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Dreadnought
05:27
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I awaken in the ichor
Primordial froth of all creation
Surrounded by blackness
I peer into the infinite void before me
Who was I?
Who am I?
Are these questions worth answering?
No thought will slow my descent
My form is but a slave to the current
A great moan echoes out through the deep
And a light peers out from the darkness
The jagged maw is revealed
A behemoth imprisoned by sleep
Dreaming
Drowning
I hear the dreadnought calling
Vacuous
Darkness
Is this the void beyond?
The colossus of flesh grins wide
And its maw opens up to a vacuum, a vortex that pulls me inside
I thrash in vain, helpless to turbulent tides
A pressure clamps down on my head
Split in twain
Spilling all of myself into everything else
Guillotine of bone and brine
Bisects
Yet I feel no pain
Drag. Me. Down
Into the infinite depth
Fear of the unknown has left me completely (repeats)
Lost in cosmos
Road to nowhere
Spinning in void
Nihilist Sisyphus
Are there answers to my questions?
Darkness
Sorrow
Without a light to follow
The belly of the beast
So vacant, so hollow
Existence cannot be despair
I refuse to disappear
A light shines out through the cavern
I gasp as the air fills my lungs
My feet touch the ground for the first time
I hear a song in an alien tongue
Ringing out like a bell of awakening
The swan song of enlightenment
I will make my way through these bowels
Before my burning questions set me aflame
Promethean flame, light my way
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2. |
Hollow
06:02
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Wading in the offal of the great one
I can't remember a time when I last saw the light
Hollowing out
How many moments have passed in this darkness?
Wandering in search of answers better off not knowing
Crestfallen
A waning moon in a starless sky
A mortal shell that is rotting from the inside
Humanity in a state of autophagy
I fight just to stay awake
In this emptiness
Finding no escape
Hollow, I forsake myself
I am led astray like a crow in hell
Dead weight
Overencumbered by my own corpse I drag behind me
But I have long since reached the point of no return
What compels me to struggle?
Is this hope or an instinct?
Is this hope or an instinct?
At last
A pale horizon dawns
As I bask in it's radiance
I stand upon still waters
I cast no reflection
I am not alone
The whites of unblinking eyes gaze out from the shallows
Black hands grasp my legs
As it whispers to me
I am incomplete
Hollow
Half alive
Dead inside
Still waning
I hear the voices screaming
"Don't you dare go hollow"
Dragged down low
They promise to make us whole
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3. |
The Animus and the Anima
05:24
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I crest the surface of the deep
As my breath returns to my lungs
A breeze rushes through the antechamber
I rise from the froth and tread forth
I see a light through the shimmering stones
And a gentle calm overtakes me
A colossal matron of steel towers high in the center
Under the weight
I stand on my feet
Have I found my second half?
Am I no longer doomed to the left hand path?
Out of the gaping maw
Emerges the truth I’ve sought for so long
We’re drifting through the unknown
Have I found my balance here?
My fear has flown far away into the nothingness
From within the metal mother
My anima cries out to me
Who will I be, if I accept tranquility?
Was all that was dead inside still part of me?
Is the path to peace rooted in acceptance?
Must I let go of the rage that brought me so far, to stand in this moment?
I venture into the construct and accept my fate.
Into the breach
The middle path
As the metal groans
I open my eyes and the light is blinding
It is empty
Out of the gaping maw
Emerges the truth I’ve sought for so long
We’re drifting through the unknown
Have I found my balance here?
My fear has flown far away into the nothingness
From within the metal mother
My anima cries out to me
The path behind me closes
As the steel bears its teeth and advances at me
Laughter echoes through the metallic casket
My matron mother, an iron maiden
My flesh is pierced from every angle
My hope is dashed among the stones
My search for truth was destined for mockery
There is no comfort within the void
My flesh weeps to the ground
The spikes in my eyes break the dam of my mind
This is the price of my foolish design
This is the suffering inherent in life
Hate boils in my veins
As my halves are combined
Yet there is no peace to be found
As the blood fills the chamber and I start to drown
Out of the cold
Into the flames
Resistance is futile
Existence is pain
Out of the gaping maw
Emerges the truth I’ve sought for so long
We’re drifting through the unknown
Have I found my balance here?
My fear has flown far away into the nothingness
From within the metal mother
My anima cries out to me
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4. |
Ripped Apart
04:55
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The horrid angles bend
The uncaring abyss expels it’s evil unto me
I could never imagine such fear as this
The imps laugh in delight as their hooks pierce my flesh
And as my head is engulfed in flames of my torment
I bury my face in my palms, but the facial flesh weeps through my fingers
Is this the inherent suffering in life?
I gaze blank at Gehenna before me
I smell the rot of styx, feel the flames of hell
This is the truth of life on Earth
Struggle, Worm
Suffer, Burn
Hate has filled my heart
I am ripped apart
Struggle, Worm
Suffer, Burn
In the shadow of an agonist hierarch
Hope dies like a child bleeding out in the dark
I must escape this anguish I have been born to
Yet every attempt, I slip further down
Sprinting headlong into the arms of oblivion
Why do my feet always fail me now?
I despise those living oblivious
An Elysium of ignorance
Hark, the heralds of doom
Save me from the impending pale
Struggle, Worm
Suffer, Burn
Hate has filled my heart
I am ripped apart
Struggle, Worm
Suffer, Burn
In the shadow of an agonist hierarch
Hope dies like a child bleeding out in the dark-
ness falls on the shoulders of the first born son
It seems that I have finally lost myself
A husk with a molten core
This spite that rages within me
With no mouth I must scream to the heavens above
Lo, all you craven beneath me
I will rape from this Earth what was taken from me
Why?
Why?
Why am I subject to life?
Struggle, Worm
Suffer, Burn
Hate has filled my heart
I am ripped apart
Struggle, Worm
Suffer, Burn
In the shadow of an agonist hierarch
Hope dies like a child bleeding out in the dark
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5. |
Nihil
05:29
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My fingers tremble with malice as my mind becomes clear for the first time in years.
Standing on the heads of the worthless dregs clamoring for the peak..
Free of all self-inflicted torment, I begin my descent in a single act of disobedience.
The beggarly shepherd has lost all sight of his sheep.
And now there’s nothing left to do but eat.
Hush little children
Shed your dismay
O’ life itself is meaningless
So death can bare no weight
We have sown every seed
There’s nothing left but to reap
O’ this life we leave behind
A futile ax we all must grind
Given sentience, left to die
The tragic fate of all mankind
Flail, writhe, it’s all the same
Eye for eye
Pain for pain
Annihilation all in vain
We will always rot the same
Disemboweled of all hope
Inoculated to optimism’s foolish prison
It’s fucking useless symbolism
Pitiful mechanism to cope with one’s mortality
An insignificant wretch
So follow me into death
Hush little children
Shed your dismay
O’ life itself is meaningless
So death can bare no weight
I have found my abolition from these primitive systems handed down by cowards
Parasitic misreligions drain us all of our ambitions with their useless superstitions
I have gazed upon the face of God and found it wanting and blank
The unmoved mover is dead and gone
I will move myself for my own sake
Here we are again
The abyss is beckoning
Free of fear, I’ll fall again
I’ll dive headfirst until the end
Death’s weary hands have lost their grip
I’ll hit the ground with no regrets
O’ this life we leave behind
A futile ax we all must grind
Given sentience, left to die
The tragic fate of all mankind
Flail, writhe, it’s all the same
Eye for eye
Pain for pain
Annihilation all in vane
We will always rot the same
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6. |
Everfall
06:01
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Plummeting from the precipice of my fool's high
I have lived for nothing
I will die for nothing
As if I didn't know the answers I sought would lead to ruin as all things do.
Lashing out at a simulacrum of a god
Will there ever come a day when I'm free of all my pain?
Living on is just a willful denial
Could I ever find a way?
A place to shed my hate
At the end swift death is all I desire
Life flashes before my eyes
All the joyous moments
A lacrimal torment
Outweighed by the suffering
Dragging myself through a life that's been forced on the masses by those arbitrarily fortunate
I chose the path of self annihilation
Like my father before me should have
I have tried and I have failed to forget those that dragged me back from the brink
I bear their sorrow
Fighting back tears
My heart breaks for the last time
Forgive me
Father, I know exactly what I have done
It is done
I return to the abyss
The waters crush my body
My vertebrae snaps
And an eldritch being advances at me
I'm staring in the eyes of something that never should have been
Insignificant
My id returns
The blasphemous prodigal son calls for retribution
Stranded in the void
The howling void cries out and I answer
Sweet nothing
Embrace me
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Abyssius Taipei City, Taiwan
Atmospheric & Technical death metal from Taiwan, Norway, and the USA.
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