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Henri Harell (Howling Horse) - Nahkakantinen eepos (The Skin​-​Bound Tome)

from Songs for World Book Day by Various FAWM artists

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Hear more from this artist at : howlinghorse.bandcamp.com
This artist FAWMs as @hmorg

I came up with the main guitar bit late at night and to my delight could still remember it next day when starting to work on the song. After I had noodled on it for a while I couldn't think of where to go from there, so I decided to just play that throughout the song and layer it with different things, like the drum beat that increases in intensity. The drawn out beginning reminds me of a band called Sanguine Eagle, whom I just recently found (RIP LAM). When the bass comes in, it kinda feels like post punk.

Lyrically this is pretty much Lovecraft-adjacent horror fantasy with nods to the book "Naturem Demonto" / "Necronomicon Ex Mortiis" (spelling for both?) from the Evil Dead movies, but I'm quite happy with how it feels.

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Vuosien tomu huntuna yllään
Muinainen kirjuri silmittä tuijottaa
Kynänsä alla kuivunut tahra
Ihmisverta, joka musteen virkaa toimitti
Unhoon jäänyt ja unhoon jää vastakin
Viimeinen vartija kadonneen temppelin
Ikiyöhön syösty, kylmän vuoren uumeniin
Salaisuudet takaa hulluuden syöverin

Tuhon loitsut kätkee sivut ihmisnahkaan sidotut
Niistä kaiun muistaa vain painajaiset kirotut
Sylissä tuonen, kätkettynä, vailla löytäjää
Säkeet muinaisen kauhun iäksi lukematta jää

Eikä luinen nyrkki, joka kynää yhä pitelee
Työtään koskaan loppuun saata, ja myös sen minkä aloitti
Aika kerran nielee, armossaan kadottaa
Ja hymy kasvoilla kirjurin on kuoleman irvokas virne
Se muistaa lukemansa ja ymmärtää miksi

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(ROUGH TRANSLATION)

Veiled by the dust of ages
An ancient scribe stares without eyes
Under their quill a dried stain
Of human blood used as ink
Forgotten, ever doomed to oblivion
The last guardian of a lost temple
Cast into eternal night, into the depths of a cold mountain
Secrets from behind the maelstrom of madness

Spells of destruction hidden within pages bound in human skin
An echo of them remembered only by accursed nightmares
In the arms of death, concealed, with no one to find
Verses of ancient horror remain forever unread

And the bony fist that still holds the quill
Shall never finish its work and even what it had begun
Time will come to swallow, mercifully disappear
And the smile on the scribe's face is the gruesome grin of death
It remembers what it has read and understands why

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from Songs for World Book Day, released April 21, 2021
©2021 Henri Harell

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