The Shadow Chapter

Förd av skugga, blek och grå En vilja därav bunden I vinterskenets dystra dis Ett livsdis släcks till grunden Hatad, tärd, bränd och dömd Han står vid dödens rand Vidrig kraft inom får liv Och ler med blodad tand Strid om man och best i själ Där hoppet ses försvunnen Mörkret växer vida kring Förlusten är nu vunnen Träd uti din nya svid Och svep ditt forna jag Monstret ekar i ditt bröst När människan är svag

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Far from the god's light Trapped down in shame A freezing howling Will spell my name A sin unraveled A bloody trail An act of vengeance Will be my tale From Angrboda's And Loki's sin I came to Asgaard First of my kin They raised a servant Their friend in mind But time would show them A darker kind I bring night to where the sun will be I bring storms to those that do defy me I bring fangs to man when I strike and I bring death to friend and foe alike I curse your name Entwined in chains And I'll be the one That brings flames Twice chains were lost Gleipnir's my cost Tyr's wrath is mine For all of time Bound down in shame I curse your name Odin, face your crime Hate and blood of foe, that is my call Grow my strength and fury once and for all When I break free from dwarven steel I will end the world's eternal wheel Sing my forlorn song across the battlefield Now know my name, I'll be the Aesir's bane Fenrirs will rise, although bound thrice And I shall bring god's demise Odin will fall, once and for all And Vidar will end my final fall

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Deep below through a sea of mist In the realm where dead man dwell Lies a monster, a dragonlord Next to the Hvergelmer well Chaos-tainted, a spawn of the dark Creator of foul-ridden deed Gnawing on roots that uphold the Tree Our world will wither and bleed In the land of the ice and the cold He feasts upon the dead Rips the flesh and drinks the blood He chains our fear like lead Bringer of our destruction His shadow forever grows Ender of our bright bold age Our time he overthrows Enemy of Hräsvelg On top of Yggdrasil Caught by hate and madness Through times eternal and forboding seal His primordial decree Proclaims that he will be Ruler of all evil And bane of our World-tree Nidhöggr, world-eater, scourge of the tree The night before the dawn Long will he live after Ragnarök The beast from worlds all evil once did spawn Through flames of war we'll see The fall of Yggdrasil For which he patiently Will gnaw eternity

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

All alone in the darkest of night On a frozen, blackened sea There a ship drifts alone Where gods won't hear their plea From the bow comes a hopeful shout "My captain, I see land" We turn our heads to realize That something's not as planned Fear the unknown of this realm The dead will tell ye all of its tales Oh underneath the waves An ancient monster awaits From the depths a vicious roar Caused all of our courage to seep Tentacles of unknown height Begins to slither down from the deep "Draw your axes, draw your swords And pray to Odin our lord!" The crew will fight against all odds Or it will drag us overboard Fear the unknown of this realm The dead will tell ye all of its tales Underneath the waves An ancient monster awakes From a time that even the Aesirs fear Deep below where Hel is near A watery death awaits whomever comes there Kraken dreaded by mortal mind King of squids your ship will find And drag you down into its domain Screams now dies out one by one As the monster chooses its prey The crew diminishes rapidly Escape looks rather grey Suddenly the sea grows calm And the ship is lost to sight We are doomed down the abyss Brought down by Kraken's might Fear the unknown of this realm Now we dead will tell ye its tales Underneath the waves The drowned lost crews awaits From a time that even the Aesirs fear Deep below where Hel is near A watery death awaits whomever comes there Kraken dreaded by mortal mind King of squids your ship will find And drag you down into its domain When the seas are finally calm and still When you've sealed your fate against your will Remember our eternal sleep Heed my warning, heed my call The king of squids will spell your fall So turn back or join us in the deep

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Stormclouds gathers from the North To shroud our Eastern land Where the sun will never set Across the burning sand Spawned from evil deeds long ago From birth our brands are drawn Scorched by flaws from elder gods Now fear the rise of dawn Hear the sound of coming war An endless anguished flood A pantheon from forlorn worlds Will cloud our skies with blood Hear the sound of a thousand feet And chants of unknown tongue Our mighty walls will breach and fall Our culture dies too young Feel the wrath of mother North Now dread this pagan horde All light will fade as death approach His call won't be ignored Hear our cries Gods of old awaken Rise up, defend our mythos life The north has arrived Our worlds order will tremble Save us from the flames of morbid strife Or empires will burn Death of Tiamat Her heritage arrives By our bloody sins Marduk's curse through norsemen thrives

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

In the depths of Yggdrasil Near the roots there lies a well Do fear the rite On this ancient site Where death itself will dwell Hear the whispers in the wind Their beckoning, their call When your life will end For your soul they'll send To the underworld you'll fall The weavers of your fate Both future and your past The rulers of all prophecies They deem which breath is last So no matter what you do To evade their mortal rule You will jump their ledge By a scissor's edge They will play you like a mindless fool The first of three is Urd The eldest of her kind She will spin your thread And you'll know you're dead By her cut your doom is signed Verdandi rules the now The presence is her task She will judge by sight Every wrong or right We choose to act or ask And Skuld the future holds When she calls you will descend She will weave your fate Your destiny create The seer of all things' end The Nornir rules us all Both man and god will kneel Their wen of life becomes our strife And our final voyage they will deal The stories we will face And when we end our days They weave your rise to fall Hear Nornir's call We all are born to die By Nornirs when and why Towards the unknown tide We'll walk with pride The masters of your soul Our journey they make whole They will undo us all When they do call

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

In the world of old There's a legend told Ancient terror awakened Seven times entwined Fiend of all mankind By the gods forsaken Jaws with teeth of dread Eyes of burning red Spawn of Loki's temptation From the black abyss Hear the serpent's hiss Jormungandr's damnation Dragon of the sea Damned eternally Scorned by Odin's fear When my endless hateful might was clear God of Thunder's bane Thor will curse my name Ragnarök is mine I will drown the wretched ending time Dwelling down beneath Summoned from the deep By my one true enemy One to stand and fight Wielding equal might He who dares to oppose me Odin's firstborn son Wanted me undone Mjölner trembling with power Eitr guide his fate Death through rightful hate Thor I will devour Lord of every sea Doom of Midgard's tree Yggdrasil will drown By my wrath I'll bring the Aesirs down Thor and I will fight In the twilight plight Thunder meets the waves Our clash will lead to our graves Remember my call Through Hymer's tale we forged our fall Torn and bound by hate To seal our final fate

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Judgement comes for all of us Frozen chains from dark beyond Pathways that we choose in life Will forge our chains and bond Every soul is weighed by death And destiny's cruel game Either you will bask in blood Or sleep in endless shame Some of us will die in fight When Valkyries give call These Einherjars, blessed by war Will stand in Odin's hall Some of us will die in vain By age or by disease Outcasts from the glorious dead Shunned by god's displease Those that die without a fight Will walk on frozen plains Where endless hunger, frost-rid cries And grim-clad sorrow reigns You will board the Naglfar A ship from dead men's nails All you souls, abandon hope To Nifelheim we sail In this land of death and cold Hel do rule supreme Last of trickster Loki's blood Now a darkened queen One side pale and beautystruck That's only matched by Frey Other half is maggot-filled Dead and ashen grey Banished by gods Betrayed by their highborn lord Ensnared in her hate Declared deaths own shadow ward Cast away from Aesir's halls Broken, tattered, scorned by dread Vengeance cured in twilight times When she commands the vengeful dead Helheim grants a cold embrace If your demise lacked battle cry Kneel before your one true god And pledge allegiance when you die The goddess of spite End times will grant her right To claim stolen life Through Hel gods will know demise

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

Our story dwells in pagan times When darkness ruled in Denmark 500 AD Hrothgar mighty king of Danes Sat on his throne, proclaiming loud and joyously "Warriors, enjoy your mead in this great hall This Heorot, I've built for you" The walls were shaking from the songs of drunken tales A grand feast our Hrothgar threw Suddenly all lights went out and silence rose As the warriors drew their swords Through the gates I smashed my way into their hall For death and hate I roared Crushing bones and drinking blood of fallen foes Thirsty souls were lost in pain The morning after Hrothgar said "Now seal this hall, no joy will echo again" The curse of Grendel's fate A path of vengeful hate In blood and hope they'll pay For casting me astray Finally I met my match in geaten hands When Beowulf and I did meet Iron gripped, two equal beasts, in mortal dance For victory we did compete Beowulf then topple me and snatched my arm I ran, defeat was mine Ultimately loss of blood demanded my rest this one final time A legend has been born From where my life was torn But know this from my tale The one true monster did prevail

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025