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Countenance
03:48
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“You cannot see my face
For no one may see me and live”
(Exodus 33:20)
Filthy hands; rats in the walls
Fetid flesh walks about in the dark
I sweat through the coldest nights alone
With their hair in my eyes
The candle flame wavered
As in the winds of a mountain
But the air had long gone stale
With mildew, musk, and hate
Frost lightning struck
The wall obeyed
The parting clouds of a storm
And I saw the face of God
And I saw his eyes were rotting
I've been in this basement for a year
My skin is piled on the stairs
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Asmodeus
04:07
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“Flee fornication
Every sin that a man doeth
Is without the body
But he that committeth fornication
Sinneth against his own”
(1 Corinthians 6:18)
My friend, you've chosen
The best way to falter
For from this place, even
The strictest of seraphs abscond
No blood stains my unholy altar
But the ichor of my darling Hecate's cunt
You've been misled, for this is paradise
A better fate could not a man befall
Should you run
Then the laughter of my brethren
Shall haunt you in your every step
Until the end of it all
You may call me Asmodeus
Recline; you've come a way
Oh, cease this drawl; you're boring us
Waste no breath; you're here to stay
Have you felt the succubi's fellation?
It is better than the eunuchs
Care to divulge
I procure such lustful wonders
As to quell the very rage of God
Should he only care to indulge
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Nyctophobic
06:02
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They come for me every night
Every time I close my eyes
Ixtab, take me in your arms
And grant me shelter from the dark
The creatures crawling in between my eyelids
The horror chewing through my heart
Too long, I’ve suffered in my slumber
Fearing that I never would awake
I’ll hang the rope from the rafters
My life is only mine to take
I’ve been waiting for this every night
This is the last time I will ever close my eyes
I'll never sleep again
I’ll never dream again
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Golgotha
04:04
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Crucified and left to die
With martyred madman dripping at my side
Rusted nails stick through my hands
I’ve no breath left to claim my innocence
With haggard breath and blood-drenched thighs
The crows descend to pick my fucking eyes
Now, behold the son of God
The torn cadaver; drag him through the mud
Call him not the king of kings
I bow my head but for my suffering
I hang on the cross to bleed
Tried for a petty thief
Reduced to writhe in shame
And no one will know my name
This fool shall rot with me
On this plain of Calvary
Depraved, consumed by pain
And no one will know my name
We die; this place of skulls, it hungers for our flesh
We lie; the self-proclaimed immortal laid to rest
I die, blood pouring from my hands and from my feet
I lie, a worthless piece of filthy, festered meat
Oh God, deliver us from senseless agony
My every breath exhaled excruciatingly
I die, blood pouring from my hands and from my feet
I lie, a worthless piece of filthy, festered meat
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Only
04:47
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Only when the noise stops
When the light breaks
When the waves still
When the earth sleeps
Only as the night falls silent
And the moonlight shines cold
And the dark trees speak
In wordless whispers of aeons past
Only when the sun has set forever
Has shined out its last
Wandered away through the cosmos in spite
To look upon us nevermore
Only when the last bird has sung
When the last flower has wilted
When the last leaf has fallen
When the last river has run dry
Only when every last drop of blood
That once coursed through your fragile veins
Paints this cursed earth
As a final crimson catharsis
A monolith to the agony of existence
And has dried beneath the dead air
Wasted away, along with everything else
That once drew breath
Only then will this world know peace
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Samuelle
05:31
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Euthanize
04:49
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They've shut me away
Broken me down
I've been stripped of my pride
Shot through the vein with poison
To rot here, away from the light
I can't be at all
Trapped in the hull of my body
I will rot in this hole
Deprived of the life
That was promised me
My god has no face
He speaks to me nightly
As tongues of the lice
Through the rust of my cage
Pierce me to keep me anaesthetized
God, let me die
Wracked to my soul
With this agony
Fuck, let me die
The fires of Hell
Shall devour me
The fires of Hell
Will show me the way
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Forevermore
04:45
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You can’t hold on much longer
And I’m not any stronger
So, save your breath
The lies you’ve told me
On and on and on
Will hold me when you’re gone
So, stay your chest
It pounds in my ears
On and on and on and on
Cast these tattered wings off
Take these shattered dreams
I’ve dragged along
They’ll burn before my eyes tonight
And this despondent, torrid
This fucking torpid fire
Will burn behind my eyes forevermore
If there’s one thing I should say
You meant everything to me
You’ll burn behind my eyes forever
And when your last breath fades away
Though you won’t remember me
You’ll burn behind my eyes
Until the end of time
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Anna Pest Montréal, Québec
An eclectic metal project based in Montreal, Canada.
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