-Plague Worship-

I live in the weak and the wounded
I wait for what the wolves leave in their wake
And when mankind draws its final breath
Through its gaping mouth its soul I'll take

The death cult rising, join me in annihilation
All will fall before the dark
Eliminate the sufferers and those causing the suffering
This is plague worship

This is plague worship
Now, kneel before the onset
Of human abolition

Human life is scorned
This is nihilism given form
The only beings that are capable of evil
Fulfill your moral duty and destroy your people

Pestilence
Decay and rot
A plague deity
To wash away the sins of man
Prostrate yourself before the altar of contagion
Breathe in deep this gift of deadly exhalation
Decay is the way of all things, careless of a peasant or king
Only death prevails

Prostrate yourself before the altar of contagion
Prove your fealty to the plague
And when mankind draws its final breath
Only death prevails

-In The Wake Ov The Wolf-

Let the wolf - Herald of fire, voice of ruin
run rampant, through the heavens
His fangs carve a bloody swathe; red stains the maiden's gown
Blood and the snow
Her bonds tighten, her cancer stands to attention
Blood and the snow
Cough black tar into the dust

The devouring son is risen
Pray the earth is swallowed by the sun
An infinite night

This cold is all consuming, I dread these shadows looming
The sun is setting with the lights burning low
Horned crowns and cloven hooves; the unthinking callow youth;
these demons walk with a sickness in two

I feel it growing
I feel it growing

Walking the earth; creatures of deception, loathsome since birth
Blood. Snow. Herald of fire. Voice of ruin

This cold is all consuming, I dread these shadows looming
The sun is setting with the lights burning low
Horned crowns and cloven hooves; the unthinking callow youth;
these demons walk with a sickness in two

Horned crowns and cloven hooves
The unthinking callow youth

-Young Gloom-

A fell darkness sweeps the land - Black Death
Speak to the hearts of men
I wist our words,
control our breath
A darkness that consumes,
a darkness that imbues,
we're nothing but a vessel for a necessary evil

A city turns to ash - black death
The flames grow tall,
charred husks,
blistered flesh
This sickness forced our hand
We had to take a stand against those who reprimand this necessary evil

Everyone casts a shadow where even light can't reach
It hides our deepest, darkest desires of which we dare not speak

Curse the earth. Take it back
The night is always darkest before the dawn,
but there's still always black

This is the way
We are humanity - a walking scourge - the twilight phase of living disease
We are humanity - a walking scourge that curses the earth

Shall we rejoice that we live in dusk and not the night?
Is it enough to merely suffer?
After all, our sons will be the ones left alone against this final blight
Shall we rejoice?
Shall we rejoice at the dying of the light?

Silence is deep as eternity,
speech is shallow as time
Onwards, always onwards,
our unending misery in silence and doom: this eternal gloom

Shall we rejoice that we live in dusk and not the night?
Is it enough to merely suffer?
After all, our sons will be the ones left alone against this final blight
Shall we rejoice?
Shall we rejoice at the dying of the light?

Ruin upon ruin, boundless night
Long is the path away from doubt, void of light

-L'appel Du Vide (The Call Of The Void)-

Will it never cease?
The pain of absence
Will you never subside?
By the time it had happened
I'd lived it a thousand times
Behind closed eyes
Its keen edge blunted
But the ache still resides

The cold eased its grip on my bones
This sun was the first I'd known
The mad chorus calmed at the touch of your hand
The voices disarmed

The wind calls my name
I dare not answer
I dare not speak

But had I known the collared throats
The hand on winter's wrist
Heard the command of your lying lips
I would have bitten off your tongue
During our first kiss

There was no misery
Nor sadness, nor pain
Oh how I long to be one with the void again
There was no misery
Nor sadness, nor pain
Oh how I long to be one with the void again

Oh how I long to be one with the void again
The pain of absence
I'd lived it a thousand times
Oh how I long to be one with the void

And the hand on winter's wrist
Heard the sound of your lying lips
(The frost could never be as cold as you)

I stand at the mountain before the abyss
(The wind calls my name)
Though the biting wind is cruel
(The wind calls my name)
Put the winter back in my veins
(The wind calls my name)
Because the frost could never be as cold as you

-Vermintide-

Human
Writhe in the gutter where you belong
Human
Smile while you pick up the bones of your
Carcass kingdom
Vermin
Swarm round the corpses as they dance unknowing
Dance through the streets
Of this urbanised sewer
Spread your disease through each other

Consuming and spewing
Vermin you are
Stealing abusing
Vermin you are
Fighting and fucking
Vermin you are
Step on anybody weaker
To get where you are

Extermination erased nature’s terrible malformation
Extermination: a conflagration to curb any degradation
Extermination erased nature’s terrible malformation
Extermination: a conflagration to curb any degradation

I weep, as I walk through the streets
At mire of rats gnawing at my feet
Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased

Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased

The human swarm in motion
The vultures circle high
Bubonic infestation
Can you see through the cloud of flies?
Your fellow man is a monster
Behold the vermintine

I weep as I walk through the streets
At mire of rats gnawing at my feet

Behold the vermintine
Only when this planet dies
Will the human filth subside

Nothing, but self-destruction, will satisfy the vermintine
I wade through scum
Fall to my knees and sink into the sludge
And as my lungs, fill with muck
A bitter grin forms, that our time has come

Our time has come

Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased
Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased

Human (human)
Writhe in the gutter where you belong
Human (human)
Smile while you pick up the bones of your
Carcass kingdom

Vermin
Swarm round the corpses as they dance unknowing
Vermin
Dance through the sewers of civilization

Consuming and spewing
Vermin you are
Stealing abusing
Vermin you are
Fighting and fucking
Vermin you are
Step on anybody weaker
To get where you are

-Prince Of Ash-

The cross I bear cracks the earth at my feet
For the love of god, stay away from me
Everything I touch turns to rust, I'll only drag you down with me

This world breaks us all
All life is suffering and life is long
Nothing eases the pain, nothing halts the rain
Nothing eases the pain; the sun will never shine on me again

The winds whisper to me
I await their call to feel death brush by my fingertips
While the flames around me grow tall
A world consumed by fire and ice
With a beast on the throne
Condemning all life from a tower of morals and bone

Nothing eases the pain
The sun will never shine on me again

The cross I bear cracks the earth at my feet
For the love of god, stay away from me
Everything I touch turns to rust, I'll only drag you down with me

Pulled under (I'm falling apart)
Crumble to ash
I can't articulate anything to anyone

Is this living?
Who knew life could be so unforgiving?
I never asked for this, nor do I want to exist

I don't want to exist

-The Masquerade-

As you get older your gaze is fixed over your shoulder
Because if life has taught you one thing
You won't see the knife that is coming
Everyone wears a mask and the mouth is always smiling
It is impossible to tell if they're laughing or crying
It's in our nature to lie
Constantly raising walls, now our hearts forever shrouded
Leading only to pain and our minds always clouded
It's in our nature to lie

When it happens, I hope you cannot breathe
And I hope that the walls close in
And if by chance there is a heart in you
Well I hope it bleeds
Blood flows as you grieve, spilling over your hands
And rising up to your knees
You can't stop it
I hope you panic
And you know that it will never cease
(Drown in a sea of misery)

Nothing is sacred, an eye for an eye
There is none righteous
It's in our nature to lie

Depravity: It's a mother chalking lines while her child is in the womb
And the father making use of the son that hasn't bloomed
An entire race crippled by subconscious masquerade
And the voice that's in your head screaming to get away
Get away

Show me where it hurts; I fucking hope it's everywhere
Tell me how you feel, because I feel nothing
Neither love nor lying, neither form nor void
The regret before dying?
No, nothing
Blood flows as you grieve, spilling over your hands
And rising up to your knees
You can't stop it
I hope you panic
And you know that it will never cease
(Drown in a sea of misery)

Nothing is sacred, an eye for an eye
There is none righteous
It's in our nature to lie

Everyone wears a mask and the mouth is always smiling
It is impossible to tell if they're laughing or crying
It's in our nature to lie
Constantly raising walls, now our hearts forever shrouded
Leading only to pain and our minds always clouded

It's in our nature to lie

-A Pale Procession II: Death March-

This world is in a tragic state
Everywhere I look all I see is murder
Everywhere I look all I see are mass graves
All the people pushing to the front of the line of the
death march walk side by side into oblivion (death march)
Take my hand and walk with me into extinction (death march)

There is a darkness in man, darker than a pit pole to pole;
a demon with an endless hunger and it calls the heart of man its home

And the people are pushing, ever pushing, to get to the
front of the lineDid they see it coming?
Did they feel the stares and the hands at
their backs when it was their time? (death march)
Was it the pains of life, or the way that we are
designed that leads us with our own hands to drive home the knife?

There is a darkness in man, darker than a
pit pole to pole; a demon with an endless
hunger and it calls the heart of man its home

Watch as the darkness devours and is never
sated until it feeds upon itself
The darkness will devour

-I'm So Tired Of Sighing. Please Lord, Let It Be Night-

We are gathered here today to give rise to abomination
He will cast the chains of subjugation
Spread his oppression across all nations; unending ire; the tables shifted
Under his cleansing fire the filth is lifted

The sea will burn crimson under his reign
She was always at her best dressed in flames
Witness eternal disdain

The tree is withered
The roots are rotten and weak
They grow through the skulls and the ribs
of the children murdered at its feet
The lie you've been chasing; the happiness you seek;
you could have found what you sought
blooming in man, but the rot was to deep
An axe to the tree

Prepare the sacrifice
Drag her screaming to the altar
Bring me the sacred knife
Lay her on the table
Carve on her chest the shape of the elder sign
The hour draws near
Raise your glass and share her blood as holy wine
The hour draws near
The tree is withered
The roots are rotten and weak
They grow through the skulls and the ribs
of the children murdered at its feet

I vocare te diaboli - Ustulo omnia - Nova nobis - Satana
(Hark, the calling of crows)

The sea will burn crimson under my reign
I will see this world wreathed in flames
Witness pain

-The Eternal Return to Ruin-

Eternity hangs heavy
A pendulum swings
The deep bell rings low
Through the void's mournful throat
The deep bell rings low
Head hung heavier still

Though, the inner scale, it denies a full tilt
My body screams through the static
The mind buckles, frantic
And the burning tears cascade, thunder below

Forged in the blackest reaches of irony
In front of me dangles the key
My body screams through the static
In front of me dangles the key

But through the dust a blossom breeze caresses my cheek
A hand of winter dream and purest ivory
Tears and dust run as the Styx beneath my feet
And I feel the crystal ice voice whisper and repeat

"The Gate has opened
A passage for the weary
And a bed for the weak"
And I weep

It hangs so heavy, eternity
I lack the strength to rise from my knees

An echo rings in the silence
A narrow of the eye

Eternity hangs heavy
And so do I

I weep
With the Styx beneath my feet
The cold breeze
It whispers and repeats
"The Gate is open
Rest your weary feet"
I weep
While the Styx, it runs beneath

-The Cathedral-

There is only death

This is the beginning and the end of all things
The gate and the key
All are judged in the shade of the Cathedral

Their names written in flames on that terrible, endless list
True pain engraved on their face
The wailing spilling through the rifts agape

Whisper "be still" to the violent heart and its thundering beat
The earth yawns deep and the cloak sweeps silent
Casting the shadow of unceasing sleep

The ground untended
Relinquishing spaces, an ocean of faces
Smothered by the black of a burial gown

Follow me down

Your call so fervent
Hot thorns through the neck pierce the servant
Of the night unending
The light here is bending
The gnarled spires bare
And from its towers a mockery of black trumpets blare
Lamentations fill the air
With the braying of dogs, oil slick through their fur

Follow me down

Hush now, no tears please
The horn sounds for me
Hush, writhe, cry
Hush, writhe, cry

It will never stop
Until every soul is charred beyond burned
Fling wide the gates of Hell

Your prodigal son has returned

Twixt jagged teeth of petitioners led by bound wrists
Past men gasping for air in lakes of boiling piss

Unable to drown
Follow me down
Your call so fervent
Hot thorns through the neck pierce the servant
Of the night unending
The light here is bending

Follow me down

-Second Death-

When I stand upon my altar
Resplendent in profane glory
I shall care not for the maggots squirming beneath me
Now squirm, you will squirm maggot, you will squirm

Your pathetic shells will crack
Under the weight of agony
In the shadow of the blackest spire
In the deepest circle, the bend

A knee, a back, desperate supplication
They could never imagine such pain as this
Squirm beneath me, I care not
Your pathetic shells will crack

Their screams echo in the void
And they echo with mine
The false ring of sacrament
They howl and I howl with them

"My lord, hear us
Free us from this scalding cell
My lord, hear us
Save us from this unending hell"

Oh lord, hear me
I suffer in this pit as well
My lord, hear me
I ring truer than deaths keen kneel

Your pathetic shells will crack
Under the weight of agony
In the shadow of the blackest spire
In the deepest circle, they bend
They bend
They bend
Squirm beneath me, I care not

Beckoning a darkness you all have ushered
The only reality is pain
I want you all to suffer as I have suffered

I want you all to suffer

Suffer
Suffer
Suffer
Suffer

-Black Fawn Temple-

It is a strange thing, timelessness
The nothing stretching away forever
Meets the nothing within and collapses

The endless without
The was
The is not

An everlasting echo repeats
"The tunnel has existed always"
Infinite

And the echo
Always
But I hear a voice
It is a strange thing, timelessness
Because I have existed in the corridor always

I- I- I-
There is a light

-Ultima Necat-

Watching
Always watching
The snare
Our curse

Remember the cold
Remember that it follows forever

Remember the cold
Remember that it follows forever
The cold that came before
And the cold that comes after

Chill wind howls
All hearts dread

I see you watching
Your eyes sear craters in my flesh
I feel you always
I am writhing

I can see you watching
The hollow eyes sear craters in my flesh
I can feel you always
I am writhing

Watching
Always watching
The snare
Our curse

Flee with the sun

Your hand rests over mine
You're in every word that I’ve written
In every single line
You are in the wind when I listen

I feel your presence behind
In every step that I've taken
On every single path
I am writhing

Your hand rests over mine
You're in every word that I’ve written
In every single line
You are in the wind when I listen

I feel your presence behind
In every step that I've taken
On every single path
And I'm writhing

And I writhe
And I writhe

-Contrapasso-

he star's luminosity failing
All grey ash and ruin
Bathed in the light of their guttering waning
As if a world spilled from his heart's painting


No, please no
What have I wrought upon me?

Overflowing, I wander here still
Blackened feet drag through dust
Bound by shackles hung
With a stone of Sisyphean weight

No, I beg
This cannot be
Darkness claims me

A burden of proportions Biblical
In these dizzying plains of desolation
So in death, as you were in life
May the punishment fit the crime

The soundless scream still echoes with acrid winds
This tomb is of my own making
Their faces hang above me, a warning
They were dragged here, mourning
Toward my horizon, cold

No, please no
What have I wrought upon me?

No, I beg
This cannot be
Darkness claims me

They were dragged here, helpless
Toward my horizon, cold

I was never a person
I am a black hole

-Abuse Ritual-

They hang in their thousands
Suspended in paroxysm
In grotesque shapes and unnatural angles
Crying and laughing and they thrash as if drowning
Until agony rears through their bones and they crack
Strung out across this canopy
Ecstasy rolls eyes back
This black sanguine puppetry
Do my eyes deceive?

Mouths held wide by the chains
Drawn orgiastic and aghast
Become windows to self annihilation
The infinite veins of this howling tapestry
Its terrible shrieking choir

Rattles and coughs
Rasps and shakes
A thousand husks keening
Behold our congregation

Pray before the Altar of Needles
Worship in the Temple of Smoke

You will choke

All paths lead to the Garden
It is mapped in the fractures in the mirror
Pray before the Altar of Needles
Worship in the Temple of Smoke
Whine at the feet of Surrender
Smile all the while as you choke
Because we are in love with the pain
That we keep coming back to

Again and again and again

-Parting Soliloquy-

I watch you from across the lake
Where the waters remain forever still
I watch you from across the lake
Where the waters remain forever still
And I collapse to the bank still green
And scream hoarse with the whisper of the leaves
And you were bountiful then and I asked you why
Small, frail, dependent, I

Should have to watch you walk from the shoreline, grey
You smiled something about life and something about time
Something about the winding length of mine
How I'd be ready when it came to that day

But I am not
And every nerve recoils at the thought
That the vessels still remain but are filled with nought

A light switched off
A stopped clock
A loss
A light switched off
A stopped clock and a loss

Death, take me home
Death, take me home

The cloak flaps blackly
My fingers map the lines
Across the writing on your monuments
Of life and death and time
The cloak flaps blackly
My fingers map the lines
Across the writing on your monuments

I ponder the winding
Of life and death and time

And I hope to God the next passage on the waiting raft is mine
Please don't leave me here between life and death and time

Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here

Death, take me home
Death, take me home
Death, take me to the lake where the waters remain forever still

-A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh-

All is cold and frozen
Frozen the sea
Frozen the sky
Frozen is death
But I cannot die
Cannot die

As the snow falls
To cover this all
And all is cold
And cold, cold is all
All is cold, cold is all

Cold
Frozen
Frozen is Heaven and frozen is Hell
And I am dying in this living human shell

I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God

Frozen my heart
Frozen my soul
Frozen my love

I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh

-Crippled Before the Dwelling Place of God-

I lay, torn and aghast, at the gates of the dwelling place of God
My body is broken
Every bone shattered against its rails
Every vein spilled across its towers
My blood flows in rivers with the grain

If I could cry still, I would
But all tears are spent
My mouth shudders the words I screamed
As I pounded on those unmoving doors
My silent lament

There is no greater Hell than isolation

And so as you were in life
You shall be in death
Alone within, alone without

In the eons, that echo twists and throbs
And coalesces beside the palest form of quivering
Outside the dwelling place of God
A crystal hand caresses his face
Closing the eyes of his unseeing frown

I felt that final kiss with lightning's crack
The echo reaches through time and space in the black
From that old room with the rope
As my vertebrae snaps