Name: Spires to Ashes (Demo)
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: "Spires to Ashes" was the fourth original track composed by Scythian as a three-piece band, after being joined by vocalist S. Vrath in 2006. The lyrics were a heavy tribute to the literary world of Robert E. Howard.

Spires to Ashes (Demo)

from Suffering to the Conquered (Demo) by Scythian

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"Spires to Ashes" was the fourth original track composed by Scythian as a three-piece band, after being joined by vocalist S. Vrath in 2006. The lyrics were a heavy tribute to the literary world of Robert E. Howard.

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Fall beneath the glistening sun, on starving earth they shatter
The spires of an age of gold return to crumbling matter
Cities of bejewelled splendour, bleak and white as bone
The symbols of their dominance today are overthrown

Spires... Ashes!
Reduced to earth and stone
Spires... Ashes!
The winds of change have blown

Banners raise in thousands, the mountains call our name
The rivers part before us as the forests rise in flames
Pillars shake and tremble to the rhythm of our feet
Their lands will fear our armies and their waters fear our fleet

Fall beneath the glistening sun on starving earth they shatter
The spires of an age of gold return to crumbling matter
That once they lived in greatness comes to nothing in our eyes
From the bodies of the fallen greater days shall come to rise...

Cast our eyes towards the east in greater dreams of power
Oracles sing devastation, nearer comes the hour
Their pyramids will topple, shattered skies above the loom
As empires turn to nothing, cry in god-forsaken doom!

Banners raise in thousands, the mountains call our name
The rivers part before us as the forest rise in flames
Pillars shake and tremble to the rhythm of our feet
Their lands will fear our armies and their waters fear our fleet

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from Suffering to the Conquered (Demo), released May 13, 2007
Written by A. Von Moller / J.C. Volgard in 2006
Lyrics by A. Von Moller

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