The Vile Plague

by Tash

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Nethracedicon I just discovered this one-man, blackened death metal project from North Carolina. I think Tash is a fantastic guitarist and he creates a real powerful, dark, very over-baringly strong and melodic atmosphere. Truely gives you visions. As a side note, I have seen Behemoth twice. Once in 2009 and then again in 2015. I also personally met Nergal both times and I believe I shook the man's hand. Really good cover though. I saw them play it live.

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1.	Dark Gods Apocalypse 03:28	lyrics	buy track
Come forth from the abyss Under god of ancient evil Tread forth upon the earth again Bring forth chaos again as in days long past Plague and famine rip across the world Burn and rot the fatted cattle Destroy them in wars of their doing Screaming to their absent gods for help I say the incantation, in the sacred circle I summon the vile one, the chaos bringer Come forth unto the world, seal the fate of ages Bring forth entropy, destroy mankind I would be man’s undoing The instrument of death The ritual completed Enter back into night Dark blood rites fulfilled The words of power spoken The ground begins to shake It will not be long
2.	Gullible and Blind 03:15	lyrics	buy track
Suck down the toxic scum which you are told is food Burn under the sun under a thinning sky Bow down to the monuments of your weak morals Complain to all who would hear but never lift a finger And all the while you believe yourselves righteous and pure Your perversions tucked away, hidden behind plastic Vile torture you inflict on minds and bodies Crack the whip for the masters who watch you starve So live and breathe the creed of breed and obey Persecute and judge those who will not conform Your time is drawing to an end You will get the Armageddon you want so badly
3.	Of lust and prey 04:21	lyrics	buy track
Dark waters call so cool Against the air of a dying summer Winds soft passage through the trees Completely lost in enchantment Blood quickens against the twilight Only too aware of their surroundings Under the night sky Lust and her embrace The dark magic never seen As the succubus claims her prey Fallen now under her spell Their lives merely her playthings A look exchanged brings intrigue Against better judgements Following the heart down and down You never know who did it Taboos broken in the heat of the moment Feelings of passion short lived As the last breath leaves the body The thoughts are vague
4.	Dark Places No One Goes 05:05	lyrics	buy track
In my 13th winter, long into the snows I made a discovery, awful and amazing I crept so quietly, that day in the forest To see the weirding one, to glimpse the witch I wished to know her secrets, I wished to see the wonders But that day in the woods, I was proven foolish I crept up on the black shape, hunched over in the path And when into my eyes it looked I knew that I had been wrong I fled back through the forest Crying from what I had seen For under that hood in the path There was no witch What stared back at me through eight bulbous eyes There are not names for the creature I witnessed It spoke a word in a tongue I did not know And I’ve been sick of body and mind ever since
5.	The Second Coming 05:37	lyrics	buy track
I have torn asunder the veil of Sheol Black blood drips from wounds fresh from hell Fangs of demons protruding from flesh Laid on a rack to suffer for ten thousand lifetimes Altars crack around the world at my rebirth Brought back in total madness A sea of tears from the destruction I shall bring I am the harbinger of annihilation I have come to slaughter the strong I have come to butcher the weak I return not as Satan I have returned as so much worse Weep in despair, cower in fear Pray to an empty sky for forgiveness So bring me your strongest and best So they may die at the altar of rot The fires burning blot out the sun The fell things from beneath begin to rise Twisted forms never seen by man Crawling out of the ground The open land is a killing field And the waters all poisoned
6.	Where Reason Goes to Die 03:35	lyrics	buy track
Damn the ripped skin, damn your scorn Stab and gut the monsters you raised Barbaric incompetent wasteful filth Bathed in the blood of your blindness Such great spectacle Such empty noise and gesture Offer unto the father Your virgin meat Get on your knees and suck the cock of your god Holiness and purity are just cheap paint Humans your fancy dolls to break The leaves will fall soon forever here Aberration not seen, a fertile disgust grows Violence meets the cruel hand, gripping harder for it Empty halls echo with metal doors Bleak in appearance, all paths lead back to hell And with forced delight You put on such display The wickedness of your ignorance Staining everything around you
7.	Things Outside of Time 04:08	lyrics	buy track
Fourteen the days I walked alone Through wilderness I saw no one The trees never betrayed it Moving around so silently My breath seemed to freeze Time slowed down to a creep I ran just as fast my legs would run Never though I saw it pursue The legends of fell things Things outside of time Fourteen years it’s been since that night So long ago since I have known peace Every night it returns to me Walking round the bed Claws scratching the floor Come to finish me off They say blessed are the meek But I say blessed are the dead For they lie still at night No devils in their heads
8.	War of the Worlds 05:05	lyrics	buy track
Marked by distance and cosmic deviation Out in the vacuum of space, far across the void Minds so strange, almost beyond comprehension Forms so far removed, it twists within the mind Calling Searching Moving Behind the dark Not come to explore, they have come to lay waste Come so far to burn us to ash Our most brilliant weapons are useless against the foe Stare into the eye of the cyclops before you die So much supposed from the absence of their presence Not knowing their arrival would mean the end But man is not the only species living on the Earth The long war would kill the invaders Calling Searching Moving Behind the dark Not come to explore, they have come to lay waste Come so far to burn us to ash Our most brilliant weapons are useless against the foe Stare into the eye of the cyclops before you die Man is not the god he thought himself to be God is not the man we thought himself to be
9.	Slow Death 05:00	lyrics	buy track
The dark brings relief from the echoes of the day Bleeding into night in cold solitude, agony contained So tired of the concerned faces claiming sympathy Worn thin from the healthy who think they know disease Fought endlessly from birth and I am tired of this life Loose me from this mortal coil, oblivion is sweet release No need for your god toys and books you haven’t read My eyes wide open, there’s no one coming to save me As much as I crave ending, still I linger here for something The great intangible that will not let me go Never is such a strong word The distant horizon is so far away Falling through the ether Pretending to have a center
10.	Dawn of the Ancient Blight 04:57	lyrics	buy track
Civilization has come and gone before The rise of empires and the fall back to ruin The mechanics of their fall hidden until now Insidiously waiting deep within the ice And with the rise of modern man The ice begins to melt and fall away Infecting the oceans with the spores Humans face extinction once again The doom bringer locked in its stasis Brought back upon the surface Billions die in so little time Never a hope for this apex disease And as the masses panic as their loved ones die They themselves are badly infected They burn the cities, they lynch their leaders But they die in mass graves nonetheless A twenty-thousand-year cycle Man is toppled from his tower made of pride For deep beneath the ice caps They’ll freeze again, the cycle will repeat The doom bringer locked in its stasis Brought back upon the surface Billions die in so little time Never a hope for this apex disease
11.	Overlord 04:50	lyrics	buy track
Long before man, life grew vast in the sea And in the prehistoric evolved such giants Beings of deep intelligence, massive in size The ruling overlords under the waves After a war with a race from another world They bred a new kind to guard the surface Hybrid warriors, bred from their own mind And warlike primates native to the surface And now they call Now brings the crucible Answered challenge to test their work And now they call To bring down hell The old foe will return Man looks to the stars to find his beginnings When he should be looking deep in the ocean There dwell the arcane masters of this blue planet Masters who tire of our endless noise And so they call to the stars, deep into space To bring an adversary to wipe us out Weakness will be our undoing in the final conflict Fire will rain down, all hope destroyed

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This album was recorded between March and mid April 2016 in Sanford, NC. Software used was Sonar X3 Producer Edition, Toontrack EzDrummer 2 with expansions, and Toontrack EZMix.

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released April 15, 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