1. THE ROTTING SPHERE

(Instrumental)


2. THE BLIGHT

We’re bound by truth and gagged with fear
Held ransom by desire
Corruption sin so crystal clear
Deceit for all conspired

Reward the fools and liars

Angel of disease we’re dead inside
Infect us feed on our appetite to bleed the world

In the machine the churning gears
Death factory’s burning fire
Spread of decay this rotting sphere
Lifeforce for all expires

Construct the funeral pyre

Angel of disease we’re dead inside
Infect us feed on our appetite to bleed the
Angel of disease we’re dead inside
Protect us help breed this parasite to bleed the world

Dead - dead
We are destruction we’re dead inside
Dead - dead
We are devoid of life
Dead - dead
We are infection we’re dead inside
Dead - dead
We are the parasite

Unleash the plague inside us - unleash

Dead - dead
We are destruction we’re dead inside
Dead - dead
We are devoid of life
Dead - dead
We are infectious we’re dead inside
Dead - dead
We are the parasite

We are the blight

Angel of disease we’re dead inside
Infect us feed on our appetite to bleed the
Angel of disease we’re dead inside
Protect us help breed this parasite to bleed the world

This bleeding world


3. EMPIRE OF THE BLIND

Dead souls dressed in black
A wake to mourn a nation
Social heart attack
The cause of death temptation
Blood lust consuming power
Brings us to our knees
Great tolls paid in filth
Metastasize infection

Sick flood washing over
Pulls us under and drowns us in disease

This shroud of shame restricting sight
The past a corpse we carry
Dark clouds of fear obscuring light
The future long since buried

Behold the rising empire
Behold the empire of the blind

Deep hole full of spite
A hateful seed for sowing
Roots rot systemic plight
The poison fruit still growing

Pale flesh tasting sour
Fills us quickly and kills us with such ease

This shroud of shame restricting sight
The past a corpse we carry
Dark clouds of fear obscuring light
The future long since buried

Behold the rising empire
Behold the empire of the blind

Dead souls dressed in black
A wake to mourn a nation
Social heart attack
The cause of death temptation

Blood lust consuming power
Drains us slowly and brings us to our knees

This shroud of shame restricting sight
The past a corpse we carry
Dark clouds of fear obscuring light
The future long since buried

Behold the rising empire
Built on a mountain of shame
Bathe in the rising hellfire
Behold the empire of the blind

The empire of the blind


4. DEAD AND GONE

Take me break me split me in two
Dig mea new hole and fill it with you
The love the hate sorrow your seed
Plant it for me in your garden of need

The darkness in your head
Lives with me long since wed
Please kill me with your dread
And then pronounce me dead

Dead and gone - the broken one
You're dead and gone - the lifeless sun

Slice dice me I'll never tell
Cut me to pieces send me to hell
The love the hate misery breeds
Bear it for me in your womb of disease

The darkness in your head
Lives with me long since wed
Please kill me with your dread
And then pronounce me dead

Dead and gone - the broken one
You're dead and gone - the lifeless sun

You're dead - dead and gone
The broken one - you're dead and gone
The lifeless sun


5. SUN IN MY HAND

I climb the ladder but I slowly descend
Into a dark place that's dead at the end
I watch the world decline or is it just my mind
Restraining the need to transcend

I will live to see another day
I will fight and die to

Choke on air and drown in water
Burn in flames with the sun in my hand
Earthly sacrifice unto the altar
Burn with the sun in my hand

The path is laid out and paved with fear
My shadow looming drawing near
When I leave this acts define
The past is the future unclear

I will live to see another day
I will fight and die to

Choke on air and drown in water
Burn in flames with the sun in my hand
Earthly sacrifice unto the altar
Burn with the sun in my hand

Held in the grip of time
Part of the grand design
But will the choice be mine
To mare the stars align

I will touch the sun

Choke on air and drown in water
Burn in flames with the sun in my hand
Earthly sacrifice unto the altar
Burn with the sun in my hand


6. BLOOD TO BE LET

Open your veins and give to me
Your vitality can set you free
Feel the pain start your therapy
Your sweet relief is found in agony

Can I cleanse your soul
And rid you of decay
Can I make you whole
It's just a bloodbath away

Bleed for me only good can come from suffering
Bleed for me only blood can give you everything

Bleed

Bleed will flow when there's blood to be let
A splash of red will help you to forget
Feel the drain set your mind at ease
You'll find release and end your misery

Can I cleanse your soul
And rid you of decay
Can I make you whole
It's just a bloodbath away

Bleed for me only good can come from suffering
Bleed for me only blood can give you everything

Can I cleanse your soul
And rid you of decay
Can I make you whole
It's just a bloodbath away

Bleed for me only good can come from suffering
Bleed for me only blood can give you everything

Bleed for me


7. IN BLACK

Take me underneath your wing
And show me everything
Then shelter me and guide me to transcend
Save me from the age of old
Embrace me with your cold
Then smother me and lead me to my end

Help me decompose
I stand before you
Watch me as I rot

Paint me darkened scenery
Then shine a light for me
Envelope me illuminate my soul
Bathe me in your drowning pool
To cleanse a world so cruel
Then summon me in payment for my toll

Help me decompose
I stand before you
Watch me as I rot

Let's carve the stone
With flesh and bone
No holding back
Just swallow me in black
Let's dig the grave
Death be a slave
No turning back
Just swallow me in black

Help me decompose
I stand before you
Watch me as I rot

Let's carve the stone
With flesh and bone
No holding back
Just swallow me in black
Let's dig the grave
Death be a slave
No turning back
Just swallow me in black


8. SHRINE OF APATHY

Inside this maze in which I dwell
A hollow man an empty shell
My thoughts betray me
Memories enslave me

Lost in this time lost in this place
My soul is gone without a trace
A spirit taken
Can't reawaken

Can you hear me as I warn you

This journey into darkened night
The fading sound the burning light
My sorrow beckons
And silence deafens

Trapped in this mind trapped in this space
My sentence long no sign of grace
Life in remission
Can't leave this prison

Can you hear me as I warn you
Can you see me as I mourn you

I'm all alone
Inside this shrine
I've built to apathy
Turn blood to stone
Sweet pain divine
Let life just slip away

Can you hear me as I warn you
Can you see me as I mourn you

Inside this maze in which I dwell
A hollow man an empty shell


9. DEVOUR

Yes I can do miracles

One chance to do this
One chance to get it right
One chance to show the world
The monsters inside
They'll hear me they'll see me
Believe me and eat their precious

Pride swallowed like broken glass
Lies fed to a hollow mass

One chance to kill bliss
One chance to darken light
One chance to mold the world
To this monster inside
They'll fear me they'll hate me
Deceive me and eat their precious

Pride swallowed like broken glass
Lies fed to a hollow mass

Devour - born to break the unbroken
Devour - speak the lies unspoken
Devour - hopes and dreams to unburden
Devour - hearts and minds of lesser men

Yes I can do miracles

No matter what you think
Yes I can heal the sick and cure cancer
You write it down
You can call me an egomaniac or a megalomaniac
Or whatever you wish
With a messianic complex
I don't have any complex honey
I happen to know I'm the messiah

Pride swallowed like broken glass
Lies fed to a hollow mass

Devour - born to break the unbroken
Devour - speak the lies unspoken
Devour - hopes and dreams to unburden
Devour - hearts and minds

Break their spines
The hearts and minds of lesser men


10. A FINE RED MIST

(Instrumental)


11. THE GODS DIVIDE

Blood sacrifice presented as the fangs are bared
No drop is wasted none is spared
A swift annihilation offered to the doomed
No quarter given none assumed

They beg for mercy cowering as men collide
The weak submit the gods divide

Suppress insurgency compulsion to resist
The crushing blow of iron fists
Replace determination with a broken will
The obligation to fulfill

They beg for refuge sanctuary from the storm
The weak submit the gods divide and conquer

Destroy - rebuild and watch them fall
A resurrection for mankind
Destroy - rebuild and make them crawl
A modern era for the blind

The rule of law acceptance of a will confined
No thoughts escape a stillborn mind
To limit knowledge is to limit all debate
No shroud of darkness to negate

They beg forgiveness abdication by design
The weak submit the gods divide and conquer

Destroy - rebuild and watch them fall
A resurrection for mankind
Destroy - rebuild and make them crawl
A modern era for the blind

They beg for masses
Worshipping the sovereign son
The weak submit the gods divide
Divide


12. MONUMENT TO RUIN

(Instrumental)