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Many years ago, a wise man living in the woods
Travelled through the realms, from Tuonela to Pohjola and back
Once he came back to his home, he was not alone
For he was carrying a black creature, breathing steam and fire

It was an iron-haired hound, made of iron and copper
The wise man took it from Tuonela, saying with a warm voice
"You cannot scare me, o' fiery iron hound
For you will be my friend and guard, against the coldest dark"

Eggs I'll feed you, so you'll grow strong
In chains I'll teach you to eat flesh and bones
Of the ice witches, and all of my foes
My fiery friend born in the Underworld!

With the passing of the days, nights and seasons
He teached the iron dog to guard him and to hunt
Walking through the way of the shamans
Marking the passage with its burning thorns and its fire breath

Through the woods, the caves, the mountains
and the earthern valleys covered with grass, or snow, or bloody bones
The wise old shaman defeated solitude and fear
For he now has the faithful hound, his friend and guard, against the coldest dark!

Eggs I'll feed you, so you'll grow strong
In chains I'll teach you to eat flesh and bones
Of the ice witches, and all of my foes
My fiery friend born in the Underworld!

The Moon Goddess slowly covered the land of the Finns with her nightly veil, and sweetly illuminated the snow and the forest, hissing by the voice of the cold wind.
Mother Kuutar couldn't know that the wind was covering a ghastly presence, and the trees, blinded by the snow, couldn't see that this horrible being was standing before the house of the old shaman.

A daughter of cold I am
Spawn of the tenth child of Loviatar
Spectres breathing ice
Queens of the darkest witchcraft

Bleak howling winter wind
Conducted me before your nest
O' old man, alone and weak
For I will triumph and take your life!

"You're wrong, o' ugly witch!

For I a black dog own,
a hound of iron hue
by him I’ll have the eater eaten
I’ll have the biter bitten
Its mouth is burning with fire
its throat is glowing with flame
its teeth resemble cinder-rakes
with a tongue shoved in between
of iron is its heart composed
of copper the entrails in its paunch
It has eaten already a hundred men
destroyed a thousand full-grown men

By it I’ll have thee eaten up!"

It will bite thee bones and all!
It will crunch thee bones and all!
Till thou canst not shake thy head!
Till thou canst not draw thy breath!

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from We Can See the Stars from Our Snow Tombs, released December 25, 2021

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Raw Symphonic Black Metal band from Italy, born in October 2021 from the ashes of Hautaaminen, and lyrically based on finnish mythology and folklore.

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