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Monarch of Death

from Call of the Burning One by Swan Messiah

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And thus the Lord of the serpents commanded
The gallantry fold in the wind
To make way for the sorcerers and seraphim of sanctity to
Burn those who've sinned

All the strong and exalted and earth dwellers
Who abide by the law
Must lift up their horns to the sky
To the portals, the seasons, the mountains
The Lord's gaping maw

May the words of the serpents and star dwellers
Slay all the kings
So the meek can arise and seek justice from terror
And tear out their tongues as they sing

When the pain comes upon us, like women who've
Suffered life in travail
When her child it enters the mouth of the womb
And she bellows in pain bringing forth

Now the child it rests in the hidden place
Where shadows take form in the wind
But the blackness illuminates paths for the righteous
To find their way forward with the truth

Behind them the angels of punishment
Execute vengeance on those who've oppressed
With rivers of blood we give thanks to the ophannin
And drown them in alkahest

Deep are our secrets but surface they must
For our swords they are drunk with our blood
And the monarch of death he will visit and putrefy
And summon our souls from the dust

A sorrowful mystery is solved with the agony
The garden it blooms with the pain
The luminous vehicle it marries the opposites
The lady of slaughter she rests

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from Call of the Burning One, released March 6, 2019

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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. ... more

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