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Secrets Of The Land

by Sviatibor

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1.
Strong branches bound by one scarlet sap Rooted in a mysterious and fertile land We grow, by the echoes of our faithful chants We fight as one in our quest to reach the haven of the Sun Powered by the shine of this glorious gaze We dwell in honor, guarded by a celestial hand Through the realms of Life and Death, we embrace our destiny We will not behold the great illusion of time For we stand among the bodiless who cross the cold river Born from the ashes of wars We survived the dark rains of swords and arrows We survived the soiled and relentless blood streams For we are protected and blessed by the all-mighty being We are the heralds of the sun As incarnated deities, with soldiers' eyes We protect the vastitude of the old continent Guided by the echoes of our former existences The temporal omniscience is our strongest weapon We are the winds, the breath of the Earth As a sacred mission, we spread the seeds, for the survival of our land
2.
As I walk, alone, in the golden fields I feel in the wheat ways The buried footsteps of my forebears These resemble mines, I have been there before This path I have to follow, for this path I've once traced The ghost of my former existence is my guide It will lead me to my hidden citadel Whose foundations were built by old bodies bones Lost in the vastitude of the old continent Years and years of wanderings in cold forests and sinuous ways Will I ever find it ? Where do these echoes come from ? Every night I see the moon's beams But my eyes never caught its shape I can not see through the black clouds I can not hear through the sad wolves howlings The ghost of my former existence is my guide It will lead me to my hidden citadel Whose foundations were built by old bodies bones The way is crystal clear, for the secrets of the land resonate in my veins Here was the source, here is the call This path I have to follow
3.
Blood boiling, recovering my name Coming back to the land, in a new body There is no death for the honorable
4.
In the burial mound, ceremoniously Alone, but guided by blood I remember my past memories In the stone cold labyrinth On the honorable's steps To resurrection, I'm circulating in the hall of the fallen ones I am taking back my former belongings And by a sacred contact, I recover an ancient knowledge Deeply buried in a millenary blood I hear the call I hear the call I hear the call of my forebears Blood boiling, recovering my name Coming back to the land in a new body After the ritual Out of the mound From the ancient cave Where I'm buried and resurrected
5.
Drops of sacred tears lost in the river of time It is but a stream of conscious sorrow For our eyes are burnt by the glow of a divine star Which offered us life in a splendid land Among the ancient trees, and the honorable's burial haven As the armies of a luminous eye As a light in darkness As a prayer in a silent obscurity The beams of our faithful chants will dwell, forever, in eternity We are the heralds of the sun We sing the beauty of our land And as incarnated deities, with soldiers' eyes We engrave this ode to the all-mighty being We are the heralds of the all-mighty Belus, incarnated on this earth in the white shining land of snow, illuminated, by the spirit of the ancient ways We are the heralds of the sun
6.
Across the living, vast plains of fertile soil Across the warm winds, clothed with whispers of gods I'm walking, searching for my haven There I desist, stopped by a monument A gigantic fresco stands before me It still contains a long past breath It still whispers the words of my forebears By this mountain sight The drops of my tears will feed the seeds Left by those who once carried my blood And unfold the secret path Alone, I enter the realm of the gods Trusting the memories carved in my soul I feel at home, in this mysterious maze Physically, the past is seizing my body I hear the abyssal call and my past self reaching me out Surrounded by the ghosts of yore I hear their breath, their deeds and souls I see their shadows, casted by our common Sun I can not go any further The door is locked, and a key is needed There is one soul, for one body And no body can swim across the river of time A key is hidden in the eternal sleep As night cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness, I enter this journey The Star was revealed in obscurity I'm seizing it by my last breath My eyelids rise up heavily I'm sitting by a warm and peaceful fire My forebears no longer whisper, for they stand by my side.

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After four years of silence, it is finally time for SVIATIBOR to unveil their new release.

SECRETS OF THE LAND is a massive work of Pagan Atmospheric Metal music, gathering numerous layers of epic orchestration, electronic soundscapes and folk instruments. It will take you on an inward journey through the ways of yore, and let you hear the voices of your ancestors speaking in your heart.

credits

released October 15, 2020

• All music and lyrics written between 2015 and 2018 by Thomas Hornstein.

Line-up:

• Vocals, bass guitar, guitars, traditional flute and mouth harp by Thomas Hornstein.

• Drums by Léo Appaix.

• Guitar solo on track 4 composed and performed by Thibault Carcenac.

• Guitar solo on track 5 composed by Thomas Hornstein, performed by Thibault Carcenac.

• Keyboard solo on track 5 composed and performed by Axel Plantade.

• Guest vocals part on track 5 by Axel Plantade.

• Orchestrations by Thomas Hornstein.

• Recorded by Thomas Hornstein.

• Mixed and mastered by Thomas Hornstein.

• Front cover artwork by Kris Verwimp.

• Sviatibor logo by Wappenschmied.

Many thanks to Geoffrey Hindré, Olivier Molina and Maite Hindré for their help.

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Sviatibor France

Sviatibor is a Pagan Atmospheric Metal duo from France.

Members: Léo Appaix / Thomas Hornstein.

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