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The Church on the Island
03:33
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The roots of faith corrode
In the church on the island
The heart of God’s betrothed
Is blackened from within
The reach of Heaven’s light
Scrapes against locked doors
Where Christ himself is knocking
Yet none will let him in
The preacher counts
His words with loathing
As a debtor
Pays his due
With each verse
In the sermon
A year’s wage on
The heart
Another day relents
And solitude is calling
The preacher’s feet take him
Down the mountainside
Across the shore he sees
A man dressed for mourning
Yet he smiles wide
As if dawn is trapped within
He stands alone
On shores of time
Each grain of sand
Another lie
“This flock of fools
Will stand behind
Any sorry creature
With cross in hand!”
In hand!
The Mourner beckons hither
To swear an oath sublime
“Your life thus far is but deceit
So join me, Lord of Flies!”
The Preacher weeps
His tortured mind
Ne’er envisioned
Damnation’s chime
And yet he reaches
For Satan’s hand
So that he may
Receive The Brand
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Cemetery Lights
04:50
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Free from The Light
The Preacher stalks about the church
A reborn sight
A plot to defile grave earth
The Cemetery calls!
The rite is laid out as thus:
Kneel amidst the stones
With nails in wrist thrust
Crucifixion wounds
Brought Eternal Life
Inverse and impugn
To resurrect the Wights
The night is clear
The moon is full
The time is nigh
For the reign of the cruel
A hiss from the soil
Grows to a deafening roar
As if the gate of Hades
Was ne’er opened before
The Preacher gasps
At what his own hand have done
At last a mountain moved
By the prayer of a faithful one
From all around
An Eerie glow
And slowly coalesce
Flames of green and blue
The night is Cursed
An amen malign’d
from the beyond
burn the Cemetery Lights!
Descending to earth
The graves swallow the flames
The soil disturbed
By the tremors of the slain
Limbs burst forth!
Crawling from the womb of death
Reborn in blasphemy
A thirst for holy blood on their lips
“Call’d upon the names
Which ye knew not!
You dared profane
The abode of God?
Your insolence
Knows no height
Now feel the wrath
Of the Cemetery Lights!”
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Resurrection
01:39
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Necrocacophony
03:57
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Mine eyes
Do see a stranger world
From the throes
Of torment hurl’d
Back to
The domain of Life
To join a Preacher’s
Faithful strife?
No…
It will not be so!
You
Ruefully beckon
Forces
Which you cannot reckon
We scorn life
One and all
As your flock is doomed
So too you shall fall!
Yes…
It will be so!
We are coming!
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Rapture
04:44
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Ashen hands descend upon the Preacher
As the tide tightly grips the shore
Blood trails from the necropolis
To search for their next victim’s door
Screams harmonize with joyous howling
The Ghouls delight in human gore
Some flee to the outer darkness
Unbeknownst these stalkers traversed there before!
“As the Lord departed life
with naught but blood to clothe him
So shall you”
Our ravenous cries of delight
shall henceforth be esteemed
The only song
Befitting of the moon”
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The Bell
05:49
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The faithful flee
Towards the church
Where they might call upon
The Archangels
Ghouls give chase
Up the church’s stairs
Like moth to flame
Their glorious blaze draws near
From the bell
Rings a note so clear
The Ghouls go deaf
And taste their first of fear
From the sky
A sword parts the dark
Descending
Angels answering hark
“The appointed hour
Is still far for thee
Return
To the chattels of Hades
Await the call
Of your rightful Lord
Who brings not peace
But a sword!”
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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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