Shadow Of Intent : Imperium Delirium

Symphonic Death / USA
(2025 - Self-Released)
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1. PREPARE TO DIE

Youth has passed you by
The time is nigh
The chains are growing ever tight
And now you must prepare to die
Prepare to fucking die
Of lesser kind and metaphorically flushed out to the other side

You've been sent to die
And die you must now do
There are no graves to tend for missing fools
No confected tombs
Patriotic fallacy
A lie engorging legacies
Aligned desperate courses join the voiceless and the doomed

Forged through enmity
Grudges based on fiction
False histories, indoctrination
Prepare to die for lies

Bella! Horrida bella!
Bellum internecinum!
Bellum omnium contra omnes!

Continue to fight for nothing
The redolence of dead friends hits the tongue
A hellscape offers distortions of a disfigured sun
For the sole purpose of compensation your body has been dedicated to serve
To violate
To bleed out in a hole in the ground

I send you to your doom
The rats will feed on you

The time is nigh, the chains are growing tight
Now you must prepare to fucking die
There are no graves to tend for missing fools
No monuments or confected tombs
Join the doomed

A great rewind
The impending human struggle is the great elegy of our time
The controlling powers have sent you to your death
About face

Deathly overlords send you to your doom
High above, the rats will feast on you
The time is nigh, the chains are growing tight
And now you must prepare to fucking die


2. FLYING THE BLACK FLAG

A subterfuge emerges from the confusion
Corrupting patterns, piercing the timeline
A trail left emblazoned with no regard
They fly the black flag high

Ubiquitous backstab
Maddened insurrectional acts
Rampant misinformation
Slaughter of defectors

These great tides of change usher the new
Those who can withstand the pressure offer resistance
Quickly slipping between the cracks
The path towards ascendancy lays at the extent of their reach
Infinite interstellar genocide at their feet
Annihilation necessary, destiny complete
Every last soul, by their hands, deceased

Throats slit before devout and jeering swaths

The separation further persists, a force of paralyzed minds
Prejudice and murder through fear, remaining deaf and blind
An ideology to evolve, alas
Harsh betrayal, abandoned to the past
Explosive, dismantled and devastated
Forcing new subjects, they carry out deeds of carnage
Slicing and dicing, disintegrate, obliterate

An ancient subterfuge spawned out of pure ignorance
Civilized erosion highlighting their human nature
Ideological forsakers are stripped down and cast into the light
Throats slit before devout and jeering swaths

With or against, it matters not

Entrapped betwixt tandem forces clashing are the abandoned, unfortunate
Void of regard
They fly the black flag high
They fly the black flag high

Spewing of hatred through messages
Written in blood
Effectively defecating
Into the mouths of their brethren


3. INFINITY OF HORRORS

Impoverished and everlasting isolation
Abdication
To graves you'll offer praise
Vitriol spanning a black aeon
Abominations await an abject cleansing
Defeasance now grows from silence
Absorbing into the black

Absconders of acausal paths
Erected pillar of ignorance
A deplorable age
The advent of the ineluctable
A rightful dominion of purity
Against the grounds of tribulation fires

Planted feet upon the earth
Separated from the rest
Sludge snuffs out the light
Meant to pierce the all devouring void

Fucked in the name of sovereignty
Fucked in the name of God

Hellish rains to downpour endlessly
Stupefied by an infinity of horrors
The benefactors of bleeding heavens
Ostentatious premises of flesh
A marvelous crypt of delusions

In the thick of offal
Land of the mangled
Exceedingly enriched by larvae
Unfertile passages oozing ichor

A bastardising of zealots
Embracing the winds of pestilence
Infinity of horrors alive
Funeral pyres remain alight
Genocide on the rise
Breathing tides of dismay

Suffering below the thumb of oligarchs
Remaining in a funeral winter
Freezing lands scorched timelessly
Gasping in ecstasy at the passing of life
Burning cadaverous periphery

Cast to walk in the shadow of infamy
Behind them, below them
The sweeping crest of bloody waves

A loathsome, sarcophagic comradery
Endorsing a chaotic insignia
Falling, not confronting opprobrium

Infinity of horrors
Beyond the void of the self
Timeless infinite horrors
Fall into hell of the future
The massive volley of divine smite

Salvation has reached a drought
So unblessed are the damned
Blighted by blind obedience
The promise of tomorrow
Blown to pieces


4. MECHANICAL CHAOS

The Future is now
Profits from mutilation
A Monopoly on murder
The sky abound with hunters
The future of warfare is now
Zero survival chances
They know where you hide

Rewriting doctrinal practice rapidly
The option to flee has been removed entirely
Manufacturing annihilation
At the mercy of dozens of eyes above
Too paranoid to see for yourself
You have been found

Valor and honor ignored
Demortalized and promptly tossed aside
Technological improvisation now occurs down the line
Military masterminds have crafted a near perfеct solution to slow the march of jilted crusaders
Endlеss eyes up in the sky
Ordinance rains upon hordes sent to die
They stalk, and kill, and kill

This rise in enhanced lethality shall change the world

None could have prepared for this
Bleak attempts at survival end
Dismantled men no longer resolute
Sheer panic has taken hold
Every man for him-fucking-self
Brotherhood deserted
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Hunter-killer pairs closing in
Escape impossible
The final moments leading up to their deaths are spent running in terror
Compulsion leads to collapse
Entire groups are made short work of
Hovering above the maimed to ensure confirmation

Valor and honor ignored
Demortalized and promptly tossed aside
Technological improvisation now occurs down the line
Military masterminds have crafted a near perfect solution to slow the march of jilted crusaders
Endless eyes up in the sky
Ordinance rains upon hordes sent to die
They stalk, and kill, and kill

A never ending sequence of atrocious and calamitous iniquities
Evaporated, obfuscated, manifestation of apathy

The consequences are ignored
Ramped up production quotas
In high demand are these murder machines
Disrupted offensives, wasted logistics
Death saturated battlefields, no man's land
Trapped in no man's land
Mechanical chaos
A product and master craft of the maddest scientist
Perverted sacrifices are subject to militaristic, sadistic field testing


5. THEY MURDERED SLEEP

Blast after blast
Again, wake up as the mind unravels
Night after night, projectiles coming down
The psychological aspects of fear and sleep deprivation are now entwined

Fortitude rots away over time

Awakening prostrated
Contrasting unnatural susceptibility to the awaiting crimes, and the mundanity resuming
The glaring absolute protest of no escape

Arisen, the dormant
The breaking of spirit
The organic process of surrendering to the norm
Bitterly enraged, though I have become
I hate this fucking life of mine

And now I bury the dead
Another day filling a ditch
The streets littered with debris
Still coming to terms, this cannot be happening

Imprisoned
Invigorated mirth
Soon this city of the dead used for resource, left barren, none shall escape nor be able to flee

A walking, breathing regret
Where there is no solace left
They fucking murdered sleep

I suffer bitterly, when I look at what they have done to me
And I am one of the trapped, but am not one of a few
For there are many afflicted here, long since forgotten, gazing headlong into fathomless darkness

Wake each night to sirens
Pray to evade the warheads
It all seems random, arbitrary
They murdered sleep
Terror salvos keep me awake
For death wails above me


6. THE FACETS OF PROPAGANDA

Reversing what was undisputable knowledge
Branded as false-factual information
A game of sovereigns
Masters of deceit
Weapons of art
Tables turn on the overpowering
Balance to be restored

Force fed fabricated quandaries of diplomatic myth, untruths
Consequences of pride, and misplaced malice
The dialogues fall through

Oh, but they ingest it
Undoing from the inside begins as a seed
Until it grows
Lies form
Blind and targeted, you've been selected

The ideals fit the narrative
The leaders are comparative
Spewing of extrinsic falsehoods
Pumping from a heart of hatred
Constant lies distributed burrow inside the minds of fools
Wrought ruin

Utilized information warfare worming its way into the domiciles of leadership and mandated officials
Behind, they are organized to distribute your pitfall for a steeper sum
To achieve success, and to have relied on certain forces with corresponding obligations
It is the wielder's responsibility to oblige them

A lack of ethics contributes to the disservice
A burning canvas
An heirloom coated with blood
Devolve, regress
And only on the surface, the unrevealing purpose, grazes upon a meadow of minds

Through the hands of the blind
The sightless open the gates
Control through overwhelming fear
The facets of propaganda

The mindless open the gates
Systemic rot and proverbial failure
The facets of propaganda

Through the hands of the blind
The sightless open the gates
Meticulously evolving
The facets of propaganda


7. FEEDING THE MEATGRINDER

Violent attrition
Salivating for the kill
Brutality is to be redefined
They aim to dominate
Hordes metastasize a vengeance indiscriminate
Disregard for human life is in the nature of the business

Environmental deletion
The lurking reaper aims
Heaps of corpses maimed and scattered
Only death now remains
This brutalizing reaches critical acclaim
They are set: initiate the final phase

Burst humans lined in trenches
Burning limbs are commonplace
There are bodies mutilated, faceless
Gaping holes have now replaced this
Sanitizing the grounds of fecal footsteps
Force-feeding a meatgrinder
Aim to dominate

Scores of humans destroyed
Laughter for the perished
War is worse than hell
We've seen to this

Stay and die
Hunting to the last man
Many men will meet their end
Live or die
The choice is yours
Continue to bleed or feed
You're feeding the meatgrinder
Drawn and quartered
Venture into the black

Trudging onwards through ruination
The more they kill, the more commemoration
Disheveled drones meander locating lost bodies
They soon will be the ones who die

Seize the urge to forfeit
Broken, seeking to cower
A stones throw away from hell they meet the final hour
A place where men are either broken, destroyed or made
Made to fucking scream

They're hunted to the last man
Many men have met their end there
To stay and die
The choice is made
Your body jamming the gears of the meatgrinder

Behold, the grand design
The envisioned future of mankind

Caskets closed shall return home, with absent hosts
Razors to the throats of the onlookers
They'll become ghosts
Walls begin closing in
A death sentence from your own kin
Final moment in your skin

Into the belly of the beast
To feed the meatgrinder
Hug the ground
Become one with the earth
The faceless reaper shows its hand
Retrospective admonishment
The final moment you have feared has assimilated


8. VEHEMENT DRACONIAN VENGEANCE

Awoken by the sound of detonations, screams and wails
Violent tremors soon follow
I see the shimmering light on the walls
Smoke plumes filling my abode
Total abrupt chaos

The glass from the windows spread out on the floor
Body shaken to the core
I venture over to the door
A sight I could never prepare for

To us, they have turned their backs
Not a knife in the back, but an axe
The urge to gaze into their eyes as they die
This land is not yours, its mine
This land is mine
An eye for an eye

An interrupted life of peace
They have created a legion of beasts
And now they feast

A manifesting malevolence now overtakes us
To not stand idly, but to take up arms
We will kill them all

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Ruthless but succinct, distinct
I revel onwards with glee
Their lives meant nothing to me

I leave my life behind
It becomes my prerogative to send them down to hell
This land is mine
This land is not yours, it's mine

I deplore
I do not lament
And spare no time to dwell on them
There are those in kind who do not stand by
I bare no sorrow for those I have sent to their god

The necessary has been done
Hatred submits to gladness
Vexation submits to content
But a kingdom that was once razed shall never be whole again
Vehement Draconian Vengeance


9. BEHOLDING THE SICKNESS OF CIVILIZATION

Nobody accepted or understood the warnings
Frenetic writing on the walls displayed the impending forced-upon crisis of disunity and infirmity
The bill has been left on the table
The time has come to pay up

Like a match to a river of oil
Blood is demanded by the streets

A terrible sight
A most literal cruelty
What once was ours, a life damned to a cause
From which sanctification blooms
Judgement descending upon you

Violence through each transgression fueling the mutual sides
Dissolution of civic convocation
Outbreak of horrible times
Actions of cleansing perforating through the villages
Injustice, fire, imperious bloodbath

They've come to fight
Cowards run and hide
Kill to survive
Beholding The Sickness Of Civilization
Ignite
Society collapsing from within

Oppositionists are purging different kin
Orchestrated by the prominent command
No one had thought it'd come for them
The impossible

Decaying of what was once a life
The price of avarice is high
The situation continues to worsen into primal collapse
Still the worst is yet to come
Into primal collapse
Primal collapse


10. APOCALYPSE CANVAS

(Instrumental)


11. NO MATTER THE COST

The knee will bend to my decree
At my disposal, an endless source of dominance
The crawling shade of inquisition befalls my foes
From sheer power, the ruin of their realms

And I lead promise of victory for the elite
As they arrive, they shall be awaiting us in salute
Profoundly merciless

No matter the cost, though we are at a loss
I shall take whatever I please
The hand is never at fault
The hand proceeds with opening the doors

Unquestionable loyalty, from my legion of pawns
Through oppression and fear, they all serve willingly
No number too high for my desires
No matter the cost, though we are at a loss

I shall take whatever I please
Then looking deeper, back into the genesis
Was it all worth it?
Still I am longing


12. IMPERIUM DELIRIUM

Imperium Delirium
Fronting beliefs in freedom for everyone
The sun never sets upon lands which we have destroyed
Sanctioned defilement of anyone not worshipping bottomless farces of self detriment
You made the bed, now lay in it

Every step leaves an orphan
Bestowers of destruction, heartlessness
Leaving the world aghast, the infamous saviors of all
Infernal souls of a privileged waste, of perverted patriots recycling disgrace
Whilst shrouded in opulence, Imperium Delirium

Those who have bred the world; psychopaths, sociopaths, further leading them down the path
As a matter of fact, not monsters, but men have proselytized the populace to accept absolute control

Hope is a cancer that preys on those satisfied with an empire where everything is fire
To themselves, they are liars
Shameless in great halls of vanity
Adversaries of compassion hiding in a shrine of sins
Deserving of nothing but a knife in the throat

Tenebrous extinguishers
The empire of enmity looks to war
Emboldened warhead twilight
Obeyance

The inevitable penalty, growing indifference
Unleashed hostility
Invalid facade
Gnawing incorporeal reality, that which lies upon the scourge and the mourning

Man, swine, dread
Prey upon the innocent
Self made nameless god incarnate pure evil
The holy mother of terror
Harvester of abjection, dreaded presence of the palace

Emperor of eight billion enemies
Under their fingernails lies their dragged liberty
Dragged into the shrine of involution
Through the hollows of devotion

An oppressive bitter end to the exercise of free will
Obscurer, so ruinous
Nightmarish dream opus
Continue dreaming in lies

Silent master of trampling legions
A servile performance
Paroxysmal verminous tyrant, occupier of hope
Pawns... ever so naively, they're welcoming the end
Here now

Men enraptured hate
Here beyond
The world has a bitter taste of fate
Here now
An avalanche of pain
Here beyond
The world shall now await its fate

An inflection of covert nature swiftly removing the named undesirable persons
They will come for everyone
You are not one of them
Scream
The sudden realization you're not one of them is paralyzing

Organized domestic cleansing
The day has come
Anathema
You are now fucked

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