1. A VIOLENT DREAD

war and horror
The incessant march of terror
Forever exalting
The hemorrhaging wounds of culture

The pageantry of slaughter sanctified
By statute, by scripture
By capital incentivized
Roaring with the pleasure of stocks' continued rise
The dead-eyed bless the dying
Signum crucis, aim, fire

Cowards who swill
The rancid trough of dogma
The piss of their masters
And blood of their children
Limbs blasted off
And mounted high as freedom
Every body, a tribute that's due
The triflings of power

Prayers rush to smother every victim
Whose lives are gone, their names, their purpose
Every absence nuclear and fervid
Mutates survivors, jeered in their recourse
By brazen propagandists
Blood-drunk profiteers of violence
Scourging captives raw till hoarse voices creak to silence
Turn pain abstract
Like that of flies or cattle

Death, defeat, the fear, the anger
Existence undone, ceaseless in rancor
Mourn for the lost and fear for the future
A violent dread

And still they prattle on about god and guts and heroes
While we rage in congregation, we cry in swarming rooms
A sea of platitudes bereft of meaning for bereaved
Who suffer every nightfall, who dread each waking day
Whose haggard voices fall to distant pleas

A violent dread

They hope for a crowded tomb
The powerful pray for profit
Full of contempt
For the tired pleas
Of our violent dread


2. THE KNELL AND THE WORLD (DAWN COVER)

Trust the black inside and suffocate the light in me

Throw the stones that kills the truth
Deception must be absolute

Rape the mind that will not die
Its sharpest throes must multiply

Dementia unresisted
Psycosis of the mind
Generation x termination
The blind leading the blind
Towards the end of the earth

Sweat cyanide seduction
Grown numb from the poison
That guides mankind beyond all
Hopes of rebirth

Tear further into violence
And send forth the blade that
Slaughter each cell

Stillbirth redemption
Sterility dances to the rapturous
Sound of the knell

Let fevers rage and ravage
The deluded minds of all
Surrender to atrocity
And yeild by our fall
Stigmata children
Malady spawn
Downward resolution
The coming of dawn

Sacrilege sanctity
Pestilent seat
Dominion emerging
A world at their feet

Infidel armies
Viral release
Consensual redeemers
Penitence of disease

Weavers of famine
Starvation made whole
Their sepulchres spreading
Fulfilling their role
Sickness overcomes us
Past plagues ressurect

Generation x termination
The blind leading the blind
Towards the end of the earth

Sweat cyanide seduction
Grown numb from the poison
That guides mankind beyond all
Hopes of rebirth

Let firestorms rend their emerald cloakes
Over a world that judgement provokes
Assailing retribution
The end of the line
Prosperity goes under hatred divine

Like bloody waves on shores alight
A devil soils with black what's white
And as he treads to sow his sead

He rides the earth of its
Scavanger breed

The seas in rising tidal flow
Its liquid curse on us bestow
A killing force within us hide
Breeding wrath
World suicide

Generation x termination
The blind leading the blind
Towards the end of the earth

Sweat cyanide seduction
Grown numb from the poison
That guides mankind beyond all
Hopes of rebirth

Tear further into violence
And send forth the blade that
Slaughter each cell

Stillbirth redemption
Sterility dances to the rapturous
Sound of the knell