Bal-Sagoth - When Rides The Scion Of The Storms video free download


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Uploaded: 2009/04/19

Artist: Bal-Sagoth

Album: Battle Magic

Song Title: When Rides The Scion Of The Storms

Year: 1998

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[Lyrics]

Dover, England: September 1594 (the recollections of a war-weary mariner)

Hearken boy; for I would tell thee a tale before we set sail for the Bay of Biscay on the

morrow. I was not always called by this name, you know... To you, I am Caleb Blackthorne, battle-scarred master of an English galleon, survivor of a score of sea-fights, cheater of the notched blades of many an over ambitious Spanish pirate... the Scourge of Medina Sedonia!

But to many others over the countless centuries since my first birth, I have been known by a host of other names... so many that even I begin to forget all but the ones distinguished by the most vivid deeds... for I hide a wondrous secret, boy... a secret some would call a blessing, but which others would deem a grim curse. Aye, it all began a very long time ago...

Memories of death and life...

For countless thousands of centuries I have walked the earth...

I have seen endless battle,

And untold centuries of slaughter.

I am reborn once more!

The same grim spirit once again given flesh...

O' to be ravished by the seductress death...

The Scion of the Storms:

Dethroned 'ere Atlantis fell, haunted by a dark queen's curse,

My son's soul shackled by this spell of endless death and grim rebirth.

Fly, o' skyborne steed of Lyonesse, ride the tempest's wings,

I am the scion of the vengeful skies, a god to warriors and kings!

Reflections on lifetimes of carnage:

I have been slain by Roman gladius,

And by Norman spear dealt a mortal wound,

The threads of my ensorcelled destiny

Endlessly woven on some unknown cosmic loom.

I have lost my life to longbow shafts

Fighting for the English crown,

And mayhap I'll end this mariner's life

A good three score fathoms down!

I marched with vast armies 'ere gleaming Atlantis sank beneath the waves...

I reddened my blade against Caesar's legions long ago...

I stood beside Boudicca at Colchester...

I dealt honed steel death from the ranks of Arthur Pendragon...

I slew and looted gloriously at Lindisfarne...

I slaked my scramasax at Maldon...

I crossed blades with Brian Boru at Clontarf...

I slaughtered left and right with Harold at Hastings...

I dispatched Norman swordsmen with Robin of Loxley...

I wielded a Claymore at Stirling Bridge...

I was in the thick of the fray beside Henry at Agincourt...

I spilled blood for the White Rose at Bosworth Field...

I captained a galleon against the great Armada of Philip II...

I have witnessed the rise of corrupt religions, but my heathen blade was red countless centuries before their flaccid laws were ever carved in stone.

They call me the Scourge of Medina Sedonia... my ship sails at dawn, and may our English steel ring gloriously against the cutlasses of the outlander pirates!

Aye boy, it is a strange tale indeed. I know not why I am destined to live and die in this

way, my soul moving from life to life, ever dying and being again reborn, with every memory of my past incarnations intact. A whim of the gods? An ancient sorcerous spell? Some cruel machination of fate, mayhap? Or is it all for some mysterious, greater purpose? Sometimes. I feel the gaze of inhuman eyes upon me, and fragments of some past existence, which I cannot wholly recall flash before my mind's eye. And time and time again I know precisely when I am to die in the fray, for always 'ere the fatal blow is struck, I see him... grim and noble astride his great winged steed, gleaming spear crackling in his grasp, beckoning me onwards to the next life... to ever more slaughter and carnage... Yes, adour and brooding spirit he is, and in his burning eyes I see a great secret which I must discover, a powerful mystery I alone must solve. I cannot speculate as to what strange destiny the fates have written for me in the stars... but the gods have decreed that this is the path I must follow, and I am sure that my adventures are far from over...

Comments

8 years ago

BlindGuardian495

Best fuckin british metal band EVER!!!!! This is my favorite BS track and it still giving me goosebumps as the first time i've listen to it 16 years ago!!!!ALL HAIL BAL SAGOTH!!!!!

10 years ago

Hugh Jego

"i know but who cares about his son? he has nothing to do with it so sullen makes more sense"Lol, you don't get to decide the lyrics because you think they "make more sense" than the writer of those lyrics did. You twat.

10 years ago

ross

wow... you dont see many british bands in this type of metal and yet here's one that fucking dominates the genre

10 years ago

SYNTH WORKS™

i know but who cares about his son? he has nothing to do with it so sullen makes more sense :)

10 years ago

voorish

It's "my son's soul shackled", not sullen. :P

10 years ago

SYNTH WORKS™

For thousands of years i have walked this Earth My sullen soul shackled by a dark queens curse A spell of endless death and grim rebirth A challenge to you who will finish this verse.

11 years ago

PlanetDead

May you die the most horrid death, may you be eaten alive by ravens, you filth, you maggot !

11 years ago

DagonsCave

This song like so many actually almost all of them has such a great Robert E. Howard feeling to it. Hail the Barbarian Metal Kings!

12 years ago

voorish

Yep, bigbob is defintely a knob.

12 years ago

flex0rz2

Gay ass synth band. The keyboard player in this homo outfit needs to be kept away from music for life. Balls Sagging Cheeseboard faggotry!

12 years ago

bigbob112

@TheStevo75 my knob needs a gob!

12 years ago

SYNTH WORKS™

@bigbob112 BIGBOB THE KNOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!

12 years ago

bigbob112

@TheStevo75 because thats the way you like it

12 years ago

SYNTH WORKS™

@bigbob112 WANKERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

12 years ago

Rasmus Metze

it improves my english skills alot :D

12 years ago

bigbob112

THE LEAD SINGER OF THIS BAND IS A COMPLETE MORON!!! do they at least make pure instrumental versions? Its just too hard to rock out to heavy metal only to have some guys stoned ravings blasting over the loudspeakers

12 years ago

Ozomatl Tepoztl

@rollingbullfrog4 Man, Bal Sagoth are legend... a true and recognized influence for bands like Ensiferum, Finntroll, Turisas and many others...

13 years ago

Leo Norz

Ensiferum totally ripped Bal-Sagoth melodies!

13 years ago

Maniacolus

I love listening to these guys while painting my warhammer armies

13 years ago

Asmodeus8797

I love these lyrics. Makes me want to get on a galleon and get into a massive sea battle with pirates! lol! Love the Sagoth.

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