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Bones In The Ground - demo and rehearsal tracks

by BRETWALDAS OF HEATHEN DOOM

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They will come on the chaos winds To raise the fallen when the killing begins Hear their horns, hear the armour clash See their eyes in the lightning flash Know their purpose if they come for you To swell the ranks of great Odin’s few When the winter does not end These are the emissaries he will send This is the gathering of the Einherjar Brought together in Valhalla Led by the wolf and the carrion crow Torrents of blood will be running below. There will be fighting in the days before An age of weapons and an age of war The skies will echo to spear and sword Axe and shield before the Battle-Lord You will be paid in the halls of Asgard Before the horn of the Watcher is heard Will you live up to your mead-fuelled boasts? Or will you flee before the demon hosts?..
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Mists linger on a frost filled dawn sunlight glimmers on blade and thorn grim, illumined but no not all much remains in decay's dark thrall Slow, certain the true demise proving ground for all things that die the wounds that whiten the spikes that bind the cords that tighten the roots that bind All in darkness is not corrupted all that beckons cannot be trusted beneath the sway of deepest night dark woods awake far from mortal sight 'Through sodden ancient pathways we tread to the home of witch-elms and singing blades of liquid frost dancing like lucid steam-beasts that blow the breath between the hawthorn stems' 'Await the signs of our fathers The circle is closed The doors to reality are closed you, me, the gods, and the grinding of our steel The boundary where ancient spectres rise not in torment, but in eternal conquest' Into the Wychwood!
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When this frail house of flesh can no longer hold my spirit if my enemies take me in war or if fate leaves me prey to the ravage of years I ask this of you this and no more Place my bones in the ground Let me face to the north give me axe give me shield give me sword As the crow reels in flight and the teeth of death bite raise a mound over me and my hoard When the last drop is drained when the mead hall runs dry when the fire burns low on the hearth as the hammers are crossed on the midwinter frost I will walk on the gods' starlit path
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In the forest time stands still the vapour of metal awaits the trees watch as our spears held high as we draw nearer the gates with a hail on our horn for the winter to bite with the cleanest of steel a cup for those who passed like a storms icy blast for the secrets our fathers left behind.... Grim, battered, frost cracked battered bloody and dumb shields cracked lifted in hand for many cold mornings to come Steel...whoring...veal....steel etc
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Hear the frozen, call of the north A legend written in blood A fighter's way, recall the day its end is well understood What lies beyond, old age and blades and bodies under duress the endless fight, eternal night that is for others to guess Hear the rain fall on sodden field Feel the iron strike through armour and shield See men thrown down into the void All must die, all must be destroyed Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Eight leagues under the earth! Beyond horizons, beyond the seas and eight leagues under the earth this is where, the hammer lies long lost and broken under darkening skies in molten veins, through rock and stone that fissures up through the crust a bolt of light, an arc in flight when bones are smashed into dust. Hear the rain fall on sodden field Feel the iron strike through armour and shield See men thrown down into the void All must die, all must be destroyed!

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'The Sleeping Trees Have Eyes' four track cassette rehearsal demo from 2002.
PDF tape cover with lyrics enclosed.

Two 2004 demo tracks for Battle Staffs album.

Unreleased demo track 'Eight Leagues Under The Earth from 2010 and 'Millions of Damn C**ts' from 2011.

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released August 12, 2015

Wartooth - Bass and Vocals.
Sceot Arcwielder - Drums and Guitars.

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BRETWALDAS OF HEATHEN DOOM Birmingham, UK

Two bastards from Birmingham who started making their own music in 2002.

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