The Pale and the Dead

from Vargtimmen pt. II

May 16th, 2025

8 tracks

61:23

Vargtimmen pt. II

The Pale and the Dead

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The Pale and the Dead

Wyrd

In the woods not far from here, stands an age old dead tree On a meadow once green, nothing grows now They used to hang people from this oak, or so they legend claims Beneath the shadows of these branches, witches and heretics have burned The ground is dead and stained black with blood, the sorrow of centuries it bears No man, bird or beast dares to wander here Even during daylight hours darkness always seems to be near The soil is poisonous and swarming with snakes Oh, I tell you, it's a cursed place Here meet the pale and the dead, here the most coldhearted will dread The pale and the dead, ghosts from times long gone Relics of past dread, they walk beyond the sun When the night falls, the mist rises from the depths of the dead, cursed soil Damned, forgotten souls, centuries of old, wake from their cursed sleep of empty eternity The pale and the dead wretched souls that prey on living flesh The pale and the dead, souls unset, forever doomed to haunt The pale and the dead, beyond dawn and daylight they stalk

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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.