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Dark Traditions

by Varanger

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Varanger 04:25
We bring the shadow sky We set the land afire Archers, loose your arrows They've built their funeral pyre The wind carries stories of glory home Go forth Tell the world We are come The Varanger rides again Go forth Gather the storm We are come The Varanger rides again Fear not the sounds of the war machines Ire sparked at the will of the Byzantine We will leave our mark upon this land The wind carries stories of glory home Go forth Tell the world We are come The Varanger rides again Go forth Gather the storm We are come The Varanger rides again So what will you do You kings of kings Crowns of thorns upon your pretty heads? So what will you do When you hear the screams Echoing from the trees? Run, Run, Run Fall to your knees You could never escape me Hold your tongue Realize You could never defeat me Go forth Tell the world We are come The Varanger rides again Go forth Gather the storm We are come The Varanger rides again Run, Run, Run Fall to your knees
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Go forth and tell to me Midgaard and all it's stories Be my eyes so I may see Strong men in all their glories Yet a sense of honor fades And a sense of weakness rules Stupidity pervades The righteous used as tools This world is torn asunder Have you forgotten me? This world is ripped to shreds How could you have forgotten me? Fly Ravens, Fly! Tell me what you see Fly Ravens, Fly! Bring this world to me So what is this you see? Still a few stand strong and proud Refuse the bended knee Standing proud among the crowd They praise my name They honor the ancestors These are my children The righteous and protectors This world is torn asunder Have you forgotten me? This world is ripped to shreds How could you have forgotten me? Fly Ravens, Fly! Tell me what you see Fly Ravens, Fly! Bring this world to me Lo! And Behold! This is what man has come to Praise the few, and raise the fallen Sound the warhorn of my children Fly Ravens, Fly! Tell me what you see Fly Ravens, Fly! Bring this world to me Fly Ravens, Fly! This world is on it's knees Fly Ravens, Fly! The strong shall be set free Lo! And Behold! This is what man has come to Praise the few, and raise the fallen Sound the warhorn of my children
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Sahti 04:37
Sahti! Sahti! Drink it down Pass it 'round Spilled from cups long ago For the ancestors in the ground Sahti! Drink it down, And pass it around The Gods will praise who drinks to fame Come on! Let's make 'em proud Sahti! x4 Come my friends, come together With hopes that we may live forever Yet this night will soon fade away! So drink it down, yes have another Arm in arm you'll call me brother Let us drink until our feet betray! Dancing round in firelight Gods help us, no end in sight Beauties, Vixens fill the night Sahti! Drink it down Pass it 'round Spilled from cups long ago For the ancestors in the ground Sahti! Drink it down, And pass it around The Gods will praise who drinks to fame Come on! Let's make 'em proud Sahti! Spill your cups and share the spoils Here, my friends, we live like royals Dance and sing and fight and drink Oh what it is to live like me! We sing of glories, battles past But old Ragnar can kiss my ass The Gods love those who drink the Mead But more Sahti is what I need! Dancing round in firelight Gods help us no end in sight Beauties, Vixens fill the night Ha-HA! Sahti! Drink it down Pass it 'round Spilled from cups long ago For the ancestors in the ground Sahti! Drink it down, And pass it around The Gods will praise who drinks to fame Come on! Let's make 'em proud Sahti! Drink it down Sahti! Pass it round Now my friends, we're falling down Drink that's spilled has soaked the ground Every man here wears a crown But you touch my drink, you'll hit the ground Lo, here comes the light of day Barmaid is this village lay Drain your horns, the Sahti's gone Stumble into break of dawn Dancing round in firelight Gods help us no end in sight Beauties, Vixens fill the night Ha-HA! Sahti! Drink it down Pass it 'round Spilled from cups long ago For the ancestors in the ground Sahti! Drink it down, And pass it around The Gods will praise who drinks to fame Come on! Let's make 'em proud Sahti!
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Suffer in the name of god Suffer for the cursed son Suffer for the whore mother You spread your love through hate and fear Why have you come This is my ancestral home You cannot take it It's mine by rite You think you're so damn significant In the eye of Odin you're but a spark He tells me bide my time, enjoy my wine And soon I'll run you through, SWINE! Who the fuck are you to tell me what to do? Light the fires Who the fuck are you to tell me what to do? For 10 years time I've watched my people burn You light the fires And we scream in turn You bring your empire We'll bring out steel Enough of this bullshit, you're pigs and you'll fucking squeal Suffer in the name of god Suffer for the cursed son Suffer for the whore mother You spread your love through hate and fear There'll be no pity No fear of retribution No vengeful hand of god Handing down my execution My gods they cheer me on As a blood stained grin absolves my sin See what you've done You've freed the beast within us all For 10 years time I've watched my people burn You light the fires And we scream in turn You bring your empire We'll bring out steel Enough of this bullshit, you're pigs and you'll fucking squeal AHHHHHHHH My brothers Do you stand with me? *musical break* We stand the victors Brothers united, we stand as one Can you hear it? The silence? No more whips, no more chains... I can see the lake from here We're not far now though we're far from home And still the ash rains down As we pull false king from throne I plunge into her depths To wash away this baptism And still the vultures They rip flesh from shattered bone We reject your dissolution Our temples, they stand high Kind is met with kind in turn Fair enough that you should die We stand here with pride intact All the world is at our backs A different breed from different seed A hellion born from each of me For 10 years time I've watched my people burn You light the fires And we scream in turn You bring your empire We'll bring out steel Enough of this bullshit, you're pigs and you'll fucking squeal For 10 years time I watched my people burn There's no more fires It's your time to burn You brought your empire We brought our steel We are the Northmen And you fucking squealed You call it sin We call it revolution We will suffer no more
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Hailing from the Swampland Blackened beasts, we Reign Blood of Northmen coursing Through our Viking veins Wartorn steel is flying Shattered, bruised we march Under our Styrsman we stand tall! Black Wolves with painted Shields Unwillingness to kneel Unbroken Brotherhood Is what we feel And all the world will know the cry of MYRRLAG!! A testament to what man is meant to be The Ancients call to us, we answer willingly Look in our eyes you'll see who is really free War and Hearth are standing Hand in hand and yet We've still much to learn Let us not forget Where we come from; Where we've been I know that We will not be here again Black Wolves with painted Shields Unwillingness to kneel Unbroken Brotherhood Is what we feel And all the world will know the cry of MYRRLAG!! A testament to what man is meant to be The Ancients call to us, we answer willingly Look in our eyes you'll see who is really free We've far to go and yet we've come so far But I promise this dear hearts We take pride in every scar Through Storm and Styrs we strive For all that we're meant to be Earth will shake as thunder cracks With Myrrlag there for all to see And all the world will know the cry of MYRRLAG!! A testament to what man is meant to be The Ancients call to us, we answer willingly Look in our eyes you'll see who is really free .. The cry of Myrrlag A testament to what man is meant to be Dragon Hearts, no peer Scream it loud my brothers: ... ... ... WE OUT HERE!!!
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You smiled as the symphonies of suffering reached your ears Misery layering upon deafening years You danced in the moonlight Oh the shadows you cast While the stars overhead shone like halos of the past Storm clouds gathered and the fogs dispersed As you lived your life like a whimsical verse I clawed and I begged for my very own curse Every scream, every cry nailing shut my hearse I was forced to live At the whim of the wind as you lived in sin Desperately calling out Can we live again? I followed my stars, was it war? Was it worth my very soul? This wretched whore? I had to learn to live again How to lose and not to win Recede into myself and find new stars to follow I had to bury myself in A pyre of your sin Recede into myself and find new stars to follow Countless nights you've spent in my nook As I rip each page from your miserable book Sex as a weapon, Orgasm your wrath Shuddering bodies as bricks on your path! The rolling of hips as your wings are clipped Visions of Valkyries much like nymphs Screams illustrate your hearts eclipse As ecstacy courses my mind in fits I was forced to live At the whim of the wind as you lived in sin Desperately calling out Can we live again? I followed my stars, was it war? Was it worth my very soul? This wretched whore? I had to learn to live again How to lose and not to win Recede into myself and find new stars to follow I had to bury myself in A pyre of your sin Recede into myself and find new stars to follow Abandoned My heart is torn from my chest This, written in stone This curse, in Runic, my bone Carved into my flesh Forever impressed Morality's Vixen in death OH!!! What life is given in turn When one life that's given is burned? Who is it we are to choose What life that's given is spurned? What life is given in turn When one life that's given is burned? Who is it we are to choose What life that's given is spurned? I was forced to live At the whim of the wind as you lived in sin Desperately calling out Can we live again? I followed my stars, was it war? Was it worth my very soul? This wretched whore? I had to learn to live again How to lose and not to win Recede into myself and find new stars to follow I had to bury myself in A pyre of your sin Recede into myself and find new stars to follow
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I can still see it... Soft rains cool upon my cheek... Large men in armor crack whips against flesh too weak... They raise high a wall... Broken, distorted, I hear a call. An order to shut the gates, Seal off the realm of Gaul! Too young was I to know of a place I was not meant to go. Stories told of a far off land Just beyond the pride of man. I learned the words of Elders These men, they thought of us as beasts A fire lit to burn us down, To stomp out our disease. Winters came and fires died, or at least that's how I felt inside. But I resolved within myself that I would taste the Roman sky. My Gods it feels good to be the man I am with pride! Roman hearts shoved in the dirt, My Fathers land is where I'll die! Belenus will shine on me, and Sirona will set us free! All the world will cease to be With Roman Scum on bended knee! I was cursed with a longing for a land that I might never know. The forest folk, they whispered: "See that they do reap what's sown. Your land was taken, you were far to young to know. But in the fields they rest so easy, your sons are meant to grow." I wrote it on the wind, my brothers, free of sin. When Northern tribes unite, my sons would taste the Roman sky. My Gods it feels good to be the man I am with pride! Roman hearts shoved in the dirt, My Fathers land is where I'll die! Belenus will shine on me, and Sirona will set us free! All the world will cease to be With Roman Scum on bended knee! AND WE CHARGE!!! Burn the gates of sodomy! Rend their flesh from their bones, Remember how they took your homes! A fortress fallen, a General slain, Filthy yourselves as you clean this stain! Your sons will write this, you felt no pain! Pour onto the streets as the Roman Bane! I lay on my back, a sigh of relief, The forest folk, they sing of me. I smile, though in disbelief. I've fallen but my sons can breathe! My Gods it feels good to be the man I am with pride! Roman hearts shoved in the dirt, My Fathers land is where I'll die! Belenus will shine on me, and Sirona will set us free! All the world will cease to be With Roman Scum on bended knee! My Gods it feels good to be the man I am with pride! Roman blood has stained the dirt, My Fathers land is where I die! Belenus has shone on me, and Sirona has set us free! All the world has ceased to be, My sons can fucking BREATHEEE!!!
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Footwork etched into the ground, His only thought, make Father proud! With trusty stick he learns to fight, Slaying the air with all his might! He learns the craft for heart and home, Giving himself to keep his own, The boy stands tall but he stands alone, For his Father has left the seeds He's sown Can you hear it? The fields call to him... Winters pass and muscles grow, A harshness builds like the winter snow! He's trained his life, this is all he knows This year he gets to fight! Off to war, do his Father proud His mother smiles so her screams are drowned He takes in hand his Father's blade It will sing for him, a King he'll make! Can you hear it? The fields call to him... But Lo, He has fallen! He's down on his knees In the Fields Of Misery! His eyes scan horizon For the wings of the valkyrie, But none will come! His song has not yet been sung! He's up off his knees His Father arisen On the Fields Of Misery! His eyes scan horizon For the wings of the valkyrie, But not for Pity and not for Pride But to thank for the fire lit inside!!! The young boy returns, Something familiar in his eyes A look his Mother hasn't seen in far too long a time She runs, Embraces her son, Hands running over each and every scar. The boy smiles A devilish grin, And for once, her husband doesnt seem so far away He quickly rises like the tide A raging ocean caged inside No more will he be cast aside Watch him as he rides the sky The training ever more intense Forgets his Father's final wish All those years of sacrifice It crumbles into this!!! His Mother looks on in horror To afraid to intervene Once again, He's risen before her A Madman, joy from weaker screams But Lo, He has fallen! He's down on his knees In the Fields Of Misery! His eyes scan horizon For the wings of the valkyrie, But none will come Though his song has been sung! So here he crumbles, His life like a dream, On the Fields Of Misery. He's not coming home, And there will be no feast Save for the falling Of this kind of beast

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released July 23, 2019

Tyler Futrell, James Whitehurst, Fred McCarthy, Cynthia Bakeeff, Angel Colon

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Varanger Sanford, Florida

Varanger (pronounced Ver-an-gar) is an extreme metal band from the Central Florida area. The band incorporates many different musical styles into its music which creates a massive sound, captivating melodies and an unforgettable performance.

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