Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn 1. Venereal Dawn I woke at first cold wisp of dawn To frightened mourners' quiet lament From brooding death into rock withdrawn, To see upon my hand descend A giant moth with burning wings And a face like the god of fever From tortured lands a whisper brings To further grieve the unbeliever, Then fast decays to liquid rot Wherein one insane eye still reels Towards horizons misbegot In lurking ill beyond the veil The glow of monstrous fetid light Begins to seep into the world Flee to the last few specks of night Ere cursed sun his plague unfurls It is too late Here comes the dawn Goddess of love, morning star Oh how you have betrayed us all Beneath your beauty, ghostly, far, Boils pestilence, and horrors crawl A wretched huddle by the cave We watch our planet rolling slowly Towards the festering unholy Abyss of light that is our grave Focul tău (Your fire) Nu ne mai încălzește (No longer warms us) Distrugerea ta (Your perdition) Peste noi din cer (Upon us from the sky) Fleshless tendrils rake the air Where once sweet pastures bloomed in peace Sickening rays in malice flair What once gave life now broods disease Blind and lost we perish, shattered Earth lies battered Sidereal venom spreads Venereal dawn Defiles all living matter Erupts supernal atter Ethereal, venereal dawn With putrid fists corrupts and twists Pandemic glow subdues the world Ruthless, imperial, venereal dawn Trees once kissed to majesty By soothing stellar bliss Now scream in silent anguish As they're wrenched towards the sky Infested roots seek waning Darkness as they die Choking in the cankerous air, Now a smouldering abyss Focul tău (Your fire) Nu ne mai încălzește (No longer warms us) Distrugerea ta (Your perdition) Peste noi din cer (Upon us from the sky) Abominations stalk the land Sublimed from void and spite Vestigial grace's venal hand Failing beast and man alike The foul sun rising Daybreak begets On the horizon A silhouette A man-like shape Comes at us, writhing Snakes 'neath burnt skin Seething eyes, mouths agape On fevered wings he is upon us From his gorge retches a flood To drench us as he grabs us, one by one, In putrefying stolen blood Venereal dawn Defiles all living matter Erupts supernal atter Ethereal, venereal dawn With putrid fists corrupts and twists Pandemic glow subdues the world Ruthless, imperial Under necrotic cells, with plasma stained The sun's disease cannot touch me I faint as I'm dragged across mangled plains Sânge să fi cu noi (Blood be with us) Sânge cuprinde-ne (Blood embrace us) Sânge ne va salva (Blood will save us) Unul după altul (One by one) Sânge peste noi (Blood upon us) Sânge ne va proteja (Blood will guard us) Sânge ne va salva (Blood will save us) De soare (From the sun) Sânge să fi cu noi (Blood be with us) Sânge cuprinde-ne (Blood embrace us) Sânge ne va salva (Blood will save us) Unul după altul (One by one) Sânge peste noi (Blood upon us) Sânge ne va proteja (Blood will guard us) Sânge ne va salva (Blood will save us) 2. Lloigor Dripping holes in turbid ether And a dozen hovering throats Join - turn - focus - speak as one: My name breaks mountains My plural is war My form your undoing My children your doom Your mind is my vessel Your angels my whores Your nightmare my soul Your body my womb My seed is your cancer Your thirst is my delight I'm freed to exceed A thousand young drip from the sky to feed Bleed spectral seeds From heaven have the lloigor come to breed I've come to breed My milk is your poison My cradle your grave My flesh your disease Your passing my birth Your fear is my nurture Your masters my slaves Your prayers my deceit Your terror my mirth Your madness my playground I laugh at your plight I'm freed to exceed A thousand young drip from the sky to feed Bleed spectral seeds From heaven have the lloigor come to breed I feed on your frailty Your grief is my door Your oblivion fells you My gaze tears the welkin My psalms rot your core My shadow compels you My coming destroys you I'm freed to exceed A thousand young drip from the sky to feed Bleed spectral seeds From heaven have the lloigor come to breed Mirages howl and hover Above the searing bog The guts of earth encovered Icicles on boiling fog Into the fouling nether The bane creeps breath by breath Radiant whips constrict like tether Forests blister, twined in death Living light Blasphemy in the atmosphere Living light Living light Blasphemy in the atmosphere Living light 3. Betrayal And Vengeance I came to Tied in a circle Everything stinks Tremors the ground Tarnished scars Shadows closing in Wild-eyed chanting Quakes in the wind Así bailan (This is how) Los herejes (The heretics dance) Amor de sangre (Love of blood) Cebo traen, (They bring bait,) Y se caen (And they fall) Amor de sangre (Love of blood) Betrayal and vengeance This is how the puppets dance To the pipe of the black goat The downfall has begun Travelling through us now A great brightness Strung and hung Then the blades A crown of light And skewered shades Levitates into thick air On a crimson cataract Así se mueren (This is how) Los herejes (The heretics die) Terror de sangre (Terror of blood) Cada uno tirano, (Each one a tyrant,) Cuchillo en mano (Knife in hand) Terror de sangre (Terror of blood) Betrayal and vengeance This is how the puppets fall To the scythe of the black goat Wielded by their sons Betrayal and vengeance This is how the living crawl In the dirt they go insane The prey no longer runs This is how the living pay Kill their own for one more day As unction against the sun Betrayal and vengeance This is how the puppets die In the wake of the black goat Cold rays spread like fire Betrayal and vengeance This is how the shivering sky Fumes us out and bleeds us dry And draws us ever nigher Neh machitia ahmo (I know you not) Pero neh oquimpiaya mati (But I have known) Coyolxauhqui (Coyolxauhqui) Teh huigui nian (You must come to me) Teh ya tlanque (You're almost through) Tehuatl nicmati (You will know me) Ihcuac nin cocoliztli (When this ordeal is) Ompa (Over) 4. Chrysalis Every day it seeps a little deeper I have it in me now I carry your mark and your curse Heartrot creeps Withers tainted sleepers I know every day it gets a little worse A little worse From without, the torrent's fierce erosion The undertow scouring from within Hollow rapture spreads like corrosion Mouldering me under my skin My skin Veins writhe Bones tremble Am I dead already Or only excarnating Gravid pulse Something wants to waken I wilt and wane Into a membrane thinned Between debauch leeching the taken And septic rain This day's poisoned twins Twins Mind bends Breaks, disassembles A chrysalis incubating Cast away, barely alive Mind bends Breaks, disassembles A chrysalis incubating Cast away, barely alive 5. I Am The Jigsaw Of A Mad God Upon my head I wear this crown Of primal incest, sludge and bone I bear it or I drown Regent of vivisection Lord of spiral gruel A scourge of airborn fauna black From which a new me grew From which a new me grew I am unwound I am in wound I am unsound I am in womb I am unwound... Darwin's weeping phosphor In the blink of an eye The mulch of a million dead Reaching for the sky My body's hook beaked monolith With chromosome stinger tip Spits life like mother nature's Crippled shattered hips Oh hive God peak of all rot Bless me with your strength Free me of my lot Subcore rusty razors Cut the string of life My primate culture cage Sings for fight or flight I am unwound I am in wound I am unsound I am in womb I am unwound... Hide me from my horror Push me into sight Cast your gaze upon me An ode to nature's slight There's laughter in the changes Tremors in the wounds No comfort in the earthborne Not in the malformed moon Holy mountain God peak of all rot Bless me with your strength Free me of my lot Subcore rusty razors Cut the string of life My primate culture cage Sings for fight or flight I am unwound I am in wound I am unsound I am in womb First came light Expanding like a culture A cascading torrent sickle cell Spreads wings like dancing vultures First came light Commuting to the void A seed of tumour, horror born A wound of perfect keloid Festering mutation grizzles with my body's truth I am the jigsaw of a mad god First came light Expanding like a culture A cascading torrent sickle cell Spreads wings like dancing vultures First came light Commuting to the void A seed of tumour, horror born A wound of perfect keloid I, I am the jigsaw The jigsaw of a mad god Upon my brow I carry it This burden gifted, curse born taint My new god's choice of wit So I walk Black the land Share my gift, and forlorn hope Till my bones return to sand Return to sand Return to sand I am I am the jigsaw of a mad god I am I am the jigsaw of a mad god 6. The Deep Your world I want no part of it I stay here Close the shell Or go to kill What kills me Again and again As the waters rise Wave after wave Stab after stab As the masses smother Wave after wave Stab after stab Until there's no blood left to spill The precious dark broken Wasted, another silent breath Better to let the waters engulf No more awakening into living death Better to sink into the deep Let the oceans crush the ground Than become one of you Let me sleep 7. Odem I surround you You cannot see or touch me Yet I drown you A tidal pest invades I have found you Insipid prey to wanton storm I'll hound you You can't escape, the snare is laid Demise engenders Sleeps inside your veins That sigh in splendor And tremble in disgust Sheer and tender Your naked vessels all apace Surrender to my amniotic lust's embrace I howl through you Drink deeply as you breathe me in I prowl through you Devour you from within I am the wind that swallows you The chafing hurt that hollows you The blind decay that follows you Until you are over Blasting flesh to fog Gales are harrying Aghast visages torn to carrion I entomb you My venom sheathes and flays I consume you The very air you breathe turns to razorblades I'm inside you Your every heave inflames The spell that tied you To horrors that beget The plagues that despise you With every pulse your heart's Hell defies you Tghtens the torniquet I howl through you Drink deeply as you breathe me in I prowl through you Devour you from within I am the wind that swallows you The chafing hurt that hollows you The blind decay that follows you Until you are over And I begin The seven corners of the world Cannot hide you from me When your I is dead my You will become Me And once I've scraped the last layer of delusion From the hallowed blaze Buried below that feeble carcer you called life This illusion rends and reveals The truth this downfall shall destroy I howl through you Drink deeply as you breathe me in I prowl through you Devour you from within I am the wind that swallows you The chafing hurt that hollows you The blind decay that follows you Until you are over And I begin 8. Luciform Strip me of mind Blunt, caged and blind Strip me of thought In falsehood wrought In lies enshrined Peel from me this deception Expose the truth underneath Pristine will and perception In flesh diguised, in madness wreathed Strip me of skin The curse of my kin Strip me of soul Strip me of all Holiness and sin I withdraw, I forsake, I dissolve, I decease All shape and world now below me I succumb, shed my life wrecked by scourge and disease I am, no more, no less, now show me Luciform All nightmares yield to sacred flame Dressed in mortal frame Luciform The stars unveiled my secret name Unreachable, unspeakable Ain soph aur Strip me of selves The hunger that delves Through shape and doubt Imprisoned cells Turn me inside out Pour me into infinity Where core becomes shell Release my divinity The boundless light in living hell Luciform All nightmares burn in sacred flame Dressed in mortal frame Luciform The stars become my secret name Unreachable, unspeakable Ego to augoeides Vi veri universum vivus vici Luciform All nightmares burn in sacred flame Dressed in mortal frame Luciform The stars become my secret name Unreachable, unspeakable Vi veri universum vivus vici 9. On Fever's Wings Keep breathing, keep heaving Though all those eyes will never see This new world seething Amidst ruin and debris Keep weaving the spindles Of astral thread that dwindles Till tongues lick and rekindle This embodied symphony Keep sowing, keep glowing And shattered minds respire again Though plagues keep mowing Seeds are growing from this bane Transfiguring mankind Extinguished, left behind Ancient fabric unwinds In deathless resilience Beyond the whip of gods unknown Beyond the grip of flesh and bone Life seeks new luminance Breathless in its brilliance (Two bodies) جسدين (One breath) اتفس واحد (A million eyes) عيون (Feasting on fever) تبتلع الحر ارة Subside The empyrean ignites The ether sings Open wide Alight From the other side On fever's wings Beyond all light We're swarming, reforming Cloaked by invisibility Wide awake we're storming Towards the great epiphany We're burning, returning We have become the source Feed carnal yearning As this magic takes its course Our auras Auroras Of pure elysian energy Evoke ardent plethoras from catastrophe (Two bodies) جسدين (One breath) اتفس واحد (A beast with) وحش (A thousand hearts) بالف قلب Subside The empyrean ignites The ether sings Opens wide Alight From the other side On fever's wings Beyond all light (Two bodies) جسدين (One breath) اتفس واحد (One pulse engulfs) نبضة و احدة (The world) تحضن الكون Morean: Vocals Asvargr: Guitars V. Santura: Guitars Draug: Bass Seraph: Drums Paymon: Keyboards