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Nethermost
07:43
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NETHERMOST
In the wilderness
Under a sun dead silent
Confined yet
Astray
Intermediate
Amidst the cradle and the grave
In between
In disarray
Again and again
Introspection
Beneath the surface
In the deep
Awakened from nightmarish sleep
Invocation
Rise of the inner being
To become
To be renewed
Again and again
Come night eternal
Come ceaseless rain
For this is the realm of woe
And the everlasting pain
Again and again
Come scorching fire
Come boiling blood
The banners of the king draw closer
Below, below, below
The seeds from the unlit earth
Grow to spawn awareness
A voice speaking from the unknown
Commands one must obey
From the heart of the nethermost realm
A ray to scourge the skies
From the blackest of darkness
The most ravishing of light
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THE BARREN RAGE OF DEATH’S ETERNAL COLD
In times of horror
In times of grief
The subject to death comes into being
Contemplates demise
Contemplates the pain
And the one with rake and broom
Unforeseen to sweep the lands again
In times of anguish
When vultures feed
The presence of death reigns supreme
Dominates the mind
Dominates the cell
Fleshless shape, its jaw agape
Swallowing the last light of the day
How quickly the glory of the world passes away
Them bones
Lying there bare
Awaiting yours
Let the reaper do its work
The sickle to harvest
Blood to fertilize the soil
The cycle to be complete
Only the grave is real
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Under Blackened Skies
05:10
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UNDER BLACKENED SKIES
Void of day
Summoned by the voice of the raven
In the grip of descent
Into the black abyss
Into everything
Into nothing
A presence of absence
Utterly barren
Musty hole of stone
Deep blue night
Bare bones of beasts and of the dead
Amid the smoke
Burnt to death
Burnt to ash
Burnt to feed
The all dissolving fire
A funeral pyre
Under blackened skies
Dawn
Made darkness visible
In unity with the once unknown
A new morn
Illuminating
Unfolder of the soul
Reborn
Arisen
From the lustration
Into glowing form
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DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD
Soul loss
Amidst the absence of meaning
No direction but downwards
Into the belly of the beast
The pith of the underworld
Where all shall cease
By the tilt of the earth
The night seems eternal
Adrift in the vast
Cradle of shadows
In desolation
Without light, without guide
Beholding naught
Yearning for a place that never was
Soul loss
Amidst the absence of meaning
No direction but downwards
Floating in liminal space
Dreamlike and hollow
Perpetual tunnels
Of tailor made horrors
In desperation
And seared with scars
Seeking union
The death of the false and the birth of the supreme
In filth it will be found
In gloom, not in familiar stars
In filth it will be found
In night more so than dawn
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Night of Woe
06:00
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NIGHT OF WOE
Reaping hook
Penetrate
God of Death
Initiate
The transmutation
Creeping flames in open lacerations
Grim remedy for the fire craving soul
Putrefy
Decompose
Worms awake
Disintegrate
Till liberation
Creeping flames in lacerations
The black earth is sealed
And scorching
Reduced to primal matter
From which the ancient shape reforms
Rotting flesh and bleeding wounds no more
”Oh, most singular and unspeakable Presence, first and last in the universe,
heighten the fury of my fire and burn away the dross of my being.
Cleanse my soiled soul. Bathe me in your awesome Light.
Set me free from my past; cut me loose from my boundaries.
Unite me with the One Thing hidden in my life,
wherein is my only strength.
Fill me with your Presence.
Allow me to see through your Eye;
grant me entry to your Mind;
let me resonate with your Sacred Will.
Make me transparent to your flame,
and fashion me into a lens for your Light only.
Transmute me into an incorruptible Stone in your eternal service,
like the Golden Light that surrounds you.”
In every hell
There is grandeur
In every death
There is movement
Forth!
Reaping hook
Now penetrate
Oh, God of Death
Initiate
The transmutation
Creeping flames in lacerations
This flesh and blood
Finally undone
Reduced to primal matter
From which the ancient shape reforms
One thing destroyed
Is another thing born
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The Throes of Rebirth
04:49
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THE THROES OF REBIRTH
Plunging downwards
Into primordial depths
The internal realm
No words are able to define
These worlds
Within worlds
The womb of the soul
From which the true self is to be born
Here the hidden treasures
Are to be found
And here punishment awaits
The throes of rebirth
Yet a greeted relief
The shedding of skin
The dissolution of the unclean
And violated heart
Deeper
Veiled in mystery
Raging blaze
A latent conflagration
Incinerates the inside
Burst open the eyes
Once earthward
Now gazing above and beyond the stars
Arising from necessary death
And the pains thereof
The new being appears
In immaculate form
The light from the chasm
Is burning bright
Leaving nothing
But the ashes behind
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7. |
Anti Spirit
01:18
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All For Nought
05:03
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ALL FOR NOUGHT
A feeble breath in starless dark
A grain of sand in a multitude of deserts
Earth is but one thought; Death
All for naught
The darkness drops again
Nothingness draws near
Vast wings across the cancelled skies
Close and lifeless is the air
Mountains burst into flame
Blood boils through skin
Hills painted red with crimson gore
The sun is blackened
Come the sound of the clarion horn
Do you still seek to know
When the worms are grey and pale
And their mouths have eaten all
Do you still seek to know
When fading from less to less
To nothing at all
Do you still seek to know
When dawn bears no day
And the earth is draped in pall
Do you still seek to know
When fading from less to less
To nothing at all
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