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Countless years between the fated crossings
From the mighty threshold into time Under the ice-blue glare of a star-filled night Once again I had arrived... Another point of transition, another's grand design The endless quest of a darker mind A skewed symbiotic voyage through the all The legatee of a night much maligned Egested innocence, an empyrean expulsion The ethereal levee breaks in multicosmic explosion Unbound I rise Aleph-null was the lie Far beyond the rubicon In league with the Unlight! Fetid crests of purulent seas flowing over all The cleansing streams transecting time Guided through the propylaeum of the lemniscate Supposition's proof in drowning cries! Aberrant infinities, a systematic return to primal night Incalculable nefariousness swathed in failing light Unbound I rise Aleph-null was the lie Far beyond the rubicon In league with the Unlight! As the external projection of the Will, I will embody the insurrection into time With the cosmic singularity well within grasp, I pluck from the churning vortex a view into The blinding splendor of the multileveled universe The linear continuum of uncountable infinities! A point between all other points and nowhere in between, With malice of forethought I pass through time unseen. Where others failed before I was successful in my task, And so the ignis fatuus fades and I return to The blinding splendor of the multileveled universe The linear continuum of uncountable infinities! With malice of forethought I pass through time un Under Starside Skies "Pushed to find a way To sate a higher lust So through night I ride!" "My burden borne by craft of hand And strength of will Under Starside skies!" Long ago the foul stench rose, yet we remain... The few to whom the night truly belongs ? and by right lay claim. A darker path Through twilight's sky Awash in a sea of cries The preternatural rush Of a frenzied kill |
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| 4:06 |
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Paces quicken in the sunless dawn, on the plains below
As terra shifts so does the night, unbound with no ray of hope. Scatter, the wide array of a thousand harried souls Dispersed throughout the lonely camp fleeing to their hold From Aeries high in show of force so quickly do they come To fall upon the weaker flesh and fell them where they run Broken Shield of day, And so they carry on And on the shepherds herd as few may tend to stray Always heading eastward toward the red and cracking clay Barrier reef to the north and mires in the south The path veers ever steeply to the estuaries mouth. Failure in the tithe The pact was undone Swift it moves... into sight Swift it slices... through the hide Swift it falls... on the pile beneath Under Starside skies! From crimson earth I rise! My burden borne and my steel un-stilled. Tempered with care a few remain To return to the fastness high I ride the rising crests away. "Pushed to find a way To sate a higher lust So through night I ride!" "My burden borne by craft of hand And strength of will Under Starside skies!" A darker path Through twilight's sky Awash in a sea of cries The preternatural rush Of a frenzied kill Under Starside skies |
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| 5:34 | 
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| 4. |
| 3:30 |
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"Bending thoughts to the sky
I choose the path my will to try, And through it all the night." Frozen seeds of finite thoughts barren in less minds. The untilled planes of higher thought-a waste in midnight sky Silver beams on eddied streams the foolish wish to cross The arrogance of ignorance while another watches on Days to weeks as months will span The epoch lengths of mortal man To further seek the all A flawed approach to reason what has wandered must be lost Set upon a legions task with barely light of sun A dimming mind in motion is as clay to one more skilled Providing folly for the one that was caught from within Layer upon layer unbound in time and space-seeking the naught within the all A Looking glass spanning what was and is to be And in it all a piece of me! Impulsive drive to categorize the time invariant night Misapplied derivatives convoluted in pride End point limitations to a limitless existence Folding back the edges to a point at which I claim A furtive move to elude the frozen barbs of times So washed away, the minor player in his role in mine As guided through another's fate to seek the path forgotten So guided through another's fate to seek the path verboten And in it all a piece of me! Blinding Infinities the naught becomes the norm Receding boundaries to night's apprentice A claim laid, now lies in wait A call, a call to those that might! |
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| 6:16 |
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Faster... footsteps fall upon Swain's lane
Echoing... the frenzied turn to flight Alone.... Careless youths caution less Indurate... the sallow will carries on Hallowed grounds for a hallowed home Deep Within the Highgate crypt Privy by a chanced encounter fated by the glimpse The bitter loss of innocence upon the crimson lips A year ahead... the lonely path is tread again A union made... and broken in the night Fears allayed... by thoughts of each and future plans Fears displayed... as darker thoughts are shown Hallowed grounds for a hallowed home Deep Within the Highgate crypt Held in thrall while the sweeter flesh is tried Filling the warm core with my essence Always the same, to make a name, the "others" came A trophy of the highest order, to bring an end to the one The source of all, will not fall, what time itself ignored The folly of man to hunt a shade within the night Set to work on a moonlit night In the haze of a predawn mist Not a sound but the clanging gate Swinging free by the northern wall FIRE IN THE NIGHT! Lesser ones are put down As further into the crypt they seek With no sign and the thickening smoke They retreat to seal the way BURIED WITHIN THE VAULT! Fresh walls of cement and kneblasch permeate Premature satisfaction as the hunters......... they abate Known to me alone this manse of mine and all its ways A safer route free from taint and burning rays Safety... deep within barren soil Deeply.... dreaming of the next embrace Castled... and always one move ahead Hunting... the hunters using them as pawns Hallowed grounds for a hallowed home Deep Within the Highgate crypt Privy by a chanced encounter fated by the glimpse The bitter loss of innocence upon the crimson lips |
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| 6:04 |
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Blinding where it tore the sky and fell from cosmos grasp
Blinding where it fed the lust and steals the thought of man Blinding where it seeds deceit in the waning lure of light Blinding where it seals the fate - bringing the end of all! Not to be heard, not to be seen another quest in darker dreams A slate devoid of yesterday now makes his way Deeper through the catching limbs the forest path seems closing in Footsteps on the foreign trail fall by vestigial engram "Eternal return into the night Disambiguation in the Unlight" Stranger here, yet stranger still the underlying pull of will The source of a recursive force since the dawn of time Ineffably at Haven's end, the fading rays as light rescinds Sets the stage once again for the final act "Confrontation, the two arrive Comprehension the two collide" The dichotomy embodies the whole and provides the key Gathering on a starless night as in times of old Always the endless struggle played out the same A never-ending conflict across infinite planes Across Infinite planes "An ever-changing background To the ouroboros tale" Immured in forgotten woods locked in eternal embrace Yellow feral eyes linked with a crimson gaze Glowing orbs seething, a time-immemorial lust The sylva air permeates with the sounds of The sounds of bitter steel! "The curtain draws as the dawn arrives A new champion stands" Blinding where it tore the sky and fell from cosmos grasp Blinding where it fed the lust and steals the thought of man Blinding where it seeds deceit in the waning lure of light Blinding where it seals the fate - bringing the end of all! Not to be heard, not to be seen another quest in darker dreams The lone survivor makes his way from dark woods path Indifferent to the battle's end, one day the paths will cross again When Legatee and champion meet by fate's design "Eternal return into the night Disambiguation in the Unlight" |
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| 3:49 |
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An inevitable cycle structures fail to stand tall upon this broken Pendulum
Descend into the great fall with arms to govern and minds to crawl Beneath this frame frail and small Grinding teeth and cracking bones Metal splinters and pins Money to dust gold into rust And everything in between will die with time Industrial soil erosion craters fill with blood Rivers of hydraulic fluid form canyons below Filling the air with sounds cutting metal Cranks turn and gears move Cracking the surface aged and weathered Her tears will burn the face you'll fail to recognize when she's in pain Growing withered and tired Charred from the sun's poison Burning sight and melting our Future |
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| 8. |
| 5:24 |
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Solar zenith long surpassed
The waning light in lunar path Leads the westward lagging edge In a crimson hue While the few belabor still The greater mass their bliss reveals Credulous, indolent flesh Dulled by time Shadows under guise of a passing day Shadows of loathsome time and odious place Shadows in the Stygian caves forlorn Shadows of an ancient night Analemma in contempt The one and seven nine descent Where light begins its wayward course Felt by those below For in the stead of absent rays The scintillating, cerulean haze Accents the ambient gelidity Spread from northern plains Shadows under guise of a passing day Shadows of loathsome time and odious place Shadows in the Stygian caves forlorn Shadows of an ancient night The fluid spread of tenebrous mist As blanket to the fertile fringe Freed from the confines, the elliptical-avail, the beginning of aphelion the force that none may quell. The turning of a world, the balance was destroyed, a caliginous return to the primal void. The upper plain long denied by light, the former claims of what was once by might! Resurgence, an out flow from wells long thought dry oozing into night! "Deeper, deeper, deeper, down I lie" From the calcite depths unknown slowly I arise The tyranny of persecution, the curse of broken oaths, The condemning of interment... where others would lose hope Tenacious, the lust left to fester on the Cimmerian recursive dreams of those below the dawn Banished by the sulphorous gaze, no longer holding sway, As final rays expire so in legion they awake. From the deepest sumps to cesspools far below they arrive as innumerable shades over all Locked below the stagnant earth the stale air permeates Through fallen stone and earth the amalgam makes its way Another fool dispatched Another's end for sport Iniquity's return in crepuscular glory! Shadows under guise of passing day Shadows of loathsome time and odious place Shadows in the Stygian caves forlorn Shadows of the ancient night! Another fool dispatched Another's end for sport Iniquity's return in crepuscular glory! |
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| 5:00 |
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Fire!
Daubed in darkest night A pulsing brush of Vermillion Spanning earth to sky Sired! In molten flames of biting rock From the earth within A show of force unleashed on all Serpentine the river flows slowly through crag and cleft Consuming fallen trees over the shallow ledge Ever moving in a measured pace down argentite slopes Adding to the sliding shale over centuries untold Emblazed on a darker canvas, the dissolution of light Scattered on the northern gale, swept away in a sea.... a sea of black (ash) Ash to ash, and so the path is mottled in the cooling night The slaggy trail of scoria atop the molten core Smoke and fumes issued forth far below the cliff Engulfing all from talus low to spire high Entropic acceleration, a pyrogenic demise Racing ever forward with granite seas aflame burning high... burning into Night Gone! And where were those that lie in wait? Based aside base in tribute to colossus Where dwelled the foolish few... Supplicant life spent in the pulsing shadow Of enthralling force to abyssal to pursue As in turn it now pursues A cleansing conflagration for all who may descry Purging the tenantry of light. Serpentine the river flows slowly through crag and cleft Consuming fallen trees over the shallow ledge Ever moving in a measured pace down argentite slopes Adding to the sliding shale over centuries untold Emblazed on a darker canvas, the dissolution of light Scattered on the northern gale, swept away in a sea, a sea of black ash |
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| 4:14 |
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[Lyrics: Losicco '95]
Atop The Highest Mountain, Across The Great Red Waste Lies The Key To My Deliverance From This Mortal Plane. The Radiance Of The Obelisk Sets My Eyes Afire With The Dark Scenes Of Time Now Emblazed Upon My Mind. As I Near The Ancient Shrine The Wind Screams Loudest Through Hollow Trees Which Line My Way As If To Obscure My Path. Yet This Cannot Be--For Being Part Of The Pale The Timbers Flare At My Touch And Return To The Ash From Which They Came. As I Approach The Ancient Monolith The Veins Of Mine Open To Night Receiving Waters From The Well Within Having Found The Point Of Eternal Return. I Am Alive Within The Night And Will Exist Beyond The End Of Cosmos Great And Mountains Small Oceans Of Time But Fill My Palms. Sacrarium Sweet Gate To Life Release Me From This World Of Lies A Point Between One-Thousand Suns To Build Again What Light's Undone |
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| 4:10 |
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Hunting the hunters, the cold justice of wrath
Avenging those that strayed onto a darker path Fallen lays another prize, this night-quest drawn to end Disposing in a manner fit, with no hope to ascend. Each day ends the same I follow through The door my will alone conceives and yields to form Retracing my life's strand through the naught Where twisted colors taint the metaphysical hue An ancient destiny scrolling through my mind With access to the Chronosphere I pursue them into time In a place where thoughts echo and equations carry weight I seek the source within the source as key to my fate A unified infinity derived from chaos trace I track the change in the line of man To shift the balance - a return to cerulean haze I seek the end to the scarlet thread Further into time a crimson glow is felt It guides me through the night Navigating Infinity's seas To another scene in time! Hunger in the night The primal force urges on As if by fate the other one appears. In a path known only to feral eyes With force the flesh-honed gauntlet ends the act. Always the same since the fall. Each slowing breath as though my own. I probe the reeling mind. A line blurred without distinction Spiraling through the twisted knots. Clarity's disillusionment. This path returns to me! Further into time a crimson glow is felt It guides me through the night Navigating Infinity's seas To another scene in time! An ancient destiny scrolling through my mind With access to the Chronosphere I pursue them into time In a place where thoughts echo and equations carry weight I seek the source within the source as key to my fate A unified infinity derived from chaos trace I am but an Ouroboros in time To shift the balance - a return to cerulean haze I seek to end - the scarlet thread in me! |
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