Abbath
Outstrider
1. Calm in Ire of Hurricane
Perish the dead mesh stripped from our bones
Stark is the carcass cursing our wake
Whipped core corrupt, crack'd self destruct!
Shed our shell corrosion hatch in burst of shame
A thousand lashes cuts us to our core
We find calm twist and burn dervishes spun whole
Sever the neck of bare throat stretched before us
Drink from jugulars, asphyxiate thy mind
Swallow lost spirit that pines for inhalation
Mute shrieking sirens rife with tongues to bind
Crotch-deep, drenched in gut-floods' acid rush
In womb-burst of birth-scum, drown like rats in cage
We paw the ion bars as nailless fingers scrape for flaws
Scratched they erupt in gash of glans of necrophage
Calm in ire of hurricane
Whipped core corrupt, crack'd self destruct!
Shed our shell corrosion hatch in burst of shame
Spitegeist reflects death's mnemonics's tool
Echo-chamber pitched to hells subsonic howl
In twinkle of anemic vein
Coughing like a rusty chain
Fate squats within a mangled skein
Exuding calm in ire of hurricane
2. Bridge of Spasms
With fist on hilt I wade thru guilt towards the Bridge of Spasms
A flailing limb cast across the yawning Maul of Chasms
Hooked to ledge at sanity's edge steel convict clamped in irons
It undulates squirms like bait hung 'bove pit of lions
That fickle whore Fate forced my gait to tread this skyward path
On skeletal thread blind man led by echoes of strangled laugh
With every step terrors swept fears like flies in rift of mind
I crawled, cracked nails clawed the creaking boards of crooked spine
Torpid Styx twist viscid fist through bowels of howling Deep
My demons spare not one nightmare ever rode plague-ridden sleep
Nailed to the mast! Flee pox of past!
Ignore the sirens' shrieking hearts
Sail the flux! Ride upheavals!
Dive beyond immortal charts
In lee of Bridge of Spasms I split among the atoms
In lee of Bridge of Spasms I split among the atoms
Like oroboros I swallow tale like oroboros I swallow tale
A Raw nerve stretches ganglion curve till ventricles erupt
I flow like blood through floating vein's arterial aqueduct
Crest the arch, gaze aghast, upon Oblique of Great Divide
It mirrors morass, life-spans' collapse, loop of ego's pride
3. The Artifex
Reclined in swathe of bedlam's grimoires
Sheathes of ancient vellum cradle skull
Sigils scour sallow skin, copper veins
Drip gnosis, draw mind from mortal lull
I pluck the stitches, stun the senses
Milk the pain I graze
I storm the portals of dead immortals
Trapped in yesterdaze
I dive to new depths, plunder sunk wrecks
In culp of fetid drain
I seek the artifex, disenchant hex
To lift this curse of Cain!
Artifex absorb a corpus
Alchemy in limbic vortex
Archetype bequeath a gene
To murder Eden, dismember dream
Beyond arc of reaper's lethal grace
The shade of Cain shrives guilt in mud
And golems raised all display his slain
Brother's bludgeoned face
4. Harvest Pyre
I am the ruin of all a squint can dim survey
I am the dearth of hopes' dystopic cowl dismay
I cast the baubles through rapine my fortune ill-acquired
Upon the flames rent the night deny the trinkets vice desired
I squander riches lay the bitches lust a jaded spray
I dream of nightmares conjure monsters sip decay
From breast of goddess milk the darkness blood a dulling wine
I angle sideways path a blind maze defy the scythe of time
Tap the jugular bleed the vampire
Tar the slime pit surf quagmire
Heal cadaver harvest pyre
Raw Wound!
I trawled the aether sweating reefer
Sole belief I'm beneath her
Glow decrease her in abyss deep
I unsheath her like a reaper
Tap the jugular bleed the vampire
Tar the slime pit surf quagmire
Heal cadaver harvest pyre
Reap Ripe Raw Wound!
5. Land of Khem
Through blasted waste in land of Khem
Bleak gods cough dark rivers of phlegm
Vile priests excrete their masters' dreams
To writhe in minds where madness breeds
The monsters upon which art must fester
Beauty's beast reaps sweet investure
The grinning skull cut from finest gem
A void divides in land of Khem
We seek the gods concealed
Within wounds never healed
In sanity's cracks where trauma treads
The twisting stretch inside our heads
We seek the heart beating still
Within the flesh of über-kill
In shadows black with blood of druid
In rage constrained where time is fluid
We smoke an abyss in land of Khem
Carve crystal myth in neural stem
Drip eclipse in cleft of bliss
Agaric flight of nemecyst
In towers of ice all flesh will melt
Before the throne Behemoth knelt
In fetid flux let fate condemn
Our frozen ghosts in land of Khem
6. Outstrider
War gods steadfast by my side
Wake of entrails stream behind
Where Ordnung rules I divide
No curse or threat will break my stride
Cerberus snaps at my heels
Chased outta Hades' blighted fields
Rebel don't beg freak never yields
What Mammon won't give the outlaw steals
Eons do not age my frame
Immutable as pouring rain
Scars evolve but never change
A mind removed from all but rage
Keep your chains
Your barricades
Keep your cage
World ablaze
Wanted scum in hell banished bedlam banned
Bloodied, broke, unbowed death denies me now
Charybdis guards the threshold where sanity unfolds
The curse of Behemoth mutates me in the shadows
Life despised me then death denies me now
From womb I burst, sharp of claw
Shipwrecked my life and swam for shore
From red-dyed sea I struck the beach
Bled my enemies dry my knife a leech
Arc of reaper's scythe
Seraphim's demise
Chaos deviant thrive
Neither dead or alive
Too debauched for hell
Scorned by heaven's crown
Heretics rebel
Death denies me now
7. Scythewinder
Tear the veins from ivory limb
Smooth as shards of porcelain
Slip between the talons
Raking guts across the coals
Clamp teeth 'pon burnished knuckles
Bite down hard! Don't let go!
They owe you what you are!
Pay in blood for every scar!
Bathe in spray of überflow
In Maestrobator's afterblow
Bind your wounds with crimson wires
Knot your bone quench desires
They owe you each last drop!
Of ejaculate crotch shot!
The damned will dance on every grave
Chastity shall misbehave
Slip between the talons
Raking guts across the coals
Clamp teeth 'pon burnished knuckles
Bite down hard! Don't let go!
Laterigrade's the way to grow
Claim the stage—the realm I know
Striving high—swooping low
Stride out wide enslave the show!
8. Hecate
Ochre dust coats a thousand paths
Arachnid web of twisting guts
Uncoil in hub flayed to shreds
Shriveled heart torn from withered breast
Hecate awaits where crossroads split
Like entrails burst from belly slit
In nexus stark a widow's nest
Silent as stone, still as death
Deep in shadows cast by gallows
Crown a shroud of crows and arrows
Curses drip off swollen tongue
Exhaling gasp of blistered lung
Night's bride sighs a gift of scythes
Devours doubt to feed the hives
Beneath the loll of broken necks
Cracked jaws cackle last regrets
She squats in clot of putrid copse
Disease breathes a kiss which rots
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