Throne of the Impaler

[Intro]
[Rumbling toms
War horns in the distance]
Ravens circle
Torches crawl
Dust of armies
Shakes the wall
[Verse 1]
He rides from the red horizon
Iron mask
Unblinking stare
Mud on his battered banners
Dried like prayers in the air
Broken crowns in a sack of leather
Chains that rattle like a curse
Breath like winter on the wheat fields
Name they whisper in reverse
[Chorus]
Throne of the Impaler
Forest made of fear and bone
Crimson over craters
All the tyrants overthrown
Raise your voice
Vlad Dracul’s heir
(woah-oh)
Sing for those who never slept
Throne of the Impaler
King of stakes the daylight left
[Verse 2]
Road of poles at the city border
Silent choir
Swaying slow
Flies like incense over armor
Priests too scared to speak his woe
He carves treaties into traitors
Signs in salt and sweat and flame
Mercy buried in the ditches
Order hammered out of shame
[Chorus]
Throne of the Impaler
Forest made of fear and bone
Crimson over craters
All the tyrants overthrown
Raise your voice
Vlad Dracul’s heir
(hey!)
Sing for those who never slept
Throne of the Impaler
King of stakes the daylight left
[Bridge]
[Female vocal soaring
Male growls answering]
Daughter of the bloodline cries
“Father
Are we damned or saved?”
He just stares at smoking skies
Counts the crosses on their graves
“I was forged in foreign dungeons
Fed on chains and foreign lies
If they worship gold and slaughter
I will rule what terror buys”
[Chorus]
Throne of the Impaler
Forest made of fear and bone
Crimson over craters
All the tyrants overthrown
Raise your voice
Vlad Dracul’s heir
(woah-oh, ride on)
Sing for those who never slept
Throne of the Impaler
King of stakes the daylight left
[Outro]
[Tempo pushes faster
Choir joins]
Ride
Oh rider of the dusk
Through the ash and broken steel
Till the last pale banner falls
And their trembling kingdoms kneel

metal, Dual-vocal power metal epic with female melodic lead and male harsh counterpoint. Galloping double-kicks, harmonized guitars, and choirs in the chorus; mid-tempo stomp in the verse. Orchestral pads under big hooks, shredding solo after the second chorus, dramatic key change on the final hook. Big, theatrical, battlefield energy., power metal