[Intro — unaccompanied acoustic Swedish nyckelharpa; low bowed motif, audible bow friction and ringing sympathetic strings; no vocals, percussion or electronics] [Transition — final bow stroke cuts off sharply; distorted bass and dry live drums enter together] [Verse 1 — rapid female rhythmic recitative, low smoky chest rasp; dense clipped phrases over a straight 4/4 backbeat and tight muted guitars] Kald kauren, hrím sa vel, skaar sa dhaerun. En sa fjarn, en sa kveld, no saen, no kelrun. Þorn sa kaal, veyr sa skar, draukh sa skeld. En ren moritha kaen a en sa æskara veld. En ren draunetha sa mor, en ren nævitha vrae. Ke thu maeritha en — ke thu aevara nae? [Transition — guitars collapse into a narrow filtered drone; a reversed nyckelharpa note draws the vocal forward] [Bridge — short melodic phrases, exposed husky female clean voice; sparse bowed strings, spacious pauses] Shaelira maerith. Maeritha kaen. No nævitha vrae. Nae aevara en. [Transition — held vocal note fractures into a brief granular stutter; toms accelerate, full-band chorus entrance] [Chorus — powerful smoky female clean singing, dark sustained hook; deep female growled responses beneath the line endings] Þaurn a maerith — kraeshira skaal! Nae draevanna, vael, sa morvitha hál! Þaurn a maerith — saevritha vae! Kelruna, haerven — aevruna nae! [Solo — amplified nyckelharpa takes up the vocal melody; gritty rhythmic bowing, droning double-stops, rapid keyed ornaments and rising modal variations over heavy guitars, bass and live drums; resonant sympathetic strings remain audible] [Transition — nyckelharpa ends on a dry scraping accent; electronic delay repeats it in a tightening pattern, then hard-cuts into the verse] [Verse 2 — aggressive double-time female recitative; sharp consonants, coarse rasp and harsh accents over a driving nu-metal groove] Dhaesh sa hál, krenn sa skaal, hrann sa morven. En no nævitha kaen, en no torvanna orrun. Vrek khaem, vrek þesk, vrek kauren — no vrek vaern! Em ren kaeritha draevith sa graal a kaarn. No moritha maerith, no ossara nareth a en! Em ul nae saelruna — no osh, kelrun a en! [Transition — final word plunges into a distorted pitch fall; one beat of total silence] [Dubstep Breakdown — one short eight-bar section; snarling formant bass and jagged guitar stabs over crushing half-time drums; chopped nyckelharpa attacks, bitcrushed percussion and metallic impacts; no new lyrics] [Transition — electronic bass cuts out beneath a rising nyckelharpa run; dry snare crack, explosive full-band return] [Final Chorus — powerful husky female clean lead layered with deep growls and cutting screams; massive half-time guitars, nyckelharpa countermelody] Þaurn a maerith — kraeshira skaal! Nae draevanna, vael, sa morvitha hál! Þaurn a maerith — saevritha vae! Kelruna, haerven — aevruna nae! [Outro — nyckelharpa repeats the intro motif an octave higher over broken guitar strikes; brief electronic tape-stop, one final bowed double-stop and full-band impact, hard cut]
