A Passage... (Overture) 2. Ghouls and the Tower Speckled stone monument Cleaving the wind's morn Swelled sentinel tower Digging the haunted ground A sinister mantle draping impudent felon ghouls Bristling up the rock Haughtiness of winged ambassadors seducing The oblivious lone prowler The spiral staircase raises Onwards the building crest The mineral vortex spreads Its dominion on the forest In the sky… a spell stains… the pure light Hanging jaws… hemed horizon… being slashed Brighting eyes… languid torch… for the heart Flesh of rock… seductive sand… dazing night The hunger for the tenure Glazing the stolen delight The foam eroding The hypnotized blood Charges the prowler's cliff Soul devouring And the feverish cloak of the night Blunts the majestic flaming of twilight Orphans of life's essence As you remain here like bystanders of existence Silent ghouls Welcome under the moon in this bewitching night Another gem for the tower 3. Marble Bestiary When the day breath declines Twilight charcoal wrings its might When the night descends The light forsakes its chant Storms of terror striking down the hearts The celestial vault reverses its soul Unquenchable sea where dreams waved Growing greedy pit where anguish dwells And in this den A furious bestiary awakes In this lair A legion of monsters shakes Cave without souls Enclosing the spine of pearly stars Gaping mouth Shining kingdom of power The jaws of creatures Darting the glittering of legends Release the dreads Ancestral fears Thatched roof of houses Thin shelters for the poors Castle towers and stones Rich shield erected in vain Lightnings crack the irascible sky Furious rumbling of a haughty clash The stellar forests masters Propagate the clamour Of a carnivorous horn An exhortation launching the tempest The announcement of night-terror Reign of the nocturnal lords… Ruling the marble hordes And when the blind winds Rush into the cold of these moats Soar the choirs of stellar nightmare Rash riders growling They plough the sky of their despotic myths And the night resounds with the men shouts 4. Citadel of Obsidian Slumber On the throne of hidden land Strengthened by the barks of the guardians Gloves of stones Iron marbled The obsidian citadel raises its splendour Proud colossus Ivy snakes Fortress casting its mantle upon the forest Inlaid with minerals The lunar charm embraces This shimmering skin In its heart springs the growling Of a spiteful winged mutiny Holding her inhabitants unfettering She rues the score of silence and fury The existence of this monument Lies in the shadows of dangerous recess Hostile to inquisitives Vowed to muteness The obsidian citadel should not be awaken Granite eyelids Lips sealed by the mist Tamers of the buried sufferings Reptilian staves Serene melody Lulling the savagery A sinister and imperious sign Slashs the silence of this place Stronghold quivering Of unamable breed Rash shall be the one walking this path Towards the grounds of this shadow's fortress Ancient howls and trembling stones behold ! Shake the walls and unleash your creatures A whirlwind rises like a stormy column Bestial tower crowned with a crawling moon Hate cyclops, it cries defaced By the unspeakable Those ravenous for such secrets He will tear away your soul 5. Chains of the Wyvern Shelter Perpetual night filling my cavern Solitude chased all my constellations In this den settled by my lone breath A solitary jewel broods over my lair Carbuncle, my only star Taking shelter from the men's claws Chest ascending my sky Arousing envy, chase, obsession Wyvern Cursing vanities of the world Wyvern Shelter The curves of my shells Mottle the hunter of ophidian sparks The refuge of my eyes Reclusion violated by the vile profane Flight, price for my difference Bathing of ebony the rivers of my veins My majesty, call of reverence But the envious follow my trail Wyvern Cursing vanities of the world Wyvern Shelter Defied by the infamy Soiling my underground temple The black of my eyes Raise the fire of imperial furor I'm forced to the rebellion But I only wished oblivion My fangs Guardians of a merciless fortress Your filth Calling the sovereign of my hearse 6. In the Crystal Cavern (Interlude) 7. Cleaving the Ethereal Waves 8. Crimson Legions 9. Darkenhöld Dawn over the castle crowning the horizon Ancient creatures of the tower swallow the flaming fears of dusk Reigning marble archers stricking the vault with their arrows of terror Knowing where the obsidian citadel guardians slumber Enter silent winds and set the crystals eyes ajar on the cavern ebony skin Noble fire stone finding its shelter behind the hearse of the underground monarch Honouring the volcano of desire emerge the moaning waves of navigators On a crimson river these legions hammer the occult gates of vengeance Lords of the black mysteries erecting the tower sorcery Darkenhold 10. Sorcery