VI, by Tash

VI

by Tash

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1.	Shallow Graves 04:45	lyrics	buy track
The bite of nails through coffin wood Each hammers fall sealing their destinies A tiny tube to feed your terrors and prolong your death Visceral betrayals and I will have our sweet revenge Each one in a row, buried alive The whispers and echoes saying such terrible things Haunted dreams conceal wicked visions It will take you all so many days to die You were after all so well fed No one will hear your horror in your shallow graves You will scream and scream for days And the dementia of impending death Will set in soon I’m sure for you all And the demons who visit the impending damned Will rape your mind over and over The screaming howls echo in the woods Their source concealed beneath the surface It will take you all so many days to die You were after all so well fed No one will hear your horror in your shallow graves You will scream and scream for days
2.	Sanity's Decay 05:15	lyrics	buy track
It grows in us from a young age The need to understand ourselves And taught to demonize What we’re told it is to be insane Frozen Yet burning alive Filled with a desperate need Seeking answers we cannot know All the while through warped perception Screaming No peace for me My mind races through countless dilemmas I can hear the gods laughing Echoing in the darkness What do you know of madness? Only what you’ve been told Thoughts twisting within Turmoil without ending Sorrow leads to rage Wrath becoming violence Destruction atrophies contact Isolation brings the demons
3.	Anthem of the Elder Gods 04:24	lyrics	buy track
Behold the coming Of the ancient lords The raw destruction From a time before knowing Hear the thunder roar The ground quakes beneath you Feel the primal fear Rip through your core Their vengeance is brutal All will feel their scorn They will burn the forsaken land And reap their arrogant children The blood soaks into the ground Agents of plague run rampant Once again we feel their anger The slaughter of bloated livestock Their names cannot be spoken aloud They exist in a primeval tongue And as the nations fall before them Dead at their feet Summon the priests Gather the shamans Put them to the sword For all the good they’ve done The cities burn with raging fire People die by the millions Damned be the non-believer And the faithful alike The long dead are reawakened To do the bidding of their masters Mindless doers of the unthinkable To seal the sarcophagus of the human race
4.	Handfuls of Ash 05:22		buy track
5.	Father of Lies 03:06	lyrics	buy track
Walk in the aspect of madness and witness the destroyer Reptile in man skin, the one with the cloven foot Inspiring legends of Gods who do not exist An immortal force who’s been here forever And in his eyes the wisdom of ages And on his tongue, the words of power In his step the earth shakes and trembles She longs for her father’s return He has been called Kali He has been called Satan He who walks the earth He who the Christians call the father of lies The pompous and fat spoiled children do not notice him They all die squirming like rabbits in a snare And all around his person, hover close his minions They wait in anticipation for their master’s command And in his eyes the wisdom of ages And on his tongue, the words of power In his step the earth shakes and trembles She longs for her father’s return He has been called Kali He has been called Satan He who walks the earth He who the Christians call the father of lies
6.	Master of Ecstasy 04:22	lyrics	buy track
In the beginning of time there was nothing of form Neither the heavens nor the earth existed Niflheim was brought to be from chaos The sons of Bor slew Ymir And from him the Earth was made No sacrifice to great in his unending search for wisdom Such is the nature of the father of Thor Long ago he ventured to Mimir’s well To seek the cosmic knowledge in its sweet water There dwelt the shadow being who guarded the Well of Urd And he demanded a sacrifice to taste of its waters The Allfather gouged out his left eye And Mimir offered him a drink in accordance He inflicted himself a mortal wound With the spear known as Gungnir He hung from the world tree for nine days and nights Suspended from the branch in a form of living death giving him knowledge of the runes
7.	Revolution is Mine 04:00	lyrics	buy track
The chopping block of ages Religion with a sword Inventing concepts of heresy Which they enforce for offending their God So let the revolt begin I will not give them the chance For them to burn the books And slaughter the wise There is no fucking room For ancient ignorance To be allowed to sway the minds of the masses I will never bow I cannot be forced to agree You’ve taken too much already I will stop you from taking any more And you wave around your holiness Like it’s something that actually exists Your piety is disgusting I will shit on your ashes And let the ears who hear Come to listen and know That they cannot be enslaved If they don’t put on the chain I will never join To the ways of the children of Christ Until my dying breath I will always defy
8.	You'll never take me alive 03:27	lyrics	buy track
Vile bloated existence Only living to complain So convinced that you will need always more Gluttonous greed will be our downfall You spit in the face of change Superstitious fear infecting every thought Your disease has poisoned the world And you blame it on everyone else I don’t play your politics Just another tool to enslave The whole world will crumble And you will never take me alive And to distrust is human To be a blind sheep is not You would damn the cynic You would crush independent thought So stifle the howling of the madmen And keep them inside their halls Never questioning your imprisonment In a cage without four walls I will always defy the machine The grind from birth to grave I will not be silenced And you will never take me alive
9.	Cold Steel Damnation 03:27	lyrics	buy track
They use the nails from the cross to seal your coffin Constantly shunning knowledge, claiming no forgiveness Letting millions suffer and die to the bells of their churches It is by the grace of God to let children suffer and rot The world has born to long the hand of Rome The shackles of an ancient order its disciples don’t follow It is the sound foundation of total control Suffer unto them that ye may be enslaved And the tyrant cults devoted to leading their factions With pride they dole out judgement on the behalf of their lord It wasn’t so long ago that they would drag out those they wished And burn them in the streets for whatever they chose So many empty words pumped into the brainwashed Mass psychosis giving manifested validated feeling If you will not choose their lord and accept his salvation Then they will show you cold steel damnation
10.	Reflected Tyrant 07:35	lyrics	buy track
Bewildered at the cruelty the opposition shows Drawn into a war that was long before I was born Fighting against unthinkable odds, baptized in fire Relentless obsession against the order of control Time spells the advancement of both tactic and technique I spilt the bloated skulls of generals at their legions feet The power now beholden unto me is greater than I’ve ever known And long before my twilight years I sit upon the throne And kings and armies try to take what’s mine They come with force, they come with spies to steal I ordered the torture of hundreds for opposing me And in my heart of hearts I know I have become the devil The crown upon my head The lines and scars on my face The cold dead eyes staring back Looking in the mirror at a reflected tyrant I vowed to defeat our masters I swore I was different than them And now I rule with an iron fist I have become the reflected tyrant

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released April 17, 2015

Cover art by Patrick Loree

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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