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An Audience of Desolation

by Ritualist

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Effete 01:49
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My eyes are cauterized My skin sears with an unbearable pain This device that imprisons me hisses and bellows With a blistering heat A blistering hatred Constricting every Inch of me A thousand injections of fuel For this inferno that sweeps through every nerve Gears slowly turn with no stutter Twisting tendons Crushing bones Elegantly contorting each piece Into a complex pattern Anatomical abstract of such imaginative cruelty Unrecognizable I have become a mere instrument Excruciating pain Immeasurable torture Flesh torn away Enveloped in flames My body enslaved I would give up anything now Just to bring back the silence I would surely trade everything I’ve ever had Just to fall down and die Alas but there is but one thing left for me to do Simply beg for an end But my cries merely drowned out by the horrid noise As the pain returns again Burn me Shatter my body and my will to survive Bring mercy Bring death Death is my god One last prayer for his blessing An agonizing finality I must embrace this eternity of suffering Mechanically induced I’ve now completed my grotesque transformation
3.
Kana Tevoro 03:14
Wandering aimlessly through this twisted unnerving nightmare Bearing no trace of resemblance to the world I know This land is alive with a voracious hunger Eating away at my sanity But still I continue on Trapped in this sleepless dream Madness permeates the air around me This blight of horror festers Disease burrowed deep within my mind Sense of self rendered useless Subconscious autonomy Binds me to the motions of my feet Could this be a manifestation of my sick fantasies? Perhaps a culmination of each one of my horrific deeds This blight of horror festers deep within my mind Within my mind Bloodshot eyes My body deprived of my vitality and my sanity Condemned Imprisoned within this vision of endless torment Shall I never come to know? The nature of the malicious will that confines me here Suffocating panic and confusion Have smothered my hope Of any chance to reverse this curse Now left to suffer alone Eternally Left To Suffer Alone
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Thrust from the backbone of the earth Monolithic mighty black peak of rock and iron A chasm below An open maw to unravel the hunger of gods Fall down to a vile place within the bowels of the earth Endlessly cold Endlessly dark An audience of desolation for a wrath that is old and hard As the continent from which it is belched forth Fowl winds will carry the warning Silent tidings for all souls to hear For they know the cruelty of the reckoning that nears Their wits have dulled and tired Their hearts corroded and expired They will be greeted by the call of the depths A slumber older than time Now Awakened by unchecked and unchallenged greed Destiny now revoked by the hand that stretches beyond their belief Tectonic and cognitive convulsions intertwine Wills stripped like hide from flesh From earth From bone From stone The land sings a song of cataclysm To celebrate the purge of those who tread her surface Those who dwell beneath the shadow of the monolith The shadow of malice Shall know the fate of profound punishment Driven by a hatred pure and refined The call of the depths A slumber older than time Now Awakened by unchecked and unchallenged greed Destiny now revoked by the hand that stretches beyond their belief The crushing weight of their future’s putrid corpses Bears down upon those who’ve been spared Who’ve been spared (Who’ve been spared) Their minds branded forever Each mind branded with horrific memories Haunted by an inevitable demise
5.
The Lamb 03:39
By this gasping death rattle I have brought grace upon us One part severed for the sake of the whole Divine opportunities only to be condemned By naive and ungrateful wretches Their chains fastened to my soul My eyes were laid upon The unspeakable The unknowable My dreams bore the seed Of a bleak and horrifying future A black and ceaseless tide of oblivion The dream alone a burden almost as unbearable As the task that lay complete before me A deed for which I will be renowned and cursed Renowned and cursed It is set in motion now The gears that turn cannot be slowed I must betray my earthly form Cast down all for which it yearns By the fear of judgement and the brand of eternity I have been cloven in two Yet only one may carry on Only one may carry on Rid our bloodline of impurity One part severed for the sake of the whole Purging what is to be purged One part severed for the sake of the whole Repressing the pain and guilt That tears at this mortal shell How could one justify Such an inhuman display of carnage Released from his blasphemies You have been born again She will come to see the truth as well You have brought forth a means to an end Cool air on my face And blood on my robes Blood that is my own Though my skin remain untorn I now dread the terror that will grip her face And the scream that will pierce my heart Her son cut wide open And her lover gone insane Revelling in his occultic art

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Ritualist's Debut EP - An Audience of Desolation

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released January 1, 2021

Produced, Mixed, Mastered by Lee Albrecht

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