[Intro – Tape Awakening | 0:00–1:00 | 36 BPM] (Cassette hiss, wind, single bell hit) (whispered, far back) Sub nive… silentium… (low chant buried) Atrum vocat Atrum manet [Verse I – The Watching | 1:00–3:00 | Funeral Doom] (Single chord rings for bars at a time) I stand where the streetlight ends Where warmth forgets its name She moves like breath in winter air Unaware of what remains No hunger quickens my step No pulse betrays my will The rite does not require haste Only time And still (distant shriek) Still… [Chorus – Black Hymn | 3:00–4:30] (Tremolo emerges but tempo never changes) Marked before the first snowfall Counted long before her breath What walks behind is older still Than mercy Than death (buried chant) Sigillum fractum Lux cadit [Verse II – Cassette Tremolo | 4:30–6:30] (Thin tremolo line repeats endlessly) Footsteps soften into white The night leans closer, wide and calm Every prayer sinks into ice Every name reduced to psalm I am not desire made form I am not the claw or blade I am the sentence spoken once And never unmade (low growl under shrieks) Unmade… [Ritual Interlude – Grimoire Descent | 6:30–7:30] (Drums nearly stop; choir drone swells) (spoken, Latin, barely audible) Corpus transit Umbra manet Lux solvitur Iter clausum est [Final Chorus – Absolute Funeral Crawl | 7:30–9:00] (Heaviest section; chords ring into silence) Chosen by the silent flame Taken before she knew the dark The circle closes without sound No witness No mark Snow keeps every secret well The world exhales, then turns away Another warmth returns to earth Another light Decays [Outro – Cassette Death | 9:00–10:00] (Feedback warble, tape slowing) (final whisper) Sub nive… omnia redeunt (bell rings, tape cuts)
