Dimmu Borgir

For The World To Dictate Our Death

Let us sit by and watch
Death and destruction's devotees revel
Let us sit back and witness
Innocent semen being poured

Into the arms of armageddon
Let it pour, more and more
Pure fucking armageddon
Let it pour more and more

Reason faithfully defiles
On bloodstained hands
Where graceful motion
Are lost arts

There are only battles to be lost
In the kingdoms of the blind
For those who seek salvation
In the dust of the earth
Will only find wrath
In the sands of time

Engulfed by the desert
We taste death in the dry heat
The disciples of prophetic ablution
Had sworn to let the skeptics bleed
For great are their love for warfare
Henchmen of the disastrous creed

Watch us all celebrate in their name
The lambs of our time being slain
Awaiting the final perdition
Defeat against all and everything
For whatever adorned righteousness
Justice never wait for the guilty to speak the truth

[2. bolum tekrari]

For mankind so hated the world
That it gave all it's begotten sons and daughters
That whoever believed the lie
To perish and receive everlasting hell

...

Godless Savage Garden

Moonchild domain

The witchborn queen, leader of demonic whores
Profane mistress, captor of sin
Sworn to feed the ill and the weak
And bring their women and men into temptation

Eliza, the whore of the night
Attends the sabbath, the theatre of lust
The hunter is in the ring, caressing folds of flesh
- diabolical intercourse profound

She who brings horror to the insane
And haunts the sick and its kind
Selector of innocent holy infants
Tempting their flesh, poisoning their mind

The young harlot, who acts by the trust of her fate
Cursed beneath the hands of doom, the grand master of hate
For her and hers the bells chime
Damnation's own

Evil superior siren, moonchild domain
- a sculpture for the holy to burn

Gud's Fortapelse - Åpenbaring Av Dommedag

Hengitt er vi
Til mørkets keiser
Den allmektiges kraft
(Som) fører vårt sinn
I kamp
Mot godhet og løgn

Dog fiendens hær er fAttig
Er den stor
Men vi skal ta dem alle
Og hente dem inn
En etter en

Det håp de ser i gud
Skal forsvinne i et hav av torner
De torner deres falske frelser
Engang følte spikret i sin skalle

Himmelen skal rakne
Og en fandens torden
Skal buldre å brake
Hans krefter vil røyne
Der mørkets front
Beseirer lystes pest

Øyne vil renne i sorg
Når de innser (At) deres gud
Ikke lenger kan hjelpe
Det håp de så i gud
Er svunnet og vekk for alltid

De følger nå sin falske felser
Som fortsAtt er bærer av en krone
Med torner
Men konge ble han ikke

[english translAtion:]

[god's damnAtion-revelAtion of the judgment day]

Devoted are we
To the emperor of the dark
The power of the almighty
(Which)leads our minds
Into bAttle
Against the good and their lies

Though the enemy's army is poor
It is big
But we shall take them all
GAther them up
One by one

The hope they saw in god
Shall i disappear in an ocean of thorns
The thorns their fake messiah
Once felt nailed to his skull

Heaven shall be torn
And a fucking thunder
Shall boulder and roar
His powers will go weak
Where the front of dark
Conquer the plague of light

Eyes will run in sorrow
When they realize (thAt) their god
No longer can help
The hope they found in god
Is gone and so it shall be forever

Now they follow their fake salvAtor
Who still carries a crown of thorns
But king he never became

Heavenly Perverse

Devoted to your own opiate
In escapades from discontentment
Are you shutting off from the outside world
To reflect on your mind shallow gutter?

For this is your empire, this is your intrigue
Here you own them all, here you seal the deed

Contaminated from the spree of self salvation
To keep the fever flowing in the veins
Prominently manipulating heaven and hell
Does your sophistically discreet interlude
Maintain stories not to be revealed?

In your search for redemption
Greed and lies become the savior
Through the lecherous eyes disgust withstand
For are not these the windows to your soul?

Fatherly fornication of sweat lips in dismay
Repeatedly unlocking the vaults to the holocaust
The dormant prodigy seeks it's reason for rebirth
But it will never, never gain the strength

A surrender in superficial scorn
The rape of an ever unborn
Seeds have been planted in the name of the son
Until this day, ungodliness is yet to be gone

Sacramental suicide amidst the flow of virgin vine
The only way to comfort the defeat

[repeat 6th verse]

Regrets can no longer find it's ways
Streams of innocent bitter tears flowing down the drain
Mirrored in the haze of a partaker's eyes

...

Hunnerkongens Sorgsvarte Ferd Over Steppene
Endeløst du kriget på steppene
Nådeløst du herjet i fjellene
Du tok dine seire med storm
Knuste fienden ved din hånd

Oh, attila!
Gjør meg til din tjener
Oh, attila
Ta meg til din her

Du levde i mørke
Du vandret i sorg
Du plyndret med stål til hest
En stolt og stridig konge
Som erobret hver en borg
For så å heise fanen til fest

Attila, hunnernes konge
Krigenes herre, vår far
Du hentet din styrke fra mørke
Og på tokt med deg jeg nå drar

[english translation:]

[the king of the huns' sorrow black journey over the steppes]

Endlessly you fought on the steppes
Unmercifuly you ravaged in the montains
You took you victories with storm
Cruched your enemies with your hand
Oh, attila!
Make me your servant
Oh, attila!
Take me into your army
You lived in the darkness
You wandered in greif
You plundered with steel on horse
A proud and stubborn king
Which conquered each fortress
To so hoist the banner to feast
Attila, king of the huns
King of warriors, our father
You gathered your strength from the darkness
And on plundering i now with you go

Hunnerkongens Sorgsvarte Ferd Over Steppene (Re-recorded Version)

Endeløst du kriget på steppenenådeløst du herjet i fjellenedu tok dine seire med stormknuste fienden ved din håndoh, attila!gjør meg til din tjeneroh, attilata meg til din hærdu levde i mørkedu vandret i sorgdu plyndret med stål til hesten stolt og stridig kongesom erobret hver en borgfor så å heise fanen til festattila, hunnernes kongekrigenes herre, vår fardu hentet din styrke fra mørkeog på tokt med deg jeg nå drar

Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy
Invisible but yet so clear
Reflections seen by a fugitive
Trying to escape the looking glass
Blood runs from open wounds of false flesh
The one in front of the mirror exceeds the image
Eager to leave further but chained still

To crumble into such nothingness
A despairing fate, for your lies
To pretend is the lunatic's legacy
Privileged to bolt the nails of heresy

Born lifeless into a world of coma
As the chronic sufferer trapped in paradise lost
Missing insinuations of what life was meant to be
Angels and demons, a march man's bewildering hosts

[chorus:]
The charlatans and deceivers walk the line in prejudice
The narrow slits the veins in search for the crown
Profound impatience makes the blind struggle in stupidity
The paradox of the daily prayer, diffidence is confiteor
Phenomena of ironies, cast the litany aside
How intelligible, blessed be the forgetful

Holding the banner high, unrestrained
Slowly abandoning the surface in contempt
Still in costumes to please the ways of living
Witnessing the details of defilement, intoxicating

Make sure to be pleased with the ways of your death
For in days of reckoning and when the twilight torn is ticking
Elysium is halfway and as an answer to the plea
You're destined to yield fragments of hell in return

Leave unnoticed with the perfect conscience
With the strength of the spiritual eye
Spirits of the token unchained and free
Recover from the philanthropic macabre frenzy
The pale dove grins, black at heart ready to flee
Demon to some, angel to others

In Death's Embrace

By the light of the moonand the beeings of the nighta curse has been laid upon usto seek and tear celestial gloss to piecesby the power of deathand the shadow of the reapera call has been brought upon usto complete the infinite fall of heavenwithout the wit or will to end this journeywe continue travelling towards our faithharvesting helpless christian spiritsraping the sanctity of saintsthe heavenly father is streching his handpathetically begging for mercywe spit and piss on his sacred fleshas we breathe the breath of the unholyfor with the sign of the pentagramhellfire rage is for us to comeas we shall wander the pituhallowed by the infernal onewe are forever capturedby the embrace of death

In Death's Embrace (Live)

By the light of the moon
And the beeings of the night
A curse has been laid upon us
To seek and tear celestial gloss to pieces

By the power of death
And the shadow of the reaper
A call has been brought upon us
To complete the infinite fall of heaven

Without the wit or will to end this journey
We continue travelling towards our faith
Harvesting helpless Christian spirits
Raping the sanctity of saints

The heavenly father is streching his hand
Pathetically begging for mercy
We spit and piss on his sacred flesh
As we breathe the breath of the unholy

For with the sign of the pentagram
Hellfire rage is for us to come
As we shall wander the pit

Uhallowed by the infernal one
We are forever captured
By the embrace of death

Indoctrination

Oh, look at those lifeless leaves
All their precious pride is taken away
A lost creation for a graven image
Trembling of nothing but their own fear

[chorus:]
On behalf of water made to wine
Elements of deception must entwine
Righteous greed and derangement divine
Vacuum is given to the blind

To surrender to a faith so fake
To not comprehend while you're awake
Thrive on your deity for heaven's sake

Do loose your battle before actual birth
For some sheep need the company of a shepherd
To face the scorn of the earth

Existential parasite drama across the lands
What a relief never bother the why's
Investing illusions and folding hands
The passion for mankind's ignorance feeding you lies

All those naked faces, empty shells
Procreation of the mind put to rest
Crippled and caged, anaesthesia adjust
The lambs of slaughter preoccupied in disgust

Kings Of The Carnival Creation

Incarnated marvels simplified
Effects from such a disconsolate kind
Impotence of the once so perfect living
Erase and rewind

Stand rigid for the next battle
Peace means reloading your guns
The love for life is all hatred in disguise
A carnival creation with masks undone

In search for the guidelines to the gateways of sin
Through mires of misanthropy with wrath in mind
Sophistication as cruelty and perfection as virulent truth
Confidently dawned, to pick the best of enemies
An abyss womb stretched wide open, exposed to retaliate

[chorus:]
With the stigma feasting upon your flesh i wish you well
Thorns from the fountains of fate licking lepered skin
Worshipped by anyone's mass on our planet hell
What on earth possessed you

Consuming illusions made from hysteria and swallowed tongues
Devoured by doubt, conducting arts of misconception
Testimonial sufficiency declaring numbness of all perceptions

Glance into the blackness hidden beneath your surface
And enjoy the suffering, sanity drained in disrespect
With such bedevilled faith in good, subsequently trusting evil
Next step for mankind will be the last seasons in sin

Left are the kings of the carnival creation
Carrying out the echoes of the fallen

Sense the withering eternity as it fades away
The ultimate graceless voyage of all times
Only death will be guarding your angels, silently
Cripples joining arms in clamour
Institutionalized for the rebirth, the herd will be hunted

Lepers Among Us

Annihilate!
The commotion breeding the perverse
For bloodbath is on your doorstep
A mass impending threat
The perfection of religion
Becoming our death

Do not respond blindly
To growing gardens in decay
Stand guard when visitors fall silent
Blow the candles out, end the road here

No solace will be found
Within elements of the tribe
When covered with filth from all sides
Compassion will fail

Their promises are honored
In a mind controlled state
The absence of reality, reason and logic
Prove failure of faith

Enriched by the presence of it's clarity
Darkness descends, everyone dies

[repeat 3rd and 4th verse]

For wisdom aligns in our favor
Illuminated before our eyes

Uncover!
A new beginning, the inevitable dawn
Justice will be given where justice is due
And guide the righteous ones
Back to the final resting ground
To perceive the truly hellbound

Demonstrate superiority
A grand gesture of liberation need no judge or jury
Demons rate inferiority
Scatter the remains of the prey

Master Of Disharmony

Master of disharmony
Welcome my tainted soul
Take me from the hordes of the living
Into the blessed darkness
Master of disorder
Take my impure flesh
Lead me unto the path of temptation

Save me from cowardness

Master of sin
Take my cursed heart
Bring me where I can find salvation
For I am the damned

Master of death
Take my pitiful life
I am enslaved
I shall never forget the pain

Master of sin
Take my cursed heart
Bring me where I can find salvation
For I am the damned

Master of death
Take my pitiful life
I am enslaved
I shall never forget the pain

Master Of Disharmony (Live)

Master of disharmony welcome my tained soul take me from the hordes of the living into the blessed darkness master of disorder take my impure flesh lead me unto the path of temptation save me from the cowardness save me from the cawardness master of sin take my cursed heart bring me where i can find salvation for i am the damned master of death take my pitiful life i am enslaved i shall never forget the pain master of sin take my cursed heart bring me where i can find salvation for i am the damned master of death take my pitiful life i am enslaved i shall never forget the pain

Metal Heart

It is 1999
The human race has to face it
They are confronted with the truth
It's secret--mysterious

A surgeon said it in the news
The human race is dying
But the result is no disease
Searching for you

Metal heart--metal heart
They found it everywhere
Metal heart--metal heart
Lifeless piece of steel

The scaring fact was even told
Total confusion
They found the same nightmare
Heartbeats--time bombs

Metal heart--metal heart
Unplugged they're dying
Metal heart--metal heart
Unplugged they die

Metal heart--metal heart
They found it everywhere
Metal heart--metal heart
Lifeless piece of steel

Metal heart--metal heart
Unplugged they're dying
Metal heart--metal heart

Metal Heart (Accept Cover)

It is 1999the human race has to face itthey are confronted with the truthit's secret--mysteriousa surgeon said it in the newsthe human race is dyingbut the result is no diseasesearching for you metal heart--metal heartthey found it everywheremetal heart--metal heartlifeless piece of steel the scaring fact was even toldtotal confusionthey found the same nightmareheartbeats--time bombs metal heart--metal heartunplugged they're dyingmetal heart--metal heartunplugged they die metal heart--metal heartthey found it everywheremetal heart--metal heartlifeless piece of steel metal heart--metal heartunplugged they're dyingmetal heart--metal heart

Moonchild Domain

The witchborn queen,
Leader of demonic whoresprofane mistress,
Captor of sinsworn to feed the ill and the weakand bring their women and men into temptationeliza, the whore of the nightattends the sabbath, the theatre of lustthe hunter is in the ring,
Caressing folds of flesh-
Diabolical intercourse profoundshe who brings horror to the insaneand haunts the sick and its kindselector of innocent holy infantstempting their flesh, poisoning their mindthe young harlot,
Who acts by the trust of her fatecursed beneath the hands of doom,
The grand master of hatefor her and hers the bells chimedamnation's ownevil superior siren, moonchild domain-
A sculpture for the holy to burn

Mourning Palace

Daylight has finally reached it's end
As evenfall strikes into the sky
Far away in the dark glimpsing moonlight
Sickening souls cry out in pain

Whispering voices summoning screams
Waiting for Satan to bless their sins
Blackhearted angels fallen from grace
Possessed by the search for utter darkness

Hear the cries from the Mourning Palace
Feel the gloom of restless spirits
Hear the screams from the Mouring Palace
Feel the doom of haunting chants

Eternal is their lives in misery
Eternal is their lives in grief
Abandoned in a void of nothingness
A chain of anger, a fetter of despair

In this garden of depraved beings
This unsacred place of helpless ones
Satan blessed the creatures
Inswathed them in endless night

Whispering voices, summoning screams
Waiting for Satan to bless their sins
Blackhearted angels fallen from grace
Possessed by the search for utter darkness

Når Sjelen Hentes Til Helvete

Følg
Følg etter
Til ondskapens hall vi drar!
Der det vendte kors pryder ferden!
Av mørkets allmektighet!

På kristi flesk vi spytter!
La det råtne!
Et symbol på godhettens bortgang!
Et skuespill der endes!

Bring frem vårt indre sinne!
Vis veien for vårt hat!
Skjend guds sjeler til evig pine!
I ondskapens paradis er de dine!

[english translation:]

[when the souls are brought to hell]

Follow
Follow us
Through the hall of evil we travel!
Where the inverted cross leads the journey!
From the omnipotence of darkness!

On the flesh of christ we spit
Let it rot!
A symbol of disappearance of goodness
A play that is ended

Bring forth our inner anger!
Show the way for our hatred!
Give eternal suffering to god's souls!
In the paradise of evil they are yours!

Nocturnal Fear

Bscurity hides the plateau
Stars darken in their place
Nanna's glowing above
Illuminates the silent scenery

[chorus]
Seven they are yezidi's call
Aeon of night eager to prevail

From the mountains of dawn they cry
The call of the frantic god
From the womb of mother earth they scream
The wage of creation and sin

("the sleeping lord awakes
Tiamat pulls at her chains,
The blind phantom rages
Azag thoth howls
Vibrations at the black ether's edge
As nocturnal fear penetrates the land
Ecstatical celebrations at their zenith
The seven sharpen their claws...")

Winds emerge from the east
Deep, dark water moves
Even the cold it don eclipses
When they adore the dog-faced beast

[chorus]

As they admit the infernal tide
The eye on the throne derides
The old gods and their tribes
In chaos tiamat laughs pride..

Over Bieknede Blåner Till Dommedag

Langt om lenge det stormens blest
Slår tidevannets sprekninger
Slår hav på en skatt
Har snart alle skogstjern frosset
Og snøen dekker en fjelltopp

Stripels kriger traust han var
Som satte sitt mot i gammel tid
Vandrer hen til dodoy skar etter sin bane
Storgildt strid

Bleser bleknede blåners land
Overforlatt og dunkel jord
Og bra for fedre som har seiret
Norskehavets skumrings fjord

Reisen gjennom dimmen er grå
For meg er den et skall av forfars liv

Blesne blekne blåner fjell
Inn i en gråvendt natt
Jeg reiser over bleknede blåners fjell
Og her i mørket er jeg forlatt

Snart har snø tynget hver en grend
Snart har kong vinter beseiret jord
Her hvor en gang de gamle falt i marken
For å legge den øde øy
Og gjøre den ren

Over bleknede blåners fjell
Jeg drar i dens dunkle mørkmanns ord
Over land hvor fedres kamp har seiret
Hvor vikingsverd satte tydelig spor

[english translation:]

[over fading blue-horizon until judgement day]

Long in length the storm's blast wind
Strikes tidewaters' ??
Strikes ocean over a treasure
Has quickly all forest-ponds frozen
And the snow covers a mountaintop
Soldier strong he was
Who sat unafraid in old days
Wanders to death-island chasm after his pure honourable conflict
Faded blue-horizon's land
Deserted and black earth
And good for forefathers who have ruled
The norwegian ocean's dusk's fjord
The trip through dusk is grey
For me is it a shell of forefathers' lives
Fade blue mountains on the horizon
Into a turned-grey night
Travel over fading blue-horizon's mountains
And here in darkness i am deserted
Quickly has snow oppressed every bough
Quickly has king winter conquered earth
Here where once the old fell in the field in battle
In order to lay the island to waste
And make it clean
Over fading blue-horizon's mountain
T avel in its dark dark-man's word
Over land where forefathers' battle has conquered
Where viking-sword sat plainly in sight

Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse

The battle raged on and on
Fuelled by the venom of hatred for man
Consistently, without the eyes to see
By those who revel in sewer equally

We, the prosperity of the future seal
Cloaked by the thunders of the north wind
Born to capture the essence of
The trails of our kind

Zero tolerance must be issued forth
Behind the enemy's line
So it shall be written
And so it shall be done


Discover and conceive the secret wealth
And pass it unto your breed
Become your own congregation
Measure the sovereignty of it's invigoration

We, who not deny the animal of our nature
We, who yearn to preserve our liberation
We, who face darkness in our hearts with a solemn fire
We, who aspire to the truth and pursue it's strength

Are we not the undisputed prodigy of warfare
Fearing all the mediocrity that they possess
Should we not hunt the bastards down with our might
Reinforce and claim the throne that is rightfully ours

Consider the god we could be without the grace
Once and for all
Diminish the sub principle and leave it's toxic trace
Once and for all

Prudence's Fall

He became the swarm, indeed a pitiful imitation
To the verge of a quiet glance, an oracle without eyes
Darkness... My precious companion, even thou cant see his face
Salvation turned to bleed despair, compassion fled...

Sadistic delight flowed, like Hell burned brighter
Existence woven into darkness, prudence did fall

...In Satan's beauty, life was found...

A flow of orgasmic fire, swept through the cosmic night
I enthroned darkness triumphant, with the searing trident of the Inferno
Gaze towards the Heavens, an you might catch a glimpse of Me



[b]

Puritania

We do away with your kind
Countdown to exterminate the human race
4, 3, 2, 1

Let chaos entwine
On defenseless soil
Remove errors of man
And sweep all the weakening kind

I am war, i am pain
I am all you've ever slain
I am tears in your eyes
I am grief, i am lies

Bygone are intolerance
And presence of grace
Scavengers are sent out
To cleanse the human filth parades

I am pure, i am true
I am all over you
I am laugh, i am smile
I am the earth defiled

I am the cosmic storm
I am the tiny worms
I am fear in the night
I am bringer of light

Earth succesfuly erased

Puritanical Euphoric

ENSTRUMANTEL