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Hell's Garden

by Event Horizon

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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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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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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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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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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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Melodic death metal quintet Event Horizon comes roaring out of Richmond, Virginia with its debut EP "Hell's Garden," putting a filthy American twist on the familiar Gothenburg formula. The band combines accessible hooks with technical mastery, and lyrics that explore philosophical avenues from the perverse dogmatism of organized religion to the dehumanizing exploitation of imperialism.

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released November 27, 2020

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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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