Enslaved

Strokes from oars could be heard, beautiful ships gushed through the sea Like a wind from the north, our ancestors reached the shore Men from Hordaland, Rogaland and Adger gathered for battle in common Proud men with no fear Strokes from the sword crushed the...

Behind the walls Below the lights If you came upon a door If you came to push it open If your eyes could see within this dark Your heart would flee Nails and blood Painted by delirium You would feel the empty stare From a darker place Silent screa...

Bring forth your sacrifice The winter can last for long Show them honour Servants of Frey Let the blood flow On his pride Until they are pleased To provide our magnificense and growth Our king will show his wrath If we do not honour our promise Poor...

ANSUZ, ANSUZ! - Skipet fa fr kai Aldri vil ho vende att; ho er trygg i stjernenatt WUNJO, WUNJO! - Reisa har vrt lang Han som sd kjem draumen til; tek han dit han draume vil Vidare fr tanken; fri fr kjd Ingen svar, ingen sirkel Evig fdsel, evig dd...

You lie there sleeping Growing in my mind A voice from eternity Awaken now and guide me Awaken now and guide me Awaken now and guide me He turns inward to see "What might lie ahead?" Seeing all, but nowhere "Tell us, will we see the sun again?" "W...

I close my eyes As Fire Swept Clean the Earth Nothing left to strangle As the cords were torn from our hearts "Tired I blew out my last warning, the claws were ripping me apart" As we emerged From darker dungeons Splendor of yellow hells Expanded swo...

Staring across the void, seeing eye to eye in folded space I see you with the colours and frenzy of the sacred rooms We've met in those dreams, ice blue water ran towards the green sky The gods spoke to us in their infancy Suns waiting for us to smittem th...

"Mind not the worshippers of punishment, Un-growers and resisters" Close your eyes, sense the below Torment and separation points ahead Set ablaze like steel through skin "Fear not the settlement with those who fear the truth" Leave now, bid farewell...

Fortresses built by idle hands Weapons forged in the shadows Solemn words praise the devoted and brave Stepping on the threshold of the insane -The walls must be breached The branches of the old tree creak The songbird sings it's elegy The lifetime lea...

Du drap min son, fjemn eg svergar Du ydela min veg, og fred med mitt folk Du sverta mitt namn, dei trudde deg D trudde min lagnad var spott og spe Du trudde eg med mitt banesr dydde Du trudde eg aldri skulle reisa meg Du trudde lyset var din ven, at d...

Brought here by sorrow Raised in depths of fear Consuming sanity Feasting on the joy of May Surrounding the trembling mind Surrounding the troubled soul Strength failed to tame the serpent The offspring of laughter and sadness Saved by the power of i...

In solitude she cries, the most beautiful of them all Captured and locked in a sorrow no one can conceive Joy vanished far out there Burning desire, but no hope She longs for home, but can not find a way A dismal destiny hidden behind a smile Mardol, yo...

Facing fear, facing birth The emptiness, the void, the dreams Unfold Burning shrouds, the air is cold The memories of time and space Unknown Sleeping tight in rising flames A mind evokes, the self returns Unhurt Seeing life, through the clouds Abando...

Feel nothing Oxen and primate as one Pushing what already strives (There is) no space (There is) no peace Let go of the whip We've reached the outer limits of this orchestrated vision Some might think it can't be kept apart Forgot to ask: where are we...

In the void of chaos life endures In the gap of creation, the ancient wisdom breathes Inheritance of fire Inheritance of frost Yet it lay there weeping Afraid to see the light Inheritance of fire Inheritance of frost No one comes to unveil No one fi...

Faces - eyes - noise Floating patterns of no coherency, none needed From behind the chapel of dreams came imagery From another world The left for a brighter star A new home called "now" Womb - death - dawn Follow seafarers on an ocean of silence Re...

Sognafjorden ligge mřrke og blanke Mřddlo viddle fjeddl Braott so lyse so lyse fjorden opp Frao himmedl hřyre ein tordenskreddl Eit dimt lys so bli klarare mot land Lyset vise veg Pao gravferdsdagen e da dar baoten vi sigla Dao e da likferd Feigdaklok...

Som eit pent sr Kven kunne halde ut Hvis eg fylgjer deg, blir eg som dei? -Rak i rygg med fana Til dei hengde Dei vart som trea, livlause Snakka ikkje, rrte seg ikkje Handa kald, auga tomt (Mimir, lyttar du?) Det er langt, men trttnas du ? Tida str...

The mind and the flesh The atom space The deity and mankind The distant nebulae The aeons of death and glory All within the infant’s first breath Onwards to life Onwards to death Onwards to madness Onwards to sense The chalice of daylight The coil...

The creation I can't remember Unsecure I roam in fear The final steps I've taken What waits beyond this void? "I sucked out your lifeblood Tore down your fortress Burned down the woods I poisoned your harvest" Trust and hope I have lost I see death...

The ending blue Obscure and promising In ancient red it orbits That which once White was black Empires circles time From other to one we go Deceived to see eternity If blinded Silent nothingness The mountains are moved From the stars And the fool...

The darkness of Utgard, far out there I can not enter, are you demanding sacrifce ? I demand a sacrifice, no promise I will give I can provide you with strenght , I can give you death You say you can end my days But without my excistance , would you not...

Born in a flames in the time before time In the sparkling embrace of Muspellheim Born to be your souls darked depths Before Audhumla, our ancient mother awakened When your eyes is glowing with hate A hate older than both men and gods Then you see the li...

It was here I was born While the stars held their breaths After ages of pseudo-presence I climbed the final steps Up from deep beneath the shores Eieth no longer sleeping gal Thus alive and the stillness Only to be broken by whispers Towards the moon...

I am not in there I am not taking any part in this There's no comfort where you are And I won't give you anything I am close to them mentally But I am inbetween realities There is no directions for where I am They can't find me cause I am not in there 

I am the creator of true will Long have I suffered Long have I been forced Blinded by their faith Laughter resounds no more I am the son of the ancient breed I do not pity life I follow not pathetic order I am the realm of absurdity Resistant to the...

The question is this By will alone Does my heart carry the strength To see you burn? When I do not wish to part To see them farewell Does my heart carry the strength to leave you behind? The eternal search for purity A fragile hope for the just and f...

Reckless man - So righteous, so clean Towards the light - So bashful, so pure Who told you to abandon life Your strength, free will And bow for the light? The light! And turn from the spinning wheel Fear of the judgement! Obey! You have the key to m...

(Rune-chants) A clear voice shouted From the bridge between the worlds Hidden among misty peaks A mother tongue forgotten In a realm of dead and night In a realm of light and day In a place I roamed In a void I despised In a maze I strayed In an ocea...

Forget all laws, all order and peace Chaos is everything; no time or place Now when all light and life ends When the wind now is killing The chains has broken... The time has come As the norns predicted Nothing lasts forever The battle at Vigrid shall come Th...

Hymns were sung In the times when our people still were proud In the long gone past A long time ago Then came the disease The disease from south Deception and false knowledge Infected our minds Survival of the fittest was forgotten But still it didn...

Forsaken Entombed in monumental self-moral Embracing the absurd Reason turned to abstraction Drowned in the shallowest of waters Forgotten the will To learn Abandoned every urge to Create Every border can be breached By the glorious armies of united...

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Cosmos trembled When it came to be Fusion of sense and earth In awe they looked Those who feared the dark At the enemy of hate All menaces vanished Conquered by will to live Marched towards the shores A war against the abnormal The obstacles of pe...

No distance, no time Endless void, absence of life Chaos dwells outside the womb Seduce, Invoke Embrace, Give birth See through the flesh See past the soul Feel the pulsating twilight Domain of unborn thoughts Go back, Unveil Approach the cosmic wom...

The silence inside this place is screaming Here, were the roses never wither, as they never bloomed Here the sun never shone Even the darkness never came in No hope, no fear An ocean of tears, that never fell Tomorrow brings remembrance of opened wounds...

The defining sound Fangs into flesh Panic and spit Death unto life Eyes wide It sees itself through the layers of ice Now; seal the cracks... reject the notions! Everything can not be happening on the inside? An option not to listen A nameless urg...

He wandered on fine old paths He wandered along high ridges He wandered towards the heart of Midgard He wandered until he saw a mountain Over a bridge wet with dew he walked Through the golden gate of Asgard He saw the vigorous gardens of gods Crowned...

"Dei for ifra nord Mot ei anna tid Bak låg brende ord Framfor dei ei ny strid Dei såg såg stormar i det fjerne Men haldt fram og beint Inn mot jordas kjerne Frå tidleg mot seint" I see a darkness overwhelming I see that there is no light for me I d...

Heimdall is the name of an Old Norse God; He is called the Old White Norse God; He is great and holy; His teeth are made of gold; His horse is named Goldtop. He lives where it's called the mountain in the sky besides Bifrost. He needs less sleep than a bird; H...

Behold the great evening star As she once again gives birth Behold the great evening star As she once again destroys Behold the shining wife Of all the howling winds She arrives when you despair Behold the shining wife Beware of what the self desires...

I saw a man-shape Within the bone-dome Went to ask who ’twas From the ether-mouth Was told 'twas myself In shape of Mannaz And that it was not quiet But came through in waves These waves can only be seen By the eye-third From the below When the abov...

Hollow inside - I didn't sleep too well last night Step over, turn the light Hollow inside - I didn't dream too much last night Step over, turn the light Knock on the door - these are the interfering themes Open it up, too soon Shorter in time - the in...

Waves are cutting like a knife of time On the slippery rocks that still stands besides the shore Two eyes are eyeing the seas Towards the seas that once brought his ancestors glory A lonely mind is longing For the raising of sails A swordarm is longing...

Eiteren drypp, jorda skakar Eg vrir meg i smerte, lenka til berget Eg er din angst, eg er din pine. Tema meg du freista, du fanga meg i garn. Eg let meg ikkje rokka, eg er kaos Eg er din skam. Eg er din øvste visdoms bror, Og din fiende til din døyand...

Ah, ah. We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow. Hammer of the gods, will drive our ships to new land. To fight the hordes, and sing and cry. Valhalla I am coming. Always sweep with, with threshing oar. Our...

Dagaz! There is no end Around and further Into the distance In times found A secret key The feather light astral beauty Outside the realm of thoughts Within the reach of certain dreams Spun from golden leaves of black holes And ancient thread Acro...

Been standing here for ages Watching the valleys blossom and burn The pyres of yesterday smells of losing you Preserved we are, portraits (in the glassy depths) I picked up the shattered mirror, put them in water Cold as my dreams Isa: Still - Standing...

On the balcony she beholds and longs Queen of the ice desolates Alone and weeping she bears the sorrow Queen of the ice desolates In the land where day is night and night is day Bulks a castle with walls of ice, covered with white frost Outside these wa...

Bottomless abyss, ginnungagap Darkness without end before the morning of time The cold empire's eleven rivers frozen Frost mist spreads itself wide out The gust from Nivlhel in the north fills the mighty gap Licking tongues of fire from the south Boiling...

I went into battle When the strangers came I fought for my home and my herd I struck them down With my spear and bow So that those at home could sleep and eat I drank and yelled I laughed and bragged Of my victories, my courage and my strength I told...

A war ruled in ancient times Between the holy races, the Vanirs and the Aces When peace came, the deities united From a bowl filled with spit rose Kvasir "Wise he becomes, he drinks the holy mead the blood of Kvasir, but not he who drinks from the spill...

par sem fleiri stjrna Fr veri, snjklddum fjallartoppum sjum vi yfir land og j Vi rium Migars brautum oka fr jrinni fer i kringum okkur A vestan getum vi s sjoinn, par sem eir fru i hfn ur en eir foru norur Vindblsi land, tmar eyimerkur eir djpustu s...

I crossed the borders The pain won't go away For this treason, I want to see them ... Burn! Hunt them down Make them understand The power I possess I'll give you piece of mind And freedom to search inside I'll suffer for your souls I cleaned the a...

Laughter echoes through the night The evening star shines over Midgard Evil mingles in the dark The organised cosmos' enemy comes forth Loke, the son of Fårbaute.. father of lies Born of earth, unbound by laws Takk weeps no heavy tears For the loss of...

Farewell my brother Farewell my foe May death embrace you Your blood in the darkness flow You were never meant to rule Never to light up my father's throne May you suffer deep below You tried to deprive (me of) my rightful crown Fallen, defeated, tri...

See her cruel beauty Hostile to the constants Ever changing scourge Ashen thrones Converge upon me Come winds of destruction Electrocute the stale Purify Thaw! False ice to water Speak! Sharp tongues sever sick limbs Numb! Do not look away Opt! Per...

Lurinn ltur Heimfarinn til okkur Gus ttingar Migars eldar, og gamlitimins Dular fulle stund er enna Bstaarmenn fara eins og kuikindi Yfir hs og b Mjllnir sveiflast, rumur og eldingar Vikingars einkamerki lfaro Og krummar Vakta yfir hsti [English tra...

I kept the sounds to myself And then I saw how I needed, how I’d drifted It was all in the past I survived The dreadful hours I dug the grave I climbed back out Waited oh so long Dreamt of us Alone walking Through the cemeteries Of our buried mem...

Navigation by the fires of dead worlds Towards the shores of Neogenesis Navigation by the fires of dead worlds Towards the shores of Neogenesis Distant self now cut through, approaching infinitely Racing hearts throbbing deep beneath the painted bones...

In the radiant night Beneath the fertile soil In every heart it lies sleeping Hiding in dreams of strength Older than the mountains So ancient and profound Beyond the grasp of reason Above the laws of man The ancient gods of battle Summoned by the dr...

Horns are resounding, the winds are howling Drums are pounding, the winds are howling With spear and bow we go into battle We are making a stand, brothers in blood With hope for honour in the name of madness We will never be defeated, even if we fall We...

I can see through the veil Seeing all I need see Nothing is hidden here Deep into the woods Casting Letters that speak of... All Is all Is naught No-one but me Knows of this place Sanctuary Where I construct Dream while there is no strife Angu...

The age of the wolf is the age of the sword Son of the earth, father of despair, lurking And ever searching to end his thirst Strength reborn in the streams of cold blood Son of the earth, father of rage, hiding beneath And ever smiling when the seed is...

A troll screams with longing Gods drown in fatal wounds Tunnels of rot grows inside Strong arms The mountains will no longer be moved Only the slave owns his own freedom When kings follow the laws of christened men Who will carry forth the silver Who...

The herd ate it's shepherd And starved to death, smiling They didn't reach the meadows You loved your neighbour And ate your own mother Losing your own war Slave in your own chains You look to the sun And freeze to death Torn apart in golden cages...

Awaiting my death, gasping for air The relief emerge, the mistress so fair Don't abandon me, please grant me life I embrace your powers, higher wisdom's wife I've been fighting in vain, but they grew too strong For my kinsmen this day became far too lon...

Across the scorched fields of fathers land In each step an abyss is built Through misty dreams he touched her hand The boar is dead Its blood is spilt He set his foot on the slopes of far away They’d been asleep when his sun roared He walked through n...

This journey without movement Heading out for no-man's land The way ahead my only ally Early hours, in the silence This credence keeps me upright Through the storms and disasters A straight line towards the unknown end Deceit waits on the back roads...

Clinging to life in the reflection of the self Breathing the air from the poisoned pit Hovering through flames from the burning core Searching for reason in the ashes of men Obeying the laws of the kings without lands Bowing in awe at the hypocrite's fee...

Obsessed with revenge Digging up the putrid curse Retribution for one stricken down Now the morbid winds will call See the victim dying in fear Bloody corpse drained of life You called upon this brutal slaughter Now pay the suicidal price Memories ar...

A new sound heard throughout the land From which the spirits had left ages ago Sacrifice and honour replaced by betrayal and usurpers A trail of sweat and blood, a gathering to the pagan outer worlds For ages we have wandered Under the wings of deception...

Pallid it hangs In awe of amusement Litany swarm Bleak I say are the crutches of the assembly And flies cling to it More so ever the fingers to animate Insubordinate, fickle exequies Putrid core Naudr... the ligature it can’t break Lagu... the whisp...

Your arms, life and death Ride the chariot, the wheel of life Underneath the eyes we pray Seven horses running in circles until the end of days Above the wonders of man, sailing the cosmic seas Risen from the darkness to rule the ancient world Never to...

Approaching life From the seeds of time Cosmic pulse Aeons of chaos Feel the flames, the streams of life below Feel the flames, that blind your inner eye Seek and find, what lingers deep inside Seek and find, but do not try to understand Spread the wi...

Have you ever seen beyond the reach? Have you ever felt the change? Visions from an altered state They conceal and relevate Communing once again with Gods Thread unto the impossible path Talking with a different tongue Heralding the unsung Re...

Through air Along the path I laid Saw it race by Memories in tow Into the belly of the earth Light of dawn, all alone Char-like shadows, slither away – through water Wounded, burned and without site Not waiting for another night Now headed for the...

Born into oblivion Without the fear -of existing all alone Later comes the acquisition - forced upon The solitude Now loneliness The god now submerged in a game of guilt Psychopathic shepherds deny the miracle -of our essence ...And yet we have part...

Strokes from oars could be heard, beautiful ships gushed through the sea Like a wind from the north, our ancestors reached the shore Men from Hordaland, Rogaland and Adger gathered for battle in common Proud men with no fear Strokes from the sword crush...

He sees his world through the crystal state of departure The hooves echo the approach of the third coming On it's back a goddess with shining black armour The steel that will separate the will from doing Closing in as he falls to his knees, surrounded by...

I hail the living room with pride Greeting me with flames and sea ...only he who dares is safe Home - to a starworld of silver Home - wolf, man and house Kenaz - behind the eyes burn the Light which we own Raidho - on thoughts above The sun and rain...

In the land described as the beyond In lack of better directional insight Something stirs and leaps Casual roads of reason intersect Conceptual wormholes in the lawless black In ancient matter Unknown kin, as they thoroughfare Unexplored utopia lineage...

Hagalaz -Light the torches Hagalaz -Enlighten my steps Hagalaz -Search for the hidden key Hagalaz -Open the gates Hagalaz -Guide me through the fog Hagalaz -Let me dwell among Hagalaz -My death and creation Hagalaz -Through fire and ice! A sha...

The rooster fell dead in the dust Before the break of dawn But I knew time The horse hung from worn out straps With ungreatfulness Wipped into his eyes But I pulled the plow myself The peasant laid himself down on the fields Neither plenty nor free -...

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The ravens are flying, the one eyed watches Into the fog, shadows appear Memories from the first empire covered with gold Runes scratched in, scratches in by hatred The hordes of the one eyed are riding once again Hammer crushes cross Inverted by the unb...

To war! Let the havoc be revenged March! Against the lords of perdition Live! Breathe! Persecute the ones that left to persecute your soul Crush the scepters of the kings and come and Hail the vows of old! Hear them cry Watch them fly Let them...

[The fool:] "Fear not dear kinsmen, cause you Saviour I am. I'll bring back our glory And wisdom Achieve I'm searching the Old path to bring back the elder" Smug as only the fool can be, mindless Blindly. He marches towards his fate Summoned by the Cro...

I no longer struggle No longer see Nothing remains, burning anxiety Darkness came forth Gave birth to me Certain death is all I see I see you weep I see you suffer I’ve seen kingdoms rise and fall I’ve seen all that’s supposed to be Earthbound forc...

The Juggler stares To quench the thirst Upon the brow Within the hand It cracks and seeps The seer weeps In flickering light The wounds are served Screams from below A shadow in chains Feverish images told In mirrors of old The eyes they all shar...

Force open the river's mouth Do not wait for the pour Go push open The fleshy eyelids Before dawn calls upon us Sound the golden horns Before they scout the gates Go home and build the temples As cognition ignites Speed of thought Motion with purpose...

The battle's now past The war of all was within itself Painfully sleeping All hail the fallen The time is now for the king to tell The battle's now past All hail the fallen Pleading diversity equals no scream Thickening intensity now fatal Beyond...

I hear their poisonous words again As they call out for submission and code "To be less than one and drown equals pride" they say These were the voices that destroyed us Did I want for this loss to be sustained? Through the clipping of wings found the s...

Darkness... Fear... Life... Cold... Left alone with no will Walking in footsteps of the fallen Blinded by lack of reason Indulging the tales of doom ... Farewell, May the darkness bind them No one will Remember the pain when we are... Desolate.....

One Nothing Binary Neverending Inconceivable Celestial buried mind Resting without peace; still Don't know where I drowned Cornered and defeated Yet, there'sthought forming Patterns in the currents Mud-dwellers at the star-floor Nourishment for t...

Circling high Above the Earth Drew a letter Thought a spear Forgot the yearnings And left myself Broken throught the silky skin That separates the times Two eyes closed Night is all around I've taken on another form Learning once again to speak...

I've got this twisted core I've got this noose around my neck That (just) won't let go I've got this dream In Which I kill you all And there is no going back They've choked the good in me Sent me off to wander alone Hateful, starving enemy of (your) or...

To the coast, but not across Static sanctuary Longing for the heart of the changer Chained to the past, a dream of liberation The vultures above, they know, they've seen him linger here Where the barren land meets sea; the mother and the reaper The iron...

Activate the aggression that exposes the Hidden, Denying the existance pf praying to Illusions Seek gnosis in the forbidden Drink from the wates of knowledge And see what lies you breathe Absorb the vital spark of deities false And ressurect the true...

Finding the truth doesn’t mean there’s an answer Who would have thought? It seems worthless. There’s no end to the travesty, idiocy, It would seem I’ve arrived at the meeting point Between then and now, a different place The past alive, and the future is...

"Abandoning the powers that gave them sight Summoned to the altars of their loving gods" Storming the walls, once built with pride Swarming like rats away from the lights Howling for justice, death in their eyes Tearing down the pillars with monstrous ha...

A dark, chilling winters night Unsilently awoken by song and dance From above rains the golden arrows of Thor Moonbeams enlighten the ring Nine torches for those nine in the circle Surrounded by nine shadows for nine souls In the middle, an altar of fir...

I am a part of the darkness Used to watch from afar Sensing the violence of morning And breathing. And waiting for nothing Devouring the spirit, grinding the heart There are good things in the burning fields There's peace in the slaughtered flesh There'...

Betrayed by disillusion Enslaved by insanity Enslaved by commitment to betrayal Betrayed by all elements My vision is clear and strong I comfort myself to fulfil it There exists no edge Clearly existence is wrong I kill myself to fulfil my vision Co...

See them as they rise From ancient sands - constructs They're reaching everywhere and nowhere As they're trampling on the archetypes The listener warns Tension... Pain... Fear... Violence It reaches the limit set by Ageless reason Tension paints logi...

It was me on that road But you couldn't see me Too many lights out, but nowhere near here It was me on that road Still you couldn't see me And then flashlights and explosions Roads end getting nearer We cover distance but not together I am the storm...

Naked, waste landscape Vast plains lead to the seashore in the west A northern wind sweeps over dead bodies A stranger has entered the domains of the vikings Die not lying sick, dastardly coward Draw sword, fight with the war gods Wotan! We shall fight until...

I know that I hung In the windcold tree Nine whole nights With hurt point To Oden given Self given to myself In that tree Which nobody knows From which roots it ran not given bread They brought no horns Saw down from the tree Took up runes Took t...

Seventy and thousand feet below A pulse is beating more evenly And higher Waves expand like heartbeats Through silent mosaic A wise man Three heights he was Once came down here and said: "What was, was never" Then they saw the river Burn, and the s...