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Order of the mist

by Hyldr

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falkenherz One of the best Gothic Doom albums I've ever heard. And I've been listening to metal for almost 35 years... Enchanting sounds and evocative vocals, a rich orchestration in every second. Heaviness and dreaminess. Passion. Melancholy. Favorite track: Nibelungen.
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My blood is stone Runs underground Like molten thrones Of honey at sundown. Torn in silence Your drakkar lava blood Slices sullen miles of mud. One time I will answer you. Shields of snow appear below. Might reveal someone you know? Starling, I am unreal. Hidden eyes rip us from the wildest dreams Some time ago I glided so low I crashed the boat With gruesome control. Lions and tigers roar Inside my darling’s claws. Cried in silence to your heart of soil Seeds of violence will not breach your walls. Ride in silence to your heart of soil. Seeds of violence will not breach your walls. We valkyries to Valhalla, Valhalla send no one, Send no one Heart of soil slips through my oily phalanges
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And soon I’ll stop feeling lost again. The fearless dine (in hell) Dying on the floor, your answer is not to write in blood the one Who killed you with the signs of the cross in splinters. Were there not several ways to count the way you’ve slain us? I cannot believe it’s still the rise of bloody roller. I long live in the rolling calm I stand for the sullen, lethargic, reflexions Of the moon and the shadows that were gleaming in my dissection. My gallant assassin and kill me before the end My gallant assassin and kill me before the end My gallant assassin and kill me before the end My gallant assassin …….Feel those embers brush - your guts and pipes of glory Feel those embers brush your guts and Sneak into your pipes of glory. Trinkets of your guilt so volatile In the end is all you’ve got. My gallant assassin, my gallant assassin My gallant assassin and kill me before the end (x3) My gallant assassin. Now we are as one Like a bird and its young Never sung
3.
At last I can die alone Here on your frozen chest. Why hath the ravens gone? Seek farther than your nest For the night’s unrest. Inside us the violence subsides and then Invites us to swallow the pride of yesteryear Behind the glorious sun rots A lie so foul it blinds the flocks At last I can die of hope Here on your molten chest. Why hath the flavours gone? Seek farther than your festering nest You turn to dust, you turn Inside us the vile curse subsides and then Invites us to question the pride of yesteryear At last I can die alone Here on your frozen chest. Why hath the ravens gone? Tears on your swollen nest Your swollen nest invites the guests Invites the nine guests
4.
The way you wield the blade of gold… My concerns are dying ferns. Thy insight will writhe and burn. Sail us to Vanaheim, Deadly Order Of the Mist! On the Isle of Vanaheim grant me one last poisoned kiss. On lilac rocks you guide us. On lava slopes you taunt us. The way you wield the blade of gold, The way you comb invokes the night. Old God, you missed your chance to inspire all your fans As the Isle of Vanaheim cracked and sank, the ningyo danced. Your war is done. Life has begun. The way you wield the blade of gold… Sail us to Vanaheim, Deadly Order Of the Mist! On lilac rocks you guide us onwards. On lilac rocks you taunt us. The way you wield the blade of gold
5.
Nibelungen 04:01
This life is not as you dreamt The glove is heavy as lead I saw you lying low Ready to pull your bow I know these rings Won’t bring you back The river sings Of Winter’s grin Your time has come Nibelungen Our dreams are not our lives And the River comes alive Where the ravens were designed by you Our dreams are not our lives And the River comes alive Where the ravens were designed by you Your time has come, Nibelungen Your time has come, don’t bite your tongue Your violet tongue, Nibelungen
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Bed of germs 05:28
Sanitize to save your life Motorized - to be on time Undermined - so another shines When your bones - cease to fold Cease to fold – we’re just another casualty And our eyes - are just 2 holes Are just two holes - deadly demonology I know that you find it wrong To leave no rock unturned I know that you find it warm To sleep on a bed of worms Of worms Eleonora I drink - your tears And I - fall in ….. Love - and sort of - grin I know - that you find - it wrong - to leave No rock - unturned. - I know - you find it warm To sleep in - a bed of - a bed - of germs Of germs Eleonora
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Slaughter resourceful friends who will gallop heart and soul into battle. Yet I will not follow my lord and blindfolded headsman on the saddle As you crack your skull on that blue-moss bed I’ll enjoy this lull before the sea turns red: Tattered lanterns. Like dying ferns of summer, (the gold) has brought me nothing but deceit. Like dying ferns of summer, (the gold) has brought me nothing but disease. And may I look at that hook Stuck in your lip, is it good? Like that book, the ancient fib? Like dying ferns, like dying ferns, like dying ferns, like dying ferns Like dying ferns, like dying ferns, like dying ferns, like dying ferns We are wolves, we are the Huldra. We are doe, we were the Huldra… We are we.
8.
Anata wa Tenko ni narimashita My bones delight the sun. There was no one to grieve, to bury me. That’s when the drugs kick in. That’s when the drugs kick in. Suffocating lovers holding bony fingers Sitting next to a cold log fire, coal winds creeping through their sockets. Little trails of feral footprints hang around like rings of Saturn (Re)suscitating Chinese shadows for the coming of a woodland king Disappearing into to specks of nothing in a cage where the foxes sing. Kyūbi no kitsune Tenko ni narimasu My story’s not entirely written I will become whatever you were not Old toes have crawled, Otosan crawled Back to the well Kids are rocks and they keep on falling Off the cliffs. I’m sorry for my teeth as you fall inside. Journey’s so fine till I run into a shrine. Draugar outside, now I curl up. Little kit I mean no harm, though your carcass is the key. God feels the same, as I dive into the night.

about

Most of the music of ‘Order of the mist’ was composed before the first rehearsals of HYLDR by guitarist VI. When he met the singer he was eager to hear what Lady IX would do with it.

Synesthesia kicked in and the rich melodies turned into metal operas, telling old folktales that would soon turn into a book. These stories of a young supernatural girl from Hokkaido who ends up trapped in a world of deadly Norse mythology, form a map that guides every song of the album.

The specific order of the songs does not follow the chronology of the “Hyldr Chronicles”, but slices the story up like a dissected corpse. The orchestrated guitar duets and vocal choirs pull the strings of every character. The drums and bass drive the mist forwards, bringing the protagonists back to life every time the record is played.

The album title refers to rulers of the underworld in Nebelwood Forest where the shape-shifting Huldra folk have the power to bring back the dead. This occult order uses the mist to manipulate the realms of humans and force them to fight a never ending battle. The idea of the mist having some kind of order is an intentional paradox, although the mist occurs at specific times of day or night depending on temperature, air pressure and humidity. But does the mist orderly invade our lands or is it a chaotic outburst of climatic chemistry? Only the Huldra know…

VI comments : “The Wavelight Factory was the perfect place to record the album. We had plenty of time to experiment percussive elements and tons of arrangements. I like the fact that we did not use any choirs plugin for vocals, all voices were recorded by Lady IX.“

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released January 22, 2023

Music by Hyldr
Lyrics by Lady IX
Recorded mixed and mastered at Wavelight Factory by Phil Reinhalter
Produced by HYLDR

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Hyldr Belgium

HYLDR is a Gothic Metal band from Belgium formed in 2021 whose music focuses on an emotional approach to morbid themes.

The name HYLDR is a reference to a valkyrie in a book written by singer Lady IX. That book is used as a template for song concepts.

HYLDR entered Wavelight Factory during summer 2022 to record, mix and master its first album 'Order of the Mist'.
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