Blood and Ember

[Verse 1]
Ash on my hands
Wolf-print in snow
Teeth of the wind
Cut through my bones
(Female)
I taste the frost
On every word
Calling the dead
From buried earth
[Pre-Chorus]
(Male)
Drums in my chest
Like hooves on stone
Who will stand
When the roots overgrow?
[Chorus]
Blood and ember
Call my name
Old gods rise
Through the flame
We remember
We remain
Blood and ember
In our veins
[Verse 2]
(Female)
Braids full of twine
Iron and leaves
Stories of kings
Lost in the trees
(Male)
Scar on my arm
Mark of the storm
Oath in the dark
Sealed and reborn
[Pre-Chorus]
(Female)
Voices behind me
Crow and crow
Will you follow
Where the wild ones go?
[Chorus]
Blood and ember
Call my name
Old gods rise
Through the flame
We remember
We remain
Blood and ember
In our veins
[Bridge]
[Murky toms and low drones
Gang shouts building]
(Male)
Face the fire (hey!)
Face the fire
(Female)
Kneel to nothing (oh!)
Only sky
(Male & Female)
Hand on steel
Heart on trial
If we fall
We fall in style
[Chorus]
Blood and ember
Call my name
Old gods rise
Through the flame
We remember
We remain
Blood and ember
In our veins
[Outro]
(Female, soft)
Ash on my hands
Wolf-print in snow
(Male, growled)
Blood and ember
We still glow

metal, Dual-vocal pagan metal anthem with intertwined female/male leads over downtuned guitars, tremolo-picked folk melodies, and thunderous double-kick. Verses charge forward on tight palm-mutes and ghostly drone strings; chorus explodes with chant-style harmonies and open chords. Mid-song break drops to tom-driven battle pulse and warlike shouts before a final, soaring reprise.