TITLE:
Muninn Remembers

STYLE:
Nordic Viking metal fused with hip-hop, drop-D down-tuned heavy guitars, pounding war drums, tagelharpa and bone flute, deep throat-singing drones, cinematic strings, male baritone half-rap lead, female contralto lead, massive mixed choir, gang shouts, anthemic, epic, modern heavy production, clear intelligible English vocals, 72 BPM, slow and haunting, female-led, builds from ambient to crushing, emotional climax

EXCLUDE STYLES:
autotune, EDM drop, lo-fi, comedy, spoken-word only, children's choir, country, reggae

LYRICS:
[Intro - ambient drones, raven calls, soft choir hum, instrumental]

[Verse 1 - female contralto lead, soft and haunting, sparse]
Huginn flew the lie out, but the other bird stayed true,
Muninn keeps the memory of everything we knew.
She remembers where the treaty stones were set into the ground,
She remembers every name before the drumming made a sound.

[Verse 2 - male baritone, low and quiet half-rap, heartbeat drums]
She remembers the old watchman and the book that he kept,
She remembers the messenger who warned us as he slept.
She remembers every order and the voice that it was in,
And the voice was not the captain, it was stitched from someone's skin.

[Pre-Chorus - female contralto rising, strings swell]
Memory is a blade
They cannot melt.
Memory is a wound
That we have felt.

[Chorus - full band enters, crushing and slow, huge choir, soaring female melody]
Muninn remembers,
Muninn remembers,
Every name, every face,
Every ember.
You can forge the morning,
You can forge the war,
But Muninn remembers
What it was for.

[Bridge - music drops to female voice and drone, then builds]
Bring back what they buried.
Bring back what they burned.
Bring back every signal
And the lesson that we learned.

[Chorus - full band, key lift, full choir, climactic]
Muninn remembers,
Muninn remembers,
Every name, every face,
Every ember.
You can forge the morning,
You can forge the war,
But Muninn remembers
What it was for.

[Outro - fades to raven call and drone, female whisper]
She remembers.