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Incantation
04:59
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Now is the twilight, when mortal things subside
Now is the apex, embrace of time and tide
Held in the shadow, the mind informs the hand
Scoring the silence with rhythms of the damned
Drink deep the curling smoke
And call in turn into the mists
Beckon the coming storm
Wine in your mouth and iron at your wrists
Witness the end made flesh
Witness malevolence
As slick and ancient tongues
Incant the filth of ages
An epoch built on death
And crowned in reverence
Submit to majesty
As all around the maelstrom rages
Weep not for Tellus, child
That dismal husk that we disdain
Come carve a finer world
Inflict your will in litanies of pain
Now is the sermon, the podium ascend
Address the masses, inspire them to descend
Into the shadow where bitter shapes entwine
Their flesh ecstatic the feast on which we dine
Witness the end made flesh
Witness malevolence
As slick and ancient tongues
Incant the filth of ages
An epoch built on death
And crowned in reverence
Submit to majesty
As all around the maelstrom rages
What form will manifest
Summoned at our behest
Symbols upon its breast
Draw near a final rest
Incantation
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2. |
Apocalypse Eternal
03:19
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Mankind’s conclusion Foretold
By Revelation Of old
Sentenced in error To doom
We built an empire Inside our tomb
(Watch the gears grind
This is your last minute defined
Bear the strain, break!
Thus I saw, and thus I spake:)
The glass you grip is broken
The vile wine yet flowing
Within our wheels we run
The words are spoken
The deed is done
Watch the gears grind
This is your last minute defined
Bear the strain, break!
Thus I saw, and thus I spake:
If this is the end, then hand me the key
To unlock the gates of eternity
The path leads no more, so from it be free
Apocalypse Eternal! Dies Irae!
Crushed by the ever-turning wheel
And now our bodies
Become as stone
We all are golems
Grasping for thrones
Wither and waste away
In endless moment of decay
Bow down!
Apocalypse Eternal
Bow Down!
Apocalypse Eternal
Despair!
Apocalypse Eternal
Give praise!
Apocalypse Eternal
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3. |
Crimson
03:44
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What once was mortal man has now been born anew
Complete in his perfection, raised above the likes of you
Woken from hibernation, alteration’s sleep
I am the scythe of harvest, hungering for flesh to reap
Fall on your altars
Draped in disgust
Your day of Judgment is at hand
Wail to your heavens
Implore your gods
They cannot help you, but perhaps I can
For through me death is but rebirth
Excised of all organic flaw
Your teeth designed for grinding bone
And set within an iron maw
Your muscles woven filigree
Look past the flesh and organs gleam
We’re violent machinery
A tyrant’s wrath, you’re just like me
Crimson is the blood
Of our enemies
Crimson is the blood
That stains our hands
Endless is the flood
That swells to claim them
Crimson is the sun
That sets upon their lands
Disappearing as we..
Fall on their altars
With killing lust
They shall be driven to the ground
Rain devastation!
All mercy lost
Reclaim their bodies, rise them up to serve again
In death
I am the beast of steel and skin
I am the horror that haunts your dreams
I am the knife against your throat
I am the fire that sets you free
Crimson is the blood
On the table
Crimson is the blood
That stains my hands
Endlessly you writhe
In your agony
Make you something more
That you once were
Brought down to death
Rise!
Preach!
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4. |
Waiting For The Whip
04:08
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Drawn from my altar
Embraced by shaking hands
In the moment of your sacrifice
Yours is the power
But mine is the command
So by your side I linger
Coiled for purpose
Awaiting
Awaiting pain
I am the way
To joy and to redemption
I am the way
To cleanse and scourge your soul
I am the way
To free you of your torment
I am the way
The snake that swallows whole
Lash! Lash! Feel as I caress your back
Break yourself in penance for the sins that you commit
Lash! Lash!
Carve yourself a ladder
In the vain attempt to elevate your spirit from the pit
And still, the left hand strikes
As the right hand begs for life
Eternally self-punishing
Forever, strife
Coiled for purpose
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5. |
The Nemesis Refrain
04:41
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Know this
No mere enemy, but something less and more
A crawling, foul obscenity
That which I most abhor
The tortures you are due
Too grim to call a fate
And so I set these words for thee,
And carve them deep with hate
I am the path to your destruction
Where every step is broken glass
The weight beneath which you will shatter
So call me Nemesis,
Cavorting in sadistic bliss
May you suffer
Graveless death
Scream forever
Void of breath
If will were manifest I’d see you ground to scum
Viscerally expressed, observe yourself undone
A tapestry of fractures crowned upon your frame
Fucking Abomination, all Creation’s shame
O, that your extinction I could author!
And make my pen a thousand blades
To pour your blood upon the pages
So call me Nemesis:
Violation’s genesis
May you suffer
Graveless death
Scream forever
Void of breath
Vile usurper
Bastard child
Be forgotten
Name defiled
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6. |
Sundered Creation
04:54
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Shadows arise on our final morning
To bleed us of our sight
Our ears struck deaf by the contagion
Swarming to usher in the night
Insidious is this corruption
And piercing as a blade
Despoiling all that falls before it
And leaving a garden where the dead are laid
Rivers run dry
The plague begins
His robes unfurling, the morbid reaper grins
Smoke fills the sky
Bishop takes king
As rapture falters,
And falls to suffering
From the crest
To the (earth)
Look upon
A sundered creation
As ghosts of dawn
Breathe dying air
And senseless, wander
Into the creature’s lair
The sceptre and the crown
Fall on unheeding ground
Subjugate life to despair
The tapestries of our grand illusion
Now hanging in disgrace
The seas may boil as the earth it chokes
Left in a vigil for a failed race
I, the scion of a desolate sun
When the ash blots out the sky
I, the figure that in judgment will sit
And proclaim the end as nigh
Death is struck, and nature quakes
As the end times come upon us
And the stone of ages breaks
Quid sum miser, tunc dicturus?
Fall! Wail!
In your halls of pestilence and greed
Kneel! Pray!
To your gods of law and deceit
Draw knives
Across your silver tongues
Repent
As you feel the ash in your lungs
(your time is now)
Breathe deep and die
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7. |
Sins Of The Flesh
05:01
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Down! Descending into recess cerebral
Unravelling the Chaos, Searching to find
The languished adumbration
To whom I am disciple
Revitalising the eroticism
Sins of the flesh!
Prostrated before malignant manifestations
Navigating monolithic cataclysm of my design
We stalk alone, beneath a sky forlorn
We’re animated
We are reborn
Within
In the space between spaces
Beckon the face of my desire
I give in to my urges
A perfect spectrum
Consuming
All control denied
Complicit with self
Engaged with the rapturous axiom
Onward!
Within
In the space between spaces
Beckon the face of my desire
I give in to my urges
A perfect spectrum
Consuming
All control denied
Complicit with self
Engaged with the rapturous axiom
Sins of the flesh
We are reborn
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8. |
Eau De Nil
04:41
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Now am I submerged
Beneath the flood
That floweth not
Whence the wise once drank
Their roads undone
Their wells forgot
This world would suffer like
And take the draught
Of bitter green
And tears will salt the earth
For what was once
And might have been
Helpless we sink in the mire
The widening gyre
That swallows without compassion
A benediction of rot
To cherish not
It’s visage hollow and ashen
Flow, rivers of filth
And drown a world that suffers none
To rise against the grain
And thereby unbalance the sum
(Drown) the ivory towers
The vision lost
Beneath the waves
And (leave a barren land)
Where shallow minds
Find shallow graves
Helpless we sink in the mire
The widening gyre
That swallows without compassion
A benediction of rot
To cherish not
It’s visage hollow and ashen
It is the fate of fools!
Rise, vile seas!
Thrice accursed your tides
Swell endlessly
Never to subside
O Humanity
Doomed to ape and crawl
Surge to collapse
And so immerse us all
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ASCARIS Gloucester, UK
Brutality. Refined.
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