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Hella

from votIVe by Ophidian Forest

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    7-track, 50-minute CD with 12-page booklet. Each song in the booklet comes with a piece of art for that track. All art by BlackInkVoid. CD pressed by Code666.

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    New to Ophidian Forest? Here's our appraised 4rth album VotIVe from 2018, together with 3 archive pieces from yesteryear from the period 2009-2012.

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lyrics

These misty hills
We climb the burial mound
Offerings for the deceased
Lie scattered around

We pass a winding path
To fields of reed below
They speak to me in words
Their meaning I don't know

And as the water sounds
A bridge comes into sight
And at the edge below
The river roars with might

The bridge only the dead may cross
Not meant for me to see
Weighted by gold and guard
But I'm in Hella's company

Proceeding on a sandy path
She gestures welcoming
A "Path of Hel" is what it's called
Toward the "Heathland's Sting"

For there lies sharpness all around
To pierce through dead men's feet
As they wander toward crossroads
Some of them shall bleed

On the way to the Well of Judgement
In order to be free
At the High Seats of the Gods
And by the roots of the Earth Tree

Hella's Realm is here
Where all streams are born
Where all souls come to gather
The Brave, the Wicked, the Forlorn

The evil souls without their guard
Compelled to wallow through torment
They cross the river of War Blades
Which flows so soft, cuts without end

To the other side of Gjöll
Up north to Nifelheim, so cold
Stands Hella's fortress in the mist
Where destinies of souls unfold

The murderers, the thieves and crooks
At bloody streams, 'neath poison rain
Inflict their due upon themselves
Until they sense what's right again

Hella's land, where they resent
The things they didn't feel
The oathless and the honourless
Be purified through harsh ordeal.

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from votIVe, released October 26, 2018

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Ophidian Forest San Francisco, California

Pantheistic black metal band from the United States and The Netherlands.

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