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Apotheosis
03:49
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My mind
Is torn
From me
And hurled
Into the stars above
To worlds beyond
The well of endless night
Draws me into its arms
The cosmos are laid bare to me
I am called forth
Beckoned without words
Inexorably
Drawn to the source
Blessed with cosmic gnosis
The demiurge fills me
With living information
To wield the astral key
I am unbound, I am free
With but a thought the very fabric of reality warps around me, giving way to a shimmering veil of prismatic light. Infinite pasts behind me, infinite futures before me, I exist in a timeless singularity devoid of causality
I am beyond time
I am beyond death
I have ascended
I am beyond time
I am beyond death
I have ascended
I now embrace divinity
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2. |
Oxygen Destroyer
03:42
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The earth groans
The air ignites
The ocean boils as the atom splits
Elemental
Forces harnessed
In the name of dominance
Devastation
Incarnate
The slumbering titan awakes
A living nuclear weapon
destined to walk the earth forever
We have only just begun to understand what we’ve done
War will only cease to exist when we have met our end
When mankind falls into conflict with nature monsters are born
We fight, the planet suffers
A victim of our endless greed
Nature has an order
A power to restore balance
Son of the atomic bomb
Sacred beast of the apocalypse
Violence perpetuates
An endless cycle fueled by hate
Architects of our own end
May we soon pass into oblivion
A living nuclear weapon
destined to walk the earth forever
We have only just begun to understand what we’ve done
War will only cease to exist when we have met our end
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Harvester Of Worlds
04:09
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Insatiable hunger drives the entity ever onward
An omnipresent call to devour
all organic life in this doomed cosmos
One by one the solar systems fall
Planets overthrown and crushed to dust
by the rending maw of the Destroyer
Harvester of Worlds, extinguisher of stars
He stands in opposition to existence
Devoid of hope of ever defeating such a being
How can one defend against power immeasurable and without form?
The linearity of time did not exist when the beast first stirred from its slumber
and it must return to the womb that birthed it
The nexus between all worlds
The words are spoken
as twelve hands siphon
the essence of the world below
Runes are etched into space-time itself
The gate opens to the void beyond
Slowly the beast is drawn in and bound with astral chains
Power beyond reckoning is held in timeless thrall
One by one the magisters’ bodies fall to the floor
their hollow shells depleted of life to seal the gate
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4. |
Anti-Life
02:30
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Vile words
Spill over a blackened tongue
A proclamation
In defiance of all life
With each foul utterance
the end is hastened
This world is an affront
and I shall see it cleansed
Before my eyes
the cosmic laws are subjugated
Reality unfurls
Spiraling outward from the center
Of an ever-growing sphere
The orb pulses and shudders with distortion
The veil between planes fades
At long last I gaze upon what lies beyond
I stare into the great eye
and offer myself as a willing vessel
May his shadow cover all
Anti-Life
Embodiment of entropy
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