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Theodor Kittelsen & Dragonthrone Productions

Ominous Insomnia

from Vargtimmen pt. II

May 16th, 2025
8 tracks
61:23
Vargtimmen pt. II
Vargtimmen pt. II
Ominous Insomnia
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Ominous Insomnia
Wyrd
Still Holding on to a memory (of a dream) Clung to a ghost of the past, I am entangled in a maze (of the self) With no way out ...Alive Tired of the empty promises of a new brighter dawn Tired of all your fucking lies, that you keep preaching on Tired of all the hypocrisy, all the scorn, and double morality Only refuge is in a dream, but the dream always dies An image of a desolate meadow (it's a dream) All black, dead and barren, paints itself unto my cornea (it's for real) I know, I've seen it before ...In a dream, maybe? The drugs don't work anymore, immune to all the pills Too afraid to sleep, too tired to live Can't sleep, the visions haunt me Should I close my eyes, would I dare?, dream, my last sanctuary Now twisted into a morbid nightmare ...Without an end The fever's getting higher, burning inside me like fire The shadows are getting deeper, oh dawn, why won't you come? Tired of being alive, of thinking, of breathing So why not just end it? Right here, right now The sickness burns in my veins, working like a daze Yet I am too scared to end my days
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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.

Credits

Recorded and mixed at DT-Audio in January-February 2004.
Mastered at DT-Audio in March 2004.

All music, lyrics, instruments and vocals by Narqath, except “Cold, Son of the Wind” lyrics by Narqath & Wircki.

Cover image by Theodor Kittelsen.