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Sandraudiga

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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  • 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

The forest is the temple
The oak a holy tree
The Frisian defense
The Roman enemy
The marshlands for them
No place to be
For us it is a sanctuary

Baduhenna, Baduhenna

This is the land overrun by the south
This is the eagle that preys on our soul
Splendour of falsehood is blinding our hate
Out to devour us, living and whole

Baduhenna, Baduhenna

She is the one that will make us stand up
Firm our grip round the spears in our hands
Time to oppose all the powers that be
And gather the force to free our lands

Curse Olennius! He who stamps on us
Baduhenna's call -- She demands his fall
Curse Olennius! He's the scourge of us! 
Drive him out and let Baduhenna rule

First they come and take the hide
(And then) they will say it won't suffice
(And then) they will confiscate the field
But there's no use to talk 
'gainst a sword and shield
In the end they enslave the wife and child
'til there's nothing to yield!

Curse Olennius! He who stamps on us
Baduhenna's call -- She demands his fall
Curse Olennius! He's the scourge of us! 
Drive him out and let Baduhenna rule

Hark, Frisian men:
There's a holy voice
And it speaks and says "No More!"

The antler grants us vigilance
The claw gives predatorial zeal
The horn will pierce armour and shield
The tusk through flesh from shin to heel

We're heading to Olennius' camp 
There's only one solution:
We will quench their thirst for tributes 
With our retribution!

And lo, they fled to safer grounds
Castellum Flevum, the Roman fort
But it shall not withstand the wrath
Of Baduhenna's horde!

A siege ensues, the horde it is
Repelled by forces of might
But only just, and reinforcements
Soon come into sight

As Romans march to marshy ground
Eternal night is found

Morning comes, but not...
...For the oppressor's force
For the adversary
In pursuit of our throats
But sinking to the knee
Baduhenna takes life of those
Defiling her sanctuary

Hark, Frisian men:
There's a holy voice
And it speaks and says "No more!"

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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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