"Fenrir Hunts" lyrics - ABBATH

Rank and file of legions, vile form their battle lines
Clad in armor black as night, northern darkness shines
Banners raised, skin of slaves, slap in Vanir's breeze
Seidmen cut rune wards deep, Hel thaws all shall freeze

[Chorus:]
Release the flood, rampant tide of blood
Will fill this black lagoon
Warriors weened on gore and gruel must heed
Carrion call of doom

Pack master, unleash the reavers eager for rapine
Emerge from lair of ice and gneiss cave and ravine
Vulpine scouts, winter, lean, scent meat on ripe spore
Feast awaits the frenzy of rabid fang and claw

[Chorus:]
Volcanic shores bleed a gush of iron ore
From ashes death will bloom
Howl for Hel, voracious dogs of war
Fenrir hunts, snap jaws of doom

[Bridge:]
Skills to hone, swords to whet to keen edge damascene
Spear tip to taper, arrow fletch, hammerhead to clean
In spleen
Shield to boss, helm to crest, battle axe to grind
Wound to stitch, gut to void, berzerker, rage to blind
Sick mind

[Guitar solo]

[Bridge:]
Beneath a shroud of bludgeoned sky
We tread the dust on corpse, strewn roads
Hum laments of requiems, half-remembered odes
Of orphaned brats, weeping widows

March to crack of thunder, Ragnarok in our eyes
Drumbeat of the damned, we salute your sacrifice
March for love of slaughter, drunk on wine of blades
Fight for eternal night until the end of days

[Chorus:]
Release the flood, a rampant tide of blood
Fill this black lagoon
Warriors weened, gore and gruel must heed
The carrion call
Volcanic shores, a gush of iron ore
From ashes death will bloom
Howl for Hel, voracious dogs of war
Fenrir hunts, snap jaws of doom