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Abdication
04:22
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Running through the trees
Pursued by demons of my own design
The way was black
The snares reached out their slender hands
Hurled into hell
The thing behind me compels me deeper still
Thorns tear my side
A trail of blood to feed the forest floor
Shamblehouse decrepit looms
Husk of a man, peers out with one eye
Bile rising, beckoning groping
Into the pit, come rot with me
Hand on my back
His hovel’s stench defiles my senses
The corners laugh
With bone and hair of struggling prey
Inside he grins
Opens a page in a filthy black book
Points frantically
Mouths a word tongueless, toothless
Read!
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Invocation
05:03
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The invocation
The runes call me
In primitive gutturals
Lyrics of blasphemy
I howl like a beast into the void
Filling my soul up with emptiness
Seared by the rays of a dying star
Enslaved in the deepest precipice
White becomes clear becomes black
These scribbles in blood are my holy verse
I eat from the flesh of the rotting one
In worship of all that is perverse
Hail! Chaos eternal!
Hail! Everlasting night!
Hail! Wakeless nightmare!
Hail! The god Death!
Tar seeps into every orifice
Terror overcomes the helpless mind
Hope fades with the light
Slavery is cold and infinite
Hail! The savage beast!
Hail! Ten thousand faceless!
Hail! Whirlwind of torments!
Hail! Chaos incarnate!
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Exultation
06:20
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Before me a shining black gate opens
A rift into the clouds, vast and empty
Obliteration urges me over the precipice
What is existence without ascension
Into the eye of the storm I leap
I give myself to the winds of chaos
In the forge of your design, I am clay
Curl of smoke, molten steel
Made into a point wrought for destruction
Show me the path, I will set the fires
In your distortion I shed the skin of man
I am the gauntlet raising the black flame
Great one guide me
Your eternal torch alight
In service of satan
The sword, the fallen
Death, madness, wildfire, tempest
Chaos, violence, hatred, devastation
And hell speaks through me!
Blood red vistas, twisted landscape
Tainted orchards, writhe with snakes
Stunted faces, hollowed blight
Leather wings, erase the sky
Poisoned earth, flaming pyres
Riven flesh, crimson geysers
Hosanna screams, no reply
Waves of suffering, engulf all life
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Thirsting Altar Portland, Oregon
Black metal from Portland, OR.
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