Ophthalamia To Elishia [Sorry for the bad bad scan] Once upon a time... Well, I could have started up that way, but this is not a fairy-tale. The band Ophthalamia and all that it stands for is for real. This is not going to be a letter from a rock star to his fans, I just wanted to write some words and explain a few things about the album. This album was made because of that we have not released anything in a couple of years. The band has had its problems: line-up changes, people having other things to do, bad luck with labels and I have been like a overcharged cannon with double cracks working with VONDUR, ABRUPTUM and an enormously rapid growing HORDE. Shortly I did it because I felt like it. Many have been the nights that I've been laying awake thinking about the phenomena of Ophthalamia and I have realised that such a phenomena should not be torn to pieces. I have made my mind, I will NOT let Ophthalamia die for another couple of years anyway. Also let me explain that Ophthalamia is not some kind of project by people from other bands... We are a REAL band that is really working hard. A lot of time has passed since I raised the band and a lot of strange things have occured but I guess I'm just unstoppable. Ophthalamia is unstoppable. You might ask yourself why I chose the pictures and the art for the album the way I did. Well... as you might notice some of the people on the pictures are not even featured on the songs. I simply chose the photos and the art on this album... yes, because I felt for it. You might also notice badly tuned guitars, singers forgetting their lines, some drumming out of beat etc., but actually who gives a fuck?? Just be lucky I provided you with some of the greatest cult recordings ever. And what seemed corporal melted like breath into the wind... Darkness IT shall be - IT September 1996 Post Scriptum: have you noticed my friend The Grey Death on the cover? A Cry From The Halls Of Blood / Empire Of Lost Dreams Line-up: IT: guitars, talk and whispers Winter: drums Mourning: bass ALL: vocals I live in the thoughts where the shadows no longer dance and where my tears fall into the colours of the lonely dreaming crying songs that my works are. The melancholy clouds of my feelings float away in the tide of faces which the soul of mine is. I wonder about life even though death is close and as my lost life falls into its definitive end... the light won't save me. Tired is the blood of mine and my brain will not speak no more. I'm living in a prison of flesh and my heart won't answer my calls. I'm shaking as I'm crying and as I feel the last drops of my life leave my useless cold body to walk the night... I'm one with the night... I AM A Lonely Ceremony / The Eternal Walk Line-up: IT: bass, vocals, guitars and whispers Rob: guitars Winter: drums Aras & Veronica: female vocals My dark eyes watch the landscapes frozen stillness The beautiful silent domains which he rules The cold wind grabs my long hair Like it wants to carry me with it to the darker marks Chorus : I walk through deep snow (whisper) I'll wander endlessly Searching for my master I must march until death (whisper) I'll wander endlessly 'til my soul takes over Will I ever reach my wonders end ? Penetrate the darkness So much land that I've put behind my back When will I sit at his throne ? I watch the darkened domains and pass By making the ceremony of the true My feet are swollen blue Of the wolf biting icy cold I stab my dagger through my unpure heart The sky has turned backwards - the moon is my eye I'm neverending floating away like a dim sculpture In the lands where I once was born (repeat Chorus) (whisper) I'm fading but never... (whisper) I'm fading but never... Journey In Darkness / Entering The Forest Line-up: IT: guitars Winter: drums Mourning: bass ALL: vocals I'm kneeling down on the forest's deiny ground sun of the infinite sky doesn't reach me here Oh darkness embrace me blood stop circulating the mist surrounds me as I'm falling away my trance My blackened teeth chew at the air we breathe (whisper) lean its shapeless nothingness from the holy spirit Poisoned I am by his holy feeble godness (whisper) I spit him out in a bloody flood of phlegm Their world is turned inside out I take their lips to my mouth The people lies in articulo mortis I spread my wings and fly away I'm the face of the night in which you all will drown I'm the power the almighty dark everlasting strength my body was for a moment cold and left alone still my breath is a sick unken smell (repeat verses 2 & 3) Castle Of No Repair / Lies From A Blackened Heart Line-up: IT: guitars, talk and whispers Winter: drums Mourning: bass ALL: vocals My castle of blood beyond deepest sorrows lies distant clouds its grey tower puncture the sky (whisper) the pain My skin the gloomy ground will not swallow thee the echoes of my black heartbeat falls forevermore (whisper) living further My heart it cries it slowly dies castle of no repair (whisper) stop the pain Shores Of Kaa-Ta-Nu / The Eternal Walk (part II) Line-up: IT: guitars, talk and whispers Winter: drums Mourning: bass ALL: vocals Flying through the night sky among the stars the air caresses my naked soul I've reached Ophthalamia's darkest parts the evil desolate shore The icy water whips the ancient rocks I see the black blooded sea of Ragiih-Nib the mountains of Makubu-Keen have guided me oh stars now hear my scream Give... me... the... Sign... Shores of Kaa-Ta-Nu (whisper) Give me the Sign The water raised above me and the sky died oh lord of all accept my soul... Take me keep on searching son maybe you'll succeed so cold everlasting night here I am Give... me... the... Sign Try to find the keys of wisdom Sathanas will guide your quest and when you'll have found'em the chosen place is for you Nightfall Of Mother Earth / Summer Distress Line-up: IT: guitars Winter: drums Night: bass Legion: vocals Länge jag i sommarhettans dagar sökt men dig ej funnit Kämpat, trälat och i solens bländande sken jag brunnit Vi må ödslat våra liv men vi även en död var vunnit Dig, Elishia skall jag finna vart du än har försvunnit Årstider de alla igenom jag vaktar med Leende så stort, jag härskar över allt Moder jord nu dömer vi dig döden Så som vi alla andra kommer att dö Elishia... Tillsammans skall vi härska Moder jord... Skall i våra händer dö Elishia, dotter av de tre månarna Skall jaga i natten tillsammans med mig Och när vi gjort vårt kall så sänk oss i vår grav Djupt, djupt i döden ned Refräng : Himmel blå och ljuv sommaräng Låt er vaggas i ondskans säng Svarta slöjor, svarta lövverk Undergången nalkas så låt oss gå Det stilla regnet faller i natten Så är rymden i sin saknad Svarta tårar, svart tomhet En sista kyss så smeksam och mjuk Viskning : Den eviga vandringen i den utvaldes mörkaste tankar På Kaa-Ta-Nuus stränder, där slott som evigt trasiga står Du ljuset son så liten, dig jag åsamka denna smärta kallad sorg... ... En resa i mörkret... Moder jord, Elishia och jag dig skall sätta i brand Vi skall sedan förnedra och våldföra oss på land efter land Elishia vi skall vandra i detta krigets härjartåg hand i hand Vi som Satan tjänar är förenade med de starkaste band (upprepa vers II) Vacker... Sommaren för andra må vara Jag... Endast vill döda och dö (upprepa vers IV) (upprepa Refräng) Vi vandrat den ensamma vägen så mörk Så okäng och farlig för er andra Ni oss aldrig kommer att forstå Vi dyrkar döden och ondskans makt De falsa skall falla för våra fötter Små människor, vi era härsare är The shadow went longer until darkness became complete The superior humans so proud came forward (upprepa Refräng) Enter The Darkest Thoughts Of The Chosen / Agony's Silent Paradise Line-up: IT: guitars Winter: drums Mourning: bass IT: vocals (whisper) I am the face and blood of knowledge (whisper) I am the pure heart of wisdom I smell the night sing its sleeping ancient lullaby and the non-existing star horizon burnt its candle Find the dark in my eyes I'm not and I'm all I'm the end of the beginning (whisper) What do my eyes hide ? I hear the winter breathe and spread his message of cold and the clouds change their eyes and forget the time I feel the skin of the trees listen and walk away and the moon dreams and I hear its eternal call I taste the depths of the sea in my eyes and fly and the lips of dust play its song forevermore I sea the colours of the world disappear in the mist and the bright tear of my smell fear the morning Deathcrush (MAYHEM 1987) Line-up: IT: guitars Winter: drums Night: bass Legion: vocals Demonic laughter your cremation Your lungs gasp for air but are filled with blood A sudden crack as I crushed your skull The remind of your life flashes by A life that soon won't be Smiling with axe in my hand Evil's rotten hand you'll see I come forward Deathcrush I'll send you to your maker I'll send you to your death Death nicely crucified Death, heads on stakes The barbeque has just begun Deathcrush - Deathcrush - Deathcrush Crush - Crush Deathcrush Deathcrush Deathcrush Sacrifice (BATHORY 1984) Line-up: IT: guitars Winter: drums Night: bass Legion: vocals I summoned up the living dead And the demons in the skies I drank from chalise warm and red And watched the virgined eye Present at ungodly births In holy paradise I spread eternal dark on earth And raped the mother of christ C'mon baby Raise your knife Welcome darling To my sacrifice Tie the angel to the altar Sacrifice to lord in hell Let the warm blood torrent baby Moonlight set the night on spell I saw the lightning strike in the sky And heard your roar in pain I'd lifted the knife and stroke once more Your blood was mixed with rain (Repeat chorus) I Summon Thee, Oh Father / Death Embrace Me Line-up: IT: guitars, talk and whispers Winter: drums Mourning: bass ALL: vocals I sit in loneliness and watch the meaning of my past. It dances and twitches then it lays down and dies. I see the morning sky tremble and then it open and begin to cry as night falls and darkness fills my room... whispering thoughts haunt me, my candle burns low. Can I find my fate ? Can I be one with my desire ? The perchment of my future burns fast and I burn myself badly in my futile attempt to save it. The black blood of my heart weeps, in every tear a part of myself. I have features of youth but a soul of age. Why can't I see the web of lies my life is based upon so I can cut them and become one with the sky ? I long for the harmony... the peace within me. I wish to see myself in the burning light of truth and no longer be a victim of hate. I search for the purity in me... I search in my blood... I open my vein to see what ever it may be. And as the red rivers of my life flow from its tunnels and caves... I see lies and falseness die. I'm fading away, drowing in a thick mist of burning ice. I'm showered in the blood of dying hate and I feel pure. I'm taken to the breast of my truth and I'm reborn.