1. |
Transference
01:06
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Pain is the fire
Fate is the anvil
Rage is molten
I’m the empty vessel
The forge of darkness
Builds me as a weapon
Will of iron
Ever sharpened
Transference
Through dark currents
Of tainted empathy
Transference
Through dark currents
Liquid entropy
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2. |
Vile Energy
04:12
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Forced and bound to this flat dimension
The realm of loathing
Meteor force of mad derision
Synaptic eruption
Fate needed Vile Energy
And so it was cast upon me
Chosen for the path of bleak irreverence
Waxing power over waning present
Fate needs dark savagery
So drink the venom with me
Bask in the rays of fell Luna
In the age of vain hysteria
Weeping as we’re overcome
All sense defiled
A sinister joy to some
This deadly trial
Fate needed Fell Energy
And so it was cast upon thee
Feel it down in your blackened heart
Let wits depart
Fate needs true synergy
To reach serenity
Lost in the light of fell Luna
In the age of vain hysteria
Fate needed
Untreated
Unleaded
Fell Energy
Fate needed
Call heeded
Soul feeding
New Heresy
Fate needed
Untreated
Unleaded
Fell Energy
Fate needed
Call heeded
Soul feeding
New Heresy
Born of seething Malice
A weapon to restore the balance
Forged in the light of Fell Luna
In the age of vain hysteria
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3. |
Fauna to Fiend
03:33
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Beast in the grove of verdant lies
Fleeing from predatory stranglevine
Tangled in the brambles of the spirit bed
Place where carnivorous thoughts are fed
Traverse the stream of life that dried
Dance the hated pantomime
Fertilized by suffering
Endless dismal reverie
In the garden of doubt
Hope, we must do without
Destined to be
Carrion feed
In the garden of doubt
There grow twisted boughs
Shallow we breathe
Fauna to fiend
Pull the weeds that drain the life
Eating faith and drinking light
Nothing green is growing here
Foetid pond, reflecting mirror
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4. |
When the Fog Returns
04:56
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Where is world I know?
The gloom has gone for too long
Cracking skin in deathly throes
Will the fog return?
Flesh hangs like parchment
Longing writ upon the scroll
Tormentors shall know bereavement
When the fog returns
When the fog returns
Spirit of murder comes alive
When the fog returns
Cursed enemies will die
When the fog returns
My power shall revive
It will come back to me
Before my wretched corpse can fry
Absence of my only friend
Viridian clouds of frothing pain
On you I depend
My place is within
Hanging from a gnarled tree
They must believe I’m dead
Always burn the life you end
I will return
When the fog returns
Burning in your eyes
When the fog returns
Breathe, internalize
When the fog returns
In the pallid light I thrive
When the fog returns
When the fog returns
When the fog returns
I will return
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5. |
Deny the Stars
03:31
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He is the darkness in her heart come to life
Bitter frost before the spring, decaying of all things
She is the fire in his soul burning bright
Relentless, a beacon in the twilight
Gale in burning eyes
Forbidden union, black communion
Queen of sun and seer of night
Deny the stars
She wields the sword of flame
He bears the cloak of shade
She’s the one who’s wreathed in smoke
He’s the cold of the grave below
The path of the eclipse
An anticosmic gift
Totality of purpose
Shines beyond the surface
Gale in burning eyes
Forbidden union, black communion
Queen of sun and seer of night
Deny the stars
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6. |
Beneath the Trees
01:49
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7. |
Ravening Shadow
03:25
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Shredded, mauled, and broken
Savaged by terror unspoken
Lying still in the dirt
Ground more comfort than words
Back for the kill
The Ravening Shadow
It's coming back for the kill
The Ravening Shadow
Staring up at the sun
Burn my eyes 'til the deed is done
I feel the stones in my spine
Thorns kissing me goodbye
Back for the kill
The Ravening Shadow
It's coming back for the kill
The Ravening Shadow
I face the teeth
My enemy
The fury of the feasting
Is the price of the meaning
And now the teeth
Close around me
One moment at the summit
Into crushing jaws I plummet
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8. |
Voidwalker
04:18
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Rust inside the machine
Oil spilling in the sea
Incarnate apathy
The gap between realities
Hear the call of the void
Tempting, so seductively
Surely nothing left to be
Of recourse, you’re devoid
Just take my hand, heed the command
There is no pain in the shrouded span
Festering unquiet
The shrieking in the silence
Deny the burden
Pestilence averted
Hear the call of the void
Twisted fingers reaching out
Life, your soul could do without
Of recourse, you’re devoid
Just take my hand, heed the command
There is no pain in the shrouded span
Creeping eternal dream
Some visions can’t be unseen
Grave sands are flowing swiftly
A burdened glass; the vial’s filling
Voidwalker
Voidwalker
Voidwalker
Return to nothing
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9. |
Capture the Essence
04:51
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It’s hard to find a way
To reclaim the essence
Intent and synthesis
So far I’ve failed at this
Easy to drift away
Without an essence
Time slips by and so do I
This state I will defy
It’s hard to pierce the gloam
That hides the essence
Drifting tendrils slitherbound
Consuming sight and sound
Easy to lose your will
Among the effort
Now it’s time I see
Phantoms thrown from me
Come back to a conscious state
In the firmament you cannot stay
It’s the dawn of the first day
Foul dreams can’t ameliorate
Come back, is your fate so bleak?
Come back if you’re really free
Come back to a conscious state
Before it’s too late
Come back to a conscious state
In the firmament you cannot stay
It’s the dawn of the first day
Foul dreams can’t ameliorate
Come back, is your fate so bleak?
Come back if you’re really free
Come back to a conscious state
Before it’s too late
Not hard to see the worth
Of running from the essence
Lost in the cynical noise
And everything it destroys
Never far from the gate
Or the edge of a blade
The empiric realm awaits
Capture the essence
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10. |
The Sorcerer's Prison
01:47
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It was never my vision
To be locked in the sorcerer’s prison
I know beyond your lies
And wish that I did not
You have never seen the world
Never looked beneath the skin
In this fane I am interred
Truth is madness seeping in
When you bite the apple
And drink its poison wine
Sleep has gone forever
No dreams shall grace my mind
Only one path now
I must go deeper down
To cold dungeons deep
Into my heart the mildew creeps
It was never my vision
To be locked in the sorcerer’s prison
I know beyond your lies
And wish that I did not
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Doom metal from Portland, Oregon
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