Cold, Son of the Wind

from Vargtimmen pt. II

May 16th, 2025

8 tracks

61:23

Vargtimmen pt. II

Cold, Son of the Wind

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Cold, Son of the Wind

Wyrd

How chill is morning, how cold its melody. On a season of withering, when time stands still I listened and the wind spoke to me, I heard the woods sing to me. Reciting poems and myths, from earliest of ages Shadow of a crooked rowan tree, looks more like a bear in sleep Season fades along with its leaves, until one plough day earth covers earth Cold, son of the wind, freeze the winter willows Chill the birch chunks, Cold, son of the wind I listened and the rain whispered to me, I heard the streams murmur my name. Shared their timeless wisdom, a cruel tale of nature unveiled Until one plough day earth covers earth

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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.

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

Tape coming out on May 16, 2025.