1. |
Exordium
01:01
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2. |
War Vessel
04:55
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Anchors raised and sails unbent, into the cosmic sea she went
Behold her vast magnificence
Fifty-thousand armored tons, clad bow to stern with iron guns
Across the ocean, lands, and sky, advancing through enemy lines
Hell rained down
Chaos, death and fire
With strength and speed unrivaled
No recourse for survival
The crimson fluid filled their dying lungs
Armed to the teeth
A monumental heap
Into the soul-burning sun
Underneath the moonshade of decreation
Peace was never an option
Peace was never an option
War vessel
Man-made death machine
War vessel
Slaughter paved the path to victory
Into the soul-burning sun
Underneath the moonshade of decreation
Peace was never an option
Peace was never an option
War vessel
Man-made death machine
War vessel
War vessel
Man-made death machine
War vessel
Slaughter paved the path to victory
Waves of raging blue
Storm against her mighty hull
Towards the canopy
She touches the violet skies
Washed away to bleeding shores
Steadfast, all guns blazing forth
Into the soul-burning sun
Underneath the moonshade of decreation
Peace was never an option
Peace was never an option
War vessel
Man-made death machine
War vessel
War vessel
Man-made death machine
War vessel
Slaughter paved the path to victory
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3. |
Nocturneous
05:41
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Deep in the well of a dream
Every night
Darkness falls
From the crypts they crawl
Black, faceless things come for me
Morbid shapes
From northwind storms
In dark droves they swarm
Sylphlike, piercing tongues, with bestial wings
Horror beyond all perceived memory
Grotesque distortions
Prehensile paws latch to my flesh
Vile perversions
To desolate dreamscapes we voyage
Nocturneous
(Nocturneous)
Nocturneous
Terror beyond our wildest (dreams)
Abhorrent visions
A skyward climb to jagged peaks
Vulgar perceptions
Through nether pits and wretched lakes of agony
Nocturneous
(Nocturneous)
Nocturneous
Terror beyond our wildest dreams
Daybreak hours slowly creep
Still I hunger to shed this sleep
Deep into the lurking night
Long I watched with these wearied eyes
Nocturneous
(Nocturneous)
Nocturneous
Terror beyond our wildest dreams
When will I wake from this dream?
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4. |
Skybreaker
03:06
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The sun bleeds a stain on the clouds
Ethereal archways unbound
As dusk breaks the firmament’s hold,
A spirit’s ascension unfolds
Falling from the sky, evolving with the stars
Will we ever find our calling to break the sky apart?
Among the starseeds and spheres, a spark of life
Year after crestfallen year, the fates of time
Have woven unbridled threads towards the end
Immersed with light to pierce the night
Falling from the sky, evolving with the stars
Will we ever find our calling to break the sky apart?
Harmonious gateways take form
Above an inferior world
Like beacons they call back their own
From dust we take flight to our home
Falling from the sky, evolving with the stars
Will we ever find our calling to break the sky apart?
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5. |
Gemini
05:02
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Memories compressed
Of future and past
Drawn from the echoes of time
Cosmic perception, a cascading flood
By countless strands
My life-force has spanned
Mine is the link to our kind
Parallel portrait yet divergent ways
Oh, as thousands before
Bound to an alternate world
Our destinies were not to be
Hereditary duality
Face to face, the mirror speaks
“I am you, you are me”
Silent still we must remain
Spiraled in synchronicity
Face to face, you and I
Two as one - Gemini
Planets collide
As our cells divide
Born of symmetrical stars
Matched in the shadows of tomorrow’s past
Oh, as thousands before
Bound to an alternate world
Our destinies were not to be
Hereditary duality
Face to face, the mirror speaks
“I am you, you are me”
Silent still we must remain
Spiraled in synchronicity
Face to face, you and I
Two as one - Gemini
Coiled and intertwined
I call to you
From the other side
Coiled and intertwined
I call to you
From the other side
Our destinies were not to be
Hereditary duality
Face to face, the mirror speaks
“I am you, you are me”
Silent still we must remain
Spiraled in synchronicity
Face to face, you and I
Two as one - Gemini
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6. |
December Flower
04:15
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Towards the rich archaic heavens
Towards the lack diorama
You are the artist and the texture
That plays with the mantle of the earth
When the bleakest of powders
Lie rooted to the starched stones
And the roots that feed the peaking trees
Embrace the sleeping stones
Archaic pearls of sleep and death
The voice of December losing its breath
As the flower yard of white and grey is haunted, is haunted
White as the down of flaking snow
The heroic emblems of life
Green is the colour of my death
As in winter-guise I swoop towards the ground
Green is the landscape of my sorrow-filled passing
Archaic pearls of sleep and death
The voice of December losing its breath
As the flower yard of white and grey is haunted, is haunted
White as the down of flaking snow
The heroic emblems of life
We are in flames
Towards the dead archaic heavens
We Are The Mantle and The Texture
The alters, the mantle of the earth
Archaic pearls of sleep and death
The voice of December losing its breath
As the flower yard of white and grey is haunted, is haunted
White as the down of flaking snow
The heroic emblems of life
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7. |
Promethean Fire
03:10
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8. |
Star of Extinction
05:48
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A stirring shadow spirals overhead
To pierce the armored atmosphere
Impending impact brings the end to our being
Condemned to repeat time and history
A calamity from the skies,
on a crash course to collide
Finite and fragile,
Impotent and ephemeral
Eight billion breaths force-fed with ash by death’s cosmic grasp
In the face of disarray, guilt and remorse
Lifeforms clinging as the final chapter closed
Oh, in feverish obscurity
The distant tremors echo near
For all is dust from cradle to grave
Hold tight and revere the hours that remain
And with extinction comes a falling star
Her hooves beat down this borrowed soil
Oh,
To bring forth the end
Negation of existence
Constrained to a universal funeral
A planet void of use
The future’s fragmentation
Reduced to a universal funeral
Condemned to repeat time and history
Existential expiration
For the banished and forgotten
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9. |
Paradigm Shift
06:05
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Principles
Breaking away
From life’s expectations
Shedding our skin
Consciousness
Of the enslaved
Mind revolution
Waking within
Stargazers and dreamers, idealists and fools
Will the waves come crashing down on you?
Power surpassing the scepter and sword
You called down the thunder, now reap the storm
Chrysalis
Stoking the flames
Metamorphosis
Of mind and soul
An ethos of civilization endured
By standing on the shoulders of those before
Unable to fly with these lifeless wings
Wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
When all is said and done
One for all, all for none
Against the turning tide
Shifting the paradigm
The reconstruction of a wasted view
A mind that cannot change,
Cannot change anything
Averse acceptance of a simple truth
A mind that cannot change,
Cannot change anything
When all is said and done
One for all, all for none
Against the turning tide
Shifting the paradigm
Against the turning tide
Shifting the paradigm
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10. |
The Pillars of Creation
04:32
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Nebulous gravitation, ghostlike fractals form
Constellations out of view
Torn from the firmament of Elysium
Catalyst to creation
Towering tendrils rise, scorched in ultraviolet
Pathway to ancient Gods
Hues of rust and amethyst,
Emerald and cerulean
Coiled within the tail of Serpentarius
Massive clouds protrude like outstretched fingers
Limbs of dust and whirling colour emersed
Spires reaching through the labyrinth of time
Nemesis divine
The pillars of creation
Like dreams that reach beyond
The Empyrean
Shielding newborn stars
That cradle in its columns
Primordial seeds surpass
The darkest depths and highest mountain
Amongst the Star Queen’s breast
Soaring to the heavens
Majestic sky fire
Betwixt her steadfast branches
Coiled within the tail of Serpentarius
Massive clouds protrude like outstretched fingers
Limbs of dust and whirling colour emersed
Spires reaching through the labyrinth of time
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11. |
Across the Aeons
09:32
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Dying stars
Slowly falling to nowhere
Solar winds
Bringer of my consciousness
Boundless
Mother of nightfall
Father
Of the abyss
In death we embrace
As the voice of the cold celestial sea
Silently weeps
The funeral hymn of totality
Final breath
Of the fragmented universe
Zero dawn
All remnants of man and Earth
Boundless
Mother of nightfall
Father
Of the abyss
In death we embrace
As the voice of the cold celestial sea
Silently weeps
The funeral hymn of totality
Long since the cosmic spark and surge
When life flickered fast in dimensional birth
Entropy climbed and chaos converged
With grace we now wait for our death to emerge
Still time will stand
With each grain of sand
Erupting with endless colors
One last passage
Of my consciousness
For ‘where all life dies, death lives”
Boundless
Mother of nightfall
Father
Of the abyss
In death we embrace
As the voice of the cold celestial sea
Silently weeps
The funeral hymn of totality
Across the aeons…
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12. |
Cadence of Sorrow
02:31
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