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Artifacts of the Damned
02:31
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Drops from the eyes like liquid fire
Lying down, partially absorbed, on these inert walls
Salvation through ominous light idolatry
The blackened blood flows into turbulent oceans
Over the short sighted glance
Of your deflagration
Ages of infinity before me
My pilgrimage through the valley of shadows
Artifacted sons of fierce arrangements
Never satiated, never defeated
It's useless to fight against them
The overwhelming strain
Of the soul against the flesh
Makes them shine, makes symmetries out of
Chaos they emerged from
Vomited on the storm
This dreadful crawling lubricated
The machinery of conscience
I sought beyond the veil of perdition
Tearing this somber canvas, plunging myself
Into the crimson sea
Gushed out by itself
Lymph of a misconceived existence
Rebirth through tyranny
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Transforming what is most sacred in the world
Into an exaggerated hurricane of possession
Dripping matter into the jaws of hell
White as die light of an exploding star
Before its atoms disperse into the dark
The catharsis imposes bleeding
Devours gestures, leaves fossilized tracks
Of its passage into this world
Through sin, clandestine creation
Indiscriminate cloning of a corrupt self
That accepts no orders
Let the void fill with pain
The senses sharpen, the mind excretes miasmas
That slide off the skin and assail
The canvas of common perception
A veil of Maya, corroded and penetrated
This is my recurring dream
Beyond which unsounded depths open before me
From their darkness they emanated glowing rays
Burnt out with sunrise
But I don't doubt their supremacy
My bloody traces, my means to reach them
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A Despicable Harvest
02:38
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A tangle of souls that makes the air diseased
Human dismay darkens the horizon
A boundless plain
Stage for the next harvest
Overseen by the jailors of condemned minds
Craving for dead ideals
Collecting all last breaths
Extracting lymph from their jugulars
Fertile ground for seeds of the end
Sickening appetite satisfied
A despicable harvest...
Injecting nothingness
They ripen, ready for Demetra's scythe
The smell of order
A despicable harvest
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It once was light
02:37
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It once was light
Caresses resting on the tired limbs
Now everything becomes heavy
Ooze sticks to the skin
And leaches inside
Violation
Inhalation of entity
Where is the sensation of magnificent vertigo
Of terrifying euphoria?
The vault falls down on me like a shroud
Its brightness gives way to a fetid mist
Which feeds off my flesh
Contagion falls from its accursed breath
Who am I to gel lost on my way home?
To feel myself already dead?
What have I done?
I feel blood drip from my hands
The valley of the shadow welcomes me
With its viscous terrain, familiar
Fertilized by the decomposition of my spirit
While the march weighs me down
While each pain goes dead
No friendly sleep can find me
In this limp obscurity
Suffocate...
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Breathing the Whirlwind
01:40
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An unheard sound
Buried by the blanket that covers the mind
Perpetually iterated gestures mislead the flock
While the air becomes unbearable
Proclaiming its earthly descent
Like the fist of a vengeful God
Drawing itself on the heart
And limbs of millions
Divine breath, angelic fervor
Subliming a matter given up for perished
To the Earth arteries it excavates
Dark blood spurts in the wind as if freed
Breathing the whirlwind
A new dawn rips the silence
And a liquid glow
Enlightens the tarnished faces
It doesn't distinguish lie from truth
Only strength legitimates its deeds
Endless lines before it wait for its vanquish
Delivered from the prison of flesh
Vaporized in the purple sky
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Why this feeling of vertigo?
A brief distraction and this struggle
Would be vain
Darkness has one thousand eyes
Look at my face, distorted by the need to exist
In this ever-changing ephemeral form
Conceived to survive
The sempiternal vortex
In which loathsome organisms feed on flesh
Not a drop of blood will be wasted
Nourishing the instinct
Of this carnivorous mass
Food for evolved thoughts
Condemning themselves perpetually
Until their facades crumble
At the first vital breath
Centuries of coherence through destruction
An abysmal archetype is crawling inside me
It keeps the beauty subdued
Scattering her remains along the main road
An omen for the brave
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Stillbirth
02:40
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Pulled from the womb
Baptized in darkened blood
Steel winds disperse his unheard cries
Gates are closed never to reopen
Red blurs into gray
Warmth gives way to cold
Reawaked from his idyllic tomb
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Smoldering hatred internally
A wolf in sheep's clothing
Remaining motionless
Hanging between clouds and ash
Harmony is only a chimera
Slumbering sequences
Are yearning for awakening
How many lives will they restore?
Swept into currents, march of revenants
Smoldering hatred internally
The glance of the predator
Enlightened by God's shine
In torment consumed
A pitch black fluid melts nerves
Once geometrically linked
By aeons of obedience
And boils over, destroying the embankments
Built to save the last glimmers of sanity
Nurturing erosion
Brandishing flags by others embroidered
The blasphemous force has been vanquished
Enslaved through caresses and simpers
Ready to kill at command
Organized hordes of deformity
Emerging from beneath
Claws, spines, teeth
Polished by velvet gloves
Ivory for unattainable towers
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Celestial Purification
02:16
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A flock of stars follow its inexorable advance
While the Earth is screaming in terror
Stunned eyes witness its might
As it evaporates sentiments
Beat uninterrupted
Tension without release
Ceaseless friction razing oracles down
Dreaded by men, Gods, universes
Ten thousand harpoons in its snow-white trail
All in vain
Roaring amongst joy and fear
Ancient dogmas dissolved in atoms
Their purulent roots dried up and blown away
Their shapes forever denied
No war strategy can bridle its fury
Nor pleas for mercy restrain its march
When its breath moves mountains
And an inscrutable night
Encircles your tired limbs
Bow down
Heart in hands
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Ravenous
02:14
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Walking into the jaws of the future
Devour the flesh, annihilate this heretic will
Eternal suffering for he who defies
The atrocious abyss
Transformed into a shadow of himself
Drawing near to entities
Materialized by his black miasmas
Worn-out from within
The soul expands its evil humours
Like a ravenous abscess
Lord of atrocities
Perpetuates his dynasty
Through the dust of time
His blackened arteries
Branched out through the parched soil
Enthroned
The privilege of sharing suffering
The projection of my damnation
On your unknowing minds
With blades forged in my image & likeness
I will engrave a path through your hearts
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Walking into a Nightmare
04:17
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Moving along a surface of glacial idyll
Motion and thought fossilized
Ceaseless spiraling the only movement
In an infinite procession
Of decrepit intentions
Layers of events sucked dry of significance
Piled up in the vast cemetery of the soul
Because obscurity must be vanquished
The horror of great distances threatens this
Calm
It doesn't matter if blood will be drained
To the last drop
These eyes observe from above
Through a veiling sheet of ash
No way out
On the seventh day. something moved
Wounds that have never bled now infected
Black as if penetrated by the cosmic void
But teeming with living palpitations
Worms that eat up matter from the inside
Nights become days, trees grow red
Beauty reappears, reemerges from a vortex
Given up for dead
Beauty, mutated, shaped by the grasping
Claws of a harpy
Devotedly disfigured
With a puckered smile of scarring
Beneath unknown skies
Its bloody caravan departed
Never to be halted
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12. |
Bloodline
02:17
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A blood-red line
Breaks through the dusty blanket
Spreading amidst the astonished masses
Its schizoid rush knows no impediments
Piercing the heart
Infecting the most hidden recesses
Inhuman, it accepts no rules
A tyrant sleep wearing down
Light swallowed
Hate assimilated
Reason rejected
Through these biting roads
Sowed with hooks
Another disciple bleeds
Its flesh hideously torn
But the line keeps moving forward
In its whirling twitch
A main road has been found
Chiseled in the flesh, unidirectional
Destination unknown
Its reaching will demand victims
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