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Altars of Rot

by Barghest

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1.
Cold nuclear winters are approaching Storms of plague and pestilence The sky’s many colors are collapsing Into a singular hue of Despair, fire, death, the unknown Desecrating the flesh with cursed stone Death forever sits beside you In a home, creating a tomb Belief, fear, the noose, the snare Spiritual collapse draws near The tongue that speaks it’s poison most clear Writes the final extinction Dialogue Waste and vitriol are the sum of the substance That creates the composite of man There is not one singular notion That lips cannot corrupt Shame is not armor that protects you from the woes at hand Blame is not a weapon with which to lash out at a weakly man Blood of the earth, there is no fault in you Destroys the curse, that is flesh and destroying truth Weapons at birth, every cell a disease itself There will be mirth, when the dialogue is spoke Extinction Shame is not armor that protects you from the woes at hand Blame is not a weapon with which to lash out at a weakly man Blood of the earth, there is no fault in you Destroying the curse, that is flesh and destroying truth Weapons at birth, every cell a disease itself There will be mirth, when the dialogue is spoke
2.
Scorned Born to a vessel riddled with illness Deformed Lacking perfection, as is prediction Wandering through the labryinth of addiction and conception Pondering every wound as a new lesson in isolation Believe there is something better at the End of this lightless tunnel we seek Illusion that our life will have some meaning It won't continue on this path to nothing Forms of endless ache Fill up every space Still life as we make New shapes wrought from pain Each muscle, each bone, constructs this wounded soul Bleakness, starless nights, visions of grandeaur nowhere in sight Creations, negative go towards the consuming nothingness Creations, negative go towards the consuming nothingness Forms of endless ache Fill up every space Still life as we make New shapes wrought from pain
3.
The pious said, "it's suffering that brings you closer." Next to "him", an eternity of scars. Next to "him", Next to "him" Next to "him", Next to "him" Leave them drooling, longing for death From pious to poisoned to last breath Forcing murder, for holy ascent from child to martyr to descent Gasping for air, the doctrine that stokes From fire to freedom to smoke Sworn to uphold the vile words of men pretending to be gods. Empty and weak and hollow, taking from the peasants of tomorrow. Blistered and lecherous, raping the beauty of the world. Born of a seed of sorrow, taking from the terrified fools. Pious Poisoned Pious Poisoned Leave them drooling, longing for death From pious to poisoned to last breath Forcing murder, for holy ascent from child to martyr to descent Gasping for air, the doctrine that stokes From fire to freedom to smoke The pious said, "it's suffering that brings you closer." Next to "him", an eternity of scars. Next to "him", Next to "him" Next to "him", Next to "him"
4.
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Infinite in majesty, timeless in age Compassion stolen Tides of grief Presiding over immeasurable woe Silent heart beats A chorus of screams unheard Symphonies of screams unheard Ferinus Vis Caustic shores bring despair with their wake Ancient primal force Ferinus Vis Caustic shores bring despair with their wake Ancient primal force Ferinus Vis Caustic shores bring despair with their wake Ancient primal force Ferinus Vis Caustic shores bring despair with their wake Ancient primal force Drown earthly flesh Remorse is weakness Weakness of men Free from the chains of morality Inherent Instincts Carnivorous might Cloaked in death's smothering blanket
5.
Intrinsically destroying everything Elaborately portraying martrydom Lacking true conviction Vapid contradictions Creating mere illusions of God, perfection, hope, where they wander their mouths preach a doctrine to cast the first stone lies born from the words of serpents in radiant robes Casting out the concept of truth A nomadic plague spreads like cancer Burning out all the life That existed in times before One exception that is to be no more Intrinsically destroying everything Elaborately portraying martyrdom Lacking true conviction Vapid Contradictions
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Cold and alone Manifest patience A tome of your own false words of elation A festering bloom The fruit burgeons rotten Beg for a tomb Existence forgotten Dark earth ready for this empty husk No departing words you're only once Feed this body, to the open maw No profound journey, a ghost noone saw Perpetual failures ink the canvas full Bleak dark visions the only shapes to know Empty eyes see only greyest skies Rain falls endless, drowns the dying light Tired of trying, refining Different ways to feel anything No more decisions, revisions The final period inked and dried Vacant no future, no sutures To repair bleeding, accent every wound Silent removal approval Dissapearing indefinitely Dark earth ready for an empty husk No final words, a departure hush Feed this body, to the open wound No celestial journey, a ghost noone knew Perpetual failures ink the canvas full Bleak dark visions the only shapes to know Empty eyes see only freeing rope Rain falls endless, drowns the garden's hope Cold and alone Manifest patience A tome of my own false words of elation A festering bloom The fruit becomes rotten Beg for a tomb Existence forgotten
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Ignorant herds Weeping with false faith, led to their blind ways Creates a curse Visited daily, biblical rabies The crown he wore first To promise a kingdom, for pious, devout men Beautiful hearse Carrys you to earth, lies of a false birth Altars of rot There is no heaven, there are no good men Altars of rot Putrescent dogma, eating away at any core of spirit that we have left Lies of a hive mind, lies of the divine, on our kness, daily alms weaken us still Unspoken martyrs, saints of the ancient, all compare, all contrast, all archetypes Weakness incarnate, subserviant harness, greed for a story milleniums old Hanging enigma, blood flowing freely, "his" is the weakness that they extol Effigy's burning, flesh slowly churning, as they regress into meanlingless clay Potent and vile, virtues on trial, there is no growth in the rotted one's words Why do they move towards meaningless rewards, life truly wasted, nothing is gained Altars of Rot That lack true meaning Like a rat caught In a trap bleeding Altars of Rot That lack true meaning Like a rat caught In a trap bleeding

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Recorded April and October of 2019.
Guitars recorded by Dallas Smith
Drums, bass and vocals recorded by David Troia at Balance Productions
Mixed by James Whitten at Hightower Recording
Mastered by Colin Davis at Imperial Mastering
Artwork by Misanthropic-Art

Dallas Smith - Guitars and Vocals
Jason Thorning - Guitars
Troy Bennett - Vocals and Bass
Max Kimmons - Drums

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released July 10, 2020

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Barghest Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Formed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2006, Barghest is the aural manifestation of hatred and disdain.

Dallas Smith
Jason Thorning
Troy Bennett (2015)

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