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INFERNO
05:02
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Asgaard!
The fall of the stars
Sing the hymns
Septem Peccatis Mortis
The psalms of the exalted
The seven judges
Setting free damnation
Spit on us atop
the peaks of Sinai
Septem Virtutibus Vitae
The collapse of liberation
Scourge the earth
Purify with thy words of malice
Hatred in the chambers of
perverted gratification
Sip from the chalice
Blood of thy blood
Body and blood of thine
Taste the nectar of depravity
Drunk on the wine of divinity
The stares of the righteous cult
Upon their thrones of tyrants
I see through thy piteous eyes
For I have tasted the blood
And I have seen thy collection of souls
They are corrupted one
despoiled all
Bow to me
Victims of the flesh,
perversions immaculate
Septem Peccatis Mortis
Blindness they follow
The blood of martyrs
Rivers of regret
Feed unto them
the spirits of the exalted
Their penance discarded
Now and forevermore.
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2. |
ENVY
06:22
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If I could foresee,
bend space and time,
manifest reality to resemble a lie.
Could truth be found,
could the world learn to see
what I've foreseen.
Or am I a living contradiction?
Two worlds opposed.
Teetering on the edge,
tearing apart the soul.
Our words will be a lie,
Forever.
Our dreams will always die,
Forever.
Memories fade away,
Forever.
Time slips by through the eyes of the blind.
The one who sees beyond the realms of sight.
Immortality is torn between
what is true and what is right.
One cannot choose what is real unless
they possess the ability to see
through the illusion of self.
The realm of dreams,
tearing wisdom from reality.
Thoughts are a weapon
bleeding from the mind.
Possessing the body,
ending the waves of time.
Our words will be a lie,
Forever.
Our dreams will always die,
Forever.
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3. |
GLUTTONY
04:07
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Cease!
For the Lord says so
Eagerness
The Lord will judge
Forgive me god for my exuberance
confused my hunger with desire to eat
Cursed my family for the bread we have
For little we get, must be grateful to thee
Feed for your life
Temperance is to die
Scorn natures gifts
Squander all the colour
Alacrity in the heart
Decadence marks your face
Thinner every day in a favela hell
Stomach my body,
pushing its way out of the mouth
Abstain from eating like a gourmand pig
He is watching and will strike me down
to the flame
Feed us your lies
Tell us we're lucky
When you've never known
what it's like
to go hungry
Until we tear you from life
for your crimes
make you pay
Cerberus is coming.
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4. |
LUST
04:38
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I, the rock
the one who waits
take the yearn
forget the demise
I beg of you
to ease my pain
out of the shadows
the spies retreat
It is written
don't question it
Blinded by lust
soul to the squall
Have you ever been alone?
Lived in a world
a faceless world
it turns you into dust
End this now!
This perennial thought
Don't ask for hell
He sees everything
Pull me into the whirlwind
For the passions torture me
Never give me rest
At least I have lived!
You condemn me
blames of treason
a blasphemy
to be human
Revenant roads is all I see
You tell me too
you think the same
Why is it you, Ignorant one
If you leave me be
It's my true requiem.
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5. |
GREED
06:20
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And meanwhile the academics are clamouring
Undecided on which ego they
should be favouring
They forget which one is which
amongst their drowning in abstraction
Suffocating
behind the walls
of their own
misguided creation
And the tide thickens
with every passing thought
Every memory
Pain and pleasure crashing
spraying their reminiscence
On the brink of insanity
I almost understand
Is this life worth all the misery
Can't deny greed
A failed system dictates our beliefs
feeds us insatiable greed
This world of broken dreams
Misguided ideologies
confused with absolute truths;
there are none
While society is constrained in capitalism
they have forgotten what it's like to be alive
As if this world was just a dream,
distorted and constricted,
and I cannot wake up.
And the tide thickens with every passing thought
Every memory
Pain and pleasure crashing
spraying their reminiscence
On the brink of insanity
I almost understand utilitarianism
Simplicity is tempting
Beside the ever-changing world of complexity
If I've learnt anything in this life
It's temptation over-growing sense of self
Creating the human in me
Forsaking my humanity
Is this life worth all the misery
can't deny greed.
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6. |
PRIDE
07:52
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From the ashes I arise
and from the splintered stems of the earth
I return
With knowledge through struggle
Triumphant through suffering
The hierarchy of hypocrites and harlots
Feeding the starving their lies
Forever holding onto nothing
Desires and dreams of the heart
An empty well to thy idol
A fountain of opportunity for thy enemy
Up on the cross
I had the most euphoric illusions of grandeur
Visions one cannot express
through pathetic systems of language
Witness a splinter as it festers into a terminal wound
Oh Rise!
Thou that cursed me
as lightning fell from heavens
let the children believe
Thy destroyer of nations!
When rotten is the fruit of thy seed
Recruiting the weak
to indoctrinate the congregation of sheep
Is this thy divine justice?
O, compassionate one?
The pages of disillusion
Corrupt the foundations of humanity
Up on the cross
I had the most euphoric illusions of grandeur
Visions one cannot express
through pathetic systems of language
For I see through humanity
the blood outweighs the soil
Witness a splinter as it festers into a terminal wound
The insects swarm to feed on the carcass of their God
Discarded shrines littered with bones
The alter collapsed
The pews empty
Paint the picture
Alone
My greatest sin is echoed in the mirror
Hung on the walls
In-between my fingers
Locked behind the flesh
bone and blood
yet radiating out with a silent aura
The deceit is blasphemy
when the pride of thy holiness
is rape and treachery
such is thy legacy.
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7. |
WRATH
04:38
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The dirt of Eden
continues to stain the earth
The filth clogs the roots
Bleeding disease
Contaminating the veins
of existence
Trapped in the bars of the earth
The cosmic prison until death
This useless body, decaying wreck
Ruins of the past
Emerge from the ashes
transcend over conscious being
Unto the realm of the unseeing
Crucify me
Bloodline of Abraham
Descendant of decadence
Fill the mountains
With the corpses of the righteous
The pathetic and indulgent
Feed this plague
From Torah to revelations
Maggots to leeches
Preach the words of wrath
And oppress truth and justice
Condemn me for being created human
"Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones,
and kill
every woman who hath known
a man by lying with him
But all the women
and children,
who have not known a man
by lying with him,
spare for yourselves."
Numbers 31:17-18.
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8. |
SLOTH
07:12
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The essence of history is just a void
and our thoughts are a funeral shroud
We bow and spit in reverence
upon the shards and dust and flesh of memory
Tragedy dressed in rouge and paint
Rewritten in blasphemy and parody
Yet the corpses consume
Without regard,
without reason,
or justice
And there's nothing left
for even the parasites to feed on
There are displays of despair in everyday
It's getting harder to find white
in a landscape of grey and filth,
gutters and decay
Childhood and naivety is an ancient memory
One unimaginable to process
And even if we could synthesise
wonder,
joy,
it would always be a dream
We eventually have to wake up
smell the roses that have withered, rotten and blackened
over centuries of neglect
There was a time when it almost made sense
The cogs and chains linked
and people would whisper
of love on their deathbeds
There was inclusivity
or so they believed
The air was alive in creation
And all could breathe
without the despair of our lungs
shrivelling and blackening
It's as if their lives weren't the trail of smoke
from the discarded end
of a cigarette
that rests in a gutter beneath our feet
Because now no-one cares
what we say on our deathbeds
because that would imply
that someone would be there.
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9. |
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There are people that don't understand this
and never will
I have to live with the fact that the path I walk
is the one of the judged
Accepting my place as one of the condemned
Society hates those
Who are true to themselves
those who flirt with their own darkness
and are one with their demons
but they don't hear the turmoil of the ocean
nor the cries of nature
only concerned with numbers and profit
They think art is only painting
and even then the colours are too much
Would they think differently
if they knew the paint was mixed with tears?
And the red wasn't paint at all
It's hard to believe they would
who cares about the one who sits on the side?
The outcast who questions
and screams the system is wrong
I will not be a martyr
for your fucking agenda
I will not be a parable
A stereotype or an archetype
To feed someone else’s idea
Diminishing human complexity
In servitude to a false ideology
I am not the pinnacle
of one of thy pillars of
the faith
I am human
Which is to be flawed
I am the seven
They are within me
From birth to death
Pain and joy
Love and hate
And the myriads in-between
If I am a martyr,
it is so I can be resurrected
and it is in this
alone
I shall be remembered.
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Escarion Melbourne, Australia
Crushing Death Metal with Melodic, Progressive, Atmospheric and a touch or Black Metal for grimness. We come from Melbourne, Australia - soon to be everywhere around the world.
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