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Haunted
05:24
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In a frozen corner of the world
An ice cold winter engulfs the land
Home to an eerie, looming, vast mountain of the dead
Those who venture there are never to be seen again
Coming upon the ever waiting dark bed of death
A place never to be seen by any who would come out alive
Only myth could be the one to explain this habitat of the afterlife
Mystery will forever enshroud
Any understanding of the now profound
Greater region that bares the mark of pure disillusion
Though some seek the glory
of the climb
Determined yet having no idea
of what they might find
What awaits
Will be the hand of fate
It waits
Is what will remain here
In the dark
Of the nights cold embrace
(It's cold embrace)
Entities will find them
They await
Never to be withholding the possible carnage that makes this place well known
To those who would dare knock upon the doorstep of this frigid hell
Patiently waiting for those who would dwell
Enter if you must but know this a place no one can trust
Choosing to allow yourselves to be near the end’s icy touch
It reaches forth to all who wander within this realm of never ending death
Always haunting, grasping, keeping their helpless souls
It reaches forth to all who wander within this realm of never ending death
Blurred images discovered on the camera of one of the travellers showed strange glowing orbs
Which nearby residents accounted for
Each had seen these bright orange spheres in the sky, but what were they and why?
Murder ruled out, no extra tracks were found
Only the victims could see that which once was here
Signs of radiation discovered on every single body prone
Nothing from our world could have inflicted the chaos that arose
What on Earth made its presence known?
Portals from a strange dimension may have appeared
Though that which came remains a mystery
Or was it a spirit of the trees?
These pour souls and the evil that unfolded are bound in secrecy
Never to be released from the pages of history
These pour souls and the evil that unfolded are bound in secrecy
Never to be released
Don’t go into the darkness unprepared
Don’t go into the darkness unprepared, oh
Don’t go into the darkness unprepared
Don’t go into the darkness unprepared
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A Darker Side
04:30
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The world needs a change, the ultimate sacrifice
For a chance to be saved from all the bullshit and the lies
You have all been warned, this is far from the last time
It seems that death is the only way to sever ourselves from regulation
This needed end is for your life
How can we find salvation, when evil is leading us in the wrong fucking direction?
How can we find redemption if our lives negate it?
Feed and populate the slave machine; dominated
Such a fate pushed onto an unknowing society
Knowledge torched for an imaginary friend yet they claim sobriety
You have all been brainwashed, made to believe that which isn't real
To go beyond that which hasn't been seen, just to find what lies at the edge
Drudging along with no pride, the tormentor becomes the crucified
Harbouring an evil so pure, so disgustingly divine (so disgustingly divine)
Our world is fucked up and torn
You will only see your end at the hands of what you mourn
Truth is in the eye of the beholder, even if not conventionally correct
Through desecration we have been moulded
To raise and leave our young in a hell not of their own creation
A race held back to be tried, tested and destroyed
As we poison the hearts of men
We try to shatter the minds of Gods
(We try to shatter the minds of Gods)
Shatter their minds
And so we show no mercy to all these pigs in the pens
To every shepherd and his lap dog created by men
You are forever confined, kept here to die
In a place that if you could leave, you would never return
In this place where we're all doomed; you would leave them here to burn
So let's get to the point
Your life should make your stomach turn, and you should not exist upon this earth
Spread across the land like flames, with no end in sight
Leaving a vast hope for judgement day
All who realise will witness the lust for death
We created this wasteland to be our tomb
Now the world around us begins to decay, wishing to choke the life out of it's last prey
Feel the air leave your lungs as life escapes though you pray for an end to the suffering
As your last breath leaves you, there is no place left for vice or virtue
As your last breath leaves you, there is no place left for vice or virtue
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Sensory Deprivation
08:19
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There's an undeniable degree of narcissism in the human designation of dominant species
A disgusting entitlement calling for all the wealth and admiration that can be given
Completely obsessed with the superficiality shoved down our throats; it becomes our vision
The way you perceive the world around, malformed by quantity, destroys your quality
What use is logic and reason if an entire race is afraid of every other individual person?
With this veil draped over the world no longer seems a threat
With this fabrication reaching every corner that world seems offset
We’re all living inside our own hell
A hell for a self loathing race
A hell for a self loathing race
A hell for a self loathing race
A hell for a self loathing race
Locked within our own torment that we force upon ourselves
Not a single generation learns after what has befallen their ancestors who came before them
A consistent fuel for the everlasting hatred bred for a world so apparently elegant yet so dark and cold
Deceiving faces telling lies to each other for some malignant hope of a better life
Sensory deprivation, not a single thing will ever be seen, heard, tasted or felt
Not even the putrid stench that pours forth from this hostility will be able to be smelt
(And it's all for wealth)
In a world shrouded by such censoring, all are methodically groomed from birth
(To kill the Earth)
Taught to follow, grown up hollow, never step out of line
Stay within the construct so that you may keep your worth alive
Their minds encased in a state of slumber, vessels moving on external command
Not aimless but futilely hopeful to the point of nearing insanity firsthand
Mouths open wide, prepared to accept anything they're convinced they need to survive this life
Shackled together at the feet and neck, yet can not feel the vice-like grip tighten
Not unlike the imperceptible chains that bind them to needing salvation
The ones who provide them a sanctuary to reside in their minds
Whilst endlessly butchering them in the name of profit and a false design
To take their final breath
Is it worth it?
(Is it worth it?)
(Is it worth it?)
Unrivalled malice flowing from the hearts of men
Feeling the need to exercise their wrathful intent
Destructive like nothing that has come before them
And after they perish no heaven lies at the end
A universe without humanity is a universe cleansed
Cleanse the universe of humanity
Rid it all of the chains of suffering
Cleanse the universe of humanity
Rid it all of the chains of suffering
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Mind Shattering Madness
12:02
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Malignant entity; hand in hand with death
Created a God to ease the guilt of all our ills
Created a Devil to take the blame for all our sins
An imaginative safety blanket for when we cease to exist
It seems living as who we are has no more meaning
There's nothing that shows stronger when we give up so easily
Burned away into the void's endless days
With only a cynical hope to remain
A maddening infection to the brain
Existing solely in the imagination
And with this virus we are broken
And with this illness we are gone
We are broken, we are gone
Minds lost to the madness within
Never to return to what they held at the beginning
So deluded in our quests to be known by name
You do not see the truth of our submissive plague
Birthing our defenceless offspring into life as slaves
Trading their lives away
One step closer to satisfaction
One step further for gratification
One step closer to satisfaction
One step further for gratification
All were basking in the overconfidence and selfishness that sees these acts as divine
But now we've had enough, it's time for the machine to die
Because you've finally realised you now mean nothing more than a lie
Here we lay; aware of the coming pain
Pleading for God to take us away
Yet there is no answer to our shame (to our shame)
Even for those who do not believe
An urge to find out why goes on
Searching what feels like forever and a day
For that last caress of death's embrace
Fanatical devotees consistently falling to their knees
Shouting to the heavens
Crazed and full of a life of the wrong kind
Rioting with an endless frenzy in the streets
With this faith we aren't chosen
In this place, oh, we are broken
It is not until the world goes to war yet again
This time with destruction at the touch of their fingertips
That a means to an end finally becomes reality
Melted, imploded by the searing heat
Region after region of the Earth bombarded over and over again
There will be no safe places left after this
Cracked and deformed are the spirits that dwell within
Just the same as what lies beneath
Cracked and deformed are the spirits that dwell within
Just the same as what lies beneath
Will the time come after so long in waiting?
Billions of voices, hands and eyes to the skies, wanting
Standing upon the barren ground they destroyed, yearning
Crying, screaming, longing for the ultimate end
Cracked and deformed are the spirits that dwell within
Just the same as what lies beneath
God; please
The pathetic cries seem to go on forever into the sky
When will these creatures realise and recede?
That forever does not exist here nor in the heavens
They are amiss (they are amiss)
Missing from existence
Even for those who do not believe
They’ll still go on fucking crying out
Searching what feels like forever and a day
For that last caress of death's embrace
Fanatical devotees consistently falling to their knees
Shouting to the heavens oh lord take me
Finding their feet only to keep begging
Finding their feet only to keep begging
Absolute insanity striving to always believe
Even though they know their afterlife is a lie
And yet hands remain together in disbelief
Inevitably losing what remains of their sanity
Leaving these last vestiges of clarity
Praying, hoping, crying, begging endlessly
Placing all their faith in nothing
An uncontrollable sensation begins to take over
These conscious minds able to hold themselves no longer
Feeling our heels leave the ground beneath
All look down to see they stay fixed, still standing on their feet
Yet there remains this feeling...
Disembodiment of guilty and innocent on a massive scale
The final remnants of humanity torn from our bodies
All souls will fade into nothing
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