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Lemuralia

by Cemetery Lights

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1.
Such a dreadful tale of Thrasyllus The depths to which lust plummets a man His desire was the hand of fair Charite But only his undoing he did reap Into the wild to make a hunt Thrasyllus and Tlepolemus, brothers in arms The former did covet his fellow's wife And slew him under a feral beast's guise Deprived of Tlepolemus, Charite fell crazed Starved and destitute, lamenting great Until Thrasyllus could no longer bide his time And petitioned for her to be his wife Charite, struck aghast, did retreat In dreams came Tlepolemus and told his fate Awake the chaste wife hatched a vengeful plan With drugged cup to the lips of wicked man The blood of thine eyes poured as libation To sate the grave where belov'd Tlepolemus sleep Dream that thou art in the hands of the mercy Thou shalt think Tlepolemus' fate more sweet Murderer! Charite flew to her husband's tomb in triumph And fell upon her sword, revenge fulfilled Blind Thrasyllus went upon the lovers' sepulchre Enclosed himself, and starved to death at will
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Lemuralia 06:16
Our homage in May The month of our fathers To the memory of fell Remus Slain in contention His spirit was grieved To demand a rite of honor In the dead of the night The head of home purifies Black beans cast with averted sight And chants nine times These I cast, with these beans I redeem me and mine Ghost of my fathers, go forth A hand outstretched With thumb barred over Fingers two and three Glut on beans The clashing of brass Does cause the spirits flee In the dead of the night The head of home purifies Black beans cast with averted sight Thus completes the annual rite
3.
At last, the daylight does succumb Steps lead from the pomerium Fell the dusk and I took my flight Mine is not the light Through the countryside Cypress shadows are alive Where at Lake Avernus I draw from Hades below us Fevered, I present libations and pour Black sand runs down to the mouth of the shore A stillness grips the ocean breeze And in haste I drop to my knees A bitter aroma transcends earth Trembling hands can't contain my mirth In hand a dagger raised up high Spell on tongue, I wet my knife With zeal I present a wound And the clouds part to reveal the moon So the Shades may appear and comply Necrophilosophic Rites Impart thine secrets to me Where the morrow is plain history The future, a scroll 'neath my eyes Necrophilosophic Rites Footprints lead up from the shore The lemures in dreadful pallor Their grasp on my flesh is as smoke 'round a knife My colour turns blue as if drained of life Whispers I hear as my skin goes pale Yet, this evening Orcus shan't prevail Back on my feet, and into the night I flee Avernus Lake beyond my sight With zeal I bleed out my wound And the clouds hark to conceal the moon So the Shades retreat to the tide Necrophilosophic Rites The future is revealed to me Read the morrow as plain history Fate is only dread by the blind Necrophilosophic Rites
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Is there a god so fortunate as Dis Pater? Take this life, seal this fate, spread dust to earth There exists only one sound a sufficient curse The ghoulish din as Nero's coin drops in the purse Slain souls and burnished gold Held in the coffers of the earth Piled ash and precious stones Wealth bitter as laurel herbs Imagines maiorum, the mourners howl as they beat their chests But why waste on such a fiend this funeral jest? With mace in hand, Charun stalks the procession line Yet the gathered crowds spare no chance to show their ire Slain souls and burnished gold Held in the coffers of the earth Piled ash and precious stones Wealth bitter as laurel herbs Is any emperor as corrupt as he? At very last fate exacted his toll on thee The people would spare no revile And even blessed Fascinus could not blind their evil eyes An altar is raised and sacrifice made Cursed be the memory of Nero's life

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At last the daylight does succumb!

With riffs and song structures invoking the manes and lemures alike, Cemetery Lights hearkens back to the foggy tradition of blackness and death with its debut EP titled Lemuralia. A snarling rasp narrates four ghastly tales of ancient Roman horror and ritual lifted from the cold ink of history. The past materializes as solid marble before your eyes in all of its terrible beauty. An age long since forgotten is conjured once more!

Released on 9 May to commemorate the beginning of the Lemuralia festival, an ancient Roman celebration featuring exorcism rites to banish malicious spirits from the home.

Contact: Necrophilosoph@gmail.com

The Cemetery Lights up as in ancient times!

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released May 9, 2018

Recorded MMXVIII

All Cemetery Lights emanate from The Corpse.

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Cemetery Lights Rhode Island

Occult black metal from Rhode Island.

A hearkening back to traditional blackness and death.

Necromantical delirium rooted in the sounds first pioneered by early European ancestors, unearthed to once again wreak havoc on the present!
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