Bal-Sagoth
Bal-Sagoth is an extreme metal band from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, com… Read Full Bio ↴Bal-Sagoth is an extreme metal band from Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, combining elements of black metal, symphonic, and classical music. Vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts, who came up with the idea for the band around 1989, took the name 'Bal-Sagoth' from a Robert E. Howard short story "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth". Their first demo was released in 1993; they have since released three albums on Cacophonous and three on Nuclear Blast.

The band incorporates black metal influences and symphonic elements into an overall grandiose canvas, with the elaborate lyrics of Byron Roberts painting a picture of battles in an antediluvian age where Atlantis had not yet been destroyed and the continents were still joined in a Pangaean mass. A predominant feature is the use of epic keyboards played by Jonny Maudling who composes and arranges the music. The guitar, drums and keyboards work together as an integral entity rather like a symphonic work. The vocals of Byron Roberts are a mixture of spoken word and black metal screams making the songs more like stories set to music than anything else. The stories are told like a play, with many characters (or groups of characters, speaking in unison) exchanging dialogue. Byron uses different vocalizations and effects to set them apart. The songs frequently have very long titles. Byron intends to release some short stories and novellas based on his lyrics and also some graphic novels created in collaboration with the artist Martin Hanford.

They currently have six albums out. The music for the latest one, "The Chthonic Chronicles" was recorded and produced at Jonny Maudling's studio "Waylands Forge", while the vocals were recorded at Academy Music Studio, the same studio where the band's previous five albums were recorded.
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Bal-Sagoth Lyrics


09. Thwarted By The Dark As my sword drips black now with the unclean blood…
10 [6:07] The following are excerpts from handwritten notes …
A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria Dark baleful shades astride the mystic heath, Old land's en…
A Tale From the Deep Woods The ravens are on the wing! My scramasax is red (stained…
And Atlantis Falls... And lo, I witnessed the vast seas rise forth like…
And Lo When the Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud the Citade It is written in the ancient legends... that high amidst…
And Lo, When the Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud the Citade [Chapter 1: The Voyage of the Sorcerer] The war between the…
Arcana Antediluvia Act 1: The Argosy on the Eldritch Sea The Antediluvian…
As The Vortex Illuminates The Crystalline Walls Of Kor-Avul-Thaa Spears agleam in the dying sun, The blood is spilled, the…
Atlantis ascendant [The Chronicler of Antediluvia:] Long ago, before the Third …
Battle Magic Sorcerers and shamans, weave your spells of war, Ensure our…
Behold [THE DISCIPLES OF ZAKUMAKURA:] Since before mankind hurled h…
Behold the Armies of War Desc [THE DISCIPLES OF ZAKUMAKURA:] Since before mankind hurled …



Behold the armies of war descend screaming from the heavens! [THE DISCIPLES OF ZAKUMAKURA:] Since before mankind hurled h…
Beneath The Crimson Vaults Of [5:14] Ruminations from the Six Pyramids of Cydonia: T…
Blood Slakes the Sand at the Circus Maximus [Thoughts of an Iceni gladiator, awaiting the opening of the…
Callisto rising [ZURANTHUS:] Earthbound, a star falls to my tongue. Come to …
Crystal Shards I stand engulfed by the moon-magic of a winter eve's…
Draconis albionensis [The Oracle of Logres:] It was a time of change. The…
Dreaming of Atlantean Spires All witches fly to me... I have torn the veil of…
Empyreal Lexicon So cold are the spaces between the stars... For blackened su…
Enthroned in the Temple of Serpent Kings Ancient cromlech carved of ice, Etched against a glimmering …
Enthroned in the Temple of the Serpent Kings Ancient cromlech carved of ice, Etched against a glimmering…
Hatheg Kla (The Sixth Key: The Omega Axiom) Some would call it an…
In Search of the Lost Cities o [The Explorer:] Beneath the ice, the endless ice of Pangaea…
Into the Silent Chambers of the Sapphirean Throne (Sagas from the antediluvian Scrolls) Black winds whisper…
Intro Naiyo ethe aaya punch maaran Thodi galla to jada bhar panj…
Invocations Beyond the Outer-World Night The Testament Of The Winds: Many thousands of years ago, the…
Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over The Moonless Depths Of Night-Dark Seas) THE LOG OF …
Of Carnage and a Gathering of the Wolves Somewhere in the lightless, labyrinthine depths of the Darke…
Return To Hatheg-Kla [3:28] [Instrumental] (The Sixth Key: The Omega Axiom) …
Return to the Praesidium of Ys I was spawned deep beneath the Pre-Cambrian sea, the scion…
Scourge of the Fourth Celestial Host They possess power unparalleled... Ageless, remorseless. Wi…
Shackled to the Trilithon of Kutulu Seek ye to invoke the Lord of Dreams, To know…
Shadows 'neath the Black Pyramid I hearken to the grisly murmer of nameless fiends, Black jaw…
Six keys to the onyx pyramid [Instrumental]…
Six Score and Ten Oblations to a Malefic Avatar [6:07] The following are excerpts from handwritten notes …
Spellcraft & Moonfire Black stone summoning the eternal power of the winter moon..…
Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmo [The Thaumaturgist:] The Great Eye of the Universe opens! T…
Starfire Burning Upon The Ice--Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule Spears agleam in the dying sun, The blood is spilled, the…
Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule Spears agleam in the dying sun, The blood is spilled, the…
Summoning The Guardians of The It is written in the ancient legends... that high amidst…
The awakening of the stars With but a gesture of my incorporeal hand I illumine…
The Chronicle of Shadows [The Imperator of the Night (Hearken to the Attestation of…
The Dark Liege Of Chaos Is Unleashed At The Ensorcelled Shrine Of A'Zura-Kai Altarus: You must learn to control your spirit-form, Xerxes.…
The Dreamer in Catacombs of Ur It was like some dark, dark dream. We had not…
The empyreal lexicon So cold are the spaces between the stars... For blackened su…
The epsilon exordium (23 September, 1893) Upon extensive examination of the nefar…
The Fallen Kingdoms Of The Abyssal Plain [5:16][Instrumental] Tribal creation myth and folklore fr…
The Hammer Of The Emperor Sinistrous legendry fulgurates from me My name is a word of…
The Obsidian Crown Unbound Episode: IX From Sage Daelun's "Chronicles of Antediluvia"…
The Obsidian Crown Unbound (Ep [5:58] Episode: IX From Sage Daelun's "Chronicles of …
The Ravening Black Legions ravening for blood, Dark Lords hearken to my …
The scourge of the fourth celestial host They possess power unparalleled... Ageless, remorseless. Wi…
The Six Adulation Of His Chthonic Majesty O, great and luminous ones, who came from beyond the…
The splendour of a thousand swords gleaming beneath the blazon of the hyperborean empire Altarus: Gaze deep into the mists with your spirit-ey…
The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire Part III (THE ANTEDILUVIAN ORACLE:) Behold glorious Hyperborea, gleam…
The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, Part III [THE ANTEDILUVIAN ORACLE:] Behold glorious Hyperborea, gleam…
The thirteen cryptical prophecies of mu [ZURRA:] The Callisto shard denied me! I have been cast ac…
The voyagers beneath the mare imbrium [WORDS GLEANED FROM THE CRYSTAL OF MEMORY:] From a time bey…
Thirteen Cryptical Prophecies of Mu [ZURRA:] The Callisto shard denied me! I have been cast ac…
Thwarted by the Dark As my sword drips black now with the unclean blood…
To Dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The Legend Of The Battle Of Blackhelm Vale) THE CHRONICL…
To Storm The Cyclopean Gates O [4:21] [Instrumental] Spring, 196 AD (C.E.) CENTURION …
Unfettering The Hoary Sentinel [4:21] Fragmentary delusional recollections from within t…
Valley of Silent Paths As the twilight fades, so night casts its black mantle…
When Rides the Scion of the Storms [Dover, England: September 1594 (the recollections of a war-…
Witch Storm Silvern skull, sable shroud, ebon tower, onyx crown. Witchfi…
Witch-Storm Silvern skull, sable shroud, ebon tower, onyx crown. Witchf…


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