Intro — mechanical pulse riff / Architects-inspired tension
Low tuned guitars. Distant war drums. Choir ambience rising.
Ash falls thick on shattered shields
Iron rain across the fields
Every banner bends in fear
When the giant figure nears
Boots collide like thunder cracks
Bodies break beneath attacks
Teeth of wolves around his throat
Death itself inside his oath
Verse 1
Born where blizzards strip the skin
Raised where weaker blood grows thin
Frozen rivers turned him stone
Northern wrath inside the bone
Kings arrived with fire and chains
Burned his world for fertile plains
Children hanging from the trees
Mothers drowned beside the seas
Since that dusk he crossed the land
With destruction in his hands
Every fortress left erased
Every ruler stripped of grace
Pre-Chorus
Hear the war drums
Hear them shake the sky
Every heartbeat
Marching men to die
CHORUS
BARBARIAN
Break the columns — split them wide
BARBARIAN
Blood-red rivers drown the land
BARBARIAN
Through the arrows through the flame
No god alive can make him kneel again
BARBARIAN
Steel erupts with savage force
BARBARIAN
Like an avalanche at war
Every kingdom every wall
Falls before the bear-skull lord
Verse 2
Spears collide against his chest
Still he marches through the rest
One red eye beneath the bone
Burning colder than the throne
Horses screaming turning wild
Veterans reduced to child
Shield lines shattered by the swing
Like dead branches in the wind
Mercenaries trail behind
Terrified yet hypnotized
Not for silver not for land
Only fear keeps them at hand
Pre-Chorus
Hear the war drums
Hear them split the air
Every soldier
Praying he’s not there
CHORUS
BARBARIAN
Break the columns — split them wide
BARBARIAN
Blood-red rivers drown the land
BARBARIAN
Through the arrows through the flame
No god alive can make him kneel again
BARBARIAN
Steel erupts with savage force
BARBARIAN
Like an avalanche at war
Every kingdom every wall
Falls before the bear-skull lord
HEAVY GUITAR SOLO
Violent tremolo picking. Divebombs. Crushing halftime groove.
Bridge
No home to return to
No blood left to mourn
Only the silence
Where empires were torn
Ten thousand torches
Across the plain
One man advancing
Through hurricane rain
BREAKDOWN
ONE AGAINST A HUNDRED THOUSAND
STILL THE EARTH BEGAN TO SHAKE
ONE AGAINST A HUNDRED THOUSAND
EVERY LINE COLLAPSED IN WAKE
CUT THEM DOWN
CUT THEM DOWN
LIKE FORESTS BEFORE THE STORM
CUT THEM DOWN
CUT THEM DOWN
UNTIL THE WORLD IS REBORN
Final Chorus — Arena Style
BARBARIAN
Break the heavens let them fall
BARBARIAN
Hear the final kingdom call
BARBARIAN
Every tyrant every chain
Buried underneath the slain
BARBARIAN
Still his shadow stalks the snow
BARBARIAN
Where the blackened cold winds blow
When the mountains start to roar
He is marching back to war
FINAL GUITAR SOLO
Huge melodic lead over pounding drums and choir layers.
Outro whispered:
"Some wars never end..."
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