Stay up late and I'll wake up feeling like...A kid swingin' on heavens gate...With no God to complain...You comin' out to play?

Stay up late and I'll wake up feeling like...A kid swingin' on heavens gate...With no God to complain...You comin' out to play?

Stay up late and I'll wake up feeling like...A kid swingin' on heavens gate...With no God to complain...You comin' out to play?

could, take a trip, to outer space...When I get, to heavens gate...l, sent from heaven up above...gel, waiting for me to love her, yeah

ainting the stygian heavens the colour of flame. And the high summer's night passed swiftly. At length, the dawn approached tentatively, and with the first signs of the newborn sun etching its promise upon the skies, the martial preparations commenced in earnest. A brief and perfunctory exchange between the Imperial Herald and the fortification's Watch Commander held no surprises, and the Emperor's banner was duly driven into the seared earth before Gul-Kothoth with a chilling finality. Vast siege engines and powerful ballistae were hauled inexorably into position, alongside a battery of katapelte and petrobolos. The one hundred thousand strong Imperial Frontier Army, having planted their regimental blazons into the arid soil, waited with a disciplined patience born of never having met defeat in pitched battle or siege, the dreaded Imperial War-Leopards straining noisily against their iron-link leashes to the rear of the cohorts of conscripts and auxillieries. The pitiless Iron Phalanx and their Lord Militant Commander had assumed position at the head of the army's Alpha Wing, polished swords, spears and poll-axes reflecting the glow from the myriad torches and braziers which still burned about the Imperial Host. And behind them were drawn up the legendary Legion of the Ebon Tiger, Pride of the Emperor, the infantry and cavalry famed throughout the Great Northern Continent, personal regiment of the feared general Baalthus Vane. True to their martial reputation, the six thousand strong Legion were inscrutible in their jet black armour, their sable banner billowing in the chill breeze which skittered over the plain. And finally, astride his azure-shaffroned warhorse and surrounded by his elite guard, the silvern-armoured Emperor Koord himself studied the precipitious gates with a disdainful scrutiny. At the Emperor's right hand was the renowned Swordmaster of Kyrman'ku, an eastern bladesman of preternatural skill and the most revered and expensive mercenary in the Imperium. At his left, the infamous Ogre-Mage of the Black Lake brooded silently, swathed in a stygian cloak and fuliginous cowl and exuding an aura of implacable malevolence which unerved even the bravest of the Imperial troops. The Emperor had deemed the services of these two nefarious renegades pivotal to the execution of th... why I have deigned to grace this final ba...the only entity fit to govern the dominion...misary I despatched to the Court of the Ov...laan has been given to the earth, Gul-Nome...th foresight enough to prepare a contingency should the foe fulfil that fearful potential which has been weighing heavy on my mind. But now, the sun rises! Let it begin! Let the final chapter of our legend be written! Give the word! Raze Gul-Kothoth to the ground! ...We march to war! ...d testudo, hammered to crimson pulp by the merciless storm of unforgiving stone, or burned to blackened husks by the nightmare onslaught of flaming quicklime and saltpetre. Scaling ladders raised and repulsed in turn, storms of razor tipped shafts exchanged by the combatants, isolated skirmishes raging upon the ramparts, men blade to blade and clarions ...of Woe, was brought to bear upon the besieged fortress, and, with the shadows of dusk lengthening upon the field of war, the centuries old Primary Gate of Gul-Kothoth was finally sundered amidst an earsplitting cacophony of shattering oak and iron louder than any storm-born thunderclap. With the rending of the mighty gate, and vast fragments of the ancient walls yielding, buckling and crashing to the blood-sodden ea...dire warning issued to me as I stood befor...ron Phalanx wheeled to face the newcomers, and at the command of a decurion, a volley of armour-piercing shafts screamed skywards to rain down mercilessly upon the foe. And even as this transpired, the Emperor's Prime Sorcerer, emissary of the Imperial Court and master of those arts which speak to man in narcotic dreams from the darkest and most silent places, summoned forth that black potency which lay entwined in stygian tendrils within his mind... an ireful power born of they who writhed upon the shores of Pangaea before man's progenitors ever erected their lofty spires to the restless skies. And yet Vyrgothia's Master Wizard, unrivalled Arch-Mage and adept of that lost Eastern order who journey beyond the boundaries of time and space upon those nebulous wings born of the sacred Azure Lotus, rose to meet this power whi...ht and shadow spoke to eachother in tongue...h the armies poised to clash, and with dusk painting the sky a deep crimson exceeded in its vibrancy only by that bloody rubicund hue which stained the battlefield below it, the Emperor's mage fell, and the aeons-old might of the Obsidian Crown was finally brought to bear against they w...Sundered, the gate of the ancient fort... and beasts reduced to blackened husks, charred shells of smouldering ash, lifeless effigies which toppled to the seared earth to be dissipated by the whispering breath of the wind. Again and again the ravaging radiance smote the ranks of the Empire, leaving a noisome charnel-pit of nightmare in its crackling wake. The forces of the Imperium were plunged into a howling vortex of disarray, and, faced with the unthinkable prospect of defeat, the unprecedented first routing of the Emperor's glorious army began to become a grim reality. Yet for all the unparalleled carnage which had erupted about them, there was one regiment of Imperial troops for whom the taste of fear was bland compared to the sharp tang of r...banners high! Glory to the Emperor! Into t...ught us time enough to riposte! And Genera...ency, stepped forth to fill their most vit...e Swordmaster began to utter fearsome words in a tongue which was ancient ere the gleaming stars shifted upon the fathomless countenance of the distant heavens, words which in truth were not words, but rather a resonant key which would aspire to unlock a dire power which had reposed shackled since the fall of the legendary Shadow King himself, whose ebon circlet's power they even now sought to thwart. The incantation they gave voice to in the midst of that sanguineous turmoil which engulfed them was not so much heard by those within earshot as perceived, sensed as a vague disturbance in the fabric of reality, as fuliginous ripples on the surface of a hitherto still and placid pool, growing ever larger and more far reaching; an unnerving and unnamable sense of change which insinuated itself into the mind of the listener and suggested with a cold and disturbing quasi-certainty that something of preternaturally ineffable magnitude was transpiring, as surely as a festering and gangrenous corpse would split to spill its noisome g...To be continued in: Ep

Locked up in the classroom wa...Down to the schoolyard knocking the gate ...Into the alley meet up with the boys ...ing for the weekend to make a little noise...s and it's starting to blast ...Sweeter than the heavens and the fate means ...adder than hell fit to burn ...re but now he's got to run ...honey, but he's got to pay the bill ...I was dressed to kill I was feeling ...When he got up to leave ... the price you have to pay ...In the doorway up against the wall ...We started to rumble and stumble ...fumbled and started to win ...Sweeter than the heavens and like a frighten

Locked up in the classroom wa...Down to the schoolyard knocking the gate ...Into the alley meet up with the boys ...ing for the weekend to make a little noise...s and it's starting to blast ...Sweeter than the heavens and the fate means ...adder than hell fit to burn ...re but now he's got to run ...honey, but he's got to pay the bill ...I was dressed to kill I was feeling ...When he got up to leave ... the price you have to pay ...In the doorway up against the wall ...We started to rumble and stumble ...fumbled and started to win ...Sweeter than the heavens and like a frighten

Locked up in the classroom wa...Down to the schoolyard knocking the gate...Into the alley meet up with the boys...ing for the weekend to make a little noise...s and it's starting to blast...Sweeter than the heavens and the fate means ...adder than hell fit to burn...re but now he's got to run...honey, but he's got to pay the bill...I was dressed to kill I was feeling ...When he got up to leave... the price you have to pay...In the doorway up against the wall...We started to rumble and stumble...fumbled and started to win...Sweeter than the heavens and like a frighten

Locked up in the classroom wa...Down to the schoolyard knocking the gate...Into the alley meet up with the boys...ing for the weekend to make a little noise...s and it's starting to blast...Sweeter than the heavens and the fate means ...adder than hell fit to burn...re but now he's got to run...honey, but he's got to pay the bill...I was dressed to kill I was feeling ...When he got up to leave... the price you have to pay...In the doorway up against the wall...We started to rumble and stumble...fumbled and started to win...Sweeter than the heavens and like a frighten

Staring up into the heavens ...You will find the gate that's open ...Open up my heart ...Cause my lips to speak ...Bring the heavens and the stars ...Down to earth for me

down lookin' ready to charge... that preacher long to say bye...He said, "Up in that tree's wher...Scared to death, he turned ab...He looked to the sky and began to shout...Flyin' from left to right...Well first they was up and then they was d...To the good book I'll ... Sunday I'm headin' to the church to pray"...Up to the heavens the preacher glance...Looked to the sky and began to shout

down lookin' ready to charge... that preacher long to say bye...He said, "Up in that tree's wher...Scared to death, he turned ab...He looked to the sky and began to shout...Flyin' from left to right...Well first they was up and then they was d...To the good book I'll ... Sunday I'm headin' to the church to pray"...Up to the heavens the preacher glance...Looked to the sky and began to shout

bless them like the heavens up above ..., man, yo, you gots to understand, yo ...Up in them camaras and...Trying to play me like a goat...We out to Mexico, fourth one ...sold drugs, ice 'em up ...From up top, bullets soarin...I'm hard to hit, Spanish speaki...g niggas, it's hard to get ...Not to mention liftin' Lan...numbers, told Harve to call Puffy ...just wait for y'all to come through ...Straight up out a crystal face,...ld y'all it my time to shine

bless them like the heavens up above ..., man, yo, you gots to understand, yo ...Up in them camaras and...Trying to play me like a goat...We out to Mexico, fourth one ...sold drugs, ice 'em up ...From up top, bullets soarin...I'm hard to hit, Spanish speaki...g niggas, it's hard to get ...Not to mention liftin' Lan...numbers, told Harve to call Puffy ...just wait for y'all to come through ...Straight up out a crystal face,...ld y'all it my time to shine

bless them like the heavens up above..., man, yo, you gots to understand, yo...Up in them camaras and...Trying to play me like a goat...We out to Mexico, fourth one ...sold drugs, ice 'em up...From up top, bullets soarin...I'm hard to hit, Spanish speaki...g niggas, it's hard to get...Not to mention liftin' Lan...numbers, told Harve to call Puffy...just wait for y'all to come through...Straight up out a crystal face,...ld y'all it my time to shine