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Poison and Revenge
04:33
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When the wounds finally healed and I could move again
A singular fixation haunted me constantly
The need for penance to be paid, the need for revenge
Filling my every waking thought to obsession
Such hatred consumed my soul
The black acid of nightmares soaking my mind
Wickedness and malice my desperate wish
It’s not enough anymore to just want you dead
The pain of one night would never be enough
A shallow pleasure ending to quickly
So your life I take a little at a time
And you don’t even know it’s me
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The Hollow House
05:24
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Elegant in its splendor, beautiful and refined
And to the eyes and ears present, it is just a place
But in the upper floors, the fabric of space shifts
There are crawling things within those shadows
And so unwisely, when just a young man
I strayed into the hallways, leading to higher floors
The stairs ascended for what seemed like forever
Down corridors impossibly long
And at last I came before the being who sought me
And gazed in horror as the sarcophagus opened
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The cold embrace of death as the life drains away
And my flesh begins to rot, my skin has turned gray
My soul lingers like smoke in a still room
I am not of this world and yet I still remain
But there are others here too
Hidden from the daylight
Some were people, others are worse
The hounds of smoke, traveling through darkness
Hunting for their master, searching for prey
And when they find their mark, he will be summoned
To gaze upon the victim while they sleep
And if that luckless soul should catch his eye
Dragged away into the dark by the hounds, and never seen again
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4. |
Extinction Paradigm
03:26
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Distance to fall merely a stumble away
The tools for ending worlds at the end of greedy fingertips
Puppets dance against each other in eternal war
Fire and death are the scalpel and the tourniquet
You don’t trust anyone who’s not your circle
You don’t trust anyone close to you either
Quicksand is your constant footing
Dragging you under, smothering you slowly
You make the ultimatums
So pompous in your arrogance
But you don’t see the plague
You don’t see your killer coming
It’s not about the wealth anymore
You’ve got to see your end game through
The pathology to kill everything
Just so you can feel in control
The inbred mental diseases of your small gene pool
Have made you weak of reason
So you wage annihilation on those you wish
Just a spoiled little shit with a gun
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Suspicion
05:00
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Are these echoes of occurrences ringing in the rafters
These quickly answered questions filled with half truths
Liquidly maneuvering, so deftly you imagine
Or just a false reflection of interior dementia
I can taste the acid boiling within my gullet
Wretched is the space in which I dwell
Gnawing thoughts chew away at my mind
Clawing for resolution with none to be found
Sleep comes fitfully, the night riddled with horrible dreams
To act upon rumor is madness, to do nothing is hell
To know the answers I seek becomes an obsession
Chasing ghosts in the dark like a madman
I have reached my limit, and action must be taken
I don’t have the truth, I no longer care
I will solve this problem once and for all
Only blood will silence the questions
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Loathing
05:06
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Betrayer of what I hold
Lost unto me, any sympathy
Callous now, against your fate
Aware only by necessity
And if you suffer, under torment
Your afflictions will never be enough
And if you should die, terrified
You’re just getting off easy
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Death Rattle
06:02
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Look into the eyes of the dying future
The wasteland of the greedy and the lost
Far away the will of tyrants carried out by puppets
Snapping to the will of their unseen Gods
A slow boiling enslavement ending in mass squalor
Fires burn for decades, islands of plastic grow
The fall of the 9th age of man is near complete
Hollow ghosts haunt burned out cities
Fall
Crumbling down
Burn
To ashes, to ruin
And the old beasts come back to reclaim
The places that were theirs so long ago
And in the deafening silence left by man’s absence
The fell things have their dominion
Every 10,000 years, the cycle repeats
Mankind destroys itself over and over
We are the embodiment of unlearning
We are the vehicle of futility
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Torment, my Companion
03:51
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The house is empty but the walls are still alive
At night the residents still come out to play
The nightmares resonate with past mistakes
Drawing to the surface demons long sleeping
Beyond the reach of angels or gods
Locked tight inside their home forever
Twisted images mixing with the blackness of loss
Old wrath returning to fight the repeating war
And in the aftermath the wreckage burns and smokes
Fall before the sword of your own doing
You cannot break the chains that do not exist
Only within the fortress of madness lie the ghosts
And falls the rain, putting out the fires
And they may lay dormant for years
And in the gloom and dark of the stillness
Echoing from the depths, the howls of the unholy
And when she appears again, the torment begins anew
I am the monster she provokes again and again
And through the laughter of the accompanying abominations
My screams will never pierce the veil of day
Twisted images mixing with the blackness of loss
Old wrath returning to fight the repeating war
And in the aftermath the wreckage burns and smokes
Fall before the sword of your own doing
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Battle Lord
04:01
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10. |
Dead World
03:54
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Stand tall to hide your weakness
Beneath the false mask of assumed status
Decided attention junkie posturing and posing
Convinced that you’re a better breed then all you deem beneath you
Spill the blood and light the fires
Dark covenant renewing
We will bring the ancient gods back into the world
Deep into the past, the goliaths come again
What hands find in darkness we drag unto the alters
Torchlight gleams off polished blades
The crawling horrors witnessed upon the hapless
The doors between worlds never closing
Unspeakable creatures hunting at night
Whispering forests with glowing eyes where none return
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The Sleeper Awakes
04:59
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Awakening, dawning of understanding
Suddenly so aware of the bleakness surrounding
A distorted vision, twisted and ruined
A horrible discovery, changing me forever
The nature of the beast laid bare
Obscene and vulgar, swollen and wasted
The millions of slaves bow, tire away under their own lash
The masters unrevealed feeding their own lusts
And for all my rage, I am drowned out
For all the pain and sorrow, we all die alone
And the twisted games of the wicked puppeteers
Are our wars to play out
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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
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