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An Ambush in the Forest

by Mitternacht

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Ten centuries ago, they arrived. In every city of our peaceful planet, in every place of our quiet life, their starships vomited infantry, weaponry, armoured mechs. We knew they were coming We resisted. We fell. We became slaves. Ten centuries ago, they arrived. And the Black Flags of Empire Earth fluttered victorious, unchallenged. And the Black Flags of Empire Earth fluttered victorious, forever.
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Defeat was foreseen by the witches, but citizens and mercenaries would not dare to step backward. The romans attacked with lancers, and their cavalry didn't charge. They started blowing their horns, cowardly, and our beasts became mad. They turned against us, their masters, killing in their madness everything in their way. The first roman lines reached our citizens, and forty thousand were lost. Carthage was defeated.
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We failed to survive. Our star has betrayed us. But its treason was announced to us with eras of anticipation. That makes our failing and our shame dismal, even more despicable. We departed, anyway, with no chances of running away from destruction. We will struggle to the end, perhaps a drop of our species’ blood will be able to reach the stars.
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Whole empires fell under his sword. Thousands of warriors marched and died for him. A hundred armies were at his hand. Peace was kept along many years. The people worshipped the roads where he passed. He never got old. He drowned in a river, a treacherous stream, trying to save a child dragged by the water. He was not his son, his grandson or his nephew. But he didn't hesitate, not even a second. Tears and gloom covered the land from coast to coast. And the peace ended.
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An infamous landscape, plagued by werewolves and lamias. That gloomy forest was the only way for escaping a much more horrible threat. Those who dare to gaze his castle rarely are seen again, at least alive. The curse of an eternal, impious life, hangs on every one who crosses the roads of the Silverwood.
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He dreamt about the journey. The Gods themselves showed him the way. Forty moons up to the Pillars of the Strait. Then, he and his court, guided by faith would reach an unknown new land. A new country just to be taken, with gold just to be grabbed. Fertile soil, uncountable slaves. The Upper and Lower kingdoms would seem poor and small in comparison. The voyage was prepared using all the kingdom's resources. But the Pharaoh died the night before departing.
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They warned him about the Forest. He didn't listen to them. He wanted to reach the Pass. They told him he would be ambushed. He was stubborn, and he thought that he could face any kind of enemy. "Not in that Forest", they told him. He didn't listen to them. And he never returned.

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This is the new album of Mitternacht, the fourth official full length.
More than nine years have passed since its previous release, but the project was never inactive.
Unlike this one, all previous official albums have a physical CD release, by Furias Records.

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released January 5, 2017

All music and lyrics by F. Curwenius.
All instruments and vocals by F. Curwenius.
heulendhorn.blogspot.com
www.orionmusicfurias.com.ar

Cover art "Alone in the woods", by F. Whelk.

On March 20th, 2017 Mitternacht was included in the Dungeon Synth Compilation "Keepers of the Shadow Realm", with a new, unreleased track called "Wardrums of the Ultrabishop".
Available at dungeonsynthcompilation.bandcamp.com/album/keepers-of-the-shadow-realm

Other F. Curwenius projects:
goblintropp.bandcamp.com
vriddgren.bandcamp.com
eislandschaft.bandcamp.com

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