Enslaved Riitiir 1. Thoughts Like Hammers Celestial buried mind resting Resting without peace still Don't know where I drowned Cornered and defeated Yes, there's a thought forming Patterns in the currents Mud-dwellers at the star-floor Nourishment for the mind seeps Harvest through suffering Absorbed in desperation Assimilated logic Drawn towards the ladders Elucidated, burned, afraid Instinctive destruction sparked Elucidated, burned, afraid Knowing only my own dissent Elucidated, burned, afraid Static is the common language Elucidated, burned, afraid Celestial buried mind resting Resting without peace still Assimilated logic Drawn towards the ladders Elucidated, burned, afraid Instinctive destruction sparked Elucidated, burned, afraid Knowing only my own dissent Elucidated, burned, afraid Static is the common language Elucidated, burned, afraid Motion remains our mothertongue Failure might not be what it seems All is broken for a reason Familiar blood drawn for painting Willing another perspective Flashing scenes seeing children above Knowing there will be another life Sacrificing Sacrificing remnants of the past Walking all on my own forever The illusion no longer needed It is spoken without words of doubt Now we move the stars above, below And dwell beneath the layers of dirt My runic patterns in the current My runic patterns in the current Motion remains our mothertongue Failure might not be what it seems All is broken for a reason Familiar blood drawn for painting Willing another perspective Flashing scenes seeing children above 2. Death In The Eyes Of Dawn 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 In the eyes of dawn Deceit Forged in the darkened depths of the womb Seeds of betrayal planted in rotten soil The ground swells It's the end I see the face Of the dead god Legions of the dead Invading our realm Forever deaf to the distant warning Blinded are my eyes Tied are my hands Sleeping wide awake Got lost within myself I followed all the paths Rigtheous in my heart Slept without the dreams Got lost within myself When will I remember? When will I hear the call? When shall my forces gather? When shall my battle begin? "I've insulted your life since birth You have never seen my true face You failed to realize I'm your kin I infected your mind when you smiled" Awake! The grip of anxiety Shall strangle the brave no more The son of earth and wind Shall guide us in our wake "You might hear the horn resound You might summon back your king As long as you love, I will hate As long as you breed, I will kill" Blinded are my eyes Tied are my hands Sleeping wide awake Got lost within myself I followed all the paths Rigtheous in my heart Slept without the dreams Got lost within myself 3. Veilburner 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 now I can not tolerate being held in the dark I need to see, I will the flames Expanding light, from within a cube of darkness I need to see, I will the flames I found myself crawling, looking for an “out” And made the gap no longer closed anymore ’cause my signs are burning, burning the veil Killing our idols, scaring ourselves as well Necessity, carer/killer We’re all gonna see, we weren’t prepared I can not tolerate being held in the dark I need to see, I will the flames Expanding light, from within a cube of darkness I need to see, I will the flames I found myself crawling, looking for an “out” And made the gap no longer closed anymore ’cause my signs are burning, burning the veil Killing our idols, scaring ourselves as well Necessity, carer/killer We’re all gonna see, we weren’t prepared 4. Roots Of The Mountain 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 wings, and fly into your mind Spread the wings, and find the eagle in the sky Find the source, the ancient passion play Find the source, the roots of the mountain Hark, men of faith Where were you When your children bled to death? Listen, men of law Where were you when the mothers were slain? 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 Hark, men of faith When you set fire to the fields, The grass grew stronger Listen, men of law When you turned from life, The flames endured Leave order, the fiend of the earth The self is all you've got Enter life on the waves from the void Behold the ancient roots And the battles shall forever go on With peace comes our certain doom The mother will love as she hates Where there is life, you will die Approaching life 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 wings, and fly into your mind Spread the wings, and find the eagle in the sky Find the source, the ancient passion play Find the source, the roots of the mountain 5. RIITIIR 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 return, the eyes will forever shine on Omniscient, glorious - the all seeing eye Malign, burning grace All rise! The seeds you will bring Sons of man, bow in awe Omnipotent, Lumina Titan In the havens you greeted us Late is the hour you submerge Endless travel towards the dawn Hail the flames inside you, cosmic flowers in bloom Hail the spears impaling, the servants of doom Given are the truths, together we shall search Unveiling the riddles, hidden beneath the stones Left is an ancient entity Ready to sacrifice, what we may (have) achieved Ending a journey with no end Defying the ones drowned in salvation Letting the forces roam free A circle fulfilled 6. Materal 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! Permanent particles Curtains be unshut Old wounds opened and bled Wishes laid to rest Ashen hopes Reflections of truth Drops of eternity Instances captured Clarify Etch! New shapes will emerge Need! Reaching into the dark Owe! I opened the gates Roar! O', devourer of time There's this chamber Randomly placed in time and space Echo chamber Achievable dream Capacitate Heuristic observers might find Ends to the means Rain is less scarce there You heeded my call - now read my signs And chose to follow Dominate slavelessly Enter my thoughts, And walk with me throughout these barren lands Aligning wordlessly Tell me my own story, Through the inner and nether worlds Healing accordingly Into the night side, irreversible and remorseless Slaughterous and reborn Hagalaz! End the charade! Return to the wombs A funeral lost Baptize the faceless Light up the beacons End the hunt for truth! Time to break it down Owe nothing to trees Nullify the past Enter the maternal fires Entropy Deter rot within the roots Nourisher Old fears no longer controls Negation Enter maternal fires Xiphoid dreams I close the gate! Silence the voices Take to heart the fear And nourish the pain Nothing can hurt us Called upon the mare Ended the sham reign These forces in tow Endlessness opens Ashen memories Retain the images In need of her strength Time changes Death is encountered Over and over again Worship her pyres Navigate 7. Storm Of Memories 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 Accumulation Icebergs of the abyss never melts Ideal energy, it's building within Unlike loyalty Cadaverous and spirited; I work Composite and uniform; I sacrifice Resist the wisdom With limited perception we see We learn, and we laugh, and we sleep, And we watch Logic is worthless Storm of the ions, ecstatic mind Seeps through the cracks, it fills up the bones I remember now The here and the now - it is nothing ...This Eve - haunted by a storm of memories Immortality Then it was quiet, then it was dark Trees, dreams, and the runes Makes for a future I'm on the inside Looking at the sky, I think of you Life is a room, in between the greater halls There we'll met again I can't make out what is what is what In this storm of memories Now it all comes back I know there's strength in my blood I can hear the past Fearing not Time has come... listen There's a storm Within Storm of the ions, ecstatic mind Seeps through the cracks, it fills up the bones I remember now The here and the now - it is nothing ...This Eve - haunted by a storm of memories Immortality Then it was quiet, then it was dark Trees, dreams, and the runes Makes for a future I'm on the inside Looking at the sky, I think of you Life is a room, in between the greater halls There we'll met again Unknown kin, as they thoroughfare Unexplored utopia lineage Accumulation Icebergs of the abyss never melts Ideal energy, it's building within Unlike loyalty Cadaverous and spirited; I work Composite and uniform; I sacrifice Resist the wisdom With limited perception we see We learn, and we laugh, and we sleep, And we watch Logic is worthless 8. Forsaken 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 perfection Marching forth Aiming low A thirst to kill Defending the nothingness Forsaken The unborn learns to hate Navigation towards destruction Letting our ideals slowly rot And thus... Thus we choose To die... Die with pride And innocence... We became the heralds Born and raised to preach And to erase all traces Of the abstract and evil Swords... Temples... Fires... Doom... We failed to see what we fed The serpent of the deeps It grew and strangled the truths We were embracing the lies We once could see its eyes The stare of death and deceit We feared not, the secrets we knew The guardian of the deeps Lost... And the darkness will prevail Forever... Folding hands with clouded sight Ceremonial rituals will obscure the mind Forever... Lost... And turning blossom to decay Forever... Fighting wars with clouded sight Ceremonial rituals will obscure the mind Forever... Cato Bekkevold ‒ Drums Arve Isdal ‒ Guitars Grutle Kjellson ‒ Vocals, Bass Ivar Bjørnson ‒ Guitars, Keyboards Herbrand Larsen ‒ Guitars, Keyboards, Mellotron, Vocals