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Nemesis Engine

by Sorrowseed

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Phylactery 01:51
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By the blackened dawn of balefire The imperial necropolis tower Guarded by ancient wraiths and specters Infused, I focus my power The chemistries of eternal flesh Dark runes etched upon the bones Mortality shed as vestigial skin I have forged my own fate and throne Rise and serve your queen Cast minds aside and lend might to the machine The arcane promise of potence Let the stygian assembly commence Destiny of my forebears; those born of charnel bloodlines To craft the plagues of death and conquest, the privilege is mine I have heard of the call of the arcana Forbidden by cowards and the weak Dread visions have led me through catacombs To master the deathless technique My flesh, despoiled and armored Tattered tendrils and wires, my raiments The apocalypse at my fingertips I set forth to make my ascent Rise and serve your queen Cast minds aside and lend might to the machine The arcane visions of warfare The Lich Queen's doctrine declared Seize the knowledge of artifice and sorcery Carve the pathway to progress in plagues Ignite siege engines with blood and alchemy Crush souls upon the anvils; prepare to invade
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Feeding the machine Driven by morbid avarice Weakness and fear Replaced with valor for your Queen It is with pleasure I extract your beating heart your cowardice proves your inadequacy I consume your young and supple flesh and your weak mind your pleads of mercy echo through My courtyard your pathetic soul joins the rest of My army Feed the nemesis engine your fragile minds replaced with steel and fire Weak and useless forms have been repurposed The world has fallen to My power Feeding the machine Driven by morbid avarice Weakness and fear Replaced with valor for your Queen In this plane of nightmare your eternity is Mine to decide Now meet your gruesome fate incineration as the cleansing process This hungry earth engulfs you whole Invictus; unconquered; unmatched in sovereignty Feed the nemesis engine your fragile minds replaced with steel and fire Weak and useless forms have been repurposed The world has fallen to My power your pathetic soul joins the rest of My army Feed the nemesis engine your fragile minds replaced with steel and fire Weak and useless forms have been repurposed The world has fallen to My power
4.
Thanatonic designs upon the blacksmith's altar Enhanced implements of annihilation; fallen infantry equipped for war Behold, the sepulcher legionnaires; the frontline corps, the vile vanguard Baneful eyes gleam in the darkness to hunt the living, mortal dissidents Regiments crawl forth from the crypts to be recruited from near and far Rituals of strength and binding cast upon their armaments No mercy, no rest for superior soldiers Desolation follows where they tread Dispatched to march against the world These are the tactics of the dead Necromantic refineries produce the weaponry Golems work the ebony ingots to carry out the killing decree Tremble before the legionnaires, compelled to ravage and slay Cannons fire upon the walls of the weak, dismal nations To ensure their allegiance, they must perish and be made to obey Through military might, the foundation is set for advanced creations No mercy, no rest for superior soldiers Desolation follows where they tread Dispatched to march against the world These are the tactics of the dead No mercy, no rest for superior soldiers Desolation follows where they tread Dispatched to march against the world These are the tactics of the dead
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The kings of the sand spat a curse upon this land Divinity did revile their deeds A pox of stone to all that defied the throne The gods did call upon the priests to intercede Met at the gates, they stood to actuate And quell the chattel poised to rebel Millions lament at the base of the monument Thus did the priests unleash the spell As serpents feast on scavenging beasts Awaken the divine constructs of the architect Obsidian guardians bound by mystic rites Waiting for the sovereigns to resurrect (Hey, hey, hey) Heed the call of the ancient lords (Hey, hey, hey) Scorched skeletons of the slaves (Hey, hey, hey) The scepter and the sword Unworthy to the sons of the highborn graves The filth of the world will be purged by the Heirophant The blood was strewn and coursed through the spiral runes Insurgent survivors turned to stone The king could not see, petrified by the victory The dire portents still unknown The Heirophant did warn of the ash and the coming storm The doom that crept across the dunes The wrath of the dunes bound all in limestone skin And buried Pharaoh and subjects in a peasant's tomb As serpents feast on scavenging beasts Awaken the divine constructs of the architect Obsidian guardians bound by mystic rites Waiting for the sovereigns to resurrect (Hey, hey, hey) Heed the call of the ancient lords (Hey, hey, hey) Scorched skeletons of the slaves (Hey, hey, hey) The scepter and the sword Unworthy to the sons of the highborn graves The filth of the world will be purged by the Heirophant
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Crawl across the floor Bound by shackles and leather hood Approach slowly to your Goddess Seated on Her feathered throne Kneeling at My feet encased in black sheaths of ecstasy Fulfill your deepest desire to submit to Me Slave! Drone! Worm! you are nothing but scum, a worthless drone A slave at My disposal you're here to be of service and nothing more your soul belongs to Me now, forevermore Slice your skin with sharpened heel Blood flows forth to feed My hunger your screaming heard throughout My chambers your pain is My eternal pleasure Kneeling at My feet encased in black sheaths of ecstasy Fulfill your deepest desire to submit to Me Filth! Sloth! Dog! Return now to this steel cage And take your place with the rest of My minions your only purpose here is to please your Queen It's what you've always wanted in your darkest dreams Kneeling at My feet encased in black sheaths of ecstasy Fulfill your deepest desire to submit to Me Scum! Waste! Rat! you are nothing but scum, a worthless drone A slave at My disposal you're here to be of service and nothing more your soul belongs to Me now, forevermore
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Hear the clarion call to arms Adorn the greaves of gravestones The communal barrow grows restless with alarm The seeds have been sown From the soil comes a ponderous pulse The gangrenous mound of heroes Mouldered and rancid, the stench to repulse From the boneyards, the colossus arose The might of a thousand strong surging through the brute The corpus eclipsing the dawn; the colossus crushes all Coalesced in the afterlife; a towering miscreation Poised to deliver the final smite; the colossus crushes all The ossuaries cannot withstand the weight Of the fallen that dwell within Broken vows, betrayal, and hate The valorous battles that could have been Such anguish consolidates in time And grows compliant to arcane command Thus, one body rises from hallowed grime To smash the unworthy under cragged hands The might of a thousand strong surging through the brute The corpus eclipsing the dawn; the colossus crushes all Coalesced in the afterlife; a towering miscreation Poised to deliver the final smite; the colossus crushes all All nations will remember this day of reckoning Let all dissidents break beneath the giant's steps, once and for all
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Enter into the forbidden realms of dire enlightenment The tomes and scrolls sealed away by the ascendant gods To stand upon the precipice of lore and derangement Pierce through the barriers to the Athenaeum's facade Tendrils of elder monstrosities Slither throughout this sanctum Unearthly luminosity Reveals the secrets beneath the stygian shroud Here I peruse every codex, grimoire, and lexicon That darkness itself condemned to obscurity Malignant stars, astral horrors, abyssal maelstroms I reap the wisdom to arm against these threats and impurities Tendrils of elder monstrosities Slither throughout this sanctum Unearthly luminosity Reveals the secrets beneath the stygian shroud I shall not suffer the visions of demented prophets No dreaded gods or demons will deter my fate I will reforge this world as a weapon of grand design From the Stygian Athenaeum, I stand poised to annihilate
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The stygian battery is primed to extinguish Artillery contrived through the pulse of the spirits Claimed within the umbral webs The coffin shells creep slowly across the battlefields Bearing the noxious ammunition of the incorporeal dead The art of virulent ballistics; the unseen hunger of dread phantoms Eternal nightmares of the unfulfilled now fired in salvos as one Repurposed for siege and extinction, apparitions in untold supplies They echo the death of centuries as they disperse and bring your demise We harvest the wretched wastes of infinite despair The endless winds of the gray, dismal fields The eidolons that wander in blind, quivering masses Ensnared in recruitment to fuel the munitions we wield The art of virulent ballistics; the unseen hunger of dread phantoms Eternal nightmares of the unfulfilled now fired in salvos as one Repurposed for siege and extinction, apparitions in untold supplies They echo the death of centuries as they disperse and bring your demise Destruction shall fall upon organic life To feed the hunger of ravenous spectral husks The ordnance pervades through all resistance Carrion cannons bring lethal release from existence Go!
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Upon the carcass of the old god We gather where the dread shadows walk We distort the wills of weak drones Cathedrals built from the drones of the flock Reapers stock the charnel chantry Where the wretched pray to the void The champion's sunken eyes sewn shut The Apostle Thrall is deployed Bow before the herald of despair Evangelical deterioration Follow and submit to the new conviction Bound forever in eternal salvation Believe in the messenger of the blight This scripture scarred upon the husk The words speak of cataclysms to come The extinctions and the storms of dust The raw power sealed within The blind eyes of the emissary Will be released upon the deaths of centuries Your subversion is necessary Bow before the herald of despair Evangelical deterioration Follow and submit to the new conviction Bound forever in eternal salvation
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Gather in the trenches, gather one and all Gather in the killing fields, to amass and gnaw upon the fortress walls Here the flames of carnage burn the weakest of men The bastards of a world designed to falter and break We abolish the blasphemies of feeble flesh My presence enervates all life within My wake Here we lay the roots upon these cursed lands Reclaiming the glory of the necrolords The threads of fate and domination resonate through Me My soldiers of bone shall march like puppets in hordes From Necropolis they march in My name My empire, My nation, they carry the flame At My behest, arise the undead and restless Marching as one for progress and conquest Gather to the ruins, gather as the nations fall Gather all the raw remains to bolster and build the stronghold walls Here is where I've watched the mortal kings and queens Plead before Me on bended knees The decrepit and corrupt that lead the masses of minds Like parasites they feed; they would defy our disease There is no power here but Mine and no bargains to gain No wealth among thralls that dwell among gibbets of rust All minions shall be roused by the force of My will Every corpse called upon the war to do as they must From Necropolis they march in My name My empire, My nation, they carry the flame At My behest, arise the undead and restless Marching as one for progress and conquest (Hey, hey, hey, hey) (Hey, hey, hey, hey) Terminals built upon the bulwarks Massacre intruders to My domain Zeppelins patrol the skies in prodigious arcs Across this mausolean terrain We dissect the land and its inhabitants in the name of My research The sciences of arcane mysteries shall be revealed at last Thus we shall assail, slay, and prevail against the tribes of mankind And banish memories of freedom and mortality to the past I, the sovereign Lich Queen, declare this world at war Come heroes, creatures, and gods, for I am the one to abhor My destiny etched in dragon's bones; who dares to challenge My reign? I am the scion of life's bane

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The remastered version of Sorrowseed's sophomore album.

Watch the music video for "Stygian Athenaeum" here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEr_RsjCqnU

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released December 30, 2017

Lilith Astaroth: Vocals
Morte McAdaver: Guitars, bass, keyboards
Prometheus B. Subrick: Drums

Guest guitar solo on "The Sepulcher Legionnaires" by Andy LaRocque.
Guest guitar solos on "Arcana (Of The Lich Queen)" and "Scourge Of The Heirophant" by Kadin Wisniewski.
Additional guitar solos on "Artillery Ghosts" and "Necropolis March" by Eric Pellegrini.
Bass on "Scourge Of The Heirophant" by Rob Broderick.
Keyboards on "Arcana (Of The Lich Queen)" by Thomas Cyranowski.

All music and lyrics by Morte McAdaver, except lyrics on "Nemesis Engine" and "Divine Submission", by Lilith Astaroth.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Benjamin Jon at Stillwork in Holyoke, MA. Guitar solo on "The Sepulcher Legionnaires" recorded at Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden. Bass on "Scourge Of The Heirophant" recorded at Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury, CT.

Album artwork by Doyle Daigle II.

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