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Forbidden Rites

by Nihtwintre

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City of the dead, Throne of the necromancer, Temples built to dead gods. Graves unearthed, the dead walk about through silent streets The tomb of souls has opened and the wraiths of the damned come screaming forth The necropolis, city of the damned Grey dead lands once ruled by petty lords are darkened now by vampyric wings seeking blood and stealing life. Crypts left by sorcerers of old: liches who sought to cheat death. A hall stands upon a hill from within the dread knights wait cowardly princes, cursed in life bound to this earth by black magic. A wooden vault in hewn stone holds the darkest secret of them all
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When the moon's transit engulfs the sun's light, And a dark shadow falls upon the land stand within a spell circle, look to the sky begin the ritual of the eclipse darkness eternal whose power I glimpse grant to your servant abyssal black magicks crops wither and die, a rot in the roots men bleed from their eyes and feebly gasp for air. Mothers smother their own babes in their cribs flocks of birds drop dead out of the air It is the power of the eclipse when darkness seizes the light of day
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I have cast away my mortal flesh Free from that rotting prison I recite these words: “Grant to me the power over death To preserve my essence for all time” The sacrifice has been made Call forth armies of dusty bone, corpses fresh and old, wraiths in tattered cloth, liches whose fate - not unlike your own the long dead, noble and pauper both the greatest warriors of aeons past Command them to take the thrones of mortal men, have them tithe unto you the life-essence of the slain, and unto the abyss you shall tithe your share. This is the accord to know the spell of undeath.
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The bones of children without names whose bodies were never found, whose souls were never mourned - lost from memory, lost to entropy I turn a blind eye to escape that existential terror that I too will be forgotten: nothing but dust among the stars There is no honor, no glory - only the horror of a life not lived In the end I shall find myself buried in a wretched grave

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Largely improvised compositions recorded between May and September MMXVII.

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released September 22, 2017

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Nihtwintre Seattle, Washington

Nihtwintre was a black metal solo project based in the urban heart of gloomy Cascadia.

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