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Steel Diplomacy [Official Bootleg]

by Burning Shadows

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    BD+DVD+2CD set chronicling their 2019 Steel Diplomacy European tour! Included are complete sets from Riddle of Steel Fest in Marburg, Germany and Into Battle Fest in Athens, Greece. Bonus BD/DVD tracks include audio commentary of the sets, plus over 70 minutes of behind the scenes videos, photos, and bonus songs from additional shows. Riddle of Steel audio was mixed from a multitrack board recording; everything else was recorded and assembled from the band's personal archives. Both concerts were filmed with several GoPro cameras.

    All discs (BD, DVD, and CDs) are burned, not pressed. All discs have full color artwork printed on them. BluRay and DVD include full color glossy 1-sided inserts and full color glossy artwork in standard BluRay/DVD cases. CDs include a full color glossy 2-panel insert and tray card. All items are shrinkwrapped. Please ensure your BluRay/DVD/CD plays can play burned discs before ordering!

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    Somewhere in Germany, there is a box of our tour shirts that never arrived at its destination. But fear not, for we have arranged for new shirts to be made! Get the shirt you would have gotten in person or just pretend you were there! We have shirts that ship from both the US and EU, so our European brothers and sisters will not have to wait for the shirts to cross the ocean.

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Outside of time Ancestral mystery Fathering Andean crypts and wandering to sea Swallowed by doldrums to an unknown destiny We shall take flight Six netherworlding farers’ history Our trades are many though our instruments are few To forge an ancient passage in Tuamotu Gone with the floods Our only hope to cross the jungle’s ends But still with baited breath I know we’ll find a way to run the Devil’s haul Shore in retreat As it is with greater horizons on the other side The sails hoisted and the banners raised up high Our Equatorial admission drawing nigh The waves’ conceit Will surely find a way to turn the tide Through glaucous chasms with their misting ivory crowns The coastal epochs clouding up and backing down On the horizon Storming the sea The ocean howling endlessly Tectonic vengeance Winds of the east Tiding the nords to the mark of the beast Our vessel is wasted I am drenched to the bone Ashore with this oaken messiah of stone Crowning the reef With eastern spoils for our company My feet within the sands I gaze upon the stars Witnessing missionary failures from afar On high relief Callao to copra grinning oversea One hundred suns afield we’ve forged upon the mast Three score our kin will find them in the looking glass.
3.
Halo in the dead of night The sanctuary my guiding light Streets are dead, the air is black Archpriest in for the attack Thirty score and thirty reigns Won’t undo this endless pain Witches in the Lord’s domain Never see the light again Bound in mortal savagery Magic, sin and heresy Shackled in the lie we fight The council’s blood will spill tonight Night, with the darkness falling Hand of Sathanas reigning down Upon this coven Bred in secrecy To the wrath of God we pledge Suffering and agony Blessed by the will to end this tyranny Death to the Golden Age at hand To the ones who cast me down And decree that I shall never see the light Yet deceptively exact All your magic and your spells Aren’t enough to end this ghastly, ill-bred site Centuries of oppression breeding endless servitude Flesh and blood we’ve given you is shamelessly subdued Altar of hypocrisy now falling like rain Imminent this prophecy unfolding once again Clouds of smoke consume the sky as fire burns below Cities crumble, kingdoms fall, a noble seed we sow For the servants thou hast slain with deadly effigies I dissipate my vengeance by God’s own decree
4.
Behind, the ravages of war Ahead, they beckon us for more Draw back, your bows and take your aim Let fly, our fiery death shall rain Advance, let loose with savagery Attack, hail steel diplomacy March forth, through blood-soaked moors and dales Delight, in dying armies’ wails Onward, bring death to all our foes Behead, all those who dare oppose Destroy, those spouting heresy Against, our righteous kings and noble priests Obey, don’t question what is right Accept, you’ll never win this fight In death, you’ll find your liberty This life, down on your wretched knees They shall sing of our deeds, in halls flung afar Crushed under our feet, the land bears the scars Let arrows fly Blacken the sky Their bodies are torn Their vile ways are done Their widows are forlorn Their ranks reduced to none Their blood, it soaks the ground Their cities set to flame They raise not a sound Their kingdoms we have claimed They shall sing of our deeds, in halls flung afar Crushed under our feet, the land bears the scars Let arrows fly Blacken the sky
5.
As we ride away Say farewell to light & life [Legolas:] Down the hill from the horse lords’ hall At the roots of the mountains pale Twisted trees and a deathly pall Only choice is that haunted vale [Gimli:] Into the dark Through that gaping door [The Grey Company:] Far beneath the world In hastened fear we tread From Harrowdale Along the paths of the dead White Mountains above Lurking doom we dread Unknown tongues call to us On the paths of the dead They’ve dwelt in guilt and shame These cowards trapped ‘twixt life and death But soon...they shall fight [Aragorn:] Sudden blast and the torches die Yet we press ever onwards now Coming out under open skies Hear my call and redeem your vow Sworn on the stone Come now and atone [The Grey Company:] Far beneath the world In hastened fear we tread From Harrowdale Along the paths of the dead White Mountains above Lurking doom we dread Unknown tongues call to us On the paths of the dead [Aragorn:] Long was my road In winding miles and years My secret load Guided by ancient seers Down from the north Driven by urgent need Thus I set forth Forced to ancestral deed We have come hence [The Dead:] TO FULFIL THE OATH WE SWORE [Aragorn:] Crush Mordor’s servants End the curse of Isildur [Gimli/The Dead:] His banner Unfurls now It’s black as night, yet somehow They see it With dead eyes The seven stars of his line The blade that Was broken The heir of kings has spoken Commanded We march on And pass the Vale of Morthond Narsil’s shards are whole again A flame to light the Age of Men Legions of the dead behind As they emerge one final time from [The Grey Company:] Far beneath the world In hastened fear we tread From Harrowdale Along the paths of the dead White Mountains above Lurking doom we dread Unknown tongues call to us On the paths of the dead And so we push towards The southern line of Sauron’s hordes The field of Pelennor Cries out in anguish, bathed in gore So we set our sails Borne on mighty Anduin
6.
Evil deeds it has long seen Bathed in martyr’s blood Victors it has made Have fallen to its blade All who wield it fate has shielded Eternal victory Forged in darkest fire Raging ever higher Battles have been won Dynasties undone The sword of ages War it wages Victory is near Dreams in restlessness Night descends like madness Silence in the shadows Captivating all who fear Swear on the steel In blood it’s sealed Sworn to victory Twist of fate A cold death waits Sworn to victory Surrounded now we find ourselves They have left no escape Gaze into the blackened eyes See the agony take shape The skies will mourn this darkened day The rivers will run red The treacherous deeds will be repaid By the souls of the dead In his hands, exalted blade The sword does not betray He who bears it shall never fall So claims the ancient lore Scores of men come to their end Their lives gone one by one Shattered, battered, Broken lie the fallen We have won Jealousy and growing greed The bearer’s blood is freed As fate again is carried out By hands that now betray Run on his sword a noble lord Now holds the fabled blade He is crowned And mortals downed The time will come to pay You will pay with your life By the sword We are sworn to victory Swear on the steel In blood it’s sealed Sworn to victory Twist of fate A cold death waits Sworn to victory
7.
Under a spell of regressive unease Struggle to gather what my mind decrees Scattered about are these visions of mine With tidings of war, and the ghastly ill signs Men of deception creating the ultimate divine Creed and corruption dancing with fate as they entwine Standing alone here in search of the key To fortunes we'd hitherto never foresee A price for the living of lives so in vain That yearn for the threshold of pleasure and pain Shattered and lifeless disfiguring everything I see Screams of redemption, bleeding into a misery Where the twisted one dwells casting archaic spells unto me Just once in time I failed to see The flash of darkness in your eyes That shed my blindness away To manifest within mankind A ceremony of infernal might Paints your hollow prophecies with fire! Our life continues A futile waste of man Bereft of all progression Never to understand So the moral chains of existence Are sealed to well within Quest for darkness continues Death of man begins And slowly we fade into the edges of time Cold, shattered and grim Crossing the plain Black is the air With silence insane Eyes peer through the mist Seeing the light Stricken with fear entranced buy the sight Child, follow me now Into my home Dismal and bleak This kingdom I roam There, over the hills Lies the abyss There you will find Solace and bliss
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Dark deception, secrecy The Pope ensnared by common greed Mighty servants, of God above Into the fire they ride! With the first rays of the rising sun To my messengers, my will on earth be done Take them from their homes Lock them in your cells Their souls shall burn in Hell! Day of darkness, dawn of death Frosty morning, frozen breath Wicked treachery, borne by holy men Do not believe their lies! In the year of our lord, 1307 Endowed by all the power of Heaven Open your orders, synchronized by me The Templars will have no chance to flee The first rays of the rising sun To my messengers, my will on earth be done Take them from their homes Lock them in your cells Their souls shall burn in Hell! Onto the stake, into the flames of wrath Go forth and make their chains secure Incinerate the heretics To make my Europe pure Their wealth will now be mine, and All power unto me They never fell at Antioch Their fortress was not breached In battle they were mightier than The Arab Saladin Guardians of the Holy Land This morning (shall) die by my own hand Light the torches, flames shall bathe the square The Knights of Christ must die! Through the darkness, majesty Templar sails, a crew upon the sea Search the frozen waves and distant shores Their spirits ride with us! On the first rays of the rising sun To my messengers, my will on earth be done Take them from their homes Lock them in your cells Their souls shall burn in Hell!
9.
Outside of time Ancestral mystery Fathering Andean crypts and wandering to sea Swallowed by doldrums to an unknown destiny We shall take flight Six netherworlding farers’ history Our trades are many though our instruments are few To forge an ancient passage in Tuamotu Gone with the floods Our only hope to cross the jungle’s ends But still with baited breath I know we’ll find a way to run the Devil’s haul Shore in retreat As it is with greater horizons on the other side The sails hoisted and the banners raised up high Our Equatorial admission drawing nigh The waves’ conceit Will surely find a way to turn the tide Through glaucous chasms with their misting ivory crowns The coastal epochs clouding up and backing down On the horizon Storming the sea The ocean howling endlessly Tectonic vengeance Winds of the east Tiding the nords to the mark of the beast Our vessel is wasted I am drenched to the bone Ashore with this oaken messiah of stone Crowning the reef With eastern spoils for our company My feet within the sands I gaze upon the stars Witnessing missionary failures from afar On high relief Callao to copra grinning oversea One hundred suns afield we’ve forged upon the mast Three score our kin will find them in the looking glass.
10.
Halo in the dead of night The sanctuary my guiding light Streets are dead, the air is black Archpriest in for the attack Thirty score and thirty reigns Won’t undo this endless pain Witches in the Lord’s domain Never see the light again Bound in mortal savagery Magic, sin and heresy Shackled in the lie we fight The council’s blood will spill tonight Night, with the darkness falling Hand of Sathanas reigning down Upon this coven Bred in secrecy To the wrath of God we pledge Suffering and agony Blessed by the will to end this tyranny Death to the Golden Age at hand To the ones who cast me down And decree that I shall never see the light Yet deceptively exact All your magic and your spells Aren’t enough to end this ghastly, ill-bred site Centuries of oppression breeding endless servitude Flesh and blood we’ve given you is shamelessly subdued Altar of hypocrisy now falling like rain Imminent this prophecy unfolding once again Clouds of smoke consume the sky as fire burns below Cities crumble, kingdoms fall, a noble seed we sow For the servants thou hast slain with deadly effigies I dissipate my vengeance by God’s own decree
11.
Behind, the ravages of war Ahead, they beckon us for more Draw back, your bows and take your aim Let fly, our fiery death shall rain Advance, let loose with savagery Attack, hail steel diplomacy March forth, through blood-soaked moors and dales Delight, in dying armies’ wails Onward, bring death to all our foes Behead, all those who dare oppose Destroy, those spouting heresy Against, our righteous kings and noble priests Obey, don’t question what is right Accept, you’ll never win this fight In death, you’ll find your liberty This life, down on your wretched knees They shall sing of our deeds, in halls flung afar Crushed under our feet, the land bears the scars Let arrows fly Blacken the sky Their bodies are torn Their vile ways are done Their widows are forlorn Their ranks reduced to none Their blood, it soaks the ground Their cities set to flame They raise not a sound Their kingdoms we have claimed They shall sing of our deeds, in halls flung afar Crushed under our feet, the land bears the scars Let arrows fly Blacken the sky
12.
As we ride away Say farewell to light & life [Legolas:] Down the hill from the horse lords’ hall At the roots of the mountains pale Twisted trees and a deathly pall Only choice is that haunted vale [Gimli:] Into the dark Through that gaping door [The Grey Company:] Far beneath the world In hastened fear we tread From Harrowdale Along the paths of the dead White Mountains above Lurking doom we dread Unknown tongues call to us On the paths of the dead They’ve dwelt in guilt and shame These cowards trapped ‘twixt life and death But soon...they shall fight [Aragorn:] Sudden blast and the torches die Yet we press ever onwards now Coming out under open skies Hear my call and redeem your vow Sworn on the stone Come now and atone [The Grey Company:] Far beneath the world In hastened fear we tread From Harrowdale Along the paths of the dead White Mountains above Lurking doom we dread Unknown tongues call to us On the paths of the dead [Aragorn:] Long was my road In winding miles and years My secret load Guided by ancient seers Down from the north Driven by urgent need Thus I set forth Forced to ancestral deed We have come hence [The Dead:] TO FULFIL THE OATH WE SWORE [Aragorn:] Crush Mordor’s servants End the curse of Isildur [Gimli/The Dead:] His banner Unfurls now It’s black as night, yet somehow They see it With dead eyes The seven stars of his line The blade that Was broken The heir of kings has spoken Commanded We march on And pass the Vale of Morthond Narsil’s shards are whole again A flame to light the Age of Men Legions of the dead behind As they emerge one final time from [The Grey Company:] Far beneath the world In hastened fear we tread From Harrowdale Along the paths of the dead White Mountains above Lurking doom we dread Unknown tongues call to us On the paths of the dead And so we push towards The southern line of Sauron’s hordes The field of Pelennor Cries out in anguish, bathed in gore So we set our sails Borne on mighty Anduin
13.
Evil deeds it has long seen Bathed in martyr’s blood Victors it has made Have fallen to its blade All who wield it fate has shielded Eternal victory Forged in darkest fire Raging ever higher Battles have been won Dynasties undone The sword of ages War it wages Victory is near Dreams in restlessness Night descends like madness Silence in the shadows Captivating all who fear Swear on the steel In blood it’s sealed Sworn to victory Twist of fate A cold death waits Sworn to victory Surrounded now we find ourselves They have left no escape Gaze into the blackened eyes See the agony take shape The skies will mourn this darkened day The rivers will run red The treacherous deeds will be repaid By the souls of the dead In his hands, exalted blade The sword does not betray He who bears it shall never fall So claims the ancient lore Scores of men come to their end Their lives gone one by one Shattered, battered, Broken lie the fallen We have won Jealousy and growing greed The bearer’s blood is freed As fate again is carried out By hands that now betray Run on his sword a noble lord Now holds the fabled blade He is crowned And mortals downed The time will come to pay You will pay with your life By the sword We are sworn to victory Swear on the steel In blood it’s sealed Sworn to victory Twist of fate A cold death waits Sworn to victory
14.
Under a spell of regressive unease Struggle to gather what my mind decrees Scattered about are these visions of mine With tidings of war, and the ghastly ill signs Men of deception creating the ultimate divine Creed and corruption dancing with fate as they entwine Standing alone here in search of the key To fortunes we'd hitherto never foresee A price for the living of lives so in vain That yearn for the threshold of pleasure and pain Shattered and lifeless disfiguring everything I see Screams of redemption, bleeding into a misery Where the twisted one dwells casting archaic spells unto me Just once in time I failed to see The flash of darkness in your eyes That shed my blindness away To manifest within mankind A ceremony of infernal might Paints your hollow prophecies with fire! Our life continues A futile waste of man Bereft of all progression Never to understand So the moral chains of existence Are sealed to well within Quest for darkness continues Death of man begins And slowly we fade into the edges of time Cold, shattered and grim Crossing the plain Black is the air With silence insane Eyes peer through the mist Seeing the light Stricken with fear entranced buy the sight Child, follow me now Into my home Dismal and bleak This kingdom I roam There, over the hills Lies the abyss There you will find Solace and bliss

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Steel Diplomacy includes two complete live fest recordings from Burning Shadows' Steel Diplomacy 2019 European Tour: Riddle of Steel III in Marburg, Germany (multitrack board recording) and Into Battle Volume III in Athens, Greece (field recording).

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released September 9, 2022

Tom Davy - Lead Vocals
Aaron El-Zeftawy - Bass
Christopher Malerich - Lead Guitar
Tim Regan - Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
David Spencer - Drums

"Live in Germany" tracks engineered by Davide Colombo
All tracks mixed & mastered by Tim Regan
Produced by Tim Regan & Burning Shadows

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