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Hellmouth
03:00
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Mouth agape
Split asunder earth
Maw, black gates
Flames lash a hellish curse
Teeth gnashing as blades
Devouring flesh and bone
Jaws grinding my brains
Pillars cold as stone
Fumes of sulfur
The infernal beast tormenting harrowed souls
The dregs and priests
Pit of writhing snakes enfold
Fumes of sulfur sear my eyes
At the throne of the beast on broken knees
Spawned in the everblack
Lord of flies and rats.
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Yawning Depths
03:52
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Clawing visions of another realm
Fester spreading through this mortal shell
To the earth, the flesh is reclaimed
Mind transcends beyond astral planes
Putrid flourishings coursing through a withered soul.
The malignance spreads
Spiraling chasms lost in the ether
Formless existence
Wisps of smoke lurking near unbodied ethereal essence.
Visions of altered flesh
Echoes from yawning depths
Spectral phantom from unknown beyond
Looming closer, callow spawn
A frail creature, a sorrow to behold
Veiled in fallacy
Slumbering beings unaware
Numb to the obliterating doom
Unbodied ethereal essence
Phantom of yawning depths.
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Cavernous Shrines
02:36
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Burning sage at altars of death
Letting blood from foul abscess
Blades feast on scarlet wine
Sanguinary cavernous shrines.
Stark, bleak tombs.
Mystic smoke, blinding haze
Inhaling fumes, hallucinate
Sacrificial omens of plague eclipsing.
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Noxious Existence
02:58
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Pouring over ancient tomes
in search for a remedy to this noxious existence.
Transcend beyond this world of ruin
A prison of flesh, mortal tomb
Incantation scrawled in unknown runes
Release me from this plane of a noxious existence.
Lurching towards death.
Macrocosms in disconnect.
A dark spell to release from this hell.
Phantasm of loathsome realms
beckoned forth by a tolling death knell.
Existence lost to forlorn flame.
No longer bound to mortal planes.
Autonomy.
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Judgement's Throne
01:30
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Guide spirits to the field of reeds
Weigh your heart and live eternally
Loose the bonds of Set from my mouth
Breathe and speak once more
I worship at your altar
Traversing eternity
Everlasting Spring.
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Lapis Lazuli
02:38
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The cosmos radiate in deep blue as the river’s faint glow.
Wastelands of shattered time still glimmering down below.
Spectral collapse into thousands of countless shards.
Reshaped into fractal galaxies and skies void of moon or stars.
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7. |
Unknown Body of Light
04:12
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Her lorn existence wastes away to flourish elsewhere
The flesh becomes earth.
The earth becomes dust.
Fading light seems to dull the longer I gaze
Nothing will blossom in a garden of weeping wounds
Barren soil yields nothing but poisoned roots
Tainted earth, blight everlasting
Faintly glowing on
Unknown body of light ascends beyond my reach
Faintly glowing on horizons beyond my reach.
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8. |
Graven Moonglow
03:17
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Vain ceremony
Lone cemetery
Waning lunar cycles cast their glow down
Rise eternal from the graven cairns below ground
Brooding caverns plagued by spectral essence
Glowing lanterns. Weeping souls formed to existence
Perception unbodied. Returned from death.
Vessel forsaken and possessed.
Befouled spirits once more flesh.
Wandering earth, lorn existence.
Vain ceremony of graven moonglow.
Lone cemetery, altars of sage and bone.
Filled chalice of mystic concoctions.
Drink deep, hallucinations.
Convulsing mortal shell drunk on spectral ichor.
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