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Ironhawk - Ritual of the Warpath

by Dying Victims Productions

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1.
The damned they will ride on the eternal night over desolate plains of extinction where wretched cast flame on these barren remains now their masters take flight and forsake them in their final crusade, now they’ve lay waste to the land endless the storm now bestowed to the swarm as utopias razed to the ground in chains we did slog and we cowered, reined at the leash of our greed gutted the earth for its bounty and worth as they fled for their final frontier In debt to the grave on a knife edge of rage brought the masses enslaved to a ransom to crawl for their number in the conquest and plunder of the earth that they seek to abandon In their final crusade, now they’ve lay waste to the land endless the storm on the battlefield torn as utopias razed to the ground servants who blinded by power reined at the leash of our greed gutted the earth for its bounty and worth upon the death of their final frontier
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masters of death in the fortune they seek, have wrought in their conquest these lands, now empty and bleak their lifeless facade encircles its grave, locked t'ward oblivion, set unto the flames we are burning! into the oblivion the storm it wont cease tempest of fire as the wrath of the elements fury released suffer the earth, its lifeblood we cursed through poison and flame we are aimed t'wards infernal destruction entranced in a sequence from whence none can turn deep from the earth come the rising of the storm thunder shall break on the blackened sky line drowning the ruins of this dark loop of time we are frozen! on desolate plains shall the winter descend smothering death, collapse of the husk we have come to the end suffer the earth, our lifeblood we cursed layed us to waste as we lurch t'wards infernal destruction
3.
the shadows follow where the bones of ancients fall and ever round you casts their hand to heed their call this path it winds on stones embittered they lay below on sacred mountains scarred from bloodstained times in tooth and claw this land once gripped us to the bone echo the suffering endured upon the stone spectre of madness takes your hand and drags you round the land alive it speaks of darkness of the ground in tooth and claw this land has cut through to the bone infernal howls, unleashed from wounded stones eternal madness locked in time beyond the stars the mounds of nowhere, bury the scars these solemn peaks conceal the ancient suffering cast by dusk the gloom reveals the torments of the past a cold wind blows over misfortune of the doomed deep in these woods eternal sadness is entombed in tooth and claw this land once gripped us to the bone echo the suffering and truth upon these stones spectre of madness takes your hand and drags you round the land alive it speaks of darkness of the ground in tooth and claw this land has cut through to the bone infernal howls, unleashed from wounded stones eternal sadness locked in time beyond the stars the mounds of nowhere, bury the scars
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Sanctimony 04:22
Lurid the wrath that does summon the plague Casting each stone from the swamp of dismay Sermon and frenzy leads their witch hunting game Puritan crawlers shall gnash in their rage Curse of the tyrants has summoned its sphere sanctimonious power, armoured in fear Damnation and flame shall temper their cross Cast and condemn to the exile and frost Mask and delusion shall cast to the pyre endless the scapegoats shall hang from the spire faithful the programmed now seething their bait to scorn and to sacrifice, blinded by hate when the code of their creed be the mark of their cross sharpens its blades in mirage of its gloss prudent the masters shall save of their face by prey on the banished who’ve fallen from grace
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stand at the edge of the climax of death born of the reign of delusion and fear primed in a struggle, as the pacts come to strike at the last doomsday hour harness a mass wind of death never seen turning of phrase in a mad masters game bringing the warlords to deadly exchange in a chain of reaction, as the tension released brings the flock to the slaughter and they throw the parade to the flame eternal winter barren and lifeless as one vanquished by toxic decay by their sleight of command, made you pawns in an endgame of bloodlust and slaughter condemning the world to a grave
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Dark Age 03:43
i've seen the march to desolation from rivers of blood to the barren windswept plains from the slums of the damned, to the towers of steel we were crushed and forsaken the same Now at the edge, burning to death betrayed by these hounds of the cross dark days have came by the lifeless remains total holocaust bring the unblinding, lift this shroud of deceit revealed are the masters and slaves land of the futile, cast a world only grey broken of life by their chains Now at the edge, burning to death We were betrayed by the hounds of the cross dark days have came, by the cities in flames total holocaust encircling the world to their vision of annihilation at the merciless hands of their iron dream the masters, of pious delusion, the masses in dejected confusion with lurid bloodlust reining at the leash, lay waste to the earth at their feet the barren road of which we have paved, is now in darkness, where we dig our own grave in this dark age
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I draw the hand that yields catharsis by ordeal Lucid misfortune into the darkness of the night A twist of fate beneath the serpentine of steel cross the path to the abyss before my eyes Escape from the void – entangled in exile of the sun Unto the storm of beyond, enter the circle I chase these shadows towards the spiraling of the lights Across the void into the centre of the flame Betwixt all life and death the throes of arcane power Seep the flesh unto the earth from whence it came Escape from the void, stand at crossroads of abandon Flee the storm of beyond, its echo will haunt through the shadows of madness
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I feel the ground shake as the doomsday bells they toll chanting destruction as the war path heeds its call condemned in exile the infernal grave surrounds grind the axe while we defend these sacred grounds it’s from the dark side where I ride can’t kill the shadows they were always by our side in our blood, can’t get enough, this power will survive us on forsaken land of death the war path leads, these wings of speed, storm the gates bring the charge of the night hordes of hell summon the vengeance of the ancients in our bones feel the power rising from the stones we are the warlords of infernal cosmic rage blackened steel warriors of death howls and flame it’s from the dark side where I ride storm and vengeance we shall tear apart the sky in our blood, can’t get enough, this power will survive us on forsaken land of death the war path leads, lightning and speed, storm the gates bring the charge of the ironhawk of death it’s from the dark side where I ride cant kill this shadow it was always by my side in our blood, can’t get enough, this power will survive us on forsaken land of death the war path leads, lightning and speed, storm the gates bring the charge of the ironhawk of death
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A cold wind of death tears the sky overhead seething its way through this shadowless night Casting its dread from the tormented depths of an infinite force from within to the abyss on the threshold of life A shriek of the ravens through the echos of time Sounding the forboding pathway to come to the edge of this world, where we carried the dream through the war of survival Just to stand at the bridge of unknown to the gates of beyond where the fallen have gone past all the ways and all time of this world but the echoes remain, empty spaces of pain laying frozen and strayed on the void as we drift to the shores, so embittered and drawn drink down the moon in the spite that we;re damned the hated and hounded, yeah the haunted and doomed amongst all the shadows are etched on these lands
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Australia’s IRONHAWK, Ritual of the War Path, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

From the remote backwaters of Tasmania, IRONHAWK emerged in 2013 at a ramshackle basement gig where a hijack of the stage to butcher a handful of Motörhead covers lit the fuse, which in turn exploded as the unholy trinity of Simon (ex-Bastard Squad, Distroy), Mitch (ex-Vulgar, Bulletproof), and Ange (The Wizar’d, Tarot) cast blackened metalpunk forged in the flames of Bathory, Amebix, Sacrilege, Venom, and English Dogs.

The year 2014 saw the first round of tracks to be released as the mini-album Boozehounds From Hell. However, it was in the years that followed that IRONHAWK would gain momentum, with rowdy live shows around Australia and beyond, building their following of headbangers and hellraisers. The year 2017 saw the Cemetery of Steel EP give the taste of metalpunk fury, and upon the plague of 2020, IRONHAWK turned to the studio to lay down their long-awaited full-length debut, Ritual of the War Path.

Like a time-warp to 1985, Ritual of the War Path is a grandiose-yet-grimy statement of ancient metalpunk powers known only to the most devout. To say that IRONHAWK are indeed “devout” – and direly so – to their etched-into-steel influences would be an understatement; to say that the power-trio actually DO something with those influences is also an understatement. Thus, we hear the cavernous crunge of early Bathory, the sooty surge of early Sacrilege, the burning spirits of prime English Dogs, and definitely (and uniquely for this style) the epic landscapes of mid ‘80s Amebix across the album’s surprisingly dynamic 37 minutes. It’s that lattermost element, in particular, which puts Ritual of the War Path into rarefied territory, for instead of merely aping Amebix’s most characteristic moments (or whole riffs themselves), IRONHAWK thread those textures into most of the album’s songs, giving Motörcharge a new look – but one still rooted in a road warrior past.

Life is bleak, dark, perhaps beyond redemption. Why not hop on a rusty, bespiked dune-buggy and set out for new adventures on the wasteland with IRONHAWK’s Ritual of the War Path?

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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is a German underground heavy metal label that unleashes all sorts of metal. DVP is always on the lookout for newcomers as well as established acts.

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