1. PENUMBRÆ

(Instrumental)


2. DAWN

Here is dawn...
Awakened from an eon's slumber
Liberated from this ageless imprisonment, set free
To sow the seeds of hate and despair; nihilistic discontent
I am abomination
Formless entity
Amorphous, analagous to one's darkest fears
The wolf at the door, a world in attrition
A meek and enfeebled flock on which to feast

I bring forth calamity and deceit
Haunter of the dark of which none speak

The icy fingers on the back of the neck
The bloodied breath that whispers the unspeakable
Archetypal horrors
Below liminal consciousness
Harbinger of shadows that stride from world to world
My influence lies in the smallest iota of despair
Feeding on the very marrow of the weak
I consume
With complete impartiality, insatiable
Driven by desire for endless consumption of
Life

I have arisen to take all control

Free at last from this crystalline stasis, catatonic inanimation
Assumption of bodily form once again
Reanimate, vindictive
Surreptitiously devised intent total usurpation
Seeking out the sycophantic proliferating my ilk
Catalyst for annihilation

I am the way, the ultimate truth
All the meek shall bow to me

I have arisen to assume control


3. OMNISCIENT PERTURBATIONS

With patience and baited breath I observe this unfolding
As this sickly world bends and heaves, breathing its last
As the knell swells to a deafening cacophonous din
A choir of torments spiraling upwards to nonexistent heavens

Tremors of an impending death, grow more violent
More frequent

Agitation, propaganda
Worming into susceptible minds
Through dreams, my boundless influence
Transcending time and space
Traversing eons in search of deserving hosts to infect
Through the embrasure of impressionable minds
I commandeer all will
Parasitic coupling, of foulest conjugation
Sycophantic manipulation

The strength of a suggestion
The rippling effect in a sea of hatred

Growth sown of a cancerous inception
Watching what's left of autonomy fall away
As desperate animals below tear themselves apart
Rending limb from limb
Bear witness to the crimson vista unfolding
Below

I watch


4. LEGION

My will cast into the swine innumerable denizens
That exist solely to proliferate entropy
A sempiternal pursuit for triumphal darkness
To ensure it's ascension
To subrogate eternal darkness for light
To subjugate opposition and dissent

My will become the will of the many
Of hive mind singular
In purpose a beckoning
Ethereal in the distance
Omnipresent strengthening
Exponentially fulfilling
Nihilistic yearning for mutual destruction
Apocalyptic twilight
The end of days
My debt paid in blood

Awaiting my command
Those who live and die for me
To ensure the fulfillment of this legacy of ruination
Antithesis of a utopian dream
The absolute eradication of all life

Prebiotic in conception
Self-organizing
Brought into existence
With singular malignant purpose

The will of the weak nourishes, grants me life
Viral the spread of my dominion
Manipulating vector
Body to body
Mind to mind
My will become the will of the many

Mercilessly striking forth with absolute impunity
Weakling hordes cowering in fear
Crushed under my absolute despotic reign
A chain reaction
Usurping frailest minds
Expanding outward exponentially

Supplanting this idyllic world
In deference to what i shall create
They forfeit all they are
In the presence of a god
Their new god


5. ASCENDING THE SPECTRAL THRONE

Rising, reaching skyward, beneath a blinding sun
As if in effort to extinguish the last bit of light it casts
Spiraling serpentine, insectoid, seemingly alive
Grown from the very terra upon which it sits

Towering, foreboding
Monolithic, obeliskoid
Over a ruinous landscape of death
Stained dark with stale blood
A charnel masterpiece, this shrine of self destruction
Misery

Observant to this funeral march to oblivion
Preordained extinction

Bear witness to the calamity I have wrought
Prurient, perverse my desire for chaos

Roiling, churning from this nexus of disorder
This seat of entropy from which I reign
Absolute supremacy

The warfare below radiating outward
Spokes of a chaos wheel
Turning onwards to extinction
Rapidly approaching finality

I ascend this throne
To claim my place, deified, edifying
To sit in menacing resplendence as a god
A coronation in blood and fear
Commencement of filth and lies
Orchestrator of discontent and misery
Chaos


6. NEFARIOUS SANGUINE DECREE

A yearning for blood, a grim exhortation
A demand for tribute of the darkest kind
The deepest devotion, indelibly staining red
Spreading over the very fabric of a once simple existence
Altering the course and purpose of a mundane civilization
Forevermore
My great work of ages
Transmutating into something more
Killers reborn, higher purpose attained as agents of chaos
Baptised in freshly shed rivers of lifeblood
With a constitution most stone-like and cold

My flock, black congregation
Sanctimonious devotion unwavering
Knights of a licentious code
Salivating, dripping with spite
At the taste of power and all it promises
Writhing in acrimony
A sea of twisted, visages
Gripped tightly by insatiable avarice and envy
Stealthy and lethal

The tremors of an impending death...
A panoramic vista of hate-fueled violence and barbarism
Unfurls itself across this barren wasteland
...Grow more violent, more frequent
From horizon to horizon, a crimson swath of death is cut
A caesarean monstrosity spilling forth fresh bodies
A great reaping is at hand...

Striking forth with impunity
Weapons crash down upon chitinous armor
The putrid ichor of innumerable dead
As scavengers feast on scattered remains
As blood seeps forth from mortal wounds in crimson rivulets

Defleshed and defaced, sacrificial offerings
The freshly flensed skulls of our enemies instill awe and terror
Revered as trophies of the foulest kind
Sinews, shards of bone and discarded flesh litter the battlefield
A mass expiration; deafening choir of last breaths
Purgation of millions


7. HIS DIVINE SHADOW

Mindless in the midst of a dark gestalt; gibbering
Governance by an unseen master
Actions, motivations, seemingly controlled of a will not their own
Volition, strangled out, a shadow cast, weighs heavily on their being

Apocalyptic yearning for something larger than themselves
Has allowed this stain to invade their weakened minds

Privileged to bear witness to this magnificence
They dare not look upon
Lest they be blinded in the presence of godliness

Ethically divested, a moral abandonment
Brainwashed to believe in such heinous malfeasance
His paths of deception...

The fruition of strife, pain, fear and cruelty has manifested
Feeding, gorging, growing, overtaking endlessly
Preying on the weaknesses of failed flesh
Exploiting the worthlessness of a failed existence
Succumbing to self-destruction in his name

A vile miasma, suffocating with each breath
Summation of a concentrated corruption

Spreading, infecting with malevolent precision
Sinking down deeper into the depths of despair

Consumed by his shadow
Swallowed in the blackness it casts
Executioner's motives finally revealed
No escape from this grim finality

Fate written by a hand not their own
The end nearing at a staggering pace; worshiping its arrival
An abyssal darkness, a nothingness beyond description
Trapped unknowing in his divine shadow


8. PESTILENTIAL REIGN

Descending, strangling out the light
Pervasive, overtaking
Shadowy ignobility, of one mind
Acolytes, servants who revel in this darkness
And the chaos it breeds...

Hordes of formless, swarming in chaos
Penumbral, foreboding, darkening the skies
Ecliptic, noxious malevolence
A sickening hum churns the bowels
Frenzied embodiment of my vile wrath

Winged terror, pervasive, meandering, omnipresent
Through manifold eyes I see...

Alien mutations not of any discernible entomological origin
Distorted by time, will, forced evolution into
Minions of the blackest bidding

With an uncanny precision they seek prey
To consume the remnants - a failed world's stead
Feeding on the detritus, victims not yet dead
Reaving last vestiges of expiring life

Amongst cinders deafening - the roar of their inevitability
Glinting under a fleeting gaze of a rotting sun as it steps from hiding
Smoke obscured, for a brief moment
Reddened as if stung by the acrid scent of death
Dipping back behind its veil in refusal of
The maelstrom taking place

My plague rages
Unfeeling, uncanny, a slaughtering tribe
Mandibles bared at the scent of blood
Thousands dying, rotting alive
Disembodied limbs, carapaces
The only remains, empty husks
Vacant faces, frozen in awe
Meat for the beasts
Penultimate penance, sowing the seeds of ignominy
This pestilence shall reign


9. THE HIVE ABLAZE

Ablaze...
No respite from the rage of this conflagration
Engulfing, unprejudiced indiscriminate
Divesting all compassion and civility in the shadow cast by their destroyer
Doomed...
Dark herald of the finite boundary of a futile, waning existence
Glinting of the last dying light, encroaching darkness takes its hold

Regression, devolution - perverse propensities
As reason gives way to unspeakable horrors
Acceptable, permissable
Loathsome commonalities cut from the most iniquitous cloth

The frailties of sallow flesh, vulnerable, fragile
How easy it is to persuade the perpetration of such sickening acts
Depraved machinations, a lecherous design for complete annihilation
Amongst smoldering ruins of a war-torn aftermath of a dead-end civilization

All against all, each for himself
Strangling one another out like weeds

Superimposition of life and death
Reduced to mere autonamous shells
Hunted through corridors of despair
Charred remains and silica swept away in bitter winds

Erasing this blight
Setting the hive ablaze
Abandoning life


10. WORLD-REAVING TERROR

I am the great destroyer of worlds...

Drifting
Across innumerable black gulfs of coldness and desolation
Seemingly endless expanse, unnavigable vastness and cold
Dormant in a timeless slumber
Hurtling for eons that defy enumeration
The master's transit, the world-striding shadow
Denizens of a, forgotten world

A black nobility, ravager of worlds
Archetypal horrors of which none speak
Star-spawned malignancy
Corrupting, controlling

I am the great destroyer of worlds
Look upon my works, and despair...

Propagating anguish, despair and torment
Exploiting the trust, belief of the beguiled

Coercion of evolutionary progress
Imbuing intellect and reason
The potential for greatness, the path to enlightenment obscured
Cast aside as the multitudes descend into chaos
The inclination for violence
The insatiable need to feed overshadowing all
A boundless, infinite contempt for all life
Seeking to eradicate its every trace
On the edge of retrograde
Degeneration, retrogression
Inversion of reality - of all natural law
Antithetical, I am

Progenitor to this legacy of destruction
World-reaving terror, in maleficent vile transit