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The great sun sinks dragging all knowledge down
Unhallowed chants of the enemy now rise from below
Iniquity, my dearest friend,
Down and down you help me fall
There folly floods over flesh
Becoming an entity of horror
Shall desolation be the fate of mine?
Will future declare me a being of scorn?
Yes I have fallen, but only to rise
This desolate existence to be lifted beyond skies
From dry earth this body came
To now in same dust remain
In body spirit does dwell
Formed and placed in mortal shell
I once heard of a place so pure
With symphonic winds from each corner of earth
An ocean of light, with rainfall of stars
Shining waters below be like land under feet
Within those ancient waters I will see the face of immortality
Then it comes wave after wave and washes over me
One thousand years, one thousand voices
Are not enough to utter the greatness of what has become
From dry earth this body came
To now in same dust remain
In body spirit does dwell
Formed and placed in mortal shell
All else is washed away
As I am ensorcelled by you oceans of lustre
You forest leaves how you dance in midwinter air
You meadows of tranquility
Each hour brings forth new wonder
And you stars of night scattered across the sky
The tale you tell shall live beyond all generations
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Ever Falling Snow
08:18
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A forest of stars falls from the darkened sky
The bottomless hourglass is now to be unturned
All life now feels the cold embrace of the ever falling snow
As death drinks the darkness of mortality
The crystal waters, the flowing river of life
Falls freely from above calling all to silence
The sun shines no more
Cleaned are the forlorn
The perpetual eclipse of these life forms
I now see with eyes open wide
This life of vanity but a fading shadow
As darkness now unfolds
The curse of decay floods over our life
As death reigns still we endure this life of pain
This esoteric catharsis shall endure until
The everlasting light consumes the depths of my despair
I stand in awe and wonder
Before the greatness of nature
The great unknown will soon die
As I reach out for immortality
Woe to the man who fears the unknown
The curse of decay floods over our lives
As death reigns still we endure this life of pain
Time seems to be slowing down
A new era has embraced this one
This desolate winter hath passed
The blossoms of spring
share the song of new life
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Violet
03:25
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You have within your grasp he who hath carved his own crown
With the glory of all death
Wielding the power of destruction, with a darkened sceptre of lies
Eyes of raven darkness shed tears of despair
No sympathy to be shown
From any creature who walks this earth
From none who walk
And a piercing scream of hatred
Shall force it's way from his mouth
It will echo throughout these unholy catacombs
Until the end of all time
The oracles chosen by the ancient ones
Pronounce darkness in tongue of the runes
That have been carved into blackened orbs
That now reveal the fate of all
A dark haze arises in the distance
Sulphur fills the clouded skies
As his kingdom becomes ruins
He will, however, reign once more
Before his ilk hath passed away
All you hate seated on a throne of snakes
And the signet ring will find itself
In the burning lake of fire
Sealed to the searing finger of scorn
That will command no more
I behold the awakening moon
As the spiritual realms are torn
The sky filled with crimson and black
Like ink spilled on a weary canvas
The line hath ended the blood sinks into
These burning desert sands
Seven rulers shall reign this day
The powers that govern passed into a new hand
Condemned to walk within
The shadow of death
Where the lost spirits roam
A horrific display of glory
Eternity’s key buried deep
Where it shall never be found
And victory shall reign
Long ago in the early years fear of these times did dwell
In the minds of all, all with eyes to see
and now that this day has come sorrow shall fall
Upon the souls of the condemned
Upon those who walk in the shadows
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As the moonlight unveils
A path that leads into the night
The way hidden from all mankind
It is now time, to venture into a new realm
All I have become is but ashes and dust
Flowing free in the winds unwanted
As this day passes away and as time slowly fades
This undying memory shall haunt you forever more
Life is fading away with the cold winter winds
As this dying season screams for the end
To reach our time, for the unhallowed cries of death
To pierce the freezing winter skies that cover this place
Now I wish for my life to simply pass me by
Forsaken, now fear and pain is all I have left
Forever tortured by the chains of wrath
As the frozen winds curse all the earth
I feel I will soon wither away
Inception of all, the birth of great universe
O Author of Life, bring an end to this creation
“Life shall fade away with these winter winds”
All I am fades away
I am cast out of this realm
Where I shall, now dwell forever more
As the earth consumes this body
A new darkness has been unleashed upon our land
As the fragments of time that held the age together
Have shattered and faded
A new age has been born once more
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Amber
03:09
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Of Ancient Prophecies
09:27
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The everlasting winter has settled upon our lands
As our demise falls upon us
The fury of the earth cries out
As all begins to perish and wither
Victory comes with this eternal haze
And covers these plains of blood
The sun burns out as unceasing darkness
Becomes our death as we embrace our end
The foul beasts of the earth
Speak the tongue of man
To pronounce the end
The ancient scrolls reveal the path each spirit must venture
An inscription so pure brings terror
Eternal doom and condemnation as fear grips the nameless ones
And the ancient choirs guide their souls
The end is here
At the hands of the evil
And the inscription shall roar
And tremble throughout spiritual realms
Victory has finally come to destroy
The unhallowed beings
As our world has seen it’s end
All that has been known as truth
Will be spoken out as slander
Carved into the weapons of death
Are the unholy names of wrath
Blood woven amidst robes of black
Cover these beings of ancient wrath
Vermilion seeps in deep
These beings glow with glory
Cleansed from this infirmity
Which had flooded over our lives
The bringer of destruction, the destroyer of worlds
Shall reign forevermore, within a tomb of despair
Our end has come
Our wretched lives undone
“Ancient knowledge and wisdom woven into creation
Was veiled from those carnal beings of destruction
Their souls cling to the dust like these bones cling to my flesh
The Author of Life shall bring all to an end
Cleansing has fallen, upon these loathsome creatures
O crimson streams hemmed within mortal souls
Find written, deepest poetry of old
Flow with radiance, caress the sight
Post Tenebras lux, Out of Darkness… Light”
The earth has faded as the universe dissolves
Time itself has shattered and falls
As our inevitable end has captured us
Finality grasps each spirit
The waves of misery
Wash over the accursed bringer of death
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I will utter dark sayings of old
Things that we have heard and known
When man man did follow
Dark clouds and fiery light
Woe worth the hour that of womb I came
Long I declare “accursed be my name
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O how my path leads me on
Through affliction and grief
I say to the mountains “cover me”, to the hills “fall on I”
For sick and wretched I walk, now to myself I must die
Now great lament be harken and regret standeth strong
For with radiant darkness such depravity had shone
Fast bound in chains I lay
Death brooded darkly o'er me
Tormented night and day
I came forth in iniquity;
Deep and deeper still I fell,
Life had become a living hell
So firmly evil possessed me
You dragged my flesh before searing light
Black screams of loathing are on my tongue
This sickness eats away at my core
As I cleave to this life, it has been taken away
Blind leading blind
To be swallowed by endless pit
To feed the earth with little worth
Forever under skies moonlit
Escape did I from fate so wretched
From great doom I am protected
Immortality is one with me
Engraved in stone for eternity
Death has been swallowed up in victory
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Atra Vetosus Launceston, Australia
Melodic black metal with a fusion of atmospheric, depressive and post influences, hailing from Tasmania, Australia
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