Cadaveria - The Shadows' Madame
Original Version Rerelease Version Re-rerelease Version 1. Spell 5:53 1. Spell 5:53 1. Spell 5:53 2. Declaration of Spiritual Independence 5:10 2. Declaration of Spiritual Independence 5:10 2. Declaration of Spiritual Independence 5:10 3. In Memory of Shadows' Madame 4:12 3. In Memory of Shadows' Madame 4:12 3. In Memory of Shadows' Madame 4:12 4. Circle of Eternal Becoming 4:57 4. Circle of Eternal Becoming 4:57 4. Circle of Eternal Becoming 4:57 5. The Magic Rebirth 6:50 5. The Magic Rebirth 6:50 5. The Magic Rebirth 6:50 6. Black Glory 4:11 6. Black Glory 4:11 6. Black Glory 4:11 7. Absolute Vacuum 7:10 7. Absolute Vacuum 7:10 7. Absolute Vacuum 7:10 8. Spell (video) 5:59 8. Spell (video) 5:59 total time 38:23 total time 44:22 total time 44:22 LP Version 1. Spell 5:53 2. Declaration of Spiritual Independence 5:10 3. In Memory of Shadows' Madame 4:12 4. Circle of Eternal Becoming 4:57 5. Spell (live rehearsal) 5:04 6. The Magic Rebirth 6:50 7. Black Glory 4:11 8. Absolute Vacuum 7:10 9. Velo (The Other Side of Hate) 4:14 total time 47:41
SPELL Beautiful witch give light to this black muddy sky Snatch darkness from these hours devoid of evening and morning devoid of stars and funereal lightnings. There is a path with no light and no moon I ran through it to rescue my flesh from the poisoned darts. Modify your mind follow the shapes from the red seven to the blue one Mark the sacred space In the name of wind and sound Say your solemn prayer to the burning fire Invoke the grace of water sources and raging oceans Invite earth's creatures to your dance. May Rafe lead my soul to victory He's the master of my turbid game May his energy bless my hand when I move the pieces His power protects my secret plan May his genius hasten the times His presence secures my triumph. Enemies' minds are frozen in a cloud of impotence Their projects are sentenced to fail No acts in the present, no acts in the future. Now destiny is engraved on eternal memories. Cosmic energies will spread it in the Universe. No forces in their bodies No life in their souls. DECLARATION OF SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE My will is invulnerable like air with the sound of my voice the universe shrinks in a wrinkle of pain. Listen to me. I will nourish your flesh with blood dew Explore the labyrinth of memory and free yourself from the hypertrophy of remembrance. I want to awake from paralysis the icons buried in the absence and disharmony so that they can enjoy again an instant of contemplation and penetrate the realms of senses. This is the final call, the time of rebirth and catharsis the quietness after the storm Univocal language of phrases ancient like music Relish the essence of this immaterial fluid Principle of aggregation and disgregation, everywhere and nowhere Forsake the anguish and waver in the absolute freedom Let stasis convert into motion and let your essence strip of all lies. Throw your dice and enjoy the chance The moon could not appear again. IN MEMORY OF SHADOWS' MADAME Diaphanous figure who silent rides death's wisdom It's said you came when the weary sky was sinking into its eternal sleep And that only your cry would have announced a new dawn Mistress of the air shaking the fronds of icy hills who at dawn caresses the bare branches of foggy plains You grew up as a lonely witness of existence's foolish theatre On your visage the signs of a gloomy memory Your lips wound false innocents' hearing with painful truths and biting sentences You knew the inner pleasure of senses the poetry of wind, the secret of fire Your will has the strength of thunder Your spirit the impetus of the final fight Oh great mother who lavishes love generating hate Enchanting muse of unspeakable fancies You will rise again from the ashes wrapping the great catastrophes Pure, joyful and immortal Darkness and light will eternally follow you in the temple of the new dreams In memory of Shadows' Madame. CIRCLE OF ETERNAL BECOMING Primordial spells have been written on water's surface The abyss silver heart conceals the eternal prayer Fire and wind contain the timeless secrets of the knowledge Ancestral spirits of the elemental space materialize their ethereal shape Dryads, Naiads, Devas, Oreads. I trust the practice and theory of what is agreed to call magic I believe in the spirits' evocation, in the power to create magic illusions, in the visions of truth in the depth of mind. I believe mind's boundaries shift continually and different minds can flow together, one into the other, and create or reveal a unique energy and individual memories are part of a great collective memory, the memory of Nature itself. Perpetual movement eternal rotation, oscillation of the night sky Oh silence devour the eternity of Time. As above, so below. My end is my beginning. THE MAGIC REBIRTH Celebrate and praise the dead spirit Bury your hopes with him Nobody and nothing can rejoice me except the world of pretence. The god doesn't deserve my sacrifice and his image must not be transfigured in divinity Let me make experience of me relish the horror of a bloodshed feel an instinctive pleasure before what commonly stirs up disgust. And then I could approach following existences disembowel the unconscious Express my verity, hidden or denied that will appear like a blind enigma to you And I will find childlike purity again amorality that hurt the false minds I will essay the elementary pulsations those you have secluded in dreams Or destroyed with a symbolic castration I prepare my magic death I enter the reign of imagination I enter the thunder's memory and my body revives, my spirit is in peace my heart is ready, my essence plunges into warm earth and my mind blends with the cosmic energy. We all raise with the sun and we'll return to death like a drop of rain towards the wide ocean. I've dreamt a winged snake eating its own tail, encircling the earth And a mountain of crystal bearing the child of an old witch who died confessing her sins I woke up and I looked at myself in the black mirror and I felt a new magic strength enliven the blood time had frozen in my veins. Now I follow my religion and the brightness of my mind Since now I revive I honour and respect the choices I made I don't let silence dominate my heart I don't let fear suffocate my shout. May the queen have new desires that come true with the heat of fire I close my circle lightning the candles of stars I celebrate my rebirth BLACK GLORY Purple flames celebrate the new warrior's feats while dry tears take the old triumphs to a silent death The old men's corpses consumes in an obscure dust while the new secret shines in a golden aura Past glories could rejoice only a brief instant Soon the new gloom's birth will wrap the present and the future in a pall of algid fires and glacial quivers No blood is willing to be shed in memory of your sighs No wind will agitate the trees' fronds at sunset The foul insect will suck the virgin infant's pulp The fifth simulacrum's sect will perish under the vibrating echo of the white queen Every sword is unarmed in the presence of the goddess's dagger Every shield is smashed by the young witch The third magic star protects my mental acts The master of the astral fluid illuminates my path. ABSOLUTE VACUUM This is the archetype that pre-exists the man Evil is an inner voice that transcends the life's principle It is shameful and sharp, but secretly desired Don't resist the charm of evil, let fire burn bright, obscure and contradictory form of bliss and lust It lives in our heart, but awfully beyond us. Death is certain but its time is a mystery forever unknown Every drop of my tears is eternal, death is eternal, it's the evidence of everything's end and corruption Suffering is pain, don't mistake it for ache Ache is consciousness, everlasting expiation. You can't defend yourself from the void nothing Lunacy is a false cure to mask emptiness Existence is tragic 'cause we begin to see the dawn only when darkness falls We have been called to live in the name of archaic myths To refuse them is like to fly with no fear to sink Into the eternal and primordial sleep To sink into the earth's secret heart We have been given a mask to lay upon our face to throw off it is like to feast with no fear to drink at the sacred source, to eat forbidden fruits, to learn the mysteries Of fire, of water, of human souls, of our destiny The throb is dying out in a vibrating echo Cosmic memories protect us from the chaos Choices cannot be erased, neither by mind. Lyrics in plain text format