[ti:blood on ice] [ar:bathory ] [00:37.00]The old Crow's cry the first warning. [00:45.00]The rumbling frozen ground the last. [00:49.00]Hooves thundering on the three feet snow, [01:01.00]The icy dawn yet to begin. [01:26.00]Bursting through the icy morning four times five black shadows ahorse. [01:35.00]Steel glimmering in the awakening sun's light, [01:39.00]And blood colours the white snow red. [01:44.00]Cries echo through the dark deep woods. [01:48.00]Open wounds steam in the cold morning air, [01:54.00]And the new day was greeted with a burden. [01:57.00]both raped and dead. [02:07.00]Long scalps hung by the old twin headed Beast's standard black. [02:26.00]Women and children brought far north into the land of no turning back. [02:45.00]The burning village spread by the wind across the tundra. [04:06.00]Long tall beautiful people fallen lifeless to the ground. [04:15.00]Headless scattered still graceful bodies. [04:17.00]Blood coloured the white snow all around. [04:24.00]Through the dark deep woods to the mountains towering to the sky. [04:34.00]The wind carries the quest for revenge and the tale of Blood on Ice. [05:00.00]The Eternal deep dark Woods... [05:08.00]Late daytime... [05:16.00]"Fifteen years have passed. Living among the animals. Learning to read the [05:22.00]signs in bark and snow. Never forgetting the sights that morning in the [05:29.00]village all those years ago. Pain from inside. Transforming him. [05:36.00]Thus he had grown into a Man of Iron..."