1. |
Ex Cathedra
03:27
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Instrumental
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2. |
Nine Moons
05:21
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Feeling the obsidian blade
On my throat
Following the track of the seducer
In jaguar attire
Too old – to be the weak
Too weak – to be a man
Playing his flute for nine moons
Shatter it in four directions
Oh Lord of Dissention
Amorphous king of the realms
Sovereign of descent
Oh Lord of Dissention
Keeper of the reveries
Defender and assailant
Sacrificing my heart
On the altar of your sanctuary
Ending as a bloody stain
On the soil of your stairs
Oh Lord of Dissention
Amorphous king of the realms
Sovereign of descent
Oh Lord of Dissention
Keeper of the reveries
Defender and assailant
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3. |
The Mizaru Doctrine
06:00
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Thunderous collisions
No hole deep enough
No shelter from the lightning
And sulfuric rain above
Oblivious to fire
Eyes sewn shut
Others surrender
We will not
Kneeling constrained without defense
Your heart in their hands
Roaring Sermons spoiling the souls
Black birds conceal –
The path to redemption and what is real
Oblivious to fire
Eyes sewn shut
Others surrender
We will not
Kneeling constrained without defense
Your heart in their hands
The dying sun’s light so frail
Your splendor illuminates the inner trail
Sweeping away the pillars of life
An invocation to be lost in time
Among the tombstones
Walk your track
And find solace
In the black
Unleash the power
Shake the ground
Turn heaven – Upside down
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4. |
Matricide
06:41
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Too pathetic to yield
our phlegmatic obsession
The forever ignorant swarm
takes aim at the sun
despite our omnipresent guilt
without the slightest concession
we meet our mother in war
it has only just begun
Gluttonous hands pick
the meat from your bones
filling our homes
with remnants of greed
Ravenous eyes watch
the warm crimson stream
down to the last drop
For us you shall bleed
Bleed for us
Bleed, Feed us, beseech us
Stimulate, nourish
and don’t ask us to reciprocate
Blindly pushing forward
towards the imminent collapse
Relentless exploitation, in the face of
the days of her erupting wrath
Stepping over the edge
obese and none the wiser
We’re falling
We’re burning
We’re hailing for you
Now as we seek our way back into the womb
Surrounded by cold flesh
Barren and dead -
The victim of our murder has turned into our tomb
Gluttonous hands pick
meat from your bones
filling our homes
with remnants of greed
Ravenous eyes watch
the warm crimson stream
down to the last drop
For us you shall bleed
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5. |
The Great Erosion
05:09
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Neutered Minds
The starving muse lies in agony
as philosophy dies
mesmerized
Monotonous Gravity
sings a spiraling lullaby
voluntary amputees
capitulation
of intellects
Sentient paradigms
abolished
Pillars of the Enlightenment
demolished, raped and burned to the ground
obsolescence of the flock
eroded the spirit, the force of identity
fading away, welcome decay, taking the shine for sanctity
eroded the essence, the power of fantasy
withering away, welcome decay, trading substance for vanity
Sentient paradigms
Lobotomized
Surrendering, a joyful price to pay
independency dies
unpublicized
Monotonous gravity
reduces what’s left to naught
voluntary sacrifice
blissful death
of the mind
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6. |
Scales of Retribution
05:20
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Hunted down for centuries
Judged and enslaved
In the name of the usurper
Who smells a plague in you
Eye for an eye – the scales of retribution
Eye for an eye – the flaming dagger
Eye for an eye – a thrust into the heart
Eye for an eye – a message of death
Eternal life is not among the jackals goods
False prophets abhorrent to nature
Voracious
Hungry
Grim
The harbingers of doom
are being unleashed
They lie in wait
For the unexpecting prey
Voracious
Hungry
Grim
Bitten by temptation
The immortal existence withers away
For weak is Adam’s blood
In faith and in spirit
The eternal realm has fallen
The flames of purgatory
Are no more…
Eye for an eye – the scales of retribution
Eye for an eye – the flaming dagger
Eye for an eye – a thrust into the heart
Eye for an eye – a message of death
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7. |
Pyrogenesis
06:24
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The path to enlightenment begins with a spark
From friction comes light
Setting foot out of the dark
Nursing the flame and growing its might
Led towards unimagined prosperity
From power comes pride
The means, the inspiration – the courage and key
Fueling the rebellion, protector and guide
A minuscule creation of consequence
The catalyst for ascension
Securing everlasting dominance
To the highest order of potential
A gift of superiority
The promise of entropic chaos
Changing the course of history
On the path of absolute loss
Shedding the ashes from the fiery cradle
Releasing the force of a magmatic god
Spitting white flashes from the horizon
Giving rise to an infernal flood
Roaming free
Burning the masses in a single hot wave
Cleansing the sphere from impurity
Critical mass is at the heart of all things
Absolute destruction is destiny
Never constrained
Never to be tamed
Born to eradicate
Shed the ashes - release the storm
Devastate and annihilate
Destroy to create
Engulf and devour the land
Unleash the final chain reaction
feel the irresistible force
perish at the pinnacle of perfection
a cataclysmic torch
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8. |
The Summoning
06:07
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Banished into a dead dimension
Betrayed by my brothers and sisters
Trapped in darkness – in darkness
A burning soul that longs for retribution
Devoid of space and time – space and time
A deafening chime cuts the silence
A cold light brightens the surreal paths
Morbid voices echo through eternity
Merging into a choir
Calling my name – my name
Reaching the grail of my desire
The bell chimes again
A manifestation of hope – of hope
A powerful weapon for my revenge
Reveals itself to me – to me
A deafening chime cuts the silence
A cold light brightens the surreal paths
Morbid voices echo through eternity
Merging into a choir
Calling my name – my name
From the darkest depths
I gaze at this mortal coil
Incantation
The key to my freedom, one final chime
Amalgamation
Reborn at last
I venture on the path of vengeance
I am one of many
A herald of demise
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9. |
Pavor Nocturnus
05:10
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Come forth lethal wings
disguised as pleasure
Churning, yearning for inner wars
Succumb to peace
Fertile grounds of slumber now tremble
Fornicate the spirit demon
who incipits my blight womb
Touch my wound
Feed my lust
Thoughts erode
I can hear your call
Oneiros, son of Nyx
Imprisoned self
under the spectral gall
Motionless, senseless, agnosis
Pavor Nocturnus
I am the light beyond your creed
Pavor Nocturnus
I am your inner darkness seed
The flaw has flourished
to consume your truth
Virtue silenced
by the terror you have seen
Bleeding through
the wretched womb
Stillborn
not able to perceive
Lust
The guilt of your blindness
Feast on these worms
Whore of Babylon
Raped by my demons
But you’ll never get away
Chained to my destiny I am
Absence incarnate
you can’t evade my gravity
For I am now unleashed
Pavor Nocturnus
I am the light beyond your creed
Pavor Nocturnus
I am your inner darkness seed
The flaw has flourished
to consume your truth
Virtue silenced
by the terror you have seen
Bleeding through
the wretched womb
The kiss of shame
unable to believe
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10. |
The Architect
06:52
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Battling through obscurity
My failure brought you here
With foresight yet long forgone
The seed has reached maturity
Signs were revealed and clear
The bane will find everyone
Your gluttony is pure
Your downfall your prize
Desperate for a cure
Inescapable demise
Our stars have expired
Despite past grand deeds
Stale, the fruits of creation
Indifference for my progenies
Your gluttony is pure
Your downfall your prize
Desperate for a cure
Inescapable demise
Now settle for damnation
The beginning of the end
This shall be my final act
Heavy weighs the heart
Blinding lights descend
And prophecy turns to fact
Rupturing the sacred seals
Face the mirror one more time
Man clamoring to hope
But they will see
The time for forgiveness
has come and gone
Amidst the inferno
Collapsing grounds
With this the faith in
Reincarnation – has vanished
All their souls consumed by the void
to be silenced forever
In the face of extinction
You have to concede
You are but waste
In the face of extinction
You have to concede
You are but waste
Now that this has been declared
I shall embark on this endeavor
With intent
Now that this has been declared
I shall embark on this endeavor
With haste
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11. |
Ghost of Aphelion
06:39
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Everywhere – it is cold
By stars – it will be told
Surrounded – by darkness
Choking – you will care less
Embraced – by the void
Lost – centroid
Alone – in the end
In the end – pretend
Like needles in the throat
Stellar guidance
Inhale the death
With one last breath
Inhale
Still struggling – still here
Closing your eyes
It is much harder
Another fragment dies
Life is now farther
Exhale
Still dying – without atmosphere
On the loom of fate
Far from home
Left behind all the hate
The final journey – taken alone
True visions about
Infinite space
Celestial race
Ancestral light
Glowing bright
Guided to the other side
Now the light
Feeling of warmth – feeling of security
Inside – I become purity
So nothing stands in the way
Transcend into arms of uncertainty
How wrong was I
Drowning in eternity – lost my mind
Drifting in infinity – Lost my soul
Unreal scenes that far away – lost my feel
Drowning in eternity
I’m losing my existence forever
Closing your eyes
It is much harder
Another fragment dies
Life is now farther
Visions come true
Farewell
Human race
Shutting down
The vital pace
Lost in endless space
Lost in endless space
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Asphagor Angerberg, Austria
Asphagor returned with their awaited, new-full length PYROGENESIS on March 10, 2023.
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