1. |
Garden Of Wrath
06:07
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A crescendo of terrible whispers
Breaks the ominous silence of night
It's all but a fever dream, 'tis all but a hex
A hairline fracture in a fabric of time
A long lonesome walk
Through the garden of wrath
The flower of violence
majestically blooms in my heart
A sinister spectre
took hold of my sight
lost in nightmarish visions
dragged further and further from light
Guided by a hand from beyond
a voiceless call
looming from
beneath the mountains of old
A chorus of spirits
a murder of crows
sing furious hymns
foretelling the fall
Great darkness then cold
shall dress the whole mortal world
Swords and axes shall clash
and the sparks shall set fire to heavens and Earth
The blaze rages on
engulfing the city
Which triumphal arches
watched our childhood pass
The darkest of waters
shake the spires
The endless abodes
Come crashing in the elements' path
Oh, what terrible force
bestowed upon me
Such mournful duty
to witness the death of our kind
May it finally be
The punishment for
Turning our faces
away from the Gods of bygone
A long lonesome walk
Through the garden of wrath
The flower of violence
majestically blooms in my heart
As my miasma-filled lungs
grasped for air
I gawked in despair
At the colossal mass grave
The young and the old
The bold and discrete
The child, the mother
The strong-willed and the weak
Lay peacefully now
for all days to come
As the beautiful day-spring
melts into glass
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2. |
A Baneful Litany
05:29
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The promise of annihilation
Lingers in the back of our heads
Empty strife shall become new salvation
All the passion is long gone and dead
Do you recall when the blood was traded for soil?
When the black and red dawns merged as one
When our forefathers let tyrants fashion their yokes
The machine marched strong to the symphony of cracking bones
An endless quagmire
A clandestine war
Savage struggle of minds
Shameless bidding for conscience
May the blood-soaked blades bring us peace
Let them drink of these callous martyrs
Grind all wills till they finally cease
The utopia will surely be ours
Monstrous clamor followed by eerie silence
Light of providence caught in a death spiral
The promise of annihilation
Lingers in the back of our heads
Empty strife shall become new salvation
All the passion is long gone and dead
Do you remember when progress turned into purpose?
Was it then when divine stepped aside?
When the valleys were overgrown with concrete forests
When cyclopean towers poised with great pride?
These exuberant structures
endless fields of grey hives
Shall forever stand as terrible shrines
To our collective decline
You will never find consolation
in the cold cage, you call your home
You will never find any comfort
in the prison you built on your own
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3. |
Shattered Dawn
04:52
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We'll ravage our way
through distant lands
We'll carry this torch of war
In our wretched hands
Back to the hearth
A gift for beloved
A seed to be planted
A tree to be dowsed
with bitter blood...
Flesh automated
Apartheid of body and soul
Gaze into the maw of terror
Bonds desecrated
Benevolence warped and forlorn
Lost in the echo of a shattered dawn
We give up our life
For the bowels of Earth
For the blessing of Mammon
For the streets paved with gold
We spit on our future
For the glory of slaughter
For the lies we've been sold
by the wimps on crumbling thrones
Surrender your will
Hail the rallying cry
Enter the fray
One sacrifice at a time
Flesh automated
Apartheid of body and soul
Gaze into the maw of terror
Bonds desecrated
Benevolence warped and forlorn
Lost in the echo of a shattered dawn
We close our hearts
For the right of the strong
We concede our spirit
To raise temples on bones
The Earth shall be ours
The Earth shall be ours
Or it shall be no more
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4. |
Fimbulvetr
07:14
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Hail
Hail the pallbearers
Hail
the progeny of pallid dawn
Hail
to those who endured
the fall of stars
and the age of woes
Hail
the twilight shroud
Hail
the fading of light
Hail
The broken creeds
and the end
the end of all lore
This cascade of failures
Shall haunt us forever
As we aimlessly roam
forth...
From the wasteland of Eden
From the ashes of Ygdrassil
Out of decrepit ruins of men
Into the great everwinter
Hail
the mighty cold
Hail
Hail the tempest
Hail
the crushing roar
as the Borean winds
lay the lands bare
Hail
The wailing void
Hail
The grasp of despair
Hail
the ghastly dirge
The bleak horizon
And its dead glare
Oh, has the allfather
truly departed
hid his presence
from our patient eyes
Beyond the walls of eternal frost
Beyond the mists of mortal decay
In the realm of grand splendor
Where altars are timbered high
We shall march
Through the storm
Through the dim woods
And now desolate meadows
Heeding the signs
Awaiting the day
When the creation
Shall breath anew
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5. |
Rot Everlasting
05:18
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Oh, shan't we halt the brotherly swords
with our open backs
For the chains of our covenant
were once forged by the heavens
Oh, shan't we sing praise to our wise elders
so oblivious and uncaring
Whose mangled bodies
Now hang from the temples' rafters
Blight, Wither, and rot - everlasting
Darkness, Sorrow, Abyss - all eternal
Oh, shan't we cast the Gods of forebearers
into deep seas
Bury their memory with the dead
Wash the blood with sanctified waters
Oh, shan't we make our young
swear a discordant oath
Curb any daring display
Cut any sprout of reason
Labyrinths of lies
Corridors of bone
Dreadful blood-red skies
Vile truths unknown
A lifelong frenzy of self-flagellation
An endless fall into the cerebral gutter
Your mantras reek of defeat and desperation
Deliverance is lost to the inner clutter
Oh, shan't we slice every neck
on our way to paradise
For the light of salvation
is reserved for the conquerors
Oh, shan't we make our humble abodes
into golden palaces
and adorn them
with tapestries of torment
Oh, shan't we raise pedestals
for the thieves and betrayers
So we would jubilate
as we're led to extermination
Oh, shan't we take our freedom
and exercise it thoroughly
to push humankind
even further into damnation
Blight, Wither, and rot - everlasting
Darkness, Sorrow, Abyss - all eternal
Blight, Wither, and rot - everlasting
Darkness, Sorrow, Abyss - all eternal
In the twilight's shade,
Distant drums of war
Pendulum of fate
Swings forevermore
A desperate plea for obliteration
A release from a life of mediocrity
Your longing only brings forth desolation
The hand of consequence never falters
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6. |
The Turning Of Epochs
08:06
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Storm breaks
The night reigns supreme
It covers the land
in the thickest gloom
Frayed dogmas
are coming apart
like petals falling
from a withered bloom
Brass-bound ramparts
of our stronghold
Have not yielded
They still stay firm
And yet again
The Psalms of poison
sound somber
within it's ancient halls
Chafing bonds of serpents,
coiling 'round the throat
Venomous verses,
Forever etched in stone
Echoes roam
'cross the crypts
Perished time
a fleeting drift
Bloody stains
on weathered walls
Tales of
the battles old
Behold the thrall
Of your mock God
Millennia of war
A legacy of scars
Bear witness, as I have beared
To the triumph, of the heartache and utter loss
To ashen skies, polluted by perpetual warfare
To beaten land that's dyed with colors of the crimson moss
Storm breaks
The night reigns supreme
It covers the land
in the thickest gloom
Frayed dogmas
are coming apart
like petals falling
from a withered bloom
Bring forth
a new blazing reign
Drink of
Promethean flame
As one
from embers, unchained
Raze all
that ages contained
Fight through
the anguish and pain
Wipe clean
the primeval slate
Hold high
the chalice of fate
Empyrean dawn
from the ashes, awake
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7. |
Ataxian Reign
07:06
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Raised for the world that's not meant to exist
Succumbing to one that shall not persist
Dull shadows on a great sacrificial descent
Faceless wanderers at their wits' end
No rapturous climax
only misery amplified
Oblivion's shadow
brings peace of mind
A silent extinction
as an act of defiance
Moirai weave
a funeral gown
A cruel benediction
arcane and sublime
Yet unbreakable faith
keenly gives out
Orders upon orders upon orders
Horrors upon horrors upon horrors
Are we bound to serve as mere drudges
to the constructs of our own flawed design
Screams turn into murmurs
no more solace to bind
In cold void, we meander,
lost, yet strangely aligned
The scythe of perdition
cuts through the vigor
Eris bears
an ataxian crown
All breathing flesh
freezes in rigor
As mankind's holy zeal
spirals down
You held all agency
and you chose this
You were given keys to cosmos
and you chose... death
You were given keys to cosmos
and you chose... death
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Aefen Styrra Gimpo Si, South Korea
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