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Path to Glory

from Auto da Fe by Scrollkeeper

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The idea for this song came during a band hang at one of the band’s favorite pubs, Neil’s. While enjoying some local brews, the topic of discussion focused on “most metal moments in European History”. Alex offered the story of “the Battle of Varbitsa Pass” (811), where the superior army of Nicephorous is ambushed and cornered in Vrbitsa Pass. In the early morning hours, the up to then triumphant Byzantine army is brutally slaughtered by the avenging Bulgarian forces. Khan Krum, the Bulgarian ruler at the time, had Nicephorous decapitated and his head made into a goblet from which he drank during State dinners. Maybe not the most “metal” moment in European history, but definitely up there!

lyrics

Music and Lyrics: Kamburov

Nicephoros the First
Holy Roman Emperor
Assembled armies over
Eighty thousand strong
They marched a month
Through treacherous terrain
To subjugate Bulgaria
Byzantine nobles,
Patricians and their heirs
The armies of Constantinople, Anatolia and Thrace
The imperial guards, the fearsome excubiti
For Roman glory, is there a better way to die?

Pliska's defense, twelve thousand warriors
Fights to the last man, falls to the sword
The Capital is lost, time to rape and plunder
To the victor belong the spoils.
Sated with lust, drunk on choicest wines
The emperors' savagery reaches new heights
He orders all children put to death
Flattened by threshing stones

For those who wish to know
The path to victory
For those who wish to see
The vanquish of the enemy
For those who wish to know
The path to glory
Victorious, we drink
From the skulls of the enemy

The Great Khan
Rides from the North
Extends peace to the
Byzantine horde
The emperor laughs,
His armies have prevailed,
Continues to plunder
Khan Krum arms
Women and men
Closes the pass
To Byzantine egress
Cut off, surrounded, ripe for slaughter,
Vicious assault
The emperors' head, placed on a spike
Eighty thousand slain,
Vicious bloodbath

For those who wish to know
The path to victory
For those who wish to see
The vanquish of the enemy
For those who wish to know
The path to glory
Victorious, we drink
From the skulls of the enemy

credits

from Auto da Fe, released June 19, 2020
Lyrics and music: Alexander Kamburov

Justin McKittrick - vocals
Alexander Kamburov - lead guitar, bass guitar
Simon Marfleet - drums

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Scrollkeeper are a Traditional Heavy Metal band from Houston, Texas that specialize in high energy, anthemic original material that is reminiscent of Metal's halcyon days.

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