1. The Forging

(intro)

2. Heaven's Descent

Arrogance is not strenght!
There is no grace in apathy!

In the veils of stasis divine
You preach obsessive concealment
Heads held high in falsest pride
Steadfast in the storm of truth

There is a fury
That bears your name
A call to break this vow of shame
This is your judgement
Repent
Heavens descent

You follow the bygone belief
That time erases guilt

The higher you place yourself
The deeper you fall

Those who turned to you for guidance
Received the seed of woe
A gift from the core of filth
how does ist feel to murder a soul?

A waning light
A slow descent

3. In Defiance

Resignation will claw your thoughts
Dont give it room to breathe
Every journey starts with the first step
Fortitude conquers – hesitation enslaves

The daring will blaze the trail
For open minded to follow
The insurmountable
Nothing but a stepping stone

Dont give in to the fears that loom
In defiance of your void
Exhaustion will wear your soul
Let it never prevail

Some will fall to your left and right
Yearning for relief
Starving for relief

Betrayed by fear
Torn by inner throes
Cathartic surge
Prosperity

Dont give in to the fears that loom
In defiance of your void
Exhaustion will wear your soul
Let it never prevail

Some will fall to your left and right
Yearning for relief
Starving for relief

4. Eight Thousand Sorrows Deep

It is begun
We are become the vengeance
Awoken by a call
To shed the blood of generations

Invoke the cleansing
The dawn of a new mourning
Bring forth the last scars
Save your your sentiment for the extinct
Genocide – a human theme
Redemption – a shallow dream?

Devastation gathers
Drench this soil with tears
Humanity at zero

Remorse – shattered
The conscience wronged
Let the risen speak for the fallen

We dig compassions grave
Eight thousand sorrows deep

Evolutions blood – stained crown
Shall be ours to keep
We dig compassions grave
Eight thousand sorrows deep

Devastation gathers
Drench this soil with tears
Humanity at zero

5. Arise Black Vengeance

Arise black Vengeance
To revenge of suicide

Harpoons of avarice
Piercing your black skin
Draining your blackening veins
A wound refusing to heal

Abysmal martyrium
Bleeding blackest blood
Deepwater pandemonium
For horizons of growth

A descent into the depths of risk
To quench our growing thirst

You can kill your conscience
But you cant kill your guilt
You can fuel our hunger
But you cant still your guilt

Draining on your blood until youve bleed white
Denying the end of supply

Arise black Vengeance
To revenge of suicide

This dust was once man

6. Rubikon

Through the alchemy of fire
Braving the rubicon
Through the alchemy of fire
Reaching beyond – braving despair

Every time the walls are closing in
You choose to grow or shrink
Every challenge you reject with fear
Makes your pride and spirits disappear

Fear and doubt have gone
Strength and weakness melt into one
This turmoil i will harness
This drought i will stand

Through the alchemy of fire
Braving the rubicon
Through the alchemy of fire
Reaching beyond – braving despair

Upon barren soil
I'll build my throne
No vast kingdom
A solid ground

Praising freedom in a cagethat is myself
But who is not a slave?
When you think yourself a victim
There will never be salvation

7. Sirens Of Black

On my path to self – destruction
I passed a source of hope
And on fear and hate i choked
On my path to isolation
I walked the fields of nowhere
In a valley of false salvation
I breathed despair

If you aim for the source
You must swim against the grain

On my path to self –illusion
I bowed to standards
And from the truth within i fled
On my path of self –surrender
I denied the I
And without teeth or spine
I tried to survive

Sirens of Black
Evoke the abyss from its fathomless depth
Benighted we stand
A spectre of fear and lies in our hands

From carpets of unbroken glass
Phoenix will never arise

If you aim for the source
You must swim against the grain
What you have in you
You cant extract – only reconcile

On my quest for peace of mind
I almost lost my anger
And in a stream of cynic
I float

Sirens of Black
Evoke the abyss from its fathomless depth
Benighted we stand
A spectre of fear and lies in our hands

8. Certitude

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9. Exaltation

See this my waning flame
Thaw to a world of ice
Light it in the faintest of moments

I bestow upon you
This token of affectionn
For I am engulfed by the end

I must be ashes
They strike their violins darker
As the final blackness nears

I entrust these words to you
My hope will bleed into these lines
To form a silent song
To linger through the ages
To form a silent song
To linger through the ages

To be sung by the living
To preserve, to praise, to mend
The fragments of dignity

Faced with the deep of deeps
My spirits shines undaunted

Spielt sьЯer den Tod, streicht dunkler die Geigen
Wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Wolken,
Da liegt man nicht eng

Play death more sweetly,
Scrape darker your strings
We shovel a grave in the air,
there you wont lie too cramped

I entrust these words to you
My hope will bleed into these lines
To form a silent song
To linger through the ages

10. Tyranny Of Want

We have unleashed
A cold disease
With a fragile core
And an iron shell
The masters have become the slaves
Control deprived we crave and crave

Enmeched in the machinery
knowing only one direction:
F O R W A R D

Crowning greed with a halo of need
No one foresees when everyone seeks
The masters have become the slaves
Control deprived we crave and crave

We have sacrificed the source
To worship the stream
The mind is obsolete
Where means are absolute

A system to serve mankind
Mankind to serve the system
Closer and higher
Until the world's on fire

A system to serve mankind
Mankind to serve the system
Closer and higher
Until the world's on fire

11. The Prophecy

A barn on fire, a tortured child
What has come for vengeance?
Who has blackenedthe light?
Paininflicted, they inflict their pain
Born of obedience – opressions reig

Theyve become the prophecy of debt
Theyve become the prophecy that wept

Petrified, denied, enshrined
Burdened with a ribbon that binds
Petrified, denied, enshrined
Theyve become the spawn for the eclipse

A white path of virtue – not to be left
The light of innocence is shining black
The purity vision – thaught by brutality
Disciples of order – slaves to the hierarchy

A fierce and brutal mind is forged
When infants hearts and souls are scorched
A flame of vengeance killed the light
The children they came at night

To the night of the hunters
They unload their punishment
On the altar of justice
They seek revenge

Can they reserve their pain?
They will return the stain

Theyve become the spawn of the eclipse
Theyve become the holocaust

12. And To Posterity A Plague

And to Posterity we sent a Plague
Creating destruction – forging decay

Who will ever grant us absolution
For the crimes we daily commit?
Who will wash free our hands
From the blood that sticks with them?

The faceless screams of misery
The catalouge of pain
Should make the stones weep

You cant enlighten the mind without blackening your soul

The faceless screams of misery
The catalouge of pain
Should make the stones weep

We should bear the fiercest grudge against the unjust
Yet our wrath is choked

And to Posterity we sent a Plague
Creating destruction – forging decay

The silence is false
The silenced are falsed

You cant enlighten the mind without blackening your soul