1. DESCENT INTO NECROPOLIS

Living breath
Desecrates the crypt
The nitrous awake
Strangled by noxious fumes

Engulfed by the stench of dead
Denizens exhumed

Welcome to madness
Horrors unnameable
Surrounded by the dead eyes
Stares from behind the cerecloth

Unending procession
Of malignant death
Unending procession
Beneath the broken slab

Taken by the crypt
Never escape
Or breath again
Without the taste of decay

In this shifting labyrinth
Wither away
One of many
One with the tomb

Descend into necropolis


2. EXHUMED FOR CONSUMPTION

Sardonic intent given form
Daemon chants sung to wake the dead
Abominations from the grave

Bound in horror
Summoned by archaic strains
Wretched incantations pulse from the altar

Still greater horrors lay in wait to be called down
By blaspheming rituals
Unnamable wraiths of unnatural forms
Descend from gulfs beyond the stars

Ravenous, they consume the dead
Sacrifices drawn to gaping mouths
And reality fractures forth

Fall into madness
The peace of death is
A lost shadow
Of bitter memory


3. MAGGOTS BURSTING FROM YOUR EYE SOCKETS

Open the earth
Raise up an epitaph
So your loss
Has the meaning ascribed

Lay him in a box
Obscured in shroud
Lower the coffin
Interred in sacred ground

Dissolve
In foetor
Dissolve
Leave life behind

Black veiled mourners gather
Around the fresh dug grave
Hymns and prayers offered
In ritual of ascension

Open up the holy texts
Benediction for the dead
Recite the words of scripture
Throw dirt onto the casket

Your prayers are worthless
As relics clutched
In lifeless hands
Of the faithful ones

Rot away
In the earth
Under crumbling rememberance
The maggots feed

Erase your existence
Flesh to bone to dust
You are forgotten
And there is no heaven

Pall is drowned in the earth
Sealed, forever to rest
The bereaved depart
Crippled in their denial


4. ROTTEN BEYOND RECOGNITION

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