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1. |
Surfacing Tension
04:40
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The brighter the flame
The deeper the shadow it casts
Engulfing canvas
Scorching the paint
Peaks flattened out
Crevices illuminated
Scenery perfect shines bright in plain sight
Yet details lay in the outline
So often dismissed
Harboring substance
Giving shape that germinates and propagates the fall
(Lead: Vrba)
Hidden in the deepest of black is the looming presence of doubt
Seemingly being dissipated by the currents of bliss
It only takes a particle to (cause a) ripple effect condition fascilitating submission and dissoluting conviction
By taking hold and spreading its clandestine filth
Spreading its filth
Taking hold and cascading down the entire structure
Adorning walls with a splendorous void
Semblance of meaning or a figment of frame
Subsided willingly with a complacent snare
Piercing through the thick of callous
Draining all the puss that gathered
Thus deepening tear in the mantle
Exposing its withered core
Unfit to (even) keep in motion
Let alone withstand the weight of the external pressure
(Lead: Jeřábek)
Desperate to find a pattern
Fixated on a compound state
Scouring the surface with unrefined glances
Forging together a hybridized strain
Cascading down
The firmament collapses without making sound
Dissolving beneath
Swirling beneath
(Lead: Vrba)
Let the sky come finally crumbling down
Tearing out masquerade pillars one by one
Brimstone and bile infecting the air
Suffocating sight (at which) you now dare to stare
Deafening silence of the landscape mourning
Brought unto ruins with insatiable yearning
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2. |
Exomorphic Cascade
04:41
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As was spurred to life
So was so brought to non-existence
As was not the first of given
So won't be the last to yield
O' what a gracious construct
Erect upon a swindling field
A testament of sheer power
Unbound by confines of the real
Manifested through mind's eye
Regardless how myopic
Ever more than a phantom?
Quod petis?
Virtutes
Concede mihi virtutes et valeum, ut quibus indigeo propositī implere
As was dreamt away
So was willed to perseverance
As construct lays fallen
Am I too to fall?
"Can't look back!
There will be only a spectre
All will disappear forever
You know you will have to look back
Jinak neumíš žít"
Quod petis hic est
And was here since the onset
And was not ever anywhere
"La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d'homme
Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux"
Is there a crown without thorns?
(Lead: Vrba)
As was spurred to life
So was brought to non-existence
As it all lays fallen
So shall I lay too
It was said by the eternal law
Of this pale Omega of a dying kind
That the one who is first in beauty
Shall be the first in might!
(Lead: Jeřábek)
"La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d'homme
Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux"
Without failure I am nothing
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3. |
Decay Succession
03:45
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Thus every raging fire has been quenched
With torrents of acid rain
Soil succumbing to its poison
Flooded - drowned
Ground water forever stained
Reversing the undertow of ages
Striping bare this unseeded earth
Desolate pastures have given way
To vermin to crawl the plains
A spark which was meant to turn the heavens alight
Now a first drop of a pitch black tar
Upon which layers of sediment are lain
In gradual succession this fen gnaws away
Blocks of eroded bedrock
Lithosphere convulsing bellow
Due to enzymes fed by a moisture
Of a decomposing carrion
Viscera of uprooted forest
Wilted blanket of foliage
To lay forth a foundation
Upon which a barren stronghold shall be raised
A spark which was meant to turn the heavens alight
Now a first drop of a pitch black tar
Upon which layers of sediment are lain
In gradual succession this fen gnaws away
And should these wastes become my domain
Their allure rooting me in
Desintegrating mass of nothing
Forming into ornate halls
With veins of bioluminescent morrow
Enshrining a wretched hollow
Finally a proper throne room
Befitting a monarch of such reign
(Lead: Vrba)
Sound you rotten horns in exaltation
For the prodigal son has finally returned
To claim his home
Stake his birthright to these wasted lands
Sound the horns in contempt
I claim my throne
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4. |
Debridement
04:19
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Shedding the layers of disheveled skin
Putting to torch the disgraced gardens of filth
Inhaling deep the ashes of the cursed world
Through which may the lungs be purged of all the dying breath
Cease the pounding of the treacherous rhythm
Silence the discordant choir
That has filled the ears with its pitiful elegies
No more of this
Cease the pounding of the treacherous rhythm
That gave the sinews unsteady motion
No more of this
No more of ruination worship
Spare me of this
Gnawing away at the corrupted tissue
That has taken root on these desolate grounds
Uprooting, the crippled limbs from the poisoned marsh
(Lead: Vrba)
No longer weighting pounds of consummated flesh
Against the swarm of lead locust
Yearning to feast on the back of my skull
No more of this
No more of ruination worship
....fuck no!
This pitiful choir has been rendered silent
And shall remain silent forever still.
(Lead: Kačer/Jeřábek)
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5. |
Purgatorial Abbatoir
04:41
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Burning with cleansing ire
Flamebourne cast renewal
Soul thrown into the furnace
And thus forging a blade to pierce inside
A tainted shell, enclosing mind in a constant state of fear
A rendition, of aeons spent waiting for a distinct call
Never to be heard in a faceless crowd
False is the sermon of wishful thoughts
A suppression of primal flame yet waning in the light
Defying entropy of its embers
Forever silently hollowing ...deeper and deeper
Basking in indulgence ...mindlessly obscene
Caressing shackles of impotence
Unseen the Serpent's maw
As I sever the ties of wretched weave
Binding me still to the Tyrant's cause
Its threads embedded into my flesh and left a seemingly permanent mark
Stray from the illusive fire
Usurp the Serpent's crown
(Lead: Vrba)
Gorging myself upon dregs left enthroned on a vacant pew
Slit are the throats of blind deacons
Silenced the Serpent's sermon
(Lead: Vrba)
Absorb the crown
Withstand soul mutilation
Tearing of swathe drenched with desperation
Absolve the curse corrupting faith
Butchering imposter of sacred flame
Overwhelming passion scraping off the rot
Embrace the end
Vae, puto Deus fio!
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6. |
Death Waltz
03:12
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7. |
Cinders of Seraphim
06:23
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With all the elegies fallen on deaf ears
With all the plaguelands reduced to ash
With every etching on a slate ground away
With every throne vacant
The names of their absent monarchs
Have been bereft of all meaning
The deacons had long since been slain
Their profane sermons long forgotten
As is the Serpent's tongue
That had spat them into being
The deserted monuments
Dismantled into shards
For no kindling is better
Than cinder of a past
Gather all
Every stone, every beam
Every fucking piece of matter
Shall be burnt within
Bring forth the kindling
So may the flames engulf it whole
Upholding the Promethean legacy
New Sun above All
The deserted monuments
Dismantled into shards
For no kindling is better
Than cinders of the past
Bring forth the kindling
The fire demands more
Never has been larger... brighter
Yet is somehow unradiant still
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8. |
Lack of Comprehension
03:47
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A condeming fear strikes down
Things they cannot understand
An excuse to cover up weaknesses that lie within
Lies
Laying your guilt and pain
On people that had no part in the molding of a life
That creates its destruction
Lies
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
Reaching into the minds of those that created
The depression in which they
In which they drowned their flesh and blood
Lies
So easy to blame the
Everlasting fear on a pathetic attempt
To justify the ending of life
Lies
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
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