They Came Over the High Pass
As he, the first, reaches close to the pass, he realizes that He is the first mortal ever to reach this point. No one deemed It a conceivable goal because of the extreme altitude And rough terrain, but as he peeks over the edge he Beholds a glorious sight. There she lies, Gondolin, the hidden City, her walls and towers set aflame by the rising sun Snowy peaks surround the majestic basin and the cold air Bites his face. A glance back over his shoulder and he Sees that the rest of the army is not far below. They had Made it! They had found a way into Gondolin, a way Unguarded and now battle awaited! The fall of Gondolin was now only a matter of time…
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026
These walls, impregnable They’ve held the test of time This place, indestructible But now alarm bells chime As far as the eye can see (and we see far from here) Dark troops, all we see Seems like our doom is here And here the first wave comes They scale the walls in hundreds Only to meet with death delivered by our hands But how long will we stand We are by far outnumberеd On through the night they come And thеre is nowhere to run As the walls crumble under our feet We rain death from above The drums of war keep pounding out their beat And now we lose the walls The trumpets sound retreat We die in thousands as the city now must fall Let fire rain! Teleported warriors Appear behind our lines A confused two-front battle Is what we’re forced to fight All our reserve‘s depleted Armengar is defeated Explosive fire lights the night A final, hopeless cry We have done what we can We take our final stand Only to meet with death delivered by their hands And so we die like men Our blood now stains the sand Armengar burns, a scenario so grand We’re falling, we’re dying We’re fighting till the end, and still we’re trying Screams of pain and hate and fear Echo round the walls And now the butchery has spread into the halls We’re fallin’, we’re dyin’ Slowly but steadily we are decimated And so it all explodes, the barrels underground All left alive now must fall prey to the cremation
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026
From far away you call You, the abode of snows Once again I heed the call I know I have to go And as we walk this ridge The morning sun reveals We cross the bamboo bridge Glorious glacier peaks And as I close my eyes She lives inside my mind Into the sky they rise Scarred by wind and time Eternal majesty Your beauty unsurpassed You are divinity As we ascend the pass Snow covered peaks surround Rising into crystal air High Himalayan valley My heart is lying there This is wherе I belong It’s something oh, so strong I know I cannot say Not evеn through this song Because I have no choice I simply have to go Follow my inner voice My heart it tells me so Chomolungma, Kanchenjunga Lhotse and Makalu Dhaulagiri, Annapurna Cho Oyu, Manaslu We’re climbing oh so high Into the crystal sky Spread out below us now Is where the lowlands lie We are so short of breath Into the zone of death And as the sun now sets The west face now reflects The golden reddish light Above us stars so bright The air is crystal clear No one can live up here We are the mountain’s guests She deserves our respect She is a living thing She is a living thing Sound of bells in the morning hour The yaks are on the graze Breaking camp in the early hours Under the south-east face We are so high up here Way up in the air High Himalayan valley My heart is lying there (Dedicated to the people of Tibet – Your fight is my fight)
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026
(Instrumental) (Dedicated to all of you who dreamed but Did not make it back The dream is still alive)
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026
At dawn I rise, into the sky The mightiest of all now flies Lord of lords, king of kings I whip the air with leathered wings An ancient hated enemy A roaring, burning entity Silhouette against the moon Bringer of both death and doom A spark upon the starlit sky A giant killer fire-fly Forests burn and mountains crack As I sweep down for the attack I am the one who cannot die Invulnerable as I fly In panic-stricken fear you ride My breath upon your back, you die Ashes, death and smouldering fields Is what I leave behind I’ll plague your world eternally The last one of my kind I ride the wind above your land Enthroned atop the mountain Eternal horror unto man My breath a fire fountain For I am the dragon I’ve grown since time’s begun Yes I am the dragon Sole survivor from aeons long gone Fast asleep inside my den Deep beneath the dark mountain I take my rest to return again Always alive in the minds of men Patient as the rock I wait To take to the skies and seal your fate Inside my mind eternal hate A hunger that won’t satiate And as I fly, the word will spread That once again I’ve left my bed A bed of silver, gems and gold But now it’s time, lo, behold! I devastate in mindless rage Your valley now a prison cage You cannot flee, you’re much too slow In my wake, only embers glow Blackened bones and ashen shields Cover the smouldering fields Melting metal in streams connected Fallen men by flame dissected Sunset taunting dying eyes Smell of death and buzz of flies I rise into the starlit night And speed away in roaring flight Fly!
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026
Coordinators set, ready for the surge Blasting through infinity, and then to re-emerge And there she lies, floating in the distance All her spires and towers shine in the rising sun Sphere of metal in the sky, gravity defied Self-supporting colony, mining in the sky Beauty locked in light serene, see the sun arise Bespin is the name of her, the city in the clouds The light that she reflects, shining like a star Beckoning me and you, calling from afar And there she lies, floating in the distance All her spires and towers shine in the rising sun The light that she reflects, shining like a star Beckoning me and you, calling from afar
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Jun 18, 2026
Encaged in steel and titan We sail this timeless void Borne with speed of lightning Navigators and crew are droids We sail this vacuum limbo Left behind, our dying sun Suspended cryogenically Dreaming of the promised land Destination star ahead Familiar home star left behind Temporarily dreaming dead We cross this waste in soundless flight Frozen souls in cosmic flight The brave in heart who dared to go To pave the way, to be the guides And light the road to our new home Communication breakdown The ship is out of sight System breakdown, thrown off course Engulfed by endless night Wake-up time, pre-programmed But where is Cygni 61? SOS, no reply Buried alive, cosmic coffin ride There’s no reply! So we now die And there’s no reply! So now we die...
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 15, 2026