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Behind the Stars
01:31
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2. |
The Silver Key
05:15
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He was at three decades old, a voyager of ethereal seas
Yet as the years crept on, the dreamland visits would fade away
He walked impassive through the cities of man, no vista seemed fully real
All things he'd revel in could only suggest of forgotten dreams
The key to the gate of dreams was lost
Yet now its in his hands
Traverse this cavern at all costs
To return to the dreamlands
At last he made it through
the gates of the silver key
Uncovering the eldritch truth
Of what he was meant to be
A presence of omnipotence
Twisting reality
Bending all of space and time
A new chance for him to see
To dare confront the unknown, in the presence of a god
The key, the gate, the all in one, granted him his reveries
At last he made it through
the gates of the silver key
Uncovering the eldritch truth
Of what he was meant to be
A presence of omnipotence
Twisting reality
Bending all of space and time
A new chance for him to see
His family noted he had changed
back in eighteen eighty three
He was a decade old
a voyager of ethereal seas
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3. |
Black Stone Monolith
03:38
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A black and haunted relic stands among these peaks
A tale of utter horror and curious mystique
Those who sleep around it sleep seldom ever more
I must set out to find it investigate its dreadful lore
Something is crawling out this hellish gate
Sacrifices for its hunger to sate
Something out of legend and of myth
And sits atop the black stone monolith
Like rabid spectres they danced, naked and profane
Shadows were cast around, they must have gone insane
Another sacrifice, such a gruesome sight
Horrid bonfire light cast on this solstice night
Something is crawling out this hellish gate
Sacrifices for its hunger to sate
Something out of legend and of myth
And sits atop the black stone monolith
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I must prevent this foolish expedition
they do not know what things we saw
We found cadavers of our companions
And what they discovered, long gone
To investage further we took a maddening flight
These stark, nightmare spires
marked the pylons of a forbidden gateway
As we entered the white, aeon-dead world
We saw wonders under a shifting opal sky
What had we discovered?
Marvel at the grandeur of it all
These unearthly formations of a long dead civilization,
and mosaic tablets brought a dreadful realisation
We sensed the presence of a wretched monstrosity
Somethings lurking in this tenebrosity
I heard the monotonous call of a formless entity
A lament in the darkness of former slavery
As we delved deeper into cavernous depths,
to unfold a story hitherto untold
A sense of excitement mingled with unease,
we heard a wailing that could have made blood freeze
These dark, nightmare caverns dwelt by strange aviaries
Yet something else is lurking in this void below
In a frenzied run from what should not be
We're leaving these stygian caverns far behind us
Our minds filled with a horrible knowledge
I'm almost frightened to see the sun again
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5. |
Injecting Undeath
03:39
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With a mind so brilliant, and as mad as they come
A manmade elixir to prove death can be undone
Breaking new ground, top of the line technology to keep a corpse alive
I must convince this foolish gathering of erudites
This luminous syringe
Will restore all their humanity
I endure the macabre
Post-mortem medication, injecting undeath
All I need is another body, as fresh as it can be
Attempts at vivication after vivification
Test subjects walk around me, not anyone will do
I'll prove we can finally conquer the inevitable
This luminous syringe
Will restore all their humanity
I endure the macabre
Post-mortem medication, injecting undeath
This luminous syringe
Will restore all their humanity
I enjoy the macabre
Post-mortem medication, injecting undeath
With an eerie face of wax and carrying his trunk
Of course he'd come for me, I must have been a fool
This magnum opus of mine carries on my work
As my torso is torn apart by a horde of ravenous ghouls
This luminous syringe
Will restore all their humanity
I enjoy the macabre
Post-mortem medication, injecting undeath
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This glorious rot is a caring harmony
Our restless god waits in his vile garden
Enticing minds with the fear of mortality
as plague runs rampant and rife across the stars
Buboes, phlegm, blood and guts
Boils, bogeys, rot and pus
Blisters, fevers, weeping sores
From your wounds the fester pours
Putrescence personified
Our liberator from certain demise
Become his vessel and open your eyes
Embrace this permanent sickness
Rotting, foul maggot-filled entrails shift
Why waste away in sorrow into death
when each and every living moment is a gift
Our lord of decay
The cycle of life and death can be cruel
Our lord of the plague
Through entropy and decay he shall rule
Leave this worthless husk behind you
Thy body shall embrace the necrosis
Recieve his love as you are
undergoing a grotesque apotheosis
Putrescence personified
Our liberator from certain demise
Become his vessel and open your eyes
Our lord of decay
The cycle of life and death can be cruel
Our lord of the plague
Through entropy and decay he shall rule
Our lord of decay
Those who oppose him have been so misled
Our lord of the plague
Grandfather Nurgle shall have his word spread
My body turns into his shrine
Filthy, putrid, rotten and divine
Our lord of decay
The cycle of life and death can be cruel
Our lord of the plague
Through entropy and decay he shall rule
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7. |
Whispers
03:48
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I read with skepticism, published stories based on myth
They spoke of what floods brought, sightings of eldritch things
From a man in an isolated house in those vermont hills,
I received letters and proof, yet I was doubtful still
A maddening whisper, loud enough to echo far
They want to take us to the hidden planet orbiting our star
After fighting with those things, it seemed they'd made some peace
It felt just safe enough to travel to his house
He was in poor condition with claims of cosmic wonders
A vague sense of unease, despite his guarantees
A maddening whisper, loud enough to echo far
They want to take us to the hidden planet orbiting our star
I got up from the bed and went to talk with him again
Where he had sat I found contraptions that could scare me blind
There was the severed hands and face of Henry Akeley
Used by something disguised as a man
A maddening whisper, loud enough to echo far
They want to take us to the hidden planet orbiting our star
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8. |
Hunger, Lust, Desire
03:45
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A myriad of excess pleasure spanning aeons
Depravity and decadence gathered in the warp
Dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake
Their immorality and hubris fed this thirsty god
Embrace your hunger
Embrace your lust
Embrace your desire
The universe is ours for the taking!
Excessive hedonism plunged into extremes
the heights and depths of agony and ecstasy amalgamates
They coalesced into a newborn god of decadence
Debauchery gave birth to the lord of excess
Embrace your hunger
Embrace your lust
Embrace your desire
The universe is ours for the taking!
The birthplace of the dark prince of pleasure marks the fall of the Eldar
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9. |
Insight
04:24
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By the sight provided by Mensis
I can see the eldritch truth
Its changing the world into something beautiful
macabre, twisted and unreal
Shards of broken glass drawn across my eyes
Grand silhouette blotting out the skies
Something lives on this plane
weaving in and out of existence
My brain is lined with eyes
Cerebral lenses
They help me see the world
for what it truly is
Grant us eyes! Grant us eyes!
They help us to visualize
Grant us eyes! Grant us eyes!
Fever dreams materialized
Shards of broken glass drawn across my eyes
Grand silhouette blotting out the skies
Something lives on this plane
weaving in and out of existence
Behold this vista to ring out my sanitys end
Above me a blood moon rises, its my time to ascend
Shards of broken glass drawn across my eyes
Grand silhouette blotting out the skies
Something lives on this plane
weaving in and out of existence
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10. |
Black goat of the Woods
02:43
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11. |
With A Thousand Young
04:49
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A great twisted horror beyond comprehension
This dreadful mother with a thousand dark young
Extruding tentacles and a thousand dripping maws
Spitting out her gruesome spawn from her womb
A diety of perverse fertility
Spawner of obscenity
This abyssal cosmic entity
Now grant me immortality
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
The black goat
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
of the woods
In the dark and hidden woodlands at the time of the new moon we
call for her
A ritual with the proper occult paraphernalia
She shall come
I stand before a gaping abyss, ready for rebirth
She has granted me her boon
To be devoured and remoulded
This transformation can't come too soon
Our diety of perverse fertility
Spawner of obscenity
This abyssal cosmic entity
Now grant me immortality
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
The black goat
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
of the woods
In the dark and hidden woodlands at the time of the new moon we
call for her
A ritual with the proper occult paraphernalia
She has come
Black goat of the woods
with a thousand young
Black goat of the woods
with a thousand young
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12. |
The Great Dreamer
05:12
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How do I even begin to explain
this nebulous form of an idea of what I know
Even my mind is struggling to stay sane
With the knowledge of an entity that lurks below
A nightmarish figurine in my hands
Resembling something that is out of this world
With a call to those susceptible to hear it
It's waiting for aeons in deathlike slumber
Dreaming far below
Some shall hear its call
Cults will form and grow
Madness from the sea
Sleeper of R'lyeh
When the stars are right
The Great Dreamer wakes
A great cyclopean city out at sea
A titanic grave of non-euclidian structure
A place of impossible geometry
A rotting hellscape unseen beneath the waves
Dreaming far below
Some shall hear its call
Cults will form and grow
Madness from the sea
Sleeper of R'lyeh
When the stars are right
The Great Dreamer wakes
The mere sight of his outline breaks the mind
He has awoken from his sunken mausoleum
Now he walks again to rule mankind
Such a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming
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