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Suspicion and Loathing

by Tash

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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Suspicion 05:00
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
6.
Loathing 05:06
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
7.
Death Rattle 06:02
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
8.
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
9.
Battle Lord 04:01
10.
Dead World 03:54
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
11.
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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released July 11, 2016

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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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