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Dead Harbor
04:55
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-Dead Harbor-
Isle of mist
Shrouded in death and decay
Wilted trees
Bodies hanging by their limbs
Wash ashore
Sand soaked with red blood owing from the hills
A vomit inducing stench
Horrors abound
Deafening silence pierces the heart of a coward
Adrenaline owing unbound
Whispers and cadence call forth to the forest
An ancient song beckons them to push on
Lost out there
Spinning in circles to never return to the dead harbor
Pandemonium
Sounds all around
Uniformity fades
Eyes drawn to the corpses littering the ground
Weary hunters
Drowsy and beaten down by the cold autumn rain
No shelter here beneath the trees
Searching miles
Dredging through putrid soil arriving at a cave
The source of all this despair
Lost out there
Spinning in circles to never return to the dead harbor
Pandemonium
Sounds all around
Uniformity fades
Eyes drawn to the corpses littering the ground
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Blood Coven
05:01
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-Blood Coven-
Back to back as the shadows surround
Beads of sweat dripping down from their brow
Cold mist pierces armor down to the bone
Manifest a heart of fear
Untold riches lay in wait for them shall the land be cleansed
Pockets lined to the brim with gold and silver
Wide eyes too hungry for the price
Blood shall be spilled
Corpses devoured
Stripped of flesh for the divine ritual
Praise the moon
Hail the stars forever
Body and bone a vessel for all evil
A cursed husk merely harboring a soul
The trees are speaking ancient tongue as their mind are growing numb
Here their fate is sealed
Open wide as the knife slides down the back of your throat as your eyes roll back through your
skull
No one shall save you here
Hunted down one by one dragged back to the woods
Scent of fear can't hide
What good is a blade against a foe that you can't even comprehend to exist
A coven stirs in the night
Blood shall be spilled
Corpses devoured
Stripped of flesh for the divine ritual
Praise the moon
Hail the stars forever
The night is falling swiftly
Torch re illuminates the path forward to demise
Turn, tuck your tail and run
No matter the distance they’ll hunt you
Drag you back to the den by your hanging flesh
Turn around
See your fellow man eviscerated
Bile seeps through your throat as your stomach churns
Pray to gods far above that your legs can carry you out of this nightmare
Far away from this slaughter
Far from this incomprehensible blight
My feet frozen in place
I’m left unanswered again
Cry out to heavens who abandoned you
Smite me down
End it now
No mercy for the cowards who run and hide
Oh how I wish to die
Body and bone a vessel for all evil
A cursed husk merely harboring a soul
The trees are speaking ancient tongue as their mind are growing numb
Here their fate is sealed
Open wide as the knife slides down the back of your throat as your eyes roll back through your
skull
No one shall save you here
No one shall save you here
The horror in your eyes as you’re lifted by your head to the night sky
Say goodbye
Feel your spine emerging from your body
Glorious viscera raining down immerse the trees in your blood
An offering to the one moon god
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3. |
Moonlight Passage
05:13
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-Moonlight Passage-
One by one they're dragged back to the heart of the woods
Screams of panic echoing left and right
Writhing back and forth only to be bludgeoned
What are these creatures gathering around
Forced to kneel, bending the knees
Arms held out, feeling exposed
Head drawn back, mouth wide open
Swallow fire, immolation
You feel the flames slipping slowly down your throat
Feeling so surreal
Indescribable
The others watch as your body melts to the ground
Sight so vile
So impure
Cast into flame bodies burn
The forest beams to life with vigor
Essence restored as embers glow
Howls in the night echo through the hills
So cry out where no one can hear you
Reach out to the never ending void
Fingertips bent back all the way to knuckles
Arms twisted
Bones piercing through the skin
Foreheads smashed into stone till they cease to squirm
The smell of death permeates the air
Split wide open, head to toe
Disemboweled, innards pulled
Entrails dragged through the lowlands
And then you start to wonder if you'll ever survive
Bow to the moon in submission
Through the passage you'll emerge through the other side
Grant us immortality through their blood to be forever unchanged by the hand of time
So close your eyes as you are forced into the fire
Let the flames caress your wounds as you bleed
For its not long now till you meet the face of death
Cease resistance
Return to ash
Cast into flame bodies burn
The forest beams to life with vigor
Essence restored as embers glow
Howls in the night echo through the hills
So cry out where no one can hear you
Reach out to the never ending void
Falling faster into the embers
Soul transcending to the other side
Witness to the massacre
Deaf to the screams as I lie here and die
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-Flesh Born-
Toxic fumes
A caustic mix of vapor
A breeding ground of flesh and bile
Stagnant water not fit for rodents
Air so putrid
I struggle to breathe
Mangled corpses
Hundreds of years worth
I feel as though my eyes deceive me
Human skulls stacked higher than my hands reach
Tripping over bones of women and children
The horrors my eyes have seen
Shall haunt me till the day I cease to exist
It’s clear now these sacrifices serve a greater purpose for the process
The process of creating a husk for the witch's soul to invade
Brought from down below to sunlight
Blood and bone dust seep through the earth
No wonder how the hills run red with blood from the mountain
A heathen’s born from the slaughtering of man
Rising from one hundred corpses
Evolution steps aside to hail the flesh born
“You see here mortal we brutalize the way we slay you to appease the moon gods
Humor in fire, excitement in skull bashing
Sending your souls through the moonlight passage”
Bodies hollow and cold to the touch
Ripped limb from limb
Thrown down the caves deep down below
Succulent blood drained to foster life”
“Immortal as long as we gather the flesh of man
Though we might be a hideous form
We shall live on beyond your own years”
No longer care about the gold
I’d wash my hands of this matter if it meant I’d leave alive
How can I conquer what seems to be a ghost
Release me
I feel its deathly hand gripping tightly around my throat
Brought from down below to sunlight
Blood and bone dust seep through the earth
No wonder how the hills run red with blood from the mountain
A heathens born from the slaughtering of man
Rising from one hundred corpses
Evolution steps aside to hail the flesh born
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5. |
Abhorrent
05:44
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-Abhorrent-
Death deliver us from suffering pain
Death deliver us
A fleeing mother
Burdened with her child in arms
Runs from the shadows
Figures that emerge from the night
Weeping prayers to the gods that look down from on high
Nothing can save her
Her and her child are lost
"We are lost, I have failed you my precious
Please forgive me, I won't let them take you alive"
Gripping the mouth as the child struggles
Stifle the screams as the heathens hunt you
Suffer in pain as you smother life out
An act of great mercy or self preservation?
Here in her darkest hour what child should have to bear
Witness to senseless slaughter from the demons of the night
Lay him to rest now
She shall carry this weight of hell all on her own now forever
Resting in arms of great sorrow and anguish
What would you have done in her stead with no way to escape?
Would you have let your only child succumb to the horrors lying in wait I now face on my own?
I think you would have done the same
What is the point of living any longer now that I am alone in this world?
What shred of hope I had left has been torn away from my fragile arms
I can’t hold on
Death deliver us from suffering this torment
Strike me down I beg you
For I wish to die
Beasts of the woodlands converge peering into her soul anticipating warm flesh
Fangs in the moonlight glisten like daggers
Her heart beating like the drums that echo through the lowlands
Calling black magic from the depths below
Defenseless she wonders why they won't just end it now
Here I am
Just obliterate me
What are you waiting for you fucking cowards?
I've sacrificed what little joy I’ve had left in this world
To shelter it from you heathens
I know of the horrors that await down below
I know I won't survive
What is the point of living any longer now that I am alone in this world?
What shred of hope I had left has been torn away from my fragile arms
I can’t hold on
Death deliver us from suffering this torment
Strike me down I beg you
For I wish to die
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6. |
Usurper
06:05
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-Usurper-
“Kill me I know you want to
I see it in your eyes
Kill me I know you need to
For the ancient blood”
“Step closer forward to the fire
Let me see all of your magnificence”
Immersed in shadow a figure forms
Exhale the smell of death
Locked onto its eyes I’m staring deep into a black void
“Your eyes don't wander too far”
Standing frozen, locked in place, unable to make a move
“Mere bravery is not enough you’ll see”
Here basking in the dim moonlight the corpses rot around me
I grip my blade and steal myself
For I wish not to join them
Pondering its existence
How could this beast lay undiscovered for centuries or eons
Heathens like this deserve flame
Now’s not the time for idle thought
The land must be cleansed
Lunging forth exploding with energy forgotten
“It seems this one wishes to fall”
Slicing air
Stumbling down
It simply seemed to vanish
“You fool this forest wont let me die”
Advance forth into darkness
Lose yourself in hatred
Swing your blade to no avail
It may seem that I have underestimated this creature
How cunning and quick
“Look to here you filthy mortal feel the claws across your back”
Gut wrenching pain consumes me
My carelessness cost me much
Losing blood I turn around
Just like that it vanishes into the air
Usurp the woodland throne or be consumed by black magic
The choice is yours
Locked onto its eyes I’m staring deep into a black void
“Your eyes don't wander too far”
Standing frozen, locked in place, unable to make a move
“Mere bravery is not enough you’ll see”
Advance forth into darkness
Lose yourself in hatred
Swing your blade to no avail
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-Where Twilight Fades-
Laying down I see sunshine raining from the sky
Sweet serenity grips me as I’m lifted to the trees where I shall be impaled
Close my eyes I feel branches slipping through my chest
A fitting end as I draw my last breath
Exhaling
Bleeding out
Suspended in the air
Autumn leaves ever falling
Resting on this tainted earth
Howling wind ever flowing
Passes gently on my skin
Twisting, contorting as I struggle to break free from its hold
“Hush now little one as the pain only lasts for so long”
Lost in torment screaming outward for someone to hear me
Blood dripping down from my feet pooling under me
The sun slowly setting in the distance on this barren nightmare
Here where twilight fades
Beaten to submission
Once a proud man of ambition
Now slowly sinking to the ground as he tastes defeat
Dragged deep through the woods
Cuts and bruises plenty
Bleeding fingertips as he grips for earth
Black magic coursing through the veins of this immortal plane
Witness the coming of the moon
Dark heathens howl in rejoice
Alone
Abandoned
Hanging from the trees as I’m bleeding out
No one left to hold on
Lost in torment screaming outward for someone to hear me
Blood dripping down from my feet pooling under me
The sun slowly setting in the distance on this barren nightmare
Here where twilight fades
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Vermilion Dawn Wisconsin
Wisconsin Death Metal
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