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Current | |
C.S.R | Bass (2009-2012), Vocals, Guitars (2009-present) |
Member(bands): Totenwinter, SULPHURA, Zatokrev (live) | |
B.A.W | Drums (2009-present) |
Member(bands): Cold Cell, Atritas, Totenwinter | |
M.A | Guitars (2009-present) |
Member(bands): Blutmond | |
J.B | Guitars (2017-present) |
Member(bands): Blutmond, Totgeburt | |
Past | |
A.T | Bass (2012-2019) |
Member(bands): Atritas | |
Current (Live) | |
S.D. | Guitars, Bass (2018-present) |
Member(bands): Horresque, Nocte Obducta, Melechesh (live), Adorn, Kali, Wald, Dinner auf Uranos | |
Marrok | Bass (2020-present) |
Member(bands): Anomalie, Agrypnie (live), Harakiri for the Sky (live), Selbstentleibung, Tulsadoom, Heretoir (live), Noctiferum (live), The Vision Bleak (live), Panzerhass | |
P.D | Bass (2020-present) |
F.M. | Drums (2020-present) |
Member(bands): Molokh, The Negative Bias, Theotoxin, Seeds of Sorrow, Zombie Inc., Distaste, Raising the Veil | |
Past (Live) | |
Hendrik Wodynski | Drums |
Member(bands): Aramaic, Aethernaeum, Maat, Nabat (live), Damned Division | |
J.B. | Guitars (?-2017) |
Member(bands): Blutmond, Totgeburt | |
Frederyk Rotter | Bass (2011-2012) |
Member(bands): Crown, Zatokrev, Ashtar (live) | |
Bornyhake | Drums (2018-2020) |
Member(bands): Ancient Moon, Astral Silence, Borgne, Cakewet, Diurnal, Enoid, Excreta, Lypektomy, Manii, My Death Belongs to You, Porifice, Pure, Gerbophilia, Haine, Krigar, Organ Trails, Decomposition, Snorre, The Two Boys Sandwich Club, ChokingOnBile, Cryfemal, Kawir, Oculus, Ravnkald, Serpens Luminis, Darvaza (live), Deathrow (live), Ass of Spades, Jante Alu | |
Menthor | Drums (2018) |
Member(bands): Bestia Arcana, Death like Mass, Enthroned, Epping Forest, Lvcifyre, Necrosadist, Nightbringer, Voz de Nenhum, Corpus Christii, Morbius, Velório |
# | Discography | Type | Year | |
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1 | Sic Lvceat Lvx | Full-length | 2010 | Show album |
2 | Contradiction | Full-length | 2014 | Show album |
3 | Triangle | Full-length | 2016 | Show album |
4 | The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite | EP | 2017 | Show album |
5 | Hearts of No Light | Full-length | 2019 | Show album |
Sic Lvceat Lvx
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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October 22nd, 2010 | Black Tower Productions | BT 26 | CD | Limited edition |
May 18th, 2015 | Prosthetic Records | PROS102362 | CD | Remastered reissue, Digifile |
May 18th, 2015 | Prosthetic Records | PROS102361 | 12" vinyl | Remastered, Limited edition |
May 18th, 2015 | Prosthetic Records | Digital | Bandcamp |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Boris A.W. | Drums |
M.A. | Guitars |
Chris S.R. | Vocals, Guitars, Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
SVH | Layout, Artwork |
Tore Stjerna | Mastering |
Oliver Hämmerle | Recording, Mixing |
eVe | Photography |
Xaay | Logo |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Lvx Æterna | 02:11 | Show lyrics |
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2. | He Whose Face Is Made of Entrails | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Come closer, see me as a vision of delight As I’m essential Lord of abomination Know my name, hear my word, come closer As I speak revelation Divine revelation of dimensional downfall Before the sun of life For I was born of the ancient blood For I am source and kingdom of decay My symbol, my word My breath is rot It is holy The stench of death, odour of decomposition It is holy Witness the fall of life through my will Necessity in every way Call upon me Call upon me, reach darkness As you breathe in the southern winds, out of abyssos Where physical expiration feeds my paradise Come closer, let me fall into you as you fall into me While no light shall reveale the way you follow To gain sublimination, in feculence of purity Let me surge, let me flow through you Dominating flesh and mind For you chose invocation Serving powers, older than time itself |
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3. | Chaos Reigns | 05:08 | Show lyrics |
Where civilization matters not We’re heading straight for thee Reaching this place of essence Granting access to obsession Of natural instinct Free to abandon In this, our place of fear In darkness of suspense Walking from misery into secret dimension Paradise below, hiding its being From human hindrance The fire is burning in our eyes Unleashing the fanatic love-feast at last Burning in passion Burning with purity For we are not what you are For we are not what you are Lay down your hands on my face To open my eyes wide enough And crucify me in the woods To proclaim confession And reach myself Proclaim confession To complete the "I" To live To live To be free |
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4. | No Light from the Fires | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
This emptiness is yours No light to gain from these hands That gave you eyes, to see That gave you lungs, to breathe In a vacuum, eternal A fathomless ocean of void Fathomless nothingness He looked at you in odium Failed creation in the concept of existence "He who sows the wind..." Unfolded darkness conquers the solitude Are you without reason? Unfolded darkness whispers in your ear Are you without ordinance? I came here to see god, made of flesh I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine One command One joy One desire One curse One weight One measure One king One god One law It seems that there is no light from the flames No light, for none of you This, the manifest of dusk before dawn This, the end before the light I came here to see god, made of bones I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine Fountains of blood to reveale your true self Surrounded by the waste of your creation For none of light will ever shine for you Lucem demonstrat umbra None of light shines for you |
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5. | Black but Shining | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Black The nectar of the apple Like the water from the well of life Wich I drink To be blessed To be absolute To be blessed With holy dark For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see Angel! Stare into this sun Let this light seduce you Let it burn your wings For you will fall with me For you must fall with me For you will fall with me As he speaks of the great abyss For he speaks through me I speak his word to the cherubim For some may go up in flames As an introduction to the bliss of disobedience To the bliss of sin And I’d rather have fucked the holy mother Before accepting wine and bread from hands divine For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see For darkness is my sun Black but shining Black but shining for me |
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6. | INRI | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
In death we are reborn intact and pure Lvx shall we receive From opened arms ablaze For the kingdom of him is in us Lvx shall be the regenerating of nature And our metamorphosis of satori O light eternal O light numinous |
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7. | The Venom of Gods | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
O beloveth sons Giving destruction a voice Incompareable and yet hidden so carefully Behind the veils of secrets Born of pestilence and plague Of blackest dust, their storms Of purest ecstacy, their wrath And highest walls will fall As I try to understand the numbers and words Wich are unwritten and unintelligible Counting to seven and back As names can’t fill the holes in knowledge Reaching rooms of emptiness No human eyes had seen before Going from whence no one returns Entering spaces no man has ever walked As I pray to the foundations of chaos I walked into the flames, and I knew There are definitions of the burning pain Crawling on human backs And there are names For the poisonous seed of rejection Lurking in places unknown Arrayed in terror Falling like rain from the sky As the blaze of the ancient presence of death Seven For they are seven I was banished From the waste of restriction And I watched the harlot die in the streets I was forsaken Am I forsaken? Telal took me by the hand Guided by the architects Of a world between the worlds I saw the spawn of the earth The serpents from below Where they came from I wandered, for their places are mine I saw the storms from above Guiding pest and plague of millions of years And I saw the light For I have seen darkness And I knew There are definitions of the fire of pain Crawling on the face of men And there are names for the burning perdition For the venom of gods |
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42:26 |
Contradiction
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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April 22nd, 2014 | Prosthetic Records | 10173-2 | 2CD | Digipak |
April 22nd, 2014 | Prosthetic Records | Digital | Bandcamp | |
July 22nd, 2014 | Prosthetic Records | PROS101731 | 2 12" vinyls | Limited edition, Black/white vinyl |
September 28th, 2018 | Prosthetic Records | PROS101731 | 2 12" vinyls | Limited edition, Gold/Silver vinyl |
August 3rd, 2020 | Independent | 2 12" vinyls | Limited edition |
Members | |
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Band members | |
C.S.R. | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W. | Drums, Percussion |
M.A. | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
V. Santura | Guitars (lead) (disc 2, track 4) |
Ar | Vocals (additional, spoken words) (disc 2, track 4) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (flamenco) (disc 1, track 1) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, tracks 2, 4; disc 2, track 2) |
Filip Dupont | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 3) |
M.V. | Vocals (spoken words) (disc 1, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Metastazis | Artwork, Design, Photography |
V. Santura | Recording, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
1. | Contradiction | 10:31 | Show lyrics |
worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped harkening to the voice of silence for the only word is silence and the only meaning of that word is not ascension through fall into highest abyss cast me into the dark devoid of meaning disguised as bliss my searing flesh burning through thy kiss wandering on bottomless ground I followed the serpent’s hiss son of spirit thy tears to dust father of flesh thy will to stone dreaming awake in constant movement may thy will break as heaven’s descent I am you I walk on divided water I walk through extinguished flames to obey is freedom you glare at me in defiance and die for love is averseness and death and death, not averseness is love Rien n’est faux qui soit vrai ; rien n’est vrai qui soit faux. Tout est le contraire de songe, de mensonge. I am your slave I am god you are my slave I am god we are all slave we are all god celebration of uncreation parturition of the unborn horizons are flowing through my veins as I drink your holy wine ecclesiastical masochism in devoted betrayal I burn for love is defiance in sadism for detestion in love do we yearn I hear your silence I forgot how to forget living on ashes I breathe not air but dust whining in deafness woman at my feet burn in these oceans of tears and shine in devotion words are but the fuel, running the scheme of life’s mine map ... are but the blood to cherish vipers in our breast ... are but the howling of solitude enslavement we burn all... ...waters to dust drown in liquid fire light of the frozen sun star at its rising watch the stars die today dying to live as below so above enslaved by eternal freedom of a macrocosmical microcosm from where I do see everything through an eye that is closed from where I do know everything through a mind that is void salvation is the contradiction of everything we know that is |
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2. | Split My Tongue | 08:22 | Show lyrics |
numb to pain from wounds eternal I step into the void of fear this, my holy land sepulchre of direction sepulchre of will in which I seek abjection as we strive to reap defection the essence of illumination heralding divine creation split my tongue, blind my eyes curse my faith, cut my skin wound my flesh, soil my blood infest my mind, drown my love crush my bones, burn my face nail my hands, break my will quench my cries, choke my voice tear my heart, evoke my fall bleeding death into the skies as thousand fists are crushing wailing walls to the heartbeat of the abyss deceitful shall be thy words these words are snakes, guarding the temple of creation and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Aleph lucidum - flagellation of the spirit - in noluntas dei unify my tongue, light my eyes bless my faith and mend my skin heal my flesh, purge my blood fulfill my mind shelter my love, strengthen my bones restore my face and free my hands be my will and hear my cries and guide my voice and seal my heart Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words Humiliation as the abstract fane of life masked as the throne of god, where man could never be, without masochism, his crown of kings, his holy essence and pulse of hearts, his bursting countenance in the oculus domini of the golden age of subject and division, of fearing the decision, and of praying for perdition deceitful shall be all words |
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3. | Provoking Spiritual Collapse | 06:57 | Show lyrics |
truth is yet created from ignorance and division excessive axiom of reason he who worshipped is crushed by the cross of definition spirit has vanished, most fatal treason the divided truth is, before all, limitation unseen by the eye in the triangle for a concept does not need direction, nor even shape, or names but lvx you will speak the final word ever spoken by man, before entering oblivion and your mouth will be be resealed to redirect the concept of life to a concept of undirection reducing god to vanus an angel of dirt consuming his entrails formed in víta by chains of opposition broken fragments of a principle divine why would you not let yourself be skinned to lay down the "was" and welcome the "will be"? why would you refuse to receive holy penetration from the phallic god and father? why would you not surrender to the river of poisonous tears and boiling blood? why would you reject to drink his nectar from the cup of salvation? will you still breathe, when the word is overcome? when all the water in the sea would not suffice to wash away one intellectual bloodstain? you will die before you have truly awakened like a moth, attracted to light you evoked lucifer while the sacred mountain was crumbling you revoked messiah while the masses canonized their stumbling you evoked spiritual collapse you revoked spiritual collapse you invoked spiritual collapse you provoked spiritual collapse |
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4. | Until Our Poison Devours Us | 09:42 | Show lyrics |
du gehst den weg zu dir selbst, und an dir selbst geht der weg vorbei, und an deinen sieben teufeln! verbrennen musst du dich wollen, in deiner eigenen flamme; wie wolltest du neu werden, wenn du nicht erst asche geworden bist? und hüte dich vor den anfällen deiner liebe. lust ist tiefer noch als herzeleid. ihr höheren menschen, ihr lernt es nicht, lust will ewigkeit wandering through the refuge of my dreams nightmarish blessings to speak decay in shrouds and fragments this place steams in the mist of butchered mind I became nothingness I became abyss of expression embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake crushing eleos and pride through reign of contradiction clasping the dusty ruins reclaiming the throne of bones commanding a legion composed of tainted words and symbols erupting abyssal volcanism raising the omega of mind reasons to justify the fall seems eternal crumbling in rays of light blinding the clearest sight chaque matin, quand le soleil se lève pour les autres, en répandant la joie et la chaleur dans toute la nature, tandis qu’aucun de mes traits ne bouge, en regardant fixement l’espace plein de ténèbres, accroupi vers le fond de ma caverne aimée, dans un désespoir qui m’enivre comme le vin, je meurtris de mes puissantes mains ma poitrine en lambeaux. objet de mes vœux, je n’appartenais plus à l’humanité. et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de ne pas épuiser mon esprit à réfléchir continuellement. Rappelle-toi-le bien; nous sommes sur ce vaisseau démâté pour souffrir. embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me addicted for I consciously perish in the bright shining embers of the golden sun one poisoned well to bail from, may be more effective than countless jars of venomous liquid why would I destroy myself on purpose, while speaking insensate curses against all that breathes and crying oceans of acid? for what I still fear the most is myself for lust burns deeper still than heartache until the poison devours me until the poison devours me until the poison devours you until the poison devours us |
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5. | Crown | 02:25 | instrumental |
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Disc 2 | |||
1. | The Inner Word | 13:39 | Show lyrics |
an open heart released the eye that guides limitless light torn apart and fulfilled by darkness in dismal height nameless countless shapeless boundless nothingness the essence of god lies in the absence of man highest deep reveals before the first ray of light and meta-flesh reseals as the body of void and serpent sibilance is yet the spirit voice unraveled a new self carving the shell of an unself fires to choke waters to dry out earth to soak with poison before absolute drought a star of light consummate illuming what is not a sun of night aureate consuming qadmon’s lot the word of none is spoken without tongue and without lungs the inner word was the silence of god the word of none is spoken without sound and is unheard the inner word is all in one, born in none all is one all is none |
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2. | Serpent Silence | 08:39 | Show lyrics |
solitary are all things which are complete craving for completeness, other than the words in stone while far above all things god awaits, the ultimate alone o solitude - how many have mistaken thy name for sorrow’s, or for death’s, or fear’s only thy children lie at night and waken how shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? I shall speak in tongues of serpent silence o soul of tears for never hath fallen as dew thy word nor is thy shape showed nor as wisdom’s heard supreme in self-contentment sole spirit gyring in its own ellipse singing songs of serpent silence while snakes devour time and tail as act of great defiance they speak words I used to speak when I was in silence they hear voices I used to hear when I was deaf they see worlds I used to see when I was blinded silence speaks for itself, with stones creating wounds that shall not heal no anguish left to feel learning to forget wherefore no use of speaking anymore for the world turns without sound though nothing is stranger to men than silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound singing songs of serpent silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound it was absolute no voice, no song might pierce or penetrate that enviable universal state the sun and moon beheld, stood still forging numinous instant under will as we were sailing out of equilibrium on a spiritual ocean without end into the eyes of a thousand storms the wheel of desperation that never stops turning we will never reach heaven so I teared god apart within me and we may never see the sun again but staring into the abyss with pride praising silence as the last remaining joy still waters run deep |
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3. | Golden Light | 06:47 | Show lyrics |
ten million stars explode as I open my eyes to the sun neshamah entwined and I did hear the scream of silence for there is no "I" for there is no "us" to my heart, arise bring disillusion to our heart, arise to my heart, arise o son of flames to our heart, arise things which are endless, would they ever fall when you, mortal, crossed the veil of isis? was it not fire which created the seas? were it not men who created god? a mantra is set for those with eyes to see clouds of subject penetrated by shining dissolution I saw thee in golden light, lurking heresy a chapter to fall requires a chapter to rise I saw thee in golden light, bearing crowns of horns I saw thee in golden light, veiled in thousand raging storms I saw thee I saw thee I saw thee in golden light come fiery serpent rise unto me as your falling unservant I’m burning to be free flame of transcendence enlighten my heart without words of repentance for tearing a world apart I harvest thy sun I harvest thy void |
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4. | JHWH | 17:10 | Show lyrics |
Tired of opening my eyes again to a paradise of grey mist and blind consciousness, tired of trudging along the steep track of earthly voyage and of staggering like a drunkard through life’s dark catacombs, I slowly raised my morose eyes towards the concave firmament, and dared penetrate the mysteries of heaven. Not finding what I sought I raised my dismayed gaze higher, until I caught sight of a throne fashioned of human excrement and gold upon which, with starving pride, body swathed in a shroud made of befouled hospital sheets, sat he who calls himself the creator. He held in his hand a corpse’s decaying torso and bore it in turn from eyes to nose, from nose to mouth, which he began to devour in most terrible ways. His feet were immersed in a vast pool of boiling blood, to whose surface two or three cautious heads would suddenly rise like tapeworms from a full chamberpot, and immediately slip back again quick as arrows; a well-applied hit on the forehead was the familiar reward for breach of rules, caused by the need to breathe in another element - for after all, these men would still breathe air. They swam between two waters in a loathsome liquid, giving their best not to drown. And then the creator, having nothing left in his grasp, would with the first two claws of his foot seize another victim by the neck as in a vice, and raise him from the reddish substance into the air, there to be dealt with like the others. First of all he would devour head, legs, and arms, and lastly the trunk, until nothing was left. And so on and throughout the other hours of his eternity. Sometimes he would exclaim: "I have created you, so I have the right to do with you what I will. You have done nothing against me, that I do not deny. And for my pleasure, I make you suffer." The Almighty appeared before me adorned with his instruments of torture, in all the glorious aureole of his horror; I turned away my eyes and looked at the horizon... he is all verbum dei manet in æternum he is of fire in ignem aeternum for him we will fall nihil contemnit esuriens for our fragile desire nutrimentum spiritus he is creation omne trinum perfectum he is our will to live quia pulvis es he is annihilation corpus vile for him, our lives we give et in pulverem reverteris he is the golden mountain mons sinai the light in our hearts a deo lux nostra he is the holy fountain aquis submersus the sword that ever parts contraria contrariis he is salvation o fallacem hominum spem into his hands, I commend thee In manus tuas he is envenomation sola fide my destination to be free deo parere libertas est into his hands, I commend my spirit my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into his hands, I commend my spirit for he has redeemed me my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into my hands I commend his spirit his love for me deus est mortuus into my hands, I commed his spirit for I have redeemed him his love for me deus est mortuus omnia ad dei gloriam credo, quia absurdum coincidentia oppositorum altum silentium worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped |
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46:15 |
Triangle
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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April 29th, 2016 | Prosthetic Records | PROS10257 | 3CD | Limited edition |
April 29th, 2016 | Prosthetic Records | PROS10257 | 3 12" vinyls | Limited edition |
April 29th, 2016 | Prosthetic Records | PROS10257 | 3 12" vinyls | White vinyl |
April 29th, 2016 | Prosthetic Records | Digital | Bandcamp | |
May 26th, 2017 | Prosthetic Records | PROS10257 | 3 12" vinyls | Limited edition |
July 12th, 2018 | Prosthetic Records | PROS10257 | 3 12" vinyls | Limited edition |
Members | |
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Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
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2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
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5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
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2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
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3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
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4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
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5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
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June 9th, 2017 | Prosthetic Records | PROS 102972 | CD | Digipak |
June 9th, 2017 | Prosthetic Records | PROS 102972 | 12" vinyl | Limited edition |
June 9th, 2017 | Prosthetic Records | Digital | ||
August 3rd, 2020 | Prosthetic Records | 12" vinyl | Limited edition |
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C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
C.S.R | Engineering (guitars), Mixing |
Simon Jameson | Engineering, Mixing |
Raphaël Bovey | Engineering (assisted) |
Héctor Pineda | Cover art |
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1. | Prologue | 05:10 | |
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2. | The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret | 06:25 | Show lyrics |
Over there in a grove surrounded by flowers slumbers the Hermaphrodite, sound asleep upon sward, drenched with his tears. The moon`s disc is clear of the cloud mass and with pale beams she caresses this smooth youthful form. His features manifest the most manly vigour coeval with a heavenly virgin`s grace. Nothing in him apears natura, not even the muscle of his body, which force their way across the harmonious contours of feminine forms. One arm curves over his forehead, the other hand rests against his breast as if to repress the beat of a heart closed to all confidences, and fraught with The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret. Weary of life and ashamed to walk among beings who do not resemble him, despairhas won his soul and he wanders alone like a beggar in the alley. How does he find the wherewithal to exist? Compassionate souls watch over him closely, without his suspecting such surveillance, and do not abandon him: he is so good...so resigned. Sometimes he talks readily to those os sensitive disposition, without touching their hands, and standing his distance for fear of an imagined danger. If asked why he has taken solitude for companion, he raises his eyes heavenward and has difficulty holding back a tear of reproach against providence, but he does not answer this imprudent question, which sheds upon his snowy eyelids the blush of a morning rose |
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3. | Along the Road That Leads to Bedlam | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
One day four masked men, upon orders received, Threw themselves upon him and bound him hand and foot, So that he could only move his legs. The Whip’s harsh lash slashed at his back, And they told him to be on his way without delay. - along the road that leads to Bedlam. He began to smile while scourged and spoke to them with such feelings, Such intelligence concerning so many human sciences he had studied - displaying vast erudition for one who had not yet crossed the threshold of youth. And his discourse on Humanity’s Destiny, During which he laid absolutely bare the poetic nobility of his soul, Made his captors – shaken to the core by what they had done – unbind his battered limbs And fall on their knees begging forgiveness. His excessive Modesty, which dawned on him because of this idea of being but a monster, Prevents his bestowing his glowing compassion upon any man. He shelters behind his self-respect, offended by this blasphemous assumption Which arises solely from himself and persists in remaining alone And without solace in the midst of torments. His pride repeats to him this axiom: "Let each keep to his own kind." |
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4. | These Tresses Are Sacred | 01:40 | Show lyrics |
Through the branches of the trees the awakened birds gaze rapturously on his malencholy visage. The nightingale is unwilling to utter its cavatinas of crystal.The wood has become as August as a grave because of his nocturnal presence. Stands several paces back, and thus you will do well. These Tresses Are Sacred: The Hermaphrodite himself whished it. | |||
5. | May His Illusion Last Until Dawn’s Awakening | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
He does not want human lips piously kissing Hair Scented by the mountain breeze, nor his brow, aglow now like the stars of the firmament. But it is better to believe that while traversing Space a star itself has descended out of orbit on this majestic brow, and encircles it with a diamond’s brilliance as a Halo. Night, waving sadness aside, adorns herself in all her charms to celebrate the sleep of this incarnation of modesty, this perfect image of angelic innocence. The branches bend their lofty tufts over him to protect him from the dew, and the wind... twanging its tuneful harp sends blithe strains across the universal silence towards those lowered eyelids which, motionless, seem to witness the cadenced concert of suspended worlds. He dreams he is contented, that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud to another sphere peopled by beings of the same kind as himself. May his illusion last until Dawn’s Awakening! He dreams the flowers dance round him in a ring like immense demented garlands, and impregnate him with their balmy perfumes while he sings a hymn of love, locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being. But it is merely twilight mist he embraces, and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined. Awaken not, hermaphrodite. Do not open your eyes, I beg you, do not open your eyes. Sleep forever. Sleep forever. |
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6. | Chimerical Hope | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
Awaken not, Hermaphrodite. Do not wake yet, I beg you. Why will you not believe me? Sleep... Sleep forever. Sleep forever. May your breast heave while pursuing the chimerical hope of happiness - That I allow you; But do not open your eyes. Do not open your eyes! I want to leave you thus, not to witness your awakening. Perhaps one day, with the aid of a voluminous tome and in moving pages I shall recount your tale, shocked by its content and the lessons it brings forth. So far, I’ve been unable to, for each time I try, copious tears fall upon the paper and my fingers tremble, and my body trembles, and my spirit weeps - and not through old age. The secrets he bears within his evenhandedly joys and melancholic heart is treasured by the cosmic spirit like the Center of Adonai itself. Too perfect to exist among men, so fragile and full of love. I am indignant at being unable to hold my nerve and swooning like a little girl whenever I consider your deep misery. I shall not fail to pray heaven daily for you (Were it for myself, I would not pray at all) I shall not fail to prey heaven daily for you (and may peace be in your spirit) I shall not fail to pray Heaven daily for you (Farewell) |
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7. | Do Not Open Your Eyes | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
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Hearts of No Light
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November 8th, 2019 | Prosthetic Records | PROS103732 | CD | Digipak, Limited edition |
November 8th, 2019 | Prosthetic Records | PROS103731 | 2 12" vinyls | Limited edition |
November 8th, 2019 | Prosthetic Records | Digital |
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C.S.R | Guitars, Vocals |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
J.B | Guitars |
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Aldrahn | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Lillian Liu | Piano (tracks 1, 3) |
Dehn Sora | Effects (track 9) |
Pascal Dick | Flamenco guitars (track 9) |
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Markus Stock | Producer, Mixing, Mastering |
C.S.R | Producer, Mixing, Mastering, Artwork |
Anna Murphy | Engineering (piano) |
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1. | Winds That Pierce the Silence | 04:21 | instrumental |
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2. | Ego Sum Omega | 08:18 | Show lyrics |
The fathoms of truth are where darkness is deep And triumphant over ideal and intellect Mesmerizing, paralyzing spirals of fear They become relief, spirit, and belief Skulls ascend high heaven’s eye Death will receive, drowning pride in grief, Birth will come and tears will dry Rather hear the ones carrying hearts of no light For but insects feed on stigmata They did fall in reverse And speak their truth in secrecy, with whispered voices, thousandfold As willfully blindfolded eyes might give weight to the paradox Some would do well contemplating The faceless and shapeless state of equilibrium Learn, while skin dissolves, to deliberate upon the thrice-lettered word For that which shelters, adulterates, revolves in Circles like moths to the flame To perpetuate the waters transpicuous and shallow So no one and nothing could ever drown in such constrictive seas Insignificance becomes breathable Even when perceived as an ocean, For unconscious focus persists Until the I becomes a sunken city, Ruins hidden in the cold vast dark It is through the gaze of the eye, That a face loses substance, Becomes stripped of all expression Until there is nothing left to hold on to, maintaining but bones and spirit, Thus essence is cleared of all false constructs, And towers of radiant unidentity emerge From underneath the cloudy surface to unfold in splendour And on top there is a crown enthroned, Made out of the remains of one million destroyed personas Forming omega |
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3. | A Bridge Ablaze | 03:07 | Show lyrics |
Carefully did she choose Where her feet would gain further ground, Each step an extension of the idea Behind the symbolical trumpet. Behind her, closely, a growing trail of golden flames, Ready to consume the bridge, that was just being crossed By her who commands both dawn and dusk, in its entirety, Leaving but a skeleton of stone. Upon reaching the end said bridge, now groaning Under the pressure of impending death, she turns her head For one last view of, not the piece of work that is about To face its certain end, but the land that lies behind it, And for just one second A gleam of content flashes up in her eyes. And so she marches on. |
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4. | Qadmon’s Heir | 08:02 | Show lyrics |
And we did pray for the rising tide To swallow our daughters and sons For the rotten to spread out their seed While we built this kingdom And crowned our kings And we did pray for dystopia, searing the flesh of the earth Under the flag of brightening word and ideal Creation’s crowning glory, standing strong and proud It may be blind but blessed In itself dead but living And we are indeed dead but breathing And we are indeed without eyes Abound of desire we’re stumbling ahead To the pulse of malignant intent In glorious unconsciousness Feverishly sweeping towards the sole mountain And we are indeed dead but breathing And we did come to harvest the ashes, To claim what we saw, what is rightfully ours To defile, to rebuild, to beguile, to be spilled and Exiled, for at least our betrayal’s worthwhile And we did come to praise the forsaken, To hallow our truth, to defy death itself To oppress, to resort, to confess, to distort, To obsess what remains, for our reign has come forth And we did come to harvest the ashes, And we did come to claim what is rightfully ours And we did come to defile the temple For our reign is resort And we did come to praise the forsaken And we did come to hallow our truth And we did come obsess what remains For our reign has come forth |
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5. | Rays like Razors | 06:36 | Show lyrics |
Stare into my heart With rays like razors Cutting my eyes into half And see these depths in devastating order When transgression is reached There is nothing I cannot see, nor hear, nor feel And my body is closed to the foreign void of reason As if I’d never be part of what is called "state-of-the-art" Let us cease to exist when we hear your voice Let us cease to exist when we see your light Let us cease to exist when we feel your love Let us close this body now These fires beyond death will never rise again I am gone, but still remaining here For when I close myself, I am open too To a reality turned upside down Vision surrenders to the coldhearted truth of form In solitude we conspire In close-mouthed tongues we confess Determined to hear the crackling and crumbling of hearts again Pierce my heart with your rays |
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6. | I Burn Within You | 05:54 | Show lyrics |
You speak from dark corners Where we find ourselves in When hours are drifting from above the sky In your domain, time is dissolved, Leaving but liquid that dances, radiant with none And your words echo in our mind Not among bones and flesh But within darkness that hides beneath our eyelids Where we find our true self Revealing not one spark of your enigma Yet there are hints of your presence within all that we do So engrave your sign into the surface of our spheres Penetrating principles of disgust with two golden arrows Dipped in a psychedelic serum One to answer for my unknowing and one for my clarity A pure portion of electric venom Scraping my face off this wall Scraping my face off this wall A non-dual facet, blunt in sustain Endangered species come to life Drawing sketches of a human being Parading barefoot over broken glass Through the mental jungle with the eyes of a lion Tentacled patterns open up and divine communion unfolds And I realize the absolute nothing Maybe I’m to burn forever And I was meant to burn for you For my ascent was vain endeavor A lament that you withdrew Inner sense to seed your curse Forming paths to see transcendence As you’d accent a fate so obverse With a fuse that burns from twice ends Enigmatic scheming I burn within you In ecstatic dreaming You are all around me Enigmatic scheming You burn within me In ecstatic dreaming Your flames surround me |
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7. | A Paradigm of Beauty | 07:44 | Show lyrics |
You rose You were born You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You are a paradigm of beauty In the midst of burning ruins Your light was never seen before You gave me everything and more Everything and more |
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8. | Katabasis | 08:06 | Show lyrics |
From the mountains of fire to one From Elysian fields to the sun Within streams of corruption you’ll come From the covertly choir to none You’re the pulse of a lifelong ordeal You’re the vice I can hardly conceal Within dreams of irruption you’ll heal And what’s illusive again shall be real I follow you down The path into the fire I follow you down The path of vain desire I follow you down The path that brings us higher I follow you down The path to your empire Where ever you lead will be my destination No questions be asked nor answers be given As long as I’m free or dogmatic stagnation I shall be your vessel forever unshriven And deep were the caverns and mazes we crossed And deep will be what lies ahead of us now As seen through the eyes of the one that is lost There are no restrictions that you can allow Within this labyrinth the blind are The blessed and the blessed shall be blinded eventually For temptation is present in all that We hear and feel in all that we see None will be free from the oath of conviction Not one shall secede from this joyful addiction For the chains of the many are chance to the few And even fewer, if any, will find a way through Speaking works that deceive Every man is an abyss |
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9. | Innermost, Lowermost Abyss | 15:06 | Show lyrics |
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Sic Lvceat Lvx
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Boris A.W. | Drums |
M.A. | Guitars |
Chris S.R. | Vocals, Guitars, Bass |
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SVH | Layout, Artwork |
Tore Stjerna | Mastering |
Oliver Hämmerle | Recording, Mixing |
eVe | Photography |
Xaay | Logo |
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1. | Lvx Æterna | 02:11 | Show lyrics |
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2. | He Whose Face Is Made of Entrails | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Come closer, see me as a vision of delight As I’m essential Lord of abomination Know my name, hear my word, come closer As I speak revelation Divine revelation of dimensional downfall Before the sun of life For I was born of the ancient blood For I am source and kingdom of decay My symbol, my word My breath is rot It is holy The stench of death, odour of decomposition It is holy Witness the fall of life through my will Necessity in every way Call upon me Call upon me, reach darkness As you breathe in the southern winds, out of abyssos Where physical expiration feeds my paradise Come closer, let me fall into you as you fall into me While no light shall reveale the way you follow To gain sublimination, in feculence of purity Let me surge, let me flow through you Dominating flesh and mind For you chose invocation Serving powers, older than time itself |
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3. | Chaos Reigns | 05:08 | Show lyrics |
Where civilization matters not We’re heading straight for thee Reaching this place of essence Granting access to obsession Of natural instinct Free to abandon In this, our place of fear In darkness of suspense Walking from misery into secret dimension Paradise below, hiding its being From human hindrance The fire is burning in our eyes Unleashing the fanatic love-feast at last Burning in passion Burning with purity For we are not what you are For we are not what you are Lay down your hands on my face To open my eyes wide enough And crucify me in the woods To proclaim confession And reach myself Proclaim confession To complete the "I" To live To live To be free |
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4. | No Light from the Fires | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
This emptiness is yours No light to gain from these hands That gave you eyes, to see That gave you lungs, to breathe In a vacuum, eternal A fathomless ocean of void Fathomless nothingness He looked at you in odium Failed creation in the concept of existence "He who sows the wind..." Unfolded darkness conquers the solitude Are you without reason? Unfolded darkness whispers in your ear Are you without ordinance? I came here to see god, made of flesh I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine One command One joy One desire One curse One weight One measure One king One god One law It seems that there is no light from the flames No light, for none of you This, the manifest of dusk before dawn This, the end before the light I came here to see god, made of bones I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine Fountains of blood to reveale your true self Surrounded by the waste of your creation For none of light will ever shine for you Lucem demonstrat umbra None of light shines for you |
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5. | Black but Shining | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Black The nectar of the apple Like the water from the well of life Wich I drink To be blessed To be absolute To be blessed With holy dark For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see Angel! Stare into this sun Let this light seduce you Let it burn your wings For you will fall with me For you must fall with me For you will fall with me As he speaks of the great abyss For he speaks through me I speak his word to the cherubim For some may go up in flames As an introduction to the bliss of disobedience To the bliss of sin And I’d rather have fucked the holy mother Before accepting wine and bread from hands divine For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see For darkness is my sun Black but shining Black but shining for me |
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6. | INRI | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
In death we are reborn intact and pure Lvx shall we receive From opened arms ablaze For the kingdom of him is in us Lvx shall be the regenerating of nature And our metamorphosis of satori O light eternal O light numinous |
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7. | The Venom of Gods | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
O beloveth sons Giving destruction a voice Incompareable and yet hidden so carefully Behind the veils of secrets Born of pestilence and plague Of blackest dust, their storms Of purest ecstacy, their wrath And highest walls will fall As I try to understand the numbers and words Wich are unwritten and unintelligible Counting to seven and back As names can’t fill the holes in knowledge Reaching rooms of emptiness No human eyes had seen before Going from whence no one returns Entering spaces no man has ever walked As I pray to the foundations of chaos I walked into the flames, and I knew There are definitions of the burning pain Crawling on human backs And there are names For the poisonous seed of rejection Lurking in places unknown Arrayed in terror Falling like rain from the sky As the blaze of the ancient presence of death Seven For they are seven I was banished From the waste of restriction And I watched the harlot die in the streets I was forsaken Am I forsaken? Telal took me by the hand Guided by the architects Of a world between the worlds I saw the spawn of the earth The serpents from below Where they came from I wandered, for their places are mine I saw the storms from above Guiding pest and plague of millions of years And I saw the light For I have seen darkness And I knew There are definitions of the fire of pain Crawling on the face of men And there are names for the burning perdition For the venom of gods |
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Sic Lvceat Lvx
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Boris A.W. | Drums |
M.A. | Guitars |
Chris S.R. | Vocals, Guitars, Bass |
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eVe | Photography |
SVH | Layout, Artwork |
Xaay | Logo |
Tore Stjerna | Mastering |
Oliver Hämmerle | Recording, Mixing |
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1. | Lvx Æterna | 02:11 | Show lyrics |
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2. | He Whose Face Is Made of Entrails | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Come closer, see me as a vision of delight As I’m essential Lord of abomination Know my name, hear my word, come closer As I speak revelation Divine revelation of dimensional downfall Before the sun of life For I was born of the ancient blood For I am source and kingdom of decay My symbol, my word My breath is rot It is holy The stench of death, odour of decomposition It is holy Witness the fall of life through my will Necessity in every way Call upon me Call upon me, reach darkness As you breathe in the southern winds, out of abyssos Where physical expiration feeds my paradise Come closer, let me fall into you as you fall into me While no light shall reveale the way you follow To gain sublimination, in feculence of purity Let me surge, let me flow through you Dominating flesh and mind For you chose invocation Serving powers, older than time itself |
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3. | Chaos Reigns | 05:08 | Show lyrics |
Where civilization matters not We’re heading straight for thee Reaching this place of essence Granting access to obsession Of natural instinct Free to abandon In this, our place of fear In darkness of suspense Walking from misery into secret dimension Paradise below, hiding its being From human hindrance The fire is burning in our eyes Unleashing the fanatic love-feast at last Burning in passion Burning with purity For we are not what you are For we are not what you are Lay down your hands on my face To open my eyes wide enough And crucify me in the woods To proclaim confession And reach myself Proclaim confession To complete the "I" To live To live To be free |
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4. | No Light from the Fires | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
This emptiness is yours No light to gain from these hands That gave you eyes, to see That gave you lungs, to breathe In a vacuum, eternal A fathomless ocean of void Fathomless nothingness He looked at you in odium Failed creation in the concept of existence "He who sows the wind..." Unfolded darkness conquers the solitude Are you without reason? Unfolded darkness whispers in your ear Are you without ordinance? I came here to see god, made of flesh I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine One command One joy One desire One curse One weight One measure One king One god One law It seems that there is no light from the flames No light, for none of you This, the manifest of dusk before dawn This, the end before the light I came here to see god, made of bones I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine Fountains of blood to reveale your true self Surrounded by the waste of your creation For none of light will ever shine for you Lucem demonstrat umbra None of light shines for you |
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5. | Black but Shining | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Black The nectar of the apple Like the water from the well of life Wich I drink To be blessed To be absolute To be blessed With holy dark For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see Angel! Stare into this sun Let this light seduce you Let it burn your wings For you will fall with me For you must fall with me For you will fall with me As he speaks of the great abyss For he speaks through me I speak his word to the cherubim For some may go up in flames As an introduction to the bliss of disobedience To the bliss of sin And I’d rather have fucked the holy mother Before accepting wine and bread from hands divine For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see For darkness is my sun Black but shining Black but shining for me |
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6. | INRI | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
In death we are reborn intact and pure Lvx shall we receive From opened arms ablaze For the kingdom of him is in us Lvx shall be the regenerating of nature And our metamorphosis of satori O light eternal O light numinous |
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7. | The Venom of Gods | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
O beloveth sons Giving destruction a voice Incompareable and yet hidden so carefully Behind the veils of secrets Born of pestilence and plague Of blackest dust, their storms Of purest ecstacy, their wrath And highest walls will fall As I try to understand the numbers and words Wich are unwritten and unintelligible Counting to seven and back As names can’t fill the holes in knowledge Reaching rooms of emptiness No human eyes had seen before Going from whence no one returns Entering spaces no man has ever walked As I pray to the foundations of chaos I walked into the flames, and I knew There are definitions of the burning pain Crawling on human backs And there are names For the poisonous seed of rejection Lurking in places unknown Arrayed in terror Falling like rain from the sky As the blaze of the ancient presence of death Seven For they are seven I was banished From the waste of restriction And I watched the harlot die in the streets I was forsaken Am I forsaken? Telal took me by the hand Guided by the architects Of a world between the worlds I saw the spawn of the earth The serpents from below Where they came from I wandered, for their places are mine I saw the storms from above Guiding pest and plague of millions of years And I saw the light For I have seen darkness And I knew There are definitions of the fire of pain Crawling on the face of men And there are names for the burning perdition For the venom of gods |
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42:26 |
Sic Lvceat Lvx
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Boris A.W. | Drums |
M.A. | Guitars |
Chris S.R. | Vocals, Guitars, Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
eVe | Photography |
SVH | Layout, Artwork |
Xaay | Logo |
Tore Stjerna | Mastering |
Oliver Hämmerle | Recording, Mixing |
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1. | Lvx Æterna | 02:11 | Show lyrics |
...and there was LVX. | |||
2. | He Whose Face Is Made of Entrails | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Come closer, see me as a vision of delight As I’m essential Lord of abomination Know my name, hear my word, come closer As I speak revelation Divine revelation of dimensional downfall Before the sun of life For I was born of the ancient blood For I am source and kingdom of decay My symbol, my word My breath is rot It is holy The stench of death, odour of decomposition It is holy Witness the fall of life through my will Necessity in every way Call upon me Call upon me, reach darkness As you breathe in the southern winds, out of abyssos Where physical expiration feeds my paradise Come closer, let me fall into you as you fall into me While no light shall reveale the way you follow To gain sublimination, in feculence of purity Let me surge, let me flow through you Dominating flesh and mind For you chose invocation Serving powers, older than time itself |
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3. | Chaos Reigns | 05:08 | Show lyrics |
Where civilization matters not We’re heading straight for thee Reaching this place of essence Granting access to obsession Of natural instinct Free to abandon In this, our place of fear In darkness of suspense Walking from misery into secret dimension Paradise below, hiding its being From human hindrance The fire is burning in our eyes Unleashing the fanatic love-feast at last Burning in passion Burning with purity For we are not what you are For we are not what you are Lay down your hands on my face To open my eyes wide enough And crucify me in the woods To proclaim confession And reach myself Proclaim confession To complete the "I" To live To live To be free |
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4. | No Light from the Fires | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
This emptiness is yours No light to gain from these hands That gave you eyes, to see That gave you lungs, to breathe In a vacuum, eternal A fathomless ocean of void Fathomless nothingness He looked at you in odium Failed creation in the concept of existence "He who sows the wind..." Unfolded darkness conquers the solitude Are you without reason? Unfolded darkness whispers in your ear Are you without ordinance? I came here to see god, made of flesh I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine One command One joy One desire One curse One weight One measure One king One god One law It seems that there is no light from the flames No light, for none of you This, the manifest of dusk before dawn This, the end before the light I came here to see god, made of bones I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine Fountains of blood to reveale your true self Surrounded by the waste of your creation For none of light will ever shine for you Lucem demonstrat umbra None of light shines for you |
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5. | Black but Shining | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Black The nectar of the apple Like the water from the well of life Wich I drink To be blessed To be absolute To be blessed With holy dark For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see Angel! Stare into this sun Let this light seduce you Let it burn your wings For you will fall with me For you must fall with me For you will fall with me As he speaks of the great abyss For he speaks through me I speak his word to the cherubim For some may go up in flames As an introduction to the bliss of disobedience To the bliss of sin And I’d rather have fucked the holy mother Before accepting wine and bread from hands divine For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see For darkness is my sun Black but shining Black but shining for me |
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6. | INRI | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
In death we are reborn intact and pure Lvx shall we receive From opened arms ablaze For the kingdom of him is in us Lvx shall be the regenerating of nature And our metamorphosis of satori O light eternal O light numinous |
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7. | The Venom of Gods | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
O beloveth sons Giving destruction a voice Incompareable and yet hidden so carefully Behind the veils of secrets Born of pestilence and plague Of blackest dust, their storms Of purest ecstacy, their wrath And highest walls will fall As I try to understand the numbers and words Wich are unwritten and unintelligible Counting to seven and back As names can’t fill the holes in knowledge Reaching rooms of emptiness No human eyes had seen before Going from whence no one returns Entering spaces no man has ever walked As I pray to the foundations of chaos I walked into the flames, and I knew There are definitions of the burning pain Crawling on human backs And there are names For the poisonous seed of rejection Lurking in places unknown Arrayed in terror Falling like rain from the sky As the blaze of the ancient presence of death Seven For they are seven I was banished From the waste of restriction And I watched the harlot die in the streets I was forsaken Am I forsaken? Telal took me by the hand Guided by the architects Of a world between the worlds I saw the spawn of the earth The serpents from below Where they came from I wandered, for their places are mine I saw the storms from above Guiding pest and plague of millions of years And I saw the light For I have seen darkness And I knew There are definitions of the fire of pain Crawling on the face of men And there are names for the burning perdition For the venom of gods |
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42:26 |
Sic Lvceat Lvx
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Boris A.W. | Drums |
M.A. | Guitars |
Chris S.R. | Vocals, Guitars, Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
SVH | Layout, Artwork |
eVe | Photography |
Xaay | Logo |
Tore Stjerna | Mastering |
Oliver Hämmerle | Recording, Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Lvx Æterna | 02:11 | Show lyrics |
...and there was LVX. | |||
2. | He Whose Face Is Made of Entrails | 03:40 | Show lyrics |
Come closer, see me as a vision of delight As I’m essential Lord of abomination Know my name, hear my word, come closer As I speak revelation Divine revelation of dimensional downfall Before the sun of life For I was born of the ancient blood For I am source and kingdom of decay My symbol, my word My breath is rot It is holy The stench of death, odour of decomposition It is holy Witness the fall of life through my will Necessity in every way Call upon me Call upon me, reach darkness As you breathe in the southern winds, out of abyssos Where physical expiration feeds my paradise Come closer, let me fall into you as you fall into me While no light shall reveale the way you follow To gain sublimination, in feculence of purity Let me surge, let me flow through you Dominating flesh and mind For you chose invocation Serving powers, older than time itself |
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3. | Chaos Reigns | 05:08 | Show lyrics |
Where civilization matters not We’re heading straight for thee Reaching this place of essence Granting access to obsession Of natural instinct Free to abandon In this, our place of fear In darkness of suspense Walking from misery into secret dimension Paradise below, hiding its being From human hindrance The fire is burning in our eyes Unleashing the fanatic love-feast at last Burning in passion Burning with purity For we are not what you are For we are not what you are Lay down your hands on my face To open my eyes wide enough And crucify me in the woods To proclaim confession And reach myself Proclaim confession To complete the "I" To live To live To be free |
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4. | No Light from the Fires | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
This emptiness is yours No light to gain from these hands That gave you eyes, to see That gave you lungs, to breathe In a vacuum, eternal A fathomless ocean of void Fathomless nothingness He looked at you in odium Failed creation in the concept of existence "He who sows the wind..." Unfolded darkness conquers the solitude Are you without reason? Unfolded darkness whispers in your ear Are you without ordinance? I came here to see god, made of flesh I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine One command One joy One desire One curse One weight One measure One king One god One law It seems that there is no light from the flames No light, for none of you This, the manifest of dusk before dawn This, the end before the light I came here to see god, made of bones I came here to see the darkness from the fire I came here to see extinction from creation I came here to see ordinance divine Fountains of blood to reveale your true self Surrounded by the waste of your creation For none of light will ever shine for you Lucem demonstrat umbra None of light shines for you |
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5. | Black but Shining | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Black The nectar of the apple Like the water from the well of life Wich I drink To be blessed To be absolute To be blessed With holy dark For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see Angel! Stare into this sun Let this light seduce you Let it burn your wings For you will fall with me For you must fall with me For you will fall with me As he speaks of the great abyss For he speaks through me I speak his word to the cherubim For some may go up in flames As an introduction to the bliss of disobedience To the bliss of sin And I’d rather have fucked the holy mother Before accepting wine and bread from hands divine For darkness is my light Through it I breathe and see For darkness is my sun Black but shining Black but shining for me |
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6. | INRI | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
In death we are reborn intact and pure Lvx shall we receive From opened arms ablaze For the kingdom of him is in us Lvx shall be the regenerating of nature And our metamorphosis of satori O light eternal O light numinous |
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7. | The Venom of Gods | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
O beloveth sons Giving destruction a voice Incompareable and yet hidden so carefully Behind the veils of secrets Born of pestilence and plague Of blackest dust, their storms Of purest ecstacy, their wrath And highest walls will fall As I try to understand the numbers and words Wich are unwritten and unintelligible Counting to seven and back As names can’t fill the holes in knowledge Reaching rooms of emptiness No human eyes had seen before Going from whence no one returns Entering spaces no man has ever walked As I pray to the foundations of chaos I walked into the flames, and I knew There are definitions of the burning pain Crawling on human backs And there are names For the poisonous seed of rejection Lurking in places unknown Arrayed in terror Falling like rain from the sky As the blaze of the ancient presence of death Seven For they are seven I was banished From the waste of restriction And I watched the harlot die in the streets I was forsaken Am I forsaken? Telal took me by the hand Guided by the architects Of a world between the worlds I saw the spawn of the earth The serpents from below Where they came from I wandered, for their places are mine I saw the storms from above Guiding pest and plague of millions of years And I saw the light For I have seen darkness And I knew There are definitions of the fire of pain Crawling on the face of men And there are names for the burning perdition For the venom of gods |
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42:26 |
Contradiction
Members | |
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Band members | |
C.S.R. | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W. | Drums, Percussion |
M.A. | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
V. Santura | Guitars (lead) (disc 2, track 4) |
Ar | Vocals (additional, spoken words) (disc 2, track 4) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (flamenco) (disc 1, track 1) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, tracks 2, 4; disc 2, track 2) |
Filip Dupont | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 3) |
M.V. | Vocals (spoken words) (disc 1, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Metastazis | Artwork, Design, Photography |
V. Santura | Recording, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
1. | Contradiction | 10:31 | Show lyrics |
worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped harkening to the voice of silence for the only word is silence and the only meaning of that word is not ascension through fall into highest abyss cast me into the dark devoid of meaning disguised as bliss my searing flesh burning through thy kiss wandering on bottomless ground I followed the serpent’s hiss son of spirit thy tears to dust father of flesh thy will to stone dreaming awake in constant movement may thy will break as heaven’s descent I am you I walk on divided water I walk through extinguished flames to obey is freedom you glare at me in defiance and die for love is averseness and death and death, not averseness is love Rien n’est faux qui soit vrai ; rien n’est vrai qui soit faux. Tout est le contraire de songe, de mensonge. I am your slave I am god you are my slave I am god we are all slave we are all god celebration of uncreation parturition of the unborn horizons are flowing through my veins as I drink your holy wine ecclesiastical masochism in devoted betrayal I burn for love is defiance in sadism for detestion in love do we yearn I hear your silence I forgot how to forget living on ashes I breathe not air but dust whining in deafness woman at my feet burn in these oceans of tears and shine in devotion words are but the fuel, running the scheme of life’s mine map ... are but the blood to cherish vipers in our breast ... are but the howling of solitude enslavement we burn all... ...waters to dust drown in liquid fire light of the frozen sun star at its rising watch the stars die today dying to live as below so above enslaved by eternal freedom of a macrocosmical microcosm from where I do see everything through an eye that is closed from where I do know everything through a mind that is void salvation is the contradiction of everything we know that is |
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2. | Split My Tongue | 08:22 | Show lyrics |
numb to pain from wounds eternal I step into the void of fear this, my holy land sepulchre of direction sepulchre of will in which I seek abjection as we strive to reap defection the essence of illumination heralding divine creation split my tongue, blind my eyes curse my faith, cut my skin wound my flesh, soil my blood infest my mind, drown my love crush my bones, burn my face nail my hands, break my will quench my cries, choke my voice tear my heart, evoke my fall bleeding death into the skies as thousand fists are crushing wailing walls to the heartbeat of the abyss deceitful shall be thy words these words are snakes, guarding the temple of creation and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Aleph lucidum - flagellation of the spirit - in noluntas dei unify my tongue, light my eyes bless my faith and mend my skin heal my flesh, purge my blood fulfill my mind shelter my love, strengthen my bones restore my face and free my hands be my will and hear my cries and guide my voice and seal my heart Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words Humiliation as the abstract fane of life masked as the throne of god, where man could never be, without masochism, his crown of kings, his holy essence and pulse of hearts, his bursting countenance in the oculus domini of the golden age of subject and division, of fearing the decision, and of praying for perdition deceitful shall be all words |
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3. | Provoking Spiritual Collapse | 06:57 | Show lyrics |
truth is yet created from ignorance and division excessive axiom of reason he who worshipped is crushed by the cross of definition spirit has vanished, most fatal treason the divided truth is, before all, limitation unseen by the eye in the triangle for a concept does not need direction, nor even shape, or names but lvx you will speak the final word ever spoken by man, before entering oblivion and your mouth will be be resealed to redirect the concept of life to a concept of undirection reducing god to vanus an angel of dirt consuming his entrails formed in víta by chains of opposition broken fragments of a principle divine why would you not let yourself be skinned to lay down the "was" and welcome the "will be"? why would you refuse to receive holy penetration from the phallic god and father? why would you not surrender to the river of poisonous tears and boiling blood? why would you reject to drink his nectar from the cup of salvation? will you still breathe, when the word is overcome? when all the water in the sea would not suffice to wash away one intellectual bloodstain? you will die before you have truly awakened like a moth, attracted to light you evoked lucifer while the sacred mountain was crumbling you revoked messiah while the masses canonized their stumbling you evoked spiritual collapse you revoked spiritual collapse you invoked spiritual collapse you provoked spiritual collapse |
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4. | Until Our Poison Devours Us | 09:42 | Show lyrics |
du gehst den weg zu dir selbst, und an dir selbst geht der weg vorbei, und an deinen sieben teufeln! verbrennen musst du dich wollen, in deiner eigenen flamme; wie wolltest du neu werden, wenn du nicht erst asche geworden bist? und hüte dich vor den anfällen deiner liebe. lust ist tiefer noch als herzeleid. ihr höheren menschen, ihr lernt es nicht, lust will ewigkeit wandering through the refuge of my dreams nightmarish blessings to speak decay in shrouds and fragments this place steams in the mist of butchered mind I became nothingness I became abyss of expression embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake crushing eleos and pride through reign of contradiction clasping the dusty ruins reclaiming the throne of bones commanding a legion composed of tainted words and symbols erupting abyssal volcanism raising the omega of mind reasons to justify the fall seems eternal crumbling in rays of light blinding the clearest sight chaque matin, quand le soleil se lève pour les autres, en répandant la joie et la chaleur dans toute la nature, tandis qu’aucun de mes traits ne bouge, en regardant fixement l’espace plein de ténèbres, accroupi vers le fond de ma caverne aimée, dans un désespoir qui m’enivre comme le vin, je meurtris de mes puissantes mains ma poitrine en lambeaux. objet de mes vœux, je n’appartenais plus à l’humanité. et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de ne pas épuiser mon esprit à réfléchir continuellement. Rappelle-toi-le bien; nous sommes sur ce vaisseau démâté pour souffrir. embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me addicted for I consciously perish in the bright shining embers of the golden sun one poisoned well to bail from, may be more effective than countless jars of venomous liquid why would I destroy myself on purpose, while speaking insensate curses against all that breathes and crying oceans of acid? for what I still fear the most is myself for lust burns deeper still than heartache until the poison devours me until the poison devours me until the poison devours you until the poison devours us |
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5. | Crown | 02:25 | instrumental |
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Disc 2 | |||
1. | The Inner Word | 13:39 | Show lyrics |
an open heart released the eye that guides limitless light torn apart and fulfilled by darkness in dismal height nameless countless shapeless boundless nothingness the essence of god lies in the absence of man highest deep reveals before the first ray of light and meta-flesh reseals as the body of void and serpent sibilance is yet the spirit voice unraveled a new self carving the shell of an unself fires to choke waters to dry out earth to soak with poison before absolute drought a star of light consummate illuming what is not a sun of night aureate consuming qadmon’s lot the word of none is spoken without tongue and without lungs the inner word was the silence of god the word of none is spoken without sound and is unheard the inner word is all in one, born in none all is one all is none |
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2. | Serpent Silence | 08:39 | Show lyrics |
solitary are all things which are complete craving for completeness, other than the words in stone while far above all things god awaits, the ultimate alone o solitude - how many have mistaken thy name for sorrow’s, or for death’s, or fear’s only thy children lie at night and waken how shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? I shall speak in tongues of serpent silence o soul of tears for never hath fallen as dew thy word nor is thy shape showed nor as wisdom’s heard supreme in self-contentment sole spirit gyring in its own ellipse singing songs of serpent silence while snakes devour time and tail as act of great defiance they speak words I used to speak when I was in silence they hear voices I used to hear when I was deaf they see worlds I used to see when I was blinded silence speaks for itself, with stones creating wounds that shall not heal no anguish left to feel learning to forget wherefore no use of speaking anymore for the world turns without sound though nothing is stranger to men than silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound singing songs of serpent silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound it was absolute no voice, no song might pierce or penetrate that enviable universal state the sun and moon beheld, stood still forging numinous instant under will as we were sailing out of equilibrium on a spiritual ocean without end into the eyes of a thousand storms the wheel of desperation that never stops turning we will never reach heaven so I teared god apart within me and we may never see the sun again but staring into the abyss with pride praising silence as the last remaining joy still waters run deep |
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3. | Golden Light | 06:47 | Show lyrics |
ten million stars explode as I open my eyes to the sun neshamah entwined and I did hear the scream of silence for there is no "I" for there is no "us" to my heart, arise bring disillusion to our heart, arise to my heart, arise o son of flames to our heart, arise things which are endless, would they ever fall when you, mortal, crossed the veil of isis? was it not fire which created the seas? were it not men who created god? a mantra is set for those with eyes to see clouds of subject penetrated by shining dissolution I saw thee in golden light, lurking heresy a chapter to fall requires a chapter to rise I saw thee in golden light, bearing crowns of horns I saw thee in golden light, veiled in thousand raging storms I saw thee I saw thee I saw thee in golden light come fiery serpent rise unto me as your falling unservant I’m burning to be free flame of transcendence enlighten my heart without words of repentance for tearing a world apart I harvest thy sun I harvest thy void |
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4. | JHWH | 17:10 | Show lyrics |
Tired of opening my eyes again to a paradise of grey mist and blind consciousness, tired of trudging along the steep track of earthly voyage and of staggering like a drunkard through life’s dark catacombs, I slowly raised my morose eyes towards the concave firmament, and dared penetrate the mysteries of heaven. Not finding what I sought I raised my dismayed gaze higher, until I caught sight of a throne fashioned of human excrement and gold upon which, with starving pride, body swathed in a shroud made of befouled hospital sheets, sat he who calls himself the creator. He held in his hand a corpse’s decaying torso and bore it in turn from eyes to nose, from nose to mouth, which he began to devour in most terrible ways. His feet were immersed in a vast pool of boiling blood, to whose surface two or three cautious heads would suddenly rise like tapeworms from a full chamberpot, and immediately slip back again quick as arrows; a well-applied hit on the forehead was the familiar reward for breach of rules, caused by the need to breathe in another element - for after all, these men would still breathe air. They swam between two waters in a loathsome liquid, giving their best not to drown. And then the creator, having nothing left in his grasp, would with the first two claws of his foot seize another victim by the neck as in a vice, and raise him from the reddish substance into the air, there to be dealt with like the others. First of all he would devour head, legs, and arms, and lastly the trunk, until nothing was left. And so on and throughout the other hours of his eternity. Sometimes he would exclaim: "I have created you, so I have the right to do with you what I will. You have done nothing against me, that I do not deny. And for my pleasure, I make you suffer." The Almighty appeared before me adorned with his instruments of torture, in all the glorious aureole of his horror; I turned away my eyes and looked at the horizon... he is all verbum dei manet in æternum he is of fire in ignem aeternum for him we will fall nihil contemnit esuriens for our fragile desire nutrimentum spiritus he is creation omne trinum perfectum he is our will to live quia pulvis es he is annihilation corpus vile for him, our lives we give et in pulverem reverteris he is the golden mountain mons sinai the light in our hearts a deo lux nostra he is the holy fountain aquis submersus the sword that ever parts contraria contrariis he is salvation o fallacem hominum spem into his hands, I commend thee In manus tuas he is envenomation sola fide my destination to be free deo parere libertas est into his hands, I commend my spirit my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into his hands, I commend my spirit for he has redeemed me my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into my hands I commend his spirit his love for me deus est mortuus into my hands, I commed his spirit for I have redeemed him his love for me deus est mortuus omnia ad dei gloriam credo, quia absurdum coincidentia oppositorum altum silentium worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped |
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46:15 |
Contradiction
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
A.T | Bass |
C.S.R. | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W. | Drums, Percussion |
M.A. | Guitars |
Guest/Session | |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (flamenco) (disc 1, track 1) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, tracks 2, 4; disc 2, track 2) |
Filip Dupont | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 3) |
V. Santura | Guitars (lead) (disc 2, track 4) |
M.V. | Vocals (spoken words) (disc 1, track 4) |
Ar | Vocals (additional, spoken words) (disc 2, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Metastazis | Artwork, Design, Photography |
V. Santura | Mastering, Recording, Engineering, Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Contradiction | 10:31 | Show lyrics |
worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped harkening to the voice of silence for the only word is silence and the only meaning of that word is not ascension through fall into highest abyss cast me into the dark devoid of meaning disguised as bliss my searing flesh burning through thy kiss wandering on bottomless ground I followed the serpent’s hiss son of spirit thy tears to dust father of flesh thy will to stone dreaming awake in constant movement may thy will break as heaven’s descent I am you I walk on divided water I walk through extinguished flames to obey is freedom you glare at me in defiance and die for love is averseness and death and death, not averseness is love Rien n’est faux qui soit vrai ; rien n’est vrai qui soit faux. Tout est le contraire de songe, de mensonge. I am your slave I am god you are my slave I am god we are all slave we are all god celebration of uncreation parturition of the unborn horizons are flowing through my veins as I drink your holy wine ecclesiastical masochism in devoted betrayal I burn for love is defiance in sadism for detestion in love do we yearn I hear your silence I forgot how to forget living on ashes I breathe not air but dust whining in deafness woman at my feet burn in these oceans of tears and shine in devotion words are but the fuel, running the scheme of life’s mine map ... are but the blood to cherish vipers in our breast ... are but the howling of solitude enslavement we burn all... ...waters to dust drown in liquid fire light of the frozen sun star at its rising watch the stars die today dying to live as below so above enslaved by eternal freedom of a macrocosmical microcosm from where I do see everything through an eye that is closed from where I do know everything through a mind that is void salvation is the contradiction of everything we know that is |
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2. | Split My Tongue | 08:22 | Show lyrics |
numb to pain from wounds eternal I step into the void of fear this, my holy land sepulchre of direction sepulchre of will in which I seek abjection as we strive to reap defection the essence of illumination heralding divine creation split my tongue, blind my eyes curse my faith, cut my skin wound my flesh, soil my blood infest my mind, drown my love crush my bones, burn my face nail my hands, break my will quench my cries, choke my voice tear my heart, evoke my fall bleeding death into the skies as thousand fists are crushing wailing walls to the heartbeat of the abyss deceitful shall be thy words these words are snakes, guarding the temple of creation and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Aleph lucidum - flagellation of the spirit - in noluntas dei unify my tongue, light my eyes bless my faith and mend my skin heal my flesh, purge my blood fulfill my mind shelter my love, strengthen my bones restore my face and free my hands be my will and hear my cries and guide my voice and seal my heart Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words Humiliation as the abstract fane of life masked as the throne of god, where man could never be, without masochism, his crown of kings, his holy essence and pulse of hearts, his bursting countenance in the oculus domini of the golden age of subject and division, of fearing the decision, and of praying for perdition deceitful shall be all words |
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3. | Provoking Spiritual Collapse | 06:57 | Show lyrics |
truth is yet created from ignorance and division excessive axiom of reason he who worshipped is crushed by the cross of definition spirit has vanished, most fatal treason the divided truth is, before all, limitation unseen by the eye in the triangle for a concept does not need direction, nor even shape, or names but lvx you will speak the final word ever spoken by man, before entering oblivion and your mouth will be be resealed to redirect the concept of life to a concept of undirection reducing god to vanus an angel of dirt consuming his entrails formed in víta by chains of opposition broken fragments of a principle divine why would you not let yourself be skinned to lay down the "was" and welcome the "will be"? why would you refuse to receive holy penetration from the phallic god and father? why would you not surrender to the river of poisonous tears and boiling blood? why would you reject to drink his nectar from the cup of salvation? will you still breathe, when the word is overcome? when all the water in the sea would not suffice to wash away one intellectual bloodstain? you will die before you have truly awakened like a moth, attracted to light you evoked lucifer while the sacred mountain was crumbling you revoked messiah while the masses canonized their stumbling you evoked spiritual collapse you revoked spiritual collapse you invoked spiritual collapse you provoked spiritual collapse |
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4. | Until Our Poison Devours Us | 09:42 | Show lyrics |
du gehst den weg zu dir selbst, und an dir selbst geht der weg vorbei, und an deinen sieben teufeln! verbrennen musst du dich wollen, in deiner eigenen flamme; wie wolltest du neu werden, wenn du nicht erst asche geworden bist? und hüte dich vor den anfällen deiner liebe. lust ist tiefer noch als herzeleid. ihr höheren menschen, ihr lernt es nicht, lust will ewigkeit wandering through the refuge of my dreams nightmarish blessings to speak decay in shrouds and fragments this place steams in the mist of butchered mind I became nothingness I became abyss of expression embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake crushing eleos and pride through reign of contradiction clasping the dusty ruins reclaiming the throne of bones commanding a legion composed of tainted words and symbols erupting abyssal volcanism raising the omega of mind reasons to justify the fall seems eternal crumbling in rays of light blinding the clearest sight chaque matin, quand le soleil se lève pour les autres, en répandant la joie et la chaleur dans toute la nature, tandis qu’aucun de mes traits ne bouge, en regardant fixement l’espace plein de ténèbres, accroupi vers le fond de ma caverne aimée, dans un désespoir qui m’enivre comme le vin, je meurtris de mes puissantes mains ma poitrine en lambeaux. objet de mes vœux, je n’appartenais plus à l’humanité. et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de ne pas épuiser mon esprit à réfléchir continuellement. Rappelle-toi-le bien; nous sommes sur ce vaisseau démâté pour souffrir. embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me addicted for I consciously perish in the bright shining embers of the golden sun one poisoned well to bail from, may be more effective than countless jars of venomous liquid why would I destroy myself on purpose, while speaking insensate curses against all that breathes and crying oceans of acid? for what I still fear the most is myself for lust burns deeper still than heartache until the poison devours me until the poison devours me until the poison devours you until the poison devours us |
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5. | Crown | 02:25 | instrumental |
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6. | The Inner Word | 13:39 | Show lyrics |
an open heart released the eye that guides limitless light torn apart and fulfilled by darkness in dismal height nameless countless shapeless boundless nothingness the essence of god lies in the absence of man highest deep reveals before the first ray of light and meta-flesh reseals as the body of void and serpent sibilance is yet the spirit voice unraveled a new self carving the shell of an unself fires to choke waters to dry out earth to soak with poison before absolute drought a star of light consummate illuming what is not a sun of night aureate consuming qadmon’s lot the word of none is spoken without tongue and without lungs the inner word was the silence of god the word of none is spoken without sound and is unheard the inner word is all in one, born in none all is one all is none |
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7. | Serpent Silence | 08:39 | Show lyrics |
solitary are all things which are complete craving for completeness, other than the words in stone while far above all things god awaits, the ultimate alone o solitude - how many have mistaken thy name for sorrow’s, or for death’s, or fear’s only thy children lie at night and waken how shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? I shall speak in tongues of serpent silence o soul of tears for never hath fallen as dew thy word nor is thy shape showed nor as wisdom’s heard supreme in self-contentment sole spirit gyring in its own ellipse singing songs of serpent silence while snakes devour time and tail as act of great defiance they speak words I used to speak when I was in silence they hear voices I used to hear when I was deaf they see worlds I used to see when I was blinded silence speaks for itself, with stones creating wounds that shall not heal no anguish left to feel learning to forget wherefore no use of speaking anymore for the world turns without sound though nothing is stranger to men than silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound singing songs of serpent silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound it was absolute no voice, no song might pierce or penetrate that enviable universal state the sun and moon beheld, stood still forging numinous instant under will as we were sailing out of equilibrium on a spiritual ocean without end into the eyes of a thousand storms the wheel of desperation that never stops turning we will never reach heaven so I teared god apart within me and we may never see the sun again but staring into the abyss with pride praising silence as the last remaining joy still waters run deep |
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8. | Golden Light | 06:47 | Show lyrics |
ten million stars explode as I open my eyes to the sun neshamah entwined and I did hear the scream of silence for there is no "I" for there is no "us" to my heart, arise bring disillusion to our heart, arise to my heart, arise o son of flames to our heart, arise things which are endless, would they ever fall when you, mortal, crossed the veil of isis? was it not fire which created the seas? were it not men who created god? a mantra is set for those with eyes to see clouds of subject penetrated by shining dissolution I saw thee in golden light, lurking heresy a chapter to fall requires a chapter to rise I saw thee in golden light, bearing crowns of horns I saw thee in golden light, veiled in thousand raging storms I saw thee I saw thee I saw thee in golden light come fiery serpent rise unto me as your falling unservant I’m burning to be free flame of transcendence enlighten my heart without words of repentance for tearing a world apart I harvest thy sun I harvest thy void |
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9. | JHWH | 17:10 | Show lyrics |
Tired of opening my eyes again to a paradise of grey mist and blind consciousness, tired of trudging along the steep track of earthly voyage and of staggering like a drunkard through life’s dark catacombs, I slowly raised my morose eyes towards the concave firmament, and dared penetrate the mysteries of heaven. Not finding what I sought I raised my dismayed gaze higher, until I caught sight of a throne fashioned of human excrement and gold upon which, with starving pride, body swathed in a shroud made of befouled hospital sheets, sat he who calls himself the creator. He held in his hand a corpse’s decaying torso and bore it in turn from eyes to nose, from nose to mouth, which he began to devour in most terrible ways. His feet were immersed in a vast pool of boiling blood, to whose surface two or three cautious heads would suddenly rise like tapeworms from a full chamberpot, and immediately slip back again quick as arrows; a well-applied hit on the forehead was the familiar reward for breach of rules, caused by the need to breathe in another element - for after all, these men would still breathe air. They swam between two waters in a loathsome liquid, giving their best not to drown. And then the creator, having nothing left in his grasp, would with the first two claws of his foot seize another victim by the neck as in a vice, and raise him from the reddish substance into the air, there to be dealt with like the others. First of all he would devour head, legs, and arms, and lastly the trunk, until nothing was left. And so on and throughout the other hours of his eternity. Sometimes he would exclaim: "I have created you, so I have the right to do with you what I will. You have done nothing against me, that I do not deny. And for my pleasure, I make you suffer." The Almighty appeared before me adorned with his instruments of torture, in all the glorious aureole of his horror; I turned away my eyes and looked at the horizon... he is all verbum dei manet in æternum he is of fire in ignem aeternum for him we will fall nihil contemnit esuriens for our fragile desire nutrimentum spiritus he is creation omne trinum perfectum he is our will to live quia pulvis es he is annihilation corpus vile for him, our lives we give et in pulverem reverteris he is the golden mountain mons sinai the light in our hearts a deo lux nostra he is the holy fountain aquis submersus the sword that ever parts contraria contrariis he is salvation o fallacem hominum spem into his hands, I commend thee In manus tuas he is envenomation sola fide my destination to be free deo parere libertas est into his hands, I commend my spirit my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into his hands, I commend my spirit for he has redeemed me my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into my hands I commend his spirit his love for me deus est mortuus into my hands, I commed his spirit for I have redeemed him his love for me deus est mortuus omnia ad dei gloriam credo, quia absurdum coincidentia oppositorum altum silentium worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped |
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Contradiction
Members | |
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Band members | |
A.T | Bass |
C.S.R. | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W. | Drums, Percussion |
M.A. | Guitars |
Guest/Session | |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (flamenco) (disc 1, track 1) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, tracks 2, 4; disc 2, track 2) |
V. Santura | Guitars (lead) (disc 2, track 4) |
Filip Dupont | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 3) |
Ar | Vocals (additional, spoken words) (disc 2, track 4) |
M.V. | Vocals (spoken words) (disc 1, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
V. Santura | Mastering, Recording, Engineering, Mixing |
Metastazis | Artwork, Design, Photography |
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Contradiction | 10:31 | Show lyrics |
worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped harkening to the voice of silence for the only word is silence and the only meaning of that word is not ascension through fall into highest abyss cast me into the dark devoid of meaning disguised as bliss my searing flesh burning through thy kiss wandering on bottomless ground I followed the serpent’s hiss son of spirit thy tears to dust father of flesh thy will to stone dreaming awake in constant movement may thy will break as heaven’s descent I am you I walk on divided water I walk through extinguished flames to obey is freedom you glare at me in defiance and die for love is averseness and death and death, not averseness is love Rien n’est faux qui soit vrai ; rien n’est vrai qui soit faux. Tout est le contraire de songe, de mensonge. I am your slave I am god you are my slave I am god we are all slave we are all god celebration of uncreation parturition of the unborn horizons are flowing through my veins as I drink your holy wine ecclesiastical masochism in devoted betrayal I burn for love is defiance in sadism for detestion in love do we yearn I hear your silence I forgot how to forget living on ashes I breathe not air but dust whining in deafness woman at my feet burn in these oceans of tears and shine in devotion words are but the fuel, running the scheme of life’s mine map ... are but the blood to cherish vipers in our breast ... are but the howling of solitude enslavement we burn all... ...waters to dust drown in liquid fire light of the frozen sun star at its rising watch the stars die today dying to live as below so above enslaved by eternal freedom of a macrocosmical microcosm from where I do see everything through an eye that is closed from where I do know everything through a mind that is void salvation is the contradiction of everything we know that is |
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2. | Split My Tongue | 08:22 | Show lyrics |
numb to pain from wounds eternal I step into the void of fear this, my holy land sepulchre of direction sepulchre of will in which I seek abjection as we strive to reap defection the essence of illumination heralding divine creation split my tongue, blind my eyes curse my faith, cut my skin wound my flesh, soil my blood infest my mind, drown my love crush my bones, burn my face nail my hands, break my will quench my cries, choke my voice tear my heart, evoke my fall bleeding death into the skies as thousand fists are crushing wailing walls to the heartbeat of the abyss deceitful shall be thy words these words are snakes, guarding the temple of creation and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Aleph lucidum - flagellation of the spirit - in noluntas dei unify my tongue, light my eyes bless my faith and mend my skin heal my flesh, purge my blood fulfill my mind shelter my love, strengthen my bones restore my face and free my hands be my will and hear my cries and guide my voice and seal my heart Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words Humiliation as the abstract fane of life masked as the throne of god, where man could never be, without masochism, his crown of kings, his holy essence and pulse of hearts, his bursting countenance in the oculus domini of the golden age of subject and division, of fearing the decision, and of praying for perdition deceitful shall be all words |
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3. | Provoking Spiritual Collapse | 06:57 | Show lyrics |
truth is yet created from ignorance and division excessive axiom of reason he who worshipped is crushed by the cross of definition spirit has vanished, most fatal treason the divided truth is, before all, limitation unseen by the eye in the triangle for a concept does not need direction, nor even shape, or names but lvx you will speak the final word ever spoken by man, before entering oblivion and your mouth will be be resealed to redirect the concept of life to a concept of undirection reducing god to vanus an angel of dirt consuming his entrails formed in víta by chains of opposition broken fragments of a principle divine why would you not let yourself be skinned to lay down the "was" and welcome the "will be"? why would you refuse to receive holy penetration from the phallic god and father? why would you not surrender to the river of poisonous tears and boiling blood? why would you reject to drink his nectar from the cup of salvation? will you still breathe, when the word is overcome? when all the water in the sea would not suffice to wash away one intellectual bloodstain? you will die before you have truly awakened like a moth, attracted to light you evoked lucifer while the sacred mountain was crumbling you revoked messiah while the masses canonized their stumbling you evoked spiritual collapse you revoked spiritual collapse you invoked spiritual collapse you provoked spiritual collapse |
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4. | Until Our Poison Devours Us | 09:42 | Show lyrics |
du gehst den weg zu dir selbst, und an dir selbst geht der weg vorbei, und an deinen sieben teufeln! verbrennen musst du dich wollen, in deiner eigenen flamme; wie wolltest du neu werden, wenn du nicht erst asche geworden bist? und hüte dich vor den anfällen deiner liebe. lust ist tiefer noch als herzeleid. ihr höheren menschen, ihr lernt es nicht, lust will ewigkeit wandering through the refuge of my dreams nightmarish blessings to speak decay in shrouds and fragments this place steams in the mist of butchered mind I became nothingness I became abyss of expression embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake crushing eleos and pride through reign of contradiction clasping the dusty ruins reclaiming the throne of bones commanding a legion composed of tainted words and symbols erupting abyssal volcanism raising the omega of mind reasons to justify the fall seems eternal crumbling in rays of light blinding the clearest sight chaque matin, quand le soleil se lève pour les autres, en répandant la joie et la chaleur dans toute la nature, tandis qu’aucun de mes traits ne bouge, en regardant fixement l’espace plein de ténèbres, accroupi vers le fond de ma caverne aimée, dans un désespoir qui m’enivre comme le vin, je meurtris de mes puissantes mains ma poitrine en lambeaux. objet de mes vœux, je n’appartenais plus à l’humanité. et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de ne pas épuiser mon esprit à réfléchir continuellement. Rappelle-toi-le bien; nous sommes sur ce vaisseau démâté pour souffrir. embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me addicted for I consciously perish in the bright shining embers of the golden sun one poisoned well to bail from, may be more effective than countless jars of venomous liquid why would I destroy myself on purpose, while speaking insensate curses against all that breathes and crying oceans of acid? for what I still fear the most is myself for lust burns deeper still than heartache until the poison devours me until the poison devours me until the poison devours you until the poison devours us |
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5. | Crown | 02:25 | instrumental |
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37:57 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Inner Word | 13:39 | Show lyrics |
an open heart released the eye that guides limitless light torn apart and fulfilled by darkness in dismal height nameless countless shapeless boundless nothingness the essence of god lies in the absence of man highest deep reveals before the first ray of light and meta-flesh reseals as the body of void and serpent sibilance is yet the spirit voice unraveled a new self carving the shell of an unself fires to choke waters to dry out earth to soak with poison before absolute drought a star of light consummate illuming what is not a sun of night aureate consuming qadmon’s lot the word of none is spoken without tongue and without lungs the inner word was the silence of god the word of none is spoken without sound and is unheard the inner word is all in one, born in none all is one all is none |
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2. | Serpent Silence | 08:39 | Show lyrics |
solitary are all things which are complete craving for completeness, other than the words in stone while far above all things god awaits, the ultimate alone o solitude - how many have mistaken thy name for sorrow’s, or for death’s, or fear’s only thy children lie at night and waken how shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? I shall speak in tongues of serpent silence o soul of tears for never hath fallen as dew thy word nor is thy shape showed nor as wisdom’s heard supreme in self-contentment sole spirit gyring in its own ellipse singing songs of serpent silence while snakes devour time and tail as act of great defiance they speak words I used to speak when I was in silence they hear voices I used to hear when I was deaf they see worlds I used to see when I was blinded silence speaks for itself, with stones creating wounds that shall not heal no anguish left to feel learning to forget wherefore no use of speaking anymore for the world turns without sound though nothing is stranger to men than silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound singing songs of serpent silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound it was absolute no voice, no song might pierce or penetrate that enviable universal state the sun and moon beheld, stood still forging numinous instant under will as we were sailing out of equilibrium on a spiritual ocean without end into the eyes of a thousand storms the wheel of desperation that never stops turning we will never reach heaven so I teared god apart within me and we may never see the sun again but staring into the abyss with pride praising silence as the last remaining joy still waters run deep |
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3. | Golden Light | 06:47 | Show lyrics |
ten million stars explode as I open my eyes to the sun neshamah entwined and I did hear the scream of silence for there is no "I" for there is no "us" to my heart, arise bring disillusion to our heart, arise to my heart, arise o son of flames to our heart, arise things which are endless, would they ever fall when you, mortal, crossed the veil of isis? was it not fire which created the seas? were it not men who created god? a mantra is set for those with eyes to see clouds of subject penetrated by shining dissolution I saw thee in golden light, lurking heresy a chapter to fall requires a chapter to rise I saw thee in golden light, bearing crowns of horns I saw thee in golden light, veiled in thousand raging storms I saw thee I saw thee I saw thee in golden light come fiery serpent rise unto me as your falling unservant I’m burning to be free flame of transcendence enlighten my heart without words of repentance for tearing a world apart I harvest thy sun I harvest thy void |
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4. | JHWH | 17:10 | Show lyrics |
Tired of opening my eyes again to a paradise of grey mist and blind consciousness, tired of trudging along the steep track of earthly voyage and of staggering like a drunkard through life’s dark catacombs, I slowly raised my morose eyes towards the concave firmament, and dared penetrate the mysteries of heaven. Not finding what I sought I raised my dismayed gaze higher, until I caught sight of a throne fashioned of human excrement and gold upon which, with starving pride, body swathed in a shroud made of befouled hospital sheets, sat he who calls himself the creator. He held in his hand a corpse’s decaying torso and bore it in turn from eyes to nose, from nose to mouth, which he began to devour in most terrible ways. His feet were immersed in a vast pool of boiling blood, to whose surface two or three cautious heads would suddenly rise like tapeworms from a full chamberpot, and immediately slip back again quick as arrows; a well-applied hit on the forehead was the familiar reward for breach of rules, caused by the need to breathe in another element - for after all, these men would still breathe air. They swam between two waters in a loathsome liquid, giving their best not to drown. And then the creator, having nothing left in his grasp, would with the first two claws of his foot seize another victim by the neck as in a vice, and raise him from the reddish substance into the air, there to be dealt with like the others. First of all he would devour head, legs, and arms, and lastly the trunk, until nothing was left. And so on and throughout the other hours of his eternity. Sometimes he would exclaim: "I have created you, so I have the right to do with you what I will. You have done nothing against me, that I do not deny. And for my pleasure, I make you suffer." The Almighty appeared before me adorned with his instruments of torture, in all the glorious aureole of his horror; I turned away my eyes and looked at the horizon... he is all verbum dei manet in æternum he is of fire in ignem aeternum for him we will fall nihil contemnit esuriens for our fragile desire nutrimentum spiritus he is creation omne trinum perfectum he is our will to live quia pulvis es he is annihilation corpus vile for him, our lives we give et in pulverem reverteris he is the golden mountain mons sinai the light in our hearts a deo lux nostra he is the holy fountain aquis submersus the sword that ever parts contraria contrariis he is salvation o fallacem hominum spem into his hands, I commend thee In manus tuas he is envenomation sola fide my destination to be free deo parere libertas est into his hands, I commend my spirit my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into his hands, I commend my spirit for he has redeemed me my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into my hands I commend his spirit his love for me deus est mortuus into my hands, I commed his spirit for I have redeemed him his love for me deus est mortuus omnia ad dei gloriam credo, quia absurdum coincidentia oppositorum altum silentium worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped |
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Contradiction
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
A.T | Bass |
C.S.R. | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W. | Drums, Percussion |
M.A. | Guitars |
Guest/Session | |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (flamenco) (disc 1, track 1) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, tracks 2, 4; disc 2, track 2) |
Filip Dupont | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 3) |
V. Santura | Guitars (lead) (disc 2, track 4) |
M.V. | Vocals (spoken words) (disc 1, track 4) |
Ar | Vocals (additional, spoken words) (disc 2, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Metastazis | Artwork, Design, Photography |
V. Santura | Mastering, Recording, Engineering, Mixing |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Contradiction | 10:31 | Show lyrics |
worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped harkening to the voice of silence for the only word is silence and the only meaning of that word is not ascension through fall into highest abyss cast me into the dark devoid of meaning disguised as bliss my searing flesh burning through thy kiss wandering on bottomless ground I followed the serpent’s hiss son of spirit thy tears to dust father of flesh thy will to stone dreaming awake in constant movement may thy will break as heaven’s descent I am you I walk on divided water I walk through extinguished flames to obey is freedom you glare at me in defiance and die for love is averseness and death and death, not averseness is love Rien n’est faux qui soit vrai ; rien n’est vrai qui soit faux. Tout est le contraire de songe, de mensonge. I am your slave I am god you are my slave I am god we are all slave we are all god celebration of uncreation parturition of the unborn horizons are flowing through my veins as I drink your holy wine ecclesiastical masochism in devoted betrayal I burn for love is defiance in sadism for detestion in love do we yearn I hear your silence I forgot how to forget living on ashes I breathe not air but dust whining in deafness woman at my feet burn in these oceans of tears and shine in devotion words are but the fuel, running the scheme of life’s mine map ... are but the blood to cherish vipers in our breast ... are but the howling of solitude enslavement we burn all... ...waters to dust drown in liquid fire light of the frozen sun star at its rising watch the stars die today dying to live as below so above enslaved by eternal freedom of a macrocosmical microcosm from where I do see everything through an eye that is closed from where I do know everything through a mind that is void salvation is the contradiction of everything we know that is |
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2. | Split My Tongue | 08:22 | Show lyrics |
numb to pain from wounds eternal I step into the void of fear this, my holy land sepulchre of direction sepulchre of will in which I seek abjection as we strive to reap defection the essence of illumination heralding divine creation split my tongue, blind my eyes curse my faith, cut my skin wound my flesh, soil my blood infest my mind, drown my love crush my bones, burn my face nail my hands, break my will quench my cries, choke my voice tear my heart, evoke my fall bleeding death into the skies as thousand fists are crushing wailing walls to the heartbeat of the abyss deceitful shall be thy words these words are snakes, guarding the temple of creation and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Aleph lucidum - flagellation of the spirit - in noluntas dei unify my tongue, light my eyes bless my faith and mend my skin heal my flesh, purge my blood fulfill my mind shelter my love, strengthen my bones restore my face and free my hands be my will and hear my cries and guide my voice and seal my heart Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words Humiliation as the abstract fane of life masked as the throne of god, where man could never be, without masochism, his crown of kings, his holy essence and pulse of hearts, his bursting countenance in the oculus domini of the golden age of subject and division, of fearing the decision, and of praying for perdition deceitful shall be all words |
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3. | Provoking Spiritual Collapse | 06:57 | Show lyrics |
truth is yet created from ignorance and division excessive axiom of reason he who worshipped is crushed by the cross of definition spirit has vanished, most fatal treason the divided truth is, before all, limitation unseen by the eye in the triangle for a concept does not need direction, nor even shape, or names but lvx you will speak the final word ever spoken by man, before entering oblivion and your mouth will be be resealed to redirect the concept of life to a concept of undirection reducing god to vanus an angel of dirt consuming his entrails formed in víta by chains of opposition broken fragments of a principle divine why would you not let yourself be skinned to lay down the "was" and welcome the "will be"? why would you refuse to receive holy penetration from the phallic god and father? why would you not surrender to the river of poisonous tears and boiling blood? why would you reject to drink his nectar from the cup of salvation? will you still breathe, when the word is overcome? when all the water in the sea would not suffice to wash away one intellectual bloodstain? you will die before you have truly awakened like a moth, attracted to light you evoked lucifer while the sacred mountain was crumbling you revoked messiah while the masses canonized their stumbling you evoked spiritual collapse you revoked spiritual collapse you invoked spiritual collapse you provoked spiritual collapse |
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4. | Until Our Poison Devours Us | 09:42 | Show lyrics |
du gehst den weg zu dir selbst, und an dir selbst geht der weg vorbei, und an deinen sieben teufeln! verbrennen musst du dich wollen, in deiner eigenen flamme; wie wolltest du neu werden, wenn du nicht erst asche geworden bist? und hüte dich vor den anfällen deiner liebe. lust ist tiefer noch als herzeleid. ihr höheren menschen, ihr lernt es nicht, lust will ewigkeit wandering through the refuge of my dreams nightmarish blessings to speak decay in shrouds and fragments this place steams in the mist of butchered mind I became nothingness I became abyss of expression embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake crushing eleos and pride through reign of contradiction clasping the dusty ruins reclaiming the throne of bones commanding a legion composed of tainted words and symbols erupting abyssal volcanism raising the omega of mind reasons to justify the fall seems eternal crumbling in rays of light blinding the clearest sight chaque matin, quand le soleil se lève pour les autres, en répandant la joie et la chaleur dans toute la nature, tandis qu’aucun de mes traits ne bouge, en regardant fixement l’espace plein de ténèbres, accroupi vers le fond de ma caverne aimée, dans un désespoir qui m’enivre comme le vin, je meurtris de mes puissantes mains ma poitrine en lambeaux. objet de mes vœux, je n’appartenais plus à l’humanité. et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de ne pas épuiser mon esprit à réfléchir continuellement. Rappelle-toi-le bien; nous sommes sur ce vaisseau démâté pour souffrir. embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me addicted for I consciously perish in the bright shining embers of the golden sun one poisoned well to bail from, may be more effective than countless jars of venomous liquid why would I destroy myself on purpose, while speaking insensate curses against all that breathes and crying oceans of acid? for what I still fear the most is myself for lust burns deeper still than heartache until the poison devours me until the poison devours me until the poison devours you until the poison devours us |
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5. | Crown | 02:25 | instrumental |
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Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Inner Word | 13:39 | Show lyrics |
an open heart released the eye that guides limitless light torn apart and fulfilled by darkness in dismal height nameless countless shapeless boundless nothingness the essence of god lies in the absence of man highest deep reveals before the first ray of light and meta-flesh reseals as the body of void and serpent sibilance is yet the spirit voice unraveled a new self carving the shell of an unself fires to choke waters to dry out earth to soak with poison before absolute drought a star of light consummate illuming what is not a sun of night aureate consuming qadmon’s lot the word of none is spoken without tongue and without lungs the inner word was the silence of god the word of none is spoken without sound and is unheard the inner word is all in one, born in none all is one all is none |
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2. | Serpent Silence | 08:39 | Show lyrics |
solitary are all things which are complete craving for completeness, other than the words in stone while far above all things god awaits, the ultimate alone o solitude - how many have mistaken thy name for sorrow’s, or for death’s, or fear’s only thy children lie at night and waken how shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? I shall speak in tongues of serpent silence o soul of tears for never hath fallen as dew thy word nor is thy shape showed nor as wisdom’s heard supreme in self-contentment sole spirit gyring in its own ellipse singing songs of serpent silence while snakes devour time and tail as act of great defiance they speak words I used to speak when I was in silence they hear voices I used to hear when I was deaf they see worlds I used to see when I was blinded silence speaks for itself, with stones creating wounds that shall not heal no anguish left to feel learning to forget wherefore no use of speaking anymore for the world turns without sound though nothing is stranger to men than silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound singing songs of serpent silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound it was absolute no voice, no song might pierce or penetrate that enviable universal state the sun and moon beheld, stood still forging numinous instant under will as we were sailing out of equilibrium on a spiritual ocean without end into the eyes of a thousand storms the wheel of desperation that never stops turning we will never reach heaven so I teared god apart within me and we may never see the sun again but staring into the abyss with pride praising silence as the last remaining joy still waters run deep |
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Side B | |||
3. | Golden Light | 06:47 | Show lyrics |
ten million stars explode as I open my eyes to the sun neshamah entwined and I did hear the scream of silence for there is no "I" for there is no "us" to my heart, arise bring disillusion to our heart, arise to my heart, arise o son of flames to our heart, arise things which are endless, would they ever fall when you, mortal, crossed the veil of isis? was it not fire which created the seas? were it not men who created god? a mantra is set for those with eyes to see clouds of subject penetrated by shining dissolution I saw thee in golden light, lurking heresy a chapter to fall requires a chapter to rise I saw thee in golden light, bearing crowns of horns I saw thee in golden light, veiled in thousand raging storms I saw thee I saw thee I saw thee in golden light come fiery serpent rise unto me as your falling unservant I’m burning to be free flame of transcendence enlighten my heart without words of repentance for tearing a world apart I harvest thy sun I harvest thy void |
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4. | JHWH | 17:10 | Show lyrics |
Tired of opening my eyes again to a paradise of grey mist and blind consciousness, tired of trudging along the steep track of earthly voyage and of staggering like a drunkard through life’s dark catacombs, I slowly raised my morose eyes towards the concave firmament, and dared penetrate the mysteries of heaven. Not finding what I sought I raised my dismayed gaze higher, until I caught sight of a throne fashioned of human excrement and gold upon which, with starving pride, body swathed in a shroud made of befouled hospital sheets, sat he who calls himself the creator. He held in his hand a corpse’s decaying torso and bore it in turn from eyes to nose, from nose to mouth, which he began to devour in most terrible ways. His feet were immersed in a vast pool of boiling blood, to whose surface two or three cautious heads would suddenly rise like tapeworms from a full chamberpot, and immediately slip back again quick as arrows; a well-applied hit on the forehead was the familiar reward for breach of rules, caused by the need to breathe in another element - for after all, these men would still breathe air. They swam between two waters in a loathsome liquid, giving their best not to drown. And then the creator, having nothing left in his grasp, would with the first two claws of his foot seize another victim by the neck as in a vice, and raise him from the reddish substance into the air, there to be dealt with like the others. First of all he would devour head, legs, and arms, and lastly the trunk, until nothing was left. And so on and throughout the other hours of his eternity. Sometimes he would exclaim: "I have created you, so I have the right to do with you what I will. You have done nothing against me, that I do not deny. And for my pleasure, I make you suffer." The Almighty appeared before me adorned with his instruments of torture, in all the glorious aureole of his horror; I turned away my eyes and looked at the horizon... he is all verbum dei manet in æternum he is of fire in ignem aeternum for him we will fall nihil contemnit esuriens for our fragile desire nutrimentum spiritus he is creation omne trinum perfectum he is our will to live quia pulvis es he is annihilation corpus vile for him, our lives we give et in pulverem reverteris he is the golden mountain mons sinai the light in our hearts a deo lux nostra he is the holy fountain aquis submersus the sword that ever parts contraria contrariis he is salvation o fallacem hominum spem into his hands, I commend thee In manus tuas he is envenomation sola fide my destination to be free deo parere libertas est into his hands, I commend my spirit my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into his hands, I commend my spirit for he has redeemed me my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into my hands I commend his spirit his love for me deus est mortuus into my hands, I commed his spirit for I have redeemed him his love for me deus est mortuus omnia ad dei gloriam credo, quia absurdum coincidentia oppositorum altum silentium worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped |
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Contradiction
Members | |
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Band members | |
A.T | Bass |
C.S.R. | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W. | Drums, Percussion |
M.A. | Guitars |
Guest/Session | |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (flamenco) (disc 1, track 1) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, tracks 2, 4; disc 2, track 2) |
V. Santura | Guitars (lead) (disc 2, track 4) |
Filip Dupont | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 3) |
Ar | Vocals (additional, spoken words) (disc 2, track 4) |
M.V. | Vocals (spoken words) (disc 1, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
V. Santura | Mastering, Recording, Engineering, Mixing |
Metastazis | Artwork, Design, Photography |
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Contradiction | 10:31 | Show lyrics |
worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped harkening to the voice of silence for the only word is silence and the only meaning of that word is not ascension through fall into highest abyss cast me into the dark devoid of meaning disguised as bliss my searing flesh burning through thy kiss wandering on bottomless ground I followed the serpent’s hiss son of spirit thy tears to dust father of flesh thy will to stone dreaming awake in constant movement may thy will break as heaven’s descent I am you I walk on divided water I walk through extinguished flames to obey is freedom you glare at me in defiance and die for love is averseness and death and death, not averseness is love Rien n’est faux qui soit vrai ; rien n’est vrai qui soit faux. Tout est le contraire de songe, de mensonge. I am your slave I am god you are my slave I am god we are all slave we are all god celebration of uncreation parturition of the unborn horizons are flowing through my veins as I drink your holy wine ecclesiastical masochism in devoted betrayal I burn for love is defiance in sadism for detestion in love do we yearn I hear your silence I forgot how to forget living on ashes I breathe not air but dust whining in deafness woman at my feet burn in these oceans of tears and shine in devotion words are but the fuel, running the scheme of life’s mine map ... are but the blood to cherish vipers in our breast ... are but the howling of solitude enslavement we burn all... ...waters to dust drown in liquid fire light of the frozen sun star at its rising watch the stars die today dying to live as below so above enslaved by eternal freedom of a macrocosmical microcosm from where I do see everything through an eye that is closed from where I do know everything through a mind that is void salvation is the contradiction of everything we know that is |
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2. | Split My Tongue | 08:22 | Show lyrics |
numb to pain from wounds eternal I step into the void of fear this, my holy land sepulchre of direction sepulchre of will in which I seek abjection as we strive to reap defection the essence of illumination heralding divine creation split my tongue, blind my eyes curse my faith, cut my skin wound my flesh, soil my blood infest my mind, drown my love crush my bones, burn my face nail my hands, break my will quench my cries, choke my voice tear my heart, evoke my fall bleeding death into the skies as thousand fists are crushing wailing walls to the heartbeat of the abyss deceitful shall be thy words these words are snakes, guarding the temple of creation and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life Aleph lucidum - flagellation of the spirit - in noluntas dei unify my tongue, light my eyes bless my faith and mend my skin heal my flesh, purge my blood fulfill my mind shelter my love, strengthen my bones restore my face and free my hands be my will and hear my cries and guide my voice and seal my heart Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei Aleph lucidum in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words in noluntas dei deceitful shall be my words Humiliation as the abstract fane of life masked as the throne of god, where man could never be, without masochism, his crown of kings, his holy essence and pulse of hearts, his bursting countenance in the oculus domini of the golden age of subject and division, of fearing the decision, and of praying for perdition deceitful shall be all words |
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Side B | |||
3. | Provoking Spiritual Collapse | 06:57 | Show lyrics |
truth is yet created from ignorance and division excessive axiom of reason he who worshipped is crushed by the cross of definition spirit has vanished, most fatal treason the divided truth is, before all, limitation unseen by the eye in the triangle for a concept does not need direction, nor even shape, or names but lvx you will speak the final word ever spoken by man, before entering oblivion and your mouth will be be resealed to redirect the concept of life to a concept of undirection reducing god to vanus an angel of dirt consuming his entrails formed in víta by chains of opposition broken fragments of a principle divine why would you not let yourself be skinned to lay down the "was" and welcome the "will be"? why would you refuse to receive holy penetration from the phallic god and father? why would you not surrender to the river of poisonous tears and boiling blood? why would you reject to drink his nectar from the cup of salvation? will you still breathe, when the word is overcome? when all the water in the sea would not suffice to wash away one intellectual bloodstain? you will die before you have truly awakened like a moth, attracted to light you evoked lucifer while the sacred mountain was crumbling you revoked messiah while the masses canonized their stumbling you evoked spiritual collapse you revoked spiritual collapse you invoked spiritual collapse you provoked spiritual collapse |
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4. | Until Our Poison Devours Us | 09:42 | Show lyrics |
du gehst den weg zu dir selbst, und an dir selbst geht der weg vorbei, und an deinen sieben teufeln! verbrennen musst du dich wollen, in deiner eigenen flamme; wie wolltest du neu werden, wenn du nicht erst asche geworden bist? und hüte dich vor den anfällen deiner liebe. lust ist tiefer noch als herzeleid. ihr höheren menschen, ihr lernt es nicht, lust will ewigkeit wandering through the refuge of my dreams nightmarish blessings to speak decay in shrouds and fragments this place steams in the mist of butchered mind I became nothingness I became abyss of expression embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake crushing eleos and pride through reign of contradiction clasping the dusty ruins reclaiming the throne of bones commanding a legion composed of tainted words and symbols erupting abyssal volcanism raising the omega of mind reasons to justify the fall seems eternal crumbling in rays of light blinding the clearest sight chaque matin, quand le soleil se lève pour les autres, en répandant la joie et la chaleur dans toute la nature, tandis qu’aucun de mes traits ne bouge, en regardant fixement l’espace plein de ténèbres, accroupi vers le fond de ma caverne aimée, dans un désespoir qui m’enivre comme le vin, je meurtris de mes puissantes mains ma poitrine en lambeaux. objet de mes vœux, je n’appartenais plus à l’humanité. et je ne demanderais pas mieux que de ne pas épuiser mon esprit à réfléchir continuellement. Rappelle-toi-le bien; nous sommes sur ce vaisseau démâté pour souffrir. embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me awake embracing the poison as hunger that keeps me addicted for I consciously perish in the bright shining embers of the golden sun one poisoned well to bail from, may be more effective than countless jars of venomous liquid why would I destroy myself on purpose, while speaking insensate curses against all that breathes and crying oceans of acid? for what I still fear the most is myself for lust burns deeper still than heartache until the poison devours me until the poison devours me until the poison devours you until the poison devours us |
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5. | Crown | 02:25 | instrumental |
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37:57 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Inner Word | 13:39 | Show lyrics |
an open heart released the eye that guides limitless light torn apart and fulfilled by darkness in dismal height nameless countless shapeless boundless nothingness the essence of god lies in the absence of man highest deep reveals before the first ray of light and meta-flesh reseals as the body of void and serpent sibilance is yet the spirit voice unraveled a new self carving the shell of an unself fires to choke waters to dry out earth to soak with poison before absolute drought a star of light consummate illuming what is not a sun of night aureate consuming qadmon’s lot the word of none is spoken without tongue and without lungs the inner word was the silence of god the word of none is spoken without sound and is unheard the inner word is all in one, born in none all is one all is none |
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2. | Serpent Silence | 08:39 | Show lyrics |
solitary are all things which are complete craving for completeness, other than the words in stone while far above all things god awaits, the ultimate alone o solitude - how many have mistaken thy name for sorrow’s, or for death’s, or fear’s only thy children lie at night and waken how shouldst thou speak and say that no man hears? I shall speak in tongues of serpent silence o soul of tears for never hath fallen as dew thy word nor is thy shape showed nor as wisdom’s heard supreme in self-contentment sole spirit gyring in its own ellipse singing songs of serpent silence while snakes devour time and tail as act of great defiance they speak words I used to speak when I was in silence they hear voices I used to hear when I was deaf they see worlds I used to see when I was blinded silence speaks for itself, with stones creating wounds that shall not heal no anguish left to feel learning to forget wherefore no use of speaking anymore for the world turns without sound though nothing is stranger to men than silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound singing songs of serpent silence even as a star became the soul of silence most profound it was absolute no voice, no song might pierce or penetrate that enviable universal state the sun and moon beheld, stood still forging numinous instant under will as we were sailing out of equilibrium on a spiritual ocean without end into the eyes of a thousand storms the wheel of desperation that never stops turning we will never reach heaven so I teared god apart within me and we may never see the sun again but staring into the abyss with pride praising silence as the last remaining joy still waters run deep |
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3. | Golden Light | 06:47 | Show lyrics |
ten million stars explode as I open my eyes to the sun neshamah entwined and I did hear the scream of silence for there is no "I" for there is no "us" to my heart, arise bring disillusion to our heart, arise to my heart, arise o son of flames to our heart, arise things which are endless, would they ever fall when you, mortal, crossed the veil of isis? was it not fire which created the seas? were it not men who created god? a mantra is set for those with eyes to see clouds of subject penetrated by shining dissolution I saw thee in golden light, lurking heresy a chapter to fall requires a chapter to rise I saw thee in golden light, bearing crowns of horns I saw thee in golden light, veiled in thousand raging storms I saw thee I saw thee I saw thee in golden light come fiery serpent rise unto me as your falling unservant I’m burning to be free flame of transcendence enlighten my heart without words of repentance for tearing a world apart I harvest thy sun I harvest thy void |
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4. | JHWH | 17:10 | Show lyrics |
Tired of opening my eyes again to a paradise of grey mist and blind consciousness, tired of trudging along the steep track of earthly voyage and of staggering like a drunkard through life’s dark catacombs, I slowly raised my morose eyes towards the concave firmament, and dared penetrate the mysteries of heaven. Not finding what I sought I raised my dismayed gaze higher, until I caught sight of a throne fashioned of human excrement and gold upon which, with starving pride, body swathed in a shroud made of befouled hospital sheets, sat he who calls himself the creator. He held in his hand a corpse’s decaying torso and bore it in turn from eyes to nose, from nose to mouth, which he began to devour in most terrible ways. His feet were immersed in a vast pool of boiling blood, to whose surface two or three cautious heads would suddenly rise like tapeworms from a full chamberpot, and immediately slip back again quick as arrows; a well-applied hit on the forehead was the familiar reward for breach of rules, caused by the need to breathe in another element - for after all, these men would still breathe air. They swam between two waters in a loathsome liquid, giving their best not to drown. And then the creator, having nothing left in his grasp, would with the first two claws of his foot seize another victim by the neck as in a vice, and raise him from the reddish substance into the air, there to be dealt with like the others. First of all he would devour head, legs, and arms, and lastly the trunk, until nothing was left. And so on and throughout the other hours of his eternity. Sometimes he would exclaim: "I have created you, so I have the right to do with you what I will. You have done nothing against me, that I do not deny. And for my pleasure, I make you suffer." The Almighty appeared before me adorned with his instruments of torture, in all the glorious aureole of his horror; I turned away my eyes and looked at the horizon... he is all verbum dei manet in æternum he is of fire in ignem aeternum for him we will fall nihil contemnit esuriens for our fragile desire nutrimentum spiritus he is creation omne trinum perfectum he is our will to live quia pulvis es he is annihilation corpus vile for him, our lives we give et in pulverem reverteris he is the golden mountain mons sinai the light in our hearts a deo lux nostra he is the holy fountain aquis submersus the sword that ever parts contraria contrariis he is salvation o fallacem hominum spem into his hands, I commend thee In manus tuas he is envenomation sola fide my destination to be free deo parere libertas est into his hands, I commend my spirit my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into his hands, I commend my spirit for he has redeemed me my love for him omnia ad dei gloriam into my hands I commend his spirit his love for me deus est mortuus into my hands, I commed his spirit for I have redeemed him his love for me deus est mortuus omnia ad dei gloriam credo, quia absurdum coincidentia oppositorum altum silentium worship what you’ve burned, burn what you’ve worshipped |
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46:15 |
Triangle
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C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
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2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
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5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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33:28 | |||
Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
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2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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Triangle
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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33:28 | |||
Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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Side B | |||
3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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33:22 | |||
Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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33:29 |
Triangle
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
Side B | |||
5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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33:28 | |||
Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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Side B | |||
3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
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2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
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3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
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5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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Triangle
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
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2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
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5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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33:28 | |||
Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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33:22 | |||
Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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33:29 |
Triangle
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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Side B | |||
3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
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2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
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3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
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5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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Triangle
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums, Percussion |
M.A | Guitars, Saxophone |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Safa Heraghi | Vocals (female) (disc 3) |
Jerry C. | Vocals (additional) (disc 2, track 2) |
Frederyk Rotter | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
John B. | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 5) (disc 2, track 2) |
AR | Vocals (disc 2, track 3), Guitars, Mellotron (disc 2, track 5) |
Natasha Xavier | Vocals (additional) (disc 1, track 6), Lyrics (additional) (disc 1, track 6) |
Rayshele Teige | Spoken word (Track 5) |
Pascal Dick | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 2, track 5) |
Valnoir | Vocals (additional) (track 5) |
KzR | Vocals (disc 2, track 4) |
Bardo Jäger (R.I.P. 2017) | Vocals (additional), Gongs, Chime |
Klaus Kössinger | Percussion (additional) (discs 2, 3) |
Glauco Ceccarelli | Guitars (acoustic) (disc 3, track 4) |
Job "Phenex" Bos | Keyboards (disc 2, track 1) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Metastazis | Art direction, Layout |
V. Santura | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Michael Philip Barber | Engineering |
François Duguest | Engineering |
Michael Zech | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering |
Ester Segarra | Photography, Artwork |
C.S.R | Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Art direction |
Sasha Krohn | Model |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 - The Process of Dying | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Crepusculum | 03:09 | instrumental |
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2. | Father’s Breath | 03:53 | Show lyrics |
Reason as curse, the plague he sent upon us. His own seed in his own likeness, drowned by chaining hands. Reason as name, reason as light, descending to the sink of iniquity. To bond the bright flame of old mother night. Extending his reign, defining ubiquity. I drown my heart in acid tears to soil his flesh with cold reflection. My open heart for eyes to pierce, a perfect foil to a mind’s dissection. Guided by the laws of hopelessness, pining for redemption. I seek to eviscerate his name, his fire, his love forever. Exhaling father’s breath, exhaling father’s breath. To reduce the self to plain dissension, raising secrets on his dying flame as a monument of undimension where Death alone is mine to claim. This gate is open now, peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit. I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore. Unmasked as Heaven’s breath, compelled as knowledge’s death. Your will has made me what I am and never was meant to be. I received your light, I received your wound as a funeral rite for a heart entombed. As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed. As your hand demands to fear your canon requires to persevere, to claim the heart of those pierced by such immense deceit. |
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3. | In Dialogue with Death | 06:19 | Show lyrics |
What else will you see by gazing into the reflection of your own countenance on the water’s surface than a thousand empty eyes from a thousand empty faces of a thousand empty selfs, mirroring a thousand empty lifes? The harmonic state is not achieved through the profane illusion of Capitulation, striking exceedingly the deepest minds whilst they are bent. This isolation of the spirit, this paralysation of the flesh are only initials unravelling at last, the circle of death. I saw this falling star, lamb of faith under reason’s will. I bind this sacrifice to the burning tree and let it shine. I am the star that guides your way, your shrine, your temple, wine and bread. As opposed to him who leads astray for your mind was closed, your heart was dead. Tell me, if Satan’s breath creates the storms that hurl your salt water up to the clouds. Spirit is not yet abandoned! This you must tell me, because I would rejoice at knowing Hell so close to man. Embrace me now, drown in darkness. Receive me now, accept this guiding light. A voice to wake the truth of silence, destroying forlorn hope to renew what’s hidden beneath the ruins. I cast the serpent’s spell on those who crawl unwillingly through forsaken wastes and dirty soil of a mind unclear. I saw how eagles fell stunned from the topmost clouds of Heaven, tumbling over one another in raging fear. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. Fluctus feri maris despumantes suas confusiones sidera errantia quibus procella tenebrarum in aeternum servata est... Shadows emerging from the deep in silence, ascending from oceans. Shallow words are doomed to crumble as the truth is bared to be received through pain and anguish by the ones who dare to see. Never again shall you crumble at the nameless void but kiss the deepest darkness and embrace the holy flames. Abjure these crumbling halls, rebuild his rotten temple under the sun of eyes to receive this gift with open arms. Lest you don’t fail to pass! Receive the sign of death with purest dignity, infinity beyond the walls of life. As you sink deeper and deeper into this chimerical dark, a mind is burning down heralding thy utmost purifying rebirth. |
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4. | Diluculum | 03:31 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
5. | Consensus | 08:20 | Show lyrics |
De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. De la chair à la terre, trois faisceaux de lumiére. I relieve my fragile hands of his grasp that guided me, and set my heart on fire while dancing thy dance of life’s decay. Kephra by my side! Your sun reveals what comes to pass, your rays accent the dying night. As I walk your path in ecstasy secrets burn divinely. Truth may come with a million faces, this I can see now at last. Truth is already here! Speaking through waves of unbalance with voices so silent and pure, so drastic, so dead. Without words, with no sound yet so deeply inducing for those eager to receive. I will not compromise my truth for anyone or anything, for I can see now at last that I am already free. To reach consensus on death, thy wisdom, thy aspect of truth in all that is holy. Beseech this final breath, thy essence unsealed by poison divine. And tear down all these bonds to become the solution of every concept of truth. As thy hands are unbound, thy spirit is free and enlightened by the brightly burning tree. A leap in the dark, undetermined, insecure. Echoes of fear resounding through these halls as prayers from the past. Exaudi orationem meam! Ad mortem sic vita fluit velut ad mare flumen. Ad inferos descensus, ad lucem, ad indefinitum. Through wind and through fire, my guidance is yours as you become my devotee. And from deathless desire, through all that obscures you will be unburdened and finally see. So rise my descendant from unfolding depths, now encircled by grace in three rays of light. So pure, so resplendent is he who accepts my presence in all with utmost insight. Moriendum est! Consensus! Qui habet aurem audiat quid Spiritus dicat ecclesiis qui vicerit non laedetur a morte secunda. From carnal desire to soil, two pillars to reunite. From carnal desire to soil in three rays of light. |
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6. | Awakening from the Dream of Life | 08:16 | Show lyrics |
Through death it is that we awaken from the dream of life, and may death be purpose and solution of all woeful strife. Through death we’re reborn, We’re empowered to see. Through death it will be that our hearts will be free. Reborn as the sons of a new dawn, a star of freedom is rising above our heads. And voices slowly extinguish, allowing the sacred chamber to speak. To speak the silent truth as death is only the change of form. The spiritual eye is opened to the clear light of the void. A secret unheard, a wisdom unseen, rowned by voices of madness clouded by those without eyes to see. The depths of the ocean of all, nor essence of spirit apart from blindness of mind. Ending the state of contradiction, we walk in silence. Praising the gift from his right hand, we breathe in silence. Accepting the strength of surrender, we pray in silence. Receiving the truth from his left hand, we die in silence. Si quis vult me sequi, deneget semetipsun: Et toliat crucem suam, et sequitur me. We have awakened from the chamber of lightless sleep, from states of division in disguise fueled by time and word. We are awake, we are awake, and the final curtain falls. We are awake, wide awake as we’re entering his holy halls. What we seek, what we desire, what we believe, what we are, what we become shall be solely His light. I carry the voice of death deep within my open heart and deep within my shining spirit, redifining what I am. Redifining what we are, a truth that may become forgotten but can never be erased by time nor word or form. We speak the voice of death, we speak the love of death. We speak the truth of death, obscured by darkest art. We carry the strength of death, we carry the sign of death. We carry the light of death deep within our shining hearts. The pulsing hypnotic rhythm, the waves of echo that draw you further into the void of contemplation. Layer upon layer of catastrophe and initiation, a lament for a dying world. There is a suffocating beauty to the atmosphere and summoning within which feels like standing on the edge of jagged high cliffs with no care for the ground beneath my feet, to close our eyes to the outside world and focus on the teaching in our blood. Walking through the flames that tear at the very essence of vision, a meditation on madness and pure faith. I feel the tears flow through my veins but they are not of sadness but of eternal suffering and the pain of creation. |
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33:28 | |||
Disc 2 - Metaflesh | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The World Destroyed by Water | 05:24 | Show lyrics |
"And the Lord spake; I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air. For it repenteth me that I have made them. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy from under Heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, and everything that is in the earth shall die." Beyond the prevailing death a light will unfold, and it will be truth, and it will be salvation. And it will be fire, and it will be unity, and it will be God, and it will be eternal. |
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2. | Satori | 08:31 | Show lyrics |
I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: All is emptiness. I have seen all that is done is emptiness and affliction of the spirit... Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus... |
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Side B | |||
3. | Metanoia | 08:01 | Show lyrics |
The sands of time no longer speak in tongues of persuasion, an ocean changed in form and sound to swallow thee. The dust of silence procreates but fades immediately as I observe the sphinxes vanish in the winds. I know his day is nigh, I know the night must die. Revealing lasting peace beyond all fragile woe. I feel the void extending, I feel the self transcending. Dimensions falling down beneath the open eye. I look around myself and witness dreams and dreams and dreams, I am surrounded but untouched by all things ill-conceived. The strangest forms appear to me in everlasting streams to renew illusion’s seed that no thing will ever be relieved. Void is mind itself, and mind itself is void. A presence of the absence of will is speaking from beyond the veils of lunacy, reminding me of what I am. I know the I is falling, I know these roots are sprawling. For benediction comes through him who is in all. I feel them flowing through my veins, I feel them slowly breaking chains, and reason resignates with unexpected grace. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Receive the silent voice, the sound of transformation. Flame of consciousness, flame of knowledge, flow through me and pervade my physical body. Pervade my higher spirit, light my path and every step I take, so that I am able to guide myself, to wander in brightness and with fortitude. The mountains of being and the depths of reality, and give me the strength to surrender to whatever is and may be with silence and acceptance. |
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4. | Above the Stars of God | 08:11 | Show lyrics |
I watch the sun descend into the open void, I watch the spirit fade between the walls of sleep. I watch the pillars of adherence being destroyed, I watch the silent flame rising from the deep. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne, I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. When the voices fall silent I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Rise, my pillars! Rise, my serpents! Rise, my flames! Rise, my pillars! At the creation of mind, the creation of reason becomes necessary. And our action was inevitable to rely on the creation of God and all that is empty. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal. We now play the same role again with the only difference of standing on the other side of this river to rely on the destruction of God and all that is holy. Adrift and unaware of being, unable to see, incapable to either receive nor perceive the essence of the eternal which is the essence of God alone. |
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5. | Conclusion | 03:15 | Show lyrics |
We are not the masks that we hide behind nor the thoughts that we think, nor the paths that we choose to walk. Nor the words that we speak, nor the names that we are given, nor the bodies that we live through, nor all the things that we do. We are not what we create nor our past or future. We are not the decisions we make, we are not what we believe in. We are not the mind we bear within us but that light that we become. |
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Disc 3 - The Supernal Clear Light of the Void | |||
Side A | |||
1. | The Third Ray of Light | 07:13 | instrumental |
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2. | Cathartic Confession | 04:53 | instrumental |
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3. | Jacob’s Dream | 05:01 | instrumental |
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Side B | |||
4. | Maelstrom | 07:57 | instrumental |
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5. | The Empyrean | 08:25 | Show lyrics |
The swords of rapture we proudly bear, the crackling fires of untruth in which we burn through the days, and the dark waters of dreams in which we drown at night. The blazing skies at a new dawn, the prayers that we blindly babble, the golden purity of a swarm of flying birds, the pulsating blood that flows through everything but this moment. The encounter of staring into a stranger’s eyes through the mirror of the self, the death of nations, the poison that strikes as words. All the eternal secrets we carry, the spiteful remark of a broken promise, the fear of touching the higher self even if it’s just for one second. The oceanic grace of equanimity once in a blue moon, the mountains and hills of forsaken landscapes, the infinite wisdom of every withering flower, the frozen depths of untold memories, searing all flesh and mind. The burning lakes of pasts unspoken, the silent beauty of decay, the freedom that comes through acceptance, the joy of losing everything. All anxiety and anguish, pain and grief, all hatred and envy, every tear that falls, every instant in desire in solitude, every spark of hope or illusion. Joy or forgiveness, every moment of peace and content, all passion and love. All these things are one, for us to witness. Once we return to our birthright, and all is none. ॐ भूर्भुव: स्व: तत्सवितुर्वरेन्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धीयो यो न: प्रचोदयात् ।। |
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The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
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Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
C.S.R | Engineering (guitars), Mixing |
Simon Jameson | Engineering, Mixing |
Raphaël Bovey | Engineering (assisted) |
Héctor Pineda | Cover art |
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1. | Prologue | 05:10 | |
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2. | The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret | 06:25 | Show lyrics |
Over there in a grove surrounded by flowers slumbers the Hermaphrodite, sound asleep upon sward, drenched with his tears. The moon`s disc is clear of the cloud mass and with pale beams she caresses this smooth youthful form. His features manifest the most manly vigour coeval with a heavenly virgin`s grace. Nothing in him apears natura, not even the muscle of his body, which force their way across the harmonious contours of feminine forms. One arm curves over his forehead, the other hand rests against his breast as if to repress the beat of a heart closed to all confidences, and fraught with The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret. Weary of life and ashamed to walk among beings who do not resemble him, despairhas won his soul and he wanders alone like a beggar in the alley. How does he find the wherewithal to exist? Compassionate souls watch over him closely, without his suspecting such surveillance, and do not abandon him: he is so good...so resigned. Sometimes he talks readily to those os sensitive disposition, without touching their hands, and standing his distance for fear of an imagined danger. If asked why he has taken solitude for companion, he raises his eyes heavenward and has difficulty holding back a tear of reproach against providence, but he does not answer this imprudent question, which sheds upon his snowy eyelids the blush of a morning rose |
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3. | Along the Road That Leads to Bedlam | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
One day four masked men, upon orders received, Threw themselves upon him and bound him hand and foot, So that he could only move his legs. The Whip’s harsh lash slashed at his back, And they told him to be on his way without delay. - along the road that leads to Bedlam. He began to smile while scourged and spoke to them with such feelings, Such intelligence concerning so many human sciences he had studied - displaying vast erudition for one who had not yet crossed the threshold of youth. And his discourse on Humanity’s Destiny, During which he laid absolutely bare the poetic nobility of his soul, Made his captors – shaken to the core by what they had done – unbind his battered limbs And fall on their knees begging forgiveness. His excessive Modesty, which dawned on him because of this idea of being but a monster, Prevents his bestowing his glowing compassion upon any man. He shelters behind his self-respect, offended by this blasphemous assumption Which arises solely from himself and persists in remaining alone And without solace in the midst of torments. His pride repeats to him this axiom: "Let each keep to his own kind." |
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4. | These Tresses Are Sacred | 01:40 | Show lyrics |
Through the branches of the trees the awakened birds gaze rapturously on his malencholy visage. The nightingale is unwilling to utter its cavatinas of crystal.The wood has become as August as a grave because of his nocturnal presence. Stands several paces back, and thus you will do well. These Tresses Are Sacred: The Hermaphrodite himself whished it. | |||
5. | May His Illusion Last Until Dawn’s Awakening | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
He does not want human lips piously kissing Hair Scented by the mountain breeze, nor his brow, aglow now like the stars of the firmament. But it is better to believe that while traversing Space a star itself has descended out of orbit on this majestic brow, and encircles it with a diamond’s brilliance as a Halo. Night, waving sadness aside, adorns herself in all her charms to celebrate the sleep of this incarnation of modesty, this perfect image of angelic innocence. The branches bend their lofty tufts over him to protect him from the dew, and the wind... twanging its tuneful harp sends blithe strains across the universal silence towards those lowered eyelids which, motionless, seem to witness the cadenced concert of suspended worlds. He dreams he is contented, that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud to another sphere peopled by beings of the same kind as himself. May his illusion last until Dawn’s Awakening! He dreams the flowers dance round him in a ring like immense demented garlands, and impregnate him with their balmy perfumes while he sings a hymn of love, locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being. But it is merely twilight mist he embraces, and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined. Awaken not, hermaphrodite. Do not open your eyes, I beg you, do not open your eyes. Sleep forever. Sleep forever. |
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6. | Chimerical Hope | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
Awaken not, Hermaphrodite. Do not wake yet, I beg you. Why will you not believe me? Sleep... Sleep forever. Sleep forever. May your breast heave while pursuing the chimerical hope of happiness - That I allow you; But do not open your eyes. Do not open your eyes! I want to leave you thus, not to witness your awakening. Perhaps one day, with the aid of a voluminous tome and in moving pages I shall recount your tale, shocked by its content and the lessons it brings forth. So far, I’ve been unable to, for each time I try, copious tears fall upon the paper and my fingers tremble, and my body trembles, and my spirit weeps - and not through old age. The secrets he bears within his evenhandedly joys and melancholic heart is treasured by the cosmic spirit like the Center of Adonai itself. Too perfect to exist among men, so fragile and full of love. I am indignant at being unable to hold my nerve and swooning like a little girl whenever I consider your deep misery. I shall not fail to pray heaven daily for you (Were it for myself, I would not pray at all) I shall not fail to prey heaven daily for you (and may peace be in your spirit) I shall not fail to pray Heaven daily for you (Farewell) |
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7. | Do Not Open Your Eyes | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
Do not open your eyes | |||
30:26 |
The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
C.S.R | Engineering (guitars), Mixing |
Simon Jameson | Engineering, Mixing |
Raphaël Bovey | Engineering (assisted) |
Héctor Pineda | Cover art |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Prologue | 05:10 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret | 06:25 | Show lyrics |
Over there in a grove surrounded by flowers slumbers the Hermaphrodite, sound asleep upon sward, drenched with his tears. The moon`s disc is clear of the cloud mass and with pale beams she caresses this smooth youthful form. His features manifest the most manly vigour coeval with a heavenly virgin`s grace. Nothing in him apears natura, not even the muscle of his body, which force their way across the harmonious contours of feminine forms. One arm curves over his forehead, the other hand rests against his breast as if to repress the beat of a heart closed to all confidences, and fraught with The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret. Weary of life and ashamed to walk among beings who do not resemble him, despairhas won his soul and he wanders alone like a beggar in the alley. How does he find the wherewithal to exist? Compassionate souls watch over him closely, without his suspecting such surveillance, and do not abandon him: he is so good...so resigned. Sometimes he talks readily to those os sensitive disposition, without touching their hands, and standing his distance for fear of an imagined danger. If asked why he has taken solitude for companion, he raises his eyes heavenward and has difficulty holding back a tear of reproach against providence, but he does not answer this imprudent question, which sheds upon his snowy eyelids the blush of a morning rose |
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3. | Along the Road That Leads to Bedlam | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
One day four masked men, upon orders received, Threw themselves upon him and bound him hand and foot, So that he could only move his legs. The Whip’s harsh lash slashed at his back, And they told him to be on his way without delay. - along the road that leads to Bedlam. He began to smile while scourged and spoke to them with such feelings, Such intelligence concerning so many human sciences he had studied - displaying vast erudition for one who had not yet crossed the threshold of youth. And his discourse on Humanity’s Destiny, During which he laid absolutely bare the poetic nobility of his soul, Made his captors – shaken to the core by what they had done – unbind his battered limbs And fall on their knees begging forgiveness. His excessive Modesty, which dawned on him because of this idea of being but a monster, Prevents his bestowing his glowing compassion upon any man. He shelters behind his self-respect, offended by this blasphemous assumption Which arises solely from himself and persists in remaining alone And without solace in the midst of torments. His pride repeats to him this axiom: "Let each keep to his own kind." |
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4. | These Tresses Are Sacred | 01:40 | Show lyrics |
Through the branches of the trees the awakened birds gaze rapturously on his malencholy visage. The nightingale is unwilling to utter its cavatinas of crystal.The wood has become as August as a grave because of his nocturnal presence. Stands several paces back, and thus you will do well. These Tresses Are Sacred: The Hermaphrodite himself whished it. | |||
Side B | |||
5. | May His Illusion Last Until Dawn’s Awakening | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
He does not want human lips piously kissing Hair Scented by the mountain breeze, nor his brow, aglow now like the stars of the firmament. But it is better to believe that while traversing Space a star itself has descended out of orbit on this majestic brow, and encircles it with a diamond’s brilliance as a Halo. Night, waving sadness aside, adorns herself in all her charms to celebrate the sleep of this incarnation of modesty, this perfect image of angelic innocence. The branches bend their lofty tufts over him to protect him from the dew, and the wind... twanging its tuneful harp sends blithe strains across the universal silence towards those lowered eyelids which, motionless, seem to witness the cadenced concert of suspended worlds. He dreams he is contented, that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud to another sphere peopled by beings of the same kind as himself. May his illusion last until Dawn’s Awakening! He dreams the flowers dance round him in a ring like immense demented garlands, and impregnate him with their balmy perfumes while he sings a hymn of love, locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being. But it is merely twilight mist he embraces, and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined. Awaken not, hermaphrodite. Do not open your eyes, I beg you, do not open your eyes. Sleep forever. Sleep forever. |
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6. | Chimerical Hope | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
Awaken not, Hermaphrodite. Do not wake yet, I beg you. Why will you not believe me? Sleep... Sleep forever. Sleep forever. May your breast heave while pursuing the chimerical hope of happiness - That I allow you; But do not open your eyes. Do not open your eyes! I want to leave you thus, not to witness your awakening. Perhaps one day, with the aid of a voluminous tome and in moving pages I shall recount your tale, shocked by its content and the lessons it brings forth. So far, I’ve been unable to, for each time I try, copious tears fall upon the paper and my fingers tremble, and my body trembles, and my spirit weeps - and not through old age. The secrets he bears within his evenhandedly joys and melancholic heart is treasured by the cosmic spirit like the Center of Adonai itself. Too perfect to exist among men, so fragile and full of love. I am indignant at being unable to hold my nerve and swooning like a little girl whenever I consider your deep misery. I shall not fail to pray heaven daily for you (Were it for myself, I would not pray at all) I shall not fail to prey heaven daily for you (and may peace be in your spirit) I shall not fail to pray Heaven daily for you (Farewell) |
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7. | Do Not Open Your Eyes | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
Do not open your eyes | |||
30:26 |
The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
C.S.R | Engineering (guitars), Mixing |
Simon Jameson | Engineering, Mixing |
Raphaël Bovey | Engineering (assisted) |
Héctor Pineda | Cover art |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Prologue | 05:10 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret | 06:25 | Show lyrics |
Over there in a grove surrounded by flowers slumbers the Hermaphrodite, sound asleep upon sward, drenched with his tears. The moon`s disc is clear of the cloud mass and with pale beams she caresses this smooth youthful form. His features manifest the most manly vigour coeval with a heavenly virgin`s grace. Nothing in him apears natura, not even the muscle of his body, which force their way across the harmonious contours of feminine forms. One arm curves over his forehead, the other hand rests against his breast as if to repress the beat of a heart closed to all confidences, and fraught with The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret. Weary of life and ashamed to walk among beings who do not resemble him, despairhas won his soul and he wanders alone like a beggar in the alley. How does he find the wherewithal to exist? Compassionate souls watch over him closely, without his suspecting such surveillance, and do not abandon him: he is so good...so resigned. Sometimes he talks readily to those os sensitive disposition, without touching their hands, and standing his distance for fear of an imagined danger. If asked why he has taken solitude for companion, he raises his eyes heavenward and has difficulty holding back a tear of reproach against providence, but he does not answer this imprudent question, which sheds upon his snowy eyelids the blush of a morning rose |
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3. | Along the Road That Leads to Bedlam | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
One day four masked men, upon orders received, Threw themselves upon him and bound him hand and foot, So that he could only move his legs. The Whip’s harsh lash slashed at his back, And they told him to be on his way without delay. - along the road that leads to Bedlam. He began to smile while scourged and spoke to them with such feelings, Such intelligence concerning so many human sciences he had studied - displaying vast erudition for one who had not yet crossed the threshold of youth. And his discourse on Humanity’s Destiny, During which he laid absolutely bare the poetic nobility of his soul, Made his captors – shaken to the core by what they had done – unbind his battered limbs And fall on their knees begging forgiveness. His excessive Modesty, which dawned on him because of this idea of being but a monster, Prevents his bestowing his glowing compassion upon any man. He shelters behind his self-respect, offended by this blasphemous assumption Which arises solely from himself and persists in remaining alone And without solace in the midst of torments. His pride repeats to him this axiom: "Let each keep to his own kind." |
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4. | These Tresses Are Sacred | 01:40 | Show lyrics |
Through the branches of the trees the awakened birds gaze rapturously on his malencholy visage. The nightingale is unwilling to utter its cavatinas of crystal.The wood has become as August as a grave because of his nocturnal presence. Stands several paces back, and thus you will do well. These Tresses Are Sacred: The Hermaphrodite himself whished it. | |||
5. | May His Illusion Last Until Dawn’s Awakening | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
He does not want human lips piously kissing Hair Scented by the mountain breeze, nor his brow, aglow now like the stars of the firmament. But it is better to believe that while traversing Space a star itself has descended out of orbit on this majestic brow, and encircles it with a diamond’s brilliance as a Halo. Night, waving sadness aside, adorns herself in all her charms to celebrate the sleep of this incarnation of modesty, this perfect image of angelic innocence. The branches bend their lofty tufts over him to protect him from the dew, and the wind... twanging its tuneful harp sends blithe strains across the universal silence towards those lowered eyelids which, motionless, seem to witness the cadenced concert of suspended worlds. He dreams he is contented, that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud to another sphere peopled by beings of the same kind as himself. May his illusion last until Dawn’s Awakening! He dreams the flowers dance round him in a ring like immense demented garlands, and impregnate him with their balmy perfumes while he sings a hymn of love, locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being. But it is merely twilight mist he embraces, and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined. Awaken not, hermaphrodite. Do not open your eyes, I beg you, do not open your eyes. Sleep forever. Sleep forever. |
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6. | Chimerical Hope | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
Awaken not, Hermaphrodite. Do not wake yet, I beg you. Why will you not believe me? Sleep... Sleep forever. Sleep forever. May your breast heave while pursuing the chimerical hope of happiness - That I allow you; But do not open your eyes. Do not open your eyes! I want to leave you thus, not to witness your awakening. Perhaps one day, with the aid of a voluminous tome and in moving pages I shall recount your tale, shocked by its content and the lessons it brings forth. So far, I’ve been unable to, for each time I try, copious tears fall upon the paper and my fingers tremble, and my body trembles, and my spirit weeps - and not through old age. The secrets he bears within his evenhandedly joys and melancholic heart is treasured by the cosmic spirit like the Center of Adonai itself. Too perfect to exist among men, so fragile and full of love. I am indignant at being unable to hold my nerve and swooning like a little girl whenever I consider your deep misery. I shall not fail to pray heaven daily for you (Were it for myself, I would not pray at all) I shall not fail to prey heaven daily for you (and may peace be in your spirit) I shall not fail to pray Heaven daily for you (Farewell) |
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7. | Do Not Open Your Eyes | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
Do not open your eyes | |||
30:26 |
The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
C.S.R | Vocals, Guitars |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Miscellaneous staff | |
C.S.R | Engineering (guitars), Mixing |
Simon Jameson | Engineering, Mixing |
Raphaël Bovey | Engineering (assisted) |
Héctor Pineda | Cover art |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | Prologue | 05:10 | |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret | 06:25 | Show lyrics |
Over there in a grove surrounded by flowers slumbers the Hermaphrodite, sound asleep upon sward, drenched with his tears. The moon`s disc is clear of the cloud mass and with pale beams she caresses this smooth youthful form. His features manifest the most manly vigour coeval with a heavenly virgin`s grace. Nothing in him apears natura, not even the muscle of his body, which force their way across the harmonious contours of feminine forms. One arm curves over his forehead, the other hand rests against his breast as if to repress the beat of a heart closed to all confidences, and fraught with The Weighty Burden of an Eternal Secret. Weary of life and ashamed to walk among beings who do not resemble him, despairhas won his soul and he wanders alone like a beggar in the alley. How does he find the wherewithal to exist? Compassionate souls watch over him closely, without his suspecting such surveillance, and do not abandon him: he is so good...so resigned. Sometimes he talks readily to those os sensitive disposition, without touching their hands, and standing his distance for fear of an imagined danger. If asked why he has taken solitude for companion, he raises his eyes heavenward and has difficulty holding back a tear of reproach against providence, but he does not answer this imprudent question, which sheds upon his snowy eyelids the blush of a morning rose |
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3. | Along the Road That Leads to Bedlam | 03:38 | Show lyrics |
One day four masked men, upon orders received, Threw themselves upon him and bound him hand and foot, So that he could only move his legs. The Whip’s harsh lash slashed at his back, And they told him to be on his way without delay. - along the road that leads to Bedlam. He began to smile while scourged and spoke to them with such feelings, Such intelligence concerning so many human sciences he had studied - displaying vast erudition for one who had not yet crossed the threshold of youth. And his discourse on Humanity’s Destiny, During which he laid absolutely bare the poetic nobility of his soul, Made his captors – shaken to the core by what they had done – unbind his battered limbs And fall on their knees begging forgiveness. His excessive Modesty, which dawned on him because of this idea of being but a monster, Prevents his bestowing his glowing compassion upon any man. He shelters behind his self-respect, offended by this blasphemous assumption Which arises solely from himself and persists in remaining alone And without solace in the midst of torments. His pride repeats to him this axiom: "Let each keep to his own kind." |
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4. | These Tresses Are Sacred | 01:40 | Show lyrics |
Through the branches of the trees the awakened birds gaze rapturously on his malencholy visage. The nightingale is unwilling to utter its cavatinas of crystal.The wood has become as August as a grave because of his nocturnal presence. Stands several paces back, and thus you will do well. These Tresses Are Sacred: The Hermaphrodite himself whished it. | |||
Side B | |||
5. | May His Illusion Last Until Dawn’s Awakening | 04:48 | Show lyrics |
He does not want human lips piously kissing Hair Scented by the mountain breeze, nor his brow, aglow now like the stars of the firmament. But it is better to believe that while traversing Space a star itself has descended out of orbit on this majestic brow, and encircles it with a diamond’s brilliance as a Halo. Night, waving sadness aside, adorns herself in all her charms to celebrate the sleep of this incarnation of modesty, this perfect image of angelic innocence. The branches bend their lofty tufts over him to protect him from the dew, and the wind... twanging its tuneful harp sends blithe strains across the universal silence towards those lowered eyelids which, motionless, seem to witness the cadenced concert of suspended worlds. He dreams he is contented, that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple cloud to another sphere peopled by beings of the same kind as himself. May his illusion last until Dawn’s Awakening! He dreams the flowers dance round him in a ring like immense demented garlands, and impregnate him with their balmy perfumes while he sings a hymn of love, locked in the arms of a magically beautiful human being. But it is merely twilight mist he embraces, and when he wakes their arms will no longer be entwined. Awaken not, hermaphrodite. Do not open your eyes, I beg you, do not open your eyes. Sleep forever. Sleep forever. |
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6. | Chimerical Hope | 04:26 | Show lyrics |
Awaken not, Hermaphrodite. Do not wake yet, I beg you. Why will you not believe me? Sleep... Sleep forever. Sleep forever. May your breast heave while pursuing the chimerical hope of happiness - That I allow you; But do not open your eyes. Do not open your eyes! I want to leave you thus, not to witness your awakening. Perhaps one day, with the aid of a voluminous tome and in moving pages I shall recount your tale, shocked by its content and the lessons it brings forth. So far, I’ve been unable to, for each time I try, copious tears fall upon the paper and my fingers tremble, and my body trembles, and my spirit weeps - and not through old age. The secrets he bears within his evenhandedly joys and melancholic heart is treasured by the cosmic spirit like the Center of Adonai itself. Too perfect to exist among men, so fragile and full of love. I am indignant at being unable to hold my nerve and swooning like a little girl whenever I consider your deep misery. I shall not fail to pray heaven daily for you (Were it for myself, I would not pray at all) I shall not fail to prey heaven daily for you (and may peace be in your spirit) I shall not fail to pray Heaven daily for you (Farewell) |
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7. | Do Not Open Your Eyes | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
Do not open your eyes | |||
30:26 |
Hearts of No Light
Members | |
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Band members | |
C.S.R | Guitars, Vocals |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
J.B | Guitars |
Guest/Session | |
Aldrahn | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Lillian Liu | Piano (tracks 1, 3) |
Dehn Sora | Effects (track 9) |
Pascal Dick | Flamenco guitars (track 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Markus Stock | Producer, Mixing, Mastering |
C.S.R | Producer, Mixing, Mastering, Artwork |
Anna Murphy | Engineering (piano) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Winds That Pierce the Silence | 04:21 | instrumental |
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2. | Ego Sum Omega | 08:18 | Show lyrics |
The fathoms of truth are where darkness is deep And triumphant over ideal and intellect Mesmerizing, paralyzing spirals of fear They become relief, spirit, and belief Skulls ascend high heaven’s eye Death will receive, drowning pride in grief, Birth will come and tears will dry Rather hear the ones carrying hearts of no light For but insects feed on stigmata They did fall in reverse And speak their truth in secrecy, with whispered voices, thousandfold As willfully blindfolded eyes might give weight to the paradox Some would do well contemplating The faceless and shapeless state of equilibrium Learn, while skin dissolves, to deliberate upon the thrice-lettered word For that which shelters, adulterates, revolves in Circles like moths to the flame To perpetuate the waters transpicuous and shallow So no one and nothing could ever drown in such constrictive seas Insignificance becomes breathable Even when perceived as an ocean, For unconscious focus persists Until the I becomes a sunken city, Ruins hidden in the cold vast dark It is through the gaze of the eye, That a face loses substance, Becomes stripped of all expression Until there is nothing left to hold on to, maintaining but bones and spirit, Thus essence is cleared of all false constructs, And towers of radiant unidentity emerge From underneath the cloudy surface to unfold in splendour And on top there is a crown enthroned, Made out of the remains of one million destroyed personas Forming omega |
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3. | A Bridge Ablaze | 03:07 | Show lyrics |
Carefully did she choose Where her feet would gain further ground, Each step an extension of the idea Behind the symbolical trumpet. Behind her, closely, a growing trail of golden flames, Ready to consume the bridge, that was just being crossed By her who commands both dawn and dusk, in its entirety, Leaving but a skeleton of stone. Upon reaching the end said bridge, now groaning Under the pressure of impending death, she turns her head For one last view of, not the piece of work that is about To face its certain end, but the land that lies behind it, And for just one second A gleam of content flashes up in her eyes. And so she marches on. |
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4. | Qadmon’s Heir | 08:02 | Show lyrics |
And we did pray for the rising tide To swallow our daughters and sons For the rotten to spread out their seed While we built this kingdom And crowned our kings And we did pray for dystopia, searing the flesh of the earth Under the flag of brightening word and ideal Creation’s crowning glory, standing strong and proud It may be blind but blessed In itself dead but living And we are indeed dead but breathing And we are indeed without eyes Abound of desire we’re stumbling ahead To the pulse of malignant intent In glorious unconsciousness Feverishly sweeping towards the sole mountain And we are indeed dead but breathing And we did come to harvest the ashes, To claim what we saw, what is rightfully ours To defile, to rebuild, to beguile, to be spilled and Exiled, for at least our betrayal’s worthwhile And we did come to praise the forsaken, To hallow our truth, to defy death itself To oppress, to resort, to confess, to distort, To obsess what remains, for our reign has come forth And we did come to harvest the ashes, And we did come to claim what is rightfully ours And we did come to defile the temple For our reign is resort And we did come to praise the forsaken And we did come to hallow our truth And we did come obsess what remains For our reign has come forth |
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5. | Rays like Razors | 06:36 | Show lyrics |
Stare into my heart With rays like razors Cutting my eyes into half And see these depths in devastating order When transgression is reached There is nothing I cannot see, nor hear, nor feel And my body is closed to the foreign void of reason As if I’d never be part of what is called "state-of-the-art" Let us cease to exist when we hear your voice Let us cease to exist when we see your light Let us cease to exist when we feel your love Let us close this body now These fires beyond death will never rise again I am gone, but still remaining here For when I close myself, I am open too To a reality turned upside down Vision surrenders to the coldhearted truth of form In solitude we conspire In close-mouthed tongues we confess Determined to hear the crackling and crumbling of hearts again Pierce my heart with your rays |
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6. | I Burn Within You | 05:54 | Show lyrics |
You speak from dark corners Where we find ourselves in When hours are drifting from above the sky In your domain, time is dissolved, Leaving but liquid that dances, radiant with none And your words echo in our mind Not among bones and flesh But within darkness that hides beneath our eyelids Where we find our true self Revealing not one spark of your enigma Yet there are hints of your presence within all that we do So engrave your sign into the surface of our spheres Penetrating principles of disgust with two golden arrows Dipped in a psychedelic serum One to answer for my unknowing and one for my clarity A pure portion of electric venom Scraping my face off this wall Scraping my face off this wall A non-dual facet, blunt in sustain Endangered species come to life Drawing sketches of a human being Parading barefoot over broken glass Through the mental jungle with the eyes of a lion Tentacled patterns open up and divine communion unfolds And I realize the absolute nothing Maybe I’m to burn forever And I was meant to burn for you For my ascent was vain endeavor A lament that you withdrew Inner sense to seed your curse Forming paths to see transcendence As you’d accent a fate so obverse With a fuse that burns from twice ends Enigmatic scheming I burn within you In ecstatic dreaming You are all around me Enigmatic scheming You burn within me In ecstatic dreaming Your flames surround me |
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7. | A Paradigm of Beauty | 07:44 | Show lyrics |
You rose You were born You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You are a paradigm of beauty In the midst of burning ruins Your light was never seen before You gave me everything and more Everything and more |
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8. | Katabasis | 08:06 | Show lyrics |
From the mountains of fire to one From Elysian fields to the sun Within streams of corruption you’ll come From the covertly choir to none You’re the pulse of a lifelong ordeal You’re the vice I can hardly conceal Within dreams of irruption you’ll heal And what’s illusive again shall be real I follow you down The path into the fire I follow you down The path of vain desire I follow you down The path that brings us higher I follow you down The path to your empire Where ever you lead will be my destination No questions be asked nor answers be given As long as I’m free or dogmatic stagnation I shall be your vessel forever unshriven And deep were the caverns and mazes we crossed And deep will be what lies ahead of us now As seen through the eyes of the one that is lost There are no restrictions that you can allow Within this labyrinth the blind are The blessed and the blessed shall be blinded eventually For temptation is present in all that We hear and feel in all that we see None will be free from the oath of conviction Not one shall secede from this joyful addiction For the chains of the many are chance to the few And even fewer, if any, will find a way through Speaking works that deceive Every man is an abyss |
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9. | Innermost, Lowermost Abyss | 15:06 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Every man is an abyss |
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01:07:14 |
Hearts of No Light
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
J.B | Guitars |
C.S.R | Guitars, Vocals |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Aldrahn | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Lillian Liu | Piano (tracks 1, 3) |
Dehn Sora | Effects (track 9) |
Pascal Dick | Flamenco guitars (track 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Anna Murphy | Engineering (piano) |
Markus Stock | Producer, Mixing, Mastering |
C.S.R | Producer, Mixing, Mastering, Artwork |
Tracks | |||
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Disc 1 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | Winds That Pierce the Silence | 04:21 | instrumental |
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2. | Ego Sum Omega | 08:18 | Show lyrics |
The fathoms of truth are where darkness is deep And triumphant over ideal and intellect Mesmerizing, paralyzing spirals of fear They become relief, spirit, and belief Skulls ascend high heaven’s eye Death will receive, drowning pride in grief, Birth will come and tears will dry Rather hear the ones carrying hearts of no light For but insects feed on stigmata They did fall in reverse And speak their truth in secrecy, with whispered voices, thousandfold As willfully blindfolded eyes might give weight to the paradox Some would do well contemplating The faceless and shapeless state of equilibrium Learn, while skin dissolves, to deliberate upon the thrice-lettered word For that which shelters, adulterates, revolves in Circles like moths to the flame To perpetuate the waters transpicuous and shallow So no one and nothing could ever drown in such constrictive seas Insignificance becomes breathable Even when perceived as an ocean, For unconscious focus persists Until the I becomes a sunken city, Ruins hidden in the cold vast dark It is through the gaze of the eye, That a face loses substance, Becomes stripped of all expression Until there is nothing left to hold on to, maintaining but bones and spirit, Thus essence is cleared of all false constructs, And towers of radiant unidentity emerge From underneath the cloudy surface to unfold in splendour And on top there is a crown enthroned, Made out of the remains of one million destroyed personas Forming omega |
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3. | A Bridge Ablaze | 03:07 | Show lyrics |
Carefully did she choose Where her feet would gain further ground, Each step an extension of the idea Behind the symbolical trumpet. Behind her, closely, a growing trail of golden flames, Ready to consume the bridge, that was just being crossed By her who commands both dawn and dusk, in its entirety, Leaving but a skeleton of stone. Upon reaching the end said bridge, now groaning Under the pressure of impending death, she turns her head For one last view of, not the piece of work that is about To face its certain end, but the land that lies behind it, And for just one second A gleam of content flashes up in her eyes. And so she marches on. |
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Side B | |||
4. | Qadmon’s Heir | 08:02 | Show lyrics |
And we did pray for the rising tide To swallow our daughters and sons For the rotten to spread out their seed While we built this kingdom And crowned our kings And we did pray for dystopia, searing the flesh of the earth Under the flag of brightening word and ideal Creation’s crowning glory, standing strong and proud It may be blind but blessed In itself dead but living And we are indeed dead but breathing And we are indeed without eyes Abound of desire we’re stumbling ahead To the pulse of malignant intent In glorious unconsciousness Feverishly sweeping towards the sole mountain And we are indeed dead but breathing And we did come to harvest the ashes, To claim what we saw, what is rightfully ours To defile, to rebuild, to beguile, to be spilled and Exiled, for at least our betrayal’s worthwhile And we did come to praise the forsaken, To hallow our truth, to defy death itself To oppress, to resort, to confess, to distort, To obsess what remains, for our reign has come forth And we did come to harvest the ashes, And we did come to claim what is rightfully ours And we did come to defile the temple For our reign is resort And we did come to praise the forsaken And we did come to hallow our truth And we did come obsess what remains For our reign has come forth |
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5. | Rays like Razors | 06:36 | Show lyrics |
Stare into my heart With rays like razors Cutting my eyes into half And see these depths in devastating order When transgression is reached There is nothing I cannot see, nor hear, nor feel And my body is closed to the foreign void of reason As if I’d never be part of what is called "state-of-the-art" Let us cease to exist when we hear your voice Let us cease to exist when we see your light Let us cease to exist when we feel your love Let us close this body now These fires beyond death will never rise again I am gone, but still remaining here For when I close myself, I am open too To a reality turned upside down Vision surrenders to the coldhearted truth of form In solitude we conspire In close-mouthed tongues we confess Determined to hear the crackling and crumbling of hearts again Pierce my heart with your rays |
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6. | I Burn Within You | 05:54 | Show lyrics |
You speak from dark corners Where we find ourselves in When hours are drifting from above the sky In your domain, time is dissolved, Leaving but liquid that dances, radiant with none And your words echo in our mind Not among bones and flesh But within darkness that hides beneath our eyelids Where we find our true self Revealing not one spark of your enigma Yet there are hints of your presence within all that we do So engrave your sign into the surface of our spheres Penetrating principles of disgust with two golden arrows Dipped in a psychedelic serum One to answer for my unknowing and one for my clarity A pure portion of electric venom Scraping my face off this wall Scraping my face off this wall A non-dual facet, blunt in sustain Endangered species come to life Drawing sketches of a human being Parading barefoot over broken glass Through the mental jungle with the eyes of a lion Tentacled patterns open up and divine communion unfolds And I realize the absolute nothing Maybe I’m to burn forever And I was meant to burn for you For my ascent was vain endeavor A lament that you withdrew Inner sense to seed your curse Forming paths to see transcendence As you’d accent a fate so obverse With a fuse that burns from twice ends Enigmatic scheming I burn within you In ecstatic dreaming You are all around me Enigmatic scheming You burn within me In ecstatic dreaming Your flames surround me |
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36:18 | |||
Disc 2 | |||
Side A | |||
1. | A Paradigm of Beauty | 07:44 | Show lyrics |
You rose You were born You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You are a paradigm of beauty In the midst of burning ruins Your light was never seen before You gave me everything and more Everything and more |
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2. | Katabasis | 08:06 | Show lyrics |
From the mountains of fire to one From Elysian fields to the sun Within streams of corruption you’ll come From the covertly choir to none You’re the pulse of a lifelong ordeal You’re the vice I can hardly conceal Within dreams of irruption you’ll heal And what’s illusive again shall be real I follow you down The path into the fire I follow you down The path of vain desire I follow you down The path that brings us higher I follow you down The path to your empire Where ever you lead will be my destination No questions be asked nor answers be given As long as I’m free or dogmatic stagnation I shall be your vessel forever unshriven And deep were the caverns and mazes we crossed And deep will be what lies ahead of us now As seen through the eyes of the one that is lost There are no restrictions that you can allow Within this labyrinth the blind are The blessed and the blessed shall be blinded eventually For temptation is present in all that We hear and feel in all that we see None will be free from the oath of conviction Not one shall secede from this joyful addiction For the chains of the many are chance to the few And even fewer, if any, will find a way through Speaking works that deceive Every man is an abyss |
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Side B | |||
3. | Innermost, Lowermost Abyss | 15:06 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Every man is an abyss |
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30:56 |
Hearts of No Light
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
J.B | Guitars |
C.S.R | Guitars, Vocals |
B.A.W | Drums |
M.A | Guitars |
A.T | Bass |
Guest/Session | |
Aldrahn | Vocals (additional) (track 6) |
Lillian Liu | Piano (tracks 1, 3) |
Dehn Sora | Effects (track 9) |
Pascal Dick | Flamenco guitars (track 9) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Markus Stock | Producer, Mixing, Mastering |
Anna Murphy | Engineering (piano) |
C.S.R | Producer, Mixing, Mastering, Artwork |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Winds That Pierce the Silence | 04:21 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Ego Sum Omega | 08:18 | Show lyrics |
The fathoms of truth are where darkness is deep And triumphant over ideal and intellect Mesmerizing, paralyzing spirals of fear They become relief, spirit, and belief Skulls ascend high heaven’s eye Death will receive, drowning pride in grief, Birth will come and tears will dry Rather hear the ones carrying hearts of no light For but insects feed on stigmata They did fall in reverse And speak their truth in secrecy, with whispered voices, thousandfold As willfully blindfolded eyes might give weight to the paradox Some would do well contemplating The faceless and shapeless state of equilibrium Learn, while skin dissolves, to deliberate upon the thrice-lettered word For that which shelters, adulterates, revolves in Circles like moths to the flame To perpetuate the waters transpicuous and shallow So no one and nothing could ever drown in such constrictive seas Insignificance becomes breathable Even when perceived as an ocean, For unconscious focus persists Until the I becomes a sunken city, Ruins hidden in the cold vast dark It is through the gaze of the eye, That a face loses substance, Becomes stripped of all expression Until there is nothing left to hold on to, maintaining but bones and spirit, Thus essence is cleared of all false constructs, And towers of radiant unidentity emerge From underneath the cloudy surface to unfold in splendour And on top there is a crown enthroned, Made out of the remains of one million destroyed personas Forming omega |
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3. | A Bridge Ablaze | 03:07 | Show lyrics |
Carefully did she choose Where her feet would gain further ground, Each step an extension of the idea Behind the symbolical trumpet. Behind her, closely, a growing trail of golden flames, Ready to consume the bridge, that was just being crossed By her who commands both dawn and dusk, in its entirety, Leaving but a skeleton of stone. Upon reaching the end said bridge, now groaning Under the pressure of impending death, she turns her head For one last view of, not the piece of work that is about To face its certain end, but the land that lies behind it, And for just one second A gleam of content flashes up in her eyes. And so she marches on. |
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4. | Qadmon’s Heir | 08:02 | Show lyrics |
And we did pray for the rising tide To swallow our daughters and sons For the rotten to spread out their seed While we built this kingdom And crowned our kings And we did pray for dystopia, searing the flesh of the earth Under the flag of brightening word and ideal Creation’s crowning glory, standing strong and proud It may be blind but blessed In itself dead but living And we are indeed dead but breathing And we are indeed without eyes Abound of desire we’re stumbling ahead To the pulse of malignant intent In glorious unconsciousness Feverishly sweeping towards the sole mountain And we are indeed dead but breathing And we did come to harvest the ashes, To claim what we saw, what is rightfully ours To defile, to rebuild, to beguile, to be spilled and Exiled, for at least our betrayal’s worthwhile And we did come to praise the forsaken, To hallow our truth, to defy death itself To oppress, to resort, to confess, to distort, To obsess what remains, for our reign has come forth And we did come to harvest the ashes, And we did come to claim what is rightfully ours And we did come to defile the temple For our reign is resort And we did come to praise the forsaken And we did come to hallow our truth And we did come obsess what remains For our reign has come forth |
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5. | Rays like Razors | 06:36 | Show lyrics |
Stare into my heart With rays like razors Cutting my eyes into half And see these depths in devastating order When transgression is reached There is nothing I cannot see, nor hear, nor feel And my body is closed to the foreign void of reason As if I’d never be part of what is called "state-of-the-art" Let us cease to exist when we hear your voice Let us cease to exist when we see your light Let us cease to exist when we feel your love Let us close this body now These fires beyond death will never rise again I am gone, but still remaining here For when I close myself, I am open too To a reality turned upside down Vision surrenders to the coldhearted truth of form In solitude we conspire In close-mouthed tongues we confess Determined to hear the crackling and crumbling of hearts again Pierce my heart with your rays |
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6. | I Burn Within You | 05:54 | Show lyrics |
You speak from dark corners Where we find ourselves in When hours are drifting from above the sky In your domain, time is dissolved, Leaving but liquid that dances, radiant with none And your words echo in our mind Not among bones and flesh But within darkness that hides beneath our eyelids Where we find our true self Revealing not one spark of your enigma Yet there are hints of your presence within all that we do So engrave your sign into the surface of our spheres Penetrating principles of disgust with two golden arrows Dipped in a psychedelic serum One to answer for my unknowing and one for my clarity A pure portion of electric venom Scraping my face off this wall Scraping my face off this wall A non-dual facet, blunt in sustain Endangered species come to life Drawing sketches of a human being Parading barefoot over broken glass Through the mental jungle with the eyes of a lion Tentacled patterns open up and divine communion unfolds And I realize the absolute nothing Maybe I’m to burn forever And I was meant to burn for you For my ascent was vain endeavor A lament that you withdrew Inner sense to seed your curse Forming paths to see transcendence As you’d accent a fate so obverse With a fuse that burns from twice ends Enigmatic scheming I burn within you In ecstatic dreaming You are all around me Enigmatic scheming You burn within me In ecstatic dreaming Your flames surround me |
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7. | A Paradigm of Beauty | 07:44 | Show lyrics |
You rose You were born You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You rose like the sun and the devil You were born from the none as the rebel From all gods you’re the one in which I revel And tenthousand art will feed on you You are a paradigm of beauty In the midst of burning ruins Your light was never seen before You gave me everything and more Everything and more |
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8. | Katabasis | 08:06 | Show lyrics |
From the mountains of fire to one From Elysian fields to the sun Within streams of corruption you’ll come From the covertly choir to none You’re the pulse of a lifelong ordeal You’re the vice I can hardly conceal Within dreams of irruption you’ll heal And what’s illusive again shall be real I follow you down The path into the fire I follow you down The path of vain desire I follow you down The path that brings us higher I follow you down The path to your empire Where ever you lead will be my destination No questions be asked nor answers be given As long as I’m free or dogmatic stagnation I shall be your vessel forever unshriven And deep were the caverns and mazes we crossed And deep will be what lies ahead of us now As seen through the eyes of the one that is lost There are no restrictions that you can allow Within this labyrinth the blind are The blessed and the blessed shall be blinded eventually For temptation is present in all that We hear and feel in all that we see None will be free from the oath of conviction Not one shall secede from this joyful addiction For the chains of the many are chance to the few And even fewer, if any, will find a way through Speaking works that deceive Every man is an abyss |
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9. | Innermost, Lowermost Abyss | 15:06 | Show lyrics |
(Instrumental) Every man is an abyss |
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01:07:14 |
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