The Ninth Circle

by Tash

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1.	Final Silence 04:52	lyrics	buy track
Through the end comes such sorrow The other side of the curtain of mourning The sweet words of condolence Can never fill the void Timeless sleep Forever gone The one last step of life Empty halls Hollow walls The stillness of never You never know true terror Until your death finally comes for you Your body continues rebelling Because it does not want to die Gasping and twitching with failing life Locked in the embrace of death And then with a vision of a bright tunnel You take your last rattling breath Behold the chaos that is the other side Language fails to describe the horror Ancient evils older than the universe Leave you wishing for a final silence
2.	Throne of Giants 03:41	lyrics	buy track
An inborn need to feed your boundless ambition You’ll make every deal with every devil it ever takes Climb to the top over mountains of dead bodies Your thirst for power can never truly be sated But as it has always been with your ascension You can never trust anyone close or nearby No matter how careful to keep yourself from danger The knife always finds a way to sneak up from behind The strong control the weak and battle for control Climbing to the top and throwing off anyone opposed The never ending struggle toward a non-existent goal To wear the crown the victor now upon the throne The slaves of tyrants toil in service and from it grow strong Their minds turned dark and cold to the ones who wear the crowns The luxury of riches has made the rulers slow and soft And one day there will be a new king to kill the old king off But as it has always been with your ascension You can never trust anyone close or nearby No matter how careful to keep yourself from danger The knife always finds a way to sneak up from behind The strong control the weak and battle for control Climbing to the top and throwing off anyone opposed The never ending struggle toward a non-existent goal To wear the crown the victor now upon the throne
3.	Blood Rain 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Vilest of hells awaits you Violence blindly delivered Suffering and cries of the wounded Drowned out by machines and weapons Carnage unspeakable Litters the ground underfoot The ground is just mangled bodies Piled one on top of another Running blindly through the gore The red pouring down from the sky The flash of lightning, the thunder of hell Sing the song of the demonic sadists My foes who come all fall Broken flesh and blood Blinded by hatred Soul demanding vengeance I need to kill them all I cannot show mercy Under the blood rain I will let you die The acrid smoke burns your nostrils The battle rages on No concept of how long it’s lasted Unholy beasts ravage the warriors Claws and teeth bound with muscle Monsters no earthly eye has seen The terrible tormentors to torture the dead Your screams give them so much pleasure No matter the skill of the sword All will die in battle forever To rise again over and over Endless agony both inflicted and taken My foes who come all fall Broken flesh and blood Blinded by hatred Soul demanding vengeance I need to kill them all I cannot show mercy Under the blood rain I will let you die
4.	Split Skin Ritual 04:52	lyrics	buy track
They come to the altar To offer blood spilt To satisfy the red gods hunger To repay such an ancient debt We will sacrifice our enemies We will sacrifice our friends Blood spilling down the stones Spurting red against the slab The sun demands an offering Or it will set for a thousand years And so we offer rivers of blood And the hearts of the dead Come and offer yourselves to the slaughter Come and die so that many can live Come and offer yourselves to the altar Split skin ritual to appease the gods Cutting your heart out And opening your veins The sacred bloodletting We give life for ours in return The priests have made a pact An agreement signed in blood To keep the gods in balance That we must keep forever For with the coming Of the setting of the fifth sun Darkness shall fall And everyone will die Come and offer yourselves to the slaughter Come and die so that many can live Come and offer yourselves to the altar Split skin ritual to appease the gods
5.	Demonic Terror 05:54	lyrics	buy track
And as she looked into the dark, frozen with fear, she knew she was not alone There are emotions so buried Reserved for a kind we’ve known forever For beyond rational explanation Crawling out of the dark, coming for you They don’t have names The monsters in the shadows Known always by their presence You can only shiver and run in shame They absolutely cannot be fought The elders thought them gods The Christians call them demons Magic words don’t work on them From beyond our realm Drawn here by hollow hunger They will feast upon your soul There’s no escaping That cold dead grip If they’ve decided you belong to them Then you do And if you think the daylight Will keep you safe Just remember the darkness Is coming tonight To the nature of fear you surrender Your mind so numb and cold And if they like you They will let you live And then their puppet So you have become Never again to control Your weak pale flesh And never was said a prayer That made an ounce of difference Once they are upon you You are theirs So don’t look too hard at the shadows You won’t like what you will find Beings made of hatred and rage Here to rape your soul and mind
6.	Feast of Sorrow 03:54	lyrics	buy track
The voices echo of a time gone In a former age of splendor Even through the ravaging The pride still sustains The hunger in their cold dead eyes That need which they must sate Devouring their living parents Ignoring the screams of pain And through their final suffering Bone ripping through flesh As the demons that were their children Maim them both to death The hunger in their cold dead eyes That need which they must sate Devouring their living parents Ignoring the screams of pain
7.	Insomnia 06:18	lyrics	buy track
No rest for the wicked I’ll not sleep this night I have not rested for many days The walls between worlds weaken Reality cascades in chaos My body aches in turmoil Time slows down indefinitely When there’s no one else around The shadows used to hold still And now they’ve come alive Whispering out of the darkness Speaking in the language of madness My thoughts move too quickly From this I cannot escape Every second is torture Every minute I’m awake Phantoms now my companions My eyes burn and ache I’m just an animated carcass Waiting for peace that never comes The shadows used to hold still And now they’ve come alive Whispering out of the darkness Speaking in the language of madness
8.	The Wolf's Greed 04:20	lyrics	buy track
The smell of the winter air The snow crunches underfoot And then I see it, there in the distance My blood is screaming that it will die And then the morbid engorgement ensues For I must have my fill My belly is full but still I consume more To eat all I can of the kill Others will starve because of my greed And it will kill me yet I’ll turn on myself, and damn me to hell Just to satisfy the wolf’s greed The blood melts through the snow The massive beast we slew The entire world our feasting table And no one is safe from my gaze And then the morbid engorgement ensues For I must have my fill My belly is full but still I consume more To eat all I can of the kill Others will starve because of my greed And it will kill me yet I’ll turn on myself, and damn me to hell Just to satisfy the wolf’s greed
9.	Nightmare in Agony 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Deep in the night Comes such terror Visions wrought of hell The pain it brings Such horrible twisting My nightmare is agony And there is no escape Trapped inside my mind The torture acts out Memories warped Into exquisite madness Too far in to hear the screams I am bound to the end The morning will never come There will be no solace I shall have no release And the faces seem so real The voices clear A never ending echo I can never get rid of them They’re always waiting Just behind the closed eyes I am bound to the end The morning will never come There will be no solace I shall have no release
10.	The Ninth Circle 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Bunnen av skapelsen Den ytterste punkt mot lys Med en massiv tre skip Den dypeste mørkeste hullet Dette frozen lake av furu Den endelige straff for forræderi De laveste dypet av helvete The Frozen forbannet innkapslet i isen Sist jeg Redsel for Alltid Jo lengre ned vi går verre sjelen Merket av sitt svik De laveste dypet blir Judecca Her er forrædere mot sine herrer Den endelige hjemmet til Lord Satan Han hadde tre ansikter Og så en annen som bare ovenfor Midtpunktet av hver skulder sluttet seg først Og på kronen alle tre ble sydd på igjen Retten så gul, noe hvit Den venstre var som de som kommer fra Nilen Mørkets Herre tygger ved Sletteste av svikere Hans vinger blåse med icey vind Og i sentrum , Judas Iskariot
11.	The Lost Prophet 04:14	lyrics	buy track
Fallen from physical form Knowledge lost and gone Called back to the realm of darkness Leaving this plane forever And in through the sea of night We have so few of your teachings The understanding lost Of sinister powers beyond So we press on through the darkness Gaining knowledge in Satan And as the chaos eats the world We will be there to help it burn Fallen from physical form Knowledge lost and gone Called back to the realm of darkness Leaving this plane forever Only the chosen few realize The true nature of man That we were never made pure Evil is in our blood Conquering tyrants and soldiers Politicians priests and kings We shall grow in strength in the shadows And we will watch and wait

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released November 29, 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