Naked Steel - Bal-Sagoth

The oracle of war:\nThe crows will pick your bones clean…\nNever sweet the kiss of cold steel.\nThe exultation of battle…\nThe warrior:\nBright swords blessed by nine king’s blood,\nThe elf-witch weaves war-spells upon us,\nNeath the wolf-moon's gaze we shall slake our steel!\nThe warrior: Battle Magic empowers my thews!\nThe oracle of war: The crows will pick your bones clean…\nThe warrior: Red-Tooth thirsts to smite and slaughter!\nThe oracle of war: Never sweet the kiss of cold steel…\nThe shaman’s decree:\nThree stars aligned to assauge thine newborn cries,\nForetold, the hilt of Red-Tooth awaits thine hand\n(kingdoms shall fall before thee!),\nAnd in the Nine Scrolls thine death prophesized.\nThe warrior:\nThe clarion of battle beckons me…\nRed-Tooth crackles with searing spectral energy.\nAye, emperors and kings shall perish beneath my blade!\nThe head of the Eastern Chieftan adorns my spear…\nI’ve a throne to usurp! Into the thick of the fray!\nThe shaman’s decree:\nThis heart that pounds like a hammer,\nThis heart that pounds so strong,\nThis heart that pumps a great warrior’s blood,\nThis heart will pound for half as long.\nThe warrior’s vow:\nBy all the gods…\nI swear the ireful edge of dwarf-forged steel\nShall meet all who dare stand against me!\nMy destiny awaits…\nI shall carve my path in carnage, and inscribe my saga\nUpon the scrolls of legendry in the spilled blood of slaughtered kings!\nThe oracle of war:\nCarnage! And the crows shall feast upon the eyes of the slain!\nThe final dolmen of the Dark Moors is mysteriously missing,\nBelieved removed thousands of years ago by troll war-bands\nAs a trophy of battle…