BAND NAME: Sympathy
GENRE: Technical Death Metal / Symphonic Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Caronport, Saskatchewan, Canada
Lineup:
Derek James - Everything
Past members:
Jeff Lewish - Guitars
Jim Austin - Drums
Links:
Discography:
Age Of Darkness (demo)
July 1995, Independent (CD)
February 22, 2022, Independent (Digital)
1. Age Of Darkness 4:34
2. Accursed 4:51
3. Web Of Deceit 4:16
4. Yet We Are Not Consumed 6:22
5. Arise 4:41
6. Sinner's Debt 8:12
7. Torn In Two 5:54
8. Who Are You 4:50
9. The Fire Beneath 2:30
DIGITAL ADDITIONAL TRACK
10. Return To Eden 7:58
Realms Of Chaos (demo)
August 1996, Independent (format unknown)
February 22, 2022, Independent (Digital)
Tracks 4 and 5 are switched on the digital version.
1. Fey Illusion 3:27
2. Final Ordeal 3:24
3. Cup Of Demons 4:12
4. Age Of Darkness 3:44
5. Inflamed (Mortification cover) 4:18
Inside the crypts of eternal death
Hear the screams of a billion souls
Burning in the catacombs
The place of eternal repayment
Those who died without Christ's blood
Who followed the damned, eternal liar
Will burn forever without escape
From the inextinguishable fire
Prince of the air
What does your evil dare
This very torment was ignited all for you
The burning sensation, feel the torment rumbling
The flames disposal, the end result of sin
Flames burn high, smoke burns the eyes
Join in and cry, scream for your life
Those who died without Christ's blood
Who followed the damned, eternal liar
Will burn forever without escape
From the inextinguishable fire
Who cry for help once in there's no escape
Eternal reward for the life you embraced
The dream of darkness awakes
Enter eternal flames
Tales of old proven before you
Opposing all disbelief
Those who died without Christ's blood
Who followed the damned, eternal liar
Will burn forever without escape
From the inextinguishable fire
What is eternity that you should lose your soul
Eternal life with Christ or face the second death
Invocation (album)
April 2002, Fear Dark Records (CD)
February 22, 2022, Independent (Digital)
1. Invocation 4:24
Father, Holy Father
Hallowed
Be Thy name
Father, Holy Father
Stand among us
Hear our please
We the holy purified
Those who in Thy Son abide
Lay our broken spirits down
Casting ourselves to the ground
Seal us with the Holy Spirit
Fill us with the Holy Spirit
Lead us with the Holy Spirit
We are ready for Thy bidding
Command us to do Thy will
We are vessels for Thy service
We bow down to Thee Father
Thou art master sovereign God
And we are Thy willing servants
Come, Holy Spirit come
Heal the sinner, cleanse our souls
Come, Holy Savior come
Cleanse our souls with Thy blood
Come, Holy Father come
Make Thy will be our own
Father, Holy Father
Thy will be down
In earth and heaven
Father, Holy Father
Thy kingdom come
Reign in our hearts
2. Fey Illusion 4:13
Eyes have ceased to see
True reality
Prince of the air
Enchanted the unaware
Son of the dawn
Leads them along
Realm that they behold
Deception from long ago
Believing ignorantly
In bondage that they're free
Caught in a world
Within a darkened mind
Spellbound with lies
Deceiver lead the blind
Tangled in a web
Of false hope
Strangled by the way
Things seem
Desperate for light
Embracing deepest night
Drowning in your fears
Not yet spoken
3. Occupy 5:05
Curse my name
Beat my brow
Drive your claws
In my flesh
Cause me dread
Cause me doubt
Cast your fear
On my heart
Yet I give no ground
Here I remain
Bear all your torment
Withstand all your pain
Against the gates of hell I will stand
In my enemy's land I will occupy
Against dark forces and evil
I will not sway, turn back or bend
Breaking through your lies
Tearing down your strongholds
Casting down your gods
Beating them to dust
If you slaw me
As you did my master
Then I will rise
Just as he has done
4. Circle Of Light 5:16
Gathered towards the holy flame
Searing, burning flesh away
My essence is consumed
Destroying all that's left of me
Kneel before the altar
Covered by blood sacrifice
My nature is reborn
Bearing the seal of divinity
Burn - fire of renewal
Burn - fire of rebirth
Cleanse - blood of the covenant
Burn - take what's left of me
Gathered in the presence
Of the Ancient One
I am a new creature
Reborn by blood and fire
My hands are raised
In sweet adoration
My voice cries out
And chants the ancient hymns
Many are about me
Who bask in holy night
We read the ancient tomes
And partake in deity
5. Final Ordeal 4:47
Caught in this coil
Of frail mortality
My fate is sealed
By the shedding of blood
The blood stains my hands no longer
Vicarious crucifixion ensures resurrection
Robes of black have burned away
Fueling fires of propitiation
Embraced by the holy fire
Raptured, stole away
Transformed by light
Pass into eternity
What was not understood
Now seems so clear to me
All that can heal in time will heal
All that can burn in time will burn
All that's concealed will be revealed
Opened to the eyes of divine majesty
6. Cup Of Demons 4:13
Rising out of banished time
Chalice filled with unholy wine
Enter the realm of the damned
Partaking ad nauseam
Mixing new wine with the old
Consuming wrath meant for goats
Hands soiled, on the filth of idolatry
Heart stained, causing divine jealousy
Love lost, from what it was at first
Provocation, are we stronger than he
Safety, it lies in your sanctity
Security is under almighty
If you serve two masters
You'll love one hate the other
If all were permissible
Then all would be beneficial
Have you forgotten that
We were purchased by blood
Cherished arcane rebellion
Arousing anger from God
7. Arise 4:04
The will, not to conform
Any longer to this world
The will, to be transformed
By renewal of the mind
The setting apart
In an age of sin
Sanctifying work
In the believer's heart
No longer to conform
To the patterns of sin
We will rise above the world
And its evil ways
Arise
Arise
His Church
Arise
8. Realm Of Disease 5:01
Death comes so slowly in this torment
As I fall prey to your disease
My flesh slowly rots and falls away
In pestilential decay
Realm of disease cast your sickness over me
Love of decay is plaguing me
Madness comes quickly in this torment
As I fall prey to your disease
My mind succumbs to its dementia
Consuming what was left of me
Enslaved by my desires
Burning hate inside of me
Revealed by my confession
The depths of depravity
Shadows and wraiths fill my mind
Their commands are my will
Are they specters of my creation?
Or am I enslaved in their skill?
As I lay groaning here my thoughts again return
To those times before this plague
Was I an innocent who has become infected?
Or am I a scion of infirmity?
9. Prelude And Toccata In E Minor 2:18
(Instrumental)
10. Christus Factus Est 2:54
Christus factus est pro nobis
Obediens usque ad mortem
Mortem autem crucis
Propter quod et Deus
Exaltavit illum
Et dedit illi nomen
Quod est super omne nomen
Christ became obedient for us unto death
Even the death on the cross
Wherefore God also hath exalted Him
And hath given him a name
Which is above every name
11. Immolation Of The Dragon 2:24
You await your final hour
With fear you loathe the end of days
Each moment you're closer to your grave
Infected spirit, filled with angst and dread
Defeated angel, heal crushed through your head
Accusing demon, your end draws nigh
Unbound restless
Serpent of hate
Consume the lifeless
While the furnace you await
Venomous viper
You'll live eternal death
Enshackled
In hell's fiery pit
The Bride will rejoice
When she sees your fate
Cast to outer darkness
Your torment wont' abate
For the lamb has defeated you
As he hung dead
And the lion will destroy you
And will do as he has said
12. Death Of The Immortals 2:17
(Instrumental)
Arcane Path (album)
April 2004, Fear Dark Records (CD)
February 21, 2022, Independent (Digital)
1. Introduction 1:08
(Instrumental)
2. Adept Arcana 4:36
The fire that leaves no scars sears my flesh
It fills me with fear and wonder
An heir to the secret power
An heir to the flame
I am adept in the ancient
Well versed in the arcane
The blood of the chosen flows within me
It fills me with strength and passion
As fire, through my veins
The knowledge I've acquired
It burns and consumes me
And reveals what eyes can't see
As a furnace fueled with flame
The power that I've acquired
It permeates and animates me
And raises me to transcendency
3. The Shining Ones 4:08
Shrouded in obscurity, forces of divinity
Burning light and majesty
Beyond apprehension, empirical cognition
Servants of the immortal throne
Ever acting for the will of enthroned deity
Never ceasing, never tiring
Endless execution of their obscure rites
Before the altar of the ancient one
As the shining ones to thee pay their homage
I shall bend my knee in fervent worship
I will take the oath that there shall be no other
And with this flesh, may your will be done
Their visages are as the burning light of purity
Terror and fear beyond compare
The beating of their wings is the roaring of the ocean
Their ardor belongs to the Lord of Sabaoth
Songs never cease to ring throughout the temple
As the smoke from the altar fills the air
Their voices sound like the crushing weight of thunder
As their hordes sing praise to the ancient one
Hordes, of fiery creatures, of ancient beings, that eyes can't see
Drove, of mighty warriors, almighty's agents, defend the chosen
Hosts, of divine legions, the dread armies, serve my master
Swarms, surrounding me, upholding me, protecting me
As the shining ones to thee pay their homage
I shall bend my knee in fervent worship
I shall take the coal unto me that is offered
And with its fire shall this flesh be cleansed
4. Lord Of All Terrors 4:52
Can the mind of man withstand the terrors
Of the unseen world
And his flesh endure the radiance
Yet not be consumed?
Has the gate not opened by the keys of
Solomon who
Sought the power
Of the unknown horrors
Yet amongst the beasts
That dwell beyond us
Is the ancient Lord of Terrors
Whose hand is long
When his burning eye which never tires
Is upon us
We feel the ancient power and
The horrors he commands
Cast about his throne are ancient armies
He destroyed when
They withstood him, worshiped demons
And lifted up their Bael
How could lowly dragon bear the terror
That consumed him
The god did scream
And he was devoured
Cast not upon the Lord of Terrors
Can your will bind his ancient power
He who rules over the realms of chaos
He whose lidless eye never grows tired
For amid the wretched fires of Moloch did the
Scourge of wrath
Destroy and burn
His immortal flesh away
And the howls of Ammon feral demon
Have been silenced
And his flame has been extinguished
His power stolen away
The high places are in ruin
From his molten wrath
Burning as a furnace
Gods withstood him not
And they shrunk in horror
As he destroyed them all
Upon this infected earth
Filled with immortal blood
Ancient powers have fallen
Though the gate is opened
By the keys of Solomon
The powers live in fear of the flame
5. In Mine Own Image 3:15
With anthropomorphic certainty
I enthrone my deity
Inevitable reality
Raised within mine own mind
In the resemblance of me
God is my will's extrusion
It is I who has created him
And my will shall be done
Should I not worship him
And so honor myself
And when I bow
I praise the one
To whom I give
Life
The pleasure that I feel in worship is my own
The prayers of my heart are offered to myself
How could I not
Create myself as God
The substance of my faith is grounded in desire
The essence of my faith is the form of myself
How can I escape
This emotive state
I adorned myself with jewels
With gold and finery
Clothe myself in purple
I raise myself an altar
Petition my desires
There is no God unless I am he
6. Bearing The Plague 4:20
My flesh bears the plague
Unleashed by man
Corruption prevails
Consume this body with decay
Its tendrils are lithe
Piercing within
To the spectral heart of man
My mind burns with fire
Unbound in my soul
Corruption prevails
To fill my heart with hate
Is it disease
Or is it become
Inseparable from me?
Enslaved to the passion
Ignited within
Tasting the power
Of this depravity
Am I
Am I the master
Of my own
Destiny
Am I
Am I the pawn
Of this plague that I bear
Have I
Have I be born
As the
As the scion
Of hate
Of my hate
And this infirmity
My flesh writhes with disease
My mind rots with dementia
My will embraces desolation
The love of decay consumes me
7. Adorned In Apostasy 3:52
City of man, built by thieves, arrayed in splendor
Stealing away the souls of men for your own pleasure
Casting down their spent lives, you eat their flesh
Consuming all, redeeming none, filled with death
Church of wealth, built by blood, filled with pain
Raping your own little ones for cursed gain
Cannibal, entrap your prey, consume your fill
Helpless, they relied on you to protect their youth
Have you not secured the lowest regions of Hell
Have you not secured the lowest regions of Hell
Has this not ensured your endless torment
The distraught you leave in your own wake of chaos
They shall one day arise and rip your flesh
Then will their angels rejoice in their justice
On that day will the grave take the apostate
That day shall wounded souls deal their torment
Do not go unto her all you who are weary
For your soul shall find only decay, torment, disease and ill
Nor offer to her your soothing comforts
For evil has purchase of her heart and she has become forsaken
8. Love Me And Despair 4:05
Welcome to my lair
Where I have slain the mighty
And tasted the blood of the righteous
The ashes and remains
Of their rotted flesh
Is fetid on the breath of my mouth
I am the tempter
The alluring lech and harlot
I call as a siren unto all
Come and taste
Of my wine and secret pleasures
Surrender your will unto me
Embrace the night
To share my gifts
Bow unto me
Love me and despair
I am the lust
That festers like a wound
And poisons your mind with every thought
I am the hunger
That weakens your resolve
And consumes your heart and soul
I offer you all the pleasures of your flesh
Just bow and give your worship to me
I offer you all the luxury of wealth
Just swear your allegiance to me
I will give you all your heart's desires
But you will be bound unto me
Abandon all hope
Ye who enter here
For mine is the gateway to Hell
My snares will entangle
And my claws grip your flesh
And you will become my thrall
9. The Red League 3:28
Hidden in the groves
Where once burned pagan fires
The chosen ones have gathered to perform
The rites of ancient scriptures
Founded in the blood
Of our martyred dead
All about the darkened night
Lit only by our fires
The acolytes are summoned
We complete our ancient task
To spill immortal blood
All will satisfy their thirst and drink
Gathered in the presence
Of the ancient one
I will partake in deity
10. Twilight And Rebirth 3:42
When I in the season of autumn in my life
I expect to die and pass on from death to life
Though this flesh rots and decays and falls from the bone
The lot of my days won't be to lie in the grave
The worm down in the earth consumes not my essence
The grave, the tomb, holds no sway on me, impotent
Sinews reknit and joints made anew, mind away
This corpse will live not to die or grow sick again
In my twilight hour I am assured that though I die
I will face-to-face see the ancient one
And in my rebirth I shall arise to taste of life
And death will have no victory
When my hour has come to pass on and I meet death
I will awake in the ancient halls of glory
And when mighty legions go forth to purge the earth
My flesh will groan in the grave for its time has come
11. Surrounded By The Dead 6:07
The ancient dead have surrounded me
Their fleshless hands are upholding me
Such a great cloud of the dead elect
They held the flame, passed it unto me
Tortured and killed by heathen hands
Facing their death, they did not recant
I can endure an remain to the end
I am a nexus for the dead and man
Tasting death and tasting sorrows
Yet they did endure
Facing torment, facing judgment
Yet I shall endure
I am promised my own portion
Of the weight they bore
I embrace the pain and suffering
For me that's assured
The ancient dead have surrounded me and they strength me
Their fleshless hands are upholding me with their firm grip
Their lives were spent for the hidden truths that belong to me
I am one of the few who was chosen for this arcane path
12. Realm Of Disease 4:04
Death comes so slowly in this torment
As I fall prey to your disease
My flesh slowly rots and falls away
In pestilential decay
Realm of disease cast your sickness over me
Love of decay is plaguing me
Madness comes quickly in this torment
As I fall prey to your disease
My mind succumbs to its dementia
Consuming what was left of me
Enslaved by my desires
Burning hate inside of me
Revealed by my confession
The depths of depravity
Shadows and wraiths fill my mind
Their commands are my will
Are they specters of my creation?
Or am I enslaved in their skill?
As I lay groaning here my thoughts again return
To those times before this plague
Was I an innocent who has become infected?
Or am I a scion of infirmity?
Abyssal Throne (EP, August 1, 2005, Momentum Scandinavia) (CD)
1. Depths Of The Earth 1:34
2. Insipid 5:12
Cast to the earth, the sages have told
The great deceiver the serpent of old
Is bound to the earth to wander its plains
Inflicting his darkness, increasing his throne
Deepest regions infected below
Performing their rites in abyssal realms
Hiding themselves from the all-seeing eye
Now is the hour of reckoning
Now shall the powers be usurped
Now the axe stands readied to fall
Scourge of the ages
Rendered now insipid
Deposed and feeble traitor
Reign forever impotent
Your kingdom stands in turmoil
Your rebellion is undone
All that remains is now cursed
Harbinger of the impending wrath
Reflected upon the anguished skies
Unveiled within the barren soil
Upon these earthly plains
No baleful scion can stand
The kingdom of this world
Had become the kingdom of our God
Scourge of the ages
Rendered now insipid
Deposed and feeble traitor
Reign forever impotent
3. Immolation Of The Dragon 2:44
You await your final hour
With fear you loathe the end of days
Each moment you're closer to your grave
Infected spirit, filled with angst and dread
Accusing demon, your end draws high
Unbound restless
Serpent of hate
Consume the lifeless
While the furnace you await
Venomous viper
You'll live eternal death
In Hell's fiery pit
The Bride will rejoice
When she sees your fate
Cast to outer darkness
Your torment won't abate
For the Lamb has defeated you
As he hung dead
And the Lion will destroy you
And will do as he has said
4. Ascendency 3:40
I am given power
I am given strength
Ancient forces dwell in me
I have drank of knowledge
I have embraced wisdom
Deep secrets upon aeons
With strong ecstasy
I embrace the hope
Of a certain rebirth
To awake with the fathers of old
That which once was hidden
Now seems clear to me
I am reborn
Take me down to the ancient graves
Of those who passed their ember
That has burned into me as a fire
I will shroud their tombs with horror
I will name them among the blessed
For their faith has been instilled in me
I have taken all the offered
I am now their incarnation
For their God has come to dwell with me
I have taken oaths as they did
I am sealed as once they were
I am an ascendant progeny
5. Occupy 4:41
Curse my name
Beat my brow
Drive your claws
In my flesh
Cause me dread
Cause me doubt
On my heart
Yet I give no ground
Here I remain
Bear all your torment
Withstand all your pain
Against the gates of Hell I will stand
In my Enemy's land I will occupy
Against dark forces and evil
I will not sway, turn back or ben
Breaking through your lies
Tearing down your strongholds
Casting down your gods
Beating them to dust
If you slay me
As you did my Master
Then I will rise
Just as He has done
6. Torn Into Enthrallment (Suffocation cover) 4:48
Brain patterns altered since birth
To serve the higher cause
Pawns of twisted vision
Manipulate to do thy bidding
It is easy for them
To control us this way
To think is obsolete
Therefore no way to question their rule
A mindless, lifeless zombie
To walk the rest of its days
There's only one law to serve them
All else results in termination
Breeding is done by means of test tubes
It seems strange to me to end up this way
Torn from my state of being
Stripped of all my worth
I can no longer feel
What is now being done to me
I have awakened
Yet cannot move
Paralysis has stricken me
I pray for death
Yet cannot speak
Enslavement now possesses me
Bleed, bleed
You scream at me
Draining
Worthless is my soul you say
You feed the lie
To collapse my will
Feed, feed
On what's left of me
Eating away the life I once lived
You left me in your wake
Or so you think
Vigilant in your plans to deny
You will not overtake
To win the stakes
I will not cower to your lies
Your foolish greedy mind
Is filled with selfish pride
It will bring you to your knees
Flailing in the cess
This convoluted mess
The origin of your disease
Anagogic Tyranny (album)
November 11, 2008, Bombworks Records (CD)
February 21, 2022, Independent (Digital)
1. Insurrection 4:00
Too long I have cowered
I have become a slave
To my own thoughts
I must conquer myself
I am the hand of plague
I am the anger poured out
I am the scion of resolve
The insurrection
I am the birth of violence
I am the hungry gaze
I am the soul's unrest
I am my destruction
Beaten down in my fury
Taken what was once mine
I am consumed and spent
I have been subdued
Plagued always with doubts
Bruised and broken by chains
Freedom's taste forgotten
I am a prisoner
Begging now before me
Captors that once I feared
Now their teeth are broken
Their cruelties repaid
Breaking out of confinement
Bursting out of this tomb
Desolate my jailers
Now I arise to kill again
2. And All Flesh 4:39
I am not conditioned, I sill feel pain
Of a thousand knives in my flesh
Hanging from the meat-covered walls
Skin stretched tight, caught in hooks
Freezing beneath northern skies
Burning at the touch of flame
Tasting fetid sickening smoke
Hear the beast that calls my name
Prisoner and captive of a failing war
I am condemned to die
There's no escape from this scene of my demise
Here nailed upon these walls
Freezing beneath northern skies
Hear the beast that calls my name
The cold embrace of decaying hands
Grasp my body once again
Putrid breath from cadaverous mouth
Bathe my wounds in its filth
Stripped of my footings
The foundation of my soul is upended
Deluded by pain and
By the concept of mankind's demise
I draw forth the beast
That resides deep within my heart
I unleash the soulless haunted scathing
Fury from within me
Freezing beneath northern skies
Burning at the touch of flame
Tasting fetid sickening smoke
Hear the beast that calls my name
Smell the rotting odor of war
Hear the beast that calls my name
3. On A Bloodied Cross 4:58
Treacherous villain condemned to die alone
Hangs caught between the earth and sky
Blazing hatred deep within his breast
Spewing venom
Yet the beast who must attend his death
Rails not against the driven spikes
The cost of life that one must die
Sacrifice
Drive steel through my hands
Force it through my feet
Cut me deep with knife edge
The pain is my balm
Taunt me, make me stronger
Mock me, set my resolve
Kill me slow with torment
The pain is my balm
Take not away this grief
It enshrines resolve
Withhold not your abuse
It brings fortitude
Cease not the endless mocking
For I draw from its strength
To draw forth the beast within
To set free the beast within
A mind torn in two
Half shrinks and balks
The other stands in spite
Only through this death
Can freedom truly reign
And set this prisoner free
To taste once again the blood of my enemies
The beast that bears my name
Comforts me in death
Knowing it will rise
To take control and
Reanimate the soul
Re-energize the man
Renew all of him
Become one with me and become all of me
As I await the end
This scene is emblazoned
Upon my dying mind
Imprinted upon the soul that will become the beast
4. Ours The Grave 3:16
Habit rules the
Hearts of all men
Confirming force
Past to future
Nothing as sure
As a man's heart
Bound in his ways
Slavery
Wandering the tracks
Of blind custom
Men are not free
Enslaved
Part of the herd
Bleating its song
Bound by the past
All futures set
Cast off the chains that confine
Set free of custom that binds
To be reborn one must pledge
Murder of who one once was
To be reborn
We must murder ourselves
5. Perfection In Death 4:30
Serene ecstasy
The most beautiful is the most terrible
Euphoric reverie
Isomorphic with brutality enraptured in horror
Grasped by the profound (long)
Death cult
Where beauty is terror and terror is sublime
Each nail a blissful stupor
Each thorn the deepest delight
Each wound bleeds of pleasure
Each insult evokes ecstasy
An inversion of values
The most treasured, the most revered
Becomes the archetype of beauty
And all others pale by compare
The moribund tempts with sweet elixir
And death becomes both pleasure and pain
I am enraptured in gory allure
I am become a lover of pain
Oh let me taste again of the flesh of God
Oh let me run my hands along crimson scars
Oh let me see again the thorns buried deep
Oh let me hear again the gasping shallow breath
Come and taste the flesh from the dying God
Come and feel the flowing crimson scars
Come and see the embedded thorny crown
Come and listen to breath that whispers sweet
Oh let me taste again of the flesh of God
Oh let me run my hands along crimson scars
Oh let me see again the thorns buried deep
Oh let me hear again the gasping shallow breath
Serene ecstasy
The most beautiful is the most terrible
Euphoric reverie
Isomorphic with brutality enraptured in horror
Grasped by the profound (long)
Death cult
Where beauty is terror and terror is sublime
An inversion of values
The most treasured, the most revered
Becomes the archetype of beauty
And all others pale by compare
The moribund tempts with sweet elixir
And death becomes both pleasure and pain
I am enraptured in gory allure
I am become a lover of pain
6. Enslaved By Depravity 4:27
This shard of glass reflects only poorly
The terror that I have become
Its razor edge elicits longing
Beckons of release from pain
The memories are a plague to me
My regret destroys respite
Ghostly figures accuse me of my sin
And no release can there be
Offering confidence
Offering certainty
Offering complete total sleep
No choice remains
Driven unto murder
Consumed with a burning rage
That makes me stronger
It gives me purpose
A captive bound to serve and die
I am the beast that does its bidding
I am the monster I abhor
I sanctioned death, yet I'm the instrument
Fulfilling the will of others
Now in my cell I pray for death
Not that my mind is awake
Now in my pain a deep remorse
For what I've done
Bathe now my wounds of love
Rest my head on your hate
I taste your blood on your lips
The crimson of my regret
Now in my cell I pray for death
Not that my mind is awake
Now in my pain a deep remorse
This shard of glass finds my flesh
No more confidence
No more certainty
Only exhilarating freedom
7. Underworld 3:43
On the left hand of the throne of disease
I lick the wounds of the leper king
The stench of his carcass reaches to the sky
Ever dying yet never dead
Ignorance is a putrefying fire
Yet in these realms the old order dies
Creatures create weapons of flesh
Raised from the darkness and from the shadow play
Dancing figures can hold no sway
Gaining release from the murky depths
We denizens of dark bask now in noonday
Casting off this sickly coil
Awakening to a new dawn
Embracing intoxicating wisdom
Finding treasures long forgotten
Sweet Sophia be my guide
Lead me from this shallow grave
Let me come and taste the light
And shake off all earthly care
Once awakened there can be no return
Dancing shadows lose appeal
Casting off this sickly coil
Awakening to a new dawn
Sweet Sophia be my guide
Lead me from this shallow grave
Let me come and taste the light
And shake off all earthly care
Sweet Sophia be my guide
Lead me from this shallow grave
Let me come and taste the light
And shake off all earthly cares
8. Forgotten Temples 4:59
The altar stands before me now
Familiar stones cry out my name
Beckoning me to draw myself near
Tempting me with the lust of my youth
Thoughts resigned to the past
Resurface now illicit only pain
The fervor that once filled my heart
That broke me and drove me insane
Their faces now haunt my every thought
Passion and manipulated youth
A debt that can never be paid
And I was the willful pawn
These hands that grasped for the truth
Were given dire wormwood instead
This mind that sought only peace
Became an engine of war
I became the grinding death
An instrument of deceit
Filled with a passionate rage
The mask I wore became me
I am not what I once thought I was
I am not who I once thought I was
9. The Iscariot Aspect: Fides Quaerens Intellectum 4:41
No greater tyranny can there be
Than slave over slave
The acrid taste is bittersweet
To cast off shackles
And gain liberty
To love one's enemy is easy
When the enemy is guised as a friend
I refuse to submit once again
To the whelming gaze
No more tyranny
Now I stand outside
Trackless and unburdened
Now I declare
The scales have fallen away
Once awakened you cannot return
The dancing shadows lose appeal
When passionate stupor becomes broken
The old ways can bring no peace
As knowledge quickens
The soul unto wisdom
It raises the slave
Out of the herd
No greater love has any man but this
That the machines of tyranny he will destroy
Those made to beat the soul to serve
Mechanisms that captive and blind in slavery
The eyes that once I blinded
Have been quickened with new sight
Empty sockets perceive not
Shadow play but noonday sun
Too long did I cower
I had become a slave
Now set free from control
Trackless and unburdened
10. Potter's Field: Hic Occultus Occulto Occisus Est 8:18
Turn not yearning eyes
To gaze upon me
Do not set your soul
To follow me
I am broken
I am diseased
My blood poured out
Joins now the earth
Now I know two sides of belief
One constrains the other brings peace
New freed from the whelming gaze
Trackless I wander yet I am free
Free to feel
Free to live
Take the body down
Place it in the grave
Mark not this grave
Remember it no more
Cast not mournful glances
Bless not its memory
Its mystery must remain
Unsolved and forgotten
Take me down
Remember not
Turn not yearning eyes
To gaze upon me
Do not set your soul
To follow me
I am broken
I am diseased
My blood poured out
Joins now the earth
I Believe (single, February 21, 2022, Independent) (Digital)
1. I Believe 5:03
One belief that gave rise to a nation
Etched in our history
A future carved in stone
Foundation of what was
Yet to come to light
A people reduced to slaves
Never given the right to say
I believe
I believe you can never take that away
I believe I cannot lie blind
To fight for the right to be
I will give my life
Believe
White dove amongst a murder of crows
A martyr in disguise wearing a robe of gold
Outstretched arm hides
Cracked smile lies
Pleasant words try
But no one can deny that
I believe
I believe you can never take that away
I believe I cannot lie blind
To fight for the right to be
I will give my life
Believe
Beneath the star, the battle lines are drawn tonight
A child runs for cover, holds his mother tight
To take a life comes too easily
How can one live when you must die for your beliefs?
Can't control myself
I see something else
Got to control myself
Take me away
Got to speak my mind
Too many walking blind
Gonna have to speak my mind
I believe
Inflamed (single, March 4, 2022, Independent) (Digital)
1. Inflamed (Mortification cover) 3:42
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