Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth 1. Kingborn Carving my soul through the flesh While this void is still breeding the sin I'm torn apart by the vile executor As we're torn apart as the executors kill Concealed in seas of perdition Where the mother eternity has drowned In the shade of this black superstition The King of bastard seed's destined to burn Like the bridges of Athens Time of oppression and decay! My vengeance will burn Injustice and sorrow! Are scorching the land of the slaves Son of the dark Lord of the solitude On the throne of his will Derangement of a soul The seed of fears Born as a king of despair Bless thee who'll find sacred weapons That will lead him to victory Dominating the leverage of reason He rises killing the brigands of will Sinis is waiting the vagabond Lacerating the wisdom with the trees Skiron's feeding the giant turtle While Procrustes is ripping his limbs Glimpses of glory appearing in my dreams As I rest under this holy sky Condemned! The land of the fathers As I stand before the eternal demise Under the stone lay the arms While my fate is revealing to me Looking up at the throne of my father I'll follow the path that will lead to the sea Cursed is the breed of my body Thousands of drops that fall to the ground Now I know for the sake of the deities The king of coward seed's sentenced to burn 2. Minotaur (Wrath Of Poseidon) Caught in this fort of disgrace for a god's oppression These corridors behold the disease As I am feeding my guts with the flesh of the race of abomination I collect the souls I bury beneath Forever tied by the arms of the desolation, A stain for the sovereign of greed And I was born like a prince, wickedly raised in devastation I dishonoured the descent with my seed Kill the king! For all the treason he concealed in deceit Gods kill for me and bless my pain For the monstrosity that I had to feel Gods kill the king! Cast in shadow, Forgotten and lost forever, Eternal slave, Prince of darkness I rule on nothing Hail, hail! Asterion, Lord of Suffering Torn by the lust for control he betrayed Poseidon The reckoning arises from the sea, For it's the land of the pain, Falling for the guilt of the despotic Minos, Cursed shall be the name for the rest of the days. Blood from the womb of the queen Pouring like a rainfall, A stain for the land of the king The ghastly sperm of the beast fecundates like an infection I, dishonoured, the abominated beast Kill the king! For all the treason he concealed in deceit Gods kill for me and bless my pain For the monstrosity that I had to feel Gods kill the king! Cast in shadow, Forgotten and lost forever, Eternal slave, Prince of darkness I rule on nothing Hail! Asterion, Lord of Suffering 3. Elegy Cast by the dark embrace The night is captivating me like a siren Seductive voice of my frustration Refusing wisdom, feeding my dread Twisting all the warps of my insanity As I am scorched in a slow decay Demonic courtiers torment my spirit with misleading speech To let the faith of the one sadly crawl before the deceiver And make the pain rip the soul of the unbridled sleeper Gods! Partake my grave endeavor Gods liberate the force giving me a new vigor Gods! Unleash the rage so unfairly enslaved Lead me to this leech draining innocence Concealed between the bleeding walls of my suffering And bless the sword that's gonna slay The beast that I confined into myself Surpassing all the edges forever Bound to this labyrinth Selene is tricking me Misled by darkness 'n' tainting lies of my mortality Can't find the passage to my own rise Enforcing all the gates of duality I let my days falter in decline Invaders of my shelter Becoming stronger in my hearth and driving me to madness They dominate like a storm with a raging power And burn the core, lacerate, the forsaken hero Grace of the gods for one that will live forever and find the secret of a scar! Cold through my flesh is the blade of my abysmal vengeance The dagger lacerates my neck while I'm feeling conscious The muscle's pushing through my veins Red lymph that from my new mouth come outside Like words I never told you Gods take this prayer of my last tragic epilogue Concealed between the bleeding walls was my suffering And bless the sword that's gonna slay The beast that I confined into myself To transmigrate and live forevermore 4. Towards The Sun The draining path of existence With all our burdens to bring As fathers dream in frustration The sons slowly've drowned in disease Is this reflection of sorrow that brings us all down to the hole? Is this fulfillment of hollow that sadly is emptying our souls? So we spread our wings like falcons But we are too tied to this earth Locked in this fortress of treason we wait The coming of the glorious day Shall we be ready to face this? Or will we turn on the other side? When time will come for us to spread those wings And start moving out limbs to fly! Towards the sun! I see the splendor of the light again Show me father the secrets of flight! Swear it now, you will let me soar Thrown in the void and carried by fate I'd rather fall than standing enslaved Looking down at the vastness of sea Mesmerized by water reflecting me And our souls forever lost Now will reach the stars and deliver us >From Poseidon, the God of the Sea This unfolding release confears immortality Rush of deliverance, from those who wanna seize Outrageous irreverence, to those who wanna lead I cut through the air, carried by dreams I'd rather fall than closing my wings Looking up at the greatness of sky Left behind the labyrinth of compromise And my soul forever gone, Now it flies too far And will stand before Mighty Helios, the God of the Sun The unmerciful one, I'm burning forevermore! Gone too far Falling down from your dream Your wings' burning on the sun All your deeds they'll be sung like a warning for the world to see 5. Warpledge Tearing acts to destroy They're breeding a slaughter of the mortal race With the foolish right to immolate It's bleeding life on this soil Inglorious existence is condemned to crawl All the rage of the slayer unfolds as King Minos Calls the flesh, tribute of souls! On the stone lay the fourteen! For my father's oppression Dictated by who deceives and depraves Under the weight of salvation I bend, my fear's Calling from the island The screaming silent voice Forever This curse endlessly damnates the fourteen sons of Greece I, before the sea Know there's only one vision in me The solution is clear No more enclosed in disease And finally free from all fears Towards those lands Where the glory solemnly descends On my luminous spear If I will fall, the black sails'll appear! Bound, on the enemies' field The screams of the innocents resonate Where the candor's food for the beast Down in this fortress of sacrifice Conceived by the one who detested the gods I am destined to stumble and fall as King Minos All the ones who will try To step into this place they will not return They'll be crumbled by the darkest lord They'll fall 6. Pathfinder I'm prevaricated, enslaved within my fears Misplaced by sorrow and despair Can't betray my seal I must engage the reflection of Pasifae's guilt The seed of Knossos dominates This realm of desperate keens Gates of terror Shine before my shield 'Cause I'm born to become a hero To defeat or be torn? Whatever! I deliberate, to hush my inner screams She rips the darkness of my thoughts Can't deny this deal I won't get lost through this maze Holding hard this thread For I will slay the shame of Crete My path will lie ahead God Poseidon I emerge from seas of tears And march towards my fears The son of vengeance calls Fall is the source of my victory As there's no force without a fight So let me stride on this path that will lead me to the end Of a twisted life, that stands before my eyes Now, next to the core I see the longhorned shade His smelling breath corrupts the air He's growling with disdain A vacillate when I see this abnormal being But with your help I will be safe I can find the strength to kill 7. The Fall Of Asterion I'll stand before my inner slime, mirror of disgrace To look into the deepest void where the evil lies For I was lost into these spires A maze of self-destructive torment of the reason And now I know there's something more crawling through my veins A voice resounds between these walls like a leading trace The golden light of self-awareness revealing me the mug of the one I hate This wrecker's chasing me forever Grace of gods is forgotten! You left behind all the purest breeds Guide me to my own vengeance! Betrayed! And for so long my spirit faded Through all the catastrophic matters of my existence And all the steps I had to take for my escape Were deeply marked by all the hate I spit against My own creator, the great deceiver Into these eyes, now blaze the red flames of my rise And burn the pain, all the uncertainties are washed away Facing the beast that I despise, into the fight! I couldn't see the way to fall and rise again To change the destiny of a reign Condemned to sink into a neverending war Of sacrifice and horror It has been dictated by the cowardice of men! Now I see the matter of killing this intruder That has been stealing all my strength to dim my pureness I'm taking back my role, I put an end to it all Using my bare hands to take his life away! I stand before the guilty one as it falls from grace I see his eyes fading away, where the evil lied And I realize for the first time: What I have faced's the darkest side of my existence And now I know there's something more beating with my heart A voice resounds inside my soul like a piercing sharp The golden wire of mortal fate's revealing me the liberating path To leave behind this pain forever 8. Prologue [Instrumental] 9. Epilogue Oh, Bright son of destiny Bringer of light in this darkness Beautiful prince Now take my hand again Forever tied by the thread of our fate Now, we're together again Cold and desolate is the nature of my soul Forever indifferent to the screams of shadows Lying deep in the void So give it up Now face the score In the heart of the chosen one There's no deliverance I have to face all this scorn Staining my own land with useless tears Look in the eyes of the one Feeding himself with my deepest fears Oh, I'll touch your heart again Waken the cold lonely dreamer I, will illuminate your soul Wounded by emptiness Please take me far from this land of pain Now, on the waves of the sea I had to face all this scorn Staining my own land with useless tears Look, now I am too tired to fight And run away from this filling light Nightmares and shadows Together we'll drown in the sea Believe me! You'll walk by my side 10. Under Black Sails After the greatest negation Time has come for my rise Resolution obtained by the chosen one Unbound bringer of light Ruler of Athens No respect for the wights All the legions will hail and my force'll prevail On the enemies Terrorize with pain, annihilate the weak now! Instigate despair, purify with fire Under my iron command Forever the vile'll decline Victory! We shout under this pitch black sky We're darkened by Dyonisus' lymph We celebrate this glory day Forever chanted shall be our own ventures Hail! Hail! Sons of the gods we sail Towards the shores of endeavors we are one! Cruel is the fate of the conceited core of man Under the black sails we stand Blessed by maximum glory now it's time for revenge I despise all the weaks, born to be king Adversary of fate Writing this hateful story of forsaking and pain Leading me to the void as ego dictates Cut the thread with old days To become the new emperor There's no space for the fears She will wander alone drowning in tears There in Naxos she'll be towards the father's land Now unfold the sails wide Where I take my owed throne, vested with crown Time is coming to 11. Labyrinth [Instrumental] Paolo Rossi ‒ Bass, Vocals (clean) Francesco Paoli ‒ Drums Cristiano Trionfera ‒ Guitars, Vocals (backing), Orchestral Arrangements Tommaso Riccardi ‒ Vocals (lead), Guitars Francesco Ferrini ‒ Piano, Orchestration