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Hollowborn

by Ritualistic

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1.
Hollowborn 04:32
Facetiously, with malice Someone pulls the plug Letting in the darker waters To stagnate the cooling breeze Holding the crisp green On laughing winter trees Dirty, stepping from crumbled graves Taking a breath with syllables broken Looking through blackened, closed eyes For the words that rise from the grave Finding disappointment on shady ground Sinking into the marsh Faded echoes from yesterday Like left turns down corners Flaking with insect carcasses Deep red blood clots Dimpling through the veins Mirrors sweating the halls Bee stinging nerve end Dirty, stepping from crumbled graves Taking a breath with syllables broken Looking through blackened, closed eyes For the words that rise from the grave Deep red blood clots Dimpling through the veins Mirrors sweating the halls Bee stinging nerve ends Death blows ring silent through the crimson halls Organ trail, find a way home Addiction lives through reanimation I must continue to feed [Solo: Nates] [Solo: Vaughan] Deep red blood clots Dimpling through the veins Mirrors sweating the halls Bee stinging nerve starts
2.
Ashen Blood 02:57
Madmen toil surreptitiously In rituals to beckon the Moon They can not hear your calls The nightmare in full bloom Endless horror will follow As the elder gods reunite The ever twisting systems Permeating my newfound sight The night breathes endless life! Tonight this cosmic blood shall spill Upon the breath of mighty will This nightmare shedding its own skin I will be forced to live again The plight of the undying This church injected sin I must end their wicked reign Tentacle faced beast and kin Birth of the unknown child Failed but not for long During my dreamlike trial The blood sings wicked songs Insightful inquiries Remove your eyes to see I am nothing without the hunt Tonight this cosmic blood shall spill Upon the breath of mighty will This nightmare shedding its own skin I will be forced to live again Will I wake or will I fall? As Mensis cackles down the hall Consume the umbilical cord And become something more I've encountered countless beasts But never quite believed I could reach a depth below Crush them under feet The vermin never scream I exist where no mortal man should go Moon prescence Hear my cry You will not survive Tonight this cosmic blood shall spill Upon the breath of mighty will This nightmare shedding its own skin I will be forced to live again As the night comes to a close I look behind to my sorrows As a mere mortal will know This hunt has just begun
3.
Just in case my intellect perplexes beyond my psyche I have a mental capacity that exceeds insanity Having made a complete cipher of myself On the scales of reality From a higher vantage point, I see everything from above Except the murderer hiding in the alcove Stabbed in the back, spliced from my center of being I realize I am bounded to the creator of demons I am bound to Ba'al Being born with intent I was never afraid to commit Injected with the serum I'm veering towards homicide Control the adrenaline, get a handle Take off his clothes, then light the candles Perform the proper ritual, before the blood stops flowing Another offering, he's not satisfied Says I'm wasting my time Even slitting his throat won't even come close Being born with intent I was never afraid to commit Injected with the serum I'm veering towards homicide From the slash I start to tire Besides he has to be alive to witness the fire Drench the building Embedded Being born Injected Veering towards Suicide
4.
Mask 03:43
Where did it start, but with one little cry One mother's love, and one day she will die Trees grace the land, the water at peace Visually astounding, pleasant at ease Boy and his mother greeted each soul Welcome my friends, enjoy it all Torment started, lasted all season Mother beheaded for the wrong reasons Emboldened with fury, deep in the lake drowned by cowards, feeling no shame Each year they returned, hearing stories of the camp The man in the mask, machete in hand Not believing the myth, what shadows do lurk Paralyzing fear, then the blood shall spill He may fall, but this is not the end, death is only temporary Each year they returned, hearing stories of the camp The man in the mask, machete in hand Mother, he loves you Through all the blood spilled, he kills for you Squeezing your eyes or smashing your skull Ice pick in hand, no scream or crawl One hundred and fifty more victims will fall This is his place, not welcome at all Hide behind the mask, the machete does reign
5.
What an appalling desire My heart beats so fast Another unsettling ritual which refuses to pass A nagging numbing need I must feel something Go and make myself feel Get it out, act now I must wait for the great release No one must notice I can’t stop the impulse once the fuse is lit I tremble with sickly delight Hence the morbid allure after every slit I'm almost done carving my skin The pain seems gone, but it won't be for long Dancing, prancing, gallivanting Underneath the sweetness of a dark moon Such a delectable array of freedom Yet it ends so soon Finger tips covered in red The blood flows so fast Dark red stains the dead Dark red falls instead As the sun rises it ruins my freedom Tomorrow's day drags me back I await bleeding As the moonlight falls it ruins my holiday Tomorrow's day I lay lifeless, repeat I must wait for the great release No one must notice Chaotic energy Demonic clergy Sweet sun falls While spirits rise I lose myself I await bleeding I lay lifeless My heart beats so fast I must feel something I must wait for the great release Death lives inside of myself
6.
Beyond 03:32
Out of the night that conquers me Black as the pit of blasphemy I thank what deities crave for my unconquerable soul In the constraints of circumstance I have not been unconvinced Underneath bludgeoning of chance My head is bloody, but unscathed Beyond this place of wrath and tears Lurks the horror of the shade Create the menace of my years It finds me unafraid It matters not how straight the gate How condemned my deeds in world of man I am master of my fate, the Shade is master of my soul I am master of my fate, the Shade is master of my soul Contract born of sin Embodiment of shadows This mortal realm and my shell... Now cleansed The ultimate gift of clarity I shall share it with the masses These uncultured lumps of flesh shall be made purposeful Gather round, my faithful servants I shall free you, the burden of... Life Render your limbs utterly useless, and place your bodies upon the alter The Shade now demands penance to pay for your existence Beyond this place of wrath and tears Lurks the horror of the shade Create the menace of my years It finds me consumed
7.
Rebirth 02:28
Merging with my urge to crave what I desire Transcend the human form I consume my flesh to obtain it What's left of my soul changes its properties To better accommodate what realm lies beyond What lies after mortal existence defies all human comprehension All physical states of matter start to intertwine My consciousness is scattered As I glimpse eternity my atoms are disintegrated I am born once again Returned into a different mortal shell How can I experience bliss once again? Trapped again in this earth bound hell I desire my omnipotence I succumb to my primal instincts I prepare my carving tools I hack away at my limbs, my body, my own temple I become my own cattle as I devour myself I awake to nothingness I fade into the black void Forever out of reach is the epoch of my existence Forsakened
8.
Governed strictly by reason Emotional attachments Malevolently removed Dispassionately executing games of malice Intentional designs, victims extricate themselves Removing the drawbacks of ethics and morals, from the execution of justice Every second of existence forces itself to establish context Forced redemption, life vanishes through the the illusion of choice Sadistic tendencies founded on something so organic So wonderful, it deepens depravity Barbaric methodology Extreme beliefs Vigilante motivation Father figure of torment Salvation is the plead Intentional designs, victims extricate themselves Removing the drawbacks of ethics and morals, from the execution of justice Every second of existence forces itself to establish context Forced redemption, life vanishes through the the illusion of choice Darwinism preposterously upheld Inspired sheep carry the torch Spread the gospel of the saw to those in need
9.
Ascend 04:43

credits

released June 5, 2020

Anthony Michelli - Vocals / Lyrics
Kyle Vaughan - Guitar
Jacob Nates - Guitar
Brian O'Leary - Bass (& lyrics for "Ashen Blood")
Shane Polk - Drums


Vocals recorded at Iron Foot Audio & Dunamis Dynamics
Mixed & Mastered by Ryan Wolanski of C1 Studios
Artwork by Rain Song Design

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