1. EVENING EPHEMERAL

Now places everyone
The stage is set, prepare yourselves
Secure your blades, embrace our faith
Remember our unholy purpose

The premiere an event
To redefine the ephemeral
A promised tale, of pain and horror
Rumors suggest surprise end
Choreographed rehearsed for months
This troupe devout
Prepared, to suspend all disbelief
They'll jump from their seats

Uneasy melody
Sets in softly as house lights dim
The curtain rises
And now our show begins

Fourth wall broken
A spray of warm blood
Drenches the front rows
Disgusted gasps of shock erupt
Yet still, the crowd looks on
So immersed
In the tension being built
From balcony, to front row
You can taste epiphany

Patrons degenerate
Bloated sows sacrificial lambs
We command now
You raise your hands
And speak these words so blasphemous

We call him forth
We offer flesh
Assembled now at his behest
Accept our gift return
Ascend his black name has our reverence

As smoke, we rise
We shall burn

The curtain falls ablaze
Cries of panic escalate
Trampling, clawing
Shouting in vain
All doors locked
No one shall be saved

Patrons degenerate
Bloated sows sacrificial lambs
We command now
You raise your hands
And speak these words so blasphemous

We call him forth
We offer flesh
Assembled now, at his behest
Accept our gift return
Ascend his black name has our reverence

Now our story ends
This theater's burning to a crisp
All trapped inside
There's no escape
Willing or not
This is our fate

All screaming now
Engulfed in flames
This heinous act
Yes most profane
We sacrifice
In your black name
Invited now
Come forth
Relish our pain

As smoke, we rise


2. PANIC HYSTERIC

For far and wide
Nomadic by nature
Us cretinous vagabond goons
Who were called to the trails and skies
To spread his dark word 'cross the lands
Cultural moral decline our design

Our satanic, message unhidden
With such fury the pious do
Wail unclean
Animalistic raucous vulgarity
We all know what they most fear
Empty pews and dens full of sin

Panic hysteric
Exponential
Yes in time we'll corrupt
All your hearts and minds
We stimulate, and tantalize
Make you undulate

Raiders by night
Those who wish to stay pure
Should run for their lives
Oh how they deplore
Our stinking rancid aphrodisiacs

We are his children
God's world we'll see torn down
We'll put an end to wholesome pretense
Their false decency

Our hedonistic celebrations
So suggestive and scandalous
Imploring you, to embrace
Your most base selves

"Most brutal and ugly
Degenerate, vicious
Form of expression
Sly, lewd, so dirty"
Rain or shine
We're coming for your innocence

No time be wasted
In service to he
Each year
Blessed and gilded
Masses roar
We choose to be free

We are the new world
His poison put to sound
The clock is ticking
Our footsteps quake the ground

We are his children
God's world we'll see torn down
We'll put an end to wholesome pretense
Their false decency


3. AFTERMATH

So here we are
You thought you'd seen it all
Still amongst the living after the fall
The burning rock fell from the sky
Laid waste to old world most did die

Roaming the fire
Adapting to ash
Scavenging to survive
Time and pressure
Make us clash

Feeding off each other when we can
The decisions that we make
Beg the question "are we still human?"

Resources dwindle fast
Ill desperation haunts the land
Our morals crumble steadily
Sadly our souls deteriorate

We'll soon expire
The threshold maxed
Arms in air some do cry
Why God have you turned blind eye

To think you've seen the worst
Brutal truth shall surely hurt
Existence may be a gift
But ever entwined with suffering

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Fooling ourselves for how much longer?
Pushing 'gainst nature's grain
Kidding ourselves that we're still sane

The shame
Endless pain
Living in aftermath

Old world long gone
Those left the remnant insane
Carry on

Sobbing as they chew
Recent allies become food
Slowly mans flame dies out
No energy to shout

This world once majestic
Our lost nobility
Taking eyes for eyes
Whats left of mankind
No longer sees

Feeding on each other while we can
The decisions that we've made
There's no question no longer human

To think you've seen the worst
Brutal truth shall surely hurt
Existence may be a gift
But ever entwined with suffering

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Fooling ourselves for how much longer?
Pushing 'gainst nature's grain
Kidding ourselves that we're still sane

The shame
Endless pain
Living in aftermath


4. CURSED CREATOR

Good doctor
At last we meet again
Your creation returned
Requests your audience
Do you recollect how cold it was that night?
Your intellect seized thunder's might
And brought assorted flesh back to life

Disgusted, afraid
You turned your back on what you'd made
Abandoned, cast out
I wandered off into the dark

Foraging, to sustain
Clumsily, I learned this frame
Such brilliant lights and sounds
Into the village I was lured down

And I still see their horror
My visage so abhorrent
Grotesque and dumb

So, back to the shadows
Where I dwelled
And learned, your language
Our mankind's values
Knowledge ever increasing the gravity
Reality set in so painful
Eternal loneliness

So you would see me dead
For the fiend, I've become
I propose, instead
You'd sense some obligation

So now I ask you
To create once more
A mate, my bride
One such as me

Beware for I am fearless
And therefore powerful
This deal, now struck
Campaign of misery can end
Or so we thought

Agreement broken
Her ripped to shreds before my eyes
I vow to you good doctor
I'll be with you your wedding night

Watching you from your bedroom
Your fresh bride's life expiring
Her throat grasped in my hands
Looking right at you
Cursed creator
Do you deem our pain as matched?

Now that you've lost everyone
That you have ever loved
You wage, your war
The eternal justice of man
In pursuit
Your final obsession
Into the North
Oh Father please do follow


5. AN INTERMISSION

(Istrumental)


6. ASSERTING DOMINION

Night falls
Yes we stalk again
Insatiably craving
The warm flesh of man
Endless bodies
To lay iron and steel
We cherish the sunset
Ready for next kill

Meeting amidst this great drought
Two strangers, cast out
Now brothers, concurring
To share, this miraculous feast

For months
We've dined upon them
Dragging the weak off
By night to consume
We savor the flavor
Terror infused blood
Shake 'til the neck breaks
Feel the body go limp
More sport than survival
This hunger more than primal

The arrogance of man
Seeking to tame
Our wild and savage land
We two kings vow to kill
Assert dominion

So futilely
Building walls of whistling thorn
Stoking barriers of flame
Easily we circumvent
Continuing with our plans

Oh yes we've killed again
Our maws stuffed with delicious meat

Luxuriously we bathe off in the sun
As their hunters enter our den
Spears and guns in hands
Trembling fast

Our home their tomb
The stench makes some wretch
They never assumed
That we save all the bones
A shrine to their doom
Surprised by our entrance
Their weapons prove useless

We met, amidst the great drought
Two strangers, cast out
Now brothers, conquering
Made flesh, the will of this land
With tooth, and claw we soldier on
Our hunger heeds the call

The arrogance of man
Seeking to tame
These wild and savage lands
We two kings vow to kill
Assert dominion

The Mother Earth demands
We shed as much of their blood
As we can
We two kings take pleasure and thrill
Asserting dominion


7. SERVITUDE

Hurled back into consciousness
They deem me ready for another round
The bloody pulp that is my face no longer sees

Onward they toil
Though I still yield them nothing
Under flickering lights

Striving with all their might
To elicit information
These lips will not betray
Their innovations
Compiling pain on pains

A new sensation
Excruciating, they begin to denail
My admiration, for their dedication
It shall not falter this will

Unholy secrets, of our grand design
Shall not be forfeit
In exchange for life of mine
We pave the way, for the blackened son
Bear witness to this faith
We'll see dark kingdom come

Upon completion of this latest agony
An unexpected intermission
A huddled heated deliberation
Whispers debate how much more I'll take
I admit to my own surprise
How am I still alive?

Clinging to ingrained hopes
A call to arms that we did answer
Our armies our shores
Man against brother
'Til man exists no more

With jumper cables applied
This writhing so involuntary
I focus on the undivine
Profane belief my final comfort

Consensus met their final gambit
They soak my body in kerosene
I muster strength to raise my head
Now do it drop the fucking match

Unholy secrets of our grand design
Shall not be forfeit
In exchange for life of mine
We pave the way for the blackened son
Bear witness to this faith
We'll see dark kingdom come

Our armies, our shores
Man against brother
'Til man exists no more

Our armies, our shores
'Til kingdom come


8. MAMMOTH'S HAND

Through the snowfall
They'll soon see us
Advancing forth
Slowly but surely we come
Our blades not yet drawn
In terror they've sounded their horn

Atop these beasts
Lords of this tundra ours
On man's flesh we feast
By these tusks all resistance falls

Armored with bones
Their primitive arrows useless
They're cut down so swift
Women and children to pens

It has been, it shall be
The riders' birthright
Manifest destiny
All those spared shall bare our brand
In our wake
For we are the mammoth's hand

Bones picked clean
Resources stripped and taken
Again we take mount - success
Begin our sacred march anew

Ash and ember we leave
Flag planted so high
Our standard must be seen
With our might we claim all lands
Fear us well, yes
We are the mammoth's hand

And so we ride
On and on
Stone cold and grimly
Executing our conquests

Sustained by tribes consumed
Before these tusks
Endlessly we dominate
Our ancient culture well preserved
The elders say this is our way

It has been, it shall be
The rider's birthright
Our manifest destiny

Ash and ember we leave
All must bare brand or seed
False beliefs now be cleaned
Trampled in our path
The mammoth's wrath

On we ride


9. TRANSCOSMIC BLUEPRINT

Yes we watch, and always have
Unseen, our guiding hands
Gentle push, strategic plan
Spawning, the dawn of man

Behold the shape
Its angles hum
Contact now made
Their journey's, just begun

From foraging, to forging tools
Survival's demands
Shed blood, concoct plans
Stand straight, become man

Ever looming, circling their heads
The next step on their quest
To discover, what we've left

An endless evolution
No never done
Possibilities, so infinite
What shall they become
We've reached across space and time
To plant these seeds in their minds
They must learn for themselves
What could they truly be

Reaching up
Claiming the Moon

Electromagnetic interference
Our beacon has brought them here
Resting, beneath their feet
They must dig

The shape now exposed
After 4 million years
In the Sun's light
The shrillest ringing
Began in their ears

With man's creation in hand
A small crew sets for Jupiter
Consciousness, turned by fear and distrust
Oh what have they done

The artificial hand takes lives
As quickly, as it can
Time to act, please preserve our plan
It must be shut down

Advancing forth, only one left
Continuing to ascend
What we intend
Forever

An endless evolution
No never done
Possibilities, so infinite
What shall they become
We've reached across space and time
To plant these seeds in their minds
They must learn for themselves
What could they truly be

And now the starchild returns
Put forth his will
Detonation, so silent
Mankind unaware they've been killed
Waiting, marshaling his thoughts
Brooding, his new powers still unknown
So unsure
He must decide


10. UTOPIA BLACK

Across the winds
Atop the waves
It's always been the same
Starting as a subtle call
A fire inside
A growing pull

Almost a voice
Images come clear
Your need to know sincere
Your place in the plan
Visions commands
Wishing you could understand

Dark hearts stay strong
Ye be not alone
When blackened son comes
In loving arms
We'll all be carried home

Older now
And more in tune
You sense his role for you
Increase station, await patient
Orders will come

Our privilege
To silently serve
Constellations soon aligning
The birth to end Nazarene's world

Our devotion never unnoticed
Disdained faith brought us here
Grinning, our father watches
Cheering on our throng

Dark hearts stand tall
No, ye be not alone
When blackened son comes
In loving arms
We'll all be carried home

No lineage, nor rank be observed
The quality of your service
Is how his favor is insured
To dedicate our lives to the cause
There be no higher honor
There is no sin, our only law

Cold murder, deceit
Do what it takes
Hold fast to your faith
Paradise choices
Make or break
Devotion
Shall be rewarded
A black utopia
Washing over one and all

No lineage, nor rank be observed
The quality of your service
Is how his favor is insured
To dedicate our lives to the cause
There be no higher honor
There is no sin, our only law