Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Ash on your tongue

Smoke in your lungs

You followed the drums

To the edge of the world

Cracked stone gates

Teeth like thrones

Every old prayer

Turns back to dirt

Can you feel it crawling under your skin?

All the oaths you broke

Calling you in (calling you in)

Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Where every lost name burns in the dark

Step through the howl and the iron rain

Let it carve its mark

Carve its mark

If you came here empty

You’ll leave remade

Steel in your bones

Blood in the haze

Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Where cowards are crushed and the fearless are forged

Banners like scars

Hung from the cliffs

Skulls in a row

Grinning for bliss

Hands on the stone

You swear what you are

Either you bend

Or you shatter apart

Hear the broken

Singing under the ground

Every buried shout

Rising up now (rising up now)

Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Where every lost name burns in the dark

Step through the howl and the iron rain

Let it carve its mark

Carve its mark

If you came here empty

You’ll leave remade

Steel in your bones

Blood in the haze

Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Where cowards are crushed and the fearless are forged

[Halftime riff

Distant choir chanting “black flame”]

Kneel or climb

Choose your pyre

Be the ash

Or be the fire (hey!)

Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Where every lost name burns in the dark

Step through the howl and the iron rain

Let it carve its mark

Carve its mark

If you came here empty

You’ll leave remade

Scar on your soul

You’ll carry the name

Welcome to Vale of the Black Flame

Raise up your fists as the old world is torched