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Adrift and Asphixiating
04:01
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We’re captive to vessels run aground,
and we cut our teeth in paper crowns.
Hallucinations of a higher plane
ordained by those who’ve only known Earthly constraints.
Hubris stands firm in the eyes
of its demise;
our example to reprise.
Devolving from man to God
in the space of time your pain is wrought.
Is it everything you truly thought
would give your bones their flesh?
Surely we’ve all in due time found
our graves would too be westward bound?
Seduced by the ends of time and space,
caught adrift by the steps we trace.
Self-inflicted curse
instinctively rehearsed,
bequeathed for us to disperse.
Devolving from man to God
in the space of time your pain is wrought.
Is it everything you truly thought
would give your bones their flesh?
Consume until you’re engulfed
by the absence of a hunger within your control.
Compete for eulogies most sorrowful
and pray by the end you’ve won.
Stand by the nothing you’ve done.
Stand by the nothing you’ve done.
Paradise won.
Paradise hung.
Paradise
paralyzed.
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2. |
Roughneck
04:49
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Praying through the nose.
Rhetoric in repose.
Being comes and goes.
Valor of the rose.
Sickness exposed as
corpses erode.
Dogma exploiting the slain
thickens the leaded haze.
Not all will come of age,
breeding thankless dismay.
Children symbolically and
physically replaced.
We embraced the hive
To be one of a kind.
Consigned to confines we’ve misjudged,
Slumlords of stunted pride.
Recycled lives
Fucking for the lust
Of serpent tongues.
A call to arms
From aged yarns
Passed down to our young.
Praying through the nose.
Sampling gourmet crow.
Temper a soldier’s woes
teaching them who they loathe.
Conflating sex appeal
with jingoistic zeal.
Narratives that grip the wheel
keep a culture on its heels.
There’s always evil to reveal
when there’s context to conceal.
We embraced the hive
To be one of a kind.
Consigned to confines we’ve misjudged,
Slumlords of stunted pride.
Recycled lives
Fucking for the lust
Of serpent tongues.
A call to arms
From aged yarns
Passed down to our...
Bull and rhino horns
are all I see.
Has this been the world,
or is it just me?
(x3)
Kill them all,
silence falls.
Kill them all,
silence falls.
Praying through the nose.
Our chronic overdose.
We embraced the hive
To be one of a kind.
Consigned to confines we’ve misjudged,
Slumlords of stunted pride.
Recycled lives
Fucking for the lust
Of serpent tongues.
A call to arms
From aged yarns
Passed down to our young.
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3. |
The Old Familiar
02:55
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Eden claims a bountiful wealth,
though it’s divined from the expelled.
Hell is a garden of apple trees
with one roped off from the tramps underneath.
Leave me in the lurch;
the wilderness tempts me to attend its church.
Turned my back on the sun,
underwhelmed and overcome.
A skin to shed,
a change to dread.
Remove the head,
destroy what’s left.
Swapped out for a ram.
Goddamn it, I don’t understand.
The fair cruelty of random chance
enlightened the vagrant by happenstance.
Considerate, but terrified.
I know you are, but who am I?
Success for nought,
still can’t switch off.
The crowd applauds
the wrong facade.
I’m a dyed in the wool
boy who cried wolf.
GO!!!
My head is swimming
‘cause I’m too scared to sink.
Out of sync
with everything.
I’m a dyed in the wool
boy who cried wolf.
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4. |
Destroyer of Stars
04:59
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All hands
All hands on deck
All hands
Men to your stations, prepare to be boarded
Stand on guard
Our crew, our charter, our mission
Defending you all
Here on the borderlands
And though the dark forces surround us, still
Here we stand
And have endured, but now
A sudden strike out of the black, an all-out assault
May spell out doom for us
But if we can hold just to send out a
Warning call,
Hope shall endure
Under fire
Shields depleted, hull’s been breached
Endar Spire
All systems failed, there’s no retreat
No battle meditation guides our way
No Force except our own will
Our only victory lies in sacrifice
Going down
Exploding in torrents of flame in the
Blackened void
We’re overrun by foes
Swarming our decks and our holds and
Our bridge, now one
By one we fall
Apart
Formations and tactics they’ve failed
Now it’s every man
For his own skin, escape
By whatever means you can find
It’s your final chance
Your final chance
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5. |
Snake Oil Faith
05:17
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I’ve lost count of the bodies
the shepherds have copied
and pasted into their sermons,
homogenized Jane Does
victimized by the throes
of sacrificial purpose.
Adherent non-believers
at the pulpit of the deceiver
bowing to almighty riffs.
Heretics in sheep’s wool
veiled enough to pull
a fallen angel’s grift.
Herd the flock from anxiety.
Strip the Father of his piety,
when he adjudges justice
with a corrupted compass.
Through the looking glass,
burns an eclipse,
a reluctant recidivist
at the whims of a bygone tryst.
A global home invasion
sold as a celebration
at the expense of the host.
Righteous festivities
with a proclivity
for upholding unholy prose.
Born from the shattered crystal,
come the flames of the zealot’s vigil,
His “enlightened” echo chamber.
Sick malice of the phallus
restores the twisted palace
of the ironic savior.
Herd the flock from anxiety.
Strip the Father of his piety,
when he adjudges justice
with a corrupted compass.
Through the looking glass
burns an eclipse,
a reluctant recidivist
at the whims of a bygone tryst.
Vindictive self-made victims
addicted to fallacious wisdom.
A fucking flock lobotomized
by propaganda to monopolize
a concept of justice
(that) ought to disgust us.
Through the looking glass
burns an eclipse.
Deluded absolutists
at the whims of a bygone tryst.
Vindictive self-made victims
addicted to fallacious wisdom.
Reductive tomes
are our tomb.
Left unchecked, the vermin will continue to exhume refuse.
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Event Horizon Richmond, Virginia
Formed from the remnants of William & Mary heavy metal band Sons of Ares and hardcore band Wind for Wings, Event Horizon is
a melodic death metal band based in Richmond, VA.
Members:
Will Penix
Everett Altherr
Wesley Eldridge
Gerardo "El Gato" Ayala
Matt Nguyen-Ngo
With contributions from:
Caleb Scott
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