1. |
A Mother's Touch
03:46
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Shat out the coldest of incubators
Angelic child
The soulless gaze of a true believer
Warps Mommy’s smile
Wrapped in swaddling clothes
Lying in first and only crib
Heavenly touch displayed
Through butchering hands and wicked lips
Carved postpartum
This undeserved babe
What difference do few thousand years make
Read in ancient scripture or today’s front page
The absent Father’s present in obedient brains
‘tis not a murder of an innocent
Just a gift returned
Limbs first
An empty sky stays unresponsive to her final screams
Spurting blood curdling
See what evil Mother brings
Word come alive guiding Jephthah’s possession
Virus bartered for serrated weapon
Infant severed in Solomic inversion
Come thou fount speak maternal deception
Care eschewed for her holy mission
Mental affliction
Versed in fiction
A heinous crime
But all is fine
In the poisoned mind
Of her failed protector
An empty sky stays unresponsive to her final screams
Spurting blood curdling
See what evil Mother brings
Daughter’s bloodlet showers
Stain her gown with scarlet angel wings
Lost, now found; washed in the blood
Blank face psychotic, serene
This terminal betrayal
Resounding in her wail
Unthinkable the scene
Of an infant cleaved
With Isaac the test did begin
Pray that with little Maggie it ends
[Jake solo]
Makeshift altar’s offering drains
Cradle runneth over mid songs of praise
Singing killer gently sways
Life itself: a godless waste
Zeal conveyed
Her form unmade
Tiny arm pierced with blade
A mother’s touch
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2. |
Sojourner
05:46
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Human faces seemingly melt into one
Common mass of tiresome redundancy
Assumed shallow uniqueness aside
This weary traveler stares down quotidian eyes
Nary a soul surprises this ol’
Trudging curmudgeon sans permanent home
Many a den probed and slipped in
To enter one is to taste of all men
Jointly reviled though distant by miles
These bipedal rats still elicit a smile
Don the misanthropic lorgnette
Staining rose-colored humanistic sight
At the time of this writing
Who knows where I will be?
The hell of other people spurs
My inveterate wandering
If alienation is a phase
Here’s one to last me to the grave
I cast off their surface repose
Mine lies inside wherever I may roam
To shed all trace of purgatorial comfort
Must perplex the breed indeed
Swift dip; ousted; always on merry way
Ventured into desirable wilds
Coppice of old, the millpond so cold
Case for traversing perennial road
Its natural song quelling the throng
Keeps your humble author moving along
Just a black-clad vagabond
Taking a stroll in the dark dead of night
On a pilgrimage of sorts for yours truly
Not of this race or world
[Aaron solo]
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3. |
Impetus Vitalis
04:09
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Will these liquids flow
Above and below
Libations grow
Outpouring the rest
Welcome to our home
One humble abode
For which Heaven rose
We few fortunate blessed
On this chosen night
A sacred rite
Free souls burn bright
In what mortals call sin
Outsider’s strife
Our praise of life
Cuts like a knife
In secret the ritual begins
Kept hidden inside
Not to be clad in sky
Just clothed with spirit and mind
Let them spring
Bare skinned and obscene
O perfect form
Yet flawed and torn
Beauty and truth
Refined but uncouth
Presented to all so endowed
To be prurient is to then be divine
Thou bringest Aesthetica’s epoch to mind
Transcendent she seems
A product of dreams
Stepping through life’s fragile shroud
We do likewise then
Feral beasts within
Shouting humanity’s might
Perfect image indeed
In these chambers of sin
Pulsating shadows mesh
Sultry clamor ascends
In orgic bliss
Misty rifts astringe
Heirs of Eve unhinged
Flux of molten spore
The countenance contorts
The art of God seed
Bathes us in holy pearl white
With a thrill overcome
Mirth and reverence are one
Eden Reclaimed
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4. |
Recrudescence
05:50
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An old familiar malady approaches doorstop once more
Unwelcome, unreasoned, uncorrupted evil to the core
Emptiness defined, dehumanized
Drained of want and self; a hollow rind
Welling up pure terror undefined
Surpassed by evermoving time
In the purgatory of an afflicted mind
Hell on earth manifested its deepest chasm inside
Pulmonary pressure, peritoneum’s pull
Psychosis sets in; brain plots against fragile soul
You and I don’t belong
In one piece
Twilight melts into a nightmare awake
Trancelike state breaking, dejection disgraced
Recrudescence: new monster alive
Through collective succor and singular pride
For those long lost rise above the mortal fray
Relieve the sickness, open the cage
Release of innocents rotting in pain
Every tear counted, ne’er cry out in vain
It will not fucking win this day
Could be a fate much worse than death
So sayeth the sufferers of every age
Therein lies the open door
Slip out the glorious exit
My most powerful tool betrays me again
Now a mere weapon dead set on my end
Ruiner of all most precious, contentment’s bitter foe
Too much, too many you’ve taken
Hateful intransigence grows
The night darkens…
So let us blacken further still
The golem crawls from the internal corridor
Stopped in its tracks, it never met a spirit so strong
For now alive
I
Most powerful
Mind
Is over all
These hellish depths survived by will
We are creatures too stubborn to fail
For those long lost rise above the mortal fray
It will not win this day
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5. |
A Glorious Death
05:11
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Fight ye now ye perilous heroes
Bear to battlefield honor and sword
Come ye now ye warriors of Oden
Come now claim your reward
Come now claim your reward
Join all, brethren tonight we will feast
When sun gleams in morn we shall stand
on battlegrounds
Heretic scorn advance to be slain
May arms glide swift that fate them to Hel
The clashing of steel, a wonderous song of echoes
Woes of brotherly deaths I will carry in heart that grants strength to the swing of my blade
(Raise thine sword) Should it be a sight which break our foes aghast
(Take their lives) Hearken to breath that thoust may discern their last
Steady are my hands
Honed is my skill
Battle to die and die to battle
Odes of her beauty, war, she is free
Conquering lands and ravaging seas
If this day be my final, perhaps I would see
That good lady war might smile upon me
The spilling of blood, an alluring painting for eyes to behold
Those who don the cross shall feel the merciless sting of pagan steel
The ground sets masked with bodies by masses
Lain trampled ‘neath forces of followers to a false god
Thor's will runs course as lightning in veins
As I charge forth with haste to face my demise
(Heresy) The gods have forged the path I trod
(Blasphemy) Norse knees shant be bent to the bastard god
Steady are my hands
honed is my skill
battle to die and die to battle
Odes of her beauty, war, she is free
Conquering lands and ravaging seas
If this day be my final, perhaps I would see
That good lady war might smile upon me
Enemies besiege, ‘twas my skill to attract
I shall stand grim on dealt wretched attack
Blood lust is quenched and sight dims to black
Before I cross realms, to her, I will smile back
Cries throughout Midgard, would ye sing of my praise
Whilst body is drawn and put to the flame
As ash grasps with wind and dances in plains
Remember my name, remember my name
[Aaron Solo]
(Valhalla) That I would feast and battle once again
(Glorious) Shall be my death as I will see my end
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6. |
Vagabond
04:13
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Until the day romanticized
Brittle bones unmask my thinly veiled intentions
The cold constricts the ego of a burdened soul
Drunk on its own beauty and contentment
Every glance askance
Disaffected from afar
Disown, detesting every last unworthy one
Civilized I come yet above it I rise
Born or molded to be of the kind that abhor
If oddity is power
A living god am I
Overman: a living parchment
Poised for scribe’s written word
Reincarnate Byronic immortality
Transfigured everlasting
To drink of prose fermenting
Embalmed in ink, eternity stained
In my name forever reign
[Jake Solo]
Many blithe fellows cast an unhappy shadow
Flaunting power atop the chain
To be mad as a beast feels the most natural thing
And thus, the sigil dries upon
The sojourner’s deification
[Jake Solo]
[Aaron solo]
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7. |
Apostate's Vendetta
04:16
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I, the defier of divine misanthropy
Deific cruelty I spit upon ‘tween labored breaths
How then doth absence bear such despondency?
We shall see as heedless neglect I reciprocate
At best a figment conjured by quixotic minds
At worst the all-pervading overlord forever I’ll despise
Pierce and perforate corrupt authority on high
I’m the apostle of one faith bereft
Of blood perfect to lie
The breaking of a heart shan’t cease its blackening
These onyx shards will bleed forth hatred deafening
Cradled in helpless arms the martyr I profess
Bleeding, more penance paid with innocence in vain
Empty longing come to be an altar unto me
For thee, our advocate for all humanity
Obsolete yet immortal with memories stained
By a premature end clasped with a chilled hand
Twenty-three years we saw endured
Transcends thirty-three unproved
Backs turned to the absence above
O come and let us mourn
Remove the padded shroud
No angel stood guard this day
Never the dead could rejoin our plane
When tombs unroll or pine doors sway
Sinners all, but who were we?
Flesh and blood physically seen
So did our patron saint arise
With death’s whisper chased that night
[Jake solo]
Set sail eternal on a short crimson fall
From life’s loud farewell trickles a lullaby
to melancholy hearts hum everlastingly
Awaiting kindred fate never on bended knee
You gave up
Your destiny forever unfulfilled
Maybe you’ve peace at last
O come and let us mourn
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8. |
Absence
02:02
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9. |
Farewell's Odyssey
03:49
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This is the will and testament
Of a weary man
I keep a smile with gun to head
And knife brandished to vein
Is it vice or necessity
When self-destruction beckons me?
Slumber, I beg of thee
Envelop this monotony
Alter this life that’s come to be
Misery dwelling in me
Feckless escape I drink of ye
End me
May these bleak words deliver me
My turn to sleep eternally
The tipping point: this junction
I have at long last bridged
When pain of life has conquered
Expiration’s dread
If tonight I perished
What a beautiful monologue
Would I leave behind
[Aaron Solo]
A rope be tied in mercy
Of sorrow made a noose
The endless night is lulling me
Worthless but shrewd
A life to conclude
With but a step I’ll be fucking free
And so it ends, my unwell head put down
Worthless remains won’t be missed
Cut off waste of air
If tethered neck still beats
Only one discharge I need
Pink mist red matter leads
On white wall drips the best of me
Farewell to all rotten and fake
Our filthy race
In a blink the universe will cease to be
At least for me
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10. |
Steps to My Infinity
07:17
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Daughters and sons return Father’s love under pain of death
I think therefore I’m damned
Since in the garden mind awakened
Omniscient eyes surely foresee
Its plan to bring such suffering
A tear departs from gazing eyes peering past the glistering gates
My beloveds once touched by death reside in sanctity reign
Cursed by free will; thought hath led me to this place
I turn my head, step back in line, and march unto the flames
Lives once wrought in virtue share in sentence of endless tortured fate
An untold love has deemed us don the boundless mark of shame
Infinite is the horde to suffer; resonant screams shall guide our way
With each step we near our new abode; onward unto the flames
He who takes to the flesh will be stripped of its pleasures
She that tasted the fruit shall know its sweetness in measure
Those abstaining from life await eternity’s treasures
Gift for the unmoved faith in outlandish things unseen
My brother, our sister come home
Ere You dry our tears may they douse Hell’s coals
A child with honest heart is sure to roam
Our callous Lord knows not what he’s done
The stick or the carrot:
To be salvaged or burned
The apothecary peddles cures
For a bane of his design
Pain without end befalls those who doubt the supreme mercy of God
Sentient lives; human bonds apprized
Until severed by cruel hands divine
Seek and you’ll find if Heaven decides
To spare you from Its path of carnage so wide
Free gift of life with blood sacrifice
Verdict to be made when seraph arrives
With fiery sword drawn pressed under your jaw
Their kindly offer leaves no choice at all
Sow thine offspring to heed words of a holy dictator
‘tis not Paradise’s loss if raised a black sheep or traitor
Cower and meekly bow in sight of loving Creator
Mother has none to fear so long as dogma is retained
Wicked are we when held to an impossible standard
One must simply believe
What could go wrong?
[Jake Solo]
God damn us to Hell
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11. |
Abdicate
08:02
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What man am I?
In the ether before the stroll began
What man am I?
Still unforeseen was this dead end
Upon my trail anticipate
Distract from the beauty of sight
So very fleeting
I would that my eyes see black
Cowled robe concealing
Till man stepped forward from the pack
The plot most grand draws to a close
Come now abhorrent subduction sanctified
Pass into nothing
Holy demise
Sweet relief my prize
The craftsman dwells
A mired smock obscures his splendor
Selfdom to swell
Biding as life’s own imperator
Cold breath caress the wilted face
Beyond this day grasped in skeletal embrace
Alone we did enter
Alone we withdraw
Crown’s glimmer fades
With oxidation’s stain
Throne bends to time
Turned casket for the grave
Faultless Moirai
Drawing next rulers’ rise
King abdicates
Deposed to starless night
These comely three inviting
“Follow me to nought indefinitely”
Nonentity
Earth’s curtain an absurd prelusion
Nihility
From birth to farce to bleak conclusion
Could one yet fathom nonbeing?
Soul death: a viewing of our extinction
Conceived pre-will
So take the reigns
Enjoy the ride
Leading to the cliff’s edge
Logical perception, the terms of my being
Embracive nothingness beyond the unforeseen
[Aaron solo]
Crown’s glimmer fades
With oxidation’s stain
Throne bends to time
Turned casket for the grave
Faultless Moirai
Drawing; next rulers rise
King abdicates
Deposed to starless night
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