XIII, by Tash

XIII

by Tash

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1.	Dead Winter 04:33	lyrics	buy track
At the table of judgement, the precipice of failure No one to bury you in the dead winter Deceive again the ears and turn a deaf ear to the wind This is the time of dying in the dead of winter In the frozen cold of the dead of night Death comes quickly for those unlucky Lose your way, tarry a little too long You won’t see the morning But I heard them stirring, out there in the darkness Impossible living horrors hidden in the night I had the heard the legends, I did not believe Until I heard their horrible calling
2.	Eternal Exodus 06:04	lyrics	buy track
Falling under the surface of existence Leaving false construct of time and matter No light, no shadows here Outside of the physical passed through the veil Gone from the realm of fornication The false reality left behind Oblivion, formless in essence Infinite, the source without end
3.	Blood of the Lamb 03:49	lyrics	buy track
You will use any excuse to forward your vile agenda Needing more bodies to get high on your God Sanctity of reverence be damned, you’re on fire for Jesus A man who did not exist, a God you just made up And you feel so superior for being a hysterical junkie Mass psychosis, whipped up into a frenzy Ultimate arrogance manifests in condescension You are the reason our species will fall It doesn’t matter to you the crimes you may commit You believe you’re saved under the blood of the lamb Fuck you Fuck your God Fuck your tainted blood of the lamb Fuck you Fuck your Christ Fuck your imaginary blood of the lamb Two thousand years you’ve slain across the Earth And now you want to feign supposed non-violence Everyone remembers your ridiculous crusades When you tried to convert them with the sword And you look down your deluded noses At a world you helped create with your madness Your bastard faith will be crushed with boot and fire Fall by the hands of those you wish to enslave It doesn’t matter to you the crimes you may commit You believe you’re saved under the blood of the lamb Fuck you Fuck your God Fuck your tainted blood of the lamb Fuck you Fuck your Christ Fuck your imaginary blood of the lamb
4.	The Eyes of Horror 04:42	lyrics	buy track
Faced with the unfathomable A glimpse through dimensions Seeing the face of chaos incarnate Unhinging sanity to behold Contradicting previous perceptions Never suspecting the truth in nature Looking into the face of the infinite Feeling the malice trapped within And the terror mixed with sorrow Overcomes the observer Knowledge of the unknowable It was not as you expected Ran as fast as your fear will carry you But you cannot forget the eyes Never gaze into the unknown with expectation You will know horror and disappointment Instantly a nonbeliever and a convinced zealot The certainty of what you’ve seen Conflicting with your previous beliefs Unnerving living nightmares Come out the cracks between realms Now you will only know sorrow Now you will never sleep peacefully again
5.	The Black Cat 05:17	lyrics	buy track
A dreary life accented by the whispers The fingers along the mind, echoing intentions A falseness to everything building up into violence Unforeseen consequences feeding dark dementia And so I take the knife And carve out one if it’s eyes In the throes of evil, I can’t trust my surroundings The madness echoes, I cannot trust myself Horrible acts, blood on my hands, what have I done They’re calling through the floor, calling for my blood And still no rest for me, the paranoia deafens Infecting every aspect of me, the cat is long since dead My wife is suspicious, and so I come to her conclusion Buried under the house to hide such shameful acts And they come to ask questions Can they hear the howling? In the throes of evil, I can’t trust my surroundings The madness echoes, I cannot trust myself Horrible acts, blood on my hands, what have I done They’re calling through the floor, calling for my blood
6.	Reaper 05:42	lyrics	buy track
Reaper Long before the dawn of man Killing as you will Reaper Worlds burn to ash Cleansing with fire Proclaim yourself Gods Judging the time to exterminate Pretending divinity Bringing the end of eons of woe Completing the cycle Burn out even the stars Opposed by so few Never conquered, never fall I am not your feeble toy for you to throw away And when you strike me down make sure down I stay Strike away any evidence that I have ever existed Because others will follow, and they shall find your weakness
7.	The Edge of Oblivion 05:42	lyrics	buy track
The unescapable enemy so long evaded Twilight draws near, the long consuming night Long corridors tracing deep into the earth And what awaits there, terror grips my mind The cold stones under my feet chill me to the bone I can hear the whispers of aberrations unseen Here there are no weapons for me as I press on Pushing forward as if compelled I reach the antechamber down in the depths And sitting high on a throne the dark one is waiting His voice like ice turned sound, his words cut deep He says I already know what I have come here to learn You arrive here under false pretenses and weakness Your efforts in vain, you’ve already spent your time The last few years for you was only a few seconds You near the final end and you didn’t even know And his words ran true within my ears The false façade dissolving as I succumb to death
8.	Abandoning the Sacrament 04:37	lyrics	buy track
A mere construction built for order It has now become the beast Devouring life at every turn Infecting the weak, warping perceptions I declare allegiance to no one I believe there are no gods I believe there was never a heaven I believe we’re living in hell I declare allegiance to no one I believe there are no gods The one thing about gods They never show up Oblivion Terrifies Everyone who has ever looked in Darkness Ceasing to be Complete and utter end
9.	Clawing out of the Dark 05:16	lyrics	buy track
Blade slices through fabric and flesh Primal lust engorging my senses Violence become my canvas Blood spatter staining everything Demonic ritual night after night From dusk til dawn Waiting in the shadows Throbbing for atrocity I always know my victim when I first see them The rushing adrenaline, making the kill again Bring unto me your pleading Suffer unto me to die You don’t know what might find you Clawing out of the dark You keep on pleading to god for help But your god is not here You were foolish to think there are no monsters I will show you the meaning of terror Lifeblood flowing out through gaping wounds You die wondering who wanted you dead But some people don’t kill for revenge They kill to feed their hunger
10.	Sycophant Hypocrite 04:10	lyrics	buy track
Blade slices through fabric and flesh Primal lust engorging my senses Violence become my canvas Blood spatter staining everything Demonic ritual night after night From dusk til dawn Waiting in the shadows Throbbing for atrocity I always know my victim when I first see them The rushing adrenaline, making the kill again Bring unto me your pleading Suffer unto me to die You don’t know what might find you Clawing out of the dark You keep on pleading to god for help But your god is not here You were foolish to think there are no monsters I will show you the meaning of terror Lifeblood flowing out through gaping wounds You die wondering who wanted you dead But some people don’t kill for revenge They kill to feed their hunger
11.	Isolation 07:30	lyrics	buy track
The echoes of my thoughts almost as loud as my footsteps Preoccupied by despair, desperation turned within The last moments I can remember, now fading into the dark Captive by linear descent into madness, there is no escape Boundaries of interaction gone, language has no meaning The bleakness of the eternal horizon, gray into the black Solitude, the old familiar prison cell I know Emptiness, the cold stone walls, echoing my infernal footsteps Oblivion, come to me Piercing the veil of human perception Lucifer, angel of light Guide my feet along my path Disassociation from the physical world increases Time moves so much stranger looking from the outside Demons move within the shadows, but there are no gods Just the darkness, and the unending cold
12.	The Depths 05:18	lyrics	buy track
Holding onto the light, you’ve lost your way Delving deep into the darkness so boldly The walls and tunnels all look the same The way back out unclear, finding yourself lost So you push forward despite the pounding in your ears Terror intensifies as the tunnels start to narrow The air grows stale and thick as you push forward Into the mouth of the underworld What starts as bravery ends deep inside the earth Headlong into blackness and you shall pay the price There are ancient places deep underground The depths where man was not meant to go And as the passage finally comes to a bottleneck Crawling on hands and knees you still press on The light you carried wavers and goes out And something deeper down within begins to howl You try to escape, but you’re caught between the rocks The scurrying noises echo from up ahead You can feel the blood pump as you know you’re going to die No one will find you, the cave becomes your tomb
13.	Tell them what you saw 03:27	lyrics	buy track
You stagger out of the circle Head full of horror at the sights you’ve seen The blood on the floor makes you stumble There are things which cannot be unseen You have seen demon eyes You’ve looked through broken mirrors The dark crawling around behind You always knew they were there Images flash behind your eyes Your brain reeling from what it’s trying to process You can’t hold back the tears anymore Shame fills you, wishing you didn’t know Dark rituals are not for the unprepared You’ve shown things in the dark where you are There’s nothing you can do when they come No magic words to keep them away You can’t sleep very well anymore Knowing out there between worlds, something’s watching you There is no way to avoid dying of torture Beings with black blood drinking in your pain
14.	Leviathan 05:26	lyrics	buy track
This song is an instrumental.

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released December 22, 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