1. Fear and Wonder (Intro) 2. Blessings upon The Throne of Tyranny 3. Kings of The Carnival Creation 4. Hybrid Stigmata-The Apostasy 5. Architecture of A Genocidal Nature 6. Puritania 7. IndoctriNation 8. The Maelstrom Mephisto 9. Absolute Sole Right 10. Sympozium 11. Perfection or Vanity 12. Devil's Path, re-recording feat. Andy La Roque. 13. Burn in Hell, cover of the Twister Sisters classic. Absolute Sole Right ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- As cyclones detach from the world above And all the other worlds beneath them flow Timewinds caressing the dust of cold memories Sought, to strive in twilight mist and penal fire (chorus:) As daylight suffers, night time recollects For what wind hath drawn near, so near… Death has a contract on life and hell in-between What was once not certain is now foreseen When the pendulum is in it's reverse factor Rivers run red and skies turn black Accuracies of bloodbaths liberate from within Conquests of a crooked cross and its coming loss A magisterial maintenance of diabolic education Where the opposite of innocence paves way for intelligence Where pearls are chained for each tragic event The glorification of deviance in progress Liars in wait tries to quench their thirst for more Drowning victims of a parallel universe The scum of the earth, a rejoice of fouls The world hates you for being precise (music: Silenoz and Shagrath) (lyrics: Silenoz) Architecture of A Genocidal Nature ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn The brush that sweeps across the spectral fields This landscape is not without a sense of epic wonder A vast scale that places this sprawling underworld Into a realm of frames With a blood-storm fading into the distance Floating without directions over this smouldering landscape Caught in a moment of transformation These shades of anatomic malignant nature Approached on another in an unpleasant way Frozen in the act of speech, desperate to express it's state Created in a shape to accommodate a wide variety of demonic forms The realm of the benighted aristocracy of evil most pure This is where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep Emerged from the depths of the earth gasps It rages against mankind, to annihilate the earth and worse It spills the blood like rain, the beauty of death it represents Devouring their flesh with a razorblade smile Genes would still blindly carry on smouldering ember of hell Limned with gold leaf, the scarlet brush That sweep all traces of time, place and pattern Total death in every nation Monuments of vanquished civilization Just as brilliantly removed ruthlessly eliminated The cornerstone of human emotions Has now been drained away I saw death of a most uncommon nature (music: Silenoz and Shagrath) (lyrics: Shagrath) Blessings upon The Throne of Tyranny ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Infected by invalid behaviour While capturing the stench of divine putrefaction Confess to slavery for the world saviour Give praise and inhale the corruption (chorus:) The Enfeebled provides the fool The Disabled provides the tool The Apathetic demands the affection To those suffering from their own satisfaction Devour in self-deceit, conjure the righteous plague Testify today´s contradiction, glorify tomorrows deed Inconceivable moral priest, hide in preferable dress Invite to another pleasure feast, the concealment of joyful laughter The decrepit innocence of your correctness and well-chosen Elicits the source of the need for immediate forgiveness Submit to no grace but the spiteful of your disease Apply to join the unlimited disgrace and a settlement in the skies And turn the confusion among your children into self-stimulation The incarnation of your prostitution, the true Evil in disguise With the ignorance from your cross as the witness The truth of your tragedy make you justice In your mirror the high spirit of kindness Looks like malice Condemnation of life by the living dead What a premature judgement, contradiction to the core How unfortunate I am, cursed to spend time on a battle already won The shame that will be guarding your grave says it all Retreat to the crypt and make it worthwhile Recall my sins furthermore but still be watching yours with a smile (music: Galder, Silenoz and Shagrath) (lyrics: Silenoz) Devil's Path ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thousand different paths So many sterile ends I chose the Devil's path Never shall the sun kiss my face And caress me with it's burning light For I dwell in the shadows And sleep side by side with death In dark desire I embrace the whore Giving her an escape from an unworthy life For with the appearance of the Fallen Angel (chorus:) I serve Satan I serve Darkness I am a prince among the damned As I've been for eternity A monarch in a dark paradise Cursed by life and the living Oh tremble not my immortal heart Though you beat in the shadows of death Eternal life is the blessing And I shall rule for another thousand years I blew out the light Abandoned Jesus Christ Christian life forms' grief's We buried their belief's Waiting for their saviours rebirth The dawn was soon to come The dawn would soon be gone There in that formless abyss was I made A partaker of the mysteries averse (music: Silenoz and Shagrath) (lyrics: Shagrath) Hybrid Stigmata - The Apostasy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The apparition of two faces in disgust Invisible but yet so clear Reflections seen by a fugitive Trying to escape the looking glass Blood runs from open wounds of false flesh The one in front of the mirror exceeds the image Eager to leave further but chained still To crumble into such nothingness A despairing fate, for your lies To pretend is the lunatic's legacy Privileged to bolt the nails of heresy Born lifeless into a world of coma As the chronic sufferer trapped in paradise lost Missing insinuations of what life was meant to be Angels and demons, a march man's bewildering hosts (chorus:) The charlatans and deceivers walk the line in prejudice The narrow slits the veins in search for the crown Profound impatience makes the blind struggle in stupidity The paradox of the daily prayer, diffidence is Confiteor Phenomena of ironies, cast the litany aside How intelligible, blessed be the forgetful Holding the banner high, unrestrained Slowly abandoning the surface in contempt Still in costumes to please the ways of living Witnessing the details of defilement, intoxicating Make sure to be pleased with the ways of your death For in days of reckoning and when the twilight torn is ticking Elysium is halfway and as an answer to the plea You're destined to yield fragments of Hell in return Leave unnoticed with the perfect conscience With the strength of the spiritual eye Spirits of the token unchained and free Recover from the philanthropic macabre frenzy The pale dove grins, black at heart ready to flee Demon to some, angel to others (music: Shagrath, Silenoz and Mustis) (lyrics: Silenoz) IndoctriNation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh, look at those lifeless leaves All their precious pride is taken away A lost creation for a graven image Trembling of nothing but their own fear (chorus:) On behalf of water made to wine Elements of deception must entwine Righteous greed and derangement divine Vacuum is given to the blind To surrender to a faith so fake To not comprehend while you're awake Thrive on your deity for heaven's sake Do loose your battle before actual birth For some sheep need the company of a shepherd To face the scorn of the earth Existential parasite drama across the lands What a relief never bother the why's Investing illusions and folding hands The passion for mankind's ignorance feeding you lies All those naked faces, empty shells Procreation of the mind put to rest Crippled and caged, anaesthesia adjust The lambs of slaughter preoccupied in disgust (music: Silenoz, Shagrath and Mustis) (lyrics: Silenoz) Kings of The Carnival Creation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Incarnated marvels simplified Effects from such a disconsolate kind Impotence of the once so perfect living Erase and rewind Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise A carnival creation with masks undone In search for the guidelines to the gateways of sin through mires of misanthropy with wrath in mind Sophistication as cruelty and perfection as virulent truth Confidently dawned, to pick the best of enemies An abyss womb stretched wide open, exposed to retaliate (chorus:) With the stigma feasting upon your flesh I wish you well Thorns from the fountains of fate licking lepered skin Worshipped by anyone's mass on our planet hell What on earth possessed you Consuming illusions made from hysteria and swallowed tongues Devoured by doubt, conducting arts of misconception Testimonial sufficiency declaring numbness of all perceptions Glance into the blackness hidden beneath your surface And enjoy the suffering, sanity drained in disrespect With such bedevilled faith in good, subsequently trusting evil Next step for mankind will be the last seasons in sin Left are the kings of the carnival creation Carrying out the echoes of the fallen Sense the withering eternity as it fades away The ultimate graceless voyage of all times Only death will be guarding your angels, silently Cripples joining arms in clamour Institutionalized for the rebirth, the herd will be hunted (music: Mustis, Silenoz, Vortex and Shagrath) (lyrics: Silenoz) Perfection or Vanity (music: Shagrath) Puritania ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let chaos entwine on defenseless soil Remove errors of man and sweep all the weakening kind I am war, I am pain I am all you've ever slain I am tears in your eyes I am grief, I am lies Bygone are tolerance and presence of grace Scavengers are set out to cleanse the human filth parade I am pure, I am true I am all over you I am laugh, I am smile I am the earth defiled I am the cosmic storms I am the tiny worms I am fear in the night I am bringer of light (Music: Shagrath) (Lyrics: Silenoz and M.Lunde) Sympozium ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chains of despair Cloaked by darkness The thundering echoes of great destruction to come Mankind's mysteries The dying world (chorus:) Madness in it's sweetest form What shrivels and dies must face the tempest The angelic heaven bows to the ultimate truth And melancholy grew Anticipation mender through madness Condemned to the same horrid fate Insanity applauds How sharp the awakening Pale as disease Mocking…Maddening… Give up the ghost Cease the gloomy awakening History foretold The hidden stigmata Totally annihilating the ecstasies innumerable Materialize the vision Give up the ghost Cease the gloomy awakening (music: Mustis, Shagrath and Silenoz) (lyrics: Vortex) The Maelstrom Mephisto ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ride the vortex winds with the beast inside Cast down all memories from a past and future world The cynic icons and the cryptic writings As a picturesque creation in force and spirit Against their reason and will, it is time Give darkness it's passion plea The venomous tongue The inevitable poison Paralyze the angels Freeze the forgiven Baptize in fire Unleash the devil at heart Unleash the maelstrom mephisto (chorus:) So sinner, mourn well Make all the swans suffer in hell The maelstrom of the mephisto left the trace To revel and feast in undelivered grace Pledged to judgmental arrogance in Drawn principles of ignorant falsehood To comprehend that the sin of life is life itself A tyranny in torment, an inner-sanctum stealing sleep In the dimness surrounding the towers of the castle Where the ravens spread their wings out wide Dwell in depths of the darker self at any shore of infinity And watch the relentless paint the soil black What is being formed echoes throughout eternity As the painter chooses color no more Hold your shadows close when the comedy is over As the days of mourning seem to be the days of joy Fragments fell from the sky in order to penetrate the eyes A convict wallowing in a lifetime of lies…lies (music: Silenoz, Archon, Galder, Shagrath and Mustis) (lyrics: Silenoz) Lyrics © Dimmu Borgir BURN IN HELL words: D. Snider WELCOME TO THE ABANDONED LAND COME ON IN, CHILD; TAKE MY HAND HERE THERE'S NO WORK OR PLAY ONLY ONE BILL TO PAY THERE'S JUST FIVE WORDS TO SAY AS YOU GO DOWN, DOWN, DOWN YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL OH, BURN IN HELL YOU CAN'T BELIEVE ALL THE THINGS I'VE DONE WRONG IN MY LIFE WITHOUT EVEN TRYING I'VE LIVED ON THE EDGE OF A KNIFE WELL, I'VE PLAYED WITH FIRE, BUT I DON'T WANT TO GET MYSELF BURNED TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, SO I THINK THAT IT'S TIME FOR A TURN BEFORE I BURN IN HELL OH, BURN IN HELL HEAR NO EVIL, DON'T YOU SEE NO EVIL, DON'T YOU LAY NO EVIL DOWN ON ME YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL SPEAK NO EVIL, DON'T YOU THINK NO EVIL, DON'T YOU PLAY WITH EVIL, 'CAUSE I'M FREE TAKE A GOOD LOOK IN YOUR HEART; TELL ME WHAT DO YOU SEE? IT'S BLACK AND IT'S DARK, NOW IS THAT HOW YOU WANT IT TO BE? IT'S UP TO YOU; WHAT YOU DO WILL DECIDE YOUR OWN FATE MAKE YOUR CHOICE NOW FOR TOMORROW MAY BE FAR TOO LATE (REPEAT SECOND CHORUS) AND THEN YOU'LL BURN IN HELL (REPEAT CHORUS/FADE) ------------------------------------------------------------ Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, 2001 Nuclear Blast Recorded in Studio Fredman, Gothenburg, Sweden during October and November 2000. Engineered and mixed by Fredrik Nordström. Assistant engineer: Jan Banan. Produced by Dimmu Borgir and Fredrik Nordström. Mastered at Mastering Room, Gothenburg. Sample-manipulation on Puritania by Charlie Storm. Cover art, photos and design by Alf Borjesson. Layout by Thomas Everhard All Music arranged by Dimmu Borgir. Published by Prophecies Publishing. Orchestral parts arranged and concucted by Gaute Storas. Gothenburg Opera Orchestra: Thore Svedlund-violin, Bertil Lindh-violin, Henrik Edström-viola, Grzegorz Wybraniec-cello, Nils Edin-viola, Annika Hjelm-violin, Per Enokson-violin, Annica Kroom-violin, Nicola Boruvka-violin, Catherine-violin, Bo Eklund-contrabass, Per Högberg-viola, Johan Stern-chello. Line up on this recording: Shagrath - Vocals, Erkekjetter Silenoz - Lead Guitar, Galder - Lead Guitar, Nick Barker- Drums & Percussion, ICS Vortex- Bass, Mustis - Synthesizers & Piano.