1. |
Dynasty of One
03:39
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Blunt weapons of heresy kill softly for a shroud is drawn.
Siphon out the bloodlines; dynasty of one.
Unto the world the reapers time
is now. What's left but hate and lies?
The beauty's gone... day turned to night.
Take us away...
We beg for termination
through a selfish violent nation.
Shame has replaced hope in my heart.
Already dying, Earth weeps.
Burn down the world, eradicate.
Acceptance lost, death permeates
the soil that war had vowed to take.
The grave awaits.
Once more a lifeless rock,
Earth returns to sleep.
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2. |
Absolute Zero
03:12
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Terror. I am so afraid to die.
A phobia. I wish to go on this night.
Commitment. This journey leaves me no choice.
Devour.
Save me, any God,
any diety or eternal powers.
I am wrought in fear.
Ghosts I beg for clarity.
Destroy my thoughts, having any purpose.
Lost breath. Among the stars, a conscience.
Through black, I hope to have a glimpse of light.
Devour.
Led by death, reaper of life.
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3. |
Chaos of Torment
03:59
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Breed the chaos of torment
The sky turned black,
the skin grew pale.
This burnt grey landscape;
ashen vale.
Stolen once by wraiths of hate
it breathes no more; exterminate.
Chaos. War.
Deep below in caverns cold,
water flows in secrets of old.
Untouched by flame or poison breath,
only these rivers run endless.
Breed the chaos of torment.
Bow unto you, keeper of pain,
drive the blade of redemption
beyond my pride.
Where voices spoke only ghosts remain.
Monuments enshrined in blood of the slain.
Light sacrificed by cover of night,
peace will always fail to motives born of spite.
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4. |
Beyond the Cemetery
04:11
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Void cradles thee.
Pain becomes reprieve of torment
of thoughts and fears within.
Black serpent of wrath,
it consumes all your kin.
Created from life.
Molded by death.
Another figure looms
beyond the cemetery.
Dormant serpent awaiting harvest.
Cascading sins prevail
a false deity
sleepwalking through flaming hail.
Slay the victim, serpent of vengeance.
Their crimes become unveiled.
An eternal night,
every strength becomes so frail.
Silence becomes calls of horror.
These walls will never break.
Faith is elusive
when knives cut and awake.
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5. |
Days of Silver
02:54
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No warmth in this frigid land.
Our moon watches a billion dreams.
A solemn winter in my home.
Evening charades of empty streams.
My temple mourns the dead who roam.
Peaceful seclusion. I've broken free.
So beautiful the sounds of silence;
stars spin like carousels.
Frost-born spirits bring life to air;
a golden summer is gone.
Curtains of white befall a sanctuary.
A sanctuary of reflection and peace.
Collapsing light brings tragedy.
Season of darkness calls.
In quiet dark I find solace.
The ice encases frailty.
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6. |
Frozen Existence
03:38
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A frozen existence would set it all free;
the chains and the stakes that pierce through me.
Hatred for dragging a heart full of dirt
through my life. Release me from this circle
of pain and hatred; core of ice. I stay the same.
I wish to be cold,
to be void of life.
To be a body
frozen inside me.
If I was trapped inside an icy cage
I'd have no love, sadness or rage.
Turn my bleeding heart to stone
for the bridges aflame I ignited alone.
Of pain and hatred, core of ice. I stay the same.
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7. |
Crawl
03:48
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Crawl.
Bow down; break
your oath to me.
Bound unto the morals inside me,
a dichotomy of malice and peace.
A gift of hope and yet a burial
bound by conscience and desire.
Fading fast is another attempt.
New struggles are born with hatred.
Chaos has awoken inside. Now battles shall rage;
infection.
I witness oceans of deceit and
regrets full of this burden.
I am now drowned in fear,
all around me it crawls.
Black or grey the sky will burn or fade.
Behold the cinders of a world.
Castles fall to rebuild monuments.
Fire burns the forest into life.
Something brings the darkness into daylight.
Something brings the dawn.
Bow down; break
your oath to me.
Crawl.
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8. |
Necromancer
03:38
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Take me to the one who speaks,
I'm lost and terrified.
Show the gate, the door of death
adorned about your shrine.
I've heard his calls,
they reach the other side.
Silhouetted, he turns and faces me.
Sky so dark, his image cloaked,
he reaches for me.
I look on, my fear is gone.
Answers are nigh.
Sky so dark, his image cloaked,
he reaches for me.
I look on, my body's gone.
Answers tonight.
Shaking bones on shaking bones,
the chants turn into screams.
Voices from the fire speak
and draw me to the flame.
Solidarity
with souls no longer here.
Endless vastness, the secrets shown to me.
Shaking bones on shaking bones.
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9. |
New Temple
04:16
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I am the walls rose up from carnage,
the river from mountain stone.
I am the monoliths of Egypt.
New temple of flesh and bone.
I am the roots dug into Earth.
Thrones in my life
broken down without my pride.
Open mouths but breathing dust;
I've walked this path,
just commit to this faith and worship
in the shrine of my... new temple.
I am the walls. I am the flesh.
Ascension given to none
without the trials of endurance
and the hopes of reassurance.
Past complacence lies with ancients
for there's no more time for patience.
I'm the blinded sacrifice.
I am the door. I am the splice
between the ruins of my past
and all the dreams I have amassed.
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10. |
In the Twilight
05:24
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I won't get another chance
to walk the world as I do now.
It is this time, in this moment
I can live with meaning.
In the twilight of my life
I'll be remembering these days.
In the twilight will I be
filled with joy or with regret?
I will lay and reflect
on this life that I have led.
In the twilight of my death
before my final breath.
I only have today.
Tomorrow's not arrived.
The past is not a curse.
I only have today to be my savior;
build my temple of peace while I'm here.
I wish to end my life with a soul filled with pride.
Complacency's the death of progression; suicide.
Forgotten is the core
of reason. Only now
can I build a future
with heart to see kindness.
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MORTIC Minneapolis, Minnesota
MORTIC is a death metal band playing out of the Minneapolis MN area. High energy live shows, and heavy music.
Debut Full length album "Beneath The Surface" is available now!
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