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A Dirge for the Damned
05:49
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In countless rows, a funeral procession
Through colonnades of stone
Doomed to walk this path forever
On a journey towards the unknown
Through gateways of dusk and lingering shades
Possessed by the insatiable…
Fire of hunger
Fire of yearning
To reach an end untold
Ceaselessly striving
Endlessly burning
To heed the call of the void
Woe to the cursed dead
Enslaved in unbounded dread
A dirge for the damned
Beyond all salvation
Beyond mortality
Untouched by the hand
Of divine exaltation
Beyond reality
They march on, through desolate landscapes
In column towards no end
Beneath the starless heavens
They see endless night descend
Through valleys of thorns and looming spires
Consumed by incessant…
Fire of hunger
Fire of yearning
To seal the sacred bond
Ceaselessly striving
Endlessly burning
To reach the lands beyond
A dirge for the damned
Beyond all salvation
Beyond mortality
Untouched by the hand
Of divine exaltation
Beyond reality
Woe to the cursed dead
Enslaved in unbounded dread
Condemned to walk forever
Into the ceaseless never
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The burning incense fills the air
as censers swing from withered hands
Chanting long-forgotten hymns
from beyond all mortal lands
The chiming of unearthly bells
from behind the veil of reality
The call to summon those that dwell
in phantasmal infinity
Heed this call, grotesque beings of old
Manifest as enchantments unfold
Rites of the forgotten
Rites of the unseen
Rites that summon them to rise
Those of the macabre
Those of the obscene
Rise!
The gateway opens from the deep
as foretold in prophecy
The means to summon those that sleep
in divine immortality
From the altar drenched and wet with death
ascends the end of humankind
Whispered prayers under breath
as the deities break their binds
Claim this world, dreadful beings set free
Animated by this dark liturgy
When the moon is waning
and the stars are hidden
Then the hymns are chanted
from the scrolls forbidden
When the blood is streaming
And the seals are broken
Then the portal opens
and the gods are woken
Rituals of horror
Rituals of doom
Prophecies of godly rule
You of endless malice
You of endless gloom
Rise!
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3. |
Death's Omnipotence
04:53
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All men must step into the
unknown realms below
Where ebon shades lie heavy
and the dark rivers flow
To join the blighted souls of old,
beyond the veil
Descend into the darkness
from where no light returns
Cross the ethereal threshold
As the corporeal burns
All mortal aspirations
as seeds in fertile soil
may bud or blossom only
to the scythe then fall
Sed omnis una manet nox
et calcanda semel via leti
Ascend unearthly spectre
to guide their path below
To the cimmerian nightshade
where all men must go
Into the depths of that hungering abyss
Stripped of all fleshly burdens
upon that Stygian strand
Purged of all former glories
by death's disrobing hand
The flames of hope and and longing are now extinguished
The souls once bound in flesh have now been relinquished
The dreams of celestial glories are now all vanquished
Their haunted cries and whispers, reverberate so anguished
Each creature beckoned into that lightless chasm
Sed omnis una manet nox
et calcanda semel via leti
Now sound the bells of quittance
from the abysmal shrine
The cup has been drained, yet lingers
a taste of bitter wine
Descend into the darkness
from where no light returns
Cross the ethereal threshold
As the corporeal finally burns
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Shadows Etched in Stone
06:05
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The flames that pierced the morning sky
with cleansing purity
Carving out our destiny
into obscurity
In winding scarlet streams
soaking the blackened earth
All civilisation yields
returned to ash and dirt
In crackling bolts of thunder
and blazing firestorms
All flesh is torn asunder
in howling gales of thorns
Splendor reduced to ashes
and crumbling palace walls
Swept up, as in a rapture
as mankind falls
Behold the light that the morningstar has thrown
All that remains are shadows etched in stone
This dawn will see a final sunrise
from whirling maelstroms born
Wielding it’s phantom flame
swallowing life with utter scorn
A permeating darkness rests
over the scorched remains
All existence ceased and perished
an eerie silence reigns
Witness the flames of the brightest sun reborn
All that remains is the dust of the forlorn
Behold the light that the morningstar has thrown
All that remains are shadows etched in stone
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