The Golden Temple (instrumental)

Track from Shadowland's debut EP "Condemned to Perdition", released in 2016

Determinations Of Insanity

The most symphonic track on the EP "Condemned to Perdition" by Shadowland. Vita et Mortem features a mix of many dark metal styles.

LYRICS:
As the sun is fading in front of your eyes
Close your eyes and remember the first breath you took
The smell of fresh air
The liquid taste of baby tears
A new born child materializes from nowhere

For many there is one straight path in life
But for you and me it is crooked
The deep blue sea is replaced by hollow tears
The hope for change replaced by the deepest fears

Vita et Mortem
Life is the end
Mors Principium Est
Death is the beginning

Devorantis in aeternum
Devours eternity
In laqueum et mortale hoc spiram
Trapped in this mortal coil

Vita et Mortem
Life is the end
Mors Principium Est
Death is the beginning


As your tongue just begins to articulate
As soon as your conscious is bestowed

Only decades after you’ll fade away and turn to ashes
Wrinkles on your solemn face
And the birthmark of your soul
Constantly reminds you
That the end comes closer (each day)
Beloved ones disappear
No common thread is running through
Just cuts off the red line! Vita et Mortem!

Growl:
How can God tolerate
All this suffering in vein?
Abandoned by the shell of it all
Throws you into the mire

The struggle to accept the essence
Yet you fall into this trap
The failure to beseech you
Demons haunt you in your dreams

Vita et Mortem
Mors Principium Est

The damage inside changes your curse
In sleepless nights beneath the stars

The streaming waters connect this loop 
each night
A path of darkness that finally…. 
….will lead the light

Vita et Mortem
Life is the end
Mors Principium Est
Death is the beginning

Devorantis in aeternum
Devours eternity
In laqueum et mortale hoc spiram
Trapped in this mortal coil

Condemned to Perdition

Vita et Mortem

Vita Et Mortem

LYRICS:

Who am I? A creation so blind
What’s the purpose when the truth is concealed
Who am I? A creation so blind
What’s the purpose when the truth is concealed

How can we be insistent
When reasons jade, in death life fade
Eternal sleep, friends cry and weep
Black is shade, in life death fade

The Final Redemption
Lugnare:
You will never fail
I will fail again
You will never fade
I will fade away


Who are you? A higher state of mind
In final moments, life’s meaning revealed
Who am I? A creation so blind
What’s the purpose, when the truth is concealed

Sure we’ll never die
Eternity is reached (in death life fade)
My doubts are in control
Infinite forms shape my soul
Failed Redemption  

Lugnare:
You will never fail
I will fail again
You will never fade
I will fade away

Failed Redemption

Embraced by a shroud
Don’t let it tear me down
A shroud of melancholy
Don’t let it encumber me
What is life hiding when leaves are falling?
In solitude I dwell, the end is calling
A death and love lost, pure loneliness
Sorrow is penetrating, it strikes again
I search inside for fortitude
And liquid thoughts of laughter
Echoes will last forever after
I search inside for fortitude
And liquid thoughts of laughter
Like a shroud of melancholy…shroud of melancholy…melancholy

A funeral for my friend
Beloved until the end
When will the grey clouds disperse
And the shimmering pain scatter?
I hope your soul will find rest
In deepest clear blue skies
Now I wish to endure the last moments
Don’t let me drown in a sea of pain…in solitude
I search inside for fortitude
And liquid thoughts of laughter
Echoes will last forever after
I search inside for fortitude
And liquid thoughts of laughter
Like a shroud of melancholy…shroud of melancholy…melancholy







I need crystal water
Clear as blue skies
To solve this mystery
Of pain and misery
In the year of eleven
Lost hope, so far from heaven
A tragedy after another
And the loss of the other

Shroud Of Melancholy

This is probably the goth rockiest track track on Shadowland's Condemend to Perdition EP. Still very dark and doomy though.

Throne Of Grief

What we built up shall now be destroyed
Eons erased, pure greed has gained
Grace uncleared, visions decayed
All swept away, mankind will fade
Mankind will fade
We all will die…We all will die!
As we are condemned…condemned…to perdition

Our destructive lifestyle
The betrayal of our dearest
Violence and agony
Mankind is what to fear the most
Mankind will fade….away…

Condemned To Perdition

The opening track/intro for the  "Condemned to Perdition" EP.