1. HEDONISTIC PAIN RITUAL

Writhe under the lash of submission
For dreams are too short
To compare with this rapture
Stretching into an infinity of blessed torment

The eightfold mark I wear...
Realisation through abasement...

Smeared with the clotted blood of abandonment

What was reality compared with this rapture?

Sinful mask I wear, flesh to tear

Hedonistic pain ritual
Sacrosanct perversion

Black dream of violence
Flesh falls to rapture in hell

Ascend to permission
Wear their mark upon your skin
All things are permitted
Under the law of rapture made flesh

Hedonistic pain ritual
Glorified in torment

In pain the limits of flesh transcend
Borne on wings of torment

The eightfold mark I wear
Flesh to dust...

Hedonistic pain ritual
Sacrosanct perversion


2. DEATH TRANSMUTATION

Black wall
Barrier
Gulf between being and annihilation
Look beyond with eyes of flame

Through the staffs and snakes I flow
To produce a flame of pure death

Drawing me back
For this land is dust and formlessness
Shades of the dead
Blown like ash on the wind

Lament their wretched fate
Not to walk in flesh again
Shall death contain a soul,
A fire with the will to return?

Bitter catalyst indeed
To begin such a transformation
A hate beyond all reckoning
To stretch between the states

Smashing the wheel of Karma
Rampaging back into reality

Vistas from beyond
Reflected in cold dead eyes
What prism could calculate or contain them?


3. NONEUCLIDEAN MAELSTROM

Stench of ozone on the air
As the atoms struggle against their boundaries

All the angles turn asunder
As matter makes war upon itself

A disorder of energy
Raping reality
Forced to dance to the tune
Of blind idiot pipers

Seeded by the malevolent stars
With the resentment of the infected earth
Gestated by the ocean for its sinful birth

The seas rise, the skies fall
To welcome an inconceivable lord
Horrific revelation of grandiose tragedy

Given wings of nuclear chaos
To soar over the edge of insanity

Slaves to cosmic antithesis
Abandoned by all to perish
Our race descends to its watery grave

Commanded from the abyss
To feast upon the forsaken
The world deduced to waste, reduced to death

Into the ultimate abstraction
Flesh becomes light to guide those outside
As they squeeze in a vice
Of endless permutation

Ringing the bell of Azagthoth
To usher in the age of change...

Given wings of nuclear chaos to soar over the edge of insanity

Wheels within wheels
Usher in the change...


4. THE WORLD UPON NIHIL

Underneath all, and closest to oblivion
Forever crashing the self into nothingness
While the world crushes and forces from above
A word based on nothing

The myth of the above
And the void of the below
Their false presence holds
The world upon Nihil

To the void...

The myth of the above
And the void of the below
Their false presence holds
The world upon Nihil

The crucible of all creation
Unknowingly descends
Churning on itself, creating substance
From the intolerably dense
As great plumes exhaust themselves to reach above
Yet are always dragged downwards
A world upon Nihil

Those who search for the false above
Or surrender to the vast plain of nothing
Are always pulled back into the elemental storm

Infinite diversity, stretching into vanishing
No transition between the searing flames in Maelstrom

The myth of the above
And the void of the below
Their false presence holds
The world upon Nihil


5. BECKONED TO A GLOBAL TOMB

Imp of perversity at work on the soul of man
Spurring on towards the precipice

An obscene hunger for annihilation
Vicious impulse to drag down and destroy

Led like rats before the piper
By the poison of human nature

No escape from this cycle
For all energy has dissipated
And mankind crawls
Like a beggar on his knees

A beast howling in the dark, trapped for so many years
Now free to exalt in its barbarity

Beckoned to a global tomb
Grinding inexorable doom

Inexorable doom.....

Lost among the ashes
Common grave of all

Destroying just to destroy, raping life out of spite
We are all cannibals now....

Beckoned to a global tomb
Grinding inexorable doom

Coercion with force, Thoth Amon

Mass-grave of humanity, marked for all the ages
By monuments of sharp black iron
As a black rain falls amidst the dust
Shall we crawl the last mile into the pit?
It's not so far at all...

Trapped for so many years
Now free to exalt in barbarity

Pinioned by abjection
Through viciousness and squalor
From nowhere to nothing...


6. BEREFT OF THE INTELLIGIBLE REALM

Perceiving black dimensions, Anomalies form in overcast skies
From a twisted haze eruption swarms
The unintelligible menace

Oblivious invocation from an obscure source
From the realms bereft of light, unseen malign force
Sent to influence and destroy
The weakened minds of philistines

Destructive possession of the collective psyche
Darkens a mundane and doomed land

Sensing of foul energies, vulnerable to entrapment
Shadows loom in the distance
To bring your soul's entanglement

Bereft of the universe, Immune to the laws of nature
Darkness consumes sanity, Sight obscured by blood red

A veil of venomous rage engulfs your wretched soul
Impetuous violence ensues across the cityscape

Zombified populace consumed by erratic fury
The stench of death shrouds you in repugnance
Blood runs cold as you stare into the void
Hear the cries from realms unknown

Compelling us to our deathroes

This force chills you to the bone, makes you feel insipid
Black magic ground zero, a spiritual black hole
Now the land is plagued with chaos, the curse can not be unsealed
Deeds of petulant sorcerers caused our realm to reel


7. THE ALCHEMY OF SUFFERING

What fallen angel has laid this curse upon my door?
That turned all life's gold to iron?
Like some perverse Midas
In an inverse alchemical process...

Transmuted...

Reduced to the first principal
By this tainted touch of treason

Rotten to the bone
Worthy only of scorn
Twisted transmutation
Mutated at its touch
To a form below wretchedness

Obscene Hermes presides above the rite
Granted votive offerings of fear

No form remains fixed
Mercurial element of dread
Flowing between spleen and ideal
Flowering into evil

Transform the world anew
As the elements war upon each other
What hand shall guide their strife?
What mind encompass the tumult?

Alchemy of suffering
Mercurial atomic torment

Process of inversion
Unfix the stars from the sky
Alchemy of suffering
Warp the world into ordure