Monday, April 19, 2021

ETHEREAL SCOURGE

ETHEREAL SCOURGE

BAND NAME: Ethereal Scourge
GENRE: Death Metal / Groove Metal
STATUS: Split-up
LOCATION: Adelaide, South Australia

Lineup:
Jared Murray - Vocals
Asoka Gare - Guitars
Greg Smith - Bass
Glenn Reseigh - Drums


Discography:


The Raise The Dead Australian Metal Compilation II (split, 1995, Rowe Productions) (CD)

1. Ethereal Scourge - Death Of Hades 4:57
Master - victory is yours
All power and strength
Who is he
That may behold your face and live?
The gates of Sheol are smashed

The fall of Dagon
By the ark
The false are crushed by your hand
None will stand against your blade
It drips blood and fire
Death with power

Your coming rides near
Black hearts rot with fear
The swords of the Host
Dark angels impale

It is appointed
Once for us to die
Yet twice shall we live
Christ's power and strength

Master O' Master
By your spirit we prevail
Death you have been conquered

2. Ethereal Scourge - Content To Rot 4:12
Entombed in earth
After your time
Decomposing
The worms will dine
Eating your flesh
Though not your soul
It has been sent to Heaven or Hell

You can't spend forever
Lying in worms
Your fate you decide
Blessed or cursed

Atheistic
Come before God
You thought you'd die

Content to rot

Selfish creature
You were deceived
Weeping for you never believed

When you are dead
You'll face the truth
Christ crucified
Blood let for you
Accept this now
He died to save
That you may live
Forsake the grave

Content to rot

3. Ethereal Scourge - Sudden Death 4:34
Behold
The end
Is upon us

Now a living nightmare
Beastly dominion
Newborns must endure
Mass persecution

This to those who may
Live in this terror
Kneel only to God
Or see him never
Cling to the Christ
Abhor the dark
Do not bow down
Deny the mark

End drawing near
Time growing cold
Earth's destruction
Omens foretold

Wings as eagles
Holy ascension
Now all enter
Tribulation

Newborns must endure
Mass persecution
Look up to Him
Implore
To have your neck severed
Spout gore
That you may live forever

4. Ethereal Scourge - Tombthroat 4:56
There is none who understands
Not one who seeks after God
They've gone out of the way
And together they profit not

Their throat is an open tomb
With their tongues they have practice
The venom of serpents under their lips
Their mouths full of cursing and spite

There is none righteous
No not one
None without blemish
For God's Son
There is none righteous
No not one
Apart from God
There is none
There is none righteous

Their feet are swift to shed blood
Destruction - misery
The path of peace they haven't known
No fear of God before their eyes
No one does good, no, not one...




Judgement And Restoration (album)

1997, Rowe Productions, Diamante Music Group (CD)
November 16, 2014, SkyBurnsBlack Records (Digital)
June 22, 2016, The Metal Onslaught (Digital)
August 2020, Soundmass Records, Remastered (CD)

The Soundmass version contains demos from 1995 as bonus tracks.

1. Through The Waters 6:05
To dwell in the light
Of the Ancient of Days
In bliss to see the glory
Of his awesome face

Drink the benediction
Divine endless grace
Emmanuel enthroned
By his side take your place

Glide the mirror sea
Of placid aeons old
Flawless morning sawn
Your graceful wings unfold
Lift your voice in song
To the lover of your soul
The source of all harmony
His beauty unspoiled

Bear your cross, make your way
Lie submerged healing pool
All is past, washed away
Strong in heart now arise

2. Warcry 3:45
As needles of ice
Are the ill winds' talons
The coldest of shadows
They seep unto the bone

With hackles raised on my neck I feel
The rancid breath of the betrayer
I heed you not and I give no ground
With words of power the holy unbound
Christ majestic
The shadows retreat
Ruler, Saviour
No quarter asked and none to receive

With words of power, the holy unbound
Defilers cast out, shivering at the sound
Christ arisen, vacant gaping tomb
Come divine wrath, the slayer of doom

All praise to the Lion
King of all tribes
You reach across time
With the warcry

The wicked exist in forgotten exile
And the saint has refuge in his end

3. Refuge 5:54
My life, I lay it down
And bow before your thrown
My life, I give to you
By sacred blood I am your son
You're the fire that heats my veins
The power in my soul
By Christ, the serpent's bane
You are all the life I know
Be warm my heart of stone
Glowing by your hearth of grace
As my life is not my own
My darkened past you laid to waste

And my life is not my own
My corpse you sank without a trace

So let it be
Now and forever
Sovereign King
So let it be
I'm yours, Almighty Lord
Send me where you may
I praise your mercy, touch of love
Breathe, and I will fly

And I will worship you
When the moon, it bleeds, and the sun is black
And I will worship you
When the earth breaks and the sky, it cracks
All glorify your name

4. Estranged From The Womb 3:18
Released into a world of corruption
Your journey begins on a road to destruction

Many men straggling
With nothing in their lives
Passing by salvation
Slipping to the fire

Astray from birth
They're estranged from the womb
Feeding on evil
Flames shall be their tomb

If it's life you're seeking
Pray before you're reeking

Are we then all asleep
As those in the garden
Our neglection of souls
How it grieves the Father

Wanting to be wrenched
From a well of sorrow
Jesus tore my leash
Him alone I follow

5. Shroud Of Mist 0:28
6. Earthshaker 5:27
O majesty
Of the sovereign rule
Your open palm
You have set over all

Power is yours
To crush what you've made
In your fist the molten core
To shift the earth's plates
And should you choose
To cast down your rod
All nations would wail
At the wall of your flood
In our titanic enterprise
We cannot defy and long survive

Pity is hidden...from my eyes

Saith the Lord
With sympathy stirred
"I'll not execute my wrath
I'll not again destroy Ephraim
For I am God and not man
The Holy One in your midst
With terror I will not come
I will ransom them
From the power of the grave
From the hand of Sheol
...Redeemed
O death
I will be your plagues
O grave
I will be your demise"

7. Hecatombs 3:10
Deification rotting minds
Denying the Christ
Infested with lies
From demons born
You gladly feast
On a banquet of falsehood
And fire roared from heaven
The carcass was consumed
Seize the prophets of Baal
Four-fifty to their doom

Masticate mental reservation
Welcome the venom
Drowning in the depths
Of insanity
Hecatombs
Idolatrous race
New age movement
Mankind is the god

Canonize
Idolize
Deify
Why...

8. Restoration 4:53
The traveller lies fallen, battered and bleeding
In pain upon his path
Despair his companion
No strength to go forth on his way
Death's hand is knocking
My thirsting throat desires his wine
Black shapes are mocking
They long to desecrate my mind
Death's hand is knocking
My drifting soul his eyes may find
Black death is mocking
He's reaching out his hand for mine

An agonizing scream pleads the quickening of death
But only his echo returns to laugh at the broken man
And mock his crumpled form
Yet he must endure and emerge from the wastes
For denial will stagnate his soul
His judgement stained

Master I'm dying
Pain is bursting through my head
Please hear my crying
Don't let me dance among the dead
The violent scourging of Christ
The gory ransom paid
Scarlet streamed his holy blood
Exalted is his name
Spirit of fire restores my sight
Mercy shown through blackest night
Alive once more to carry on
Give voice unto the skies
Emptiness within me
All I feel is freezing pain
Noxious cold burns my eyes
My weakened heart enshrined in ice
In helpless fear I cower
Pathetic my demise
Evil looms with power
Its presence I despise

9. Quiet Surround 4:44
For he'd forsaken all he had to give you
Greater than words can say
For he has given more than you needed
A death on the cross to pay

Decay lone with self pit
And you...not to blame
Thoughts of death become your pleasure
A sanctuary in your head

Long awaiting peace embalms you
To prepare you for your sleep
But behold the image alters
From what you saw it to be

Quiet does surround you sister
Isolated you will be
The smell of death is no longer pleasant
And darkness brings you fear
Your hope for escape it fades
Your sentence has been served

If only, sister, you had listened
To the sweet words he used to say
For he'd forsaken all he had
Greater than can be said

10. Subconscious 2:55
11. Giver Of Life 2:51
Rise up
My soul
Take flight
Accelerate

By grace brought you home
I will abide with you
At your throne
I will commune with you
Lord now show your face
I give praise to you
The feast, it waits
I will fellowship with you

The Christ will reign
Glory seated on high
Purest blood
Power none can deny
Dominion is yours
And all bow to you
Your life you gave
For such evil I do

So yearns my soul
To dance on lakes of glass
And by your name
You give what we may ask
Banish what is false
No misery, no lies
Engrave my heart
The truth for which it cries

SOUNDMASS BONUS TRACKS
12. Death Of Hades 4:57
Master - victory is yours
All power and strength
Who is he
That may behold your face and live?
The gates of Sheol are smashed

The fall of Dagon
By the ark
The false are crushed by your hand
None will stand against your blade
It drips blood and fire
Death with power

Your coming rides near
Black hearts rot with fear
The swords of the Host
Dark angels impale

It is appointed
Once for us to die
Yet twice shall we live
Christ's power and strength

Master O' Master
By your spirit we prevail
Death you have been conquered

13. Content To Rot 4:12
Entombed in earth
After your time
Decomposing
The worms will dine
Eating your flesh
Though not your soul
It has been sent to Heaven or Hell

You can't spend forever
Lying in worms
Your fate you decide
Blessed or cursed

Atheistic
Come before God
You thought you'd die

Content to rot

Selfish creature
You were deceived
Weeping for you never believed

When you are dead
You'll face the truth
Christ crucified
Blood let for you
Accept this now
He died to save
That you may live
Forsake the grave

Content to rot

14. Sudden Death 4:34
Behold
The end
Is upon us

Now a living nightmare
Beastly dominion
Newborns must endure
Mass persecution

This to those who may
Live in this terror
Kneel only to God
Or see him never
Cling to the Christ
Abhor the dark
Do not bow down
Deny the mark

End drawing near
Time growing cold
Earth's destruction
Omens foretold

Wings as eagles
Holy ascension
Now all enter
Tribulation

Newborns must endure
Mass persecution
Look up to Him
Implore
To have your neck severed
Spout gore
That you may live forever

15. Tombthroat 4:56
There is none who understands
Not one who seeks after God
They've gone out of the way
And together they profit not

Their throat is an open tomb
With their tongues they have practice
The venom of serpents under their lips
Their mouths full of cursing and spite

There is none righteous
No not one
None without blemish
For God's Son
There is none righteous
No not one
Apart from God
There is none
There is none righteous

Their feet are swift to shed blood
Destruction - misery
The path of peace they haven't known
No fear of God before their eyes
No one does good, no, not one...

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