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Zenith
04:05
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A terrifying beauty
Encircled by mist swirling
Thy gaze piercing, knowing, cold
Merciless, righteous
A portal to the infinite
Eye of the zenith
Thine ancient wisdom unfolds
Virtuous, ominous
On a strange path I embark
Sinister, arcane, bizarre
Through veins courses Magick of Old
Merciless, righteous
A creature at one with the night
Descent into madness
No obscured truths left untold
Virtuous, ominous
Incomprehensible visions I see
Under the stars shattering
Where glistening waves meet the sky
The shadow brought to life
Fervent ‘neath the zenith moon
Torn asunder; more beast than man
Solo-Davis
Solo-Walters
Reborn from the sand, taking form
Untethered, I must return
Reborn from the sand, taking form
Untethered, I must return
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2. |
Carpathia
04:19
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'Elemental dust on moonlight ray
Sailing through black clouds
In grim silence he cometh
Paralysed, I lay'
'In atmosphere of decay
Begotten of white mist
Master pale with eyes aflame
Enthralled, I obey/
Demonic forces
Rise from sacred earth
Humanity weak,
Spineless, easy prey
Rape, in midnight’s
Chilling inertia
Draining life from pallid flesh
With sanguinary desire
'Betwixt fingers of ice
I drinketh his wound of crimson
Immortality grips my heart
With lust and avarice'
Incantations echo
From jagged towers
Un-dead prowl the gloom
Light forever purged
'Noctis aeternae'
Obfuscate the sun
'Noctis aeternae'
The long night hath begun
Shrouded in darkness
They prey on the horde
Solo-Walters
Solo-Davis
Solo-Walters
Solo-Davis
Solo-Walters
'Noctis aeternae'
Obfuscate the sun
'Noctis aeternae'
The long night hath begun
Shrouded in darkness
They prey on the horde
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3. |
Niflheim
01:16
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4. |
Primordius
03:39
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The glaring iris of the basilisk
From the abyss, awaits
Dark matter lies within his gaze
Foretelling of annihilation
Beware all those who stare into the abyss
Primordius reaches for you
With cruel, serpentine claws
Observing the weak
The vile and wicked
The one who is judging
With loathing and hatred
Who governs the chaos within
For the void cannot be crossed
Lock eyes with the goliath
Breatheth flames of obsidian
As gravity pools beyond the horizon
A monolithic emptiness
Solo-Walters
Solo-Davis
Primordius
Behold the observer who seeth all
Primordius
Draws you closer to desolation
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5. |
Nebula
06:54
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The nature of all things
In our reflection
The universe
At a single moment in time
A story of violence
Ambiguous morality
Celestial bodies
Set on a collision course
Burning a path in the darkness
Rage, conflict, greed, doubt
Burn, resent, destroy, drown
In the nebula
Perception corroded
Once obscured by hatred
From the heavens rain fire
All 'neath the stratosphere
Annihilated
The pursuit of total domination
Is a false solution
There is no help for us
We are past the point of reason
Chaos in motion, so divine
Eclipsing life and death
Perception corroded
Powerless to resist
This is our condemnation
How long can we hold on
To this reality?
Distorting everything
That cradles our fragile existence
Nebula
The stars capitulating one by one
Beneath the weight of existence
Solo-Walters
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6. |
Awakening
01:17
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7. |
Immortal
03:34
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Light, the unbearable light
Nemesis, thy bane of time
Sanctum of shadow, of kin to night
Grim is the day, awaiting flight
A bountiful kind, under watchful eye
The sun begins to sleep
Dark, cold, plight
Inscius. Solum. Vivus. Mea
Orbiting closer and closer to your denouement
Inscius. Solum. Vivus. Mea
Dark, cold, plight
'Father Time
How you've blessed thee
For I shall never know
Of rot or decay
Mother Sky
I must abide
Your unforgiving scorn
Skin to sand'
Muscle to mist
Cold hands gripping tight
Amidst an autumn moon
Aura of fear suffocates
Life unaware for so long
The time hath come
Shadows from another world
Control denied
Freed from this life
Veiled in might, empathy impaired
Your misery, now mine to bear
Solo-Walters
Solo-Davis
Darkness, this life is mine to lead
Minutes to hours to days they pass
Fiction? Reality?
Harness, the deity within me
Life unto life
Eternal sleep
Darkness, this life is mine to lead
Minutes to hours to days they pass
Fiction? Reality?
Harness, the deity within me
Life unto life
Eternal sleep
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8. |
Entities
05:51
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Entities
On the Otherside
Entities
Submerged; in terrors grasp
Entities
Surrounding me
Entities
Watched by one thousand eyes
Cloaked by forest breathing, warping
Creeping towards me
Ensnared in the present
No turning back now
Battling obliteration
Grasping on to life
Sanity drifts away
Morphing out of phase
Entities
On the Otherside
Entities
Submerged; in terrors grasp
Entities
Surrounding me
Entities
Watched by one thousand eyes
Sucked into altered dimensions
Drowning in chaos
Fragmented, beyond death
I am powerless
Traveller of time and space
Transcending consciousness
All is white within
The Singularity
Sentient spirits of
Unworldly origin
Incorporeal!
Incorporeal!
Solo-Grossmann
Demonic
Maleficent
Tormentors
Guardians of forbidden realms
Unwelcome
Demonic
Maleficent
Tormentors
Captive to chthonic entities
I’ll never be the same
Entities
On the Otherside
Entities
Entities
On the Otherside
Entities
My damnation
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9. |
Gatekeeper
08:30
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Silent waters, still
Fleeting world seems so real
Bound path, bound with no will
Voyage (again), Passage (walk)
Past life, lived through brighter eyes
Mirrors distant over time
One task, one mind
Enter (gates), Haunting (again)
Begin to climb up the stairwell
So steep so narrow, yet I never fell
Unanswered questions still left
Rife with contempt
Arrive the full moon, a cold hell
Reflections on the lake from which I dwell
Immortal suffering, decaying flesh
Stench of death
Those who will try to run
You will understand I am the Gatekeeper
Solo-Davis
Solo-Walters
Again I climb up the stairwell
So steep so narrow, yet I never fell
Unanswered questions still left
Rife with contempt
Arrive the full moon, a cold hell
Reflections on the lake from which I dwell
Immortal suffering, decaying flesh
Stench of death
Solo-Kittel
Life, fleeting life
Wonder, grace
Sorrow, sorrow filled world
Terror, rage
No more posterity, the serpent slithering
Torment everlasting, chaos unrelenting
Walk closer towards me, your time is withering
Invite depravity, fade in obscurity
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