The Black, by Tash

The Black

by Tash

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1.	Called from Nothing 03:33	lyrics	buy track
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions They say that everything’s happened and it cannot change They say the Gods help those who help themselves They say the path to truth is through purest devotion Suffering mistreatment at the hands of those you trust Torturing yourself for perceived deep deficiency You must remain upon your hands and knees To an invisible tyrant who remains so silent The mad dog will only be beat so many times The teeth and jaws rip through flesh with a vengeance I stood upon on the rocks of doubt and hatred Walking away I would never look back They say to turn your back would cost your soul They say there will be a reckoning They say another darker path spells doom They say to speak to the shaman Suffering mistreatment at the hands of those you trust Torturing yourself for perceived deep deficiency You must remain upon your hands and knees To an invisible tyrant who remains so silent
2.	Exile by Choice 04:35	lyrics	buy track
The holy words which had brought comfort Now turned stale from the priests mouth A glimpse beyond the illusion Once seen, never forgotten He would leave that very night No destination planned, his course unsure To travel far away to never see again The empty hollow smiling face in the mirror Unfamiliar land seems so much more sinister In the middle of the night Shadows moving against hostile surroundings There are things awake that sleep by day And they fell upon him suddenly Creatures of nightmare ripping through skin They feasted on his blood And the life left his body Behold his horror as the next night he rose Reborn as a monster, thirsting for blood He’d never see the sunrise again The thirst is more than he’s ever known He went completely insane that very night No hesitation, turned twisted and sick To leave behind the shackles of one life To be ensnared by a fate so much worse He fell upon his victims suddenly With the speed of the walking damned He drank their gushing blood like a fiend He comes unglued in heinous ecstasy
3.	The Bleakness of Eternity 05:49	lyrics	buy track
The weight of his existence takes its toll Waiting forever and forever never comes The thrill of the hunt has long since gone How long has he been here trapped in eternal night The years feel as centuries piling up behind The only souls he sees are those which he kills His immortal brethren are monstrous demons They whisper in secret of one who comes to lead Fallen With not a hope of redemption Waiting For the hope of final sleep Haunted The memories he can’t forget Echoes Screaming loud inside his head The falseness of humanity sickens beyond compare Outside of all its pageantry its soul laid bare They all want to live forever, as his victims will But they see the bitter irony when they are driven to kill
4.	Forced Descension 05:49	lyrics	buy track
No one knows what called the beast deep from his slumber Released from ancient temples sleep, breaking the stones asunder Devoid of physical form he searches for his host And he came upon a skinny pale long forgotten ghost He came unto the vampire, being warm and kind Manipulating the will of the beaten, tortured mind He promised they would be king, he promised they would kill The most beautiful women with the sweetest blood, if the vampire would bend to his will Only a word of agreement, and the pact was sealed The power of the ancient evil took possession The demon kept his word, and the vampire drank deep Of blood from beautiful skin, woken from its sleep He has returned And with his power restored from feeding so deeply The army he seeks collects around his strength The legions of death grow in great number Preparing the final moments to destroy the world of men He came with cruelty, demanding the general’s surrender The general laughed, confident in his position The army of the dead king slaughtered every one of his men And his head was slowly removed while the horde butt-fucked his daughters He has returned
5.	The Prodigal 05:19	lyrics	buy track
Returning to memory, returning to ghosts Fled once an outcast now returned with wrath They flee in terror, they know his face They die in horror, screaming their last words Conquest is never so sweet as when you hate the ones you crush He lined them up and killed them with his bare hands Awash in blood he took their skulls for his trophies So he would never be far from home again On that night, in that small town In the shadows, hidden from eyes Fulfilling ancient whispers in the dark Lay in wait the key to prides undoing For it was told so long ago of his rising And a trap was laid for when he would return And on that fateful night, when he brought slaughter The ancient trap was sprung, and the vampire was burned Never saw it coming The blast that killed The forge roar drowned out the screams And so died the prodigal And so burned the town Laid to ash and cinder and wandering ghosts

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released June 5, 2015

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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