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Midnight Masquerade

by Honor Bound

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1.
Rise of the Ancient One 03:44
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From out of the shadows, The forefather rises from sleep So withered and harrowed His face lined with scars running deep The visions of torment Plaguing the depths of our minds Of Father Abhorrent Purging the world of his line Behold the crimson star marking the end The ancient one rises again Behold the crimson star marking the end The ancient one rises again Light from the heavens Bringing his vile demise Within his descendants Echo his violent cries Blood Feed Hunger Kill Blood Feed Hunger Kill
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Embrace the Night (Re-Vamped) 03:44
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Into the dark, we're banished from the dark Stake through the heart won't kill you but will paralyze In my domain six traditions keep us under The masquerade, keep it or be torn asunder Dusk 'til dawn (dusk 'til dawn) Ecstasy (ecstasy) Live my dark (live my dark) Fantasy (fantasy) Blood Feed Hunger Kill Bleed into me, a little taste of your dyscrasia Feeding the beast, temperance will never save ya Tracing the lines that bind us to un-life Diablerize, sinful in our eyes Dusk 'til dawn (dusk 'til dawn) Ecstasy (ecstasy) Live my dark (live my dark) Fantasy (fantasy) Blessed be Methuselah, blessed be to Caine Blessed be immortal blood flowing through my veins Progeny of darkness, come embrace the night Kindred of the chronicles, come embrace the night Reckon ye the clans, thirteen by their disposition Cleanse us from the land, mission of the inquisition Roll of the dice, victims of insanity Give into your vice, stain on your humanity Dusk 'til dawn (dusk 'til dawn) Ecstasy (ecstasy) Live my dark (live my dark) Fantasy (fantasy) Blessed be Methuselah, blessed be to Caine Blessed be immortal blood flowing through my veins Progeny of darkness, come embrace the night Kindred of the chronicles, come embrace the night Pleasure and the pain For the blood of Caine Banished from the light Come embrace the night
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Obsession 04:49
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Your portrait's painted on my mind A perfect picture over-pined Impressed upon a passing gaze From the shadows shines a light I should not shun nor shield my eyes And surely shan't I shy away Compulsion to sin Feeds the Hunger within When the world is descending to darkness And the dead rule the night In a world full of monsters so heartless Will you be my light? I bear the burden of my kind A bane in blood along my line Can't break the bonds by which I'm bound A cursed craving on a leash To keep the quiet of the peace I fear no comfort can be found The curse of my kind Weighing deep on my mind When the world is descending to darkness And the dead rule the night In a world full of monsters so heartless Will you be my light? When death is not the end You bid my broken heart to beat again Your portrait painted on my mind The pigment poisoned over time I feel its power pass away A faint affection's dying breath I feel ephemeral in death And fallow now my passion's flame A face from my past Now released from my grasp When the world is descending to darkness And the dead rule the night In a world full of monsters so heartless Will you be my light? When the world is descending to darkness And the dead rule the night In a world full of monsters so heartless Will you be my light?
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Fang Violence 05:45
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The shadows cross the board Their bishops, now our pawns Moving pieces in this un-deadly war We play 'til the dawn Under the moonlight we kindred maneuver Armed with our fangs and our claws Legions amassing of sanguine consumers With blood dripping fresh from our jaws When the beasts of the night go to battle Our vices in vein Breaking free from our chains we are shackled Within our domains Centuries pass, but the struggle continues To sever the strings of our sires Conjure the power of vitae within you And cleanse them in unholy fire War for Gehenna, the Second Revolt Never more mortal the stakes Fearful the factions that vie for control If ever the masquerade breaks When the beasts of the night go to battle Our vices in vein Breaking free from our chains we are shackled Within our domains When the beasts of the night go to battle Our vices in vein Breaking free from our chains we are shackled Within our domains Beasts of the night Beasts of the night Beasts of the night Beasts of the night (Blood) Breaking the chains Breaking the chains Breaking the chains Breaking the chains (Feed) Beasts of the night Beasts of the night Beasts of the night Beasts of the night (Hunger) Breaking the chains Breaking the chains Breaking the chains Die
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Preternatural Predator 02:58
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Blood Hunt (Re-Vamped) 02:51
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In the present time of the final nights Keep our hidden existence out of their sights Under the threat of the stake and the knife Forfeit the code and you forfeit your life Blood hunt Blood hunt (eye for eye) Blood hunt Blood hunt (doomed to die) Open up our world to their prying eyes Expose the secrets of kindred to the hunter kine Final death be the warrant for your heinous crime Anathema, we call for your head as the prize Blood hunt Blood hunt (eye for eye) Blood hunt Blood hunt (doomed to die) There's nowhere to run; there's nowhere to hide Streets of the night will run red You'll never survive 'til the end of the night When we call for your head The traitor will die by the childer of Caine (of Caine) Final death be the price that you pay (you pay) Left for sunrise, your consequent fate (your fate) For violating the masquerade Blood hunt Blood hunt (eye for eye) Blood hunt Blood hunt (doomed to die) Blood hunt Blood hunt (eye for eye) Blood hunt Doomed to die
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The Reunion 05:35
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Gathered tonight, in auspice of union The former and now clan of death Still was the air, unholy communion As none of us carry a breath Painful the bite that's quelling the hunger When blood is the course of the feast Grave be the threat when bloodlines asunder The rivals be forced into peace Welcome the new House of Death Out of the grave resurrect Enter the new House of Death Last unattached from the rest Five hundred years, we held to the promise To keep ourselves out of the fray Centuries pass, the hunters upon us The family in disarray Secrets revealed, the treacherous play The movements to loosen our hold Call on the lines of fragments betrayed And bring them back into the fold Welcome the new House of Death Out of the grave resurrect Enter the new House of Death Last unattached from the rest Welcome the new House of Death Out of the grave resurrect Enter the new House of Death Last unattached from the rest Welcome the new House of Death Out of the grave resurrect Enter the new House of Death Last unattached from the rest
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Eternal Night 07:15
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Strange be the gifts that to us have been granted Mysterious power of blood If life of a man be a drop in the ocean We swim in the midst of a flood Brief be the night as we dance in the darkness And mask in an endless charade Thus be the trade for eternity's sake We know that our souls can't be saved The closer we are to our ways The further we stray from the light Banished we are from the day To eternally wander the night Walk with me in the dark The cycle that's never repeating On this quest we embark Onward we search for our meaning Bear the curse and his mark Outcasts we are on endeavor At the end is the start Death is the key to forever The closer we are to our ways The further we stray from the light Banished we are from the day To eternally wander the night Ages may pass in our midst But never reflect on our faces Father forgive us our sins As we are rejected from graces Path to redemption is clear No longer restrained to the beast Dreams of our state will appear Thus be the balance we seek The closer we are to our ways The further we stray from the light Banished we are from the day To eternally wander the night

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released October 13, 2023

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Honor Bound Reno, Nevada

In the frostbitten heart of Reno, Nevada, an oath was sworn in blood to continue and expand the musical legacy of those who came before. From this sacrament, a band had formed and staked their claim as the last power metal band in Northern Nevada. They fly the flag of heavy metal-dom and proselytize its virtues to those who seek to find a new meaning. And to their oath, they are honor bound. ... more

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