| Into the Primordial | ||
|---|---|---|
| # | Track | Length |
| 1 | Second Son | 7:17 |
| 2 | Haunter of the Dark | 8:40 |
| 3 | Into the Primordial | 6:46 |
| 4 | Wings Over Asgård | 6:05 |
| 5 | Supernatural Warfare | 8:20 |
| 6 | Evenfall | 2:39 |
| 7 | New Dawn Arise | 5:22 |
| 8 | Sarnath | 8:01 |
| Bonus Tracks: | ||
| 9 | Forest of the Dead | 5:22 |
| 10 | Whisper Suffering | 8:08 |
Into The Primordial Band Lineup
Tim Regan: Guitar, Vocals
Greg Jones: Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals
Aaron El-Zeftawy: Bass, Vocals
Alex Rudinger: Drums
Dave Spencer: Guest Drums, Vocals
Drums on tracks 1-8 by Dave “Spencehammer” Spencer
Drums on tracks 9-10 by Alex Rudinger
Drums for bonus tracks recorded at Brutal Studios August 2007
Keyboards by Dave Spencer
Additional vocals by Dave Spencer and Alex Rudinger
Bass on “Haunter of the Dark,” “New Dawn Arise,”
and “Forest of the Dead” interlude by Tim Regan
Bass solo in “New Dawn Arise” by Aaron El-Zeftawy
Additional bass by Matt Ibach
All music written by Tim Regan, Greg Jones, and Burning Shadows
except “Forest of the Dead” by Brian Knesel and Tim Regan
All lyrics written by Greg Jones and Tim Regan
except “Forest of the Dead” by Brian Knesel
Into the Primordial was recorded July-September 2006 at RexRiot
Recordings and May-August 2007 in The Halls of Glory
Bonus tracks recorded August-September 2007 in The Halls of Glory
Engineered by RexRiot (RexRiot Recordings), Tim Regan (The Halls of Glory),
Aaron El-Zeftawy & Greg Jones (Brutal Studios)
Conceived in battle to appropriate the throne
In realms of endless sorrow
Maddening reign
Slain in captivity to foreign realms unknown
A burst ascending from below, the first is born again
Summoning the night
Wrapped in iron chains
Heathens riding across the sky to guide the shadows home
Night, glorious night
The holiest fight
The legacy of the chosen one
Honor and pride
On mountains we rise
The legacy of the second son
A undulated flame is soaring through the sky
Two-headed beast begot this plague of the king
A twisted figure clad in gold and laced with blood and bred for war
His labyrinth descending on the enemy
Marching to their fate
Scourge of hate arise
Inquisition gates have opened
Calling out my name
Wretched voices in the dark
Hear them calling
Through seven reigns upon this long-forsaken throne
Far beyond the storm
They will abide by the father of all lies
Just another fallen son
Now he rises
Through the ashes of a noble ruler
Vengeance lies within
They will be bound forever more
I struggle in the dark
Arising, impending night
The horizon fades, and
Shadows engulf the light
My eyes are fixed
On that horrid tower
The haunter watches me
Will the be my final hour?
On this eve it has been seen
Through twisted veins of light
Wanderlust invades my dreams
It’s coming for me tonight
Hiding in this room,
Respite in the candle's glow
Still reeling from the dreams
Of the horrors only I know
The black mist that looks through me
Is still there when I shut my eyes
My pulse is racing, fear is raging
Each breath, a final sigh
On this eve it has been seen
Through twisted veins of light
Living shadows invade my dreams
It’s coming for me tonight
Celestial wisdom I now hold
I know the truth
Gazing to the western skies
I know the truth
Silhouette of fear
I know the truth
Shadows tear through the night
The storm is drawing near
Tonight
/I have whirled with the earth at the dawning,
When the sky was a vaporous flame;
I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge or lustre or name.
I had drifted o'er seas without ending,
Under sinister grey-clouded skies,
That the many-forked lightning is rending,
That resound with hysterical cries....
/-H.P. Lovecraft
Grant the lightning strength
For only it can save me
I see things unknown before
Things that cannot be
I feel the tower reaching to me
Light is dark and dark is light
Raging hell-wind, I'm helpless
I give myself up to the night
On this eve it has been seen
Through twisted veins of light
The haunter that invades my dreams
Is coming for me tonight
Beneath the burning red
Where heaven turns to ash
Eleven rivers in the crimson void
Within this shattered sea
An ancient hallowed cry
Is calling forth into the northern realm
Molten with fire and cast into the rimey deeps
I am the bringer, the giver
Cold as a winter's eve
Casting the fallen oak into where earth meets sea
I bestow the weak who worship eternally
Lost in damnation
With hate and hallowed stone
Wounds of creation manifest in the unknown
Shattered life force, ruined
Spawning sea and sky
We are the children of the everlasting lie
Sun and moon
Show me the way
Scorn the flesh
To fall in the end
Lords of ice
Here among the slain
Burn within
Where gods will transcend
Falling into the black
Facing a certain death
Cast forth the ashes of doers of malcontent
But from corrosive site
New enchanter born
Mistress of evil forsaken and forlorn
Instrumental
Under a spell of regressive unease
Struggle to gather what my mind decrees
Scattered about are these visions of mine
With tidings of war, and the ghastly ill signs
Men of deception creating the ultimate divine
Creed and corruption dancing with fate as they entwine
Standing alone here in search of the key
To fortunes we'd hitherto never foresee
A price for the living of lives so in vain
That yearn for the threshold of pleasure and pain
Shattered and lifeless disfiguring everything I see
Screams of redemption, bleeding into a misery
Where the twisted one dwells casting archaic spells unto me
Just once in time I failed to see
The flash of darkness in your eyes
That shed my blindness away
To manifest within mankind
A ceremony of infernal might
Paints your hollow prophecies with fire!
Our life continues
A futile waste of man
Bereft of all progression
Never to understand
So the moral chains of existence
Are sealed to well within
Quest for darkness continues
Death of man begins
And slowly we fade into the edges of time
Cold, shattered and grim
Crossing the plain
Black is the air
With silence insane
Eyes peer through the mist
Seeing the light
Stricken with fear entranced buy the sight
Child, follow me now
Into my home
Dismal and bleak
This kingdom I roam
There, over the hills
Lies the abyss
There you will find
Solace and bliss
Instrumental
Spirit born aflame in ancient mute decay
In solitude we are reborn
Like a winter's eve, so pale and grey it came
Where ashes lay upon my grave
Bound forevermore
A new dawn arise
A hope in the dark
Forever reborn
With blood on his hands
This morning journey
A sign of fate
It holds me close
And speaks to me in tongues of fire
Wordless in the dark they preach
Unleashed into the night
Running and hunting forever it seems
Eluding the castaway
Forging the path for a hope of tomorrow
A future gone astray
Glory forsaken while you held the line
A future plain to see
Given to suffer, is this how it ends?
Are we just martyrs of your misery?
Ancient fields lie fallow lost in time
As old as the land itself, here they thrive
In their city formed of cold gray stone
The heathens dance for idols of gods unknown
The creatures, once revered, we abhor
Sarnath, across the lake, lies adored
An unexplained hate fills our veins
Our high priests will rule these barren plains
Today we attack under dawn's first rays
Vanguard of man will lead through the haze
Beneath the sun's incessant gaze
Ending the weak with triumphant praise
In our gardens thrive eternal spring
Statues and shrines adorn the green
Holy city, sworn to uphold god’s word
Realize the theater of the absurd
Today we attack under dawn's first rays
Vanguard of man will lead through the haze
The Earth will weep, the sky will quake
Drown the weak beneath the lake
On the thousandth year of their victory
Awakening amongst the dying waves
Tonight our warlords will arise
Beneath the water vengeance lies
Tonight we attack under moonlight's veil
Driven by hate we shall not fail
A living nightmare, reigning death
We shall rob them of their final breath
Nights before the death had come
Faint lights shone upon the water
Shadows fell before Sarnath’s gates
And a gibbous moon called to the lake
Close to the hour of midnight
The bronze-wrought gates burst wide
Those within fled in fright
From the shadows cast unto the night
For hordes of the dead had risen
Dancing horribly, bringing ruin
To the temples and gods of Sarnath
Upon the ground their bodies dashed
Gardens now set ablaze
Doom scrawled upon the altar
A new mist above the lake
Crimson hue the air does take
Enter a boy who lives in seclusion
Who knows of the beast, or just a delusion
Nature's revenge, sent to kill from Hell
Keep away from the depths of the well
Hellsent creature, capture to sacrifice
Forest controlled by unholy device
Family taken from his home as he dreams
The nightmares of deathly spoken screams
A deathly chill, beware the hills for The Ones kill
This prophecy, it will soon be
Hate breeding death
The demons call, the humans fall, death to all
A living hell for those who dwell
In the Forest of the Dead
Enter a man, friend or foe?
Unnaturally calm, his ignorance shows
Is this the follower of the evil ones?
Await the messenger who this way comes
Desolate region, ambushed at night
Unstoppable being, the boy takes off in flight
Running in darkness, the forest his only escape
Watching his family, the daggers penetrate
I am to die, by the ones from the ground
They tear me apart, my flesh all around
Beware these hills, and keep from the well
The demons now come to take me to Hell
I live in a sorrow too deep for me
What has befallen me?
Nightspirit came to embrace my soul
The sun has betrayed me, defiled by cruelty
What has brought thee rivers
Greets me with thunderous waves of hate
Shot down, fall from grace
The tears of death undo my face
The warriors will take my life
Betrayal won't remove the knife
Now avenge my living, a living too cold for me
The end will greet me
Darkest cloud has come to possess my soul
It was all so innocent, children of the savior
But the angel's inferno is all the earth can understand
Where did we go wrong?
The madness in our veins is growing stronger
It's not enough for us to pray
I hope you see it now, that heaven is condemned
And I, I whisper suffering, and bid this world a cold farewell again
All Material © 2007 Burning Shadows