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Aeas
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He sailed with many to the Trojan land
With spear, shield and sword at hand
A walking legend amongst the Greeks
Aeas, king of Salamis
A leader of the Achaean fleet
Hundreds fell dead, before his feet
Even Hector was about to fall
But was saved by the nightfall
When great Achilles died
Aeas rescued his corpse
Took it away from the fight
Away from the Trojan dogs
He desired his weapons
As an honoring reward
But they were given to Odysseus
He felt dishonored, betrayed by all
Great anger filled his heart
Tried to take the leaders apart
But Athena clouded his mind
Instead his sword sheep will find
When he woke up the coming day
He knew the price he had to pay
He left alone, a hero ashamed
Broken and stripped of his fame
“Oh hear me now my sword
You took so many lives
And great glory brought
At last you shall take mine
For It’s clear I don’t belong
To this unfair place
And as I see what I’ve done
You my friend shall end my days”
And thus how the great Aeas fell
Shamed by his acts of wrath
To live or die a man, he tells,
With honor is his only path
Like the leaves on trees
Generations of men are found
Forever in a cycle like this
Of brief tragedy are bound
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A tribute to the Darkness I shall pay
A journey where al l once began
A journey to the stars I'm on my way
Where One is All and All is One
To the great Pyr eternal and true
Source of Logos through old and new
From distant Cosmos to thunder’s call
War the master and father of all
Unspeakable serenity surrounds me
An experience so intoxicating
Pure beauty surrounds me
A pleasure nearly suffocating
A spirit of raw power rises
Demanding what rightfully owns
For ages caged and unknown
Once more sits on its throne
We have become one
As we were, again we shall be!
We have become one
Cursed and blessed to be free
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Of Stars And Madmen
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Their final neuralgic days
Reaching the explosive end
Sharing a common fate
To crumble within themselves
A madman’s birth a star’s death
In an instance a mighty force
A tremendous echo spreading
Across eternal darkness
A prophecy is fulfilled
A new era has dawned
A phantom dressed in white
A great devourer in black
No world lives behind his eyes
Time and space are bent
Passing through indifference
A shell of what once was
Horror, beauty, sadness
Alone and together as One
Forever lost to the unknown
Now dwellers of the void
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As Atlas Crumbles
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Laments be sung for the tragedy of old
The wondrous Man bearing his World
Like the titan who lost the war of all wars
And now he holds the weight of all Words
Once all were true behind all were gods
From the morning dew to the crippling cold
Earth was sacred the waters were alive
Wind was a blessing and the fire divine
It was heard upon the waters
Of the Ionian sea
“The great Pan is dead”
The voice called for the demise
Of Antiquity
And its Sun to set
With the rebel Jew dead on the cross
Morality a new spreads across
The rise of the slave the hateful priest
Excellence in chains the plebian feast
The change comes our star finds its place
In search of reality we’ll spend our days
The mind explodes the century of Lights
The opening roads and the lover’s night
A madman then asks about
the stench of decay
“The ideal God is dead”
No purpose no task to keep
the beast at bay
Beyond Truth the age of Dread
The great challenge
For titan and man
How long can his
Jaded knees withstand
The weight of infinity
And all that he spawned
With no promise or relief
No awaiting Beyond
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On A Bed Of Leaves
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I went away to find joy
I became the man who forgot the boy
And though the years I thought ‘em slow
Now I fear the truth to know
As I close behind me the door
I grow older just a little more
Cannot deny the beast within
That rules the heart and drives the skin
A wolf inside as it seems to be
I looked at him and he laughed at me
He doesn’t howl he refuses to speak
In his eyes I am all to weak
Though I know he does not exist
He became the man and I the beast
A being of passion with fiery breath
And affirming steps walks the earth
A primal will calls his name
But he’s already lost the game
Born fighting in a strange world
For a purpose now distant and old
All the dreams that now lie dead
He tried to live and lost his head
Thus he shall sleep on a bed of leaves
For life crushes what death forgives
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Hymn To A Night's Storm
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A blackened sky dressed with dread
To behold a sight of dark blue and red
A roaring thunder a god is born
In awe and wonder before the night’s storm
And Man shall see what beauty means
From the cosmic sea to the buzzing bees
The silent might of distant stars
The truths and lies that die with us
A constant hammering a wall of rain
A great Wrath broke its chains
Night becomes day as lightning strikes
In crimson, white and grey darkness ignites
The air is pure honest and cold
Order to chaos, a spirit of old
Mud all around, the soil subsides
The horizon is lost, nothing divides
The trees struggle not to submit
To the force of the raging wind
Their branches break their leaves fall
But still they stand proud and tall
Alive shadows the mountain sides
A primal memory as clouds collide
Music and nature meet in a dance
Of violence‘s harmony, a holy man’s trance
Like a child I reach out my hand
A farewell gift for a stranger to this land
Enthralled, complete, in delight
As I gaze the blazing skies
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Agodea Athens, Greece
Agodea (Αγωδία [aɣɔ’ðia]) is a Greek melodic death metal band formed in Athens in July of 2017. Agodea's musical influences come mainly from a variety of 80s and 90s metal genres and bands, western classical and Greek traditional music.
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