1. |
Hollowborn
04:32
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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
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2. |
Ashen Blood
02:57
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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
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3. |
The Will of Ba'al
04:27
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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
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4. |
Mask
03:43
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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
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5. |
Call of Morbidity
03:59
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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
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6. |
Beyond
03:32
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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
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7. |
Rebirth
02:28
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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
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8. |
Illusion of Choice
04:07
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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
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9. |
Ascend
04:43
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