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The Angel Experiment

by Abandoned by Light

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Breaking light, on the dawning horizon Shattering the illusion of the night Crackling illumination as sun cuts through Apocalyptic thunder sounding the day The world keeled over into the abyss Dwindling light of stars in the heavens As they burn out in universal hellfire Demonic voice roars from the deep Signalling the sky to fall upon us Fire paved skies darkening the earth Rotting bridges fall into churning water And buildings topple into the milling streets Cliffs fall onto bloodstained beaches And trees burn in abandoned forest As the world keels over and dies Into the black void of the emptiness As fire paved skies darken above The abyss of eternity is filled with pain As the lives of many are lost to time The day the fire paved skies came
2.
The dead soul that lurks inside Will never see the light outside the walls The walls that lurk within, built through time Wings will never spread through wind To feel the warm kiss of the sun This is the angel experiment That never got to fly away As seasons change and life dies I live inside the cage of time and lies Outside my walls I know not what dwells Condemned to the darkness within As snow falls throughout the land deep In my prison of mirrors I see not the change To grow old and die my fate is sealed The angel experiment, down in hell Never to walk through woodland realms Time is the overseer of all things in life Wings that only feel the dark, never to fly free Heavenly perversion, left to decay inside The angel experiment that never will see The world of man, that breathes outside The dead soul that lurks inside Will never see the light outside the walls The walls that lurk within, built through time Wings will never spread through wind To feel the warm kiss of the sun This is the angel experiment That never got to fly away As seasons change and life dies I live inside the cage of time and lies I cry into the dirty floor of the prison The blood from my many pains soaked in grief I want to break free from this evil realm The sun on my wings, through the sky The angel experiment, to finally be free
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Leaving the darkened place behind Fifteen years of despair abandoned As I witness the worlds end around me Frozen images, of my torment before Spread winds to the fire tainted sky Far away from the prison of dark To the world of destruction and grief That I finally see before me now Where nothing lives, nothing grows I am the last of us, the last alive The once beautiful world that I pictured Is nothing more than burnt rubble I would weep for the death of it all But my soul is already to scarred to feel So I continue to fly away, the last of us The ashen rain that falls from heaven Coating my face in the dust of the dead I search from the green of Gaia’s domain But everything is darkened, dead and gone In this new perpetual twilight, despair deepens The last of us, the last of life, here On top of the peak of the world, watching Dark clouds pass above, foreboding But only I will see their passing through For I am there
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Awaken, in the world of deepening nightmares In the once luscious graveyard of the forest realm Alone, in the world of increasing dark and cold I wander through the corpses of the trees Feeling the sorrow that emanates from the depths Breath held in bated moments, in darkness The words in my mind, leaving a scar, bloody Fire scorched ground, cold to the touch Lonely feelings, scratch at my thoughts Never before have I felt this sorrow, so deep Despair hammers into my soul, nothing left This dead world, devastated woodland here It holds nothing for me, no life, no happiness I feel the walls of my mind caving in on me Ive woken to a world of deepening nightmares Awaken, in the world of deepening nightmares In the once luscious graveyard of the forest realm Alone, abandoned by a place exorcised of life I wander through the desecrated landscape Feeling the sorrow that emanates from the depths
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Spread my ash soaked wings to the moon Leaving the broken woods behind, forever Soaring into the blackened sky, no life here As I keep nearing the darkened stars Land on the coast, stare to the black sea I feel the sand beneath my feet, stained I long to curl into myself, and embrace darkness To bury myself in the blood soaked sands As I pass the skeletons of what once was Tears fall down my face, freezing on my cheeks I never saw the world, when beauty reigned Only the bones of the past, burning beneath I watch the moon pass over the skies As I lay in the life soaked sands beneath Illuminating the beach in deep crimson And wait for the oceans chilling tidal embrace I wander up the coastal line alone Hoping for a sign of life beyond my own As I feel the nights chill give way to dawn I long to bury myself in the blood soaked sands
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Mirrored eyes and glassy thoughts Stare from the murky waters of the lake Specters swell from beneath the surface Dripping hands and clawing nails pull the air As ghosts in the lake reach to the soul Above I watch the water ebb and flow Droplets cascade to the surface Ripples spread through time and matter To all corners of the body, back to the center The cycle repeated without change to reality Beneath the surface they watch the sky The passage of time undisturbed by thought The ghosts of the lake, the unsettled mind Longing to be above, to see what is lost To see the moon and the sun pass the horizon Stepping to the edge of the lake below Staring down into the deep abyss of the depths I kneel and run my hand across the surface The cold chill seeps up my arm and my soul As the ghosts of the lake reach into my being Mirrored eyes and glassy thoughts Stare from the murky waters of the lake Specters swell from beneath the surface Dripping hands and clawing nails pull the air As ghosts in the lake reach to the soul
8.
The purpose of my life is unknown The reason to continue this solitude Is beyond the reasoning of my mind The loneliness I feel is all consuming Mine dying light is fading continuously The wanderer of solitude if my being The gatekeeper of the path of oblivion Holding my wings in close to my body The only comfort I continue to feel Mine dying light begins to flicker and die I think back to the dreams in my cell Of a bustling world full of life and laughter Lying shattered around me, a stain remains The blood and ash of the world around Continues to feel alien to myself Transcending into depths of despair My numbing to the existence deepens Mine dying light is rising within To consume my mind and soul A shattered creature I wander the earth The purpose of my life is unknown The reason to continue this solitude Is beyond the reasoning of my mind The loneliness I feel is all consuming Mine dying light is fading continuously
9.
Howling wolves on forest cliffs Signal the end of what has being The life of lies and denial is at an end The last of us on this corpse world Will cease to exist tonight Though life continues as wolves howl It is nothing for me to be No-one to talk to but dead No-one to hold but dead Is nothing to cling on to Away from hope and longing I make my way to the end No memories of life to enjoy Not even a name to call me No-one here to miss me Howling wolves on forest cliffs Serenading an angel dies today Another life ends amongst the ruins The last of us on this corpse world Will cease to exist tonight
10.
As the sun falls from the heavens into night I make my way towards oblivions embrace No longer content to live this life of pain I will find my dead man’s sleep today Amongst the ruins of the woods I first found I will lay my soul and body to rest Never given a chance to live my life I will take my fate back into my own hands My hopes of paradise lost as harmony breaks Today the last angel will fall from heaven Into the dark soil of the earth beneath To lay my corpse amongst rock and root The decaying forces of nature will have me As I create my own grave amongst tree corpses I search for an implement of my demise I am but flesh and bone, nothing eternal As the sun falls from the heavens into night I lay amongst the branches and roots Life ended with bark and rocks from here Blood from my veins seeps into the earth Tonight the angel experiment will die Paradise lost as harmony breaks

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3rd full length album from Abandoned by Light

Karhmul - All Instruments and Vocals

This is a concept album about an angelic creature who escapes from the prison it was born and lived in to discover that the world has gone through a recent apocalypse. The angel then travels the world seeking for any other life forms, struggling with loneliness and depression and the loss of the world it has pictured throughout its existence.

Cover art; photo of the statue 'The Angel of Death Victorious' by Herman Matzen'

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released February 1, 2016

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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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