BAND NAME: Monotheist
GENRE: Progressive Death Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Orlando, Florida
Lineup:
Michael Moore - Vocals, Guitars
Tyler McDaniel - Vocals, Guitars
Cooper Bates - Vocals, Drums
Jose Figueroa - Bass
Chris Stropoli - Drums
Past Members:
Jake Rice - Vocals
JJ Polachek - Vocals
Anthony Wert - Vocals, Guitars
Xander Rodriguez - Guitars
Isaac - Guitars
Christian Martinez - Guitars
Elyssa Noel - Vocals, Bass
Eirek - Drums
Links:
Discography:
Unforsaken (demo/album)
April 22, 2007, The TTH Label (CD)
November 13, 2012, Shigionoth Records, Remastered (CD)
August 15, 2017, Independent, Remastered (Digital)
???, Erlösung Distribution (Digital)
DEMO TRACKLIST
1. Beheading Azazel 3:28
Lies
Spewed forth
From your putrid mouth
A flood on the desolate
The consummation determined
Ten of one mind
Empowering the beast
Which is and is not
Waging war with the Saints
Devouring their flesh
The screams of my people
Rise up to heaven
The shroud of deception
You have cast on all the earth
Leading by the hand
Two-thirds to the fiery depths of hell
In battle against your Creator
You shall be broken
Visions of ember rain
Darkness is purged forever
Blood like ash
Crumbling about your neck
Warring with the Lamb
Who will raise up victorious
For He is God-incarnate
Creator of all mankind
Whose love stronger than any blade
Has sealed you to eternal doom
And now I stand
My arm raised to heaven
Head of Azazel in hand
Harmonious congregation observe
The sign of eternal victory
2. Through Vagrant Eyes 11:25
Lost
A branch torn from the tree
This feeling overwhelms me
I am not a part of this place
A world under the veil of the beast
Overrun by deception
Acceptance fleeting my grasp
This is not my home
I am not my own
Inviting hands
Marked by leprosy
Reach to pull me into the darkness
The lecherous abyss
Constantly on the run
I narrowly escape the maddened throng
Having found refuge for now
But as night befalls
The forest screams danger
The whispers of the trees reach my ears
"You don't belong here"
Everywhere my eyes beheld
Indulgence in the flesh
The downfall of society
These are the ones that reject truth and love
How could I ever reside in this place?
How could I ever call this place home?
Forsaking each other for love of ourselves
This is the way to evolve our society
Destruction of peace and truth
The new age dogma
Our new creed
Fools
There is no peace in sin
And I will have no part in this
Father please open their eyes
Let them see the path they follow is only to death
Give me strength as I trudge along this place
Wandering alone in the midst of flames
A flood of madness
For I am a stranger here
(This is not my place, I won't ever belong)
And I long to be home
(Heaven is my place, heaven is where I long for)
3. Shroud Of The Malefactor 11:28
Oh Satan
Lord of darkness
Father of all filth
Prince of the earth
Your hand that casteth the shadow
Upon the souls of men
Building up the pride
With teeming eyes
Behold the worship of self
Behold the path to infernal destruction
But I laugh at you
A mutual discernment
You will perish
And don't they know?
Can't they see?
You are their god
You are the one they worship
For anything apart of God is of you
And this you know
Oh blind ones
Let the scriptures be fulfilled
A turning away must come first
Forsaking the truth of God
Men bury themselves in vain idleness of life
The claim of intellect
The seeds of deceit
And you watch with great joy
Softly but surely delivering them unto the flames
How I wish your time was now
A desire to see you burn in the agony of a thousand years
But I must let the wisdom of God fill my mind
His justice in righteousness
Prevails over all sin
What path they will follow
The Father gives them up to the devices of their own hearts
Some to the light of heaven
And some to the darkness of Sheol
But I rejoice in knowing that your enemy is just
And no accusation of unfairness could stand against Him
A sad night has come
As I behold the men of the earth
Give themselves up to closed hearts
To eternal darkness
Never to exist again
One life wasted
Another never to be realized
4. Morningstar 5:01
5. Blood For Blood 5:33
I gaze on this world
A world cast in the shadow of self indulgence
Forgetting the mercies of its Maker
Unable to comprehend the light
Desiring only the darkness
And then you ask
"Why this pain?
Where is God?"
How interesting it is
That in the midst of the storm
The blasphemers call out to the One
Whom they spit in the face of
You kill My sheep
You slaughter My children
Their blood a blanket of scarlet on the pavement
No
Only retribution
I will avenge them
The wicked will be no longer
Blood for blood
Your time ends now
6. Enraptured 10:13
This place
Abode of devils
Gouge out my eyes
See no evil
God of light
Let me feel Your presence before me
Forces of darkness
Powerless to hinder
The final sacrifice
Our souls lingered
Halfway to hell
But Your hand draws us up into Heaven
With a loving embrace
Let us forget these dreams of the night
Insignificant thoughts
Arbitrary murmurs
Fade into blackness
Let our bodies be renewed
Our hearts purified
Our souls reborn
And life enraptured by the light of eternity
7. Unforsaken 15:44
Footprints
Marked by illness
Forged a path into the walkway of history
I stare through the bars
Imprisoned so suddenly
The blackened walls tell of the evil one
My voice cries out with the fury of a thousand martyrs
Hoping to reach the ear of Almighty God
I've trudged through life
Growing through time
And now I come face-to-face with my greatest tribulation
Tribulation
I appeal to thee
For in You I put my trust
I've trudged through life
Growing through time
And now I come face-to-face with my greatest tribulation
Tribulation
But the Lord will make me the strongest of them all
And the demons shall flee at His arrival
He stands at my side
Empowering me
Giving me wisdom
For this I will not forget
And I will praise You
A hundred times more than ever
Unforsaken
Even the weakest of your children
Oh how words cannot express the joy that comes in the morning
The waters of peace that wash over me
After Your hands lifted me up
Throughout the darkest night
Praise be to God Almighty
Let us be joined to You
To You forever
FULL-LENGTH TRACKLIST
1. Beheading Azazel 3:28
2. Through Vagrant Eyes 11:25
3. Shroud Of The Malefactor 11:28
4. Morningstar 5:01
5. Blood For Blood 5:33
6. Babel (Interlude) 0:32
7. Enraptured 9:35
8. Unforsaken 15:44
Genesis Of Perdition (EP)
May 21, 2013, Independent (CD, Digital)
May 21, 2013, SkyBurnsBlack Records (Digital)
1. Genesis Of Perdition (Prelude) 0:45
2. Subzero 4:38
I have become a god
I have dismantled my future to shape your affections
Laid out my own perdition
Sold my soul to have yours in the palm of my hand
I will crush your heart
You will grow another
I will ask for nothing
Add another tally
As more of my humanity decays
My perdition is all of you
You, that said you are different
Not like all of you
All of you are the one of you
Who never could match up to me
I have been dead for many seasons
My corpse is feasting on the pseudo-vengeance
All of you killed me
The rest of you will pay
You worship an angry god
Unafraid of your infidelity
Unafraid of your absence
Welcoming
Inviting
Preying
Give yourself to me
For I am nothing
And have nothing to give anymore
So I'll take
And die alone
With all of your hearts in my hands
And the tallies on my back
3. Elegy Of The Sleepwalker 5:42
A system built upon greed
A virus left to its own devices
Exacerbating its mode of destruction
Decadence from within
Perpetual lust for power
A never-ceasing desire to conquer all
Corruption thrives
On the allegiance of the ignorant
Beclouding a multitude of minds
Rendering a profound slumber
Deepening throughout the ages
Enslaving the ones it vows to destroy
Leading the sleepwalkers
Unto fiery graves
Resistance subdued
The winds of vicissitude
Vanquished to oblivion
The illusion of liberty bestowed
False nectar
To satiate their barren spirits
Inducing waking coma
Drained of all livelyhood
Derelict and bare
Bereft of future and hope
Greed thrives and lives on endlessly
An illness of our own design
Thoughts of freedom hoped for
Lead deeper into enslavement
The souls of the world in shackles
Servile to the ones we have condoned
The truth will set them free
4. Feeding On Pestilence 3:53
With eyes closed
And open mouths
We feed on rotting corpses
Carrion decaying for years past
To soothe these hunger pangs
The more you give
The more we take
Never fulfilled
Nor satisfied
Contagion as sustenance
For the hungry souls
We loathe the bread of the past
Now we feast of decrepit flesh
We give ourselves to you
Torture, kill
From the inside
These illusions
Or is it truth?
Self-serving suicide
Destroying earthly temples
Putrid carcasses
Succulent remains
We must only fulfill ourselves
We welcome with opened mouths
And unopened eyes
No trace of humanity left
Mindless animals
Feeding on pestilence
We are what we consume
5. Altar Of Vanity 5:25
A victim of a vile creature
Spawned to devour the lives of men
Chasing mammon
But in him she will find no peace
Her sole purpose, to amass
Worship at the altar of vanity
A prodigy of usury
The lives of others
Are but playthings in her eyes
No sympathy for them or anyone
She will suck them dry
Her beauty is only a mask
Hiding the vileness underneath
She kills and moves on again
Again
You think that you will find happiness
In riches, in glory
Only to be left with nothing
In the end
Slowly the world will see
As your facade crumbles away
The pathetic being you are
Caring not for anyone
But yourself
A pitiful existence
You are a monster without emotion
A parasitic entity
With vain intent
The sun's dim light shines through
That hole in your chest
Where a heart was supposed to be
Wasted flesh
6. The Great Awakening 5:33
A society lives in the comfort of its intellect
The house that humankind built
Abode of sleeping spirits
Placing trust in the security of society
"This was made with our bare hands
No god needed to spin the wheels of the machine"
But when the machine begins to fail
The façade of security fading away
All you thought you knew
Slipping through your fingers
Re-evaluate what you were taught
What you accepted
The folly of your hubris brings destruction
All the world mourns
The earth pregnant with plagues and pestilence
Birth pangs, its pain becomes your own
You look for answers in the hands of the ones
You put so much trust in
(But they are just as lost as you
Unable to perceive what's beyond their own eyes
Their narrow vision is your truth
These are the ones you worship
But your gods can die
And they will)
As the end approaches
There is a great awakening
The masses cry out to the God they claimed was false
But the living God will be their only hope
The life of comfort you once knew is just a memory
The house shattered and broken down
There is no place to lay your head
And hope is all you have to hold on to
Break free from the carnal lies that hold you
Break the chains binding you to this earthly realm
Awaken, oh sleeper
And open your eyes
The answers you seek are all around you
The answers you seek are right in front of your face
Extras (January 20, 2014, Independent) (Digital)
1. BWV 784 (J.S. Bach) - Metal Version 1:16
2. Blood For Blood (2017 Mix) 5:34
Scion Of Darkness (single, January 30, 2016, SkyBurnsBlack Records) (Digital)
1. Scion Of Darkness 8:03
Scourge (album)
March 16, 2018, Prosthetic Records, Limited Edition (CD, 12" Vinyl, Digital)
1. The Grey King 4:45
The pit is vast as it is empty
And the emptiness is its draw
Paved on the footsteps of great minds
The columns of the kingdom stand tall
The mortar composed of buried hope and dead faith
Petrified philosophers stand guard at the gates
Adrenaline coalesces with lucidity
The void is not a cage
The void is a throne
The crown is covered in the blood of my former self
And his demise makes me feel nothing
I am asked to cry out for freedom
I am silent
I am told to report terror
I am silent
I am tasked to speak of dread
I am silent
If the world begs for a testimony
The world will be left wanting
Sinister warnings fall hard under a relentless gravity
The horrors of this place have grown benign and I am thriving in the muck
Ashes coat rusted skeletons of monuments made to dead ideas
My lungs are coated in soot and I learn to breathe fire
Not to exhale any sort of weapon, but inhaling inexorable truth
Kings wilt atop weathered podiums
Commanding a society of cockroaches that will not bow
Heavy crowns wear down weak necks
The sun no longer reflects on the gold
Majesty in all forms is dead
And will not ever be reborn
My sky is black forever
For my ceiling does not stop at the clouds
This universe is vast
Full of great useless monoliths
Suspended in dark matter
No stories to tell but the great withering of time
This universe is a graveyard
Coffins orbit coffins
Each corpse so convinced
The graveyard was made in tribute to them
This makes me feel nothing
2. The Great Chain At The Neck Of The Earth 6:39
Fall into lucidity
And drink in the fear of disillusion
There is no solemn way to behold this
There is no way to escape the shock
The filter is decaying now and I see
That though He called us diamonds
These diamonds are covered in filth
The stench of our parade
Is no longer the stench of victory
The bodies I hung as trophies
Were my brothers
There is no glory in the death of men
Perceiving God I broke the souls of the fallen
Their final words never escaped my mind
At the peak of the monolith I saw
God fall and shatter into dust
But the dust did not dissipate in the wind
Nor was it washed away in the rain
His ashes would stain the valleys of my mind
The god I thought I knew only stood as an icon
The true deity would be found in the deepest trenches of fear
In the truest peaks of discovery
His image would be seen as true perfection
His image was beautiful
His image in the man with his foot to the throat of Mother Earth
The spiteful wretch reduced to a prototype
This planet made obsolete
Humanity unchained from the sinking corpse
Men standing as gods
Our legacy will not outlive our designs
And we will outlive time
3. Mark Of The Beast I: The Image (Prelude) 1:53
4. Mark Of The Beast II: Scion Of Darkness 7:54
Worship the gods of technology
Advancing the human race
Augmenting creation
Blind allegiance to our new masters
Cast away superstitions and doubts
Place our hope and faith in the bosom of man
This mortal creature destined to vanish
This limited mind, a nest of hubris and misconception
Let us feign control of our world and destiny
For in our feebleness we have attained omnipotence
Man, all-knowing, will lead us to truth
Man, who could not save himself, will save us
In his quest to defeat nature
He strives for the seats of the Heavenly Host
To be like a god unto himself
To be God
The illusion of transcending our mortal shackles
By means contrary to nature
Giving way to the corruption of a natural mind
That which knows no bounds
Bearing certain death and destruction
This is the mark of the beast
A symbol of subjugation and obedience
To the image of your true master
A fingerprint of decadence, ubiquitous
The scion of darkness, whose visage cannot be seen
By the eyes of those blinded by pride
5. Infinite Wisdom 10:12
6. Desolate, It Mourns Before Me 10:48
Light
Illuminates the sky
Vulgar rays spread like snakes slithering
Upon the fleeting clouds
The time has come
To tame the elements
And place the reigns upon nature
Hands reaching toward the heavens
To bring them down
A cabal of intellect gathers
Arrogant hearts and ambition fomenting
A plague of astonishment blooms
A bitter flower shedding putrid petals
Cutting the air in their salacious sway
They sing a whispered song, virulent
Heralding the demise of all things
The mental gifts bestowed upon My children
Lead to unceasing greed and destruction
Their machines facing the welkin
Babel's tower reconstructed
A bitter flower shedding putrid petals
Cutting the air in their salacious sway
They sing a whispered song, virulent
Heralding the demise of all things
Behold the stalwart figure of metal and wire entwined
An infernal image of mangled sinew and ligaments
An unsightly creature indeed
With this they aim to conquer creation
These gluttonous fools, feeding themselves with the blood of their brothers
Will watch the sky fall and demolish all that ever was
A beam of light shot into the sky
The fulgurant Judas kiss
A treacherous kiss once again
And like that fateful night of the past
Recompense is wrought swiftly upon their heads
They are but insects pushing against the celestial heel
Waiting to crush them into the dust from whence they came
The earth uprooted, the heavens torrent unrestrained terror
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
And their blood shall run on the streets for the dogs to lick
Slain bodies, carrion for the crows' feast
Now lays there the land, bereft of fools' mockery
Desolate, it mourns before Me
A bitter flower shedding putrid petals
Cutting the air in their salacious sway
They sing a whispered song, virulent
Heralding the demise of all things
7. Abominable Acts 10:43
Shackled by greed
Herded like cattle, subhuman filth
Regarded as a means to feed corruption
Branded by the mark of Cain
A sign from God to reveal the fallen
A creation inferior
Lashed and flayed
Whipped and slain
Hearts of stone swallow living flesh
The Word to justify
Abominable acts
Their purported light makes clear
The depths of darkness
Centuries of abhorrence
Mitigated but slightly
The physical scourge
Gives way to mental torment
The icon of bondage resurfaces
With a different face
All of humanity now enslaved
By the ones who sit on mountains of gold
Peering below on the valley of peasants
The helpless, the powerless
Hearts corrupted and blinded by the illusion
That this life is measured by wealth and the material
In their eyes, we all bear the mark
Signifying our status
As fodder to be trampled upon
Goaded, prodded, processed
Fed into a cycle of servitude
Trapped beneath an impossible burden
A vain effort to satiate the gluttonous abyss
Of the ones who lust for power
The ultimate charade
The charlatans propagate
Faith in freedom
Amounting to unending deceit
A million miles from truth
The road forms a divide
A schism among us
Brother against brother
While they laugh down at us all
8. Scourge 8:51
We are the transgressors
We are the ones marked for death
Since the dawn of man
Steeped in sin we toiled through
Lifetimes of sorrow and ages of suffering
Led into darkness by the Serpent's tongue
By our own choices we lost Paradise
By our own volition we have trespassed Your law
Peerless destroyers of all we were entrusted with
Sentencing our hope to die with scornful arrogance
Time and time again
We are the killers
We deserve nothing but the flame
Our destiny to be cast away
Into everlasting darkness
Consumed and forgotten
For we were endowed with perfection
The immaculate forgone
To assume the decadent form of pride
We deserve nothing but the agony of abandonment
Nothing but the pain of the fire
The gnashing of teeth
And the weeping of the unworthy
There is nothing we can do
There is nothing we can do
There is nothing we can do
By our own power
Striving in vain to attain the divine
Only to fall short endlessly
Returning to the pit of despondency
The scourge born by our own hands
Yet, despite our shortcomings
You provide to us unfathomable grace
Perfect mercy to sustain the tainted race
And carry them to their lost country
Back to the paradise promised as an inheritance
Faith trumps our futile efforts to gain righteousness
Accept the life given to save us all
Thereby averting the path to damnation
Separation from eternal life
The justice we truly deserve
Twilight Of The Wolves (single, February 6, 2020, Prosthetic Records) (Digital)
1. Twilight Of The Wolves 8:30
Hiding in the somber night
The whisper of silence hides behind your failing sight
The distant howls beckon your fate
In the darkness there is no escape
Condemned minds lead feeble lambs to slaughter
The claws of annihilation reaching down still farther within
For the wolves have appeared
Cloaked in deception
Their hunger unbound
Their thirst wholly unconfined
They played their part perfectly
Slithering
Lower the skin squirming like parasites polluting
Fading from within
Nescient to the horror inside
Time drifts into the void of their eyes
As their teeth sink into your neck
Abandon the effort
This is the end
Trust has been shattered
By the fangs that lust only for flesh
Truth devastated by the hands
That stripped your mind of hope
Remember forever your misconception
For the wolves have appeared
Cloaked in deception
Their hunger unbound
Their thirst wholly unconfined
Live In Brooklyn (02/17/2020) (live album, December 25, 2020, Independent) (Digital)
Being that the whole performance is in one audio file, I'll provide two different versions of the tracklist to also provide the setlist.
SHORT TRACKLIST
1. Live In Brooklyn 02/17/2020 30:24
LONG TRACKLIST
1. Scourge
2. Twilight Of The Wolves
3. Luciferious Demagogy
4. The Great Awakening
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