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A Carrion King
03:59
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The stars burn out and all of life will stagnate
The arrow of time will turn all hope into dust
A future for mankind was but a fleeting dream
An end that not even divinity could prevent
A carrion king sits upon his golden throne
A carrion king feasts upon his fading kind
A monarch of a dying world reigns supreme
A figurehead for the illusion of hope
Worshipped as the bulwark against entropy
Maintaining the facade of the greatest of lies
A carrion king sits upon his golden throne
A carrion king feasts upon his fading kind
Corrupted and stained his throne is wreathed in corpses and in gold
Eternal strife and decay, in the end entropy conquers all
A carrion king sits upon his golden throne
A carrion king feasts upon his fading kind
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Hydra
03:33
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From the beginning to the end
A wreathing serpent lurks
Hidden among the sheep
It propagates deceit
A spectral legion works
Designed to sow dissent
Coiled 'round their feeble minds
Truth and lies are intertwined
With subterfuge and guile
Motives unclear
Insidious tactics, utilizing fear
Cut off one of its heads
Two more appears
For they are one of many, hiding in plain sight
An infection without a cure
A stratagem so pure
They are ethereal
Intangible, like grasping smoke
Secrets within secrets
Lies within lies
Making sure that treason spreads
The hydra rears its heads
With subterfuge and guile
Motives unclear
Insidious tactics, utilizing fear
Cut off one of its heads
Two more appears
For they are one of many, hiding in plain sight
Its poisonous breath spreads out like morning mist
The reek of death, with faces of those dearly missed
Six eyes peering out from its nebulous hideout
Behold, once confusion clears - the three hungering maws of the hydra
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3. |
Transcending Flesh
04:44
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Removing useless limbs for something greater
A tangled mess of tubes and skin
Enhanced extremeties to serve our will
Leave the flesh behind for stronger steel
Human - machine, begins to mesh
Thus we are transcending flesh
Worshipping a diety of machinery
Modification leads to our ascension
The sum of our knowledge is true divinity
Its preservation is our intention
Connecting nerves to wires, woven through tissue
Modifying weak organic matter
in an attempt to better emulate machines
Remoulding ourselves in the likeness of our god
Worshipping a diety of machinery
Modification leads to our ascension
The sum of our knowledge is true divinity
Its preservation is our intention
Human - machine, begins to mesh
Thus we are transcending flesh
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4. |
Pariah
03:02
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A hunter of the heretic, my aura brings forth dread
I am despair manifest, tearing their minds to shreds
Cursed to devour pleasantries due to this void of mine
All of their powers nullified, their dread is amplified
Tearing out their own eyes from their sockets
Distracting from the torture of my presence
A stygian core draining at their soul
An outcast with a purpouse to exist
Born to be forever in solitude
The soulless pariah
Scorned to be forever an exile
The soulless pariah
Those within the vicinity of my soul-draining vortex
They will succumb to mental pain, torment as I draw near
With harnessed immaterium I'm scraping at their cortex
That which is unknown and unseen commands the greatest fear
Tearing out their own eyes from their sockets
Distracting from the torture of my presence
Born to be forever in solitude
The soulless pariah
Scorned to be forever an exile
The soulless pariah
My mind's eye opens up a hellish gateway
Their fragile psyche's assailed by fear
The cursed heretics they are my prey
In their unstable minds my vision sears
Tearing out their own eyes from their sockets
Distracting from the torture of my presence
A stygian core draining at their soul
An outcast with a purpouse to exist
Born to be forever in solitude
The soulless pariah
Scorned to be forever an exile
The soulless pariah
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5. |
The Profane Void
03:52
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A zealous hatred built on shame
An act that set our hearts aflame
We were denied by our own god
Our sacred words have been outlawed
Embraced by gods of the unknown
A pilgrimage to the beyond
To become one with the arcane
A symbiosis based on faith
A million maws eager to consume
Eating their way out through their wombs
The willing vessels open up their arms
Embracing the profane void
Malformed to absolute perfection
A step towards our ascension
Conjoined to forces aeons old
The plan of discord shall unfold
A million maws eager to consume
Eating their way out through their wombs
The willing vessels open up their arms
Embracing the profane void
Disciples spread the word
Our gods are real
Glorify the absurd
Behold our zeal
A million maws eager to consume
Eating their way out through their wombs
The willing vessels open up their arms
Embracing the profane void
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6. |
Yield and Serve
03:08
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Rooted deep within an oppressive regime
corrosive tendrils search for cracks
Masses swayed by their enticing promises
The foundations of society rusts to its core
Tainted by forces from beyond
rooted into their minds
Ensnared in unknown servitude
They yield and serve
Decieved by cosmic entities
Undermining mankind
Ensnared in unknown servitude
They yield and serve
Subverting propaganda with yet another lie
Increase the spreading of the dissidence
An insurrection grows to overthrow their rule
The grand facade of civilization cracks in two
Tainted by forces from beyond
rooted into their minds
Ensnared in unknown servitude
They yield and serve
Deceived by cosmic entities
Undermining mankind
Ensnared in unknown servitude
They yield and serve
The gods have found their servants
Their bidding shall be done
As half a world collapses
The other half shall be blessed
At the zenith of macabre carnage
The will of the dark gods become manifest
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7. |
Sanguine Kiss
03:35
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Walking the path of ruin and rage
Devoted to bloodshed for evermore
My emotions are being uncaged
I have donned the mask of war
My blood burns hot
Churning in my veins
Blessed by the kiss of sanguine rage
I am fueled by my volatile feelings
And my craft is fear and death
A bellicose art of beauty and terror
It consumes me and never lets go
Five fingers
constantly dripping with blood of the slain
Our wrathful deity
blessing me with the rage that never wanes
My blood burns hot
Churning in my veins
Blessed by the kiss of sanguine rage
My soul succumbs to its rage
Entwining itself with its eons old twins
My blood burns hot
Churning in my veins
Blessed by the kiss of sanguine rage
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8. |
Maelstrom
04:19
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A lidless eye whose gaze distorts all time and space
I am the beholder of all mistakes
My eyes are cursed to see it's false reality
I'm locking eyes with this terrible eye
A churning maelstrom - in the stars
A vortex eating at the fabric of all things
A seething maelstrom - from beyond
A whirlpool pulling at reality's strings
Reality is warped at its event horizon
A chaotic whirl of discordant color
A wound that's festering in the flesh of the universe
The greatest mistake is clear to me
A churning maelstrom - in the stars
A vortex eating at the fabric of all things
A seething maelstrom - from beyond
A whirlpool pulling at reality's strings
The glaring eye ever present from afar - The greatest of all mistakes in the stars
A churning maelstrom blotting out the sky
A churning maelstrom - an ever-watching eye
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9. |
The Esoteric Artisan
06:21
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The crime of hoarding knowledge
led to their persecution
Bayed by a primal force
designed for execution
Exiled to a spectral plane
wreathed in ethereal flames
Sentenced to rot away
with time their flesh mutates
The humbled souls pay for their crimes
As they're encaged for all of time
Call it hubris, call it pride
For some must live on in place for those that died
One desperate sorcerer compelled to cast
an incantation to rewrite the past
The esoteric artisan
Bending reality - emotions manifest
They're scattered to the winds of change
like motes of dust - their lives are lost
Bereft of bodies, bereft of minds
The horrifying cost of his ritual
His final desperate act has spelled their doom
And within the abstract they are entombed
A virtuous idea enacted with the noblest of intent
His act had thus achieved what he had tried to prevent
Motes of fabric clinging to matter
The very fiber of a being stripped to it's core
The strings of their master guide their dance
Helpless puppets who were turned into dust
The esoteric artisan
Bending reality - emotions manifest
They're scattered to the winds of change
Gave him their trust - now all is dust
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10. |
Book of Dissonance
08:41
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A skinbound tome made to illuminate the truth
Its words are being spread like parchment caught in the wind
Discordant music enhanced by betrayal and sin
The notes of which are chronicled and laid out bare in the..
Book of dissonance
Preaching dissidence
Book of dissonance
Preaching dissidence
A seed of primal truth that grows into a stem
which loudly blooms in twilight like a chorus wrought by the gods
A sound that to the ears are what nails are to eyes
The swansong of a species echoes all across the stars
Harmonic antithesis
Vengeance manifest
Devotees to deities of discord
we produce cacophony
Hear our chant
Vox Deorum
Hear our words
Vox Deorum
Hear our chant
Hear our words
Screams and hymns coalesce as the stars all align
Upheaval unfurls - it follows our design
Book of dissonance
Preaching dissidence
Book of dissonance
Preaching dissidence
Malignant tumors spreading through real-space
Eating at the core of us all
Behold our father, a god walks among us
Behold our future, our gods walk among us
Ascending through the total ruin of mankind
whose downfall will be written down forever in the..
Book of dissonance
Preaching dissidence
Book of dissonance
Preaching dissidence
Tearing harmonies apart
The fall of mankind will start
and end in sorrow
Corrupting all works of art
So untune that string, and, hark,
what discord follows
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