In Medias Res, by Elliott's Keep

In Medias Res

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1.	Votus - Crusader Pt. I 05:55	lyrics	buy track
CRUSADER - PART I - VOTUS Council of Clermont Urban’s mighty words Avenge the desecration Avenge the Holy Sepulchre Retake the Holy Land From infidel defilers Swiftly Before approaching apocalypse Deus vult The crowd cries Deus vult And I cry Deus vult Forgive my sins Deus vult And thousands more to come Milites Christi Votus Fideles Sancti Petri Iter I shall wear the Cross On this righteous campaign For redemption These symbols Reflect my belief My uncertainty My need My penance Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners
2.	Iter - Crusader Pt. II 07:18	lyrics	buy track
CRUSADER - PART II - ITER Hilt digs deep Beneath amber moon Destruction rides with us Faith and honor Brutality and blood The blood of infidels Endless miles Scorching heat Snow drifts Starvation Disease Men and horses fall Cannibals among us Driven and desperate knights Miracles will sustain us God will not fail us The part of me that is gone Somehow drives me on My dreams My nightmares My memories Amid the sparks and embers The troubadour plays His lyric of chivalry The love of the lady won Four armies Massive force Knights and infantry Without discipline Strangers in a strange land Antioch Four hundred towers Eight month siege My body and soul ache The Holy Lance discovered Sign of impending victory An army of saints come to our aid Conquest tempered by plague Again we embark Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners
3.	Sedicare - Crusader Pt. III 10:18	lyrics	buy track
CRUSADER - PART III - SEDICARE Peregrinus Animus Votum Carus Demum Obsideo Sedicare Talio Force encamped before Jerusalem Divine vision Fasting army marches As Joshua at Jericho The pagans scoff Bellum Catervatim Vehementer Justicia non Clementia Tui Fatum No return without victory Our ships dismantled Siege towers assembled We summon our courage And assault the walls Punitor Vindico Percutio Procella Depraedor Cruentus The body of mine enemy is a tide Rushing forth against my blade Unworthy one Fear deep in your eyes Terror on your heart Vocifero Cum Trucido Laudatio Deus Cum Interfecto One after another I strike them silent My thoughts travel as I kill I destroy and ease the ache My boots crimson My demons unleashed in the Holy City Frenzied angel of vengeance To hell, unworthy ones Chaos, I do His bidding Madness, I bring His wrath None left alive Neither women nor children All slaughtered Blood to bridles Indescribable stench City of corpses The dead piled beyond the gates Burning heaps, like houses None know their number Except God alone Sun rises With few to rejoice Bury our fallen In shallow graves Time of triumph But still so empty Turning homeward Left with nothing My vow fulfilled Scarred without and within So few with me I begin my long journey home Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners
4.	Nameless 08:49	lyrics	buy track
NAMELESS My thoughts drift in conversation with the night Unseen, I watch that which I cannot bear Yet that from which I cannot turn away Her name is sin Her locks a curtain of blood She haunts my sleeping and my waking Though I purpose not to dream nor think of her The one exists, but I cannot love her Found, now she is gone Wanting merged with having But without keeping All too brief caress Driving the stake deep into melancholy heart She is an undulating serpent enchanting Smoky coils entrancing Wrapped about my fingers, my mind, my heart She haunts the black churches of my mind Eternal, I endure in agony Alone, to grieve the loss So I love her, does it mean so much to me? As the flame flickers, disappearing Dreaming conceives insanity I looked into the eyes of ecstasy Screaming, biting, breathing hard Smelling of garlic And cigarettes Folded in black silk She is a stunning scorpion seducing Sweet venom consuming Devouring my will, my spirit, my soul Nameless I wished her the gift eternal Nameless I would that she would want Nameless Alas, I wished in vain Nameless And now I cannot say her name aloud Copyright 1994 and 2008 EK Music Partners
5.	Black Wings 06:06	lyrics	buy track
BLACK WINGS Master of the skies, I fly Dragon-kin, serpent-born Onyx hide reflects the sun And casts its miles-long shadow Unholy terror Cunning Soulless Insatiable Beasts and men Reduced to fear Flee in terror At the mighty sound of black wings My tail whips and impales My breath is decimation Searing flame Armageddon Challenger rises Dragon-whelp Enraged, I bellow flame Descend to duel Razor talons grasp the usurper Black wings thunder Among the clouds Flesh is carved Entrails rendered Upstart plummets To earth far below I scream in triumph And dive to the feast Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners
6.	Kindred 01:12	lyrics	buy track
Kindred In the triumph of battle And conquest of foe Simply this Kindred In the valley of sorrow And fear of the morrow Simply this Kindred When the ashes have settled And fate comes to be Simply this Kindred Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners

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Top ten debut albums of 2008.
DOOM METAL ALLIANCE

Elliott's Keep have delivered one of the freshest sounding Metal CD's in 2008… epic album… great production enhances the crushing riffing of this band …
fine old school headbanging metal going on… Highly Recommended. 9/10
EARTHDOG

Solitude Aeturnus will always be the first name in Texas doom metal, but in Elliott’s Keep, I believe I have found the second.
METALREVIEW.COM

ELLIOTT’S KEEP combines measured Epic Doom with elements of classic Heavy Metal and known Thrash/Death trademarks. Thus the whole sound gains diversion and originality. The widespread epic parts are brilliant at heavy guitar riffs and Doom pathos. Who expects native Doom Rock has to be disabused while listening to “In Medias Res”, because the Metal hammer is fairly swung. ELLIOTT’S KEEP play in fact hot-blooded Epic Death Doom … a diversified, premium instrumental and well produced album.
DOOM METAL FRONT

A doom album made to last the ages…a spectacular and controlled effort of precise and solid doom glory [8.5]
EVIL INQUISITION

Perhaps you've read the words epic and brilliant in a review before. You've probably dismissed it as they are often overused words and inappropriate for the music being talked about. This time, however, they are both words that truly describe the debut album from Dallas, Texas doom band Elliott's Keep.
PLUTONIUM ZINE – Crestfallen Kev

Take a portion of Solitude Aeturnus and add a very small percentage of aggression from any extreme genre. Combine it with an excellent instrumental skill and a granitic rhythmic session with a very modern sound…Excellent debut for Elliott's Keep…Now I look for the second one... SCORE: 81
DOOM GATE/HARDSOUNDS

Killer from beginning to end … an outstanding debut album…
ANCIENT DEATH WEBZINE

With the first crushing heavy guitar riff, Elliott's Keep prove the name of their game is "traditional" doom and they mean business.
WINTER TORMENT E-ZINE

Fans of underground US doom metal will rejoice with this release as this band is in the same league with other great bands, such as Last Chapter and Orodruin.
METALPERSPECTIVE.COM

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