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The Alchemist
04:36
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Bound within these gloved hands; molten
The crucible of our transmutation
Leads Me To My End
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Hunted, now - In search of refuge
No talisman to repel the leering eyes
By the light of the night
Tortured, now - by encroaching footsteps
splintering branches, the crack of glass
pyrophoric blaze
-I charge into the trees-
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-Within this cave-
-I gather the measures-
-to generate-
-bewildering feats-
-of-
-carnage-
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Fools - They trust their faith
-words of man, indisputable-
Hastened to end this race
-as children bathed in contrition-
Obelisk to our disgrace
-looms off in the distance-
Awaken spellbound wraiths
-Barricades of consciousness-
-razed-
Truth in ambivalence - Strength of strengths
I will lead a charge on corrupted lengths
of the threads; our existence does cease to remain
when observer's observed; the reaction contains
solutions to all, in all there are eight,
inducing a ninth to precipitate
when moon does trap black photons in paths
of concentric surfaces: Blazoned, untapped
Pardoned for past discretions
-fault runs through institutions-
Preference for repetition
-Recidivist delusions-
Fractured shores, deep lakes
-Archaic diffusion-
Vernacular of these wraiths
-seeking restitution-
Funeral stelae, monolithic in nature,
Adorn the towering ray of the sun
A gilded edge to a page in tatters
by break of day, my race will be run
Fortunes betrayed and the future's to come
Gold chains in arrays on the altar beckon
to the kingdom beyond twelfth dimension beholds
-vibrational shift in the shells of our souls-
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2. |
Burden of Silence
04:58
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when waters run through thine soul
a strike
the chilling toll
these cosmic bells
you will know
no more of flames
-flames and shadows-
keep up this rant, this banter
and burdens will be wrought by work's end
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factions
refraction of deeds
yet done
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deny all
-yes-
you are weary and faithless…
-rest-
here-forth you shall not receive
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with waves or resonance impeded by void
voice had no presence
this burden of silence
conveyed
deployed
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what appears before me
in mirrored lens' light
captured in crystalline restraint
arrested
in time
funneled through and focused
on despair and loss of rite
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spite does have no malice
in the singularity of the night
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one last confession on betrayal's revenge
I've not the disposition
of overwhelming desire
turn plague on one's existence
instead portend
and thus inspire
a call to arms
raise high the seal
and journey onward
eternally
unburdened with silence
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3. |
Azimuth
02:03
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AUBADE
LET YOUR LUCENT HAND
SEAR OVER THE BLASTED SNOW
AND SEND DOWN A RAVENOUS OMEN
THAT WHICH IS SWALLOWED IN AURAL
OXIDATION
As You Look Through the Chasms of
Whispered Trees
Comes a Firmament Sways
a Swallowing Eye
Like the Rights of a Bastard Child
Born in Death
By A Dagger He's Blessed in Blood
Cradled in Fire
Constellations Have Warned of These
Ominous Days
When Mankind Will Burn Under The Sun…
of Winter
Darkness Conforming Under the
Desolate Land
The Beasts Are All Gathering
Under The Sign
A Tempest of Ashes Will
Swell From the Earth
Covering Parcels on Undefiled
Pure White Snow
Just Follow The Trails of a
Shimmering Light
Reveal Unto Me Scalding Signs
On the Rise
ZENITH OF THE NIGHT
AURORAL BOMBARDIER
SPECTRAL VECTORS
Consumptions As Plague
Future Unfolds
In Shimmering Waves
Bound From The Cold Winter Sun
CURTAINS OF FIRE
Draped Over Heaven While Angels
Fall From Blackened Skies
HER WRATH OF DESIRE
Twisting and Turning the Earth A'Flame
OUR SOULS ARE IGNITING
As the Skies Bring Salvation
Spreading It's Wings Over The Barren Land
THE RAVENS ARE CRYING
Circling, Wandering Over Black Gates
Gathering Hearts For This Holy Grace
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Unto Flames
05:53
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Unto Flames
Gathered through the Grey,
Enraptured in her Glorious Light
Embrace A Soul Gone Astray,
Note these Eyes and Replace them with Sight
Thou Dwellest in the House of Man
Yet Hideth Creation from Me for a Wage
Blessed And Bathed in Your Spirit
You Silence This Conquering, Irrepressible Rage
Rays from Ancient Horizons
Shall Guide Me Towards Your
White Gates of Nemesis
Entitled Before Your Throne
I'm Poised with Passion
and Justice
and Plague
Chorus A: Amen, mine enemies shall be
Afflicted with blight conviction
And they shall be stripped of Jupiter's presence.
And the new Golden Dawning of One's Own
Desire with the Will to oppress them
Blackened Heart within a bloodless Essence.
That which You've done unto me so I shall do unto you.
Welcomed Before Your Throne
This Fiery Phoenix of Blight.
You're sodded with coarse retribution
Gilded Conviction Encased with Perpetual Night
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6. |
Jurisdiction
00:52
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7. |
Decaying Orbit
06:09
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Jurisdiction Ends
What doest lend matter to my form?
An eye's upon my face and seas as deep with dust
Yet blindly turned from earthen kind, a bludgeoned rebel runs
And to the constant thoughts of man, the phase persist - Unending turn
Decaying Orbit I subsist in, Cast away yet never yearn
To vanquish tides of space, not time's ordeal to hold in place
Yet faster, further, till forces felt no more and gravity conclude the race
Bombardment: Heavy, marked forever, late
Reflections: Hot cosmic rays of stone
Revolution: Turning cold, still yet tethered
Decay: Cast into the sea of darkness
Iupiter heaves,
And cast me back upon the ones whom I had left bereaved
No force, nor time to question or lament tis matter's lust
To close the system swathed in chaos and distrust
And to the constant thoughts of man, the phase persist - Unending turn
Decaying Orbit I subsist in, Cast away yet never yearn
To vanquish tides of space, not time's ordeal to hold in place
Yet faster, further, till forces felt no more and gravity conclude the race
Bombardment: Heavy, marked forever, late
Reflections: Hot cosmic rays of stone
Revolution: Turning cold, still yet tethered
Decay: Cast into the sea of darkness
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A question, then:
Know you not why your tattered frame gibe power great...
When were your home encircled not for a thousand counts, fools should slate,
and cast your ships upon the seas, far reaching at mine own command-
for soil never held in hand of man's foreboding grace
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Iupiter heaved...
and cast me back upon the ones whom I had left bereaved
Thus end the constant thoughts of man, the phase desist - collide on return
And as my eye doest burn, the tides return - in towering torrents they heave
Through ionospheric haze, the last few gaze as I vanquish the air all doth breath
And give one last cry as I vaporize all that stands from mountain to sea
Bombardment: Heavy, marked forever, late
Reflections: Hot cosmic rays of stone
Revolution: Turning cold, still yet tethered
Decay: Cast into the sea of darkness
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THE ELDER Brooklyn, New York
Founded in 2011 Elder is a blackened power thrash quintet hailing from Brooklyn New
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