Hecate Enthroned - Virulent Rapture
Original Version Box Version LP Version 1. Thrones of Shadow 4:16 1. Thrones of Shadow 4:16 1. Thrones of Shadow 4:16 2. Unchained 4:37 2. Unchained 4:37 2. Unchained 4:37 3. Abyssal March 4:08 3. Abyssal March 4:08 3. Abyssal March 4:08 4. Plagued by Black Death 7:59 4. Plagued by Black Death 7:59 4. Plagued by Black Death 7:59 5. Euphoria 4:43 5. Euphoria 4:43 5. Euphoria 4:43 6. Virulent Rapture 5:30 6. Virulent Rapture 5:30 6. Virulent Rapture 5:30 7. Life 5:19 7. Life 5:19 7. Life 5:19 8. To Wield the Hand of Perdition 3:05 8. To Wield the Hand of Perdition 3:05 8. To Wield the Hand of Perdition 3:05 9. Of Witchery and the Blood Moon 5:33 9. Of Witchery and the Blood Moon 5:33 9. Of Witchery and the Blood Moon 5:33 10. Immateria 3:05 10. Immateria 3:05 10. Immateria 3:05 11. Paths of Silence 6:43 11. Paths of Silence 6:43 11. Paths of Silence 6:43 total time 55:28 total time 55:28 total time 55:28
1. Thrones of Shadow Screams of the goddess Echo through me, my soul torn Unending, deathless The memory of illusionary thorns Awakening beneath the cursed ground Rising through the depths of lifeless stone Ancient cruelty, forgotten beauty Intertwined through satanic litany Monarchs of destructions Shall blot out the barren stars Reigning for untold aeons Upon thrones of shadow A new age dawns above The blackened earth The weak shall tremble All shall fall before our wrath Death to the tribes of Judah I shall exalt in their demise Awakening beneath the cursed ground Final voice of prophecy Ancient cruelty, forgotten beauty Resurrected eternally I shall fear no enemy Before your malign faces three Dark mother of witchcraft At the crossroads shall we meet 2. Unchained Blind to the wisdom that hides within The face of the baleful azure sky Mysteries bound beyond counting Within infernal sanctuaries I reach out to grasp the shackles and tear them from my withered skin Awake now from this slavery Taste of this infinity To destroy the bloody chains To deny the pillars of being Primordial chaos incarnate I wander through the heavens' vastness All before me shall I lay waste Unto the end of all All before me shall I lay waste As I apporach the heavens' gate, slaked in the blood of christ, I embrace this damnation, flood my body with divine scorn Paths wrought from the skin of angels Alone shall I walk Through the empyrean And so I descend to The silent watchers Beyond the gates of dawn 3. Abyssal March A sickness is breeding here Within the soils of this world Creation reduced to tarnished silver, Accumulation's hollow child Following greed sullied parables They build on works of corruption Raising the towers of Babel On the backs of mindless men Cleansing flame shall descend The burning tongues of Phlegethon In the name of our dark lord Shall their blood feed the river's flow Staring into their eyes Nothing but emptiness My blade shall be answer As it falls through their flesh Your gold and silver is tainted And their rust shall bear witness Your lives and deeds wasted And your legacy is dust The blood of billions stains the earth None shall escape the fires Of the infernal goddess' kiss Humanity scattered, they march into the abyss 4. Plagued by Black Death Auguries of disease have finally come to pass over this world In clouds rampant pestilerous death raining down from the skies Crowds gasping for air as the abhorrence takes hold I am as one with the pestilence, bestowing this final gift Sewing contagion amongst the helpless flock Mercilessly I am scourge to man and beast alike Their feeble shepherd writhes, his skin blistered and cold I am the death of God, plageous black salvation The earth I defile Extinction of the human race Satan's will unfurled Plagued by black death Poison seeps through the veil, the absence between the worlds Plunging doomed the lands into eternal night Power unrivalled, anticosmic darkness unbridled Purification through all pervading nightfall's vines Plagued by black death As the seraphim cease their song With the heavens collapsing around them Behold, the emptiness of the lightless sky Behold, the majesty of pestilential death Behold the emptiness of the lightless sky A vast unmoving expanse Behold the majesty of pestilential death And the contamination of all life 5. Euphoria As the visions burn... As my skin turns cold... I clench my bloodied fist And the knife carves my wrist Wracking my body In ecstasy Liberation in extremis Reflected in mirrors Despair's divine image Crystal tained Crimson flows Liberation in extremis Lost in the grip of euphoria As my life's blood is shed As the knife Tastes flesh Exalted broken wretch Lost in the grip of euphoria As my life's blood is shed My will turned to hate My malice turned to bliss Nausea flooding my senses as My wounds quiver and beg for more 'Ere the sun rises I will breathe no more Suicide sacrifice Abhorred truth of demise No journey into the Reachless skies 6. Virulent Rapture I see behind the screams Bore into their stricken minds Labyrinthine passages of smoke Consumed by madness divine Ecstasy from misery, unholy sorcery Chance to recapture Monarchy and cruelty, transcendent blasphemy My virulent rapture Mundane human suffering Will not sustain me long Inflicting my own terrors Upon banquet shall I gorge Ecstasy from misery, unholy sorcery Chance to recapture Monarchy and cruelty, transcendent blasphemy My virulent rapture Feeding on torturous horrors My pain bloated face smiles Parasite and the victim Living is their only crime Condemned to their tepid world But on their pain I thrive Infinite the moment for me So old ravaged by time Born and ruled as king Now ermine swapped for rags Dethroned and cast out Their pain my pathway back Condemned to their tepid world But on their pain I thrive Infinite the moment for me So old ravaged by time Ecstasy from misery, unholy sorcery Chance to recapture Monarchy and cruelty, transcendent blasphemy My virulent rapture Condemned to their tepid world But on their pain I thrive Born and ruled as king, their screams my pathway back 7. Life How the time Has worn on Reflecting life And future Decisions made Past and present Where I stand Is at the peak And here I am ruler And here I stand King The right things done Satan guides me A life's worth more than life's worth to You, king of the Jews I learned your lies and I learned the truth I learned your creed and I learned your noose I learned your lies and I learned your ways I saw your blood and I saw your death I taught your lies and I taught my ways I taught my kin and I taught him sin I taught about hate and about intolerance I spoke of honesty, I spoke of truth A life more than, than your life A life's more than a life's worth to You, king of the Jews 8. To Wield the Hand of Perdition Here in the dark of the godless depths Eternally I dwell Long ago forsaken to Lie and burn in fire Castigation my soul binds To the demonic winds I am born as the planets align At long last unconfined Subterranean swarm Sulphurous hordes Satanic carrion calls Slouching towards War Grant me their pain, grant me their unending suffering As my legions carve through them in howling torment Grasping for their skulls I kill, bodies fall before my will I denounce their master as I walk over their corpses I shall drink the messiah's blood and lay his arrogance low His broken body pitiful sacrament to maggots His effigies crushed to dust ,from this day abandoned I shall destroy these mortal lands, razing them to the ground And so I cast my arm to the North, and hell roams close behind Raising high my throne adorned with entrails, flame and bone Rejecting divine falsehood, I shall become the sun's bane Through communion with the dark lord I shall rule this dominion Grant me their pain. 9. Of Witchery and the Blood Moon As the sun sets I cast off My waking flesh as it dissolves Into ether the bonds that Chain me here Hear my call and guide my hand, Hear these words of adoration Blood of the witch awakens Ever seeking promethean light Illumination Darkness' promise revealed The eyes of Hecate Tearing through the veil Manifold are the mysterious Blessings of the sevenfold curse The key to immortality Her insidious harvest Down the generations I can feel her presence Encircling my body claim my soul for your own From the black, come forth And light the roads to the underworld Tea rmy skin and drink of my blood Reduce me to nothingness To know sheer antinomian will To dare to lose yourself in it's depth From the black, come forth Cloak me and light the roads to the underworld 10. Immateria instrumental 11. Paths of Silence Lost is the straight path To the edges of consciousness Gates of horn and ivory Crown a lake of bitterness Wraiths line the fields of this hell Consumed with vain regret Blind worms ignorant Of knowledge in the self These madmen and lepers Do themselves condemn In dreams of abberration Drowning insipid vermin Is there nothing beyond? Is there nothing before me? Radiance of the void Dis staring back at me Purify the vessel In darkness pain no more Open my weary eyes Smash the gates to the abyss The only apotheosis is bloody tears And the wretched laughter of the gods Flame surrounds me Raging columns burn Circles of the dead By the light of the seven pointed star Hidden in secret ciphers and edicts of fire Spectres reappear and fade As I rend the branches of the tree of death Lost in sorrow and forgotten desire Sacred night enshroud my soul as offering to the who dwells beyond I am become timeless amongst you, as I embrace the silence Lyrics in plain text format