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A Horrific Illusion
04:23
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When even shadows fade I feel their presence near
Haunting within my walls, stirring my worst fears
I hear them whisper behind the door
I lock it tight, I don't dare step outside anymore
They wail to be set free
They beg for my assistance
Their voices follow me
Every moment of my existence
HORRIFIC ILLUSIONS call me
A nightmare so terrific
I feel it eating at my brain
A hidden truth mysterious
On me now takes its toll
The screams of anguished spirits
Lust for my very soul
HORRIFIC ILLUSIONS call you
A nightmare so specific
It can't have been formed in my brain
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
[Solo: Hiber]
Their voices ever closer
Now threaten to escape
Spiritual torment looming
Certain of impending fate
HORRIFIC ILLUSIONS beckon
A nightmare so morbific
It must be planted in my brain
...or am I insane?
I feel my essence swallowed
Body crushed, lifeblood spilled
To a void alone and hollow
At my own hand, by my own mind
Killed
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I scavenge through the earth
Looking for signs of life
These desolation times
Submerged in spite
I roam through killing fields
A decomposing land
Night falls upon us soon
Fear takes its place
Across the VALLEY
OF EVERLASTING DARKNESS
All positivity soon leaves the air
Feel death's atmosphere
Breathe down your neck
The last chapter near, soon comes my end
Guilt for things undone
Bleeds into my soul
Foresee abysmal fate
Fate worse than death
The valley grants a vision
Of hellish torment
In utter panic, shocked
I gasp for air
Comprehending illusions
I feel that I must flee
I've seen my worst fear
It must be lies
Unsure of where to turn
I quickly grow fatigued
Collapsing to the ground
My fate confirmed
[Solo: Hiber]
I watch my rotting corpse
From the other side
The balance soon retracts
The earth trembles
I feel my soul descend
It was the prophecy
Greeted by the Dark Prince
Who grants my doom
Across the VALLEY
OF EVERLASTING DARKNESS
All positivity soon leaves the air
Feel death's atmosphere breathe down your neck
The last chapter here, now comes my end
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
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Desecration of the Meek
04:41
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Writhe in fear
Plague is near
Lies obscene
Torment extreme
Severed flesh
Pointless quest
Faltered life
Endless blight
DESECRATION OF THE MEEK
Those who crawl from the mud
Extermination for the weak
No use to humanity or themselves
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
Incapable of individual survival
Natural selection soon begins
Enslaved to this predatory being
Nevermore will this life be freeing
[Solo: Hiber]
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Intergalactic Espionage
07:46
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'Twas generations ago
I saw the beaming lights
Six rings hovering above
A sight unseen before
The sky rains waste and metal
As the world ignites
My own eyes deceive me
What may be in store?
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
I must move on
For it was but a dream
Yet am I wrong?
I’ve seen the saucer’s gleam
INTERGALACTIC ESPIONAGE
What do they want from us?
All I could do was watch
In awe and fear
Ancient information
What men do not yet know
Anxious in frustration
For where do they all go?
[Solo: Hiber]
I wake as light emerges
Greeted by a knocking at the door
A man in black approaches
He recalls visions from before
In shock I am immersed, for my vision was real
Six flying saucers appeared, anxiety I feel
The man in black grows stern, he speaks and tells me this
Forget what you have seen, there will be consequences
[Schrampfer:]
I have witnessed anomaly
To spread this message
Would result in the death of me
At the eastern shore
We’ll meet again
Years I’ve waited
And years I’ve failed
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
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Anaphylaxis
05:42
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Price of pleasure long-denied
A slow and painful death
Necrosis of my very soul
I'm running out of breath
Don't mourn
My self-inflicted end
This plane of mortality
I transcend
As I pass away
Terror grips my heart
As my body goes into shock
I see death is inevitable
And curse my wretched luck
But life itself
Is slipping through my grasp
Humiliation wracks me
As I breathe my last
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
Not breathing
I'm choking on thin air
Screaming
But nobody can hear
Drowning
In an ocean I can't see
My own body is trying to kill me
[Solo: Hiber]
Slip into unconsciousness
Collapse into despair
My cold hands clawing at my throat
But I'm all out of air
Not breathing
I'm choking on thin air
Screaming
But nobody can hear
Drowning
In an ocean I can't see
My own body has disposed of me
It's killing me
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Stifling Excruciation
05:39
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Roaming desolate fields
Companionship abandoned
They have me in their sights
The hardest part is the wait
Hope is lost, survival gone
A stifled virulent agony takes its place
Artillery strikes, sarin is near
I savor all remaining oxygen
Holding onto memories past
I yearn for those painless days
Gaseous mass slithers closer
Penetrating the skin like daggers
Tormented, I writhe in suffocation
As the sarin strangles my innards
[Solo: Hiber]
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An ill fate subjected
Abandoned to decay
Perishing unrespected
You’ve had your stay
Accelerated deterioration
Bestial insects feed
Writhing in mutilation
Fulfill the scarabs’ need
Plague
Swarming insects consume
Flesh
Soon ceases to exist
Rot
As starvation is quenched
Scum
In the abyss, your fate lies
Fallen to the famished scarabs
The SCARABS BENEATH THE FLESH
Existence obliterated, laid to waste
Leaving this life with a bitter taste
Squirming and wriggling under your skin
The beetles now consume
Devoured from the inside out
Insectile impending doom
Life will cease
Vital dissection
By insects now commence
Looming anguish dulls the senses
Tormented without defense
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
[Solo: Hiber]
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8. |
Revealed by Moonlight
02:37
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(Instrumental)
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
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Return to Planet Earth
10:04
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I: CROSSING OF LIGHTYEARS (0:00)
II: HUMANITY'S RETURN (1:05)
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
Photographs and fairytales
Are all we really know
Of the planet our ancestors
Deserted long ago
Remnants of our carelessness
Still rise as smoky plumes
As the barren sphere of Planet Earth
Out of the darkness looms
"Welcome back..."
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
Centuries have passed
Since humanity last stared
At the world of our origins
So we are unprepared
Desolate and lifeless
As we finally descend
Burning beneath clouds of ash
Too dark to comprehend
We return to the Earth
III: VESTIGES OF CREATION (2:11)
When we touch down
The dry ground cracks
And as we step outside
All of our hope instantly dies
The seas, once so blue and full of life
Now red and clouded
We dare not even think about what lies
Beneath the surface
The landscape has been completely defaced
Nearly all signs of life erased
The land still bears the scars
Of long-forgotten wars
In the cities where the bombs fell
The streets still swamped in gore
IV: INTO THE HELLSCAPE (4:00)
A journey through the wasteland
Reveals no trace of hope
Our return voyage to our lander
Cut short by wind and smoke
Growing weak and hungry
Our strength begins to fail
Satellite systems obsolete
In the filthy, gusting gale
"Welcome back to Planet Earth
Take for granted and reap what you've sown
Your mission was futile, you're never going home
Planet Earth is the last you'll ever know"
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
V: TITANIC RETRIBUTION (6:18)
[Solo: Hiber]
[Solo: Blumenfeld]
VI: A WARNING (8:25)
Petrified woodlands will become our graves
The last of a species too selfish to be saved
Planet after planet was fated
To be destroyed by humankind
Why did we ever RETURN TO PLANET EARTH?
To suffer the fate we deserve?
Headfirst into our doom
The lessons we refused to learn
Are now sealing humanity's tomb
[Lead: Blumenfeld]
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Begravement Saint Paul, Minnesota
Death metal riffs played with a thrash metal spirit. Formed in Minnesota in 2018.
Ezra Blumenfeld -
Guitars / Vocals
Taylor Haagensen - Guitars
Matt Schrampfer - Bass
Grady Westling - Drums
... more
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