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Blank eyes and gaunt expressions
Staring from lifeless husks
Lobotomised and without form
Viewing without sight to canvas of stars
Seeing no light, only blackness
Thus they were defiled again
Semen of devils pulsing in veins
Shrinking beneath the weight of infinite
Nameless and without form
Worshiping the uncaring void beneath
Dragged under the burning expanse
Of guilt and burdened by the weight
Of vast nothingness and despair
Brought low by chains of own design
When darkness consumed their eyes
Crawling through the mire of defeat
Dead eyes locked to the ground
Shuffling through thick fog of toxicants
A soiled carcass drifting through
Ever downward to blacker hells beneath
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Fire raged in the halls of divinity
Consuming the sickness within
Screaming voices howled in liberation
Their souls expanding and reaching out
Hailing the final breath of God
Closing eyes and silent prayers
Hands lowered to crawl in the dirt
Abandoned and destitute sanctuaries
Left to rot and collapse into the past
Their pathways now fall silent in ruin
Let chaos sound trumpets of triumph
Hailing the final breath of God
Man can rise from his bloodied knees
And crane their necks towards the stars
The smoke of their torment rising
Let blood fall from the deep skies
A cascade to quench the thirst of man
Let it be as a sign, a black mark on hearts
That have long dwelled within lost lands
Let it beget the flame that will ignite worlds
Glistening beneath a bloodied moon
The gates of heaven torn down
Left to solitary decay, buried by time
Trapped betwixt light and dark
Worms crawling over broken angel wings
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Through chaos and the closing of the light
Meandering through atrocious visions
Slipping away through claustrophobic spaces
Trapped between desires and reality
Until the light takes you away once more
Heads bowed to push every forward
Assailed by endless tempests of dark
Hopes and dreams bleeding from eyes
The dances of yesterday are memories
The sun extinguished and rains never comes
Through chaos you attempt to rise
Through the closing of the light you squint
To see futures where only dark lurks
You extinguished all the stars into black
The flesh is devoured and hives swarm
Behind your eyes they grow and writhe
Beneath the skin they penetrate deeper
Changing, mutating you become one
A grotesque, something new and unclean
Your name is nowhere and nothing remains
Visions of possibility disappear on winds
Torn away and ripped from clasping hands
You cannot see the dawn, days never come
Your reflection something unfamiliar and new
Through chaos and the closing of the light you are no more
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Eternal Illuminations
04:08
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Radiant Sickness
08:01
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Floating above spheres of doubt
Dark clouds blocking illusive moonlight
I cannot see beyond my realities
Shapes malformed in the mists
Souls out-wearing their bodies
Time stands eternally still
As the curtain of my minds mire lifts
And all world's reveal themselves
Enchanted by my nocturnal melody
My radiant sickness comes forth
Still in the emptiness and silence
Celestial truths cascade above me
Washed with magnificent storms
The field ever growing and forming
This radiant sickness that takes me
Time returns as it must do
And the day returns all to soon
Hearts beat to the fading melody
The feelings of sanctuary pass
The veil falls one again, obscuring
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Defiling the Godhead
07:22
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It was born again
To dance across the stars
To revel and writhe
Within the broken and gone
To defile the Godhead
And grind the crown to dust
To feel the creeping cold
An move in empty spaces
It was born again
To dance an infants dance
To tend the embers of rebirth
To pull the celestial to dirt
To deform the Godhead
And place naught in place
And fall to emptiness
To gaze with vacant face
A door left open unlocked
A light from within growing
Once buried now birthed anew
Beating bright dancing on a grave
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Where are you bright futures?
Fading away in the fog and mire
Falling through dead flesh
Through the grey, though pain
Kissed by moonlight and laid to sleep
My kingdom shimmers and dissipates
Laments reaching through night
I am a throne made from dust
Nothing remains draped beneath dusk
The world vanishes into deathlike silence
Shadows and fog drift toward me
Rising through the dusk and soils
Cloaking futures that once were seen
Rememberance of the kingdom that was
Now I am a throne made from dust
Impermanent
Fleeting
Evanescent
Fading
Falling into the darkness again
Fighting against the growing silence
The cold burns against my naked flesh
Darkness enshrouded me once more
No way out, the world vanishes again
My kingdom has fade to fog and naught
I am a throne made from dust
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Blood for All Tears Shed
10:52
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A pathetic fallacy
Birthed from rotten eyes
Silver gates forever closed
Heaven growing darker
Angels of lunacy cackle
For blood for all tears shed
Melt yourself beyond sanity
Arise new avatar of chaotic intent
Raise yourself beyond humanity
Tear down the silver gates
Take blood for all tears shed
Scarred malformations
Twisted and writhing deformed
By nightmare cataclysms of the past
Revulsion of the world beyond
Blood for all tears shed anew
Betrayed and broken down
Spit on and soaked in defeat
All tongues towards this hell
To make and break this future
From the ashes birth new destinies
The world you left behind
Forgotten through mires of time
Forward through birthing fires
Past frozen moons and raging suns
To take blood for all tears shed
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Leave the world of mortals to walk
Into the mist to stalk unto the other side
Plains of otherness
The utter emptiness
Where time have ceased and dark and light collide
Crossing the river of death and water cold
Slowly walking up the bridge
The jewelled bridge I walk for what seems a lifetime
In the night it's jewels glow
There on the other side
On shore of no return
The one for me awaits
Cannot avoid the eyes
In which the fire burns
Comed this far it is too late
And he calls my name
First a whispering then louder
And he wants me to follow
And to enter the eternal fire......
I walk this endless night
His eyes the only light
Repeatedly he whispers my name
Fingers move and twist
Through crimson thick dark mist
And voices cry of agony and pain
Close now to his kingdom
The bleak world dark and still
I follow the voice whispering my name
Approach the gate of sin
Opened up to let me in and there, he stand in flames
The price now I must pay
For eternity my soul his claim
For years of pleasures, victory and gold
The one who stand in flames
Now rise and walk my way
And reach out for my soul
And he calls my name
First a whispering then louder
And he wants me to follow
And to fall down. The eternal fire......
I stand at the jaws of the pit
The heat scorch my flesh
The fall seem never to end
My hair burn
My eyes can't see
The flames slowly eat my soul
The pain tears my mind
Hear my cries oh Lord
Have mercy oh Lord
This can't be
Raging flames all over me
Inferno of heat
Oh no, oh no, oh noooooo, noooooo, noooooo......
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Abandoned by Light Sheffield, UK
Founded 2013 by Karhmul - solo Black Metal project from Sheffield, UK.
Check out my other band 'Nokturnal Ritual':
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