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Forbidden Sanctuary
08:12
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FORBIDDEN SANCTUARY
borders touch the sky’s
Haven for the snakes
Appointed by the gods
To seal the sanctuary
The streets are paved with gold
On the outside we decay
A window to the underworld
Kings and creatures block the way
Deep within the walls
The time has come to conquer
I see
Serpents they wait in the grass
Orchestrating the end of time
Pathway leads to a vigorous land
Find our way through the sanctuary gates
No asylum
human sacrifice
The pillars fall
An end in sight
Leaving our home
destined to fall
A distant memory of hope
Die by the sword
Or be reborn
Our sacred tree
Stripped of its bark
Rots to the core
Rooted in bile
Enter the gates
Obtain the light
Free the enslaved
End of the night
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2. |
Despoiled
05:14
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DESPOILED
For centuries they walked a fertile ground
Flourishing in light
Then kings arrived with hatred in their hearts
Utopian demise
Malignant fate in the hands of the evils ones
Death to the wise, scar the earth for eternity
Paradise lost
As mountains burn beneath and angry sky
Sanity unwinds
They’ve poisoned all the oceans and the seas
And Leave no trace of life.
Malignant fate in the hands of the evils ones
Death to the wise, scar the earth for eternity
Paradise lost
Escape through a cavern of shadows
The chasm leads deeper into the ground
Lit by the flame of a candle
An echo of torment the only sound
We will prevail
Or die in the looming trails
grip of despair
Ascent of the fallen ones
Ancient tyrant
Seek your demise
No mercy given
Hear the cry’s
Searing the flesh of the beast
Bury alive
Alone with his madness
He won’t survive
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3. |
Is It Your God
07:00
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IS IT YOUR GOD
Is it your god
Who gave you this life
Bound to a cross
Delusion of a soul Devine
Exist to fear the one you praise
With hopes to claim your holy right
The light
Remain eternal in the ashes
Still pray for better days
He was the one that’s taken the sun away
He was the one that told you the heavens await
There is no light
There’s no presence of god
In this hell that we live
Descend into the lightless unknown
Angel blood fills
A crimson red sky
Fires engulf
Breaking the oath
Enlightened for the first time
The air is in your lungs
Breath
you’re alive
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Melt The Crown
07:05
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MELT THE CROWN
Hides in the mountains
kills all he sees
Blinded by fortunes
spreading disease
Bring the sacred souls to life
Rising from a tomb bright
Merciless horsemen
abuse the crown
Spirits awakening to cast you out
Where the vagrants go to die
Perish under moonlight.
Feel the weight of the world
Losing sight of the sun
We must capture the king
Become a regicide
Breeding seasons of anguish
Terrors bludgeon the conscience
Through the knowledge of sin
We will melt the crown
Burn the king alive
Hang him from a spire
For the gods to see
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CLOAK OF THE VAST AND BLACK
Our time is gone
Shrouded by an evil
The vast and black
An emptiness will fill the earth
The ground it quakes
As temples burn around me
The sun is god
Never set to rise again
Renew the path of existence
Searching for a new way of life
These tired eyes won’t rest
Must find a path to escape
Ancient knowledge buried deep in the sands of time
Uncover a gate that leads to the distant stars
Leaving this barren world behind
Step into the portal, awake on the other side
Leaving this barren world behind
Traversing the stars through space and time
Become the one, the god of all creation
Rebuild the world, weave the web of destiny
Renew the path of existence
Finding a new way of life
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Celestial Tyrant
05:47
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CELESTIAL TYRANT
despise a world once owned
Foresee fire
A tyrant I’ve become
Empathy escapes me
Wrath
I have come to claim my throne
Waster of worlds
Reclaim what’s been bestowed
Appearing without warning
Incursion if your home
Bringing death upon you
Wrath
I have come to claim my throne
Waster of worlds
Killer of gods leave the netherworld
Infinite eclipse
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7. |
Beyond Our Minds
04:07
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BEYOND OUR MINDS
Soul leaves the body
Wave the world goodbye
Connect to the universe
Quest beyond your mind
We drift among the stars
Guided by a voice
Encounter an entity
In geometric form
Benevolent being lead us home
Expand the horizon
And open the minds eye
A visionary takes me by the hand
Expelled from hell
Existing in a trance
Forget the misery
And bleeding hearts
Beget what he’s foreseen
An endless dream
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The Torch
04:08
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THE TORCH
Cutting through the darkness
With a beacon of light
Brilliant is the torch, the end of our strife
Illuminator of the blackened
Causing shadows to die
Everlasting candescence will light up the sky
Test of the will, the future looks bright
Raising the torch becoming Devine
Ending of an empire
They begin to decay
Releasing the grip, the dawn of the day
Thousand years of torment, rob the kings of their breath
The wage of the sins they commit is their death
Test of the will, the future looks bright
Raising the torch becoming Devine
We see the light shine again
Bask in the rays of the sun
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Candescence
04:08
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10. |
In The Absence Of Wisdom
06:35
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IN THE ABSENCE OF WISDOM
We awaken
No one left to guide us through
Counting virtues, and no flaws
Fear the oracle
And prophecies becoming truths
Are we destined to rise
Or do we crumble
Can we live on
Or will we die in solitude
Viscous cycle
Mistakes we made we can’t undo
Nothing sacred
In our minds
Haunted by the past
Hunted by the demons
Erasing the stars
Crest of a title wave
Falling apart
In fragments
In the absence of wisdom
Searching for a better way
All the elders perished now
We live in the eye of storms
We are now the demons
We’ve become the snakes
Following the footsteps
Of the ones we hate
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ANCIIENTS Vancouver, British Columbia
"Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic heaviness and precise riffing, lays otherworldly ANCIIENTS—a Vancouver-based rock juggernaut forging crushing heavy metal evocative of veterans High on Fire and contemporary sonic craftsmen, Opeth. ANCIIENTS have combined fuck-off-huge chords with mind-altering riffage that takes you on an unfamiliar trip." ... more
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