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Nerthus

from votIVe by Ophidian Forest

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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

In the holy grove, the ceremony begins
The image of mother earth is passing by
She is Nerthus, the pure and untouchable
She speaks in minds like spirits fly

I'm the embodiment of Holy Power
Awe-inspiring and held in such great esteem
Curious eyes would meet their fatal hour
For I'm concealed, 'neath a veil, like a hidden dream

The cart goes slow, they beat the drum
As song and chant clear the way
Clear the way!

My tears cause floods drowning hope or tomorrow
My fury makes the ground tremble with fear
Yet I'm the one to make your precious crops grow
You harvest them before the winter's here

I wield the code for life inside the seed
Controlling soil, enabling plants to feed
I, Nerthus, command plants to wither and die
Death, it feeds life, answering questions why

See tribes surrounded by the salt of the sea
And those who live by the riverside
Rival each other, yet they worship me
For I am Nerthus, I'm the undenied

The day has come for her authority
Rejoice, pay tribute by festivity!
For she is balance, clean, without a stain
Divides the laws 'tween sacred and profane

By the hands of the condemned shall be cleansed my veil
Purity in the well, at the bog ends their tale
A ligature to bond with the divine
I am Nerthus, and you are mine!

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from votIVe, released October 26, 2018

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

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