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The First Veil Of Snow

by Frost Giant

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Like fresh air to the flame Instance of extinction Like a breath drawn in vain As if we were never here... As if we were never here at all First veil of snow covers our graves As if we were never here at all Seasons go on, forgotten race No more! Leaves turn to grey The world won't remember No more.. Crumbling relics of the past, Great works that fall into dust No one to see the epitaph Nothing will stop the fading Into forever Eternal Veil of white, wash away Into oblivion Time goes on, crushed by days Fading evermore Freeze into memory, eternal.
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On the bloody field of battle, we were not to win this day. So we fought without hope- our only goal to make them pay. Though we killed a dozen score, we were slain to the man And as my sight began to fade, I saw the Valkyrie descend from on high For this we gave our lives, to fight by Odin's side To defend Asgard from the mighty hordes of Jotunheim We'll storm the Ship of Nails, we'll walk through Surtr's flame At the sound of Gjallar-horn we'll fight and die in Odin's name! We will fight, we will die As they cross the rainbow bridge, condemned souls arise from the mist! The poisomn breath of Jormundgand tries to wrest <jolnir from the Thunderer's hand The Fenris Wolf carries Odin to his Wyrd, and by his son, Vidar, he is avenged, And as the gods and giants kill each other, there will soon be nothing left to defend. Nothing left... Carry me to my fate, Glorious Valhalla awaits! On the day when we take the field Our enemies shall taste the steel Of the thousands of the fallen The halls will crowd with the Chosen Though there will seem too few When the wolf arrives At the sound of Gjallar-horn All will know it's now time" Once again we give our very lives... And so we gave our lives...
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All across the misty night The air is thick with the smell of blood The horses shiver in fright A nervous hand fumbling for his sword What good is steel against the spirit world? From this haunted place, we shall not return O, this cold wind brings death On wings of the blood eagle So this is how I reach my end? Run through with fear of these shivering ghosts Grasping at the last dying rays of hope? Run for your lives, Wyrd has come Flee before us Oblivion awaits you, Flee before us Death on black wings, ravens cry Die on our spears Trampled to dust, hand of doom Die before us! There is no hope, all hope is lost What good is steel against the spirit world? From this haunted place We shall not return.
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A spirit frozen in time, A body rooted in the winter night A prisoner of the Earth Condemned to stillness for eternity He sees all time pass before scarred eyes Thhoughts of a thousand hears without voice He burns with the cruel sunrise The sunset brings to him unwanted life Enslaved immortality A burden borne forevermore Lost among the misty pines Forgotten grave, unhallowed, haunted ground Destined to see till the end But none shall hear of any prophecy. No one will hear these words I'm screaming Or sense the echoes that I'm feeling.
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Lost in willful ignorance, embittered and angry at the world. Your spirit rots within you, your hollowness devours your insides whole You see all life with dead eyes. Relic- a man whose time has passed. Though he doesn't know it, he's one of the last. Cynic- one of cancerous soul Already dead inside, though he does not know Trade your free will for your faith and your freedom to be safe And your mind for rigid dogma and you call it virtue When the world has changed and you're left out of place And you don't know you've been betrayed by your own truth O, blessed storm, scatter and fade into time, Cleanse the lies, and drown all the ash with the tide Lashing out with venomous hate, sinking deeper into self righteousness What a blessed feeling, if only for a fleeting moment's dream It would be to descend into madness When your life comes to an end, will you comprehend That which you lost and when, it's all laid to rest, Will you accept? Or will you leave this life screaming? When your life comes crashing to an end- Will you have the will to understand? When it's over, will you accept? Or will you leave this life Kicking and screaming and struggling to understand why? We shall rejoice, now That you hold no one in thrall We will dance and celebrate The birth of this new dawn We shall rejoice, now For no one hears your words The lies have been cleansed And are no longer heard For the last of the relics you are Left to vanish like a distant memory For the last of the relics you are Laid to rest and put out to sea Forever your spirit will dwell Among the smoldering embers of all history
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about

In late 2005, I was listening to some old band practice tapes of bands I was in during the 1990's. I thoughtn to myself, some of this punk rock sounding stuff would sound great with some harsh vocals and sa more metallized style of guitar playing. I didn't have the capacity to record my ideas, though, and finding band members was impossible. I lived in a small town with small-town bands who didn't want to take risks.

I was in another band at the time, and as 2007 came around I began singing/screaming for them as opposed to playing drums. As I began to discover my voice, I explored the ideas within Frost Giant even more. I met Jonathan Smith, founder of Ominous Glory, and agreed to sing for his nascent power metal band if he agreed to be my shredder for Frost Giant. Jon would eventually purchase a home recording studio, one of those all-in-one deals, and with that, the first demos began to creep out. 'Abandoned' came from those sessions, and there are other very primitive versions of 'Reckoning', 'Blood Eagle', 'Last Stand of the Einherjar', and 'Relic' there too which I might share at a later time.

When Jason Esbensen got his home studio up and running on his Mac, that is when First Veil began to really take shape. All in all I wrote 8 songs which I recorded, and hoped to use them to get a band going. I quit my other band and focused on the Giant exclusively, but we were delayed time and again, and before I knew it, it was 2012 and our EP was coming out before what was supposed to be our debut record.

Two songs from First Veil were included on the EP 'When Myth and History Merged Into Mystery'- they are 'Heathen's Lament' and 'Not While I Draw Breath'. Ryan Blasphemour was looking to rekindle his label (Blasphemour Records) and liked the Adele cover, so I included that with the two aforementioned songs and two new tracks. Thus, this version of First Veil will not have 'Not While I Draw Breath' and 'Heathen's Lament'. But for posterity, the order in which they appear are right after the title track. First Veil, Breath, and Heathen's, then into Last Stand.

The Kansas cover was a spur of the moment goof with Jason wanting to record live drums. This took place during the aborted studio sessions in 2010 when we were recording First Veil with a live drummer. This is the only complete song to have survived that session, as Jason's Mac died shortly thereafter and took all the project files with it.

These recordings are not pretty, they're very basic and rough, but they do show the origins of Frost Giant in a ery endearing sort of way. Several of the songs here are still part of our set when we play live. I figured it's about time I put these out there and let our listeners have them as opposed to wondering when we are going to get around re-recording them and making them perfect. Some of these songs are 11 years old, and I want to have a fresh start going into the future with Frost Giant. I'm happy to be ab;e to finally share these with you all and be at peace with them.

~Matti Frost,
January 2017

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released December 21, 2010

Matti Frost- drum programming, rhythm & lead guitar, vocals & lyrics.
Jonathan Smith- guitar solos on Relic and Abandoned.
Dust in the Wind originally written and recorded by Kansas.
Abandoned originally written and performed by Ensiferum.

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Frost Giant Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Inspired by Norse mythology, epic metal, punk rock, and combined with an American hardcore attitude and mead-hall sing-along choruses, Frost Giant drops an icy hammer on everything trendy and weak. Frost Giant's music journeys through stories and lore, bringing to light the tales of old in a modern folk-metal context. ... more

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