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Journey To The Abyss
10:06
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Howling echoes dissolve
As I step deeper into silent woods
Gnarled branches petrified by time
Grasping at a dying sky
The crackling of flame
Subtly calls my name
I am the moth drawn to the light
This torment I bring only upon myself
Paralysis damns you
To chase the things you never caught
Indecision breeds
These charred and whirling souls
A well of despair punishes the righteous
Purgatory with no chance at redemption
The tail quirks, points me towards the bottom
Where time stops and eternity opens
Depressive atmosphere suffocating
Emptiness disguised as peace
You did no wrong yet you pay the price
You were denied the chance to ascend
And so you sigh forever in darkness
Packed into a perverted Elysium
A faded broken heaven drained into gray
Once elegant towers crumbling
The center pavilion houses those great
Emitting a bright light amidst the gloom
Within this castle still there is no peace
Only a lessening of misery
Depressive atmosphere suffocating
Emptiness disguised as peace
A faded broken heaven drained into gray
Once elegant towers crumbling
Sighing echoes dissolve
As I step deeper into burning hell
Entrenched sorrow a blessing
Compared to what lies ahead
The ferryman shall take me to the start of my journey
Down the flaming river of warring souls
Through the gates where hope is lost
Abandoned at the door
House of pagans I must leave
Descending to greet my destiny
The icy lake of frozen spirits
The tug of earth's center too strong to ignore
Stepping deeper into screaming hell
Where time stops and eternity opens
The tail quirks, circle nine
I have heard the call of Satan
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2. |
At Your Disposal
06:36
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Succumbed to all you have to offer
I am the snake curled round your wrist
No weapon can strike dead the thoughts within your own mind
No cruder weapon against those weak of will
My blood spills onto heated stone
Turns to steam and gales tear it away
With the haunted souls of the invertebrates
Who succumbed to the one thing you had to offer
Naked bodies, heaps of writhing flesh
Their indulgence becomes their punishment
Godless, filthy orgy
Stained with the fluids of their sins
Supple skin to perverted flesh
Rotting curtains of fat to toothless gaping maw
Decay and disease infect these gusts
Yet here I stand at your disposal
Slimy beast releases the spawn of the pit
Mutant half-breeds born in hell
I know you are here somewhere
Let the gusts take you from place to place
They wail of your faithlessness
And you shall wallow in your disgrace
What I would do to catch one last glimpse of your face
Your cracked bleeding skin once beautiful
Your exterior now reflects your ugly soul
Yet here I stand at your disposal
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3. |
Gluttons Wallow
05:07
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Spittle drips down bloodied fangs
Mud cakes paws, flesh beneath claws
Three contesting wills confined to one body
Yet to one goal they are bound
It patrols the banks of black mud
To slake an undying hunger
It rends its captives limb from limb
And tears into shredded sinew
Gluttons crawl forth from pools of filth
To slough off their own excrement
Mangled and flayed by the hound of hell
Imprisoned in filth they shall remain
Gluttons wallow in pools of filth
To bathe in their own excrement
Mangled and flayed by the hound of hell
Imprisoned in filth they shall remain
The pelting hail batters the mire
Like pigs, the damned wallow in slush
Frigid rain sticks dirt to skin
Sludge clinging to every surface
Blinded souls starve and shiver
Dead to the stench of waste
The water shall never wash them clean
In pools of filth they shall remain
Gluttons crawl forth from pools of filth
To slough off their own excrement
Mangled and flayed by the hound of hell
Imprisoned in filth they shall remain
Gluttons wallow in pools of filth
To bathe in their own excrement
Mangled and flayed by the hound of hell
Imprisoned in filth they shall remain
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4. |
Insatiable
05:22
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Flayed backs expose raw muscle
Gangrenous wounds dripping red and hosting fungus
They open and close like unsatisfied mouths
Permitted neither speech nor sustenance
You will do the labor that built your empires
And receive naught but avoidance of pain
These backs broke because you wanted more
Now the shredded flesh belongs to you
(3x) There is never enough that you can take
There is never enough you can deny others
The pits of want are bottomless
And you seek only to fill your own
Your tearing sinews fail you in your Sisyphean task
Pointless and impossible as satiating your greed
Yet you durst not stop, lest you face the whip
For once you are on the side of the powerless
Selfish ideals, grubby hands
Grabbing all they can, pulling strings
Now push the weight of what should be your guilt
You can’t buy your way out of hell
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5. |
Drowning
05:15
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The river froths and boils
Emaciated, charred skeletons
Driven mad by heat
Claw at empty sockets
The pools of blood feed the churning mass
Rivulets dribbling down jagged stone
Displaced by the writhing of tortured souls
The steaming flames burn bright crimson
Passive beneath the surface
Drowning forever in fire
As if in a dying daze
So distant are those who maintain will
Muffled cries of the wrathful above
Your own screams reverberate
Throttle your ears with the sounds of torment
You cannot stop, you cannot begin
Open mouth, lava pouring in
Encase your insides with molten flame
Solidifies and drags you towards the riverbed
Your weakness determines your final resting place
Passive beneath the surface
Drowning forever in fire
As if in a dying daze
So distant are those who maintain will
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6. |
Malicious
06:42
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The polluted waters of the Stygian marsh
Slosh and swirl about my knees
I try not to imagine what lies below
And board my boat from fear
Fog shrouds the putrid swamp
To hide this fortress of sin
Mud oozes into the moats
To fortify this city of pain
Pale cadavers stare blindly
From beneath the murky water
Flies attracted by death skim the surface
Dead thorny thickets dot the wasteland
Fog shrouds the putrid swamp
To hide this fortress of sin
Mud oozes into the moats
To fortify this city of pain
The furies perch atop jagged steeples
These red walls loom dauntingly
Firelight flickers, shadows dance
Silhouetted demons survey the land
The grand gates of bare metal
Creak open on rusty hinges
As I cross into the den of the malicious
Now entrapped within these walls
Dispersed throughout the hills and plains
Lie the flaming tombs of the heretics
Disbelief has led them here for time immortal
To suffer for what they denied
The stench of waste overpowers all
Refuse, decay, and the touch of smoke
Bodies grow tightly packed
Animated, shambling, or beyond movement
Fog shrouds the putrid swamp
To hide this fortress of sin
Mud oozes into the moats
To fortify this city of pain
The furies perch atop jagged steeples
These red walls loom dauntingly
Firelight flickers, shadows dance
Silhouetted demons survey the land
The grand gates of bare metal
Creak open on rusty hinges
As I cross into the den of the malicious
Now entrapped within these walls
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7. |
These Barren Lands
06:04
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Tyrants bathe in the blood of their victims
Flesh melts away, boiling, searing
Retribution for the lives stolen
Means that the powerful become powerless
Burning skin, cooking fat
Smoke rises and clogs my senses
Overwhelming, stiflingly strong
The harsh taste of blood on my tongue
Approaching the center, I dare to enter
The dead forest, where the harpies feast
Tormented faces etched into the wood,
They suffer in death as they did in life
Branches torn from these temporary bodies
Only to regenerate, the cycle restarts
The bird with a cruel woman’s face
Warily traces my footsteps
The trees grow stunted and gnarled
I make my way past the forest’s heart
The gravel and sludge give way to sand
That scorches as if it has touched the sun
Flakes of fire fall from the sky
Sparks and embers drifting on jagged gusts
The snowfall of hell, the rain of this circle
Ash dusts these barren lands
The desert crawls with twisting bodies
Driven insane by the heat and desolation
Stretched out on the sand, sprinting forever,
Whatever the action, there is no end
There is no end
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8. |
Penultimate
07:10
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A circus of torment awaits my eyne
Poetic justice takes strange shapes
These ditches a theater, a penultimate show
Before the finale, ten ditches left to go
I scan the circle for a preview of my path
The malebolge teems with festering souls
Demons screech and damned spirits wail
Each eternally locked into their roles
The demons drive the sinners,
Whips lash at broken backs
Traitors walk whilst flayed
Liars march in leaden robes
Societal diseases manifest physically
Heads reversed view only the past
You could not see you receive no mercy in death
The dishonest turn gladiators, they battle in pools of filth
Grafters sit in boiling tar under threat of hook and claw
Simoniacs betray their godly oaths for greed
Behold the anti-baptism — fire burns your feet
Reptilian transformations, spontaneous combustions
Dragons and serpents feast on the souls of thieves
Eternal disembowelment and regeneration
Lacerating one another to steal back their human forms
The schismatics tuck their severed heads ‘neath arms
Entire bodies split in twain like the divisions they create
Deceivers and corruptors appear as living flames
Shorn of all identity except for their pain
A circus of torment awaits my eyne
Poetic justice takes strange shapes
These ditches a theater, a penultimate show
Reaching the finale, ten ditches now I know
Descending through the well, my tour is ending
One more to go, the ultimate show
Passing through the ring of chained titans
In the center of the sphere, the finale is here
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9. |
To Re-Behold The Stars
09:38
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The sole movement in the lifeless cavern
Belongs to the distant silhouette in the centermost ring
Once with strength and fight beat these leather wings
Futile, weak, escape forsaken, eternity stretches on
They wave the frigid gust o’er wretched sinners
The worst of their kind, they belong where stillness reigns
Tears frozen over eyes, grotesque expressions
Torturous positions, distorted by the ice
The treacherous do not plead as I slip past
This cursed circle dead and drained
Gray and grim just like the first
Yet it is not emptiness that plagues these souls
Treading past the feeble moans
Of those naive enough to wish
For any semblance of of deliverance
They should have abandoned hope
At the door
The bloodied maws and mangled bodies enter view
The unholy three dead to the sound of their own skulls crushed
The rotted teeth chew almost pensively
But I know He is void of feeling
My gaze locks with that of Satan’s
He stares through me in perpetual haze
Nothing ever changes in this barren wasteland
Nothing ever changes once hell hath frozen over
But I am not bound, I am not broken
I am alive and I see the way
The center of space, the center of evil
I must approach to make my escape
No wonder I find the world is infected
Rot spews forth from the hole at hell’s bottom
Restless gales impede my journey’s end
But I’ve clawed my through hell and back again
To re-behold the stars
Through hell and back again
Yet the crackle of flame calls my name
Eternity leaks into the overworld
Carrying evil, the stench of decay
You have made it through hell and back again
Through hell and back again
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Eternity Opens San Diego, California
Experimental, eclectic metal from San Diego, California. Est. 2016.
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