Gateway to Hell

by Tash

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1.	Mistress of the Shadows 03:17	lyrics	buy track
On the howling wind, you can hear it In the silence of the long winter night Bone chilling cold, the life sucking grave The freezing mistress of the end awaits And I have seen her, heard her whisper Begging me to come home And I long for her, the darkest cold embrace She will come to take me home Children see her, in the night They see things that most cannot She’s what waits beyond the shadows She is what fear is made of And I have seen her, heard her whisper Begging me to come home And I long for her, the darkest cold embrace She will come to take me home
2.	Mourning Star 07:19	lyrics	buy track
Against the cold wind In the winter’s night Our fate from comfort to terror Driven out by fever’s rage I cannot see through the blizzard And yet I carry on I must find some help for you There must be a way A final act of desperation If I do not you shall not live Treading on through the darkness My heart is pounding, please don’t die Your head is burning, my limbs are freezing Yet I push on into the night I cannot let up, I will push forward Gods help me, please don’t die But like a bear trap The reaper came for you Your final breath went unheard Your life stolen, Swallowed whole The pain rips me apart The grief is agony be description Now I have nothing left at all The woods can take me, I will not stop them I have no strength left to fight The Gods betrayed me And so my life will end My wretched screams against the wind Why have you forsaken me over and over I lost my wife, I lost my life I’d never see her again Separated forever And then the reaper’s hand upon my shoulder I knew it was time to go The final breath had frozen into frost The journey begins so far And in the clearing, I lost everything that night Underneath the mourning star
3.	Master of Suffering 04:38	lyrics	buy track
Opened an ancient gateway And your soul has failed the test You have not begun to suffer We have eternity to know your flesh You are ours to forever torture But you will never truly die Agonized to death over and over Blades slice and rip you apart I was created to need your pain My whole purpose is to cause you anguish You can never escape my grasp Even angels do not dare near here The lake of fire is only the beginning So many ways to bring you pain The seconds tick by like eternities Your torment is exquisite Opened an ancient gateway And your soul has failed the test You have not begun to suffer We have eternity to know your flesh You cannot run out of blood Your bones can break again and again Your voice can scream forever Your eyes will never see light again Most come here once they’re dead You had to rush the process But now I’ve got my hooks in you And you must be punished Oh sweet suffering, the howls of pain They make such sweet music I was created to never grow weary And for eternity the agony will not cease
4.	God of Disorder 04:52	lyrics	buy track
They bring their hordes To the sword of inflicted death Of plague and pestilence The Lord of the Seven Gods The wounded scream aloud But not for long Their lives end in horror Off to the land of no return Reap the child and mother The plagues infest them all The warriors die in anguish And before the demons, fall The armies of Erra and Kutha Bring forth new waves of the dead An endless abomination Bringing forth nothing but death Three thousand years have passed Since the gates at Babylon Up from the underworld They come to ride again Flesh failed before him And shall fail again The Seven Gods up from the Earth Their leader with eyes of fire Reap the child and mother The plagues infest them all The warriors die in anguish And before the demons, fall The armies of Erra and Kutha Bring forth new waves of the dead An endless abomination Praising the God of Disorder
5.	Asmodeus Becoming 04:42	lyrics	buy track
Night falls, and under the cloak of darkness Twisted desires burn again The slope of her neck so enticing The soft curves of flesh Quickly taking action, feeding the seed of lust And her responding in kind, with approving reaction In heat of moment I try to subdue the ancient hunger awakens I cannot just fuck, I must possess to feed the king of the nine hells I will satisfy my unquenchable need for you To your moans and screams I will kill anyone who would try to seduce you Your body is mine forever You resent me with your mind, but need me with your flesh Vile intertwining of desire I know you so well, and again and again Welcome to my hell Your skin is red from punishment, your hips are sore and weak The perspiration on your skin, your breaths are slow and deep And forever you will try to hate me, and never will I mind Because it just adds some flavor the next time I take you Bent over from behind
6.	Gateway to Hell 04:39	lyrics	buy track
Why would an omni-loving God create a place Of eternal torture for those he loved An ultimate guarantee of mass submission Eternal damnation for those who disobey They need a way to control you They need you to fear the fire They need you to fear Satan They need you to fear the lie And through the centuries we’ve believed it’s a place For the worst of our kind for torture disgrace And if you ever found a gateway to open up a door Then everything you loved would be torn away As they dragged you down in horror They need a way to control you They need you to fear the fire They need you to fear Satan They need you to fear the lie
7.	Void Walker 05:04	lyrics	buy track
Older than even the oldest star Born before the dawn of time Never sleeping, always moving Their name defies language Physical rules have never applied The origins too ancient Malevolence seen, never forgotten Cruelty and malice born of pure darkness The living, watching shadow Their touch is made of fear They don’t even need to attack The light eventually goes out There is no way to fight it The dark mother brings her own The flickering light of a candle Only temporary So for all your valiant conquest And things you think you gain The coming night awaits you After the final cry of pain One of many, and all are one Come from a place so alien With the memories of trillions of lifetimes They continue to watch and take A hidden army, vast beyond numbers That does not need to invade Because they’ve always been here, beyond the light Walking the void forever The cold beneath the freezing The absence of light which lives The essence of nightmares The reaping force of the other side There is no way to fight it The dark mother brings her own The flickering light of a candle Only temporary So for all your valiant conquest And things you think you gain The coming night awaits you After the final cry of pain
8.	Serpent of Torment 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Patiently waiting in the mountains of Bakhu And again below the horizon, just before dawn Chaos bringer, head of black stone To do battle with the sun God Known as the World Encircler His roar causes the underworld to rumble Eater of Souls Locked in eternal conflict To devour the sun God Always aware of the all-seeing eye Scourge of the Nile Serpentine nemesis of Set He cannot die He will rise the following night The dead in their tombs need protection He feasts upon their souls in the night Priests try to defy him with the left foot To burn with fire, or pierce with spear But all their magics and efforts in vain He will return the following night His wrath vicious and strength renewed And he will remember names Eater of Souls Locked in eternal conflict To devour the sun God Always aware of the all-seeing eye Scourge of the Nile Serpentine nemesis of Set He cannot die He will rise the following night
9.	Forgotten Salvation 05:37	lyrics	buy track
Initiation into faith, you must say it And grant yourself eternal life No solid doctrine for you to follow But you must do exactly as you’re told Spare yourself the flame, prove yourself to Jesus The God who’s never proven himself And you realize there is no heaven Then there’s definitely no fucking hell Prostrate yourself before the throne of God Kiss the pious priests upon their feet Never question your fictitious salvation Their stranglehold on millions is so complete Offer up your children to the sun God Make that their behavior stays correct For if from the righteous path they stray Then your precious young ones, the father will slaughter Invitation to the flock, come and feel accepted So then you can be analyzed and we can pass judgment You’re not your own person anymore, you belong to God So listen to us from now on, you don’t have a mind There is no white throne judgment, there is no end of days When humanity destroys itself, it won’t be by God’s blade I don’t believe in fairy tales, I don’t believe in sin I don’t believe in your Gods, I don’t even pretend Prostrate yourself before the throne of God Kiss the pious priests upon their feet Never question your fictitious salvation Their stranglehold on millions is so complete Offer up your children to the sun God Make that their behavior stays correct For if from the righteous path they stray Then your precious young ones, the father will slaughter 0
10.	War of Divisions 06:35	lyrics	buy track
The long awaited final conflict to end the world The armies of the sons of Judah against the armies of Belial Come ye sons of darkness, rise up against the light The arrogant prophecy of impending victory Just another sign of Christian pride The Sons of Light would unite To destroy what they see as the nations of vanity They come against Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon So self-assured they are of their victory A forty year war Ancient hatred at last bears form A world-wide conflict This will end, once and for all And so the armies of light seem to think That their father in heaven will protect them But as they learn, through years of combat Their god remains silent, never stepping in Their haughtiness will cost them the world The Sons of Darkness have been waiting To wage an open war against The kingdoms of Sodom and Babylon cry out The armies of light being forced into darkness A forty year war Ancient hatred at last bears form A world-wide conflict This will end, once and for all

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Gateway to Hell is the third album from Tash and is a violent mixture of black metal and death metal, using extremely fast tempos and low tunings to deliver punishment. The lyrics focus on different gateways to different kinds of hell, literal or metaphorical.

Influences include: Behemoth, Nile, Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, Dark Funeral, Marduk, Mayhem, Morbid Angel and Deicide

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released October 31, 2014

Jason Kernes - Co-Producer

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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