Sealed Into None
ARISE, WARRIORS OF DOOM ARISE, EXXÛL !
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
SOLO 1 - THE PROPHECY (DEFENDER) IS THIS A BERCEUSE, OR ARE YOUR EYES BLEEDING SORROW OPEN YOUR HEART NOW, LET YOUR VOICE FILL THIS PALACE SHE SAYS, “I BEAR NEWS”, FROM THE GOD YOU SELDOM FOLLOW THOSE WORDS I’LL AVOW, YOU’LL BE THE ONE TO BEG FOR SOLACE MOUNTAINS WILL STALL, AND TURN INTO CANYONS WATERS WON’T FADE, BUT MERELY DISPLACE THE TREES WILL FALL, AND SPROUT NEW COMPANIONS BUT BE AFRAID, FOR THE FATE OF YOUR OWN RACE SOLO 2 - BERCEUSE OF DOOM (DEFENDER / STARGAZER) THE FIRES WILL PIERCE THROUGH, ALL THE CIVILIZED LANDS YOU CONTORTED MONSTERS SHALL TRAMPLE, YOU AT A SLOW GRUELING PACE THEIR JAWS WILL TEAR YOU, BEG FOR YOUR LIFE TO BE ABORTED MADE AN EXAMPLE, THIS VILE HUMAN RACE THE WINDS WILL BAWL, AND FIND NEW DIRECTIONS WET SOILS AGRADE, AS NEW CROPS EMBRACE THE SKY’S BIRDCALL, WILL GRACE NEW PROJECTIONS YET YOUR OWN CLADE, WE WILL FIRMLY REPLACE VOLCANOES ERUPTING ITS FUMES ALARMING NO TRACES ARE LEFT OF THE SCOURGE SO HARMING THE SEAS DEPARTING THE WAVES ENLARGING AND LIFE WILL GROW OVER MANKIND’S GRAVE MARKING SOLO 3 - COLOSSAL SEISMIC UPHEAVAL (DEFENDER) SOLO 4 - SEA OF TEARS RISE (DEFENDER / STARGAZER) OOOHH, WON’T YOU GIVE ME A SECOND CHANCE YOU WON’T GET A SECOND CHANCE OOOHH, WON’T YOU GIVE ME A SECOND CHANCE YOU WON’T GET A SECOND CHANCE SOLO 5 - DEATH'S BATTLE HYMN (SENTINEL) FOR LANDS YOU DESTROYED, THEIR REVENGE WILL BE SWEET FOR SURVIVING BEASTS YOU’LL BE PIECES OF MEAT FOR THE GOD YOU SPAT ON YOU’LL BE OBSOLETE UNTIL YOU’RE ALL DEAD OUR QUEST CAN’T BE COMPLETE ACCEPT YOUR DEFEAT, IN SHAME YOU RETREAT THE FEW THAT STILL LIVE WON’T SUSTAIN THE SUN’S HEAT ACCEPT YOUR DEFEAT, IN SHAME YOU RETREAT UNTIL YOU’RE ALL DEAD OUR QUEST CAN’T BE COMPLETE OUR SWORD WILL PERFUSE, THIS ROTTEN TRUNK SO HOLLOW AS WE DISAVOW, YOUR HEARTS THAT GREW SO CALLOUS YOUR WAGE IS NOW DUE, IN PEACE THESE LANDS WILL WALLOW FOR PAST YOUR LAST BOW, THE WORLD WILL KNOW NO MALICE MOUNTAINS WILL STALL, AND TURN INTO CANYONS WATERS WON’T FADE, BUT MERELY DISPLACE THE TREES WILL FALL, AND SPROUT NEW COMPANIONS BUT ONLY DEATH WILL COME TO THE HUMAN RACE ARMED WITH COLD HINDSIGHT, YOU’LL QUICKLY TURN WISER LESSON LEARNED, IRONY DICTATES WELCOME THE NIGHT, THE GREATEST ADVISER MANKIND’S ADJOURNED, NOW HEAVEN AWAITS AS FOR YOU, YOUNG DELICATE QUESTIONER WHO COMFORTS ME AND ASKS WHY I WEEP KNOW THAT I AM NOTHING BUT A SIMPLE MESSENGER I SANG MY SONG THAT WILL PUT MANKIND TO SLEEP
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SOLO 1 - SANGUINE OMEN (SENTINEL / STARGAZER) SOLO 2 - CRIMSON HORIZONS COALESCING INTO ONE (DEFENDER) O FATHER! PROVIDER! LEADER OF THE PACK! THE ENEMY’S STANDING AT THE DOORS OF OUR NATION THEY’RE GROTESQUE, VILE MONSTERS, THEY KILL AND RANSACK EACH STEP THEY TAKE BRING US CLOSER TO ANNIHILATION FROM DISTANT FIELDS WE SENSE THEIR DRUMS PERCUSS THEY’VE COME TO ERASE ALL IT MEANS TO BE US BRING HONOR, YOUR STRENGTH, BUT FEARS YOU MUST CONCEAL TAKE CAPABLE VILLAGERS TO THE BATTLEFIELD THESE BASTARDS, SHALL FALL BEFORE OUR GREAT IDEAL COME BACK WITH THEIR HEADS OR LAYING ON YOUR SHIELD BEFORE THERE WAS US FLOWED GENERATIONS AND I MUST STAND BEFORE THERE WAS US FLOWED GENERATIONS AND I MUST STILL STAND WHEN YOU WILL NOT BE FOR LONG AS WE PROTECT OUR OWN FOUNDATIONS AFTER WE DIE, WE LIVE IN HISTORY IN THIS LAND WE LOVED, WE FELT SENSATIONS IF WE DIE TODAY SO DOES OUR MEMORY SOLO 3 - CIRCLE OF THE CONDEMNED (DEFENDER) TORN, TO PIECES OF ALL OF US GREATLY MANNED BROUGHT OUR BEATING HEARTS WHICH NOW LIE IN THEIR HAND HOW VALIANT, YET NO MATCH FOR THOSE GIANT ORCISH BEASTS ONE BY ONE WE FALL, SOLDIERS, BLACKSMITHS AND PRIESTS DESPAIR AND AGONY ON OUR FACES BARELY VEILED ONLY AN INSTANT IN, ARE WE AWARE THAT WE ALL FAILED ONCE GREAT WARRIORS, NOW SLOPPY CLOGS OF FLESH OUR BLOOD QUENCHES THE SOIL, ITS LIFE WILL START AFRESH SOLO 4 - SCORCHING BLOODWINDS UNFURL (DEFENDER) THEIR MARCH IS STEADY, SKIN BARELY BLISTERY WE KNEEL AND FACE THE BARREN, ENDLESS DARKNESS WALL AS THEY DUST OFF THEIR FEET FROM ROCKS AND MYSTERY IT WILL BE AS IF WE NEVER WERE AT ALL
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IV - LABYRINTHINE FATE MUSIC BY DEFENDER, WORDS BY STARGAZER COMPOSED IN 2022 I STEP AHEAD INTO THIS MAZE WHERE LIVE THE BLIND MY FEET ARE STEADY BUT MY MIND MUST LAY BEHIND THE SETTLERS HERE, JUST SOULLESS FLESH DIGGING THE CLAY FOR A BLUE GEM THAT LIBERATES ALL MEN THEY SAY THEY'RE BEGGING FOR A SIGN PERCHED IN A BLOOD-FILLED SHRINE THEY LIVE THEIR LIVES ALONE SURROUNDED BY THEIR OWN THE FIGURES AT THE ALTAR I WATCH THEIR SPIRITS FALTER THE PLAGUE OF THEIR DESIRE AN IDOL OF SAPPHIRE SOLO 1 - LABYRINTHIAN ERUDITION (DEFENDER) MAKING MY WAY THROUGH THIS MURKY MAZE OF FUNGAL WALLS I HEAR A COLD, SPINE-CHILLING VOICE AS MY PRESSURE FALLS UP AHEAD FROM THE ALCOVE OF A CATHEDRAL SPIRE A SHADOW CREEPS AND ALL THE MEN STARE AND ADMIRE SELF-PROCLAIMED DEMON KING HE WEARS A STONELESS RING THE MIRY GROUND STARTS TO QUIVER AS ALL THE SOULS START TO SHIVER THE FIGURES AT THE ALTAR I WATCH THEIR SPIRITS FALTER THE PLAGUE OF THEIR DESIRE AN IDOL OF SAPPHIRE SOLO 2 - LABYRINTHIAN LUNACY (DEFENDER) IF I LEAP WE’LL ALL BE STANDING TALL MY PLUNGE WILL CAUSE YOUR PLUMMET FROM MY THRONE YOU LOOK SO MEEK AND SMALL FEAR NOT FOR I’M YOUR PROPHET YOUR CAPTORS SHALL BLEED, SMILE, WATCH THEM CRAWL AS I RAIN FIRE FROM A COMET THOSE OF YOU THESE WORDS DO NOT ENTHRALL I STILL HAVE YOU IN POCKET ROUND AND ROUND WE GO, I PASS A FAMILIAR TUBERCLE I FIND THE ENTRANCE GATE, WALKING AROUND IN CIRCLE SOLO 3 - PILLARS OF ABYSSAL KNOWLEDGE (DEFENDER) SOLO 4 - THE ACCURSED LORE (DEFENDER) A DIAMOND-SHAPED DOORWAY BLUE SKIES FOR WHICH I SWAY DO NOT DIVERT MY GAZE MY FATE LIES IN THIS MAZE THE FIGURES AT THE ALTAR NOW WATCH OUR SPIRITS FALTER THE PLAGUE OF OUR DESIRE AN IDOL OF SAPPHIRE SAPPHIRE !! SOLO 5 - A FORLORN EPITAPH (DEFENDER / STARGAZER)
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BLESSED BE THOSE AMONG MEN WHO STAND TO FACE THE TEMPEST TO SUBDUE THIS MACABRE EBONY DEN, OF TOWERING SCREECHES FORTRESSED A CREW SHIP OF FORTY-FIVE STRONG, AND THE ETERNITY THEY CRAVE THE STRUCTURE SINGS THEIR SWAN SONG, WAVES DIG THEIR COMMUNAL GRAVE SOLO 1 - THE DEPARTED’S THRENODY (SENTINEL) TODAY, THE EVE OF WINTERFALL OUR TOWN BELLS CHIME BY KING’S DECREE FAREWELLS SILENCED BY THE SEA’S WIND CALL SLASH THE ROPES, LET OUR VESSEL FREE ON THIS DAY WE LEAVE OUR LIVES BEHIND SAILING BLIND, FROM OUR WORLD WE UNBIND FOR SEVEN MOONS WE SAILED AWAY SEEKING THE ISLAND OF THE SCREAMING TOWER AND ON THE SEVENTH MOON, WE LOST OUR WAY GUIDE US, O EMPTY SKIES, WHERE EVEN STARS COWER AMIDST THE STILLNESS OF THE SLEEPING WAVES WE HEARD GODS EXHALE THEIR WARNING BREATH CARRYING ON, OBSESSION ENTRAPPING US SLAVES EVERMOVING TOWARDS A CERTAIN DEATH PIERCING SHRILLS ECHOING THROUGHOUT THE REEKING PURPLE MIST THOSE SIREN VOICES BELTED OUT THIS DAMNED TOWER DRIVING US MAD, DELIRIUM INSTILLED AS SCREAMS PERSIST ERRATIC BEHAVIOR STARTED WITHIN THE FIRST HOUR INSANITY OVERCAME THE WEAK-MINDED MEN IN FAVOR OF THE SCREAMS BY WHICH THEY WERE DRAWN WE FOUGHT OFF THE CORRUPTED FOOLS AND FOUND OUR WAY AGAIN WE MUST CARRY ON… AGAIN, WE MUST CARRY ON SOLO 2 - UNYIELDING RESOLVE (DEFENDER) SOLO 3 - THE OATH (DEFENDER / STARGAZER) SOLO 4 - DESPAIR’S TREACHEROUS BLADE (SENTINEL) WHAT IN FAITH’S NAME, IS HAPPENING TO US ALL IS THIS CURSED TOWER SPELL CASTING OUR DOWNFALL POOR SOULS DRIED OUT, AND CRUMBLED INTO DUST OTHERS BURNED WITH FEVER, BODIES TO COMBUST SCREAMING OUR OWN ANTHEMS OF MADNESS HARMONIZE WITH THE SCREAMING TOWER HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE THE ONE WELCOMED ABOARD SICKNESS GRABS THE MEEK, AS THEY’RE BELCHING OUT THEIR GUTS COWARDS JUMPED OUT, DROWNING AT THEIR OWN ACCORD WHILE SOME BLED OUT IN TEARS, FROM SELF-INFLICTING CUTS CRAFTED IN THE LIGHT OF OUR MISTRESS REAL MONSTERS, OUR ALMIGHTY WILL SCOUR TEARS OF COLORS RUNNING DOWN THEIR FACES A HANDFUL OF FOOLS SOMEHOW STILL DRAW BREATH BARELY SENTIENT JUST VOLUPTUOUS TRACES TWITCHING AND TWISTING, AMUSING DANCE OF DEATH BODIES CLEFT BY SWORD AND SPEAR OF THE SEAS UNTIL NO ONE’S LEFT THE SCREAMS WILL DO AS THEY PLEASE AND YOU CAPTAIN, YOU WERE SPARED UNTIL THE END YOUR SHIP CREW WAS CULLED, AND YOUR RANK WAS STOLEN YOUR ARROGANCE LED YOU TO THIS DISQUIETING LAND PLEADING FOR DEATH HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN SOLO 5 - THALASSIC TUMULT (ETHERIAL HAMMER) SOLO 6 - BLAZE OF GLORY (DEFENDER) SOLO 7 - WAVES OF RAGE (DEFENDER) SOLO 8 - SHADOW OF A LIE (DEFENDER) SOLO 9 - SAILS OF VALOR (DEFENDER) SOLO 10 - DRAGGED INTO ABYSSIC DEPTHS (ETHERIAL HAMMER) (ALL GUITAR SOLOS HERE ARE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF BILL RICHARDSON OF THE MIGHTY TITAN FORCE) CURSED BE THOSE AMONG MEN WHO STOOD TO FACE THE TEMPEST TO SUBDUE THIS MACABRE EBONY DEN, OF TOWERING SCREECHES FORTRESSED
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026