Hel Lyrics

Judgement comes for all of us
Frozen chains from dark beyond
Pathways that we chose in life
Will forge our chains and bond

Every soul is weighed by death
And destiny's cruel game
Either you will bask in blood
Or sleep in endless shame

Some of us will die in fight
When valkyries gives call
These Einherjars blessed by war
Will stand in Odin's hall

Some of us will die in vain
By age or by disease
Outcasts from the glorious dead
Shunned by gods displease

Those that dies without a fight
Will walk on frozen plains
Where endless hunger frost-rid cries
And grim-clad sorrow reigns

You will board the Naglfar
A ship from dead man's nail
All you souls abandon hope
To Nifelheim we sail

In this land of death and cold
Hel do rule supreme
Last of trickster Loki's blood
Now a darkened queen

One side pale and beauty struck
That's only matched by Frey
Other half is maggot-filled
Dead and ashen-grey

Banished by gods
Betrayed by their highborn lord
Ensnared in her hate
Declared deaths own shadow ward

Cast away from Aesir's halls
Broken, tattered, scorned by dread
Vengeance cured in twilight times
When she commands the vengeful dead

Helheim grants a cold embrace
If your demise lacked battlecry
Kneel before your one true god
And pledge allegiance when you die

The goddess of spite
End times will grant her right
To claim stolen life
Through Hel gods will know demise