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Only Ashes Remain
05:13
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Ripping my throat apart with my hands
Screaming in madness and gargling in blood
Breaking my fingernails peeling my skin off
A perfectly choreographed self hypnosis ritual
Leads: A.V. – T.K. – A.V. – T.K. – A.V.
Reality fades as eyes become white
Chants are sung backwards and louder
Red velvet soaked in blood drowns the words that were written
Figures come forth from the waves on the wall
A tongue of fire slithers down my head
Burning all that is conscious and real
And enlightens me until ashes and faith remain
(A.V. – T.K. – A.V.)
What I see shall be only ornaments for the Lord
What I speak shall be the praise and truth of the Lord
What I build shall become tomb for the weak and the innocent
And they will vanish, never to sow their anemic seed again
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Promulgation of the Fall
03:40
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Your Kingdom ultimately collapsed
Splendor decayed by your own decrepitude
Muttered lamentations, the hopelessness of hope
Imminent submission
The Fallen Angel is rising...
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Serpentskin
05:33
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Pieces of flesh cover this desert
Cursed place that hope never reached
Doglike demons sweep across the land
Where only thorns grow to shape Christ’s crown
Rivers of blood nourish the jewels of the leper king
Ribald memorial shining like fires
Shadows whisper of the thing that was forever here
Menial creatures swarm towards this damnation
To be devoured by the beasts of light
Body parts spread all around this tower
Where only legends and memories live
Of lust for carnal resurrection
Sacrificed to feed the worms
And to keep the earth warm
Under this dead pile
The soil is alive
And skin is growing,
Taking our master’s final form
Chaos: A.V.
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Quintessence Maligned
04:14
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Murk of suffocation
The depths antecedent ooze
Qlippotent omniscience
Quintessence maligned
Husks discarded lurk
Neath starless pools
Cracked molds, the broken shells
Of Excremental design
Disembodied abolition
In sands preceding time
Fossils of abortion
The slough of autochthon
Smashed fragments
Menace even in the acknowledgement
Of their existence
Spiny thoughts to pierce
Lead: A.V.
The very membranes they sustain
The delicate untruth
Quagmire of pre existence
Where no separateness lies.
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Immaculate Poison
05:07
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Lead: A.V.
Shades were riding the winds
Towards me, to fill my lungs
Snakes unreel from my hair
As walls crawl closer
Image blurs, stirring cauldron
Suffocating black fumes
Immaculate poison
Descent to maddening silence
Entering this sleep
Dreamless deathlike sleep
Never to return
Locked inside
Abyss eternal
Tentacles rising
From the surface of the subconscious
Leads: T.K. - A.V. – A.V.
Immense cliffs of flesh
To satisfy his lust
Forever nailed alive
Nevermore fucking Christ.
Lead: A.V.
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Nigredo
05:00
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Black waves drowning the horizon
Ocean swallows ocean –
Earth and spirit flushed away
As reason disintegrates
Black waves drowning the horizon
Hounds leap forth from the waters
Each of them tearing at the throat
While waves wash the body
Black waves drowning the horizon
Admire the beauty of fear
Love the star in the dog's eye
House of the soul falls to the waves
Lead: A.V.
Black waves drowning the horizon
Overwhelming roar of elements
Wading waist-deep into fright
Plunging into infinity
Lead: A.V.
Black waves drowning the horizon
A flickering light in the depths
Sea vomits body ashore
Followed by one who walks upright
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Schisma
07:18
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And from within the black lungs of desire
you betray, as you always did, yourself
From within the lungs of desire
you betray yourself once more
and that which you worshipped as god.
Death never whispered your name in the shadows,
Not out of fear, Not because you won,
but to punish and humiliate you.
The one who didn’t even deserve to die,
The absolute nothing...
Cursed to live, desiring to end.
Cursed to live, desiring to end.
Cursed to end…
On my knees I scream and beg you
to perpetuate the schism with the world of fraud and pain
and forget all your children, you so deliberately deceived and lied to;
as you walk away, the tears you cry
will be our Holy Communion
Worthless Father
And we will laugh and spit at you as you leave,
never to consider returning or looking back at us.
The tears you cry will be our Holy Communion
and with it to celebrate your final and TRUE DEATH.
All leads: A.V.
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From a Wretched Womb
03:56
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Blood and ashes
Riddle of clay
From the shoulder of Man
And the womb of the whore
Image of god reversed
Eyes look inside
Holding the book
Where all pages are void
Nothing is true
Chaotic maze
Forms are dissolved
Withered by Death
Deep in the black earth
Planting the seed
With larvae and worms
To create the negative
Inferno: A.V.
Torch of truth
A burning bush
The only light
Archaic knot
Leads: T.K. - A.V.
Blood and ashes
Riddle of clay
From the shoulder of Man
And the womb of the whore
An answer with no question
An end without beginning
Eye of Satan
Lock and the key
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Formed in 2004 in Athens, Greece, Dead Congregation focus on lacking aspects in today’s death metal bands/releases: feeling, spirit, atmosphere and quality. Creating darkness and blasphemy is their only goal…
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