1. Obtenebrate

(intro)

2. The Gospel Of Woe

See through the closed dry eyelids of the damned
What will you learn of their dead stare?
As we now have reached the shores of the genesis
We stand as stones of flesh uncovering our putrid wounds

Above us the circling swarm of vultures soar
This, the day we've all been waiting for
To turn our backs on the creator, the founder of our sorrows
A ride of suffering in front of us

А harbinger or death, you sing the gospels оf mankinds demise
There is nothing left but the remains of its piety and fear

No blow of me rev will be given as no mercy you gave
Succumb and be a slave under their command
A long harsh wait for in the end to be set free from all savage misery
Punishment is due in the rotting land you used to call a haven

Yon say you'll trade this hell for heaven, but
Nameless lives, you will feel it when death begins
The final fire that sparks the wish for peace
For years of labor, disappointment; and disease

The shadows haunt the light on your face
Deaths head shines through, a relentless wish to kill
Twist and turn, or lay there with grace
Cling to the lowed ones as they tie you to the Catherine Wheel

Why did we pur our trust in them?
To each his own

We stand on the cliffs edge, looking backwards at what life did offer us
Where did it lead us, and at what cost?
Pondering upon what the afterlife might give us when all is lost

But here's only God and you
No amends for the deeds you have done
Can a destiny be so cruel that you are the one going down alone
The Lord knows you tried to rake us all with you

Feel the demons crushing your chest
As you dins to the comfort of the cross

A coffins your final fortress
before the worms gnaw through rotten flesh and ghastly hones
And from your demise a new disease will grow
Like the inquisition we will hunt you down

Even Death cries when we approach
Cover your ears when you hear the thundering of hooves
and rite blow of trumpets sound in the distance
In everv conflict we are always closer than you think

3. Lay Waste The Crops

You should know by now rhar I despise you
Everything you are makes me who I am
Through your desperation I narrow your view
I will forever be there to bring death upon man

I bestow you life
1 bestow you death

Under mental siege, sense the swear upon your brow
I control your every move
Trying to push through walls of flesh
But they are as a fire, and they burn within you

Nothing can extinguish the harsh flames
You are as dry wood
Wishing for peace but in the ashes all is dead
There is no paradise, no golden gates through which to be led

What I sometimes lead you to believe is that I'm gone
Through this I give you strength, only to bring you even more down!

Where you prosper I lay waste the crops
Forcing you to taste the rotten fruits of life
Hungry jaws are waiting to tear you apart
Eager to hear as another cry dies

A master of deception I am
I rape and I nourish the land
You can see me, you'll always feel me
My presence will drain your body empty

You try to deny mv existence, and I can't blame you
I follow your every footstep on this sour ground

Hah!

I dare you to put an end to me
At this stage it's not your scene anymore

No, don't ask tor my sympathy!
On the edge of the grave no one can help
The blood that's pulsating, feel the running sweat
There's no escape, just another test

Observing the movements of all shapes and sounds
The fear becomes more ugly and alive than before

Crippled and beaten you carve at the walls with a stick
You cannot win this war

You'll end up as shallow and wicked as me
Tortured and severed by your own misery

Bow your head, and accept that I live in you
A fire so destructive, all life it consumes

With mocking heavy steps I come
What you see is what it has made me become

4. Pallbearer

Fallen from grace, I'm a bloodv mess of flesh and a dead saint
Treacherous and sinister, I am sin alter sin, pain after pain
My soul is on fire, as I march with no fear in my heart
To encounter the beast that killed every spark

The truth shall set the world aflame
But it will never set you free
The sky above is the last thing you will see
Before you how down your head in shame
And slowly suffocate in the arms of che deceased
A hell where you shall suffer their pain infinitely

Thev sav your heart is weighed against the good you have done
But sometimes the dark can find us and take us down
For all the sins we are tempted to commit
We stand in the shadows of the tree, listening for the serpent's hiss

We cannot wait for the day our laughter will echo in Hell
Our unclean spirits united to burn eternally
Chained to the log like a dog you loots shall forever be
Cause it's too late to start shedding tears

Grinding the bones of the shoulders that shall carry you all
Cause your guilt weighs more than the weight of the world
To beg for death is what you shall regret
For at His hand there is no chance to repent

But the slave will always try to bite his way through the leash
And around him they are manv who failed due to the wrong beliefs

Their mad jaws snapping against you as you try to break free
Banging your fists till they're all bloody against the wall
But if you're patient enough you will hear the call
Which is the prized possession you will know as insanity

Into the chalice of tears you will weep, and from it we will drink
And raise a victorious toast to the fall of those that follow your belief

The same cold eyes, the same sinful pride
No, it's just too late to hide, for they can never die

The eyes that stare at you from inside the tomb
Arms crossed in spiteful harmony

And the fingers point at where you soon will be
Side by side with the dead eyes that stare eternally

Forever doomed frorn the moment оf birth
Life is to always walk in the shadow of Death
And as your remains are lowered into the earth
The abyss sucks you in with one heaving breath

Greet Eternal Hell...

5. Sepulchre

I drank of your poison, and I praised your name
You led me to ruin and tricked me to take part in your shame
Though seasons change, in your hell you shall remain
I will praise the day when you lie dead in your grave

I'll eat the hand that feeds you
A sadistical beast, you seek the tight grip of the noose
Watch you starve, naked, beaten and forlorn
I'll be the henchman that sets you loose

Drugged from the first touch by your hand
A trophy, still breathing lies waiting for your death
Once field in mental chains, this dogs buy now unleashed
Firm jaws now snap across your neck

Possessed eyes encircling every move
Let the sounds of the night suffocate your lament
The shadows darkening your face
Endless scorn buried in my veins

As a constrictor I'll sense your warm pulse
Sepulchre, tins is your time to die as those you have hurt
The choir of your twisted gospels forever rings in my ears
Onward cowards salvation, I know I can't win

Grinding the wheels of my existence
To always feel persecuted on a trail of treason and fear
Cause I know you will escape from die womb that sucked you in
Carefully watching me as I burn in the ruins where I stored the anger

6. On To The Never

Expect no mercy, nor sympathyfrom my hand
Cause menеally I'm six feet under
A sight that seems to satisfy every beast in man
For what is virtue worth, if not to rape and plunder?

Soft eyes staring down godforsaken corridors
Reliving th? memories that brought them comfort
Only to be reminded that nothing lasts forever
This fever burns and spins on to the never

My spirit is soon to burst within this prison of flesh, bur I no longer care
Harsh is the caress that life has given me, and there is nothing more for me here

I leave behind me a bloody path
In screams of anguish I give in to the dark
So many victories, still never ending battles to be won
And now it strikes me the battle me was the one

Battered to a zero, pounded to dust
Loss of all respect and all trust

In the eyes of this mockery I slit my veins open
And smile it's I die in the presence of the life I've broken

Your cries will fail upon deaf ears
Cause in my world now there's nothing but fear
Above, on earth, and below there is nothing
On a river of treacherous currents I am floating

I feel wounded when you sympathize
Feel alive when you tell me lies!
Cause all that you have left rne is the image
that possessed me to believe that nothing good
can ever come from a smile!

I question the purpose of your existence
cause all you do is leave me in doubt!
Nothing to fight, nothing to fight for
So why did I fight?

The world was my whore, but I didn't grab the chance
Endless death now lies in my path I'm truly darnned
I cling to the tombstone that carries my name
All of you around me gathered, you will end the same way

7. The 7th Wave

Wrapped around your remains are the cold walls
And the worms that strip you of all dignity
From womb to tomb, the first of breaths makes the call
And prepares us to be lowered into the dark to state into eyes that scream in apathy

Our arms stretch against the tide as we beg for forgiveness for our sins
But we know as one journey ends, another begins
Greeted by the only one we fear to expect, the sad shape of grim death
But such is the nature of the beast, to never succumb and give into our fears

Against such force not one of us can ever compere
Hear the whisper of the wind as it calls your name across the fields
The sky above seems no longer as clear as it used to be
And as the end draws nigh, the anger and fear set in

An eternal struggle to keep our heads held high
as we melt like wax in this cauldron of lost lives
Punished for what you sought out to be
A worthless pawn cursed to forever be at the first step on the ladder of society

Buried deep inside our hearts there's a vast abyss
Where no feeling can take away the fear of losing ourselves in there
On nights when we can feel it call us to cease to exist
We close our eyes, and beg for the voice to take us away from here

No one to scream at you as you fall down
Inside a world that only you know
That is where we long to be
To feel the wonders of death as it sets us free

If a question is left unanswered when you break free from all misery
And the echoes of all the screams disappear from your ears
Just let the cold hands around your body guide you
To where you finally can rest after all these years

As the serpent curls its body around your neck
Take a last look at the sky above you
Within your mind as your life flashes before your eyes
the only thought is the certainty that: you die alone

As one dies, out from your death comes another life
Such is the cycle, we can never die

8. Within The Tomb

All spikes now raised
The gash called second thought, I pray it will heal
Creating a pantornime play
In the absence of a better way to escape

Entombed in flesh
Buried when born.... alive

Always on guard
For what is come and what is always there
I wish me away from here
For the sake of myself and for all die others that may care

I head for the certain fall
The mob in my head screams its foul mouthed slander
Applauding the steps that I take
All I know is that I'm one step from the grave

Tranquilizing myself with thoughts of death to rest,
Or I may never sleep again

But do not try to wake that which hides inside of me
I know, and you might learn, it's not a friend

My foul flesh intoxicated by havoc
And the fear of hell has cost us all dearly
Now the evidence has become so clear
I have made us all into something I fear

Walk no further away from me
I want you to watch as yet another part of me dies
Look into my eyes
The mental fortresses I have built
Now I'll gone in a ruin of blood and hate

A rhapsody of crimson, the blade twists and turns
This demon tears at my mind
Cutting all strings of hope, preparing myself to burn!
All angels fear my kind

It is а long wav home... to a new haven

9. Fields Of Death

Time grinds slowly yet the wheel never seems to turn
And as so many times before I stare into the night
And let it take me away

Outside the Dome where images twist into form
Like a typhoon of dead laces that worn leave me alone
I stagger towards the burial ground

And here it calls again
Hits cancer that feeds off me

Running away from death
A cold naked body staining the winding sheets
Blindfolded and paralуzed the ideal scenery is set
For the parasite that feeds on the sick

Pufled by the hair and kicked down the stairs of it's cortex
A labyrinth of darkness, hear the moans of the tortured
For you should know were the ones to take the blame
Worthless offerings torn to shreds by the fangs of the insane

At the final stage of madness I will find my peace
No more to desperately cling to a lilelong disease
And from there another journey has started
As I enter the catacombs of the departed

Yet still it calls for me
In death there is no relief

On the fields of death every path leads to an open grave
Time and time again, in my hands the hangmans noose
And here I will stay

Hiding m the wind, where I can dream and descend
To where no light can harm me, no sun to burn mv wounds
Only the prayers that call rne back to the dawn

10. Death's Drum

Treasure the bruises they might be all you get in life
As you cover yourself in rags and embark оn your face
Neither God nor man will ever be free from the pain inside

We must all burn as heretics at the hypocrites imaginary stake

For a life filled with wonder and the fresh hope we all have in every breath
The curse of the father shall slit our veins from inside
Here we lay down our last hopes in life and die side by side
Around our bodies Death beats the drum to our heartbeats that are about to die

The echoes of the heart are no more
We're taken down the path of tears in drown
Hands upon the shoulders in line of the others that have departed
We walk in numbers, greeting the waves to take us down

But for every soul that stands at death's door
We only crave for more
As we on bended knees long for the days now gone
Do we even know what we long for?

All that we possessed in life through honorable work and strife
Now disappears from the sight of our eyes
Greet the increasing fire we know awaits as we fall down

To hell and the punishment for our mischief
Our lives are fragile as glass in the grip of the beast

Will it give us death or darkness?
Shall we take the places of the ones who fell before us?
Will they be laid to rest?
Or will their screams unite in a choir so grotesque?

Across these fields only dead men fear not to thread
I will lead you back to where you came from
Back to the night and all that you feared
To not be a father, just a son

Are we all just left behind?

Unwanted voices that tell us how hell is going to be
Let them inside and they will be right
So many choices that we cat, not separate what we see
What has always been in front of you shining bright

The world has reached it's end!

Gloria!