- All Save One
The stage was set for murder
as death reached again for further
A line was drawn
on the day redemption slept
And into the light
a shade of rancor crept
All... all save one
- At The Heart Of Dying
I have lost myself within a curse
And must become someone else, someone worse...
I have lost the track of days for a night has fallen upon me
A darkness too thick for all light to penetrate
My eyes have grown to wear the dark yet still I cannot see
No strength left in this shell to rise from my ill-fate
- Bete Noire
Once a beast...
upon the earth unleashed as the soul of all their fears
Yet a brief distraction was enough, the scale was roughed
all is now clear
Cast down among the sullen
to pits of dark descend
Where nought greets the fallen
- Bring Me My Demons
Never have I seen thee in these cold rooms of the night
Never felt thy presence amidst the horror and blight
It is but ourselves we have to face in the end
When there are no depths left for us to descend
Gone past the shades of god and the gods of shades
Embraced morbid flesh with brand new blades
Explored dimensions of death in a thousand ways
- Cold Beneath The Sun
The strike of midnight
All is silent, all is Hell
The dream evades us
In this endless nightmare cell
The stones lie forsaken
Only shadows here collide
Once more the world has turned
- Dead and Dying
Stormbound is our world, seething and confined
Profound is this Hell, draconian in design
Arise from slumber to the call of the awaker
Renounce your leaders and lead me to your undertaker
Deep in Death's realm we still lay hiding
For despite our demise we still keep dying
- Death of the Tyrant
"The light grew old
and the hour itself reeked of pure finality..."
The air was still, breathing unease
of oblivion’s glacial release
And a promise of grave cold serenity
Among the lost, the tombless few
- Devour
The morning breaks with a gravelike silence
This time the scavengers have come from far
Take a good a look at the dead around you
And breathe deep the stench of your God
Join the insurrection for the hunt is afoot
The total extermination of the source
- branch and root
- Embrace the Scythe
Blank page after another
This tale has long bee through
No ink left in the bottle
The quills all cut in two
No words left unspoken
No deeds left untold
Only white space unending
- Ghosts
Forged in the fires of our distorted selves
The burning victims of our self-proclaiming Hell
Invading, assailing
New darkness once more unveiling
Beneath the blanket of a thousand stars...
Condemned to a future that none foretold
- Hearse With No Name
"Some believe that life is merely a sad dream
From which death us awakes
If so, the herald of dawn already walks among us..."
Within these visions I drown once more
Each day more violent than before
(I hear) wolves howling behind every door
And footsteps on an empty floor
- I Am Becoming
Unrestrained by the illusions
that hold a world at bay
Unbaptized in flames of delusion
For me the world was but a grave
The time is nigh for another revolution
As the sun gives away to a greater light
Just a leap in a private evolution
- Like Beasts Upon Their Prey
"for all men are evil and will always
act according to the wickedness of
their spirits whenever the the chance."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
In the darkened corners of your mind did you ever wonder
That the pain just might be more than you could bear
That the path you chose might tear you asunder
- Questions and Answers
Where all is lost and invaded
In a realm of dust and tarnished soil
Our minds and hearts outworn and jaded
Slowly turning to black as oil
Surpassed the filth of life once dear
Ventured far beyond hope and fear
With a sense of nothing drawing near
- Scars Aligned
In a world where life now slumbers
To a lullaby without a sound
Roads once leading to brighter futures
Now all lead us further down
In a world that tears apart
Even the strongest and the best
What hope can there be
- The Birth of Newfound Death
"There are moments in death
where events transcend the expected
and can transform the very foundations
of our existence.
Where death flees the ones
who seek most to embrace it
only to return in another form,
so familiar to us all..."
- The Silence Of The Storm
Burning through the pages of history
Ruthless like an ancient plague on words
Onwards with our tales of inglory
Infecting worlds beneath our herds
Burning! Ruthless! Onwards!
Infecting worlds beneath our herds...
- This World is Bleeding Flies
This world is bleeding flies!
Who heard the nightwind's whispers
Maladies to come that it once sang
Who saw the storms approaching
And the shadows hiding in the Sun
(rivers of life - now streaming red
- Towers of Silence
Why does this morning feel different from all the others
The Hand that once gave life has begun to smother
From my within my lungs the air has been released
And I cannot feel the chill in the morning breeze
Yet I am at ease...
For me there is no warmth left even in the Sun
- We Are the Sand
"We were the rider and we were the hearse
We were the salvation and we were the curse"
We were the shadows - hidding from the breaking day
And we were the flames - that once burned entire worlds away
Upon our broken dreams we lay our heads
And fall into a slumber deep, with dreams as hard as lead
- Where Frozen Dreams Lie
What ferocity lied in the act that devoured my life
For I was only a man alone with a dream
What malevolence was seen in the forces set at strife
Into nothingness I was cast or so it seemed
(and came to be...)
Scarred I am by wounds that will never bleed me to death...