Alt Lys Er Svunnet Hen
Opening track of Stormblåst, released in March 1996/364 – less than a year then 🤔 before the band cemented its status with the much more intricately and substantially.. thoroughgoingly‽ 🎉 mastered album Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (January 1997/363). The implausibly attentive nonexistent reader will notice how the CO₂ ppm values nicely show an annual peak/dip pattern rather than a downward trend – earth's slow breathing, as it were, I forget where I got that notion from.
I purchased the latter album earlier than the earlier album. Still, or maybe in part thanks to the different sound/mastering of an otherwise rather bland album, this track gave us many unwitting.. no not even that, just many a taster, appetizer, sneak peek.. of language, and less vaguely but just as.. unknowingly, obliviously the machinations of 🤘 the drums.
Glinsende månelys ovenfor driver
Frostlagte stier viser vei
Svarte sjeler farer henover natten
Inn gjennom skodde heim
Alt har svartnet
Alt lys er svunnet hen
Lødig trer vi nå inn i Riket
I minne om at våre spor blir fulgt
Omgitt av sorgens dis
Skrider ferden frem
Som en skare av likkledde skrømt
Vandrer vi jervens hjem
Brisen fører oss over norske myrer
Forbi hver en tåkegrend
Med hatet i våre harme sinn
Reiser vi for aldri å komme igjen
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