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The Church on the Island

by Cemetery Lights

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    ANTI-GOTH 412

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1.
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
2.
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!”
3.
Resurrection 01:39
4.
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!
5.
Rapture 04:44
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”
6.
The Bell 05:49
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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ANTI-GOTH 412

The second rite of necromantical delirium from the obscure Rhode Island entity. Occult black metal which corrupts the pious and sows doubt in the faithful.

SIDE A
1. The Church on the Island 03:33
2. Cemetery Lights 04:50
3. Resurrection 01:39

SIDE B
4. Necrocacophony 03:57
5. Rapture 04:44
6. The Bell 05:49

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released August 6, 2018

Recorded MMXVIII

All Cemetery Lights emanate from The Corpse.

Logo courtesy of Death Fiend.

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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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