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Thus Spake The Nightspirit

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Close your eyes and gaze into this realm that I reveal. See where eternities are born. Close your eyes, behold the powers of the broken seal. See the liars bound in thorns.
Fear, and you shall fall. Weakness suffocates your will. Dare, yet never fail. Wisdom guides the one. The strong who can defy, Death
So I speak, though, am I heard...? Wasting visions on a world of blinded fools.
Still I scorn. The vacant contradiction of life. If only to bewilder. The final truth shall speak my name.
Thus spake the nightspirit.
Nightspirit, spirit, Embrace my soul

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psychedeliasmith On May 10, 2002

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2002-05-10 18:19:46

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by funeralmoon

22y ago

Dedicating yourself to the inevitable darkness during and after life, and cursing those who hypocritically dismiss the darkness, the nightspirit tells you to embrace night (4th line) without fear, but with wisdom and strength.

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by reyes

21y ago

Quite good.

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by fear-dubh

19y ago

mind blowing, this song is just amazing

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by Ddadutta

19y ago

The outro is very beautiful

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by DreamingInTheÆther

18y ago

Whoa... Emperor is badass.

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by Sequirenegatus

17y ago

yet another excellent composition by Ihsahn. This is a Symphonic Black Metal masterpiece

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by Dressed2Depress

16y ago

'broken seal' refers to the breaking of the seven seals in the book of revelations, signifying the apocalypse. 'Liars bound in thorns' refers to Jesus, who was crowned in thorns, and by extension christianity. I also think the title is a reference to the philosophical work of Nietzsche, especially 'Thus Spoke Zarathrustra', which is concerned amongst other things with free will, and the will to power, which is similar to the doctrines of satanists.

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