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Deeper Into Madness
01:56
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Feast of Plagues
04:20
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FEAST OF PLAGUES
Where grief-swept desolation a carnal stench purveys
Proud men, long due, agony’s come… scream freely in your pain
Impending doom’s begun winter’s left you frail
Stricken, ravaged, one and all, infertile as the soil
No dawn shall sanctify
No light could pierce the choking sky
Cast down – cold, lifeless eyes
Leprous hands kneading feverish deeds
Bow to famine, crawl as vermin, become filth and disease
Envenomation, writhe to decimation, numb to prayer and plea
Bent to hail infection’s throne
Broken men soon pale and cold
On your knees, fall prey to the grave
Festering in bodies thrown on blood-stained red, cold cobblestone
Death here walks in many shapes, with shadows long and horror known
A wretched mare I ride upon to conquer the weakened ones
Hearken, in pestilence, my cold touch on quivering lips
No dawn shall sanctify
No light could pierce the choking sky
Cast down – cold, lifeless eyes
Leprous hands kneading feverish deeds
I am famine, I am vermin, devouring flesh and earth
Infestation, expurgation, all shall succumb
Charred bones construct my throne
Soon the sickened rasps will be your own
Where wind-swept burial mists to stir miasmic rage
Condemned in funeral flesh, the damned are many where you lay
The great cold Death, come for your last breath
In your dying gasps you shall denounce your faith
I bring famine. I bring vermin. I am filth and disease.
No dawn shall sanctify
No light will pierce the choking sky
Cold, empty stares – lifeless eyes
No prayers will yield relief
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3. |
Celephais
05:58
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CELEPHAIS
Silenced by the centuries
I am cast to the void of eternity
My memories have faded from me
Here on the shores of insanity
Covered by the veil of my frailty
Slowly twisting my humanity
I close my eyes
Only to see
This is not to be
Something has taken me
Onward to indifference,
an echoing voice whispers to me,
Where I am to be judged
Damned or divine for eternity
Suffocated by the hand of the unknown
Slowly twisting the outcome of my kind
I close my eyes
Only to see
This is not to be
Something has taken me
Here, we have come for you at this point in your fall
You think your existence null, we’ll replace it with validation of life.
The light will gather the scattered pieces of what was once your soul
Follow me to an everlasting peace
Now, as I am drawn to the flame
We came together, but now we must part
The gravity has befallen me, it has to take you, and crushed my will to live
Take me away from here
To a place of monolithic dreams
To an undying palace
Of the self preserved
On we go!
Enter the eternal
Bypass the damned
I was, I was forsaken!
Music – Daniels/Lockwood Lyrics – Daniels/Cummings
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4. |
Carnal Iniquity's Arms
05:27
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CARNAL INIQUITY’S ARMS
Against my cold wet skin, embodiment of bliss
Black lace wound strictly tight on amber skin, mist entwined
Woven through frames of haunting moonlight’s first allure
Unclean desires never felt so pure
Pale eyes devise their dirge serenades
I feel their poison nails caress, engrave and rake
Sin irresistible to touch, as ever known to cloth
I’d never thought dead flesh to feel so soft
Upon my fevered skin temptations promise bliss
Black drapes so gently slide off amber skin, rich in pride
For you, would not these ripe veins open wide
I’d never thought dead flesh to look so tight
Crimson tongues split from pitch, mirrored breath, wry pulse pounding
Welted skin, bosomed clove redolence
A vestal witch’s grin, silken, in soft candlelight
Swoon in restraints of a lecherous wine
Deeper I drank, deeper, still craving more
What displays more of beauty, than a naked corpse
Are we not, for once, disdain to decay?
If not but for carnal iniquity’s taste
In embrace of the arms
That would feed upon my drunken form
Prey to decadence
A taunting scent for wolves outside the door,
For wings upon the dusk of night, a feast for all tongues forked
Beneath my cold wet skin all lusts of ageless sin
Amber skin so pristine inviting morbid delights
Wearing a veil of haunting moonlight’s sick allure
Unclean desires spawn a new vigor
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5. |
Nightfall
05:16
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Nightfall
Restless skies precede the requiem eclipse
No tide reversal towards the fathomless descent
A portrait of doom unveiled, lavish chaos knell
Vast abyss; undulating dissonance
Astral shadows free of restless Aeon’s vault
Slaves…know the impetuous presence; black faces of death
Blind, primordial eye, black god paradox feeding
Event horizon adversely shining
Depths enclose to swallow light and sound
Cold emptiness strangling all in its grip
Equilibrium violently decaying
Dimensional fray high on grand display
Black heavens obscured in the fog of cosmic frost
Howling winds inflicting catastrophic force
And coalesce in a spiral lightning vortex
All before thee rendered in ruins, facing the astral maelstrom dusk
Endless emptiness; perverse coronal specters leer
Endless emptiness; frothing chaos nears
Welcome cold resonance, breathe the warring winds
Nightfall…opening womb of nothingness
Eternity reaching down from depths beyond celestial thresholds
Present in the requiem procession
Reaching into eternity
Depths enclose to swallow light and sound
Cold emptiness strangling all in its grip
Equilibrium violently decaying
Dimensional fray high on grand display
Welcome cold resonance, breathe the warring winds
Nightfall…opening womb of nothingness
Eternity reaching down from depths beyond celestial thresholds
Present in the requiem procession
Reaching into eternity
Endless emptiness; spills forth
Endless emptiness; and silence fell
Endless emptiness; silence fell the world.
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6. |
Resigned to Darkness
04:45
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RESIGNED TO DARKNESS
I wear a crown of thorns
In my kingdom of tears
Veiled in a shroud of black
Robes of tattered emotion
Soiled and spoiled my love fades away
Darkness layered upon darkness
Deep abyss of empty thought
Reflecting on unfulfilled desires
All of my clouds are lined in lead
Scarred and charred, behold my broken soul
Must I continue with the glass half empty?
Shadow of shame, all encompassing darkness
Bleeding myself will only dull the pain
Enveloped by mind-numbing sadness
Shards of shattered glass penetrating deeply
All hope depleting, the only blood I bleed is black
Gouged out my eyes to avoid my own reflection
The weight of shame crushing down on my shoulders
I feel the nothingness consume me; praying for it all to end
Blinded by my own self-loathing; praying for it all to end
I try to run away; praying for it all to end
Confined in my mental lead coffin
I cannot continue on this yellow brick road of solitude
Please hear me now, ‘merciful God,’ I’ve done all I can, I’m begging you
Mind careens out of control, a desolate path to insanity
Please hear me now, ‘oh loving God,’ I scream unto you my final plea
Music – Daniels/Lockwood
Lyrics - Cummings
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7. |
Revelations Made Flesh
03:52
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REVELATIONS MADE FLESH
Nothing will prepare your flesh
For Hell has long awaited this
Convulse in grace of pain
Skintight in this catharsis
The shine of splattered blood
Against cold steel spurred crimson grin
A brand new gift to revel in... cut wide open
(chorus)
Embrace the changes manifest
In revelation's form made flesh
Taste the pain, your soul is ours
Bare your revelation scars
Nothing will prepare your flesh
For Hell can show you so much bliss
In redefining pain
What horrors here exist
Some come to pleasure them
And welcome pain with reverence
Like priceless works of art... sickly exquisite
(chorus)
Insatiable taste for your sweet screams
Punishment for vanities
A mind broken by envy
A perfect body made to bleed
Driving rust into your flesh
Wear your crown shame dear avarice
A wealth of pain your penance wage
Severed tongues do not beg
Divinity by new design, machinery of deities
(chorus)
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8. |
Vae Victus
07:39
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VAE VICTUS
Hail the fall of man
Grave misfortune, ill-destined
Your worth has been weighed
Now you’re slaves to your fate
Risen from the depths of the darkest parts of His book
Challenging your faith in Divine love that cannot be shook
Bow before your Lord, ask Him why has He forsaken thee
Sold your souls to Christ but the Horsemen will not hear your pleas
Risen from the depths of the darkest parts of His book
Challenging your faith in Divine love that cannot be shook
Bow before your Lord, ask Him why has He forsaken thee
Sold your souls to Christ but the Horsemen come for thee
The first living creature broke the seal
An invitation to come and see
Galloping forth, White – Red – Black – then Pale
Harbingers of death, prevail!
Alpha and Omega, all suffering in between
Pulling the wool of the Lamb over your eyes
Guiding the blind to pre-determined meaning
Four beasts birthed if fire and brimstone
To decimate the non-worshipping
A book of fiction at the front line of our demise
Killed by God or the seven-headed beast
The fires will multiply
Fueled by malevolent lies
Waiting for death from the sky
Blind ignorance is our demise
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Empyrean Eclipse Denver, Colorado
From its inception in 2004 Denver’s Empyrean Eclipse channel the fury and melancholic dissonance that will appeal to fans of 90’s extreme metal as well as fans of more current extreme metal genres. From 2007’s debut, Illumination Undone, and 2018’s Perdition, to 2022’s The Grandeur of Despair EP, the group continues to weave together majestic sorrow with all-out intensity. ... more
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