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Palingenesis

by The Aphotic Strain

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Rob St. Amant
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Rob St. Amant Ripping good melodic death metal with progressive elements. I would have bought this for the cover art alone! Favorite track: God Eater.
IAmRevEvil
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IAmRevEvil absolutely fantastic melodic death metal. 10/10. Favorite track: Dark Moon rising.
Warangelic
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Warangelic Intense and unrelenting, this album is a must have for any melodic death metal fans. Favorite track: God Eater.
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1.
Mimic Seed 03:03
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
2.
God Eater 03:47
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!
3.
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!
4.
Gateway 03:16
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
5.
Fleshpit 05:43
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’
6.
Hunter 05:28
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
7.
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
8.
Juggernaut 02:57
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
9.
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
10.
Palingenesis 04:00
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!
11.
Beyond 04:43
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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released November 27, 2022

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