Unleashed from the majestic depths of the Hollow Earth on the day of the Solar Eclipse 2024, Stratorus returns with the title song of its 3rd album! A fitting song for a day where the moon eclipses the holy Sun, this song is inspired by the book "The Smoky God", one of the most classic Hollow Earth stories, which goes hand in hand with Stratorus's concept of the Hollow Inner Earth and the prophecies spawning from it.
Hail Agartha!
PERSONNEL:
Bifrost: vocals, all instruments
LYRICS:
Sailing through the snowy portal
Far in the Mountainous North
As glaciers turn to crystals
Across the Arctic Sea we sore
Far beyond the North Wind
A vast portal is unearthed
Traversing its raging maelstrom
Into a world below
Echoes of arcane lands
Echoes of forlorn worlds
Descending deeper and deeper
Leaving behind the frigid surface world
Leaving behind these desolate lands
Sailing past Ultima Thule
A voyage to an inner world
Through the portal hidden in the Arctic Sea
Cold waters stretching endlessly into darkness
Into giant caverns the hunt continues
Enduring the violence of the merciless Styx
Until a warm light illuminates in the distance
Ever-growing
Ever illuminating
Ever calming
Ceasing the turbulence
Unfolding vast forests
Onwards we sail
Until a new world is slowly revealed
An unseen kingdom inside a hollow inner Earth
Illuminated by a red fallen sun
Down its rivers, through its colossal canyons
We’ve entered the realm of the forgotten ones
They’ve dwelt here for ages
These ancient precursors of man
A race of magical giants
Living blissfully in Subterranean lands
Ancient lands nourished by the Earth’s core
A reddish ball of fire they call the Smoky God
Shining upon the pulsing forests of Shambhala
Worshipped by the Subterraneans as their source of all life
Their kingdom we salute
Their rivers we sail
Their people we praise
And their sun we hail
6 сен 2024
