Shadow Demon - 'The Dark Citadel: Part I (The Shifter)'

Gloom, sporadic chaos twines
Crystallized black ice
Escape into the netherworld
Where the day is night
The power, gift at birth
Battle of the mind
The brink of insanity
Is pushed onto the undivine

There
Evil in the air
There
The plane shifter hides in
Darkhaven

Sirens blare into the night
The mission almost failed
He creates the darkness shroud
The hunter will not be assailed
Gunshots ring out through the air
The bullets hit the wall
The shifter, he is no place at all
He is arriving...

There
Evil in the air
There
The plane shifter
Finds solace in
Darkhaven

Here I find myself again
Trapped in ruined lands
A maze
Which I must find the end
(Hunter is now hunted)

Watching eyes lurk everywhere
I have to find my way with care
The native beasts seek to ensnare
(Hunter is now the hunted)

Here I am...
My life in my own hands
Journey now
Through the shadow lands

Hasten through this ashen hell
To make it to the citadel
Doubt creeps in my mind to tell...
(In the end you will die)

I can feel when they are near
Instill my mind with fear
Their voices bellow in my ears
(When we get you, you will die)

Iron words
Echo in my head
Telling me
That I'll soon be dead
My life in my own hands
Journey now
Through the shadow lands

The shifter dashes for the gates
His predators give chase
Dark ones dive from towers high
And demon factions clash in haste
Fields soon soaked in blackened blood
The prophecy is unfulfilled
The city won't be breached until
The shifter's killed
He's safe for now in...

There
Evil in the air
There
The plane shifter hides in
Darkhaven

Οι Shadow Demon μας έρχονται από τις ΗΠΑ (Seattle, Washington). Power/thrash metal μουσικό σχήμα, το οποίο δημιουργήθηκε το μακρινό 2001 και διαλύθηκε επτά έτη αργότερα (2008). Κυκλοφόρησαν το ομώνυμο ep τον Ιανουάριο του 2004 και ένα full length album ("Grimoire of Ruin" Οκτώβριος 2006), αυτοχρηματοδοτούμενα και τα δύο.

Ο λόγος που υπέπεσαν στην αντίληψή μου είναι η παρουσία και η συμμετοχή του Terry Gorle (των Heir Apparent βεβαίως - βεβαίως), ο οποίος ανέλαβε -στο ep- τόσο την παραγωγή, όσο και τον σχεδιασμό του λογοτύπου των Shadow Demon.

Σε λίγες ημέρες (22 Μαΐου 2024) ο πρώτος "ολοκληρωμένος" δίσκος των Shadow Demon θα επανακυκλοφορήσει υπό τον τίτλο "Grimoire of Ruin (Remixed)", εν πρώτοις μόνο σε ψηφιακή μορφή...