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Kingdoms That No One Remembers

by Cirkeln

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bmurator The first full album of the Swedish Melodic Black Metal one man band. This is much more assertive than its predecessor. Våndarr has set his path & follows it flawlessly. Perfect songwriting followed by perfect execution of Melodic / Epic / Atmospheric BM. No faves! Highly recommended!!!
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Bloodied But Unbowed Some enjoyable Black Metal here, with a definite nod to Lord of the Rings and worlds of High Fantasy. Favorite track: In His Deep-Hidden Hall.
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Old Leech Monster Bathory (Satanic AND Viking era) and Celtic Frost via Darkthrone vibes blended up with trad metal and even dare-I-say some 70s rock. Every song is anthemic. That more people weren't tripping over themselves to sing Cirkeln's praises is one of the crimes of 2020.
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last vinyl before doomsday Very experimental and atmospheric one man black metal with a lot of tension and sorrow. This release is definitely special.
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1.
From the dawn of the cosmos - we are cursed We are the blackened children of Utumno We bear no names no titles Sworn unto the dark against the light But in silence, I pray In unspoken words 'Ere the day we march Neath the whips of our masters But is there no god? Is there no penance? The burning of steel The wreathing of flesh By the fires of Mordor As the eye watches me We march to the farlands Do we even know why? My face clasped in steel But in silence, I pray In unspoken words 'Ere the day we march Neath the whips of our masters But one day may come When mutants arise From the whips of our masters We'll break free Far beyond the raven lands We burn the cities ash to ash A thousand flaming torch of ire With teeth of death the putrid gnash Once we were the first to live Stolen far away from home Burn them, steal them, with black blades shiv With one I will break free When the moon has set for the sun And the wars have been fought for the one I crawl back into the lands Into the pits from whence I came
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Sun And Moon 05:30
By my father, I am bound Like a dog fore my brothers A spider's maws will set me free Suck the light from the world Take to the mountains of mankind Down to the lake of the moon Where the children wake Where the earth may quake A new age can bloom We'll never be the same As we take to the heavens, and spell a new order To the rim of the world Where demons yet lie And worlds are created By the gates of the morning, and the doors of night! By the doors of the night The gates of the morning In my own time - the world will change As the sun sets the moon doth take shape Howl the wolf in ancient Angband For the coming of the time Can anyone remember what the world was like before time and space? When demons ruled the earth and there was darkness When elves did sleep by moonlight shores and men were yet to be made Can we go back oh take me there oh let it be the same By the doors of the night The gates of the morning In my own time - the world will change As the sun sets the moon doth take shape Howl the wolf in ancient Angband For the coming of the time
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Ships 07:05
Far beyond the grinding ice Where many ships did once sail In the lands of the undying In the lands of the untold By the trees of the light Shadow cloak the world From Thangorodrim descended The dark lord of the world And we ride on the ships that take us to far off lands To seek a treasure stolen far from home We slay the ones who stand in our way By Feanor - O father! We swear the oath and sail away on the ships Away on the ships We sail away Take my hand A quest for the silmarils We sail away on the ships to the... ...lands of Helcaraxe A host so pale and cold Will we be forgotten? A hero will be known! But the noldor knows the way Lead us not astray We're guided by the star To Angband afar! And we ride on the ships that take us to far off lands To seek the crystal stolen by claws of the dark Beware ye who stand in our way, By Feanor - O father! We swear the oath and sail away on the ships Away on the ships We sail away Take my hand A quest for the silmarils We sail away on the ships to far off lands We sail away Take my hand We're the sons seven of Feanor! We take what is ours and we ride away on the ships We sail away! To far off lands! Away on the ships!
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The Castle 04:48
I see the castle its eyes they peer from black raven's night Fear inside me it grows all over my mind and it twists my sight till I Feel a gust of dead winds it blows in my face Fight - I fight with the steel in my sword and the pride in my heart But is there a way out of this madness? Has Earl Aubec finally met his doom? In the Castle There lies an answer to the questions The Multiverse in the claws of law and chaos We fight with steel for the answer yet to be told There comes a champion! Dead eyes they swirl and twist in the darkness before me Cold - every step that I take is a promise of death in my heart Tremble can I even be whom I know that I am Virtue - a simple thought can never be wrought in a time of Despair and misery claw from the walls around me What spell, lies upon my mind? In the Castle There lies an answer to the questions The Multiverse in the claws of law and chaos We fight with steel for the answer yet to be told There comes a champion! His sword, his shield of gold His heart drives him on his quest The steel - shines bright for the truth The quest for law begins at world's end
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From the frostlands of putrid moon tower To the plains of lands of the dark In the master's deep shadow so black and so long Stalking the city of death I am of my master my master's ninth son I take on the gift that is granted to me By the spell of the one my time it will be The valley of ancient death To the altar of blood and stone I go to the other side Through a veil of storms long gone When it's cold and dark When the night is silent and sung And a spell is cast, an answer, a whisper I sing of frozen dreams But the night is so cold It chills my bones and my heart forgotten The words unspoken I dream of a land in the distance Of a place of mountains so young A mirror, an image of longing A song to a home long gone Light the fire Bring the moonlight Carry me through to the other side! When it's cold and dark When the night is silent and sung And a spell is cast, an answer, a whisper I sing of frozen dreams
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In the land where the shadows lie Where heroes of ancient days went to die In unholy halls deep beneath the fells Where no light of Evenstar ever may dwell I sit on the throne Fear my name as it rides I forged the ring The ring that spelled the doom of the time In the tower of darkness With the eye I see On this day remember the name of your king was me Darkness descends wherever I may ride From the servants of Melkor, none can hide I am the whisper in your ear The shadow, the slithering fear I sit on the throne Fear my name as it rides aaa I sunk the city The city of the heroes of ancient time In the tower of darkness With the eye I see On this day remember the name of your king was me Unholy Ceremony I see The ring of power Is me I sit on the throne Fear my name as it rides I waged the wars The wars that brought the world down In the tower of darkness With one eye I see On this day remember the name of your king was me In the black halls of fire Far away from the light Under the sign of evil I give this ring to you to be mine
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The cackle of insanity gone with the flames A vision in the moonlight Of what might have been But can this husk recall? Can we even see? When Cymorill loved me How it used to be As the screams of lust and torment fill my mind And a voice calls to a void beyond our own Blood and souls for my lord must be awoken Say, is there still something left of me In the city of dreams It calls my namew Oh mighty Stormbringer A new time it dawns in blood and souls Over the city of dreams Went the final soul Arioch oh Arioch! The sun doth set on the burning city of dreams The sin of generations Putrefied in cinder The kingdom of an empire Gone with the wind I am the last one Of a long noble line A weak pale ghost Shivering inside As the screams of lust and torment fill my mind And a voice calls to a void beyond our own Blood and souls for my lord must be awoken Say, is there still something left of me In the city of dreams It calls my name Oh mighty Stormbringer A new time it dawns in the city of dreams Went the final soul Oh Arioch oh Arioch! The sun doth burn in the city of dreams In the city of dreams Went the final soul Oh mighty Stormbringer A new time it dawns in blood and souls Over the city of dreams Went the final soul oh Arioch! The sun doth set
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Forged in black ice A war with the sun Gather my legions The light we shall shun In deep-under black bits where darkness shall reign I wear the soot crown Heareth my name But in the kingdoms that no one remembers No morning light can bring back the life The ash of the kingdoms that no one remembers Will spread to the wind be forgotten forever Left is the name that you know to be mine Underneath a pale blue moon Wakes a people by a lake of ever bloom Come with me, follow the sound Hear my music, by its whisper forever be bound We ride! But in the kingdoms that no one remembers The promise of falls gods is wiped from the world The ash of the kingdoms that no one remembers Will spread to the wind be forgotten forever Left is the face that you know to be mine The fire is black The memory awoken The spirit is black The memory forgotten Born in the kingdom that no one remembers Your soul is black and shunned from the start There be no penance for you and your kind History remembers only the deeds Left is the legacy you know to be mine

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"An epic musical narrative, both gloom shrouded and frenzied, melancholy and murderous, haunting and majestic,"
- No Clean Singing

"...Cirkeln builds upon the legacy of viking-era Bathory rather than Summoning and incorporates influences ranging from doom to heavy metal and traditional black metal into fold as well..."
- Toilet Ov Hell

“Kingdoms That No One Remembers” is a record based on the love for fantasy, mythology and storytelling. The songs started thematically as interpretations of Tolkien’s legendarium – specifically his earlier and more mythological work. Over time it morphed into a collection of stories and tales of archaic magic, deep-hidden dungeons, distant lands, mystical cosmology, and some good old fashioned adventure.

Musically the album is continuing the epic tradition of Bathory with shades of cathartic Black, riffing Doom, and traditional epic heavy metal.

credits

released June 4, 2020

Music & Lyrics, Performance, and Production by Våndarr
Sounds by the mysterious Å
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden November 2019 - April 2020.
"The Haven of Morionde" artwork by Roger Garland, used with kind permission by Linda Garland at the Lakeside Gallery.

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Cirkeln Stockholm, Sweden

Epic Anti-Fascist Black Metal from the Swedish metal underground.

Love Metal | Hate Fascism

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