01 Drown Within / Lyrics
02 We Are Nil / Lyrics
03 Withered and Obsolete / Lyrics
04 Caecus / Lyrics
05 Tyranny / Lyrics
06 The Earth at its Knees / Lyrics
07 Soullessness Embraced / Lyrics
08 Everything is Fire / Lyrics
Recorded September / October 2008 at MCA, Auckland, New Zealand
Engineered and mixed by Jamie Saint Merat and Michael Hoggard
Mastered by Jamie Saint Merat
01 Praise and Negation / Lyrics
02 Ad Nauseam / Lyrics
03 The Mask of the Satyr / Lyrics
04 Becoming the Lycanthrope / Lyrics
05 To Fell Goliath / Lyrics
06 Martyr of the Soil / Lyrics
07 Failure / Lyrics
08 The Coming of Genocide / Lyrics
09 Defaeco / Lyrics
Recorded and mixed by Jamie Saint Merat + Michael Hoggard, April 2006
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New York, USA
01 The Coming of Genocide / Lyrics
02 Unhallowed Ascension / Lyrics
03 Scorn the Dethroned / Lyrics
04 Second Death / Lyrics
05 Subversive Supremacy / Lyrics
06 Burnt Offering / Lyrics
07 Ulceration / Lyrics
08 Smash the Deceitful / Lyrics
Recorded over various weekends between 22 November - 8 December 2003.
Drums + guitars tracked in Jamie's room [ Hamilton ]
Vocals tracked at Canfly rehearsal space [ Auckland ]
Engineered by Jamie Saint Merat + Michael Hoggard
Mixed by James Boyd + Jamie Saint Merat
All bass tracks played by Jared Commerer
All music written by Jamie Saint Merat and Michael Hoggard
All lyrics written by James Wallace
Atop the shameless tower
With wings outstretched
An apprehensive shadow is cast over all
Drain us of our divinity
And leave us dry amongst the dirt of men
In the worst of our nightmares we are weak and servile
We, as martyrs
Fear runs through our veins
Hung for grandeur and fate
We hang lifeless
With blind eyes turned from daylight
We deny
With blind eyes turned from the glare of being
Loathe that which we are
I abhor the undiscerning
No more of my blood will be shed of pity
With an empty and unforgiving heart
Once more, I scream to the sky
For I am mine
The rot of subordination I burn away
I am mine
Dead Oceans
The primeval genesis
Etched into forgotten flesh
In darkness, oblivious, we exist to no avail
To no avail
To never unearth
The insipid with their deadpan stare
Long for worth in dying oceans
To never unearth
By the scorn of weakness
Lay me to rest
Rip away the flesh we scarred with god
And scour our bones for deceit
Beneath the black shroud of abandon lay fields of us
Our bodies still; our minds hollow and sightless
Here we lay, nothing without deceit
The immortal, reflected in dead oceans
Drowned by frailty tied at their feet
Even still in death, this falls on deaf ears
I am the eyes of our inception
Sewn shut
Cold Becoming
Sleep now, willing hosts
In envy, accede to this void of life so bleak and fragile
There is only silence here
No resistance
A silent corrosion of mind
This innocence lost
The tide long retreating
You cannot see above the walls, encircling high
This sanctuary and its need, infectious
You will not see again
The infected will never see again
To claim this as nothing
You should not be of this world
Of those who preach death
Your words are poison
And those of stone in apathy
You crawl with them
You crawl with them in decay
This cold becoming never dethroned
Of those who claim this fire as nothing
I will forever despise
Beneath
Rejection
In gasping air from vast surrounds
Subjection to all that breathes it
Suffocate in the idle and empty
It calls for no one
The beast of no will
Gives rise the servants of cause
They hold their breath as it sets behind the hill
Banishing them to the dark
It will set and rise again and again
Speaking only of your end
It pierces your unyielding pretense
The illusion shattered and exhausted
It will set and rise
Dull and fruitless
It will set and rise again and again
With no ambition
THe Hollow Idols
Shallow worship of the azure and the earth
Not as they are or have been
Betrayed and distorted
Dragged through tarnished waters and purged in tongues
Gouge no deeper
For our hollow souls are upon us
Our hollow souls, our enemies, upon us
The marred hands of our leper idols wring us of all hope
Our hollow idols wring us of all hope
We have betrayed ourselves
And now forever lie dormant
Trailing this solemn road at dusk
At its end, we leave no mark
We have no future
We will be rightfully forgotten
Omens
The reverence of those lost owed to the land
To us it is withered and worthless
To us it does not belong
What of this radiance we have left behind?
Creatures of abyss, born of vice
We are not they
They preach chaos and delusion
And welcome it without breath
With the omens in flame
We are still; we desert the truth
Truth has no name here
Anonymous in clouded vision
Our disgrace, far from reach
Left unknown
The Destroyers of All
They fall from spoiled skies
Strangled of grace
And know only to mask their vile faces
They know not the figure staring back at them;
Not their beginning nor end
They surrender in blissful fate
The undying pariah
To which the cowards shun and beg remission
Cold-blooded and callous
It does not grieve
It will never grieve
So detached, the destroyers
Wide eyed in rapture and unfulfilled
In ignorance they remain
Until their ruin
Bring me the comfort of cold inertia
Bring me the graves, poised for our leaden demise
Our extinction, seeded in blind avarice
Come dawn, no light will be thrown on them
This vermin, these ingrates
Us of the earth
The destroyers of all
Drown Within
Evoke the lifesblood of man
The virus we have become
Shedding the skin and bone
Of this species, dead and jaded
In my callous nature
All pity is buried
Flaunt your feigned empathy
Forgotten
I cannot breathe amongst this affliction
Ever more oppressed
Tear away the leeches
And with them, we'll bleed
Strip bare the land, defraud
Or drown within forever
The dust settles on barren dirt
In our chains, we decay
Bound by deceit
The mortal consumed
Beyond death
We are lifeless
The axiom of being
Infinite
We are Nil
The eye burns bright
Laced with scars of deceit
Gazing into the void - the enemy
Betrayed
A dissident reality
Dig deep beneath your skin
Scratches of denial, of emptiness
Inherit unreason
Beg for fate
For we have wasted away
Lay low
The unseen lucid
In an age, fragile and expired
Emancipate
This collective conscious reeks of shadowed delusion
Existence is fear
A saviour from the surrogate utopia
So weep your blood sincere
Drowning in the deadest sky
Grasping the exhausted ashes of hope
Crowned in absolution
The eternal fallen
Suffocate
We are nil
Withered and Obsolete
The faces aghast
Consumed with hollow judgment
Those vacant eyes stare through me
With scarred hands to bind
They look back in fear
Fall into the flames of our origin
To lie still and wait
The baseless reverence you adjure
Is condemned by truth
Your divine, cast down from the skies
Cold and wretched
It runs through our veins
This is absolute
This is inherent
The spiritual will sever ties with man
And now alone we exist
From within us
Our worth ascends
Subvert the fallacy
A dying breed on their knees
The scorn of the earth
Obsolete
Subvert the fallacy
A dying breed on their knees
And now alone we exist
The scorn of the earth - the puritan
These days are no anomaly
Your blood will spill like any other
Within the mercy of this revelation
We are forever imprisoned
Caecus
The helpless wander in vain
To forget all before them
This inner sanction
A blinding vision
Through neglect we falter
All are subservient
To burn out the absolute
Shadow our nature
Crawl into the darkest of holes
With reason forbidden we fade
And our shattered remains will lay to waste
This is our weakness, our failing
Suffer at the hands of those we feed
With wounds to show for nothing
Breathe the ashes of our burning past
To swallow whole, the denial
These self-conceived walls close in upon us
And we shall never see the light of day
Tyranny
Shadowing the blinding light
From within our confinement
The hollow stare of thousands pierce the soul
Reject the innate
And no solace will prevail
Our bloodless tower over all
With their eyes full of god
They are blind to our dawn
Scream to the silent masses
Caution to their winds of contempt
Release me
To rise from their ruins
The roots of the mortal
Masked with our atrophy
Born of man, the tyrant
Reborn
The Earth at its Knees
The misguided rise now
Untainted and pure
Stand in ignorance
And fall in neglect
In inherent sorrow
Rip open your heart for me
The undeserving
Grieve for all
From rise to fall
We preach our dream
Dishonour
With the coldest shoulder
The balance is broken
So with disdain you may burn me forever
In anti-human desperation
This is the horror that binds us all
Buried beneath with our martyrs
Buried beneath with our scapegoats
The earth falls to its knees
The misguided rise now
Untainted and pure
Stand in ignorance
Our devotion
Our redemption
Are our own
My eyes are open
Soullessness Embraced
Etched into the earth's effigy
The graven image of man
Inhale your idols and parasites
Cold blood of the declining all
Visions of desire cut deep
Reject them and rot
Rot away in worthlessness
In fear, in isolation, in realisation
In fear of inferiority
Swallow the blunt reality
This earth bleeds for no one
Indifference is your existence
Indifference is your execution
Cower in shame
The shadow stalks in the wake of regret
My eyes roll back to never see again
And on my deathbed I remain silent
I cannot uphold the dogma
I will not shed this trusting secret
The coming soullessness embraced
Darkness
Fortitude
Nothing
Everything is Fire
To our end
To our blackest days we have come
Our demise, barren and futile
We are lost without fate
Reap what we have sown
We diminish, all nameless
And the realisation manifests
Only once will this burn
To diminish, all nameless
Only once will this ever burn
Recreate our failure
To relive, to revel in the boundless shift
For the bane of man and of all
Is now imminent
And the realisation manifests
Only once will this burn
And the realisation manifests
For nothing we know
The hollow will of the undying faithful
Belies us
Belies our being
Between this state and the next
We are lost
We are without fate
This burning inside cannot be defined
Our empty convictions erode in time
Stand on the edge of abandon
And stare into the searing sun
Forfeit now
For nothing we know
Everything is fire
Praise and Negation
Blame tarred with cursed ivory brush
Halos to sever heads of those below
Two millennia with faded words to burn
Fall to your knees or immolate your soul
Lungs filled with black
Cough of the wretched
I can taste the soot on my tongue
Deny the idle threats of those empty smiles
For deceit and dreams often are one
This skewed reality, dizzying and sweet
Open hands to trap the moth
Corrupt veins pump soured blood
The trap is set, poison awash
Heads to turn for promises betray
Chisel to stone with the world to pay
With eyes to the sky, faith begat misery
With eyes to the sky, the world shall burn away
I rise, for I can stand alone
Ad Nauseam
Bound and gagged
Yet professing the importance of these putrid regurgitations
Dangling above the precipice
Fate, tragic and deserved, lies below
Vacuous and nightmarish
Docile and servile
Kiss that which feeds and fucks
Devoured, defiled
We hang
Choking ourselves on this rank vomit
Seems we can't get enough
Gorging on this stale repetition
For time does not exist to us
And when the gag is removed, sodden and rancid
Mouths will remain agape
Like baby birds, trusting and needy
Even as the rope is cut
Dead eyes long for the normality
Long for the masochism
And set free the sadist in us all
Open wide because this better be worth it
The Mask of the Satyr
Cut away and start again
Cross out these serpentine eyes
Milk them for all they're worth
Shatter the white with Circe hammers
Slay the beast with three billion heads
Through noise and movement, filth revealed
I can smell the decaying musk
Stale breath reeks of lust and violence
And shaking hands reveal the rest
For I am nausea
From you to me
Insight crawls, drunk and bruised
Deep within the leaden grey
But majority rules with iron fist
So swallow the blood and cover the face
A new slate is needed for this cannot be cleaned
To turn the other cheek
Or cut it open and rip out the tongue
For now and for this
Forgiveness is rot
I'd trade it all for a chance to mend
To kill, to cleanse, to purge, to end
Loathing saturates, sour and foul
Only to be eclipsed by the sorrow
To cut away those close and near
Pull back the hammer and let it swing
Let it swing
Becoming The Lycanthrope
Revelation or annihilation
The futile and the fanatics
That is all we are
With scalpel incisions and flapping tongues
Bury the limbs of the hopeless
Clambering onto the funeral pyre, overwhelmed
Sacrifice and sedition
Let the ashes of our cancer rise
To be inhaled by the congregation
Carry your doctrine into the flames
Or swallow it whole and exit the wake
As the smoke blackens the horizon
Revel in your decision (delusion)
As the inferno turns to embers
Breathe in the essence of despair
Piss on the ash and the bones of the dead
Laugh and rejoice as the black turns blood red
But your carnivorous smile betrays
Revealing the teeth that will devour us all
A grin to mark the end of days
To Fell Goliath
Lynch the god of disease
And sever his wings
Hang him upon the red beneath the green
But the tyrants and sinners are waiting in line
And the mob is thinning and there is no time
With the blind masturbating the blind
The prophets are left with no one to lead
To fall on your sword
Or charge from the trench
Fall in to the black
Or choke their fields with our dead
Within the agony of the conscience
To gorge at the trough or to starve to death
Aversion of truths or affirmation of life
History to live or history to end
With the pinnacle past and crevice below
To leave the concrete to crack and the steel to corrode
Turn your back on this den of murderous thieves
Or with stone in hand do we go for the head?
A chance to cripple, cut them off at the knee
A wrench in the works to fuck the machine
Martyr of the Soil
Here we exist upon the cliff tops
Exhausted and empty
Sneering into the darkness below
Wet palms, coppery and thick
Lines of red to mark our progress
But to what end?
We are a part of this plague
Unclean and naïve
We climb upon the cross
To be crowned?
This will deaden all but the brightest lights
And I personify the black
I am despair
Fall away
Resign yourself to this faithless leap
For there can be no half measures
And the noose is already around our necks
Jerk awake with the revelation
And dangle above the maggots
The twine exists as the separator
Through suffocation and sodden eyes
She will not hold
Failure
Let me hang here, till sleep
To end my nightmare, to let me dream
To lie beneath the soil, alone
To let the world grow old
The Coming of Genocide
Blackness, inside to out
Like a benign tumor turned terminal
Here we are at the dawn our conclusion
Penned, paid for and played out by us all
Seconds slow as we count down to death
Reflection eclipsed by blame to place
Fingers point in every direction
While resting on hair triggers
The gun is our callous indifference
The bullet is what we have become
We have fellated fate for far too long
Taste our infliction, and know that we were wrong
There is a beauty within this violent paradigm
And that lies with the inevitability of our end
Staring into the abyss of man
Empty, consumed, ruled by its dead hand
May the horror of human nature
Feed the horror of realization
Caskets for empires founded on fault lines
Caskets for empires
Defaeco
Brightest white, blinding
Angelic and rustic
The greatest beauty I've ever breathed
I for one know what this is
The great redeemer
Our bastard child
Let it rise
Standing aside the crippled dreamer
We begin to understand the design
And prepare to climb back into the womb
To be reborn as bone and ash
Absolution is all that remains
Swallow the truth and chase it with blame
In bliss, watch our smiles melt away
Wash us away, drowned in relief
Still and open for the first and last time
Repaid and returned
Let our blood mix with the soil
The earth soaked in us all
Our sorrow and our pardons
Now, my good friend, we are even
This is our end
Forget
The Coming of Genocide
A race cloned of fear
Followers of the sun's dying blaze
Entering a broken future
Burning in the contemptuous dominion
Severed wings of the dove of peace
Black it's heart - crushed in my grasp
Declaration of an ancient war
Apocalyptic quest for domination
Invoking the fall of a culture
Defiled by the contrived laws of those blind
Wielding rebellious powers
Spilling blood of the Elysian upon a razed Eden
Ashes of dogma are swept away in winds of oblivion
As masses asphyxiate from inhalation of truth
Uncaged I gorge the flesh of lambs
Enlightened by impurity
Disgraced is their seed
The ignorant shall suffer
Unhallowed Ascension
Blackspawn invade the poisoned skies
I the master, enthroned by immortal right
Blood of crestfallen angels spills from the heavens
Your lord falls unto Hell
Laws of nature forged in perpetual fire
It's flames drowning the souls raped by the father of inanity
Abysmal tongues blaspheme the stigma of the dead hand
Condemning who drink the blood that drips from the crucifix of Golgotha
Abysmal tongues bless the standard of the strong
And command the bearer from the text divine
Faces of the justly damned is all I see
Screams of mortal anguish is all I hear
Purge the anointed
Execute insipid breeds
Greatness - supreme aim and value
Progress - achieve preservation of pure blood
Right is what benefits I
Scorn the Dethroned
Your tears of misery fill this chalice from which I drink
Disdainful as I witness your reality induced decay
Lost souls have no will of their own
The diseased beg for destruction
Beg for absolution
Bestowed light of dilution
Shackles of slavery embraced
Fuck your god - banish hypocrisy
Fuck your god - eternal enemy
A decrepit empyrean
Prepares the graves of millions oppressed
Ageless, unburied
The one who doubted his empire
Praise this primal entity
Sworn to dark sovereignty
Summon it's strength, it's wisdom
Only I can destroy me
Second Death
Storms of cleansing defile me
Shelter not from your wrath and fury
One's swift destruction
In final conflagration
My blood spills, my flesh boils
Marked for servitude eternally
Are those repentant unto forgery
In suffering the lesser wither in ineptness
Unsaved shall they be
In suffering I shall ascend
Angel of impiety
Saved shall none be
The earth shall burn in the bowels of my fervent abyss
Lies idolised
Implore in vein
May inhuman vengeance awaken you
Writhe in the undying flames of superiority
Spirit's sacrifice
My will, my right
My redemption is in your pain
My exemption is in your death
Subversive Supremacy
Belligerency against the weak
Conqueror, ascends the throne
Age of ruination
Blight of the final stronghold
Shed blood stains me
Attrition has ended
Inferiors enslaved
Degenerated empire
Behold as the beneath arise
Serving the hearts of those defeated
So we may feast upon in victory
Serving the blood of those compassionate
Raising a chalice, praising the triumphant
Burnt Offering
Your disciples of falsehood
In constraint benighted baptism
Charred wings disintegrate
Drowning in the tears of those forsaken
Angels are cast into rivers of blood
Bathing
Flowing through the kingdom of the nefarious
Bleeding
Eternal punishment
For sin is what I am
Odium absorbed
Bring forth my enemies
Stigmatised father
Divine I must be
Stigmatised father
Divine I become
Ill omened demonic martyr
Unwanting heaven as I run to the forbidden
Immolation of the seraphim
Ulceration
Hellspawned flames caress the flesh of the untainted
The distressed pray to the lord of lacerated sight
Watching their bleeding eye sockets cry
Brethren of assassination begin rites of damnation
Screams of the enfeebled
Echo throughout rebellious lands
As they struggle against spiritual execution
Soon to fall under the rule of the strongest will
Exhausted is the sun
Exiled to languished fields
Harvested is the dying
Heretical legions kneel
Before their master
Rise the sons of banishment - assault
Smash the Deceitful
Predator of the self righteous onslaught upon
Those who wished for peace gain hardship
Enduring as strength intensifies
Hatred empowers, I worship
Despair alight
The funeral internal
Desolation dominates
As I fall away
Envenomed - rule by my blood
Death shall prove superior than life
Heavens destroyed in holocaust