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Katharsis
04:32
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Step through the gate
and into a grand new fate
Before it's too late
Release me from hate
I think you can all relate
Clouded by fear
Nothing is clear
I feel I am growing old
It’s in times like this
When we fire and miss
That stories are being told
And we see
We all shape our own destiny
I see the challenge ahead
but I'll never give up before I am dead
So bring me my kingdom
my birthright dominion
I can’t be denied
My fate you shall not decide
Beat me
Deceive me
But you can’t defeat me
I can’t be denied
I am purified
Break me
Forsake me
But you can’t enslave me
I can’t be denied
My fate you shall not decide
This inner war has led me astray
I’m fighting to keep the terror at bay
But my story is yet to unfold
I'll continue until my blood runs cold
My destiny has been foretold
I see the challenge ahead
but I'll never give up before I am dead
So bring me my kingdom
my birthright dominion
I can’t be denied
My fate you shall not decide
Beat me
Deceive me
But you can’t defeat me
I can’t be denied
I am purified
Break me
Forsake me
But you can't enslave me
I can’t be denied
My fate you shall not decide
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2. |
Hellride
03:54
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Escape the platonic world
Avoid the symbolic herd
We spread the chtonic word
No longer we are blinded by lies we heard
Slay the dreamer
All hail the non-achiever
Heed our honor’s call
It’s justice for all or none at all
Create a sinner
And force a non-believer
Conquer the mind
Or be condemned by man
Troubled youth in search for the truth
Buried dreams and hollow screams
Sworn to those who will choose
Hellride or Heaven’s pride
Hellride
Heaven’s Pride
Hellride
Uaagh!
Bring it on
Cowards come on!
Forward march to death we charge!
Maintain the ravenous bane
Deathamphetamine - warlike medicine
Bring the see-er
Expose the all-deceiver
Break the spell
Crawlers from the pits of hell
Lead the victor
And leave the fallen trickster
We stand in triumph
We feed the christians to the lions!
Troubled youth in search for the truth
Buried dreams and hollow screams
Sworn to those who will choose
Hellride or Heaven’s pride
Hellride
Heaven’s Pride
Hellride
Release the energy
And ascend to the sky
Mentions of the sacrilegious scorn
will give us strength to be reborn
Nightsky arise
We do not give in to demise
And we will not be forced to embrace
the treacherous kingdom of grace
Heaven’s pride
Hellride
Heaven’s pride
Hellride
Deicide
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3. |
The Omni
07:11
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Eclectic being
The Omni - The All-seeing
Existing in all
The one who never will fall
The Cosmic Storm
From chaos you were born
raging across the sky
I am you and you are I
From the core of the universe into
the ever expanding multiverse
Eternal binding energy is the
very essence of our discovery
Reborn into eternal form
I transform
And move on
To become
all one
with the eternal swarm
As I leave this mortal plane
and my solid form
I expand my consciousness
and see the true nature of who I am
In all my glory and my eternal story
I’ve become the cosmic storm
Past, present, future all weaved into one
I see myself dark, gray, light and bright
I am one with the galaxies and stars and
I am one with the universe
I am the Omni
Of stars and galaxies
Of all atomic tragedies
We burn in the sun
We are matter undone
Burning cosmic maladies
Life’s expected fatalities
We are stardust released
We are chaos unleashed
Stars shimmering in the night sky
as a mirror looking back at me from beyond the next dimension
And as I look upon the sky, I realize that it is me
It is I who’s looking back at myself and
I’m in awe of this realization as it is both scary and inspiring
Because I understand that I hold the power of every sun and the knowledge of every star within me
We are stardust
We are the stars and galaxies
We are cosmic dust turned solid
And thus we exist in all and everything
No matter how big or whatever how small
We truly are all
We are in fact the universe made manifest looking back at itself trying to figure itself out
Reborn into eternal form
I transform
And move on
To become
all one
with the eternal swarm
Starborn taken cosmic form
I transform
And move on
To become
all one
with the eternal swarm
The macro is the micro
and the micro is the macro
A constant energy flux ravaging across all time and space
We are born of own our thoughts and self awareness
And the purpose of life needs only to be alive
and free
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4. |
War Of The Wyrm
03:52
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A killer's instinct
indoctrinated imprint
Battle of the mind
We are the killing kind
Two-faced breed
Pledged to our hidden creed
The masquerade
Black soaring serpent’s brigade
Bleeding just for common sake
Sleepers of the dark past awake
The War of the Wyrm was never meant be
in memory or written down in history
Awake - the tenet of your mind must break
Eradicate - the dogma that you hold innate
Destroy - the limited beliefs of old
Arise - from the ashes of your own demise
Bleeding just for common sake
Sleepers of the dark past awake
The War of the Wyrm was never meant be
in memory or written down in history
Blame me
For I am the reason of this winter season
Fight me if you will
And I will not fight back against any attack
Kill me if you must
‘Cause I deserve the sword on my throat
But let me live
and I will tenfold the blood oath I’m owed
Hear me!
My path is my own to choose and I will not let any adversary stand in my way!
Left or right
It’s all just my personal fight
For I am man
I am king
and I am free as long as my every choice is decided by me….and only me!
Awake - the tenet of your mind must break
Eradicate - the dogma that you hold innate
Destroy - the limited beliefs of old
Arise - from the ashes of your own demise
Awake - the tenet of your mind must break
Eradicate - the dogma that you hold innate
Destroy - the limited beliefs of old
Arise - from the ashes of your own demise
Listen to my holy cries!
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The natural law of fire
the sign of the claw desired
Empires built
by the serpent’s guild
The future foreseen will transpire
Thinking thyself into existence
Forcing the mind beyond resistance
Mindless games
irrational claims
Perseverance is persistence
All as one
and yet all on our own
From the stars and beyond
forever towards I roam
I give myself to the universe at large as I float through the galaxies and stars
I’m fragmented energy - quintessence supremacy
Solid born, but now one with the swarm
As the light is depicting the past
the future is visible only in darkness
Presence from the very beginning
who’s essence will never be dimming
The Universal Core & The Eternal Raging War
Thrive, not just survive
an armor against your own wishes
Layered inherit belief
The center of your relief
Strive, and stay alive
The vigor of man can't be given or taken
Insidious energy thief
buried within your own grief
All as one
and yet all on our own
From the stars and beyond
forever towards I roam
Here I stand
I’m a slave in my own land
In darkness I roam
Forever on my own
Fighting for my throne
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6. |
Journey's End
05:12
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Here I am
I've fallen from grace
The unborn
I will never embrace
My choices led me to this place
I'm forever lost within this maze
Crippled by emotions
Strangled by my notions
A fallen hero
Here I stand
Am I forever damned?
A faded stranger
of the man who used to rule this land
A fallen hero
I descend
this is my last command
A faded stranger
at my journey’s end
Here I stand
No father, no son
In this land
No heir to the throne
Is this the judgment for my past?
Has time caught up with me at last?
From a throne of plenty
to a hall so empty
A fallen hero
Here I stand
Am I forever damned?
A faded stranger
of the man who used to rule this land
A fallen hero
I descend
this is my last command
A faded stranger
at my journey’s end
We’re fallen heroes
Here we stand
We rise and fall again
The fading strangers
we’re the clan
who used to rule this land
We’re fallen heroes
We descend
This is our last command
The faded strangers
at our journey’s end
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7. |
The Obsidian Expanse
10:08
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Time - the curse that define
meaning to all not divine
The wisdom of self is sublime
being of the grand design
A paragon theory prime - paradigm
Primordial void - absent of stars to align
Space - Unholy grace
Molecular magical maze
Surrounding the spectral rays
Atomic chaos ablaze
The entropy fall into place - dominates
The twilight expanse - Selfless I open the gates
I’m frozen in time
No god can save me
Or ever set me free
Estranged from my kind
No man can help me
Or ever hear my plea
The infinite void - Untrammeled eternity
Light - the past seen alive
Incorporeal photons archive
Recite hypothetical theory
The ultimate questions of life
Enveloped by gravity - mortality
The meaning of life maybe is simply to be
Dark - the source monarch
the journey of life disembark
Original grand patriarch
The emptiness unlighted spark
Zero identity - entity
The purpose of death - The only meaning to me
l’m frozen in time
No god can save me
Or ever set me free
Estranged from my kind
No man can help me
Or ever hear my plea
Unchained from reality
The infinite void - Untrammeled eternity
Mind - the pride of mankind
emotional state left behind
Uniting the sources that bind
matter & mind intertwined
illusion or reality - mentality
The voyage of man - Tarnished our own legacy
Soul - my future foretold
In darkness I’ll never grow old
The spacetime continuum I fold
The laws of the cosmos controlled
Celestial monstrosity - enemy
The infinite void calling for you to be free
I’m frozen in time
No god can save me
Or ever set me free
Estranged from my kind
No man can help me
Or ever hear my plea
Unchained from reality
The infinite void - Untrammeled eternity
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8. |
Throne Of Execration
08:08
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Born into greatness
yet glory has forever been absent
The crusaders believed the war was easily won
But reality sprung into the unknown
The king of kings with warfare will reign
and the realms of my sovereignty shall finally gain
Rise to the occasion, revelation or damnation
A godless, infernal, unholy domain
A world unknown
An empty throne
In this hall I die alone
The King of Kings
The serpent wings
Purgation of my sins
I, the leader have spoken
yet the words seem empty and no spirit awoken
Divergence of power - the sacramental liar
For one last time - my guardians align
With my own blood, sweat and tears
I created this monster of fears
The vision has faded and the clearest mind shaded
Lost and desecrated is all you hold sacred
A world unknown
An empty throne
In this hall I die alone
The King of Kings
The serpent wings
Purgation of my sins
I’ve traveled from far and wide
across a thousand oceans
and as I complete my journey
I realize I have not traveled at all
My mind has grown old
and my heart has gone cold
In the land of the living
I am now the ruler of nothing
My glory would never come
my ruling here is done
I die alone
and I leave nothing, but an empty throne
As my bloodline ends
I realize I can only find meaning in death
Clear all regrets
Erase all mistakes
Bury the man and make rise to the king
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9. |
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Keep Of Kalessin Trondheim, Norway
As one of the pioneers of Epic Extreme Metal, Norway's Keep Of Kalessin hold an impressive amount of milestones worth mentioning from their career including top ratings and several chart positions in Norway as well as two albums nominated for the norwegian grammy awards. ... more
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