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In lightless terror
Far below
Worthless vision
Searching for the dimmest glow
Ancient paths carved by bleeding knees
Toward secret fire
Sun and sky, be free
Through claw marked chambers, aimlessly
No choice but to go on
The warmth on our skin or to death we bleed
The only way out, the only chance
Ascend from the chasms
Insidious trance
None have set their gaze
Upon the infernal gate
Buried in the remains
Of those who could not outrun fate
(Those) In the grip of desperation
Through caves that lacerate and maim
(Those) who seek reincarnation
Those who cross the flame
Will never be the same
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Die At the Right Time
04:17
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Moon is high as I take it in
A chilling breeze needling the skin
Know not what to do nor where to go
Astounded by the inconceivable
Buckle and collapse
Blinded and overwhelmed
Drowning as the senses become attuned
The flesh, the blood
Now insignificant
Marvelling at what I have done
Stride the land
Where my kin have never stood
Empowered and strengthened with each day
The body transforms as I shed my weaker self
A new dawn
This world is mine
They said it could not be done
Unscathed by the fire
Escape from Subterrania
Nothing stands in my way
It all belongs to me
The clearest sign
Ascent to the divine
Manipulated destiny
Once doomed to fall
Now this world will fall to me
Reborn in flames
and I was born to die at the right time
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Full of the Devil
04:48
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Strange new oppressor
Bring the hammer down
Hangs in the air, palpable
Spanning millennia
Arcadian bliss
A tale ingrained
Foolish and flawed
Life is full of the devil
Dripping shadow and suffocating dark
Choking on smoke and ashes
Dismantled utopia
When it woke from the fire
The world we knew was fucking lost
It was absolute we were never alone
Stoking the coals of the earth to make it turn
Aphotic abyss of deformity and stone
Bring the nightmare above, we join our interred
Never to surface
Never to gain sight
Never to walk free
or smother the light
Endure its reign
Remain human
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4. |
Interloper
06:10
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Upon Oppressive Peaks
05:54
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Eyes to ground
Mind set above
All chances taken
Buried in cloud
Step by step
Summit unclear
Sweat upon obsidian
A heat like one once known
The way unspoken
Spirit near broken
A climb eternal
Passage infernal
Leaden limbs
Failing sight
Propelled by the rhythm
Of a pounding pulse
On coerced truths alone
To the peak
Ascend to descend
The way unspoken
Spirit near broken
Stumble over ruptured ground
Towering above all
Immemorial
Inverse familiarity
A monument to past lives
The underground above
Through ash clouds and untouched scoria
Panic grows
Higher and higher and higher
The approach
Straight to the throat
To find the way back under
A gaping wound upon the earth
A conduit, a second chance
Redemption in numbers
Penance paid for all left behind
Free fall
From oppressive peaks
Free fall
Chaos underneath
Rebuild
Hope in the escape
Rebuild
Undo cursed fate
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6. |
Subterrania
13:44
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I: Long Shadows
In the end, in the void
To fulfil a broken promise
Violent reverie takes hold
A bitter return
To horrors left behind
Time grows short and shadows long
And I yearn for the wind, for the sun, for the rain
What lies above
To transgress as I have
No absolution
Deserve not to breath such air
My place is here
Primal panic flooding back
The lightless terror
Timeless battles etched in stone
Death descendant
A lineage traced through piles of bones
The pursuit it must go on
II: The Way Out Is Through
Shrouded in unlight
A startling reunion
Presumed dead
Sensing one of their own
It cannot be
Such mockery in one’s return
Biding time
They will see the light
Paralytic awe
Cling to every uttered word
Vicarious
Dare to dream
Dread and hope
As the pilgrimage begins
Scent of blood once spilled
Show us the way
Through cavernous tombs
The words are spoken
Forever enshrined
Chthonia's womb
Aeon of suffering
We leave behind
Subterrania, hear my cry
Fear not the crumbling earth
The way out is through
Subterrania, the end is nigh
Fear not the ancient flame
The way out is through
III: Violet Skies
Metamorphosis!
Transfiguration of our kind
Excruciating yesterdays out of mind
Ignited within
Imperium
Reborn under violet skies
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Miasmata Dunedin, New Zealand
Blackened metal from the bottom of the world.
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