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Dawn of Release
05:38
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We Embraced the cold
shrouded by dawn
The morning frost
Wind on our faces
Through time we travelled
We embraced the cold
Towards the light we struggled
And from despair we ran
We embraced the cold
And opened our eyes
It only held death for us
We'd been deceived-
From despair we ran
Towards the light we struggled
Sinking slowly into a cold white sea
(Lyrics by James Benson)
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Deeper Than Blood
03:45
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Dust is crushed mountains and the ashes of everything that ever
existed.
Specs of life dissolving into a void which we cannot know.
Dust has covered the planets and the moons' gleam is reflected upon it
For we all are dust of the Earth
Time is fleeting, awaiting a dreaming state and promise of after life
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Become the Fear
04:39
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Burned and consumed, like ashen memories
Pale and undone, distant seems the world
Like freezing arctic wind, the blade of loss cuts through
To find myself again, I cannot comprehend
To walk this road, the path of desolation
Far from the sun, cold isolation
Abandoned here, in silent apathy
By all those, once so endeared
To understand, I must become the fear
To prevail, I must become the enemy
To reclaim dominion, surrender to defeat
To rise to elation, I must fall into despair
Crushed by the weight of an impending failure I endeavor in vain toward the fading sun Paralyzed in this aphotic void My strength it is lost, in the absence of light Before my eyes, as if frozen in time The rise and fall of everything once defined To acquiesce to the arms of negation Denial at once my comfort and my shame The dark that once seemed so false, so distant Now engulfs every aspect of my sight The understanding lies entwined with all I fear I am the enemy, I am the light Accept that forever, is a mere perception Relative to our own minds Every moment elapsed is an eternity In the shadow of our fleeting time Those once beloved, will fade to dust Nothing sacred, cannot be undone To overcome is to embrace our fear To forge ahead, and walk alone Reclaim desire, to see the unknown Abandon time, erase eternity Strength is attained by the fire of yearning The path to acceptance is a journey without end
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Morgawr
05:12
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Bring forth the time that remains,
To those who seek the meaning of the Word,
The will to break a system,
A need for those who can create,
Words are what make us,
Are what we create, language is dimensional,
In the midst of chaos showing
This love is ever flowing
Monuments can be turned to ruins
But words cannot decay, cannot decay
The universe is an extortionist
Forever slowly bleeding us dry
And the will to thrive is denied
By contextual divides
Separation of word and void.
A structured cluster of pre-conceived ideas, schemas, Schema
Can Create.
Words may transform into cosmic entities
Structured by the will of man to design infinity
Separate, word and void become one with the aethyr
Bring together dark and light and incarnate all that we fear
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I Am
05:57
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I am the glacier’s crest above the forests, freezing you mid thought and the ancient voices from the greying fog I am the thought that overtakes your mind and fills you with a singular happiness. I am your third hand and your second I am the shadow, the grey one Who cannot ever forget you.
I am the leaves the you burn in the fall
the swift cleansing of your conscious
I am the glistening of the leaves
and I am.
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Further from sane, In time I'll break
mechanical processes leading my way
reality ceases to be, divulging from actuality
alien phenomenon wiping our dreams
harvesting our thoughts and beliefs
what is to be, or the non-being
a warped vision and safety
theories of absurdity washing our faces
corrupted societies plot to end the nations
Diverging resources to fatten the people
The starving revolt and empty the steeple
Rotting and porous the end of our world
the character of mankind becomes unfurled
a king on his throne, sovereign rules
while citizens burn, despairing and doomed
No stone left unturned, no soul left alive
Fiery landscapes brighten the skies
Bereft of the living, a land of the dead
Defeated and giving, the world has bled
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Healer
04:29
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And I see the light ,surrounding you
from a blinded hollow I gaze I stare
Fallen not unveiling, fallen not waning
From hollowed ground, fallen I stare
For life was not meant to despair
I pry through the crowd to catch a glimpse
The power leaves me weak at my knees
Fallen not waning, fallen unveiling
Restoring, like air to drowning lungs
like fire to burning wood
inside a lifeless tomb
the after, the mending, the air
resurrecting so breath in, again, breath in again and restore.
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Thanatos
04:11
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There's a sense of satisfaction in knowing that you're gone
A sickening feeling of emptiness no longer prolongs
Residing within me, the place you shall be,
a deepening rift that slowly impedes
the ability to know you after death
Humanity deciphers your holy texts
withering the body to the illiterate
Falsely identifying with ignorance
The word corrupted to bend to the will of Man.
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Prometheus [Bonus]
06:10
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From the Dawn of Mankind, in the bleakness of night
From the formless and void, of his birth
A journey, a struggle, endless in time
To attain understanding and strength
The fire of will, Prometheus gave
So they, as gods, could create and destroy
A light on the path, of prosperity
From archaic void, to an ending unknown
Within mankind's hand, the greatest of power
To consume and to reign upon earth
But restraint he disdained, consequence ignored
In blind search of truth, wisdom was lost
Formed from the earth, from whence given life
Bestowed with the fire of gods
Heedless of presage, resolved to defy
The cause of this mortal design
As civilization reaches its end
From origin, primordial, to the status of gods
The fire of power, burns in their minds
For their creation, an agony of suicide
For the gift of fire, a consequence of torment
Bound to knowledge, to suffer its wrath
For the knowing negates, the innocent mind
As clear sight is gained, darkness consumes
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Amiensus Rochester, Minnesota
The Last EP- 8/1/10
Restoration- 1/1/13
Gathering (Split with Oak Pantheon)-
11/5/13
Ascension- 7/1/15
All Paths Lead to Death- 5/17/17
Gathering II (Split with Oak Pantheon)- 11/5/2018
ABREACTION - 2020
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