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Plague Reveries
05:47
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From the choking mists
The primordial swamp
Ancient energies gather
One thousand eyes open
Distainful of this world
Of light and progress
Like the creeping mold
Devouring everything in it’s path
Swarming from rotten nests
Thirsting for nectar of opened veins
Turning pure waters black
The earth despairs, withering
Plague is upon us
A darkening cloud hangs high
Blasphemous mutations
Writhe just below the skin
Plague is upon us
Madness descends
Flies breed in the corpses
The living rot from within
Veins bulging and black
Pumping putrid ichor
Loss of all motor control
The mind gapes in horror
Nerves exploding
Flesh yearning for death
The path of least resistance
Will ease the agony
Leave behind all of your suffering
Wading into these murky depths
Reflections of sorrow are broken
Pushing off into nothingness
Behold, a new world order
All pain is eradicated
Sickness is law
Laughter echoes on and on
Behold the court of our king
Countless gifts are given
Minds are consummated
Laughter echoes on and on
Swarming from rotten nests
Thirsting for nectar of opened veins
Turning pure waters black
The earth despairs, withering
Plague is upon us
A darkening cloud hangs high
Blasphemous mutations
Writhe just below the skin
Plague is upon us
Madness descends
Flies breed in the corpses
The living rot from within
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Oblation
04:20
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Alone in the muck
Dying with festering sores
Hallucinations come
Under my writhing skin a hellish fire
Forsaken by a god
Who I shed my blood for
Now I turn in shame
To the vile calling of a darker power
Insects consume my flesh
In agony I await your decree
Lord of plagues
I give to thee
This body a vessel
A breeding ground
Under the skin
A contagion
A putrid curse
And the earth will scream
And her children will weep
And her rivers flow black
And her womb fester
Ripe for your seed
And your spawn will grow
And multiply
Spreading filth across the land
The dawn of a new plague
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Metamorphosis
06:29
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Swarming insects dripping venomized annihilation
Crawling covering this virginal metropolis
Systematic subjugation of all breathing lifeforms
And plunging barbs into the tender earth
Wreathing shadow where no beast or plant may ever grow
The ache of suffering strangling every memory
Defiance broken into streaming shards of nothingness
Weakness the only path left
Naught escapes his touch
Falling to atrophy
Rotten arms reach out
Pulling you under
In his garden grows despair, J: ripe and plentiful
Pluck the weed of hope, J: surrender to opium slumber
Heed the soothing voice of death J: dreaming ebbing
From the steaming muck J: a metamorphosis
Survey this desolation spreading like a raging sickness
Dead bodies piled upon the yawning earth
Maggots crawling through the corpse of a dead race
In fertile soil life stirs anew
Sitting idly on his great and pestilential throne
He belches laughing at the fawning sycophants
His putrid gifts are countless and potent
For those who would prostrate themselves
In his garden grows despair, ripe and plentiful
Pluck the weed of hope, surrender to opium slumber
Heed the soothing voice of death dreaming ebbing
From the steaming muck a metamorphosis
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4. |
Reclamation
04:23
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Screaming for mercy
Begging for life
Under the dank earth
Coffin walls stifle all
Broken and wasted
Mind unwound
One point of light
Buried deep in the earth
So many before
Still the taste is sweet
This delicacy
Makes me howl into the night
Quivering lips
Under the dank earth
Choking on silt
It’s this vision that I crave
From blackest reaches
Come unto us
Agony adorning
Nigh corporeal
Torment weaving
A writhing shroud
Penetrating evil
Hope bleeding out
An altar of blackest obsidian awaits you
Anointed with blood of unending sacrifice
These halls echo with the screams of the innocent
Pain culled as material to be bent to your will
From blackest reaches
Come unto us
Agony adorning
Nigh corporeal
Torment weaving
A writhing shroud
Penetrating evil
Hope bleeding out
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Thirsting Altar Portland, Oregon
Black metal from Portland, OR.
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