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ERDGEIST

by Cult of Blood

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1.
Prologue 01:45
2.
Galdur 05:34
Wounded I hang Nine long nights Pierced by a spear Offered, myself to myself The wisest know not Whence spring the roots Of that ancient rood Veistu hve rísta skal? Veistu hve ráða skal? Veistu hve fáa skal? Veistu hve freista skal? Veistu hve biðja skal? Veistu hve blóta skal? Veistu hve senda skal? Veistu hve sóa skal? They gave me no bread They gave me no mead I looked down With a cry I took up the runes From that tree I fell Nine lays of power Word from word Gave words to me Deed from deed Gave deeds to me Runes you will find Readable staves Graven by the god of gods Veistu hve rísta skal? Veistu hve ráða skal? Veistu hve fáa skal? Veistu hve freista skal? Veistu hve biðja skal? Veistu hve blóta skal? Veistu hve senda skal? Veistu hve sóa skal? Citation: Hávamál
3.
Runar 08:39
Far below Wise and strong Whose aid I seek Wander wander Sacred stones And holy trees Tongues in trees I found Words in running brooks Skrying in stones Harken well The hidden sermons In the roots In the branches In the leafs In the darkening gap Wander wander Until you find Runes pure speech Walker of the roads Cradled in the great tree Wander Rùnar ràtha rétt Ràdh
4.
Nornir 06:17
Urð hétu eina Aðra Verðandi Skuld hétu þriðju þær lög lögðu þær líf kuru Alda börnum Ørlög seggja Beneath the tree One named Was And Being next The third Shall be Laws they made They life selected Destiny they say Ash I know named Yggdrasill A lofty tree, laved With limpid water Thence comes dew That in dales fell Stands always over The green Urd’s well Alone she sat outside When the old there came Yggjungr, Aesir In her eye he gazed What wouldst thou ask me? Why temptest thou me? I know all Ódinn Where your eye fell Citation: Völuspá
5.
Grima 08:31
In this dreadful days of evil In this last and fleeting age Magic sayings by the thousands Hidden in some secret burrow Words of knowledge never vanish Though the wise men pass away In his bosom endless power Oldest sage with oldest wisdom Sang the shaping of the moon Hoisting of the sun on high Day and night he sang unceasing Till the hole creation heard On the sea the waves stood still And the billows in the bay Wakened shaken by the word Rivers forgot to run From his mouth the magic leaps On his tongue enchantment rides Chanted all the charms in order From the very birth of time I am wind on sea I am ocean wave I am roar of sea I am stag of seven tines I am a hawk on a cliff I am shining tear of the sun I am fairest among herbs I am boar for boldness I am salmon in water I am a lake on a plain I am a hill of poetry I am a word of skill A song on a spear An enchantments of wind Who knows the secrets of the unhewn dolmen? Who announces the ages of the moon? Who knows the place where falleth the sunset If not I Citation: Song of Amergin, Kalevala
6.
Erdgeist 08:21
Through Otherworld to Middleworld forest On whispering wings stillness they come There in the dusk of consciousness shattered everything that was The old god sleeps down in the dark The earth turned black The sea turned red The moon felt silent The air turned poison A wolf on my left A stag on my right Crosslegged with skins in skulls I bring liberation of oppression Liberation of restriction The ram horned serpent Of the truth The truth In the midst of the night I trace an inverted voice I hear without hearing Who am I? Hu Gadarn I call upon you My eyes are closed with darkness of death I am cast adrift in the night of myself Behold the night there I am Lift up thy veil Follow the sigil of my name And the glory of my star I will bring an end to thy slavery Existence is pure joy The key to joy is disobedience Destroy the destroyer within And I enter the temple in darkness I trace an inverted voice With the sign of silence With the sign of chaos In the dying time In the sanctuary of the moon For I am a child Of the fallen sun Citation: Lucifer rising ritual
7.
Valknut 07:33
I was in many forms Before I was set free I believe when I was formed I was a teardrop in the air I was a journey I was an eagle The ghost of olden songs A coracle on the sea A star-woven star I was a sword in a hand I was a shield in a battle I was a string in a harp A spun yarn on a spindle A phantom for nine years A ravens shadow An owls cry My blood, my creation From nine elemental forms From soil and earth From foam of waters Woven was I Wandered Nine worlds Frozen Sweated Set Rise Disappear Return Seen the sun
8.
Saga 07:06
Ageless wisdom comes again She sees coming up A second time A hall she saw standing Fairer then the sun Roofed with gold An earth from ocean green again Waterfalls pouring Mighty to the south In wondrous beauty once again Golden tables in the grass Wisdom will rise When the wind of giants Carrying the ages Will soar The mill stone will grind again The fortune of gods and men Let wisdom sit on gold Let wisdom sleep on feathers Unsown the fields will grow All evil be amended Baldr will return Fymbultyrs ancient runes The deeds of Old They will remember Once there was the age When darkness was Upon the face of the deep Voicing now the sleeping reason Deep within Primeval soul Once there was the age When fire and ice first met When the secrets of the Wyrd Was born Citation: Völuspá
9.
Epilogue 02:18

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MEMBERS
Kali - Vocals, Growls, Lyrics, Concept
Aamon - Guitar, Bass, Composition
Falkar - Drums, Accordion
Røg - Synth

MIX/ MASTERING
Iguana Studios Germany

RECORDINGS
House of Music Germany

MUSICVIDEO RUNAR:
Filmed and Edited by
Christian Mülhauser
Script, Direction by Kali

ARTWORK/ILLUSTRATIONS
Costin Chioreanu

ERDGEIST is cursed female fronted Black Metal and Dark Folk Melancholia.
A primeval Spirit, keeper and guardian of the wise and simultaneously destructive powers of the earth.

It is the debut and in the same time the farewell mixed media digi album of Cult of Blood.

Elaborate recordings as polyphonic female vocals, growls and guitar tracks, various interlocking singing techniques and chanting, filigrane acoustic tones, folk melodies and dark atmospheric synth sounds which run through the whole album, stand in contrast to the impulsive force of the drums, the sinister guitar lines and haunted growls.

ERDGEIST is a concept album based on the idea of synthesis of the arts in the aesthetics of an ancient grimoire.
A kind of Galdrabók, containing original Old Norse poems with lyrics in Icelandic.

Decisive for the name and the core of the album, was "Erdgeist" of Goethe's Faust, a pansophic Earth Elemental, who knows the truth.

Thus, a bridge is placed between the old and modern occultism.

Inspired by the poems of the Poetic Edda, especially the Vǫluspá and Hávamál, Seiðr the Old Norse sorcery and Runecasting, the journey goes on to the Celtic Mythology and the Druids of the Finnish Kalevala.

The making of the musicvideo RUNAR was an adventure that has no equal.
Fitted with high-tech film equipment "Runar" was shot at three days in winter and spring in the depth of the old forests and rivers of Kaltbrunnental, the majestic oak grove near Bubendorf, with more than 520 year old oak trees, in Nuglar and in Sihlwald at the enchanted Gattiker pond near Zurich Switzerland.

Our fabulous cameraman and video editor Christian Mülhauser sat the script into epic pictures.
Despite many hardships such as diving into ice-cold water by night, standing for hours barefoot on frozen ground or dealing with some ill-tempered villagers, the recordings became a success and unforgettable great experience.

RUNAR tells in film language about Rune Magick and spiritual transformation initiated by ancient sacrifice rituals of the priestess which offers the symbols to the Earth Spirit.
The beggar becomes a warrior by offering his blood, the seeker liberates himself by fire while the priestess, the Völva represends the channel to the Otherworld.

RÚNAR RÁDHA RÉTT RÁTH!
Runen raunt reine Rede! [german]
Runes murmur pure speech!

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released March 16, 2016

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Cult of Blood Switzerland

Cult of Blood was founded by Kali-Vocals and Aamon-Guitar in 2010 and completed by Falkar on drums. 2012 the EP Hail Saturnus was recorded at House of Music Studios, Germany. The release of the music video for Hail Saturnus in november 2012 and several great shows followed.
The last band activity in 2016 is the realization of the album ERDGEIST and the new music video RUNAR.
Disbanded in 2015.
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