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En Tafo

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1.
Hegemony 05:26
Thrown in this world in an ageless time Bearing strength, spirit and mind Achieving greatness equal to Gods Surpassing tasks, against all odds Even though the elders said Hades waits us all Far beneath the roots of Earth The mist of Tartaros Τον πέρι χάλκεον έρκος ελήλατε Αμφί δέ μιν νύξ τριστοιχεί κέχυται περί δειρήν (Surrounded by a bronze wall And everywhere, three rows of night Pour around his neck) Hegemony ‘Οπου πεθαίνουν οι θνητοί Εκεί γεννιούνται οι Θεοί (Where mortals die There Gods are born) Aeons befall as I grow old The warmth of frost inside my soul The winter’s breath will help me sleep These roots of evil are too deep How can I rise? Awaits demise A place like this Bitter and fierce Είς το πύρ το εξώτερον (In the outer fire) Hegemony Προκατάληψη (Prejudice) Strangle with forces that are greater than me Even if all terrors wait, I found the courage to be ‘Οπου πεθαίνουν οι θνητοί Εκεί γεννιούνται οι νεκροί (Where mortals die There dead are born) Aeons befall as I grow old The warmth of frost inside my soul The winter’s breath will help me sleep These roots of evil are too deep
2.
The ancient road ascending to Athens Terror incarnate, beware of what happens Malicious beasts transformed into men Spread along the path, forcing you to hell ‘Ην ούν ολέθριος η πορεία τοίς Αθήναζε πεζή βαδίζουσιν έκ Πελοποννήσου (For this, fatal was to walk from Peloponnese to Athens) Torment begins at dawn in Epidavros Passage will lead you straight into Thanatos Stalking the feeble, the weak and the unaware Named Perifitis, holding iron in his hand Shatter the bones, the body is pulverized Beating is endless, will not let you die Coughing up blood, your organs have been deformed Pain is your last feeling, that’s the way he killed them all Murderers murdered, murder Nightfall arrives the terror has been unleashed Sinnis, the wicked hiding beneath the trees Into the woods the ropes are standing high Thirsting for skin, for the next one to divide Hands tied to the left, feet on the other side Hanging up stretched, horror inside you lies He cuts them free, the ropes holding you alive Body dissected from two trees into the night On one of his beds Your feet exceed from the edge Procrustis chopping Leftovers hit the floor Αναγκάσας αυτόν απισούν τοίς κλιντήρσιν (Forcing him to be equalized with the bed) Lesser flesh stretched to the line The level of pain, divine All joints are extended Torture in Eleusis Pay, pay for your murders -My wrath shall fall upon thee all Justice is served -The death you favor, you will know Learn, learn what you taught them -Lessons in pain, the preachers die Die by Theseus Ούτω δή καί Θησεύς κολάζων τούς πονηρούς επεξήλθεν Οίς μέν εβιάζοντο τούς άλλους, ύπ’ εκείνου καταβιαζομένους (So Theseus came against the wicked and punished them Bringing towards them the violence they have used against others) Pay, pay for your murders -My wrath shall fall upon thee all Justice is served -The death you favor, you will know Learn, learn what you taught them -Lessons in pain, the preachers die Die by Theseus ‘Εν δέ τοίς τρόποις τής εαυτών αδικίας τά δίκαια πάσχοντας (And rightfully he killed them by their unjust manners)
3.
I, violence 03:55
A vicious blow came from up high The son of war today will die My divine force unleashed to thee It’s raining blood, your end is here You are before A deadly blow Under your jaw You are no more The tendons slit Neck has been ripped You have been warned of this sheer violence Accept defeat I, violence Violence, I My Zeus given gene completely devoid of fear Gave birth to a force unrivaled by Gods You fools shouldn’t be near Βίην Ηρακλείην (Violence of Heracles) ΄Η μήν καί κράτερός περ εών άαται πολέμοιο (For even if he is powerful, he will be fed with war) Blinded by vengeance, his screams tear the sky The moans of agony, the God of war cries You took my son’s life, your death has arrived No wisdom Goddess will save you tonight Strike my spear against you Failure rages me more Wave my sword against you Before the hit I will fall I feel a dagger piercing my skin The shield unable to protect me from him It ripped the flesh and stopped to the bone Laid to the ground, defeated, alone I, violence Violence, I My Zeus given gene completely devoid of fear Gave birth to a force unrivaled by Gods You fools shouldn’t be near Βίην Ηρακλείην (Violence of Heracles)
4.
Saddest message you will learn, ή μή ώφελλε γενέσθαι (It should never happen) Patroclos lies dead, we fight around his naked body Hector took his armor friend, wounded when he stroke him Assisted by the god of sun, the coward found him unarmed The one I held dear like my eyes, Hector has him slained Mother I don’t want to live, unless he suffers in pain Among the living I won’t be until his life will end my spear Slayer of Patroclos die, avenger comes with fear Έκτωρ πρώτος εμώ υπό δουρί τυπείς από θυμόν ολέσση (Hector first under my spear by anger shall fall) Achilles runs like shooting star towards his enemy Hector stares trembling in fear and flees along the walls And like a wolf is hunting deer, he chases him around the city Fast three times before he stopped at the place where he would fall I will not flee before you Νύν αυτέ με θυμός ανήκε στήμεναι αντία σείο Ελοιμί κεν ή κεν αλοίην (Now my soul wants me to stand against you You will fall or I will fall) The spears violently ripping the air but not the flesh First time and last time Hector fails Achilles stabs his neck, leaving his voice unharmed So he may speak as his life begins to fade When you murdered Patroclos, no regrets no fear Now you die and you’ll be dragged by dogs Oh, for thy soul Achilles, don’t feed me to the dogs Accept my father’s gold and send my body to Troy Do not tempt me foul dog If my soul could let me, I would eat your pieces raw For all the harm you caused All the treasures of Troy will not save you from their jaws Ούδ’ ώς σέ γε πότνια μήτηρ Ενθεμένη λεχέεσσι γοήσεται όν τέκεν αυτή Αλλά κύνες τε καί οιωνοί κατά πάντα δάσονται (The mother that gave you birth Will never cry for you by your death bed But dogs and beasts will feast on your flesh and bones) So he died and his soul descends to Hades While dead, Achilles said Go and I’ll wait for time my death will come When Zeus decides and all the gods On both his feet he pierced the nerves from heel to ankle Strapped him behind the chariot His lifeless head dragged to the ground His lifeless body against the ground
5.
Κλυθί μευ, ός πάντων θνητών οίηκα κρατύνεις Πάσι διδούς χρόνον αγνόν, όσων πόρρωθ' υπάρχεις Σός γάρ ύπνος ψυχής θραύει καί σώματος ολκόν Ηνίκ' άν εκλύηις φύσεως κεκρατημένα δεσμά Τόν μακρόν ζώιοισι φέρων αιώνιον ύπνον Κοινός μέν πάντων, άδικος δ' ενίοισιν υπάρχων ‘Eν ταχυτήτι βίου παύων νεοήλικας ακμάς ‘Eν σοί γάρ μούνωι πάντων τό κριθέν τελεούται Ούτε γάρ ευχαίσιν πείθηι μόνος ούτε λιταίσιν Αλλά, μάκαρ, μακροίσι χρόνοις ζωής σε πελάζειν Αιτούμαι, θυσίαις καί ευχωλαίς λιτανεύων ‘Ως άν έοι γέρας εσθλόν έν ανθρώποισι τό γήρας (Hear me, you who hold the life of all men You give pure time to those from whom you are far Because your sleep crashes the soul and drags the body Because you destroy the bonds that hold the body And you bring to the living the long eternal sleep And you are common to all, but to some you seem unfair When quickly you end their life in the prime of their youth Because by you alone the judgement of all is executed Because you alone are never persuaded by prayers and beggins But oh, eternal one, I ask you to come after many years of life And I beg you for that with sacrifices and prayers So that old age can be for men a good prize)
6.
The ship of time arrived for me, fate Atropos Cuts the thread of life and brings me before Thanatos His wings fly faster than the wind, delivering my soul To the place my last journey begins, to Acheron’s black shore I have to wait for Charon there, for he shall come in his boat A price is set for me to pay for the passage, or a century here I will roam I enter the gates of Hades, guarded by Kerberos Passed through asphodel lea of souls, straight into Erevos Ένθα δέ γής δνοφερής καί ταρτάρου ηερόεντος πόντου Τ’ ατρυγέτοιο καί ουρανού αστερόεντος εξείης πάντων πηγαί καί πείρατ’ έασιν, Αργαλέ ευρώεντα, τάτε στυγέουσι θεοί περ (There the dark earth’s and the misty Tartatros’s and the barren sea’s Stand the foutains and edges in the row Bitter mouldy, even gods are afraid of them) Before Persephone’s palace, in the shrine of Hecate As I witness the rulers of my fate They stand in line in the crossroad where the souls are condemned All my deeds pass the judgment of them Now their order is made and my path has been paved Wicked I Am denied from the Elysian Thrown into Tartaros where abominations rejoin Suffer eternal after death
7.
Today we feast, we celebrate the luscious skin Two years have passed, the day has come primeval mass Our mystic place, mesmerized peaks of Parnassos Unwanted god, deceitful presence Dionysos This congregation is the outcome of a mystery Released from guilt transform reality into fantasy Seductive rhythms fill our ears, the song of Sikinnis Spirits roam above bodies, dancing in ecstasy The wine is flowing, hallucinating essences The drums are beating, the pipes sound like maniacs Bedazzled sweet by the juices of the earth Stoned from the smoke, the pyre of the leaf is in birth Their legs are parallel Their fountains titillated Their only thought is lust Purify my body and soul Makes me become one with the god A phallus among vulvae in heat In orgiastic frenzy we meet And I’ m going under, vulvae under And I’m slipping under, ten breasts under Ευοί ευάν (viva) I drink the nectar from her womb Ευοί ευάν As she caresses phallicism Ευοί ευάν Wild intoxicated passion Οργιαστική φρενίτις (orgiastic frenzy) I fill the chalice with vomit, semen, putrid stench Aroused by sickness my climax now will reach the end Force feeding mixtures experiments on female flesh Indulgence ended, I cross the line of tolerance Fourteen have passed out the rest of us still fornicate Our glorious circle emerging still for thirteen days We all create a bond unmatched by human dignity A secret manifest consisted by our deities Purify my body and soul Makes me become one with the god A phallus among vulvae in heat In orgiastic frenzy we meet And I’ m going under, vulvae under Semen dripping under, their lips under Οργιαστική φρενίτις (orgiastic frenzy)
8.
At the dawn of man in Mikoni Men and gods gathered to arrange the part of sacrifice for each An ox was brought and split in two Prometheus was to decide which was for man and which for Zeus First part for man, titan arranged the ox’s flesh he veiled Under it’s skin and for the gods, bones under shining fat veiled Zeus: ‘Ιαπετιονίδη, πάντων αριδείκετ’ ανάκτων, ώ πέπον, ‘ως ετεροζήλως διεδάσσαο μοίρας. (Son of Iapetos, renowned more than all the lords, oh friend, how inequitable you divided the shares.) Prometheus: Ζεύ κύδιστε μέγιστε θεών αιειγενετάων, τών δ’ έλε οπποτέρην σε ενί φρεσί θυμός ανώγει. (Zeus glorious, greater than all the eternal gods, take from these two whichever your soul desires.) So he said and Zeus with his undecaying thought Took the white fat and what’s underneath he sought Anger rose in his mind, rage came in his soul When he gazed upon the bare bones, deceit in whole From that day the breed of men upon the altars burn Bones of sacrifices for immortal gods concern Zeus: ‘Ιαπετιονίδη, πάντων πέρι μήδεα ειδώς, ώ πέπον, ούκ άρα πω δολίης επελήθεο τέχνης. (Son of Iapetos, your thoughts are above everybody my friend, you did not forget your devious tricks.) So said the god, his memory had Αlways deceit he knew of this fraud Never again he wouldn’t give, fire to men now they should live Under the darkness, the cold, the exigencies Prometheus couldn’t stand watch them suffering Τώ δέ Προμηθεί εις μέν την ακρόπολιν Tήν τού Διός οίκησιν ουκέτι ενεχώρει εισελθείν Είς δέ τό τής Αθηνάς καί Ηφαίστου οίκημα τό κοινόν Λαθών εισέρχεται καί κλέψας τήν τε έμπυρον Τέχνην τήν τού Ηφαίστου Καί την άλλην τήν τής Αθηνάς δίδωσιν ανθρώπω (So Prometheus entered the acropolis, where Zeus lives Sneaked in the common house of Athena and Hephestus And he stole the fiery art of Hephestus And the art of Athena, and he gave them to man) But everyone in the universe knew Unwise it was to act against Zeus They would receive bad to even good Mortals and Prometheus would surely lose Δήσε δ’ αλυκτοπέδησι Προμηθέα, δεσμοίς αργαλέοισι Μέσον διά κίον’ ελάσσας (And he tied Prometheus with bitter torturing bonds In the middle of a column) Sent upon him a divine eagle Agonizing pain was his doom Every day was eating his liver But the night it grew by the moon As the years were passing in torture Another plague was sent upon man A virgin beauty admired but hollow Was the day war among them began Θαύμα δ’ έχ αθανάτους τε θεούς καί θνητούς ‘Ως είδον δόλον αιπύν, αμήχανον ανθρώποισιν Ανήκεστον κακόν έστιν (And they admired, the immortal gods And the mortal humans When they saw the sharp malice, overcoming men And it is incurable evil) ΑΝΗΚΕΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΚΟΝ ΕΣΤΙΝ

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Black metal from the fathomless depths of Hades.
Eight horrific tales from antiquity written in the English and ancient Greek languages.

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released May 2, 2011

En Tafo is:
Paminos - High grave, Strings
Jim - Low grave
Theodore - Orchestra

All songs composed and produced by En Tafo.
Ancient Greek texts from: Ησίοδος (Hesiod), Πλούταρχος (Ploutarchos), ‘Ομηρος (Homer), Ορφεύς (Orpheus), Πλάτων (Plato).
Track 5 is based on ancient Greek music composed around the third and forth century B.C. It’s lyrics are the hymn of Orpheus to Death.
Recorded in Hades.
Mastered at Mastervargas studios.
Artwork by Konstantinos Tzalalis (kt.killervox@gmail.com).
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