Title: The Altar and the Ember

Style: Dark / Gothic Rock.

Slow, heavy, cold atmosphere.

Voice: Male, 35-38, very low bass-baritone. Intimate, predatory. Slight Scandinavian accent. Chest voice. NOT operatic.

(Intro)

(Low, ominous drone. Wind. Slow pulse like a heartbeat. A distant, single bell. Sound of fog.)

(Choir — male, Latin, dark ritualistic whisper)

Lux in tenebris...

Draco videt...

Umbra teget...

(Verse 1 — His voice, low, intimate, a purr. He watches her on the stone.)

They put you on the altar. White. Still.

A lamb for the old hunger.

Their hands shook. Their prayers — pathetic.

But I don’t watch them.

I watch the fire in your chest. Still burning.