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March Of The Gods
05:10
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Ancient sons of a land forgotten
Ripe with a burning to conquer all
They're coming, putrid hoards of
Gaping mouths dripping tar
Hear the earth it trembles with the weight of a thousand strong
Black figures arising
Ascending through the eyes of fire
Hear the cries of aeons left in suffering
Creeping closer, feel the terror
Ancient prophecy that must unfold
Written in stone in the deep abyss
They're seeping through the realms below
Seeking out to feed their blood lust
Is this the end
I see the armies of the damned
Arriving
Rivers drying as hoards of ash
Consume the air
The blackened sun gives way to skies
Of raining fire
Revelation through death and despair
It's here and now
The march of gods so vile
Awaiting the end
Your soul condemned to damnation
Full-scale annihilation
Dear god how can this be?
Purged of mankind, the earth waits to rot
Sifting through the grains of sand
The hourglass lies shattered amongst the stones
Vanquished the chapter is complete
All that's left are memories
Memories of the weeping, the screaming
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Imperious Divine
06:05
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Haunting howls herald the coming of the night
Suffocating mists cover the moon's dying light
Unforgiving and relentless, unyielding winter austere
Endless blizzards long to bury you here
Through black trees bearing rotten fruit
Festered growths from putrid, ancient roots
How long have you waited?
Time eroded by endless rain
How long have you languished?
Centuries of hate and pain
So we trudge slowly through it all
Meaningless, but a glimpse of hope brings the thaw
Reduced to wraiths
Icy claws grasp the souls with lack of faith
One final journey to death's grim embrace
Lines of regret etched into the sinners face
Hopeless existence held in a clenched fist
Merciful gods do not exist
The cold will come and your children will die
Behold the reign of imperious divine
Now the hounds of hell take flight
Chasing the smell of death, hanging in the night
Behold, in pitch black the phantom you seek
Hear the blasphemies. Of pure evil it speaks
Its head raised it stares with sightless eyes
With gaping mouth, a statue carved from lies
Breathless gaze in terror stand pale
Unearthly forms prolong the endless gale
The merciless hours of years and ages creep
The dreadful strain of thought that never sleeps
Freedom for all from hate and lust
Grip your black heart and turn it to dust
So we trudge slowly through it all
Meaningless, but a glimpse of hope brings the thaw
Reduced to wraiths
Icy claws grasp the souls with lack of faith
One final journey to death's grim embrace
Lines of regret etched into the sinners face
Hopeless existence held in a clenched fist
Merciful gods do not exist
The cold will come and your children will die
Behold the reign of imperious divine
How long have you smothered?
Begging for one last breath
How long have you watched?
This sick game of life and death
Moulding, twisting your body and your mind
How long have you listened?
In this hell of fetid darkness
How long have you lived this horror?
Since you've laid your weary head to rest
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3. |
The Swarm
04:12
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Imperfect and irrelevant swarm
The plague we have become
Disembodied fragments
All has become undone
Corrupted memories
Only bones and dust remain
Essence of magnificence
Never seen again
Mutilation of the colossus
Weakened, released spite
Vulnerable deprivations
Insults to their kind
Grave corruption yet to come
Destructive metamorphosis
As nothing we are all one
Mask of exhaustion and hopelessness
Unavoidable, reluctant end
Interest has expired
None left to repent
Every likeness buried and vanished
Bones on abandoned shores
Memories of the forgotten
The parasite lives no more
Isolated suffering
The swarm breeds within
Let the chaos fester
We wait as one
for the end to begin
Spreading disease.
Atrocity
Corrupted source.
Violate
Delight and decay.
Wretched ruin
Infected by the swarm
Spreading disease.
Cancerous blight
Corrupted source.
Vitiate
Delight and decay.
Rotten core
Infected by the swarm
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4. |
Order of Death
04:00
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Pages written by contorting hands washed in blood
Soaked by the sands of the holy land
High priests divided on divinity and blasphemy
In a battle of god versus god
The living God with armies of men
Hold the desert lands
Forcing hand of the emperor
Decimate, eradicate their invisible deity
Purity, they will bow before the order
In the palace of man
There is no place for the kingdom of God
Bleed the neck
Behold the elders
They violate your claims
Awaiting crowds with stone in hand
As you rot away in chains
Taste the Roman peace
The gift of the empire
Crucified and mutilated
Here lies your Messiah
(Order of Death)
(Left to hang)
Crown of thorns with serpent fangs
(Order of death)
(Left to hang)
Enemy crucified
Blood will run upon the cross
Prayers to the Roman god's enforced
On display behold the martyr
Pouring down with holy water
Washing hands of the blood guilt
In the dark the eyes are blind
The veins running black
Black with ink on the pages of time
Re-write the crime, redefine divinity and heresy
Acquire the power to rule over all
The strength of God is the cunning of man
Behold the elders
They violate your claims
Awaiting crowds with stone in hand
As you rot away in chains
Taste the Roman peace
The gift of the empire
Crucified and mutilated
Here lies your Messiah
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5. |
City Of The Silent
03:54
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Under another monument sleeps the dust of war
Things never to be known or seen
The disgraced
The feeble rebellion is no more
Temples and statues of dust
Remnants of dying gods in a dead world
Slaves and priests now praise the dead
The sun drowns in dark and they are forgotten again
The unworthy, the ceaseless violence
All sins cleansed
A city in silence
Desecrated, crumbled from within
The secret's in the ruins
Stained with blood and sin
Self-destruction
Swallowed in madness
The process has begun
Immortal whispers speak of ancient tales
Lives of futile order, an end in chaos
Fields of blood and bone
A kaleidoscope of horror buried in endless war
Antagonism of life and time
It comes to take all light
Peasants and kings now praise the dead
The sun drowns in dark and they are forgotten again
The unworthy, the cruel and violent
Eternal purgatory
City of the silent
Civilizations of wasteful pleasure, greed and deceit
Disappear forever
Liberated from their imperfections
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Road To Damnation
03:44
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Nothing grows in the home of the damned
but manifestations of the dead
Where time is lost and memories taken
Where winds speak and hope is forsaken
They come with rhythms on boats of skin
In blood-sunk tunnels from deep within
Black flames to set the skies on fire
The final mile that climbs to the light
The last day before eternal night
Rend and rip
Tear and sever
Rape and ruin
Until all is gone
The time has come
The war on man has begun
Burn and butcher this revolting creation
Vast, black plains burning higher
Merciless casualties of war
A world on fire
Sing the verse that wakes the dark
Speak the words that light the fires
Step forth through flame and swamps of rotting flesh
Caverns filled with blood and veins
Rend and rip
Tear and sever
Rape and ruin
Until all is gone
The time has come
The war on man has begun
Experience such abysmal woe
as we drown in hopeless sorrow
A scourge the like of which has never been seen
The world with all its sin now wiped clean
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7. |
Statues Of Sorrow
06:56
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Mortal born sister of the Graeae
Fierce and dreadful
Born from the sea
The Mighty, the Far Springer and the Queen
Ill-fated beauty raped by a god
A temple desecrated, incur the virgins wrath
Cursed, forsaken, banished to the utmost black
Scarred with tusk and tongue
The last cracked vision for any to see
Armed with the cruelty of the curse
Flesh and blood to cold stone
Like moths to a fire
They burn one by one
Of lust and gods denied
Unrivalled acts so cruel and violent
Now statues of sorrow
The dead stand silent
Girded with serpents and vibrating tongues
Oh, cursed, hideous mortal one
Terrible and grim, piercing gaze of stone
Bronze hands and wings of gold
Monstrous. Blood of the gods
Across the oceans of black and beyond
Downcast. The misfit. One of the three
None to hear her silent screams
Exiled. Son of thunder
Descendant of Argos
Cast out
Tricked and deceived by men and gods
Helm of darkness
Shield and scythe
From dust come
And dust to leave behind
With severing cut
Behead the desolate one
Bastard scions born from her neck
Wailing a dismal lament
Mourning the gorgon mother's end
On the path of selfish glory
Through twisted corridors of praise and scorn
From the place of gazing silence and stone
The sun long set with its final glow
Behind the eyes of the innocent
The gaunt face of the all-knowing
Into the dark
From which it came
From her head venomous blood drips slowly
Crimson sands stained with serpents
To end a life or raise the dead
The cure and the fatal poison
Of lust and gods denied
Unrivalled acts so cruel and violent
Now statues of sorrow
The dead stand silent
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8. |
Weavers Of Kismet
04:49
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Into the abyss of hopelessness
Oblivion reigns supreme
No way out, no way through
Conflicting emotions wrung from ecstasy
Futile incoherence
Brief existence so greedily chased
A monster grown to devour us all
Or to save us from this place
Resign to the passage of time
Ancient torments to current despair
Lick your wounds as the weavers contrive
Human existence repeats again
The terrible poison that drugged our souls
Tearing our lives away
Beckons us into the unknown
As the years swiftly decay
Bring to light that which now lie hidden
Mankind stands and waits
Trapped in the amber of existence
The futility of human fate
Join the nocturnal dance of death
Soon to disappear
Unveiled illusions of future and past
Burning visions, all is unclear
See yourself dismantled
All your denials torn apart
For better or worse
Face the great revealers of all
Resigned to the passage of time
Ancient torments to current despair
Lick your wounds as the weavers contrive
The endless cycle starts again
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9. |
Carnival Of Plague
04:09
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The silence of the night shattered
Thunder shakes the earth
And in its wake, out of the black
Arise the lords of decay
Demon-drawn chariots of death draw near
On a vortex of black wind and thorns
Exhaling venomous breath
The carnival of plague is born
With sinews twisting, stretching & tearing
Black blood through pale veins
Corpses from the gallows and corpses from the grave
Beings spreading leprosy
Undevoted heretics
On and on the dying flee the dead
Desolate with the weakening eye of the day
Taste the disease in the air
Before you eyes the horror unfolds
Meet its hate-filled stare
Humanity united in fear and hopelessness
Abhor this morbidity
Eternal shadow into which we fall
Into hopeless insanity
With sinews twisting, stretching & tearing
Black blood through pale veins
Corpses from the gallows and corpses from the grave
Beings spreading leprosy
Undevoted heretics
On and on the dying flee the dead
Absurdity of mankind
Saved from mortal imperfection
Gaze with a vacant eye
All return to dust
Emotionless glory of the setting sun
No thoughts given to future or past
With sinews twisting, stretching & tearing
Black blood through pale veins
Corpses from the gallows and corpses from the grave
Beings spreading leprosy
Undevoted heretics
On and on the dying flee the dead
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10. |
The Abyss
05:36
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Darkness swirls within hidden depths unknown
Descend where no sound or light exists
The graves of a million tales untold
Slumbering beneath the thunders of the deep
Emerges in distress and in nightmares it sleeps
It calls from the eternal seas
where monsters half-created writhe
Unliving and undead
None can perceive
None knows on what they feed
Lord of the abyss
Oh do you hear my cry?
Leviathan!
Lotan!
Tiamat!
Raise the oceans to the sky
Dragon of the abyss
Oh hear the spirits call
Leviathan!
Lotan!
Shaitan!
Immortality is the law
Fear that which dwells in the dark
That which threatens to surface
Wrenched from the heart of horror
The primal terror arises from the phobias in your mind
It's ice-shackles prison left behind
Man has marked the earth with ruin
His control means nothing here
Only a dying ship between him and eternity
Fathomless infinite, unknown fear.
An obscene growth from the dark
where incessant hunger thrives
The great staring face with lidless eyes
The endless open mouth
Hypnotic rhythmic caress
Ice cold waves devouring warm flesh
Down into the abyss
Down into the merciless black
Lord of the abyss
Oh do you hear my cry?
Leviathan!
Lotan!
Tiamat!
Raise the oceans to the sky
Dragon of the abyss
Oh hear the spirits call
Leviathan!
Lotan!
Shaitan!
Immortality is the law
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