1. |
Into The Gyre
01:09
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2. |
Blood From Earth
06:18
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Shaken by lies
The swine make holy sounds
"Tin-eyed" accused
They whisper intrigue
Faces cut through the spray
Sororal cruel cancellation
Finding faith so distant
Grows hate in the dark
Vaunted procession
Inquisitor
Blame of conspiracy
Riverine extirpation
Carried deep into the bog
Entombed in brackish swell
Banished by the coward's lot
A curse upon your kith and kin
Inside the grey the larvae play and dance upon the crown
Come to my side at vespertide and revel with the drowned
Convocation of niveous harvesters
Enthralled by the light of rage
Revenge and pain wash away decayed flesh
Offering to the Great Grey Witch
Horror in bloom
Fluttering
Luminate
Dead
Forest night
Primeval sylvan song
Foetid
Lake of the Grey
Daughter
Forsaken
Scapegoat of the flock
Deviant bitch
Curious devil
Blasphemous corpse
“For the hands you laid upon me - I WILL RETURN
For the loss of all my children - I WILL RETURN
For the sins committed in your ignorance - I WILL RETURN
For the ones you hold so dear... - I WILL RETURN”
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3. |
Deepwoods Nonesuch
05:29
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In the hour of the witch's night
With fires burning bright
A slender shadow passes near
To carry off your children fair
Hands like branches
Creaking with age
Entrance young minds
As the lyre plays
Warped and withered frightful hag
Unmoved by the fists of man
Drifts to the fallen trees
Where the phantom music emanates
All about the cries rang out and torches blazed; desperate search for the missing
Never knowing all the while sleepers at the edge of the forest listened
Hastening the total subrogation of the untouched bloodline
Bitter mystifying dread horripilation; familiar faces under bottle flies
No one knows from whence she came or how she came to be
Indeed a daemon aberration not of this plane
Occult magnum power execrable; none may comminate
Ordained in the distant gloom of eyes glowing and pained
Come to the weald
Bring your faith and fire
Fall's somber dance
Escape the pyre
Draw the beast from darkness bound
Before the mucid circle
Clouded copse of rancid death
Graves!
Barren earth among the dense and deadly thickets
The trees dressed in sigils esoteric and rufescent
Prey on the lost of the mad mass witch hunt
Counting the strings of The Black Lyre's spell
Fly from the gyre of the once dead hex-born
Canticles choke the air from Hell
The fateful few surviving raced the horses to the church's guarding, mangled and despondent from the loss
Never truly seeing but disposed to now believing panicked stories of the things among the moss
On dirty knees they bow
Praying to their god
Demented and lamenting
The girl they gave the rod
They're here now...
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4. |
Amnioticysts
04:58
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In the mist
And underneath the shadow
The Grey Queen awaits
Benumbed
Flailing at the Adhene
Too lost in their softened guise
Saline-kissed
Lexemes trist
Countess points to the
Spun mounds
Mortal bounty snare
Bloodless approach
Faithful trepidation
Fatalistic hearts
Listless struggle
Waxlike pupal dungeon
Exalt the Green
Spit her favour unto hungry jaws
With the moment for mercy past
The carapace groans with purpose
They crack the shells and slither forth
Vanish shrieking into Mother's twilight ether
Proverb received: An eye for an eye
A plague returned for The Father's lies
Metachromatic underlings
Striated horde
Carry the webs of reprisal
All trapped up in bassinet forms
The hour of rebirth is at hand
The hour of the sword
Fortressed in geotic residence
Alms for the rape of the land
On destitute towers await
Peer out and skyward
Diabolical pockmarked horizon
Hail from above
Animal drone, the wind arcane
Annihilation the only path
Juvenile tongues mock sanity
Touch of the witch along the swath
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5. |
Lungwort
05:02
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Lambs of penance resting in peace
Not all wounds mend with time
Menace in their veins
Dignity lost is hatred gained
Vines and leaves hanging from the old growth like the hair of a stone-faced crone
Rays of dusk disturb the grotesque shrouded mandrake - spied from slits afar
Faceless phantasm
Cloaked in tattered vestments
Exaggerated fingers
Fade into the seams
Catenate
And follow its trail
Round the roots
Encased in white cocoons
Abandoned shells
No children to be found
Scent of moldy debris
Echoes of flapping wings
The eyes upon them watching
The lunar choir sings
"Attende Domine, et miserere,
Quia peccavimus tibi"
"Look to the southern stars
And follow the left hand path
From which the moon shall swallow the seas
And summon thee to her embrace"
Pain in their lungs
Bound up in poison
Narcotic vapor
Imps incant
Enraptured regret
An offering
Redeem the souls
claimed
for
naught
Bones made whole
slave
caste
bought
Once
night
falls
Til
day
breaks
The rite of conversion concludes; to be alive
You were warned to stay away
It is no longer our burden - your refusal to adhere
You have done this to yourselves
Now see what your malice has wrought
See your little ones
See how glorious they have become
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6. |
The Harrowed Column
04:58
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Legions form the seal of thralldom
Forgery of Winter's penetrant effulgent frost
Dizzying unceasing thrashing of moths
Overrun sentries without restriction
Reflections in the onyx pools
Unblinking obverse
Colonization of the viscid ivory city
Usurp
Feast - Fall
Dark - Light
Blood - Sea
Queen - Witch
Death - Life
Home - Hell
Fire...
Chitinous hooks in the cracks - Claw louder
Creeping suffocating writhing worms
Devouring fulgor, raging bright - Impulsive fiends
Eulogy to an ending world razed by flame
Cremation
Nature abhors
Forced asymetry
Deep-spawned athanasia
Answer in the ashes
The great and mighty purge
To Hell
To blood
And dust!
Through smoke and embers
Skeletal blight
Incrassate totems
Autotomy
In ruins
Return to obscurity
Haunted aura
Incites the lyre
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7. |
An Ancient Tradition
09:21
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The emerald river
Silent
Entombed palaces
Burning
Remnants protruding
From the earth
Like hands grasping
Grave reminders
Inhuman
Remains
Wet willows weeping
Anoint the cursed
Serpents persist
In apathy
Wallow in the waste
Slumbering
The eyes
Shadows still watching
Her song
Reverberates
Through the mist
Seduced by the master's sweet skein
Sycophants
Carry their load with larks hanging high
Unhallowed
The dreaded Black Lyre
Heralds the witch's return
The hour of eldritch suffering
Delays the convalescence
Charred faces of the icons
Sink into charcoal clay coffins
The forest bears the scars
A lost family
Never charged to recompense
For brutality
Put down like mongrels
For want of understanding
Spiritual hysteria
For pages of sand
And the rain can't extinguish the fire
(extinguish their souls)
That which burns eternal
(burns the blood)
Tragic contempt for the authors
(authors of ignorance)
Born of salt in the lungs
(salt in the wounds)
Nebulous beyond the cataract
Daughter of the unnatural hoarfrost cast from rime
Starvation
Phantom maceration
She plucks the strings with hunger pangs
Exigent thirst
Oceans; but not a drop to taste
A symphony of anguish
Not alone
Edge of reality
Her toxic touch never far away
Desiccant
Mouth of the desert stream
Forever left to drain
“By order of the Court of the Right Hand
The girl is charged with the known practice of witchcraft
Her sins have been witnessed to have caused the murder of five townspeople
And presumably countless others”
“We shall go now to the river and obtain from her a confession
If she be not willing to confess then her death will confirm her guilt”
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