1. BLACK BANNERS OF PESTILENCE

Ravens fly blackened sky
Carrion winds whisper and cry
The stench of death
A kingdom writhes in living Hell

The pale rider summons your name
Plague-born spectre shrouded in flame
No prayer nor steel can stem the tide
The Reaper comes no one shall hide

Boils burst, fevered screams
Flesh consumed by wretched dreams
Hollow eyes and twisted fate
Buried deep in filth and hate

Burn the corpses salt the land
King and beggar hand in hand
Cities crumble dust remains
A throne of bones a crown of pain

Winds wail through shattered halls
A kingdom lost the empire falls
History fades a whisper’s breath
Only the Plague shall conquer death

Οι θεραπευτές έχουν φύγει,
τα γιατροσόφια τους είναι άχρηστα
ενάντια σε αυτή την έρπουσα καταδίκη
Οι ιερείς μουρμουρίζουν τις κούφιες προσευχές τους,
αλλά δεν έρχεται κανένα θείο έλεος

Οι δρόμοι πέρα από αυτά τα καταραμένα τείχη
είναι πνιγμένοι από τους νεκρούς
οι αρουραίοι χορταίνουν από τη σάρκα του λαού

Οι καμπάνες του καθεδρικού ναού
δεν χτυπούν για τη σωτηρία
αλλά για το τέλος


2. DARKNESS IS ABSOLUTE

Black clouds
Crowned in funeral flame
Silent gods
Where no light remains

Bitter winds
Through cathedrals of ash
A sermon of ruin
The final collapse

Eyes blind
To the false dawn's grace
No salvation
No promised embrace

The pulse of decay
In lifeless breath
Beneath the weight
Of perpetual death

Darkness is absolute
No light no truth
Embrace the endless night
Where the heavens bleed

Monoliths cracked
In whispering stone
Veins of frost through
Marrow and bone

Chalice filled
With the blackest curse
A hymn to the void
The death of the Earth

Echoes drown
In the womb of the tomb
No stars no moon
Only infinite gloom

The cosmos unweaves
In silent disdain
Creation undone
In endless pain

Lux mortua
Mundus fractus
Vita damnata
Nihil aeternum

Darkness is absolute
No gods no youth
Crawl into the hollow grave
Where time devours all

Cries swallowed
In black rain
Nothing remains
Nothing remains

Darkness is absolute
Darkness is absolute


3. EPHIÁLTES KHARAGMÉNOI STÓ AIṒNIO KHÁOS

(Instrumental)


4. WHEN THE COSMIC LIGHT WAS DROWNED

From the depths of the earth
From the blood that was shed
Comes the shadow the dark that always existed
Eyes that burn souls that throw
The nature of man the sin that rules

From the beginning of darkness
Mankind cursed eternally lost
Arrogance and falsehood
The cosmos is drowning
Our light is extinguished

In the shadows we were born with tears of fire
Our evil comes alive voices from yesterday
The silence of the gods an absence endless
The flame of greed lights up our hearts

What can save us when our blood is blackened?
What words divine to redeem the flesh?
Every step in the path of evil
The world is destroyed we will burn

The stars collapse devoured by void
Time is shattered all life destroyed
No breath of grace no sacred name
Only rot remains in flesh and flame

From the beginning of darkness
The souls captured locked in blackness
Arrogance and violence the flames that burn us
In our fall we shall rise with the power of evil


5. CHILD OF PERDITION

I spit upon the nazarene's grave
Inverted host my soul enslaved
A dagger kissed by virgins scream
I pierce the veil of sacred dreams

Seven sigils carved in flesh
In sulfur tongues
I speak of death

O father of flies devour me whole
Scorch this temple blacken my soul
In rites of filth in blood i trust
To rise as ash to rot the just

The altar weeps with goats lament
A chalice filled with sacrament
Not wine but bile and unborn seed
The price for power pain and need

I walk the maze of samael's grin
Where saints dissolve and snakes begin
A crown of horns a throne of bone
Lucifer calls and i atone

By the lefthand path i tread
Where roses rot and angels bled
No light remains no heaven high
Only his gaze and the will to die

In tenebris regnat diabolus
Sanguine pactum aeternum
Lucifer lux mea
Adora mortem renega falsum lucem


6. THE GRAVE AS THE GREAT EQUALIZER

Your gold is rust
Your god is dust
And you will rot like the rest

Goldlaced fingers the same they rot
As the beggars broken hand
Crowned head and crawling maggot
Meet beneath the blackened land

Steel or silk it matters not
The soil drinks blood just the same
Judged not by gods nor mortal law
But by silence rot and flame

No throne stands on the cold damp earth
No prayer shields from the reaping curse
No coin buys breath when lungs collapse
In death the king and rat collapse

Crypts of marble tombs of dirt
Wretched souls or saints in skirts
All are swallowed none is spared
By the teeth of time no one is saved

Beneath the roots beneath the stone
We scream in dust but die alone
The grave takes allit does not speak
It does not care for strong or weak

No banners fly in the shadowed realm
No titles echo through the helm
A kingdom drowned in worms and bile
Where all must kneel in deaths cruel smile

So spit your vows build your throne
Breed your wars die on your own
The grave waits still it does not care
It takes all flesh It strips all air