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Of Starlit Shrines
05:28
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The earth beneath did not bear a name
Like the origin of the nameless ones
Absu, the Begotten …… of the seas
As my voice dissipates into the chasms
They reflect the echoes of the elders
As his reign subsides in terror
Cast down into the fathomless deep
Damn your gods of miscreation
Dethroned by your own kind
From the temples of the ancients
To the shrines of celestial spheres
Our world is called into being
Subordinate to the supreme
A shrine Of the seas
That’s been re-sculpted by the heavens
Eyes of stone carved into
Monuments of the departed
As the shadows cast beneath towering structures
The vast shrines of this starlit journey
And the dominions of chaos
That coexist between the veils of reality
A descent into the netherworld
Becomes the embodiment
Of pain and incantation
The external of my form
Asunder in the perishing winds
Torn apart and then reformed
My flesh turns to crystallized skin
Under the realm that imprisons me
Forming a parallel gateway to the citadels of the ancients
And to be crowned a king
A monarchy of alien composition
We worship the eternal
Demystify the existential
Under the entropy of our wisdom
The oceans of creation
Beckon me...
Of Starlit Shrines
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Infinite Realities
06:25
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In the trails of their energy
Space, time and matter converge
To exist eternally
In my mind realities are finite
Reaching an infinite density
Distorted by the temporal flow
The sands of time disperse
An echoed trace of humanity
Materialised
In solitude of our worlds, I ascend
The apex of... Illusionary thought
The echoes of another world
Resonate within this realm
A vision of the afterlife unfolds
Into nothingness
We travel the great vast plains
To discover the ways of the ancients
Across the barren void
This journey is endless
The fragments of my memories
Dissipate into the aether
As neurons of light collide
The phenomena unfolds
Visions that mirror the timeline
I follow the trail
The afterglow leaves
Luminescence in the mind
But in my mind this reality is shapeless
Revealing the ideals of my conscious thought
Behold the confluence of all realities
Perceived through omniscience made flesh
Time flows as liquid our power radiates as steam
Driving all conscious thought
Lesser beings live and bleed
Their suffering fuel for our desires
Propagation of star forms across endless voids shattering the astral...
Blackened grains sift through
Planes with our burning light worlds begin and end, but...
Prodigious hands
Their existence is eternal as the sands of time collect...
Infinity fades into...
In the trails of their energy
The fated march of time
In the trails of their energy
Space, time and matter converge
To exist eternally
In my mind realities are... Finite
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Formed from stardust and the will of astral beings
Insignificant through human eyes yet the screams of torment
Rend the sky to the heavens and to the depths of hell
Where occult beings of malice and hatred turn towards
Black tendrils reach into our minds
To channel pain and sacrifice
And give us from our rightful place
To serve the titans that did grace
This earth they did give birth to cognisance
The barter was for our life and immortal souls
Now the, now the, feminine, feminine, deity, deity, divine
Seeks to redress the balance
Her plan to steal the great Anunnkis prize
As they travel beyond the stars
The ancient foe … Surfaces
Cthulhu raises Yogsothoth and turns humanity away
From their celestial ascendant life
As the seas boil in the engines of war
And black death rains hatred from the sky
Fire, This was not what was meant for us
Death, To treat all life with pure disgust
Casualties, Into light we can't ascend
Of the, Whilst pawns of gods and men
Ascendant War
Within all conflict there lies one driving force
The perception of the other is met with fear
The only ones this serves
Are malign forces at the centre of the world
Brought forth to existence through human thought
They wreak a terrible havoc on the natural order
Bestowed by the ancients, to take control of our destiny we must appease the feminine ... Divine
We live in futility
Our ancient overseers that once bestowed
Temporal knowledge in templar form have come
From beyond the stars
To challenge the occult stygian monstrosities
That have infected the human race
Their machinations match those of the exalted Anakim
The flaw in the gift of thought revealed within
That they sought to elevate physical
Life to pure energy
The feminine divine determines that this
Ancient evil is the price to bring
Interstellar gods to the altar of
Order and form imbuing great old ones
With human souls
Sacrificed
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From her body became the sky
To engineer elements of the divine
Entities that scatter
Across the empyrean night
Their fallen constellations
Now buried like grains of sand
Their Seeds dispersed to infinity
Dormant in the fecund sun
Forever the fruits of her savagery
The rapine on mankind’s soil
Now I’m immersed in darkness
The light absorbed from a dying sun
Once barren beyond all fertility
Into the soil of the cultivated world
Her astral limbs, fray from the torso
Formed of strands, of fractured matter
Converging, life into synthesis
Like a moth that is, drawn to Sothis
The organisms, that we beckon
That we nurture, until the end of days
Witness the birth, of a thousand suns
Reborn of our enraptured, past
From autogenic, into esoterica
Millennia’s Arcanum, begins to fracture
Terraforming, the fables of old
Earth becomes the host of her abomination
Abomination
Disintegrate to evolve
A new eternity has formed
As the entities rise
A gnostic dawn we seek
A spiritual state of mutation
From cosmogenesis
We are finally reborn
To preserve the secrets of Archaeon
Now I emerge in the light
The darkness deforming the facets of my soul
And awakening the superior aspects of the multiverse
Bearing the mark of the divine source
In her our souls reside
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As flames reprise, annihilation precedes dawn
The ancient ways
Bestirs before, from the sacred myths of UR
From malice are born
Ascending states, our bodies left behind
The fate of Enuki
The soul reborn, emerges before my eyes
Of the Elysian void
The sacred flame that we call upon
Decays in time as echoes respond
The Scarred veins of the curator’s hands
Bound by Lesions that form in sand
The fumes of decay, rise from beneath the void
Of Chaos and war
An era of thralls, the dawn of mankind
Created flesh born souls
We follow the torch, that lights our path to glory
To an ending of all
Unity in death, countless souls converge
As I become, bearer of the sacred flame
Primitive celestial forms
Long before our cosmology
Created in the absence of light
Forming shadows as pathways that I walk
We’re guided by the glyphs of the ancients
Odyssean journey through the ethereal divide
As I reignite the arcane embers
Nocturnal luminescence reflects my thoughts
As the bearers pass, a monument of our demise
Before our fathers
Into the rivers, the knowledge of Titans flow
Into the centric mind
Into the flames, a never-ending tide
Quenching the thirst
This soul preservation, in departure from the skies
Casts your existence into the void
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6. |
Malformed Chthonic Dream
06:37
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Deep within the sunken city of R'lyeh
The ancient dreamer resides
High priest to the great old ones
That dwell beneath the crushing waves
Trapped until the planet’s align
Power bleeds coursing from their minds
To poison the earth with the curse of mankind
Beyond the veil
Though cracks
Insanity bleeds
Poison courses deforming true nature
All gods of war come from humanity
Brought to birth through horrific atrocity
Heretics I condemn thee
Perpetually you shall reside
In the burning dunes
Where your tomb shall be
Maternal rape the pregnant land bursts forth
Life reflected in Yog-Sothoth's eyes
Cthulhu reaches tendrils into our minds
To set us on the path of ultimate war
A sacrifice to break free from their prison
To wrest control from the ancient elder foes
The hated Anunnki their cultists set themselves against us
As ascendants collide humans will die
Heretics I condemn thee
Perpetually you shall reside
In the burning dunes
Where your tomb shall be
I am an artisan of the dark arts
A pawn of war in this pseudoreality
Unabating they lead us
No sanction will keep me silenced
I vow to set myself free
From the constraints that enslave
Unbinded from the false
Hierarchy
From the cold mists of nothingness
To the incendiary halls of Gehenna
The mechanised wheels of war
Infinitely rotate the sky
Limbonic I reside
Engineered to agonize
Agonize
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Veins of the Unlight
06:36
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As our timeline decays into the ether
A never-ending cycle of death
Distils all life that drains the sun
Inert as the cold that envelops my heart
This projection, reaches higher
Of our mortality, we devour
Ripples across a primeval sea
Behold the serpentine form
Cascading into non-being
Re-born
Their souls are cleansed by the fires of eternity
Purified in rapture only the enlightened ascend
Feel his presence thrum in your veins
Scaled he encircles
A gift from the heavens passed down from the gods of the antisphere
And as the phantoms form
An inconceivable body of matter
Of infinite density that seizes the stricken life from your soul
An assembly of titans return to me
As I feel the surge of the ancient seers
Coursing through my veins
I banish all forms
Their virulence swirls into the neural cortex
Possessing the darkest corners of my mind
And inflicting unfathomable torment onto those
who stand before me
Feel his presence thrum in your veins
Scaled he encircles
A gift from the heavens passed down from the gods of the antisphere
And as the phantoms form
An inconceivable body of matter
Of infinite density that seizes the stricken life from your soul
I am led by the desire of fleshy pleasures
To drink the bitter wine of exquisite agony
We are the celestial creatures
Exiled from civilisation
Our knowledge from the stars
Summon the Sumerian demons
Of the underworld
Who drag humans down
Into the descent of Inanna
Black, Black, veins, veins, of, of, the unlight
From the veins
Coruscating black fire lances through
Of the unlight
Dimensional planes
Chaos bleeds
Our scorched wings
Chaos bleeds
Return
From the veins
From the mantle that casts a shadow
Of the unlight
On your soul
Chaos bleeds
A serpentine shape in
Chaos bleeds
Fire and stone
A feast of earthly delights
Sodomized by the beast's black heart
That blood curses the light in all forms
Transforming me into
A devolved ascendant
Wraith soul distorted rent from flesh
True purpose formed my skin splits
Now I tower above as those who came before
From the veins
From the mantle that casts a shadow...
Of the unlight
On your soul
Chaos bleeds
A serpentine shape in
Chaos bleeds
Fire and stone
Into the trails of the cyclical sun
Energy transforms from nothing to nothing
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8. |
The Elysian Void
08:23
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The rebirth of humanity
As they emerge from the tides
Immersed inner sanctum
Swallowed by the flames of the Phlegethon
The hand of the destroyer
Enters the fray of our world
To incite utter madness
Until the dark waters return
Searing
There is a maelstrom in me
Cascading through my dreams
Drifting further to perdition
Under the flux of the sanguine tide
To succumb to the rituals
That flood my conscious thought
I ascend beyond my burial
Between the horizon and the sky
Into the Seventh Circle of Hell
A stream of fire which coils round the earth
And flows into the depths of the abyss
A river of blood that boils
Souls consumed by arcane desires
To cleanse transgressions of lesser men
The agonizing sensation on my skin
As searing magma flows from the core
Visions of cosmological trepidation
Become one with the phantoms
That haunt the halls of my consciousness
The first ablating steps I take into
The delectable void
My blackened flesh still putrefies
Goading me towards absurd and unimaginable ends
Searing pain
The cleansing rages
Though my soul decays
Fed from the blood of the sanctified
Warriors of the oppressive death
Deities stripped of the veil
Ablaze in the Daedric flame
The cracked skin of babes
Leaks forth innocent blood
To fuel the furnace of
Our reign
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Anakim UK
Anakim's music has elements from many genres. With definite influences from death and black metal, there is also a progressive element to their music. It's dark, melodic and heavy, with contrasting sections of a more mellow nature. Striving to push boundaries with their music, Anakim forever seek unity between brutality and melody, finding balance between chaos and order. ... more
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