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Aberration
06:53
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aberration
Lo, Eternity has been relentless. I begin to seize
as the world around me contorts and dissolves
As mind and body coalesce in rapturous singularity,
a hand reaches towards impossibility
violently ripping abstraction from the aethere;
forcing existence upon me
As my emancipated consciousness
Careens through tunnels of psychedelic light
Visions of an overly contrived apparition give way to
formless purity
Atop the crimson surface of cosmic seas
I leave behind the cycle of rebirth
I behold that which is beyond time
An unfathomable majesty beyond comprehension
An endless ocean of astral blood
transfixed in an infinite void
filled with remnants of those that never were
The hand that freed me slows as it reveals its grotesque visage
I gaze upon a face that has no features.
No eyes, no ears, no mouth
Its head, it writhes and splits
Unleashing a cacophonous symphony
Profane echoes of a ceaseless existence pour from its being
A deluge of innumerable eons
all experienced simultaneously
Dissolve what remains
of the temporal veil
Atop the crimson surface of cosmic seas rests countless eternities
Enigmatic cosmic rings perpetually orbiting round spheres of blinding light
Their ominous simplicity belies the unrelenting agony within;
my grim burden to bear
Held aloft by my transcendent benefactor, I am given shape
From the carrion of celestial beings, a body is formed
A throng of twisted black tendrils emerge from the void
to condense this mass of aethereal decay
[Solo - Chapman]
Skeletal structure and musculature slowly congeal
forming frail protrusions with curious sensations
Encased in flesh that is not my own
an aberrant star breathes its first new breath
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Endless Cycle of Rebirth
06:12
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endless cycle of rebirth
Galvanized by the molding of the flesh, my essence
encased within a tomb of gore and bone
Memories of a cyclic existence; ceaseless repetitious
epochs of nihilistic scorn
The time between the birth of the universe
and the death of the stars is eternally in motion
I, an unwilling passenger condemned to rewatch
the endless mortification of illusory
ghouls as they placate celestial bodies
Ghosts worshipping ghosts
I, unseen and unheard, observe from on high
this tragedy unfolding as it has each and every time
Suffer eternally
as you drown on your rot
The cosmos heaves infernally
as we return to naught
I am the Earth and the Sun,
Primordial spawn descended from gods
The undying progeny
Condemned to a cycle of endless decay
I am forever reborn
An enlightened thrall for which no one shall mourn
Ripped forth from the unending abyss,
Condensed within flesh, I am incarnated
For an eternity, I have been alone;
an amorphous ghoul traversing the infinite depths
A shapeless passenger guided by the unseen
My agency, my will; never my own
Countless epochs of repetition;
a violent genesis preceding the manifestation of life
A quest for meaning reveals only one truth;
I exist to endlessly suffer
My resurrection has drawn an audience
From all corners of the expanse emerge the eyes of the Watchers
A congregation of featureless colossi
gather to bear witness to my liberation
I am the Earth and the Sun,
Primordial spawn descended from gods
The undying progeny
Condemned to a cycle of endless decay
I am forever reborn
An enlightened thrall for which no one shall mourn
Ripped forth from the unending abyss,
Condensed within flesh, I am incarnated
[Solo - Chapman]
Once consumed by nihilism, but with freedom comes cautious hope
Released from the cycle of torture, enshrined in a form bespoke
Carved from fallen monoliths. Scarred by marks of decay
The indelible whispers of timelessness all but fading away
My gaze now turns towards the outer reaches of the unending abyssal expanse,
As my benefactors are drawn by an ineffable calling
I look upon the limitless existences condensed within temporal fields
Their luminescent splendor a portent of damnation
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Shrouded in Kaleidoscopic Skin
Deep into the void, I wade through the cosmic seas,
following my faceless gods through massive waves of astral blood
What further gifts shall I receive in honor of my ethereal transmigration?
Shall I ascend to a higher form so that I may end my
sojourn in this mangled form?
Reflected in the infinite depths I see a face that is not my own
A grotesque amalgam of fallen beings
From within, a wail of tortured screams crescendos
Heed the Flesh, the will of the suffering
Hail the Flesh, the undying rot
Feed the Flesh, its appetite; insatiable
Consume the Flesh, devourer of Worlds!
I suppress the howling collective that makes up my physical form
and follow my Progenitors further into the void
I hear voices calling me; echoes from beneath the sun
Remnants of a cacophonous horde that speak to me through every pore
From deep within this molded gore, the ravenous shrieks of the unseen deafen me
Their venomous tongues dripping with malice whisper warnings of deceit
You who at first were without shape,
now shrouded within the kaleidoscopic skin of those who came before
Your rebirth was arbitrary Your creators care not for you
To them, you are nothing
Heed the Flesh, the will of the suffering
Hail the Flesh, the undying rot
Feed the Flesh, its appetite; insatiable
Consume the Flesh, devourer of Worlds!
These shapeless apparitions speak nothing but slanderous lies
My awakening was a sign
of a glorious epoch
Your only purpose was to suffer
alongside the meaningless lives
of the endless cyclic existence
in which you were confined
The ineffable knot from the skein of existence
unraveled by mirthless invocations
The foundation of this shell shudders with every word
as shadows proselytize with absent tongues
The only gift they bring is more suffering
At the end is only nothingness
You will follow them aimlessly
searching for answers that do not exist
[Solo - Gassman]
Now that you are free, your only purpose is to decay
Your rot, offered as nourishment to the inane
You will be replaced, and the endless cycle will resume
Hör mich
Sieh mich
Hilf mir
Behold
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Behold, The World Eater
05:35
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Behold, The World Eater
Behold, a cosmic leviathan
splendidly stretched across endless eons
Resplendent ineffable horror
Witness, o putrid filth,
the merciless eater of worlds
Eternal and vicious Colossus, thy name is Death
The Father of all and of nothing;
Bound to an unalterable destiny
to consume
An off-kilter howl; salacious ululation of a
ravenous fiend Reality quivers at my ire
My hunger is insatiable,
I must devour everything
Father, what more do you need
of these meaningless spectres?
Their presence in this world is a stain
waiting to be scrubbed from all existence
A pervasive stillness overwhelms as all becomes one;
a portent of my end
This emptiness was my first companion
and will be yet again
Silent captives lurking within the blackness,
like shadows that shift and contort
They cannot remain
Let me feed so that they may behold
A vile inquisitor, inhaling crumbling earth
With gaping maw, I violently gnash at root and soil
with timeless fangs
Splintered bones pierce my tongue,
Your attrition is futile
I will not stop
Tragodial musings of enslaved specters, their dismal choir erupts and wails
Silence your tongues
Ruminate on your worthlessness They do not need you
Silence your tongues!
Mewling decriers, your sermon
Is tepid Fade and be gone
Your anguish shall feed my splendor
You are nothing
Silence your tongues!
They cannot be allowed to remain
Let me feed and end
their senseless suffering
[Solo - Chapman]
[Solo - Gassman]
Father, what more do you need
of these meaningless specters?
Their presence is a stain
waiting to be scrubbed from all existence
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The Living Abyss
09:18
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The Living Abyss
As I gorge myself on these unworthy souls knowing their fate brings such relief
A calm before the storm, As this emptiness within remains
Why? Don't they acknowledge my presence as I feed upon their genesis!
Now I become death, the destroyer of worlds,
ender of time and space
consuming these last fragments of light,
All is lost within me, erased from father's eyes
At last, nothing stands between the watchers and I
As the last orb of light fades into my maw,
I wait patiently for their praise and warming embrace
As they gaze into the cosmic ocean and only see me
An infant of desolation
Hollowness! Grows deeper inside,
awaiting the reply from the voidless glares
observing me, alas nothing comes
from all the killing I've done,
No praise
No praise
expanding my patience as we drift still face to face
As we sit motionless in this timeless void!
I reflect on the past consuming these last fragments of light
All is lost within me, erased from fathers eyes
I have gorged myself on the flesh of the unworthy
And am enraptured in vitriolic ecstasy
The maelstrom churns and spews forth a vile gloom I crave its embrace
O feckless progenitors, I shall do what you could not
Abolish, Annihilate, end everything
At last, nothing stands between the watchers and I
As the last orb of light fades into my maw
I wait patiently for their praise and warming embrace
As they gaze into the cosmic ocean and only see me
An infant of annihilation
From a transcendental flicker, a cosmogenial echo
fades passively into the naught
[Solo - Chapman]
I will never fade away
For eternity, I will remain
You will become a part of me
Forever decay
Within the living abyss
[Solo - Low]
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Leiden
05:02
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Leiden
Trapped in a moment I won't forget
Forever festering within the flesh
recurring as a nightmare
slowly eating me
destined to drift in solitude
I shall not mourn over insignificant lives
They mean nothing to me anymore
All I sought was a purpose in the eyes of father
alas all they have bestowed was an undesirable gift of misery
a gift of misery
You were born to suffer, You were made for suffering,
I want you to suffer, Suffer endlessly
alone wading through father's blood
pondering how to move on
with all this rage expanding in me
forever flowing out of me
no longer ignored
no longer rejected
how do I end this agony shrouding me
how shall I end my suffering beneath this surface
I will inflict my pain on whatever remains of this existence
nothing will remain; no more life
[Solo - Gassman]
I will inflict my pain on everything
Nothing will remain
[Solo - Pugh]
You were born to suffer, You were made for suffering,
I want you to suffer, Suffer endlessly
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Son of a Nameless Father
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Son of a Nameless Father
Stare, gaze into the emptiness and sink
Drown in the unfathomable
I imbibe the overwhelming essence of timelessness
and will forever be alone with only myself to blame
An infinite chasm pulsates
as the hand of my undoing pulls me deeper into this shadow world
I am no longer myself
The horde will feast on my anguish
I descend into a vessel of misery: a monument to avarice
Mind untethers from the body and is sequestered in the depths
Within reflexive crimson pools, I see only nothingness
No face shall ever look upon me again I return to the naught
Gnashing teeth tear away at the soil
Draining merrow from the earth
There is no life left to purge
Consume the foundation on which we walk
Falter not in your viciousness
A fragile wraith spawned by a nameless sin
Through sacred stone and faceless beasts
a father speaks his dark gift unto his son
You know not what your absence has wrought
The air has turned foul,
putrid and oppressive
Inhale the bile,
Spit in the face of eternity
Churned in the maelstrom of eternal epochs,
this act of obstinance is but a drop in a boiling ocean
Breathe one last time before the silence takes hold
A respite before I relinquish all control
I do not exist
This form is mine no more
I cannot exist
This form was never mine
[Solo - Kumar]
I do not exist
I do not exist
I do not exist
I do not exist
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Upon Infinite Seas
09:42
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Upon Infinite Seas
It is not death that I desire,
but the death of all things
From the depths of the abyssal expanse,
Cries of agony erupt
I, I cannot breathe, I cannot see
I have no mouth and now I cannot feed
All senses have fled, I have grown numb
The skein unravels as all is undone
Egocentrism was perpetuated through my indoctrination
By their will, the skeptics are silenced
A nullification of the ramifications
Of my existence
The spark of eternity fades as the gateway closes
The fragility of existence melts away
And is replaced with visions of desolation
Pallid and devoid of meaning,
Its foreboding depths beckon me
I, the subservient specter
Forever languishing in the shadows of endless night
Spat forth from the naught only to be returned
To the nothingness from whence I came
Shunted to the chasmic depths, I am imprisoned,
Held captive within the null space
Condemned to haunt the internal vacuity
Of the flesh that abandoned me
The foul convulsions of my captors,
Vile echoes across the vast emptiness
I scream into the nebulous void
My mouth opens and closes but says nothing
A distressed fiend crying for the form it left behind
Futile cries of a desperate tongue that will receive the gift of naught
A voiceless aberration quelled by its own avarice
Within our eternal collective, you will
dwell forever
Their gifts were never meant for you
You shall not
recur again
Recoil at the guiding hand
for it leads towards unending damnation
Take heed as you descend,
there are no allies within this world
As it was from the moment of birth,
you are worthless and will be forever without
Your meaningless quest for purpose is over
You are exactly where you belong
Crushed by the unyielding
Weight of the innumerable eons collapsing, coalescing
in the molding of a violent covenant In the space between,
Confined in this state, you shall wither into obscurity
Sepulchered in a maelstrom of self-loathing, you shall endure
You will not persevere, there is no respite from your penance
Deranged from vicious punishment, I relent as they
revel in their sinister machinations
I submerge myself into the pools of the mind
And drown in the depths of isolation
The light recedes obscuring my vision,
But there is no longer anything to see
There will be no return to singularity,
This will never end I am forever alone
Feckless weakling
Recoil at the guiding hand
for it leads towards unending damnation
Take heed as you descend,
there are no allies within this world
As you were from the moment of birth,
you are worthless and will be forever without
Your meaningless quest for purpose is over
You are exactly where you belong
A frivolous thought
Inconsequential byproducts tangentially bound
There is no value in life All will behold the dawn of the new cycle
We are all worthless spectators
I, who was first cut from our mother, should have faded long ago
It is my death that they desired, so why do I still linger?
You stripped away my form Relieve me of this paroxysm of thought
I do not wish to be anymore Return me to the void
This deviation was preordained and existed because I am,
But I have been plucked from the recurrent and can no longer be
Within a ravenous tomb of gore and bone,
Withdrawn into the core of the undying I am nothing
Into the depths of madness, I must now retreat
Deep beneath the flesh, I whisper in repeat
I am alone, adrift upon infinite seas
Condemned to drown forever in my suffering
[Solo - Chapman]
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