Metal Monday CCLV - Failing In Triumph

5/19/2019

I have long awaited to visit about the glorious band Battlesword. Failing In Triumph is the first full-length album released by these melodic death metal monsters and it is epic. A wicked journey filled with evil and great strife, trudging on and on as the eternal conflict continues. I have kept this band on the backburner for a while and when I finally pulled the trigger it was during a dry spell of finds for something along this line of metal.
Chapter II comes in after the Intro and sets the tone of death immediately. Followed by Baptized In Fire this albums just keeps growing in strength, thundering steady towards a cataclysmic end. Continue on to the self-titled track Battlesword and the energy just keeps trudging on. Beginning to end, this is a hard album to stop and leaves steel and doom in its wake. Failing In Triumph may have released in 2003 however it is a welcome treat as I wade through the mountains of metal in search of those worthy to grace my collection.
Let Battlesword imbue you with strength and fury as we head into another week, battered and beaten... but never broken. Grab your weapon, mount your mystical beast, and tear into the days ahead with fervent madness. /,,/
http://www.battlesword.de/

Chapter II

Now my son
My time to die has come
So take this crown and say
You will rule like me
Yes I know you are the one
Who will fight that evil one?

Every night
I hear the words of my dying father
See his eyes
Empty and grey, watching me
Cause I rule
My nation hard and with bloody hands
To be king
Of fear and hate, blood and doom

My mind is full of hate
The path of evil is my fate
Sometimes I feel my father's pain
And then at night I hear again...

Now my son
My time to die has come
So take this crown and say
You will rule like me
Then I hear
An evil voice of fear
Now young king see and feel
The power of our pact

I was born
In a cold dark night
To fight one day by my father's side
But now evil eyes
Are watching me
I feel the power and I will be
The one who will live
Forever - never die
The king of doom
The one who can fly
The one who will live
Forever - never die
The king of doom
The one who can't die

The time to be the king has come
Father, can you see I am the one
I take the crown to rule without mercy
My evil kingdom will drown in blood

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Battlesword/Failing_in_Triumph/19928

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