Diabolus Summa Imperii

by Tash

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1.	Antares (instrumental) 04:14		buy track
2.	The Earth Will Eat The Meek 03:36	lyrics	buy track
Gods are made from little men For those with tiny minds Keeping with the laws of the land Keeping the flock controlled Encouraging further weakness To turn the other cheek Lie through fake, hollow smiles For the earth will eat the meek Vile is the plague which is unleashed across the world Festering and pulsing like a swollen boil Weakness is encouraged, preaching your forgiveness But behind the backs of your willing flock you take and take and take False False False Breeding archaic ignorance False False False Let the Nazarene die The manic crusade of the faithful A twisted juggernaut Convinced that everyone Must be converted Such pathetic delusion Perpetuated from the pulpit Belief built from the ash of empires
3.	Death Goddess Worship 04:33	lyrics	buy track
Queen of the never, you rule the void Goddess of darkness, deity of the cold My submission is demanded for me to have my rest My torment is your method for the lessons I have learned You once betrayed your presence in the depths of my destruction No reassurance, only the knowledge of you lay waiting on the other side I can still see you in the dark I can still see you in their eyes I can feel the eyes of the void watching Here I have been imprisoned, here I will stay Until that final moment she pulls me through the gate But I cannot return to the void from which I came Here I must suffer, here there must be penance For I must pay for sins I cannot remember Echoes of deeds committed before time began
4.	Prisoner 04:52	lyrics	buy track
All I’ve learned are lessons taught in torture Searing reminders of mistakes not made again My mind, once a quiet place, now is filled with fire The undying flames I cannot quench, how I long for darkness I will never know peace, I can never be still again I will never know rest, I will never be free
5.	Winter Without End 03:32	lyrics	buy track
Sorrow at the contours of existence The changing patterns slowly decay Shifting to gray from briefest splendor The silence deafening in between My winter is unending There will be snow and ice forever And through the cold storm, I can see the sun But never feel the warmth
6.	Destroy that which holds 04:16	lyrics	buy track
Thy kingdom rose, but my kingdom come Fall the walls of Jericho Kill the tyrants, kill the oppressors And it all falls down Slay the pigs who bind you Display their heads on spikes in the city You are the instrument of your own deliverance And at the fall of the great empire At the end of an age Break the chains which enslave you Destroy that which holds
7.	Gods Fall 04:41	lyrics	buy track
Run like scared little children We are charging through the gates There is no chance for bargaining We’ve come to deal your fate Become the arm and sword of justice After so many times you were warned Your laughing face before the warning And now you get the sword Men Fall Rulers Fall Kingdoms Fall Gods Fall We have come with the taste of blood on our lips There’s nowhere for you to hide Greed and gluttony, your sins of choice And they will bury you deep
8.	Entropy Witness 04:37	lyrics	buy track
Arcane divinations hint at the power Behind the mask of reality, behind the lie Beyond this frail form, this pale frame I have seen the darkness Howling blackness Endless and forever In the stillness, and in the cold You can hear it, gnawing on the other side
9.	Finality (instrumental) 06:12		buy track
10.	Momento Mori 06:06	lyrics	buy track
So proud to stand and see yourself Haughty life of unfounded self confidence No matter the pillar you put yourself upon The very ground beneath you crumbles and you shall fall You are not immortal You are not safe You are born to suffer You were born to die Laughable to believe you think yourself chosen by God Bloated fat pigs, overdue for slaughter The selfish, squealing spoiled children of the damned Your swift extermination cannot come soon enough

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Album cover artwork by Tahazu.

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released January 28, 2018

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Tash Sanford, North Carolina

Tash is a one man melodic black metal project based out of North Carolina. Utilizing extended range guitars and bass, Tash combines traditional Norwegian black metal, Swedish black metal, and dissonant death metal such as Nile and Morbid Angel. Lyrics focus on anti-Christianity, insanity, death, demonology and misanthropy. ... more