1. HUNTED IN DARKNESS

Open eyes beholding
Traveling through the dark
The cold chill of terror
Shoots up your neck

The darkness cloaks the armed intruder
Traveler stalked as prey
The mind feels the terror
Like a paralyzing bite
Unfamiliar territory
Cry out in fear
Mind reeling in horror
At what may draw near

Break into a flat run
Fleeing what you don’t know
The woods are alive around you
Conspiring unheard
Lungs burning with fire
Gasping for air
Hear something behind you
For which you were not prepared

Open eyes beholding
Traveling through the dark
The cold chill of terror
Shoots up your neck


2. TRUE MASTERS

Look into the dark
Where the old ones dwell
Such arrogance of man
To think he reigns supreme
There is a presence there
An ancient force unknown
The true rulers
Of earth and sky

And you will fall so fast
Before their army
If they should ever choose
We should not live
Human life would end
Over the planet
If they should ever choose
That we should die

They speak to the minds of men
They speak through dreaming
They use their influence
To hide the truth
For if we all did know
Our true masters
We would never see the sea
The same again

And you will fall so fast
Before their army
If they should ever choose
We should not live
Human life would end
Over the planet
If they should ever choose
That we should die


3. VOID ORIGINATE

Come from total dark
A cold, never ending
Born in an eon long ago
Vexing all description
Malice cursed with age
Which knows only chaos

It is only arrogance
To think that man can banish
A seething darkness so ancient
To see inside the mind
A predator intellect
Is to truly know madness
Human life so puny
A blink and then you’re gone
Their power is unending
Pray they never choose
To possess your flesh
You would never see the light again

And so you light a candle
But the light is easily snuffed
Darkness surrounds you
And though you may ignore
And bury your head in the sand
They have not forgot you


4. SORROWS PASSAGE

(Instrumental)


5. VAMPIRIC LUST

Up from the dark earth
Into the moonlight
My thirst for blood
Rings in my bones
Up from the wet ground
My senses sharp and ready
The night begins anew

The legends warning of monsters
Lurking in the shadows, come out to kill
The night’s air strengthens my bloodlust
It’s in my nature, I must feed

Strength beyond knowing
Such depth of sight and sound
And such power
Beyond anything known
I have lived through eras
I have lived through floods
I have witnessed destruction
And I have bathed in its blood


6. BETRAYER

1600 years ago, under the guidance of Rome
Mankind’s worst invention came to be what we know
Behind the mask of kindness
Under the guise of peace
A new structure of power
Emerged to lay waste

They wiped out whole cultures
They burned countless books
They’ve killed millions and millions
To keep their control
They wiped away history
And filed the truth away
Never question the Bible
Stay broken and meek

So be a good little Christian
And never question their will
Give your money to Jesus
They need to pay his bills
Don’t you worship a false god
Never question the lies
Never think for a second
That there’s any other life


7. EXECUTION BOUND

Captured by my enemy
To many foes, I was overcome
Their holy book preaches forgiveness
But me they shall not forgive

The sickening madness within me
Clawing at the back of my eyes
I am what they fear most
And I shall burn at a heretic
Disdainful looks I receive
As I sit here in chains
The shadows whisper in the darkness
At their suggestions I laugh

My mind corrupted they say
That I am beyond retribution
And through communication with Satan
I will poison the minds of the flock
My spirit committed to darkness
They should never trust me
And if I were not bound
Blood I would spill if my hands were free

I cannot be allowed to live
And I must be destroyed
I can hear the shouting of the crowd
Demanding the spilling of my blood
Darkness around me is laughing
Echoing again and again
There is no escape from my ending
To be slaughtered like their foolish lamb

The sickening madness within me
Clawing at the back of my eyes
I am what they fear most
And I shall burn as a heretic
Disdainful looks I receive
As I sit here in chains
The shadows whisper in the darkness
At their suggestions I laugh

My mind corrupted they say
That I am beyond retribution
And if I were not bound
Blood I would spill if my hands were free


8. CHRISTIAN PARADOX

For God so fucking loved the world
That he chose you to burn
And he gave his bastard son for you
Because you cannot learn
If he loves you such fucking much
Why does he make you suffer?
And he strikes down whomever he please
But we must love each other

You must feel so special
Being the only ones exempt
From following the laws you know
That the Bible says are kept
And it really starts to fall apart
Because it’s all based on a lie
So the reason for your piety
Does nothing when you die

In hypocrisy you stand
But the ground has turned to mud
Because the church in which you so believe
Has sown its rise in blood
In blasphemy I stand
Against a god untrue
And against the Christian paradox
That’s seems so real to you

I think you may have been misinformed
About the origins of Christ
Because he’s not nearly the first god
To offer eternal life
Just another fucking sun god
Of Arabic descent
Who needs a fucking ancient book
To say just what he meant


9. THE ART OF TORTURE

Sorceress Queen of darkest order
Soul bound to hell
She used fear to control
Her exploits known so well

You never cross what you do not understand
But still so many did
If her malice should be turned on you
She will make you suffer, she will make you scream
No one’s sure where her power comes from
No one dares to ask
If her earn her favor, you’d best keep it
Or she’ll make sure you burn

Chance gives the power hungry favor
Slaughtering the flock who try to take
So many fools tried to challenge her
So many fools died in pain

And as so the legend goes
She had devils under her control
And if you ever knew what was good for you
You never crossed Marie Laveau

Her daughters carried on her bloodline
For when the time is right
She lies in wait in the other world
Her goal within her sight
Making the way for her cursed return
To wage her evil again
But she may have already come, in the skin of another
The voodoo queen lives again

Chance gives the power hungry favor
Slaughtering the flock who try to take
So many fools tried to challenge her
So many fools died in pain


10. THE LEGEND OF GIMGHOUL

A long time ago
In the woods of Chapel Hill
Young love blossomed
And burned with flames of lust
Not far from the castle
On the stargazing rock
Turned from love
Into darkest deception
Her eyes in forest light
Under the trees so low
I lost myself to her
I can never be without
As with all good things
It must come to an end
And on the wind
The whisper of betrayal

And through a false friend
Stabbing through deepest pain
How could he think
My love for her so trivial

And so he’s met my challenge
To duel with seconds to witness
I so wanted revenge
But it’s gone so wrong
The bullet ripped my chest
I died with no Christian burial
And my friends I trusted
My body did conceal
Now upon the stargazing rock
My love comes to wait
And when I never show
She lies and weeps
But she will never know
Under the ground beneath it
My body lies
And I can never leave


11. USURPER

Holes in the dogma lead the wise to reject the pack
But in essence we wish to reject the weakness we’re shown
But to embrace strength and become our true selves
Is not a path of self destruction as we’re lied to and told, we must build

And upon the ashes of history we stand
Knowing corruption which will not die
Only through standing strong with our brethren
It must fall, it will fall

I cannot stand the stench of the ignorant and the false
Their lives litter the earth like so much useless salt
Taught to worship false gods and taught to be meek
Idolizing false stars and the habits they keep

And upon the ashes of history we stand
Knowing corruption which will not die
Only through standing strong with our brethren
It must fall, it will fall