Black Thorn Banner
Dark Celtic folk and heroic metal, slow 70 BPM intro with sparse fingerstyle guitar, low male chant, and measured tom hits; verse opens bare and ritualistic, pre-chorus tightens with hand drum rolls, chorus flips to 153 BPM with rolling polyrhythms, soaring distorted guitars, stacked choir, and angelic call-and-response. Final chorus blooms wider, then a monastic close. Gritty, vast, and triumphant., metal, celtic, folk, soaring, complex, low, fingerstyle, dramatic, monastic
Black Thorn Banner
Dark Celtic folk and heroic metal, slow 70 BPM intro with sparse fingerstyle guitar, low male chant, and measured tom hits; verse opens bare and ritualistic, pre-chorus tightens with hand drum rolls, chorus flips to 153 BPM with rolling polyrhythms, soaring distorted guitars, stacked choir, and angelic call-and-response. Final chorus blooms wider, then a monastic close. Gritty, vast, and triumphant., metal, celtic, folk, soaring, complex, low, fingerstyle, dramatic, monastic
Lyrics
Cold ash on the road
Boots cut through the fen
I heard my blood say
Rise, rise again
Old stones watch me pass
Black water at my knee
I carry my name
Like a wound set free
[Pre-Chorus]
Horns under the hill
Breath in the pine
I was made for the night
But the dawn is mine
[Chorus]
Wild and free
Wild and free
I break the chain
I take the key
Wild and free
Wild and free
(Stand with me)
(Stand with me)
[Verse 2]
I crossed the moor alone
With iron in my лад
The wolves knew my step
The crows knew my hand
A crown of thorn and smoke
A storm inside my chest
I never bowed to fear
I only learned its test
[Pre-Chorus]
Horns under the hill
Breath in the pine
I was made for the night
But the dawn is mine
[Chorus]
Wild and free
Wild and free
I break the chain
I take the key
Wild and free
Wild and free
(Stand with me)
(Stand with me)
[Bridge]
[Half-time]
Hear the angels call
From the edge of the flame
White wings over black
They sing my name
Step after step
Through the veil I go
The blood in my hands
Turns bright in the snow
[Final Chorus]
Wild and free
Wild and free
I break the chain
I take the key
Wild and free
Wild and free
(Stand with me)
(Stand with me)
Wild and free
Wild and free
I rise from stone
And I do not bleed
[Outro]
Hush now the hall
Let the old prayers breathe
I came from the dark
And the dark set me free