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Yawning Lake
07:16
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Yawning Lake
*verse 1*
Blackening light it comes
Piercing gaze
Incandescent destroyer
Soul ablaze
Sickening trail it leaves
In its wake
Temples fall asunder
To primordial lakes
*bridge 1*
Numinous vessels conquer
Our pointless graven plight
The ashen ones they birth
New spires from the night
*chorus*
Yawning lake becomes, becomes, becomes
Yawning lake becomes fire (x2)
*spoken*
The old ones recite their spells
Against the devouring sun
Commandeth unto thee fire
The war doth hast begun
The holy men repenteth
Divine but two of three
Forgetting all the yawning ones
They left 'neath burning trees
*add*
Yawning pestilence upon my somnolence
Awaken to sheets of fire
The stairwell folds upon itself
Escape eludes desire
*chorus*
Yawning lake becomes, becomes, becomes
Yawning lake becomes fire (x2)
The horrid scintillation
Of rags and sin and hair
Primal desperation
Escape the ashen lair
The brazen fish they sing the tune
Of duelling halves of one
They watch tempest roar above
Whilst safe in shard filled lakes
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A Decade Of Black
09:39
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Horned rats float overhead in my,
Dream life. Scripture of fear it rolls,
Black dice. Numbers of death become...
A decade of black
Eternal miasma
The shards of my ego unfold
Worn as expresison
A season for years
Life stunted in nigredo
An armour of shadow
Occult and yet seen
I offer my shards to the clouds
Like moths to the slaughter
The students of lead
Forever entrenched in its shroud
Marsupial demons
Fly by their thousands
To feast on my dreams in the west
The cordyceps' reasons
To telegraph visions
Of downfallen kings in distress
Distress
Lay down to rest
A blistering cold
Inertia evolved
A harrowing light in the east
The wheel it turns back
Before that of black
A luminous prophesied feast
I drink of its marrow
Becoming its host
Sethurian, light-seeking fiend
Fungified tentacles
Burrow still deeper
Their path is reflected in dreams
Mycelial heathens
Transmogrify tissue
To harvest my soul with their spell
They signal ascention
And raise me on high
Light beckons, tolling its bell
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Parasitic Sacrament
06:09
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Tied up with sinew
In burrowed ground
Fungal chrysalis ego burial ground
Compelled to rise up
Through layered earth
Awakening soil of light's rebirth
The parasitic sacrament of
The parasitic sacrament of ego death
Legions of harrowing claws steal our breath
The sacramental offering of...
Chrysalis burning
Our borrowed cross
Luciferous spores soar across the void
Like dead man's fingers
Clutching the light
Spiralling visions of ammonite
The parasitic sacrament of
The parasitic sacrament of ego death
Legions of harrowing claws steal our breath
The sacramental offering of...
I become light, I become...
I become light, I become...
I become light, I become death
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Redeemer
04:58
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5. |
Child Of Sorcery
07:48
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Entheogenic Cradle
08:47
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Collective
Entheogenic high
Revelatory
Awakening eye
Mycorrhizal cradle
Foliated
Archways of earthen arms
Enraptured in sentient
Spires of Baal
Transference of thought
We share
Cloaked in benevolent
Branches I'm aligned
Wending their lumbering
Passage through mind
Shadowy presence through
Timeless tesseracts
Conversing in verse
Unspoken and abstract
Winds we trade
Eyes we share
Eternal pushmepullyou pray for rain
Winds we trade
Eyes we share
Cloaked in benevolent
Branches I'm aligned
Wending their lumbering
Passage through mind
Winds we trade
Eyes we share
Mind is lone
One is prayer
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Marrow Of The King
04:56
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Transmutate the low ground for the highSupplicate the ground to deify - shards above self
Bending force of will to raise the vesselRarest forms of apparitions bleed - bleed out
The strange illumination of the wraithBeams they pierce the crust of lower faith - lower faith
Traverse the eminence of vital fleshA sacramental feast of autumn's gifts
We dine upon the marrow of the kingPrepare the ground for winter's worshipping
The fingers rise while toes root in the groundA visionary fool thus drowned Striking down the bleedersThe strangulating fingersThe thread it disappears beyond the bones
Their fingernails splitThe wraith it thus commitsThe thorns of torture thread beneath the skin
Striking down the bleedersThe strangulating fingersThe thread it disappears beyond the bones
Their fingernails splitThe wraith it thus commitsThe thorns of torture thread beneath the skin
My skin it melts and falls from every limbTo cook upon the coals my shadow lurking twinThe stench and smoke to raise my shadow upTo verdant hills beyond the mystic veil
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The Surge
09:03
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Fold in on yourself
Your fractured and feathered limbs diverge
Old ones whisper on
The tektonic towers
That emerge
Spheres of egregores
We feed and arrange their form to consume
A thousand entities will
Scale the heights of Calvary
For the view
And I saw
The surge
Of storms
Only the sky and earth call
And I know
The forms
Only the sky and earth remain
Fear of shadow realms
The black sun of Gethsemane
Marches on
Lies thrice woven will
Avail you of the land you rest upon
Light is overthrown
In pursuit of the guiding blackness of beyond
Valley overgrown with
Cascading arms of demons for your eyes
Peeling skin of shadow fingers
Burning flesh of decades lived alone
The sun calls in its debt
All the others turn away
And chase their earthen prize
The sacrificial angels of sky
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Swan Messiah Melbourne, Australia
Swan Messiah emerged from the elysian depths of Port Philip Bay in the winter of 2010.
Wielding
antipodean styled doom and dystopian drones, taking respectful cues from its misanthropic metal ancestry and dark folk traditions, Swan Messiah spent the ensuing winters conjuring its layered sound to wash upon the shore on which it currently rests.
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