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Caverns of Malachite
04:36
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The sun and the moon cross paths in the winter sky
And all that can be seen is a blinding ring
And its image cast upon the water
An emerald glow beneath
For ages held in deep reverence
They have long since lost their way
A reminder of potency and might
Unleashed from the Caverns of Malachite
The wind starts howling
A deathly sound
A primeval force
Set to be recrowned
Eyes turned down, neglect the call
Pave the way to the great fall
A voice remains but only one
What was created can be undone
Abolish all faces
Remove all traces
Nature untamed
Roots will reclaim
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Artifacts
05:43
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Here we stand in the wastes of our creation
The finger points another way
Fears emerged as a crippling lethargy
Idle intentions, a sealed fate
Never to see the failing ways
Never to see the light again
Never to see the fault in these endless refusals
Left behind
The empty promise of salvation
A bitter taste of ill-fated hope
The rain comes down and will not relent
Wash away the world that was
Never to see the failing ways
Never to see the light again
Never to see the fault in these endless refusals
Cling to the cause, the hollow call
Search for the meaning of it all
A righteous crusade to uphold old ways
No turning to face the end of days
Claw through the ruins
Ignoring a lost cause
Hands bleed in search of
Artifacts of what never was
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3. |
Seven Hundred Steps
04:16
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Inside the deepest of dreams
Lies a place of such majesty
Bathed in a golden sunset
Eluding me once again
Seven hundred steps I descend
Golden city be my end
I have seen its beauty
Thrice beheld
It is the place for me
I know these woods well
I speak the language
To Kadath, Gods I beseech
A quest across the Dreamlands
To where no man has stood before
To reach my destination
The Great Ones I implore
Feline friends and moon-beast foes
Foul creatures, deceitful men
Left to die in the underworld
Cross the Plateau of Leng
A High Priest not to be described
In darkness I must flee
Ancient ruins and nameless rocks
And battles waged at sea
Swept away by faceless beasts
Wings beating without sound
To unknown Kadath
Where the Gods can no longer be found
Face the Crawling Chaos
Escape the realms of dream
Forget these unknown seas
Explore old memories
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A Blaze of Starfire
07:12
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All eyes cast upon
The violent skies of man’s demise
Earth in atrophy
Inviting the ultimate finality
Set to sever the head of the planet
Eliminate and erase...
Now is the time feared for so long
Struck by the hand of an unknown entity
Flooded with smoke as the atmosphere is ruined
A dagger to the heart of humanity
Undetected all-seeing eye
Watching Earth grow ever weaker
A vicious force of unearthly beings
Biding time over centuries
Orders barked in celestial tongue
A fortress besieged, walls decaying
Ending the spread of the wretched and cursed
Overthrow the scourge of the galaxy
From primal roots to a destructive force
This must come to an end
From primal roots to a destructive force
This must not escape the sphere
Erased, thrown on the pyre
The damage is done
The earth ignites in a blaze of starfire
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Bloodmoon
06:00
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Whispers carry on the wind
Wolves howl, the sun is cowled
Fire surrounds
Twilight returns anew
The stars loom as night blooms
Bloodmoon...
Rustle of fallen leaves
A towering ring of trees
Enter the souls of autumn
Feet in the dirt
Heads turned to the ether
Lights on the lake
By torchlight shadows flicker
Usher in a cold new age
Bid farewell to the warming rays
Follow the stars that adorn the night
Emerge from shadow to crimson light
A sky bejewelled, a parting gift
Celebrate the irrevocable shift
Feet in the dirt
Heads turned to the ether
The red in the sky
The fire in our eyes
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Bright is the fire that burns across the land
Grave is the feeling of unyielding fear
Tales long forgotten, voices of the past
Regret in reflection
Echoes of yesterday
Etched in the subconscious
Acknowledgement denied
A blind and deaf solution
To damn and bury for all time
A chilling realisation
Of what was chosen to ignore
The death knell echoes coldly
As the ancestors heard before
Gather all thought and feeling
Attacking as a swarm
Cruel is the grasp
Embrace the woe of extinction
Hammering like a storm
Cruel is the grasp that drags into the void
Dragged into the void
And in the dead of night
When all is black and all is still
The aura grows
Asleep for centuries
Its existence long faded from all memory
Sweeping across the earth
From highest mountain to deepest grave
Devouring all
And when its work is done
Legacy of mankind destroyed
This world will burn
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Spell of Unlight
08:21
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Nine keys, nine distant lands
Scattered in time
Buried in the blood, the fear, the mystery
The circle gathers
Apex of the earth
To revel and dance to the song of atrophy
Banished for so long
But tonight they rewrite history
Nine keys firm in hand
A nightmarish destiny
Oceans wholly drained
The sky brushed a deep umber
The earth it will shake
As the mountains wake from slumber
Soon comes the time
To step into the night
Smother the sun with a spell of unlight
Soon comes the time...
Not of this world
They have returned
The end in their sight
The undying night
Now is the time
Tremble at the sight
All swept away with a spell of unlight
Now is the time
Step into the night
All swept away with a spell of unlight
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