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The High Priestess
03:52
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A crown of guile and a veil of deceit
A venomous tongue from which there is no reprieve
Honey fermented with ruinous words
The plot is unraveling before your captive audience
Rise on wings of fragile frailty above all fault
The solution lies within your denial
Labyrinthian, twisting negation
Coiled as a serpent ready to strike
Those around you
An art of dust and decay that I can not abide
It’s the cold behind your eyes
A secret kept through the rain slick edge of nothingness
Growing further from your mouth to the ears of hell
She kneels
I spit forth the apple
This too in time shall pass
Wounds marked by battle will heal and fade
Leaving no scars but only ones I remember
An inverted High Priestess
I am an inferno which sparks beneath the ice
Turning stillness into roiling madness
Seething outwards in a desperate clamor
My malignancy never paling in your comparison
Half truths and superstition
My heart, a fortress that will withstand any siege
Should enemies hold fast to the gates which have for decades stood
Blowing cold and battering
The oils are prepared for you, my love.
Nothing will ever change
Nothing new is to be expected
This is not what I wanted out of life
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I Will Guide Thy Hand
03:47
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Mutant Menagerie
03:12
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Misshapen and grotesque
Hideous form and flaw
Stitched together and born by lightning
Given existence from the minds of madness
This contagion spreads like disease
Infecting any which come too close
Keep my distance and sanity
My mind never writhing with twisted form
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Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris
Quia non est alius
Qui pugnet pro nobis
Nisi tu Deus noster.
A single rose unfurled, withering
Darkness to dawn, day into night
Thorns which both pierce and protect
Like birth and death's divine dialect
Mythic tales of a higher mission
Met with worldly skepticism
Will I embrace the abyss with a final sigh
Or rage against the dying of the light
My rod and spear raised high
A futile hope or road to redemption?
Out of the depths I cry to you
But hold my ground as war drums thunder
We sinners, grave pretenders
Laden with the burden of a thousand nations
Kneeling on stone with hands together
In absolution and contrition
I AM THE EARTH AND THE FIRE AND THE SUN
I AM A BATTLE THAT'S YET TO BE WON
I AM CORRUPTION AND CHAOS AND GREED
I AM THE VOID AND A STONE WHICH CAN BLEED
[Therion Major]
Bow your head!
Bow your head!
Bow your head!
Bow your head!
Show me your nightmares, there is your strength
All that you hide is the peace that you seek
Deep down behind all of the lies
There is a monster that begs for the light
Howl at the moon if you think it will free you
Dance in the dark if your heart makes it so
Your blood is hot and your will is rising
Rising to make you fight for the throne
Come out of hiding
Become the beast you know you are
Come out of hiding
Take your throne among the stars
I AM THE EARTH AND THE FIRE AND THE SUN
I AM A BATTLE THAT'S YET TO BE WON
I AM CORRUPTION AND CHAOS AND GREED
I AM THE VOID AND A STONE WHICH CAN BLEED
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Lifeless and serene
An eerie chorus in ghastly streams
Entwined at the surface with none unseen
A twisted symphony within a dream
Light is slain, a clockwork monstrosity
A murky depth, ethereal atrocity
Distorted reflections just like my self philosophy
Drifting and still, a prime dichotomy
Complex illusion, an essence concealed
Purpose and origin that keep unrevealed
I know they attempt but they never will claim
I’ll resist the allure and never be the same
Fear not the darkness, it stays in us all
I’ll tread carefully and resist every call
I’ll rise above, and I will persist
And I'll never be with them inside their own abyss
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Blood Red Sky
02:58
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I Am Weary, Let Me Rest
05:11
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At the gates of Hell I stand
Alone and on a razor's edge
I'm the shattered glass cutting the chambers with each breath
With hope in tatters
Never resting, serpents calling
Raging deep within my bowels
Drowning in darkness
My eternal vistas
Don't leave me here
See the pain upon my brow
While I'll soon be with the angels
This has doomed my future now
War is raging with no promise of retreat
In will find me in every last breath
How it longs to rend my flesh
And drag me into murky waters
The relief of giving in…
I am weary, let me rest.
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Quid Est Veritas?
04:10
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What is truth?
If not but a beast
Roaring and gnashing its fangs
Threatening to escape the prison I built around it
Eyes gleaming with unearthly fire
Red and glazed
A mouth dripping with my doubt and fear
I lock it from the light of day
But it waits
Lurking beneath the surface
Eyes turned upwards in hysteric fugue
And solitude
It is just who I am
So much a part of me as my breath
By only inheriting shadow can I walk in the light
I will not break the cage from the hinges
I’ll keep it inside
With determination
And before all nations
A beast I am,
Lest a beast I become
My reflection of divine ferocity
Quid est veritas?
I choke on the ashes, a fire is inside
I choke on the ashes, a fire is inside
I choke on the ashes, a fire is inside
I choke on the ashes, a fire is inside
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Surfacing
03:38
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Fuck you all!
Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in!
Fuck it all! fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! don't exist!
Don't give a shit!
Don't ever judge me!
Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in!
Fuck it all! fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! don't exist!
Don't give a shit!
Don't ever judge me!
And don't you fuckin judge me!
Pain
You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a fucking thing you can do
Get this 'cause you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
Fuck it all! fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! don't exist!
Don't give a shit!
Don't ever judge me!
Fuck it all! fuck this world!
Fuck everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! don't exist!
Don't give a shit!
Don't ever judge me!
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Seraphim System North Carolina
[CYBER BODY MUSIC]
Seraphim System incorporates elements of aggrotech, black metal, death metal,
punk, drum and bass, and dubstep in its hellish creations. After a history of playing in technical metal and punk bands, SER:SYS architect "BL4KJ4K" focused his musical abilities to craft rave tunes that will help you slam your skull into your chest cavity.
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