Great collab!! Nice to hear you three kicking it together!  Very cool!

John, I've listened to all parts of the vlad series. What a great, great work. Everyone involved has my deepest respect.

A Gate to a New Dimension.

The Gate to a New Dimension.

All music written and performed by: John Baker
All lyrics written and performed by: Dark Number Nine
All lead guitar written and performed by: Icarus Death

Matthias Corvinus came to Transylvania in November 1462. The negotiations between Corvinus and Vlad lasted for weeks, but Corvinus did not want to wage war against the Ottoman Empire. At the king's order, his Czech mercenary commander, John Jiskra of Brandýs, captured Vlad near Rucăr in Wallachia. 

To provide an explanation for Vlad's imprisonment to Pope Pius II and the Venetians (who had sent money to finance a campaign against the Ottoman Empire), Corvinus presented three letters, allegedly written by Vlad on 7 November 1462, to Mehmed II, Mahmud Pasha, and Stephen of Moldavia. According to the letters, Vlad offered to join his forces with the sultan's army against Hungary if the sultan restored him to his throne. Most historians agree that the documents were forged to give grounds for Vlad's imprisonment. Corvinus's court historian, Antonio Bonfini, admitted that the reason for Vlad's imprisonment was never clarified.

 In the summer of 1475, Stephen III of Moldavia sent his envoys to Matthias Corvinus, asking him to send Vlad to Wallachia against Basarab Laiotă, who had submitted himself to the Ottomans. Stephen wanted to secure Wallachia for a ruler who had been an enemy of the Ottoman Empire, because "the Wallachians [were] like the Turks" to the Moldavians, according to his letter. According to the Slavic stories about Vlad, he was only released after he converted to Catholicism.

IMPRISONMENT

Curse of betrayal
is always around
Blood is thicker than water
Just one is keeping me alive

My brother is no longer my blood
He turned my people against me
How can one Son of the Dragon
Betray one of his own
Radu, you traitor
How could you overthrow my throne?

And why am I deemed the only evil one?
For tortures, executions
I’ve only done what others ruler have
Instill awe in enemies
So the country remains strong

The loyal helped me escape
Thru the Carpathian mountains
To the fortress
Ottomans followed me there
They shoot with cannons
Poenari walls
start crumbling down

On the run to Brasov
To meet King Mattias, White night’s son
For political refuge,
‘Cause those Saxons want me dead
They still hear screams of the impaled
But I hear nothing

To Europe I’m a hero
Committed to crusades
I won’t break that Dragon Oath
If I’d only known what was waiting
The King’s secret orders for my arrest
Betrayed once again
Damn them all, Damn them all
To the darkest depths of hell
Where demons lie waiting

Down a mountain’s wall of stone
Lowered by ropes
Below the Saxon’s Valley
Where the greedy mercenary
Carries out the arrest

Imprisoned as a pawn and a threat
For twelve years, again, lying low
Faith is for fools and great men
I, a fool to have faith in the King
But I’m still a great man
I have faith
I‘ll regain the throne

(c) 2022 Dark Number Nine

4. Imprisonment

Written by Cass Dvorak and accompaniment by Rock Sinders
Art by Snowfall the Cat (see link on our main page)

Gettin' up in the morning to the same old songs
and the moon's still up cause we beat the sun
better turn it all on just to make it
through another long one.

But it's never as bad as it could've been
though it could be better than it always seems.
So we do it for each other
it makes it a little better.

And we once were blind but we now can see
the way the world works and how it ever came to be
beautiful and ugly
yet there's room for one another.

So turn the noise off step outside and look up high
at the stars we all see in the same old sky.
They can't be hiding the truth
and we share them with each other.

I know the world's not perfect and it never was
and the wheel keeps turning like it always does.
Turns forward just a little faster
than it turned out last year.

Now we make the best of every turn we've got
and we won't quit livin' till the big wheel stops.
Gotta keep it goin' baby
just live a little longer.

Just Step Outside

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SIGUEN SIN EXISTIR

Antes del después
Con el presente a mis pies
Los miedos se adelantan
Y condicionan mi hacer

Y no puedo ver
U oír las voces del acontecer
Los miedos me arrebatan
Las ganas... de ser

Uno en todo
Y nada
Como la lluvia en el mar

No lo diré
Pero esta noche no los detendré
Cuando, sin miramientos,
Arruinen mi proyecto de ser

Uno en todo
Y nada
Como la lluvia en el mar... Lluvia en la mar

Lo sé
La lógica impuesta es la gran respuesta que todos damos a un porqué

¿Y qué?

Si yo
Escucho al diablo con el que no hablo y apenas logro comprender
Por qué vuelvo a a caer

Lo sé
Sentirse seguro levantando un muro apilando ladrillos de fe

¿Y qué?

Si yo
Desde mis adentros doy a luz lamentos que trepan por esa pared
¿Por qué vuelvo a caer?

No sé dónde están
Causa y motivo
Siguen sin existir

Siguen sin existir

SIGUEN SIN EXIXTIR

KayBee

Alegoría

Keiko

Into Gray

Art by Daria Morgendorffer.
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Terra Sapiens - Outer Signal

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I am just a small-town guitarist with a great love for music of any kind. 80’s Hard Rock and Metal are my first love, but I have been influenced by several different genres of music from Classic Country to Hip Hop. Some of my favorite bands are: Kiss, Led Zepplin, AC/DC, CCR, Black Sabbath, Megadeth & Metallica to name a few, but currently I enjoy bands such as: Nightwish, Lacuna Coil & The Dark Element .

John

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