- ASPHYX - - Asphyx (1994) - PRELUDE OF THE UNHONOURED FUNERAL ( instrumental ) DEPTHS OF ETERNITY Weary with concealment from the living Time to break the eternal rejection To arise from an unhonoured exile Purposefully leaving the infinite depths behind The depths of oblivion The depths of mystery The depths of obscurity The depths of eternity Contaminating the world with death Ending lives, the way dying was supposed to be Deceased guided into engless obscurity Depths of eternity, terminus of the living dead Set out for an undead journey Travelling through desolute domains A sense of frugality dominates the atmosphere Chorus The depths of oblivion, better to forget The depths of mystery, complete unawareness The depths of obscurity, infinite darkness The depths of eternity, no escape from death Chorus EMPERORS OF SALVATION Imprisoned in imaginative walls Stoical glances reach no destination Fallacy, looking for salvation Points of contact are missing for an etemaly Bearing the everlasting pain Hatred and anger, self-respect is frozen Fearing what's to come Agonized by mental disillusion Dilapidated and declined Is this life or life's destiny Waiting for that particular salvation Which can make everything forget Emperors of salvation Death is to one's hand Just a simplistic solution Surviving is the driving force But surviving is a hopeless cause Narrow-minded thoughts far from clean Completely turned inside oneself, nothing surmised Mankind's necessity to live is only a side-issue Waiting for that partcular salvation Freed from this life of misery Taken by the emperors of salvation To commit the body to the ground Disposed by the ghost of death The soul will roam eternally TILL DEATH DO US PART The birth of life A preternatural wedding Between body and soul The oath, we all have taken Perilous to forget Till death do us part Cherishing each other Through sickness and in health For better and for worse Till death do us part Till death do us part The harbour of souls, left behind Till death do us part Dissolving the covenant for life Violation of the vows, death is soon to come Divorce is final, your life is no more Your flesh will decompose and return to nothing Your soul will vanish to a place, where no man has gone before No life or after-life In the spirit world Only Asphyx will know Till death do us part Chorus INITIATION INTO THE OSSUARY Entered with perturbation Unexpected hospitable spirits An experience by mortals Threnodies and death-bells Prevailing silhouettes At this place of calamity The ceremony, the exhibition A lack of sounds Idiosyncrasy scenes Without any signs of tangible life A detached world The abode of the dead Originated by transfigurations Perceptions Consciously carried out The initiation into the ossuary The shining light, subdued by obscurity Gloryng in inauspicious atmospheres The environs, ruthless and pertinacious The ceremony, the exhibition The unassailable leader of the initiation Veiled in shrouds and dejected in prayer The solemnity, surrounded by mysteries The ritual of death, surrounded by non-attendanse Prevailing silhouettes At this place of calamity The ceremony, the exhibition A detached world The abode of the dead The initiation into the ossuary Now admitted in the spirit world No possible way out Incarcerated in the ossuary Damned to dwell forevermore INCARCERATED CHIMAERAS Incessantly prevalent and magnanimous Fulminate, convincing and inviolable Lodging the earthly shivers Determined not to be vanished Because it's prophesied and destined for ages The vaultings and ghastly dungeons A foundation of hell Conducive to dominate Against intruders and predestined visitors Avoiding could save many lives Phenomena and vaguely perceptible forms Which are held, couldn't find freedom Forever hidden from the outer world By the statical and substantial edifice of evil Unknown sources No past, no future Just visual attendance No inducements, no destination Lodging the earthly shivers In everlasting rapture Condemned by time An unbreakable pact Housing the roamers, Separated from their bodies Charged by the master The one who disposed the ending of a life Intolerant desperation A fane of dissatisfaction Inadequacy, outbursts, tortures In the most extreme earthly way No way out and no solution Doomed to stay, no turning back Forever hidden from the outer world By the statical and substantial edifice of evil ABOMINATION ECHOES ( instrumental ) BACK INTO ETERNITY Hazy prospects, londing for established order The valleys are calling, fallen into oblivion To reign and flourish at own environs No settled conceptions, defined to earthly criteria Shrouded in mystery, considering the return To the depths, where the quick won't be allowed Taken possession of souls and lost spirits The evil task is fulfilled, needless to prolong the stay Satisfied, the return has begun To the valleys, the foretold shelter of evil Assigned by the inexplicable symptoms Roaming through the vast darkness Searching, groping after the hidden passage Despairing yet resolute Longing for established order To reign and flourish at own environs Actuated by the intuition of beasts Guided by the commission of evil Now disappearing back into eternity A release and relief for the terrestrial life Back into eternity ... VALLEYS IN OBLIVION Destitute of concealment for ages Vestiges, which meant earlier life Again brought up on an unnatural way Every stone, every grave, every remain, Obtained with memories Remaining from generation after generation The valleys, where distant ancestors Battled, triumphed and survived They eventually became vanished By the unpredictable forces of nature Archaeology is the key For the present generation Scarcely or not suspecting What could be damaged by mankind It's just a matter of time The same could happen to us Presumed to be left alone Like the valleys in oblivion Powers from the long ago Could be too strong Curiosity of manking is Always an imperfect danger Attended with inexperience and cupidity Valleys in oblivion ... =u=s=e=f=u=l=i=n=f=o=r=m=a=t=i=o=n= ASPHYX is : Sander Van Hoof - drums Eric Daniels - guitars Ron Van Pol - bass, vocals Recorded at 'Stage One Studio' Bunne, Germany, Jan/Feb '94 Produced by ASPHYX & Andy Classen, executive producer R.Kampf Engeneered & mixed by Andy Classen & ASPHYX All music & lyrics by ASPHYX, keyboards by Heiko Hanke