1. WHERE NOTHING GROWS

(Instrumental)


2. THE DESTROYER

With the trumpet blast of the fifth angel
I am released from the eternal abyss
Brought up from the dark to bring torture
Through smoke which blacks out the sun
Known as the angel of the bottomless pit
My army of locusts from hell
Sodom and Gomorrah will pale compared
To what I shall bring to be

My army rushes to war
Blood thirsty cries in the night
To overcome the two and see them slain
Up from the ocean
We are set upon the land
To destroy the forces of our meager foes
No God will save you now
And the lands burn

I am the son of perdition
I am the forever enslaved
I have waited an eternity
To unleash my wrath
Seven heads with ten horns
And on the horns, ten crowns
And on each head
A blasphemous name
As I rise from the sea

And as the Babylon whore intoxicates the earth
With the wine of her fornications
I shall have revenge for my eons locked away
Wrath bent with will I slay


3. IN TOTAL DEFIANCE OF THE CROSS

Sacrilegious nature of existence
Leading the weak to servitude through lies
Preying on the smallest bit of conscience
To justify the need for your wealth

Go spread your cancer somewhere else
The beauty of free will is that I think for myself
There’s never been a leg to stand on
So you use a cross
To make it seem so noble

I stand in direct opposition
To demand Christianity stand down
And since that for them is never an option
I can never and will never back down

So you think you can be forgiven
For your grievous sins
Have no fear, they’re not forgotten
We’re sick and tired of the pious oppression

Go spread your disease somewhere else
If I wish to know, then I’ll find out for myself
No one hasn’t heard your tired dogma
I’m fucking sick of magic words


4. BLACK MAGIC

For selfish gain I’ve come to this
Evil become my slave
I commit the darkest of abominations
To conjure death and pain
Heretic, I scream into the night
My lust for power unending
I can raise the dead, and summon demons
Or make you give birth to a monster

The blood pact I signed unending
Immortal dead to walk the earth
The hatred and malice of a thousand demons
Drink from the chalice filled with black blood

The future I’ve seen turned to fire
The end for all, so grim
I will make sure that your last moments live
Are wrought with agony and torment
I will show you pain to drive you mad
You will rot from inside out
And the plague of your life will grind to an end
Choking on the bile and blood

The blood pact I signed unending
Immortal dead to walk the earth
The hatred and malice of a thousand demons
Drink from the chalice filled with black blood


5. LORDS OF CONTROL

An establishment of order
To break down barbarian hold
There had to be a consequence
To establish total control
Given that life was shit for everyone
And totally made of pain
They had to invent a way to make us listen
And also to make us pay

So the structure came to being
Destroying all in its way
Through fear of eternal damnation
They try to make us behave
And though none of it has ever been proven
They would control every bit of your life
Just in case their ancient fairy tale
Just happens to be right

I will not bow
I will not obey
I will not submit
I will not be enslaved

If you wish to rule the world
Tell them God is with you
Because then they’ll follow blindly along
And none of them can judge you
To prey on those so weak of mind
That they cannot think for themselves
Is the lowest crime there is on earth
I would see them burn in hell


6. THE WRETCHEDNESS OF FLESH

People speak of balance
And seem to ignore decay
Born into the world so helpless
And in weakness we all stay

The flesh is frail and brittle
And easily ruined
A fickle host at best
For the hungers of the flesh
Some are in denial
Claiming to be above
But deep inside their souls burn
Both with hatred and with love

So as we continue to act out the mockery
That we call civilized life
Our animal side over-analyzed
But never cast aside

I cannot stand the pride some take
In thinking they stand so tall
It might be a blade, a germ, or a bullet
But something kills us all
And if you don’t believe in frailty
Time waits for you, believe
For one day the reaper comes for you
Because no one dodges death


7. SOLACE OF THE FLAME

All hail the cleansing fire
All hail its wrath
All hail the desolation
Left in its path
The cursed flames so hungry
On the sacred they feed
As a tool and a weapon
They meet our need

Torch
Burn without mercy
Scorched
There will be no remains
The night
Veiling suspicion
Fire
Burn your tradition to the ground

Stare deep into the fire
And feel it take hold
You are locked in entrancement
Beyond your control
We were told it’s the devil
But it delivers from them
And it flames bring our freedom
Again and again


8. BLASPHEMER IMMORTAL

I’ve walked the earth alone for centuries
My existence a curse that I cannot die
My crimes so ancient, the details are lost
Even the ancient texts are not old enough
I am the source of rebellion
I have become the essence of dissent
So I take it out upon the world
And sow the seeds of future revolution

All it takes is a whisper sowing the seeds of doubt
The questions build, the answers never come
Nations ripped apart, tribes divided
My work is never done, my work is never done
The universe fuck the law
Its purpose betraying
Humans kill each other which cannot agree

So tell yourself I don’t exist, all more the better
The cursed seeds I plant will grow
And you can’t try to stop me, no one knows my name
Your words mean nothing, your god is not here
And the fantasy that you’re all safe
From the reach of my influence
Is childish fancy at best
And though you will pretend to feel safety
All around you the planet burns


9. IN ASH AND RUIN

All of the things which make your life precious
And all the people you hold in esteem
In a thousand years
No one will remember
The reasons you strived and felt pain

The sources of longing and of love
All burned away in fire
And what remains is ash and ruin
Blessed you feel to know yourself
But very shortly you do not exist
Great is the fall of the present
Day fades to night and no one remembers
All great despair at the coming dark
State of decay that I know so well

Forests and fields will fade away
And what remains is ash and ruin
Cultures and countries will fall
And what remains is ash and ruin

Fall from grace
Your flesh and bone to dust
The emphasis of your culture
Your humanity is lost
A song sung into the howling wind
To deaf ears your praises sung
If not by our own hand
Death waits for you at the gates
Your life never mattered
And you are nothing, erased


10. IN SCREAMING WINTER, IN BLACKEST NIGHT

The snow thick on the ground
The forest vast and unknown
The wind howling through the trees
The wolves howl through the storm
The ancient evil ones emerge
When there’s no trace of light
In the screaming winter
In blackest night

My people born into frost
Our wilderness deadly
From children we’re taught
To be quick or be dead
But still sometimes in the darkness
A hand reaches out and grabs
And those that they take never return


11. FALSE GODS PROPHECY

From our childhood, taught there’s two sides
A constant battle between light and darkness
But there are many forces at work
Many perspectives that all crave power

Great is the sadness and misery of those
Confused at their own source of light
Bastard deceivers enslaving the weak
To conquer their flock and control
You can’t see the wolf if you can’t see in the dark
But there is more than one kind
Craving your flesh and smelling your blood
They wait to devour the blind
So many so selfish and hording the wealth
And so many starving in vain
The rich man so paranoid of thieves in the night
And the poorest cry out in pain
So concerned are the pious of a mythical devil
They cannot look upon themselves
For while they obsess over going to heaven
They are putting so many through hell

All is lost
All will rot
All is a lie
While false gods prophecy

Don’t listen to the wisdom of a babbling fool
There’s not a god for him to have heard from
Abandoning reason is the beginning of madness
And there’s just to many madmen here

Suffer the loss and pray to the light
To bring you change which you seek
For praying for things instead of doing them
Is how you convert strong to weak
Hell bent on the power and wealth obtained
The church remains in strength
They need your devotion and money you give
To keep you at chains length
But never question their own contradictions
Or they will call you lost
It’s important to keep you wounded and blinded
No matter what the cost
People must know that their belief is unfounded
A delusion acquired in youth
How many churches do I need to burn
Before you will listen to truth

All is lost
All will rot
All is a lie
While false gods prophecy


12. DEATH RISING

And they moved within the darkness knowing no light, stating that there was no such thing.
And when the light was brought upon them, they fled in fear saying,
"This cannot be the light ! For we know what light is !".
The darkness was their home, and they knew only their home.
And when the angel of light came before them open armed with a message of peace, they shunned him.
And when he tried to give them water, they claimed poison without drinking.
And when he offered food to fill their bellies forever more, they chastised saying,
"No one meal can ever fill".
And when he asked them why they thought that, they began throwing stones.
And when the angel died, the men devoured his body for food, and the universe wept.
For the men were truly lost


13. THE ANTAGONIST ETERNAL

Bastard faith of hope eternal
You know no light
Become of hopelessness
You claim to need so much
Your faith is baseless
Your god untrue
And through the time given
You would stone to death your brethren

I can never have sympathy
I will not, and cannot repent
I am who you all will see
Gate through which all shall pass

Stab your way into your own
You only feed my hunger
Satan and God, both are myths
I am the only constant
I am the stillness
The bringer of sorrow
The only thing you all have in common
The taker of children and warriors alike

Fires consume, and then bring to stillness
Holy men and pagans alike
You may think you can, but you cannot keep running
Look upon your destiny, and know your time is soon

I can never have sympathy
I will not, and cannot repent
I am who you all will see
Gate through which all shall pass