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Intoning The Old Ones
01:58
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The Litany
01:43
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Once among the mortal men, now I traverse the realms beyond
The material plane is but a crossroads at the center of a temporal abyss
Anchored by the webs of stasis, made brittle through the ignorant years
At long last, I find passage to elucidate with chaos and fear
Once among the mortals, I elected to ascend
To seek the truth and the answers at whatever cost or end
Now, beyond all sanity, I've come to realize
That the aegis of morality is just a seal of lies
Once abjured by the Great Ones, imprisoned and obscured
Now driven by an eldritch hunger, no longer interred
There is no natural cycle, no afterlife awaits
The universe is ruled by mindless gods; you'll see them when we emerge from the gates
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Eldritch Hunger
02:49
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Born from the ancient void; spiritual dementia
Called by congregation, blinded by faith
Reverence and destruction, strife and mass production
Bred for mass consumption, the perfect race
We are the ones to whom you have pledged yourselves
Devotion to satiate an eldritch hunger
Prophecies foretell of the poison in the wishing well
We manifest to rend the future asunder
Oh, and still they come seeking answers
To their fate at the mercy of the Circle
Hopeless, and still they come, laying down their lives
Willing to fight for nothing
We are the ones to whom you have pledged yourselves
Devotion to satiate an eldritch hunger
Prophecies foretell of the poison in the wishing well
We manifest to rend the future asunder
Incursion; this world shall tremble and fall
Just as all of the others before
I speak for the myriad maws and the flesh of the gods
Behold; oblivion unfolds
The hollow throat of the vortex brings the end
To this ignorant age; this is your fate
Your fate
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War To Feed The Ancients
03:55
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Millenia of systematic slaughter
Bodies populating the outer crust of the scorched earth
Cremation crusades sprayed unto the water
Tormented soldiers dread rebirth
Deliverance is a fragile dream, the comfort of a fool
Behemoths pull the war machines, lit by a molten core
The mortal man is cruel, with merciless designs for nevermore
A self-contained genocide to condemn the slain to the other side
Cosmic eyes watch with eternal patience
The war to feed the ancients
In the darkest time the illusion of peace prevails
A mask of sanity for a dying species
Artillery fire rips through the veil
Serrated blades draw blood to rid the disease
With each mortal shell that crumbles away one more soul is released
Uncounted scores of fallen prey languish at the gates of oblivion
Outer gods and their servitors prepare for a stygian feast
The festering fabric of reality will split with a gaping incision
Cosmic eyes watch with eternal patience
The war to feed the ancients
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Forgotten Depths
02:42
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6. |
Obelisk
04:28
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I beckon to the souls of the desperate
Gather your energies within the forgotten depths
In the catacombs beneath unhallowed ground
The faceless shall now look upon you
And none shall hinder your descent
To the buried temple of the old gods, waiting to be found
Glimpse beyond the limited mortal perceptions
To the nightmare that encircles the blind senses
Unfathomed, the chaos of astral conception
As one we shatter the Elder Sign's defenses
Transmutation of reality in purest form
Whispers of madness undulate and resound from the obelisk
Pantheons have fallen to appease this hunger
So too must worlds fall as well
Renounce your beliefs in the great ones at last
The nameless shall now be exhorted
And none shall prevent their ascent
To pick apart mankind in grisly repast
Glimpse beyond the limited mortal perceptions
To the nightmare that encircles the blind senses
Unfathomed, the chaos of astral conception
As one we shatter the Elder Sign's defenses
Transmutation of reality in purest form
Whispers of madness undulate and resound from the obelisk
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7. |
The Golden Plague
04:04
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It is a merciful blight to bring about their end
For even vermin would not envy the world they have designed
A golden age where men have become as herd beasts
Festering meat bound in madness, side by side
Ignorance prevails and they breed like insects
A virus infecting the world
Civilization spawns a species of glutton
Alone and weak, they pray
The golden plague of mankind has stood firm for far too long
Their gods have fallen and oblivion shall swallow them whole in time
Wastelands; scavenging souls
We bring the cleansing pestilence
They cower in terror beneath darkened sky
As we converge upon our prey
The golden plague of mankind has stood firm for far too long
The time is now and the astral storm hungers for flesh
I am no longer one of you
I am no longer one of you
I am no longer one of you
I am no longer one of you
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9. |
Circle Of False Gods
06:00
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(Part I: The Endless Circle)
You truly have no purpose to question why
As frail truth breeds only slaves to a lie
Falsehood stitched to a shroud of deception
Daily masses molding nightmarish conceptions
Creation is as constant as stagnation and decay
Celestial rape breeds new horrors every day
You self-sustaining hordes of meat
Pave and bathe in deceit and defeat
It seems your mortal eyes failed to realize
We are no more alive than the sands of time; the circle of false gods
It seems your mortal eyes failed to realize
We are no more alive than the sands of time; the circle of false gods
Dead God-flesh obscures the future
Warming the secret dreams of nascent abominations
You cannot comprehend the depths of our creation
This day marks the age of your own extermination
Supernal and fetid we appear in your eyes
Our hunger shall arise with your nightmare's reprise
A cynical age to cast away vestigial faiths
Madmen call to darkness, their will to desecrate
In this feast we will see to your subjugation
We lick your bones clean and leave the lands in desolation
(Part II: The Prophecy Unveiled)
We bring the oppression of ash and steel
Sandstorms and pestilence revealed
The path of sorrows blazed in fear
Clairvoyance; unveil the end times
Hail to the the Scarab Prophet, herald of cosmic eyes
From far beyond this seal of lies, the Old Ones shall arise
Even the strongest of men plead to the skies
This earth will be forgotten in the sands of time
And with strange eons, even death may die
All shall bear witness to the truth of the divine
Mortals flee in terror as elder gods encroach
Monsters such as these were never meant to be seen
Frail, fragile mortals would do well to flee
Now unveiled, the darkest of prophecies
As shockwaves ravage the crust of the earth, the subterranean horrors rise
Forgotten citadels emerge amongst the raging waves
As cities burn, engulfed by a star of solar flame
A living pyre dances upon the charred and scattered corpses
Now the path is clear to dreamscapes and from far beyond the stars
The cataclysmic rift gives way and the astral harvest can at long last begin
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10. |
The Astral Harvest
09:29
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(Part I)
Astral servitors drone
Upon horns and pipes in sonorous monotone
To announce the Old Ones' arrival
As the portal yawns from the bowels of the void
Screaming from the gulfs of the nether
Vast energies from beyond the stars gather
The Outer Gods spill forth into this earthly domain
Conjured by rites of the insane
Know that existence is without meaning
Eons I have spent alone, seething
Cursed by the knowledge I once sought
To see what the false gods have wrought
(Part II: The Path Of Annihilation)
Cataclysmic feeding frenzy
Cities fall to this voracity
The elements are pushed beyond the threshold
Altered by dimensions of horrors untold
The path of annihilation is blazed
The world frozen in terror beneath an odious gaze
All hope has been consumed
All that once was will soon meet its final doom
(Part III: Supplicants And The Final Conjuration)
Apostles of a depraved faith, acolytes gather to prepare
Initiates revel in a sacrificial fate; let no soul be spared
Blasphemous rites in the temple; blood stains the stone
Intoned by desperate fanatics speaking a forbidden litany
These are the incantations the world hoped never to hear
The chilling revelations, the conjuration of a new pantheon
The harbinger of ruin, the goat with a thousand young
Supplication to the obscene truth within; reality comes undone
Let it be done
(Part IV: Whispers From Beyond - Instrumental)
(Part V: Prelude To Oblivion)
The dream quest is over
It has come full circle at last
I have danced the wretched spiral
And all perils I have surpassed
The knowledge that I have gained
Is a burden I yearn to discard
Only visions of madness have filled my mind
An ever-deepening scar
Thus, these portents have come to pass
And I watch this world fall to the astral harvest
Heed these words as I fade into the ether
As oblivion draws ever nearer
Seek not the truth of this terrible universe
Lest your fragile minds collapse
In the eyes of the Outer Gods
Know that we are nothing, nothing at all
Nothing
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Sorrowseed Las Vegas, Nevada
SORROWSEED is a melodic extreme metal band hailing from New England.
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