Ephemeral Sentience

by Kleidion

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1.
Ostrov Nazinskaya 09:10
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Sailing onward to the island of death Creating a new world with gun barrels pressed against their necks The ocean hungrily accepts the dead thrown overboard The lucky few who would not be stripped of their flesh upon the shore Ostrov Nazinskaya Frigid grave of the undesired Starving and frozen, the island draws near Aching, riddled with disease and ridden with fear Those who were deemed unworthy and those who voiced dissent Forced unto the godforsaken rock with naught but their bare hands Blinded by aching hunger, their blackened flesh so tender Guards hunt to kill for sport, extort, control, the heaps of corpses The only way that we can stay alive, the bread is running thin Tie the girl against the tree, she won't escape so easily Tear the muscle from her bones and spread her blood upon the stones Venikov cannot protect her, she is weak, we shall consume her She was still alive against the tree when he returned Gruesome executions in cold blood for petty crimes Some flee into the bitter cold and vanish on rafts and borrowed time The growing fear, growing near, the skin gangrenous but still we Tear into the sickening meat, the only way to stay standing I watch as they rip the teeth from the heads of the dead to be sold for their only Chance to obtain sustenance without shame Yet some seem so eager to devour those that they once knew Soldiers approach the dock in the night Come to move us on to the next site Though those of us left cannot stand Delirious, frostbitten, and emaciated Those who survived died within their minds Reliving each senseless kill Drowned in the blood that was spilled Those to survive died within their minds Reliving each senseless kill Drowned in the blood that was spilled Ostrov Nazinskaya
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Tokaimura 06:04
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Put me down for God's sake DNA corrupted Flesh sloughs off from my bones All that I am erodes White blood cells shattering Innards are dissolving Tokaimura, pain infernal Hell eternal, Tokaimura Blood pours thick from my eyes Gauze burns my being like fire Irradiated husk Regeneration lost Anguished mass of raw flesh Months pass, I pray for death Pain beyond comprehension prolonged to uphold corrupted honour Of those who disregard the oath they took to do no harm Tokaimura, pain infernal, hell eternal Tokaimura Pleas for mercy quietly escape these melted lungs I am not an animal Searing, piercing, blistering agony extended by machines Organs slowly liquify yet my skeletal remains still breathe Surely the scorching flames of Hell must offer reprieve from this pain Let me blissfully die in vain
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Hinterkaifeck 05:04
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Footsteps echo in the night Tracks in the snow trailing from the trees Leading to the broken door Yet not leading back Feeble attic floorboards creaking Struck down by the very blade that their father forged Lured into the straw to bleed Skulls caved in and throats slit Washed the blood of children from his hands And took his leave, forever to remain free Strangled, bludgeoned, cleaved Through the snow the axeman flees Through the snow the axeman leaves Hinterkaifeck Bloodstained homestead Family left dead Never avenged Little Cäzilia rips her hair from her scalp in tufts The bodies of her mother, and grandfather, and grandmother Lying dead and mangled in the straw Drifting away, but the screams tear her awake The butcher retreats, having escaped yet written himself into time's pages Hinterkaifeck Bloodstained homestead Family left dead Never avenged
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Blind Legions of Kleidion 07:34
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Forty-five thousand in the shadow of Ograzhden Xiphias rides towards the unsuspecting men Deep in the valley, the guardsmen are surrounded now The wall crashes down, soon so shall Samuel's crown "Charge!" calls the emperor, his warriors rushing forth In his son's arms, the Tsar flees the bloodstained shore Take from them sight, and with it victory Screams in the night tear on through history All fear the name, Bulgaroktonos Send forth blind legions of Kleidion Fourteen thousand men, and some say still hundreds more In the hands of Basil, their eyes are torn out from their skulls Ill-fated few are chosen as cyclopes to lead The blind home from their crippling defeat At the sight of his sightless men The Tsar falls to his knees, his heart gives in Cruel works of the dreaded Byzantines Once-great legions marching silently Warriors trapped in darkness, never granted the coveted fate of death in battle Armies once led by great generals now led by those who still can see The blind leading the blind lead the blind through their own burned empire And though they did return, they never did see home again Never to see the glint of steel shining in the sun again "Take from them sight, and with it victory"
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Eclipsing Ganymede 05:36
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Lurk does the light beyond the shroud, beneath the veil The depths from which a vengeful god will draw the flood waters The cold, fathomless deep sighs, indifferent Dance does the sea that only I have ever known Though the corner of my eye has sometimes seen the darkness breathe To dwell on what may be is to court with madness Floating through eternal night The sky begins to crack My quest for the stars now ending My lifelong voyage complete The ice fractures silently The open void greets me with open arms Stars so bright I cannot feel Vision fades I die cold yet free Escaping Ganymede I've seen the other side and now I'm free Shattering the eclipse on Ganymede Beheld the source of light hidden from me Beneath the surface of Ganymede Saw the other side and now I'm free From the black waters of Ganymede
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Ninth Mansa 04:48
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For centuries we've spoke of things beyond the great blue death Of far-off lands and unknown beasts and the world's edge I renounce the throne to face the great voyage beyond Three thousand ships sail forth, their men prepared for all We may find naught but our graves, but our tales shall live on The sea may swallow us whole, the storms may send us below The void beyond the Earth may carry us eternally The beasts may feast upon our flesh, we may be driven from the lands Yet Abu Bakr sails on The grounds below the waters may inter our bones forever Yet we sail on Hideous storms flood the decks Towering waves crashing down Broken bones, drowning lungs Sight of land in the distance Sultan of the seas Swept away in freezing depths Crushed beneath abyssal pressure Gold spills from the hull, blood spills from his mouth Closing his eyes beneath the ocean, the Mansa smiles His journey complete Hideous storms from the depths Towering waves crashing down Broken bones, drowning lungs Sight of land in the distance Journey with me now, friends, and you shall see everything Whether they be unknown heights or untold depths below Only the fates can stop our quest for another world And should we fail, we shall still have won On the ocean floor, Abu Bakr sails on
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Corium Invocation 07:10
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It crawls forth from the reactor core All reality twists and distorts Gene-warped malignance now in the sun They must never know what we have done Those who chose to stay on land will come to understand its weakness All shall be dragged to the deep, and they shall bear the hybrid offspring It can never die (it shall always be) Gliding through the night (from its realm unleashed) It shall never die (it will always be) Invocation of the nuclear monstrosity Eldritch radiation fills the air as matter itself mutates Into unrecognizable forms Cosmic terror of another dimension brought unto man by his own experimentation In his endless quest to play God Corium deity shapes the earth in its own unnatural, impossible image Tears the minds of mortals who behold its domain Those left shall worship the Key and the Gate with all its progeny Yog-Sothoth, reborn through man's mistakes
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Outsider's Tale 06:00
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Crumbling castle ruins, everlasting home Subterranean prison, unabating sorrow Tomes long forgotten, teachings of their world Knowledge tempts my spirit beyond Decayed stairs collapse beneath my steps Pillars of fathomless heights ascend Should escape not deliver me to freedom I smile knowing death shall instead As though the gates of Heaven themselves had opened A trapdoor appeared within the sky Leading me to fabled lands spoken of in writings, Or leading me to my demise? My soul is eager, as is the grave In the arms of Death I show no fear, yet I pray there is more here Than this cave Than these walls Through the door I slowly crawl I walk upon the grass of a great meadow, sunlight shining down upon the trees Voices drift from a church house, the first life I shall greet Screaming, ripping, tearing, fleeing, shredded throats and broken glass Gouging out their own eyes, what horrid sight befalls my fellow man? My soul is gripped with fear as I meet the gaze of a twisted spectre Face to face with an unspeakable being In terror I strike the wretch and am met with the cold sensation of glass My heart sinks, never to return Now I ride upon dark winds Alongside the ghouls in the night

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released April 13, 2020

All instrumentation/songwriting by Matthew Lizmi
(One sick riff concept contributed by Brian Williams)

Original cover photograph by Rival Gustavo

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