The Wicker Man

from Vargtimmen pt. II

May 16th, 2025

8 tracks

61:23

Vargtimmen pt. II

The Wicker Man

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The Wicker Man

Wyrd

The rain pours down with pain, dampening the straws of hay Flowing down my face, mingling with tears Tears of despair and rage, years of emptiness and hate Soon swept away by the flames, mouldering ashes All that remain, is a pile of charred bones Raising dust for the wind to carry far away The rain pours down with pain, yet they sing and dance Floating in a trance like state, bewitched by the chanting Masked faces far below me, laughing mockingly The first torch is lit, soon followed by others This is it now, it will all end, on this solstice's night Flame, come take me, swallow me Oh great nothing, devour me Light it up, burn it down May the gods, accept our sacrifice Flesh to touch, flesh to burn Do not keep the wicker man waiting As flood I'll return, I am your sacrifice Your corpse will rot into the fields, you'll famish and starve As plague I'll return, going to destroy your world With fever you'll burn, and I'll save none

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Vargtimmen Pt. II is the fourth full-length by the Finnish Pagan (Black) Metal project Wyrd and, like the album title suggests, the second release under the Vargtimmen banner - though the lyrics don't follow any intertwined storyline.

This is the first Wyrd album where the music began to shift more towards melodic death metal - if that definition can even, or should be, used in this context. The opening track, "The Wicker Man", is a soul-crushing, doomladen death/black metal piece that, in our books, still stands as one of the finest in Wyrd’s vast discography. As does the whole album, in fact.

Songs like the aforementioned "The Wicker Man", "Ominous Insomnia" and "Cold, Son of the Wind" stand out, although the album as a whole easily carries its nearly 54-minute length.

We are extremely proud and honored to be the first label to reissue this piece of Misanthropic Heathen Art on tape and in digital formats.

The Pale and the Dead are stalking - what are you waiting for?

Originally released on April 17th, 2004 via Solisitium Records.

Tape coming out on May 16, 2025.