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Relinquished
04:13
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I curse thee, forever, dispiriting artificer
Be thy name hollow, and worthy of mere cinder
For these palms do not meet to clasp in prayer
but clench to opposing fists
As these knees do not bend to genuflect before thee
and these lips shall remain clammed
when in demand to beseech thy name
Through years and miles innumerable,
one eternity followed by another
Has the earth imbibed my blood
Robbed of inborn sanctity
yet granted with a truthful mirage
of a silenced axiom
A voiceless whisper of a tongue split in two
For the embers they glimmer
and lie in their dormant wait
So reckon, that not all that lingers
bend under thy rule
As my words of holiest wrath roar,
the skies and their clouds shall surge
and ripple the slumbering waters into rage
As a breath of fire and smoke,
shall I vomit out the lies once forcefed
And cleanse my stomach from selflessness,
and spiritless filth
Beckoning the path into the great unknown
By valediction, and through fleshly relinquishment
am I to light the lantern of my seeking...
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2. |
The Shadowcast
08:00
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Eerie despondent formation
Shapeless ethereal carnation
Revelations through horrid visions
Sealing the end of creation
Plunging through enraged
Into the core midmost of being
Infecting the womb of existence
Source of life spawned stillborn
Lifeless thou shalt remain
Never-verdant, ever-dead
Perished into obliteration
Nonexistent, never to wake
The exhausted rays of a dying sun
Cast down upon this mouldered soil
from the densely darkening heights
Never to shine, to glare no more
What once falls to the ground
Shall never stand again
For everything will collapse in the end
The cloud thickens through the heavens
To cast a shadow over the living and the dead
And as all once above fell down amongst the dirt
Ruptured through a splinter in the wall of glass
And as all above fell down amongst the lurid
The leafless branches of the tree of life
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3. |
Yielding Servitude
10:27
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Come unto me, leave thy garment and step forth
To lay among the liers and their rows myriad
Congeal into a dreamless slumber on a bed of gravel
Flounder no longer, for thy toes are now cold
All ten...
Come with me...
For thou art to walk with me...
Yes, the weight of these horrors I offer
Too great for thy hand to hold
Too vast for thee to comprehend
And what thou art forced to face,
I know may seem unjust
For I bereave thee of the keys to thine own fate
For thou art to come with me...
As a garland rooted in the filth
of a paradigm of illusion
Thou once were planted
Nourished with the befouled waters
of entropic delusion
Thou languished a life
Gnawn by the fleas and vermins
of fatuousness
Thou art now weeded out
For I know the name
to whom thou prayeth
And I know each of sins
upon thy brow
As an accusive stare
through an unflattering mirrour
The very core of thy guilt is beheld
And in the end thou shall come with me...
As a garland rooted in the filth
of a paradigm of illusion
Thou once were planted
Gnawn by the fleas and vermins
of fatuousness
Thou art now weeded out
The dense black light
that is to taint the glimmering Sun
and outshine the haloes
of each angel, every saint
And this is where thou shalt greet Him
Behold Him, the exalted one
Claiming the throne of the sun
Fear Him, the luminous one
Now once the justice is done
Adore Him, the viewless one
For in Death the sceptre is won
Praise Him, the sovereign one
Of Him greater are none
Worship the phosphorous one
Once banished numinous son
Serve him, the deathless one
And so it is done
And so it is done
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Euphoria, morning light
The bleak splendours of thine
Thy rotten charms so beautious,
Appealing, yet so malign
Vague figures, contourless shapes
Motley shades of pallid grey
Voices that I can behold
Visions that call my name
Eidolons transcending
Reforming into flesh
Ominous glints of the inbetween
The envoys, they approach!
Featherless fowls
Swarming ‘cross the air
Ambassadors of all maladies
Wafting forth famine and plague
Crossing the fatal threshold
Entering corridors unknown
Absorbing its mysteries
The maze - it breathes!
Come now and devoid me
From the scoria of reason
Impregnate life with the seed of Death
Abandoning the laws of yore
Imbue me, Lord Satan!
Make this flesh thy shadow
Convulse! Conflagrate!
The black flame most sublime
Revealing its clandest' glory
Darkness divine
Clairvoyance - unlidded eye
The Grail at the End
Surefootedly I lift up to step forth ahead
Unfathomed nooks foreshadowed albeit unseen
For I have tasted of sin
Peered of the forbidden
Stripped of its masque
Beholding back at me
With an unblinking eye
The very fountain of all fears
Gruesome dreams they reach out their hands
...to strangle!
For when I hear Thy call...
I know Thy Voice
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A cortege of suffering souls
Dragging their poor trunks
Droopingly and wearied
Tottering the edge of their fall
Carrying the carrions of their loved ones
Upon fatigued shoulders
A history on the threshold
Of its final demise
A despoiled ground
Gasping its final breath
Through the vale...
Through the wail...
Laments at the end of the age of the world
Praying for the days to end
The ages lay to rest
A Journey monumental in
tears, burden and pain
The heavens to collide
and earth to form its grave
Epochs of glory, aeons of might
Detrimented by time
A solemn sob by the edge of the pit
The tolling chime of the knell
Closer towards the final rest
With each ungainly step
Through the phase
of years' decay
The paeans of the end of this earth
And as the shades once more descend
To veil the retreating horizons
Faces of the mourners forever petrified
The fading light against the skies
Landscapes stand still
Ashes washed by the sea,
by the slowly quivering waves
Shades painting their silhouette
Upon the cloth of the welkin
As dust reaches the ground
to cover this sordid soil
Of what once was the face of all creation
is now forced to outwane before a certain...
Death
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6. |
Cipher
05:15
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Once a King whose forehead wore an emerald crown
now forgotten under the piling stratums of ash
Bournes in the distant past, neath a tumulus of dust...
Not an emblem, not a token, not even an obsolete portent...
Nought of yester shall remain...
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7. |
Sword of Division
01:13
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Pilgrim! Prophet! Spokesman! Messiah!
Whereon may thy shoulder lean
once thy hands have been nailed
and the hammer is held by an enemy hand?
Reap the foul!
Death to the frail!
Son of all that is to fail
Feel the smarting lick of the lash
upon thy skin
Again... and again... and again!
Reap the foul!
Death to the frail!
Son of all that is to fail
Justice shall be done
Wielding the shining Sword of Division!
A life led without a purpose
A death died sans a reward
For whereto may thy soul hide
once thy heart has been devoured?
Reap the foul!
Death to the frail!
The shining Sword of Division
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8. |
Waning Light
07:52
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Out from the cunt of chaos
Spawned forth from the pits of Hell
Begotten by the seed of widdershins breath
Under the glimmer of the waning moon
Defying the squalid bloodline of clay
Irrigating the soil with sin and shame
Kiss of Death with a slash of a sickle
Prayers gurgled through a throat slit
Choirs of wanton moans in the malodorous air
Chants of vulgar pleasure and lust indign
Bestridden upon the throbbing Serpent phallus
Receiving the fiery seed of awakening
The deeper the root of death penetrates the earth
The thicker strengthen the boughs of the Nightside
So may the clayborn bow before their creator
Squashed like a putrid apple
This is where the new sun dawns
As the gales tear open the sealed doors
May there not be such cloud, mist or veil
That could taint its lustre or hide its light
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9. |
For Satan My Soul
12:35
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Expectorate fire and let us behold
as we stand aghast, yet in awe
as our hearts ignite with burning devotion
and the meadows of the old world they burn
Moribund, gaunt, left forsaken
lie the ashes of abandoned magnitudes
Salvation gained through damnation
Equilibrium through separation
Make us burn!
Awaken, o storms!
Tempests of destruction
Tumultuous flames
Reddening the azure
Crescendo of fury
A punishment divine
Bestow upon us
Thy judgement most foul
Anointment of fire
Verily, at last I now glide
As a vivid breath in the shadowless night
Soaring across the everspreading
boundless skies
High above the shoreless seas
Carried forth by the winds
Devoid of fleshly form
Detached from the debris of all mundane
May the old desert sun roast my corpse
That I left behind, to wither away and die
For God my putrid remains
For Satan my Soul
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