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Mimic Seed
03:03
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Spewed into our world
Ephemeral spawn, undeterred
Instinct drives it to breed,
To plant its pulsing seed
Host caught then paralyzed
Entering through their pleading eyes
Proboscis reaches deep
Putting them into sleep
The intruder wins, gestation begins,
Immune system fails, nerves fire madly
Victim awakes, feverishly shakes
Pain then subsides, abhorrent thoughts emerge
[Chorus]
Parasitic lifeform breeds, taking over
Insidious alien tadpole, growing stronger
A thing from a world so alien, inscrutable
Breached the membrane between worlds
Urging the host to ceaselessly move and mingle
Spilling their seed, procreating, planting their spawn
Abominable mimicry, forced overhaul
Bringing forth mankind’s downfall
A gestalt mimic breed
Taking the place of the one they eat
Corruption spreads unseen
Breaking down mankind from within
Then they emerge, two worlds converge
Bodies erupt in a crimson shower
Shaping their meat, conversion complete
Fiends taking form, our time’s over now
Failed to predict this gruesome conflict
Incursion complete, we face extinction
Unceasing they breed, on dead flesh they feed
And when all is done they leave for another world
[Chorus]
Parasitic lifeform breeds, taking over
Insidious alien tadpole, growing stronger
A thing from a world so alien, inscrutable
Breached the membrane between worlds
Urging the host to ceaselessly move and mingle
Spilling their seed, procreating, planting their spawn
Abominable mimicry, forced overhaul
Bringing forth mankind’s downfall
Infected by the mimic seed
Overthrown by the malign breed
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God Eater
03:47
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Blasphemous communion
Partake in the flesh of your subdued god
Archaic ritual
Deity immured in the worshiper's blood
Channeling divinity
A willing follower as the vessel of thine
Living blood philactery
Holy cysts and growths contain essence divine
Carve the flesh from the bone
Feast of communion
Congregate under the church of the Theophage
Consume and transcend, God-eater!
Transubstantiating your mortal cage
Consume and ascend, God-eater!
God-eater!
God-eater!
Ecstatic agony
The vessel slowly stripped of their divine meat
Profane the eucharist
Congregation gathers around to eat
Channels in the altar's stone
Guide the blood to flow into holy jars
Maintaing conscousness
The vessel's heaving breath echoes through the halls
Detach the head
Never truly dead
Congregate under the church of the Theophage
Consume and transcend, God-eater!
Transubstantiating your mortal cage
Consume and ascend, God-eater!
God-eater!
God-eater!
Watering the fertile soil
With sacrificial blood from the altar slab
Plant the bones in the field
Nurture them with mantras of the holy dead
Godly flesh germinates
Bulbous growths of meat sprouting from the earth
Containing fetuses
Translucent membrane, essence of rebirth
Commence the harvest
Fruits of the blessed
Wretched to the core
Rejoice in gore
Congregate under the church of the Theophage
Consume and transcend, God-eater!
Transubstantiating your mortal cage
Consume and ascend, God-eater!
God-eater!
God-eater!
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Dark Moon rising
04:44
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Parting the clouds, the rays of a purplish sheen,
Lures out the travelling fair of the unseen.
Hear ye, hear ye folks! The fair is coming soon,
Under the skeletal face of the Dark Moon.
Fair of Madness
Coming to your town!
Fair of Darkness
Will never let you down!
Drawn like moths to the flame
We gather around here to join the game.
Come and revel tonight,
Dance with the clowns with jubilant spite.
Witness, such sights to behold here!
Attractions we brought you to feed your fear.
Curious creatures and furious freaks,
Tunes of merriment and tortured shrieks.
We gather to commune
Under the rising Dark Moon.
Carnival of the doomed,
Demented, lost, consumed.
Come 'round and join the fair,
Dive deep into the nightmare,
In our tent, on our mass,
Hear the Gospel of Madness.
Contorted acrobats and living cannonballs,
Demented magicians and midget cannibals,
We would like to invite all to our midnight feast,
Join us or just jump in for a snack at least.
Fair of Madness
Running through your town!
Fair of Darkness
In terror you will drown!
Burnt like moths in the flame
The revelers fall; they became the game.
A feast for the ghouls' delight,
A gore flooded table, a grisly sight.
Scattered around, bones, picked clean,
The crows are the last guests to leave the scene.
Leaving a ghost town, the fair rolls out
As the Dark Moon creeps behind the clouds...
We gather to commune
Under the rising Dark Moon.
Carnival of the doomed,
Demented, lost, consumed.
Come 'round and join the fair,
Dive deep into the nightmare,
In our tent, on our mass,
Hear the Gospel of Madness.
Fair of Madness
Coming to your town!
Fair of Darkness
Will never let you down!
Fair of Madness
Running through your town!
Fair of Darkness
In terror you will drown!
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4. |
Gateway
03:16
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Emanating from the empty
Deepest void between the stars
Anomalous signal captured;
Traveling, countless aeons old.
Blueprint wrought in arcane science
Challenge for our greatest minds
Portal, built in combined effort
Ascendence of humankind
Gateway opens, what wonders await?
Rippling aether, space and time dilate
Mirror's surface, a silvery sheen
Gleaming wormhole, veils the unseen
Eldritch presence fills the chamber
Faintly whispers from beyond
Sensors scream; something is coming
Capacitors overload
Gaping tunnel unravels the
Fabric of reality
Shadow of a vast consciousness
Cast upon their minds to see
Gateway, torn wide, what horrors await?
Hunger too vast to satiate
Visions of countless devoured worlds;
Frenzied screaming fills the air
Metal warps and wall tiles blister
Blast doors shut and sirens blare
The thing emerges from the gateway
Form too vast to comprehend
Vortex of intangible flesh
For us, brought a bitter end
Rousing from an endless slumber
Aeons gone in seconds' time
Minds warped and incorporated
In a being so malign
Horror of vestigial flesh
Bodies writhe in agony
Merged in a gestalt consciousness
Became one within the beast
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5. |
Fleshpit
05:43
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It was a night of baleful dreams when
The town woke up to a booming thud
Shortly after, tapping on the roof tiles;
Gristle hale and rain of blood.
Something crashed into the hillside
Covering the town in gore debris
Gelatinous heaps of flesh
What a grisly sight to see
Seeped into the soil beneath it
Boring in a carcass pit
Underneath the scorching Sun
Stench it began to emit
From that day the life of the town
Turned into a living hell
In their dreams something unearthly
Like cancer, began to swell
The shape of something distant
With a disarming voice
'Come to me' it whispered
'Join me and rejoice'
Wide smiles of relief
Spread on the dreamers' lips
Willingly walked into its trap
Their hearts were now transfixed
Dozens arose from their beds
Malign whispers in their heads
Somnambulating towards the pit
Their lives to it they will submit
Once upon a time there was
A town hidden among the hills
Now it’s crumbling, rotting slowly
Radiating sickly chills
When the night falls shambling horrors
Crawl out to the streets to feast
Somnambulists, touched by the blight,
Turned into these nightmare beasts
Once their loved ones, now they’re just prey
Hiding and surviving still
No escape, their numbers waning,
Living their last days in fear
In the flesh fiends still lives on
The consciousness they used to be
Mouthless, screaming, pleading as they
Maul their loved ones limb from limb
Under heaps of rotting meat
The fleshpit bores into the soil
Veiny tendrils twisting, tangling
Like an ophidian coil
As its veins spread wide
In the fertile, porous earth
Meaty flowers sprout like fingers
Puncturing the dirt
When the nightfall comes
They sing in an eerie voice
‘Come to me’ they sing
‘Join me and rejoice’
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6. |
Hunter
05:28
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On the streets of the old town,
Keen eyes scan for prey
Horrors around every corner
Betrayed by their stench of decay
Hunched over a fresh kill
Feasting, eyes aglow
Muscles spring to action
Beast dispatched by a precise blow
Blood drips from serrated blade
Crimson stains on rugged suede
Oh, dear hunter, on dark streets you prowl
Smell the beasts’ blood, hear as they howl
Your tool, the cleaver, their flesh it rends
With a quick strike a wretched life ends
Deep within these ruins lies the truth
A crawling nightmare, malign and astute
In this dream no respite you’ll find
But through insight you’re no longer blind
Bound by the contract
For healing you have signed
In exchange for your life
Kill all beasts that you can find
From ominous cathedrals
Through hamlets wrecked with curse
To fog shrouded castles
Knee deep in blood you’ll traverse
Oh, but knowledge can be a curse
A nightmarish hellscape reveals itself to you
Creatures, beyond the perception of man
What’s been seen, cannot be unseen again
Haunting your every step
A gaze, an unseen force
Lingers in the back of your mind
Draws you closer to its source
Then, it reveals itself
Here, where your journey ends
A presence, vile and eldritch
From the nightmare’s moon it descends
Pale blood drips from your blade
Ichor stains the rugged suede
Oh, dear hunter, in dark depths you prowled
Smell the old blood, eldritch and foul
Your tool, the cleaver, their flesh it rends
With a quick strike a wretched life ends
Deep within you unveiled the truth
A crawling nightmare, malign and astute
Its chance to procreate from it you snatched
Reborn, an infant old one has hatched
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7. |
Solve et Coagula
02:00
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A roiling mindscape built in conceptual space
Inside the cortex of a slumbering god
Trapped in this hell together with myriad others
Or are they just lives I was?
How could a mind bear the weight of a billion patterns
Thrust onto them by this indifferent design?
Built, then dissolved, stirred, then recoagulated
Could countless selves equate to just mine?
Solve et Coagula
Are these even my own memories?
They contradict the concept I had
Of the being I call myself; is it even real?
Or just chaos in a vacant head?
Nightmare logic dictates the laws of this place
Firmament heaves, a new self forms
Eternity is here for this contemplation
Then in a second I'm dissolved
How could a mind bear the weight of a billion patterns
Thrust onto them by this indifferent design?
Built, then dissolved, stirred, then recoagulated
Could countless selves equate to just mine?
Solve et Coagula
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8. |
Juggernaut
02:57
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The stench of decay fills the air, heralds a horrid sight
A looming shape of rancid flesh, metal and creeping blight
Malignant automaton, a million years old
Bringer of armageddon, in prophecies foretold
Ruin marks the path of the juggernaut
The ground heaves under titanic feet
Cyclopean fleshmetal wrought dreadnought
The harvest of life is nigh complete
Nano-tendrils breach their minds
Victims writhe in a simulated afterlife
Their agony fuels the engines
Speakers blast out their anguished screams
Decay paves the path of the juggernaut
Hope crushed under titanic feet
Cyclopean fleshmetal wrought dreadnought
The harvest of life is now complete
The putrid giant powers down, its work here is complete
A world's worth of biomatter bubbling at its feet
Another time, another world will bear its immense weight
But now, a lifeless monument, for aeons it will wait.
Juggernaut 4x
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9. |
Give Me Your Flesh
03:57
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Gazing through the veil of reality
A formless, malignant essence waits
Yearns to taste the pleasures of life
A deceptive scheme it creates
Its whispers seep through the cracks of the veil
Permeates susceptible minds
Masquerading, a benevolent deity
And prophets for its cause it finds
Enthralled by charismatic sermons
A congregation swiftly grows
Germinating seeds of decadence;
In their veins its malice flows
Flagellation leads to a vision,
A visitation in shared dreams;
Conviction in their god's existence
Push them towards new extremes
Oh, humble flock, come to me and partake
Oh, in return something small I will take
Like creeping blight around the whole world
Churches rise up from the mud
Codices of esoteric knowledge
Etched into skin, inked in blood
Radical acts of self-harming practice
Exalt the name of the Crimson King
Offerings reach the critical mass
The membrane bursts, its essence thirsts,
And pours through, swirling, gleaming,
Until sanity collapses screaming
Oh, humble flock, come to me and partake
Oh, in return just your flesh I will take
Give me your flesh, let me come through
Let me construct my vessel through you
Give me your skin, let me breathe in
The air of your world, a feast well deserved
Salvete ad rubrum regem
Induti stolis sanguinis
Libera nos domine
De carcere carnis
Flesh siphoned from the cultists’ bones;
An offering that splits the veil
Mountains shake and the oceans boil
As it comes through with a scorching gale
Fresh meat swirls around the dark shape
Forming the skin of the nascent god
Its towering shape blots out the Sun;
It yearned for flesh, now flesh he got
Oh, humble flock, bound to me you'll partake
Oh, in return just your world I will take
Warmth, tastes and smells, I want it all, I suck them dry
Until my swollen form reaches up to the sky
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10. |
Palingenesis
04:00
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A dark rite
To reshape the face of the Earth
Put to motion, kept in secret
To bring forth our rebirth
A vile cult
Of Old Gods, aeons lost
Aimed to create a new world
Through global holocaust
Chants in the deep, the Heavens weep
As their long sleep ends
Then, as the oceans drain
It truly begins…
Shiver in horror
The rapture is near
Chained by your morals
You’re blinded by fear
This coming new world
Will shatter your binds
Bringing forth madness
And freeing your minds
The earth cracks
And shifting tectonic plates
Unveil a plane, eldritch, unseen
And split open its gates.
Gods wake
And spill into our plane
Their sight, formless and dreadful,
Drives the meek insane
Unraveling minds, burning eyes
Of the ones can’t bear
To look upon this brave, new world
Light up the night
Revel in murder
The rapture is here
Perverse, vile, and free
Of morals and fear
Unspeakable horrors
Envelop the skies
Rejoice in their sight
Through maimed, blinded eyes!
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11. |
Beyond
04:43
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Oh, for countless nights
Under flickering lights
With shaking hand I write
Hope someone will find
This note on what I saw
The things, they squirm and gnaw
Gnaw at the wall of sleep
Hope that wall would keep
Keep them at bay
Alert I must stay
Oh, beyond the wall a tide of nightmares wait
And push against my mind, I feel their immense weight
Clawing, gnawing still, into our dreams they spill
Through tiny cracks they made, what will befall us if I break?
Once, there were many more people like me
Standing atop the wall, facing calamity
Lucid dreaming, keeping them back...
But now it's only me
Alone, how long I can
Keep back the hungering tide?
So now, pleading I write
Release me from this plight
Oh, beyond the wall a tide of nightmares wait
And push against my mind, I feel their immense weight
Clawing, gnawing still, into our dreams they spill
Through tiny cracks they made, what will befall us if I break?
Could I keep them at bay?
Sane I must stay
Oh, beyond the wall a tide of nightmares wait
And push against my mind, I feel their immense weight
Clawing, gnawing still, into our dreams they spill
Through tiny cracks they made, what will befall us if I break?
I feel my mind dissipate, the firmament shakes
I close my eyes, letting go, now it's too late...
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