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Among The Lost

by Eternity Opens

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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Insatiable 05:22
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
5.
Drowning 05:15
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
6.
Malicious 06:42
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
7.
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
8.
Penultimate 07:10
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
9.
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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"Among The Lost" is a concept album based on Dante's Inferno, in which every song represents a level of hell.

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released March 8, 2019

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Experimental, eclectic metal from San Diego, California. Est. 2016.

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