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The Black Key
04:32
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Keeper of the seven keys
Save your knowledge far from fools
Dilute the canticle of the sick ones
Conceive my sin in unction, for hungry are the dead
And grant torture to those about to be born
Be the tear in the bottommost abyss
Which grant life and death at acausality
The torment upon the children of the boundary
And the inherent fire in my inner self
You are the echo of a past, owner of future
The heretic holding the sickle before submission
The blood which drowned the lands from paradise
The heritage that the serpent left for me
Hold the black key and rise from depths!
Keeper of the seven keys
Free the initiatory empowerment
Emphasize the value of the talisman
And set free the gates of hell
Be the lawless eye
Morphing the Phoenix into the Dragon
The seal of necromancy
The torch enlightening the great work
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In Death I Become
04:20
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The hard beat of your heart gave shivers down your spine
There is no soil below you, nor fear of a backstab
Observing your wounded body, clueless to its origin
Feeling calm after seeing those lacerated bodies
Follow the splendor of this forthcoming presage
You clearly know the journey that must be set upon
Your arms now perceive its cold blood running faster
In your chest was branded the sign of the beast!
Under the moon where the wind whispered ancient tales at each of your steps
Your eyes stared from below god's master plan
Knowledge and power traced death's march route being guided at hand, did you ever think in having a chance?
A cyclic trip will repeat through endless aeons
A spiral guiding you to the underworld's throne
Don't fool your mind, prepare for a new dimension
Empty soon your cup and fill up with blood again, rejoice!
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The Hierarchist
03:48
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I have felt my speech trembled as I've lived time enough
I've forgotten too much and hardened my will
I've witnessed unfairly the pass of time
Taking away everything around me
Lakes, plains, oceans and stars...
Usurping even the flesh from my bones
It feels as if yesterday I gave my first steps
But now the cold menace rideth its black steed
It sowed the seed of doubt...
In this quenchless void with its pace!
Did I fell like a mature-enough fruit,
or was I the whim of a fleeting wind?
Furl in vain to this noble bark which unpinned as a nightmare in my being
Hauling me mercilessly to the deepest emptiness!
The hierarchist!
Snatched every vestige of him and his passage
He doesn't leave any spoor, but a legacy of stench...
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Having crossed the limits of insanity
And having attached the deep forged bloody marks
By incandescent waves of this sea of fire in which we live, we die and are reborn!
There is no mercy in your blood boiled in war
The enemies are left far from your merciless sight
Victims of the endless torture that time brought
In a dead zone where your boots covered in blood are the only life signs on this desolated land
Petrified bodies point the way to cliff
While the crows align their flight to reveal death's presence!
There's no need for prayers or praises at this moment
Just find the place where the dead kneel before you again
Far you will see flaming brimstones all shining bright
It's not hard to foresee the rituals you will surpass
Sepulchral chants, invocations to the dead and lusty human sacrifice
It has been cleared out that the path to glory is TOWARDS DEATH!
Now you return to march even with the apocalyptic sound of trumpets in your mind
Focus on the low frequency of the rumble In the dark consciousness of ancient heroes
The few ones who defied now they bow to your feet praying for mercy
You were chosen to avoid looking back, now behead all of them and seal your past
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