This is a twenty minute epic, split into two parts (because I don't have a VIP account yet).
Epic Progressive Metal
This band is my solo project; still trying to find a gigging metal band. Everything, from death grunts to power vocals to guitar and drums is performed and overdubbed by me (drums are from my piano).
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Story behind the song
This was a labor of love--it took over a year to write. As the title indicates, it's about Egyptian myth, the rise and fall of Osiris, the jealousy of his brother, Set, and Osiris' family.
To avoid confusion (for both parts), Set's wife, Nephthys, a death goddess, had an affair with Osiris, and their child was Anubis, Osiris' "bastard son".
In this first part, the gods are born, and at length Osiris is betrayed.
Lyrics
I. Overture
II. Procession
Ancient lands, home to sand and silt
Graced by light from above
Tales of gods from the bygone Nile
Hearken now their majestic lay.
Sun ablaze, fiery ochre gem
Wisdom coalesces in avian lord
Grandest host, power gloats among them
Myriad forms from above.
Progeny. sapphire bird and men
Gat our lords Osiris and Set
Brother's feud, forged by primal drives
When carnal scarab bosom engulfs the elder.
Borne of lust, scintillating limbs
Steely Anubis rises, Jackal's stately gaze
Set glowers as brother's fortune mounts
Sprites and spirits flock to his nascent foe
III. March of the Gods
Regent high
Great might and power
Pristine white
Gilds his rich green form
Beside him
In silken, smooth grace
Her beauty pales
All of mortal race.
Doughty fealty
Twin alike in form
Horus draws every breath
For his father and lord.
Bestial cavalcade
Ox and crocodile
March throughout the land
Witless of impending guile.
IV. Set's Oath
"For too long have I sat
Fortune robbed of me
Isis paws adoringly
And the bitch who bears my name.
Yet I grow pallid, brother
Emaciated, cracked
As you grow exalted
My chivalry is sapped
A din of derision
Jackal's baying scorn
Small wander a dog's head
Adorns your bastard son
They perceive a genteel grin
And I a gloating scowl
So with what little power remains
I'll see your soul mauled."
V. The Party
VI. Betrayal
A snap of the surreal
Nature law upset
As the party guests turn
To the cronies of Set
As gift to his brother
He wrought a basket fair
Whoever fit inside it
Claimed it for his heirs
The contorted equines
Shove the casket aloft
Pushing through a melee
As their lord they now besought
Frenzied search, no yield
For the panicking Queen
Osiris now floats in the Nile
Mauled to a bloody sheen
Widespread lament
He filled every soul's void
Insane peals
Fill the caverns abroad.
Blinking back the tears
Besmirching her loveliness
Isis grabs the torn corpse
From Set's stronghold.
