FAWM: "Horn-Crowned"

Horn-Crowned

1 week ago by @hmorg

Liner Notes

#metal #blackmetal #deathmetal #thrashmetal #mnet
After a weekend away from home playing recording engineer for a black metal band, I needed a couple days to rest both my body and my ears. Yesterday, however, I got the creative juices flowing again. The intro riff from this had formed as an idea in my head the night before, but I was too tired and lazy to try to write it down then and there, so this version might not be exactly as I first thought, but it works. Lyrically, there's parallels to be drawn to the current political climate, the movie The Omen and the standard biblical horror imagery is present of course.

Lyrics

Behold, unholy contract
The age of dark begins
Swallowed in mephitic dreams
The horn-crowned beast walks the Earth
With his staff in hand
To befoul the land

A tremor from the underworld
An omen of war
Rises, the horn-crowned beast
To rule us all
Caressed with an iron fist
Humankind bows down
Enraptured in reverence
To the lord of this world

Beguiled by offerings
Bewitched by greed
We fall willingly
Prostrate ourselves before the throne
Of the Plutonian one
His rule is complete

A tremor from the underworld
An omen of war
Rises, the horn-crowned beast
To rule us all
Caressed with an iron fist
Humankind bows down
Enraptured in reverence
To the lord of this world

Comments

@communitykickabout 2d

love the changes in rhythm for the 'with staff in hand' and then how some it drives on for the next section - really great structure to the whole song. The vocals sound great, and great lines; 'caressed with an iron fist' is a fav.

@kembole 1w

Brutal, yet again. The riff that starts at the one minute mark strangely sounds like someone with a leg injury fleeing. Don't know why. Just a clunky feel that is highlighted after the double bass part. This year your songs do really do some tricks to my imagination. All the songs seem to come to life because your lyrics and the soundscape.