1. INTRO

(Instrumental)


2. THE ENIGMA OF FATE

Beyond the winds of torment
Blackened eyes spilling blood
In the dark I grey
Twisted and torn forever

The pain that shoots inside of me
Taking my life, a deadly thorn
My mind turns to memories
Isolation my only companion

The time will come to pass
I will make my stand

Into silent shadows I crawl
Grey surrounds me, lost within
Burning in my mind
Apparitions, the enigma of fate

The fear of the unknown
Removing the mask, the vacant gaze
Self-lacerations degenerating me
Into each eye I stare, the shades of perfect black
My head hangs low, I shudder from the nothing against my back

Impurities reflected from within
My own blindness, my own regret
Please forgive the evil in me
The essence of which lets me live

Beyond the winds of torment
Blackened eyes spilling blood
In the dark I grey
Twisted and torn forever


3. THE CALLING

Gazing down into the abyss
Becoming one with it's blackness
Overwhelming my conscience
Squeezing life's essence from my soul

My gaze never ending
Demon eyes track the road
The fallen rotting leaves
Trampled down with my coming
Lunar force bearing down
Black hooves on the trail
Vermin cower in fear
Seeking shelter from my forge

With haste we ride
Guided by destiny's cry
The calling, quiet and distant
Hearing the echo of the horn

The forest folds its branches
The wilderness encompasses

The path burned into my eyes
No choice but to follow
The storm churning, biting my flesh
As I cleave the way

Through thick spiteful foliage
Rays of the moon lighting my way

I am sure of my task, I will rise once again
I leave this forest in sweat and tatters
My memories now at rest
I am alone, I am free, veiled in darkness

My death riding the hot sphere of dawn
Slowly extending his golden, blood soaked fingers
Across the open plain I follow the calling,
Drawing me into everlasting pain

Looking up out the mouth of the chasm
Vainly attempting to escape the blackness
My decimated conscience no ally
Life's essence ripped from my soul


4. ASCENSION PART 1

The maelstrom of light
Floods and blinds the eye
Spiraling upwards in an eruption of malice
Thunderheads crash in violent torment
Shrouding the sky with icy hell
Burning the skin with frozen wind

Fingers grip cold wet stone
The final ascension draws near
Eyes fixed upon the sky
Feet planted in earth
Reaching the summit, I stand with pride
Defiant in the face of his power
This blackened rock is where it begins
War declared on the earth

Mightiest am I
As the wintery storm descends
I laugh in utter scorn
I take my seat on the mountainous throne
I gaze down on the void
Lost wisdom now mine to behold
I've become one with the dark
Wrath from which there is no escape

Fingers grip cold wet stone
The final ascension draws near
Eyes fixed upon the sky
Feet planted in earth
Reaching the summit, I stand with pride
Defiant in the face of his power
This blackened rock is where it begins
War declared on the earth


5. ASCENSION PART 2

(Instrumental)


6. PROCESSIONAL FOR THE HELLFIRE CHARIOT

Pacing destruction shaft by shaft
His chariots' careening
Drawn with a brace of bloody mares
Ancient violence longs to breed
The demon comes to take her toll
Consigned their lots to the urn of blood
They pitched on death for men
The storms of ruin live
To burn the cancer at the root

Screaming angels descend
Processional for the hellfire chariot
Covered in bronze is this god
Vultures encircle the field
The trumpet sounds
Heralding with ominous tones
Men poised on either side
Pawns thrown into the massacre

None shall survive

His chariot surges forth
Leaving chaos in its wake
The tangled bodies of young men
Strewn about in mounds

The fields saturated in chaos
And panic drowns the mind

The ground reddens with crimson streams
Of a thousand murdered
Carnage inexorably ensues
The war god revels in his artistry
Laughing as spears lance forth
Piercing through armor and flesh
They all bleed
They all die


7. THE UNSETTLING DARK

Exploring the deep, pungent earth
Our minds create images, eyes can't see
Forced on this road not by destiny
His flames plunge up from below
And we must fly!

Running along the unseen catacombs
The foulest of fears approaching

Deep inside the mountain
We mustered the beast
The foul demon incarnate
A colossus of terror pursues

We cannot get out,
We can only run
As exhaustion takes its toll
And the end time for loved ones begins!

Sweat boils as we flee this nightmare
Heralding our doom
Its fiery wings thundering
His presence lying in shadow

The unsettling darkness gives way
To a glimmer of light
Before it makes the final lunge
Entwining us in its fiery ropes

Hurling us into the pit
Hopes leaves our hearts
Some grasp at the walls
Slightly prolonging their doom
All lights that once shone brightly
Dim as we tumble long
Into the dark places of the earth
Falling, forever!

We cannot get out,
We can only run
As exhaustion takes its toll
And the end time for loved ones begins!

The shade of malice
Draws ever closer
I bask in its essence
Forced upon this path towards oblivion
I channel the strength of my will
As the black shadow engulfs me
Permeating my flesh
Now, bound my blindness
I suffer alone in the dark

And as hatred
Fills my mind
Lost hope returns through vengeance
Execrations of a mind gone insane
Sullen, I loom forth into the dark


8. PRELUDE

Saw a star through the haze of my dreams
Emblazoned in the night sky
A light on the outer rim of dark
A fire burning at the end of the world

A vision of death, fire and violence
Foreshadowing the coming struggle of war
Blood spoiling the seas
The fog of war scorching the sky
And its fiery core opened to me
Sharing a vision of destiny

I will travel the vast distances
To where hope and daylight have died
In the fragile minds of men
Beyond death and its mournful song

Down to the depths of the earth
And in the throes of despair
As blood soaks my trail
I will ascend from ash and arise

My eyes open roused by terror
The bleak premonition rattling my mind
Anxieties strangling my rationale
Chaos burdens, and hastens my decision
Lucid awareness guides my destiny


9. A SEASON IN HELL

Misery!
Hate!

To you I entrust my treasure
Walking along old paths
Marching forward
The burden growing

As I purge my mind of hope
My soul descends before me
Misfortune is my god
As the plagues smother in blood
The beast glares as I descend

As I make my choices
And swallow it down
Venom twists my limbs
Suffocates and deforms me

I cannot scream, feeling myself burn
Eternal punishment, this is Hell!

The clock of life has stopped
No longer with this world
Fading now into the depths
Ecstasy, Nightmare and sleep
In a nest of flame

I will unveil the mystery
Future, past and nothingness
I am the master


10. IMMACULATE PERCEPTION

(Instrumental)