May 3, 2026

"VALLEY OF ESHKOL"Spoken over tolling bell + tritone "The Lord said to Moses... Send them. Send them to see." From the Desert of Paran, twelve shadows creep Sent by fire command where the serpent sleeps "Go up through the Negev, climb the haunted hill" "See if they are mighty... or prey for the kill" "Is the land unholy? Are the towers high?" "Is the soil blood-fed beneath the crimson sky?" "Find the fruit of darkness... bring the first-ripe sign" Season of the grapes... on the twisted vine Through Zin to Rehob, past Lebo Hamath's gate Negev winds were howling — whispering their fate Hebron rose before them, seven years of dread Where Ahiman and Sheshai... and Talmai... tread In the VALLEY OF ESHKOL! Where the giant clusters fall Two men bear the weight of all On a pole between the damned and the called VALLEY OF ESHKOL! Pomegranates, blood and gall Forty days and forty nights To return with fear... and giants in their eyes At Kadesh they gathered, fruit held up like sin "Milk and honey flowing — but death waits within" "Cities walled to heaven, iron in their bone" "And the sons of Anak... claim that land as throne" Hittite, Jebusite, Amorite blade Amalek in Negev where the altars fade Canaan by the waters, Jordan's serpent tide And the land... devours all who step inside Caleb vs The Ten "SILENCE! We go up now! Take what’s ours by right! We can break their walls — we are forged in light!" "NO! We are grasshoppers! Weak beneath their feet! Nephilim among them! We face our defeat! The land eats the living! Great size! Great size! We saw them... and died in our own eyes!" Solo / Guitar wails in Phrygian Dominant Sound of swords on stone walls, wind through dead vines Final Chorus / Breakdown In the VALLEY OF ESHKOL! Where the faithless sow their fall Bad report spreads like a pall Through the camp — the fear infects them all VALLEY OF ESHKOL! Giants standing, proud and tall Forty years the price they pay For the words they spoke that dayDoom riff + Choir We seemed like grasshoppers... In our own eyes... And we looked the same... to them "ESHKOL!"