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Devoted Northern Spirit

by Louksna

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1.
Walking through thick mud, watching the clever crows flying content with the wind, my heart fills with bliss.. Devoted northern spirit, guide me through the perils. Devoted northern spirit, give me the strength to fight. Sun, sweat, misery, sweat! Devoted northern spirit! Trekking through the forest, fever in my blood, reaching for the ruins, beacons of what once was...
2.
Towards the mountains they sing, always protecting the scepter, always fighting the good fight, facing the inevitable winds. Night of intoxication, memories distant and true, fighting through shallow temptations, thinking of the ways you would move. Aging to your sacred words, like when you touched the hemlock. Stoic, reserved and true. Memories of the elders...
3.
Riding to the death, with my devoted spirit, screams of my brothers, the beginning of summer. Steel and arrow, and a heart full of fear, but forward we ride, to meet what is to come... Thinking of my wife, and the newly born flowers. Will I ever see her? Will this be my death? Steel and arrow, and a cold wind from the north, but forward we ride, to meet what is to come...
4.
Talking to my feeble god, wounded and torn to pieces, the sun died with me in battle, you turned and stole my gods. Into my fields of memory, forests as deep as the signs, the sun died with me in battle, no one will know my name. Death! Misery! Death! Wounded!
5.
When the town awakens, I feel a sense of closure, A beating in the blood, a fire of ancient glow. When their eyes come through me, I feel a sense of kin, fleeting though honest, I take another chance. Forever in exile, in this frozen tomb of ice, ancient oaks surround me, and the laughter of spring...

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Written and recorded April & May of 2022, independently by Louksna.

"For the north... Where I became a man." -Etienne Tel'uial

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released May 27, 2022

All instruments & vocals by Etienne Tel'uial.

All songs written and performed by Etienne Tel'uial.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Etienne Tel'uial.

Cover art: "Wild Hunt" (Wilde Jagd) by Franz von Stuck.

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Louksna is the one-man black metal project of Etienne Tel'uial.

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