1. POST LUCIS NATUM

(Instrumental)


2. VIA DOLOROSA

Der Körper übersät mit blutigen malen
Der peitschen Zunge leckt an der haut
Die Knochen der Rippen -zertrümmert- voll Qualen
Das flehende Auge zum Himmel aufschaut

Verurteilt zum Tod auf der Straße der schmerzen
Jeder schritt mit dem kreuz hinterlässt spuren voll Blut
Die Dornen der Krone in Kopfhaut und herzen
Verhöhnt und bespuckt - Idol christlicher Brut

INRI - geißel der Welt
INRI - verfluchter vor Gott
INRI - Passion und Untergang
INRI - das kreuz dein irdisch' Königreich

Golgatha erzittere im Widerhall der Schläge
Sieh, wie sich Eisen und Knochen mit dem holz vermählen
Ein blutiges Aquarell - gemalt von den schnäbeln der krähen
Dein Antlitz am Grabtuch als Rest deiner Seele

INRI - geißel der Welt
INRI - verfluchter vor Gott
INRI - Passion und Untergang
INRI - das kreuz dein irdisch' Königreich

Vom Pöbel besudelt die Unschuld der Mutter
Verraten, verkauft von freunden und Weib
Glaube und Därme den Maden zum futter
Iudaeas Thron und Tempel - dein geschundener Leib


3. SINNOCENCE

She who stands in flames
Flames of lust and desire
Flames of inner conflicts and guilt
Fiery tongues ... in the shades of the dark

Once she offered her throat and neck

She sacrificed her blood, innocence and soul
On an altar of infinite pain

An oblation for eternal life and sleepless nights

She - a lethal insomniac when the sun turns to black
She - hunger for love means hunting for flesh
She - when blood is life you should feast the beast within

On her neck, she is wearing the mark
As daughter of the wolf and the moon

Spawn of nocturnal rush

Narcotic and aphrodisiac in one

She - a lethal insomniac when the sun turns to black
She - hunger for love means hunting for flesh
She - when blood is life you should feast the beast within


4. CORPSEBRIDE

Waves of lust and desire which drown me into the sea of love
Love... once pure and infinite - now of tainted and poisoned taste
An inner bond that constantly turned into hate
A rope based bond now strangling your white throat and neck

I touch your black hair that frames your pretty face
Let me kiss your bloodless lips und see your shining teeth
Crystal eyes as bright as the pale moon above
I find myself making love with you,
For the last time I fear...

The skin of your inner thighs welcomes me
Warm and soft but cut into pieces and stripes by the knife in my hand
I can smell your flesh sweet and enchanting ...
Now ripped from your bones by my hands
My fingers reach into the gaps between your spine and ridge
Your body seems like shivering.. excited
Excited from your spinal nerves in my hands

When I open my glowing eyes I see your perfect face
Now scattered from the stone that lies in my hands
My love would leave an empty space in your live and chest, you said
You were right... you were right
You were so right...tells the black hole gazing at me
Where once your loving heart has been
That heart I now hold in my hand

For a last time, your head rests on my knees
Burning from love again, I finally caress your hair and skin
The rest of you lies peacefully beneath the mourning willow tree
Oh my corpse bride... let me guide you by my hands
And give your body over to the waves

And in the glare of the dawning day
You drown into the sea of death


5. OBLIVION

I've received the devil's mark as black as the depths of lake Cocytus
My thoughts are like mental sculptures
Erected on lost dreams and final fantasies

Memories are carved in stone

My mind is on a dismal journey towards oblivion
...When time is just a frozen stream

At the centre of a collapsed universe
I reach the root of all dark energy and matter
Where all light has gone

A giant lost in oblivion...

Look into that angel's eyes
Fallen usurper of the throne divine
Ethereal power frozen mid-breast in eternal ice
Behold, three faces on his head
Each mouth chews on a sinner

A giant lost in oblivion... terminal breath of infinity

One single glowing grain of sand ... the remaining source of evil
I've come to enlighten the spark to unleash the inferno within

Initiate the impulse from the dark
Face the impact of a new Luciferian age
Witness the downfall of the worlds we've known so far
The extinction of human race

Hamartia and demise
Resurrection and ascent

At the centre of a collapsed universe
I reach the root of all dark energy and matter where all light has gone

A giant lost in oblivion...


6. SEELENSAMMLER

Kreuz und Halbmond sind in Rot getaucht
Jeder Schritt versinkt in Moslemblut
Das Krummschwert den Körper mittig trennt
Das gelobte Land von Feindeshand gelenkt
Kein Gott, der dein Beten je geglaubt
Erlösung gibt es nicht, dein Blut besiegelt unsern Pakt

Seelensammler - wenn das Leben im Sand verrinnt
Seelensammler - wenn Gottes blind
Seelensammler - wenn sich Angst von Hoffnung zehrt
Seelensammler - wenn sich Licht vom Dunkel nährt

Tag und Nacht verschwimmen im Graben
Das Röcheln der Kehlen in den Kratern widerhallt
Blut, das von den Spaten in Frankreichs Erde tropft
Und Gas, das durch Deine Maske kriecht
Kein Gott, der dein Fluchen je vernimmt
Erlösung gibt es nicht, dein Blut besiegelt unsern Pakt

Zehen, die in den Stiefeln faulen
Erfrorene Leiber, die den Weg über die Wolga weisen
Atem, der auf dem Weg zur Lunge gefriert
Der Mündungsstahl, der kalt auf die eigene Schläfe zielt
Kein Gott, der dein Flehen je erhört
Erlösung gibt es nicht, dein Blut besiegelt unsern Pakt

Seelensammler - wenn das Leben im Sand verrinnt
Seelensammler - wenn Gottes blind
Seelensammler - wenn sich Angst von Hoffnung zehrt
Seelensammler - wenn sich Licht vom Dunkel nährt

Am Tag, wenn wir uns wiedersehen, nehme ich mir, was von Stund an Mein
Dein Rest - eine Hülle ohne Licht
Nun kannst du ihn hören... den Klang deiner Seele, die zerspringt
Erlösung gibt es nicht, denn Blut besiegelte unseren Pakt


7. BLOODLINE

I've seen the stars once shining bright
Now they are fading within black flames
And in this burning...the end of time can be seen

And from a cold and dying sun ... no ray of light
That reaches old and breaking eyes
Like blind and broken mirrors
They can only reflect what lies beyond

Streams of blood that flood
From the edge of the world
Scarlet tides that flush away
The twilight of the gods

Through this destruction I witness
A forsaken child's birth
Once procreated by ethereal breath
It carries the burden of grief

Of a bloodline divine ... to encrypt the virtues of men

Once filled with sacred love and innocence
Now its veins are floated with dignity but blame
A female infant born from the sins of human kind

No sweet infant's dreams but visions of hell
Childish nightmares that become reality
Her inner demons she doesn't fight no more
They finally are on her side

Blessed with some demon's eyes and a dying angel's voice
She blazons out temptation, malice, death and decay
The stench of tormented flesh...an everlasting agony
To finally break the chains of the abhorrent divine legacy

Of a bloodline divine...to destroy the virtues of men
To reveal the inferiority of men


8. S.T.U.K.A.

A metallic taste of panic and fright
An iron sky spitting out fiery plagues
1000 of searchlights gaze into the night
When the trumpets of Jericho
Herald the old world's fate

Ju 87 - bird of prey
Stuka - Roaring ghosts in the dark
Ju 87 - life and hope have gone astray
Stuka - abysmal silhouettes fast as a shark

Bloodstained streets
Like wounds cut open
Flame-licked walls as black as hell

Vacuous faces with eyes as broken
As windows and houses
Bombed to their shell

Ju 87 - bird of prey
Stuka - Roaring ghosts in the dark
Ju 87 - life and hope have gone astray
Stuka - abysmal silhouettes fast as a shark

A flying Pandora's box where life has no scope
Lethal symphonies from the mouth of a gun
Steel winged phantoms burning all hope
Till ashes and smoke will swallow the sun


9. PHOENIX

Born from the ashes of inferno
Rise from the ruins of history
Set the world on fire

Fly on wings of death
Evoke the fire within
Turn the earth into shadowed place
You're Phoenix - destroyer of the world

You are the putrefying fire
The mirror of a dying sphere you are
The reflection of decay in your glowing eyes
Creator and nemesis in one

Fly on wings of death
Evoke the fire within
Turn the earth into shadowed place
You're Phoenix - destroyer of the world

Burn and destroy
Wipe out and kill
Give birth and create
Feed and bring up the light of a new dawning day

The symbol of a new world order
King for a thousand years
Moreover the idol of a million eyes
God of gods who is the eternal fire

Fly on wings of death
Evoke the fire within
Turn the earth into shadowed place
You're Phoenix - destroyer of the world


10. APOSTATE

Liar - may you rot beneath your son
Unmerciful is the betrayal you committed on our race
Cheater - may your word be buried in dust
Into an abyss of oblivion your empire shall fall
Fear and horror will walk the earth
Evil is what I will give birth to
Rapists and murderers will be the predicted plagues

I am lord of sin
Sin, decay and death - my misanthropic art

Kingdoms of heaven and night realms will collide
Infinite, my power and might will rise
Nocturnal supremacy is what my name stands for
Genocide is made of human hands

On my command unleash the legions of hell
Born to protect you from inner love and mercy
Evoke a lethal future and follow the dark and fallen star
Yarned and trapped in a cocoon of blasphemous thoughts

Hide your eyes from those betrayers and hypocrites (you call friend..)
Initiate your own resurrection from the lies your heart is whispering
May your mind enshroud the light of a dying sun