Hunted in Darkness

by Tash

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1.	Hunted in Darkness 04:15	lyrics	buy track
Open eyes beholding Traveling through the dark The cold chill of terror Shoots up your neck The darkness cloaks the armed intruder Traveler stalked as prey The mind feels the terror Like a paralyzing bite Unfamiliar territory Cry out in fear Mind reeling in horror At what may draw near Break into a flat run Fleeing what you don’t know The woods are alive around you Conspiring unheard Lungs burning with fire Gasping for air Hear something behind you For which you were not prepared Open eyes beholding Traveling through the dark The cold chill of terror Shoots up your neck
2.	True Masters 04:49	lyrics	buy track
Look into the dark Where the old ones dwell Such arrogance of man To think he reigns supreme There is a presence there An ancient force unknown The true rulers Of earth and sky And you will fall so fast Before their army If they should ever choose We should not live Human life would end Over the planet If they should ever choose That we should die They speak to the minds of men They speak through dreaming They use their influence To hide the truth For if we all did know Our true masters We would never see the sea The same again And you will fall so fast Before their army If they should ever choose We should not live Human life would end Over the planet If they should ever choose That we should die
3.	Void Originate 04:33	lyrics	buy track
Come from total dark A cold, never ending Born in an eon long ago Vexing all description Malice cursed with age Which knows only chaos It is only arrogance To think that man can banish A seething darkness so ancient To see inside the mind A predator intellect Is to truly know madness Human life so puny A blink and then you’re gone Their power is unending Pray they never choose To possess your flesh You would never see the light again And so you light a candle But the light is easily snuffed Darkness surrounds you And though you may ignore And bury your head in the sand They have not forgot you
4.	Sorrows Passage 05:10	info	buy track
5.	Vampiric Lust 03:21	lyrics	buy track
Up from the dark earth Into the moonlight My thirst for blood Rings in my bones Up from the wet ground My senses sharp and ready The night begins anew The legends warning of monsters Lurking in the shadows, come out to kill The night’s air strengthens my bloodlust It’s in my nature, I must feed Strength beyond knowing Such depth of sight and sound And such power Beyond anything known I have lived through eras I have lived through floods I have witnessed destruction And I have bathed in its blood
6.	Betrayer 04:30	lyrics	buy track
1600 years ago, under the guidance of Rome Mankind’s worst invention came to be what we know Behind the mask of kindness Under the guise of peace A new structure of power Emerged to lay waste They wiped out whole cultures They burned countless books They’ve killed millions and millions To keep their control They wiped away history And filed the truth away Never question the Bible Stay broken and meek So be a good little Christian And never question their will Give your money to Jesus They need to pay his bills Don’t you worship a false god Never question the lies Never think for a second That there’s any other life
7.	Execution Bound 03:39	lyrics	buy track
Captured by my enemy To many foes, I was overcome Their holy book preaches forgiveness But me they shall not forgive The sickening madness within me Clawing at the back of my eyes I am what they fear most And I shall burn at a heretic Disdainful looks I receive As I sit here in chains The shadows whisper in the darkness At their suggestions I laugh My mind corrupted they say That I am beyond retribution And through communication with Satan I will poison the minds of the flock My spirit committed to darkness They should never trust me And if I were not bound Blood I would spill if my hands were free I cannot be allowed to live And I must be destroyed I can hear the shouting of the crowd Demanding the spilling of my blood Darkness around me is laughing Echoing again and again There is no escape from my ending To be slaughtered like their foolish lamb The sickening madness within me Clawing at the back of my eyes I am what they fear most And I shall burn as a heretic Disdainful looks I receive As I sit here in chains The shadows whisper in the darkness At their suggestions I laugh My mind corrupted they say That I am beyond retribution And if I were not bound Blood I would spill if my hands were free
8.	Christian Paradox 04:16	lyrics	buy track
For God so fucking loved the world That he chose you to burn And he gave his bastard son for you Because you cannot learn If he loves you such fucking much Why does he make you suffer? And he strikes down whomever he please But we must love each other You must feel so special Being the only ones exempt From following the laws you know That the Bible says are kept And it really starts to fall apart Because it’s all based on a lie So the reason for your piety Does nothing when you die In hypocrisy you stand But the ground has turned to mud Because the church in which you so believe Has sown its rise in blood In blasphemy I stand Against a god untrue And against the Christian paradox That’s seems so real to you I think you may have been misinformed About the origins of Christ Because he’s not nearly the first god To offer eternal life Just another fucking sun god Of Arabic descent Who needs a fucking ancient book To say just what he meant
9.	The Art of Torture 04:18	lyrics	buy track
Sorceress Queen of darkest order Soul bound to hell She used fear to control Her exploits known so well You never cross what you do not understand But still so many did If her malice should be turned on you She will make you suffer, she will make you scream No one’s sure where her power comes from No one dares to ask If her earn her favor, you’d best keep it Or she’ll make sure you burn Chance gives the power hungry favor Slaughtering the flock who try to take So many fools tried to challenge her So many fools died in pain And as so the legend goes She had devils under her control And if you ever knew what was good for you You never crossed Marie Laveau Her daughters carried on her bloodline For when the time is right She lies in wait in the other world Her goal within her sight Making the way for her cursed return To wage her evil again But she may have already come, in the skin of another The voodoo queen lives again Chance gives the power hungry favor Slaughtering the flock who try to take So many fools tried to challenge her So many fools died in pain
10.	The Legend of Gimghoul 05:06	lyrics	buy track
A long time ago In the woods of Chapel Hill Young love blossomed And burned with flames of lust Not far from the castle On the stargazing rock Turned from love Into darkest deception Her eyes in forest light Under the trees so low I lost myself to her I can never be without As with all good things It must come to an end And on the wind The whisper of betrayal And through a false friend Stabbing through deepest pain How could he think My love for her so trivial And so he’s met my challenge To duel with seconds to witness I so wanted revenge But it’s gone so wrong The bullet ripped my chest I died with no Christian burial And my friends I trusted My body did conceal Now upon the stargazing rock My love comes to wait And when I never show She lies and weeps But she will never know Under the ground beneath it My body lies And I can never leave
11.	Usurper 05:31	lyrics	buy track
Holes in the dogma lead the wise to reject the pack But in essence we wish to reject the weakness we’re shown But to embrace strength and become our true selves Is not a path of self destruction as we’re lied to and told, we must build And upon the ashes of history we stand Knowing corruption which will not die Only through standing strong with our brethren It must fall, it will fall I cannot stand the stench of the ignorant and the false Their lives litter the earth like so much useless salt Taught to worship false gods and taught to be meek Idolizing false stars and the habits they keep And upon the ashes of history we stand Knowing corruption which will not die Only through standing strong with our brethren It must fall, it will fall

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This is the first album from Tash, recorded between mid April and late May of 2014 in Sanford, North Carolina. It focuses on themes of fear, violence, the occult, and witchcraft. It was recorded using 7 string guitars and a 5 string bass.

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released June 11, 2014

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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