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Born of Tooth and Talon
04:03
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Empty shell casings litter the earth
Their sole purpose, reversing life's curse
There was violence in the beginning and it shall remain until our ending
Stones fashioned into knives
Hearts harden when taking a life
Fear's pheromone fills our nostrils
Let us be known "as salt to earth"
Crimson Landscapes, empty wounds
All of life's blood, flowed to the tomb
Stones fashioned into knives
Hearts harden when taking a life
Fears pheromone fills our nostrils
Let us be known "as salt to earth"
Empty Horizons, blackened skies
Listless wandering into the night
Fervor and ravenous light
Burns from deep inside
Instinct to conquer
Blood lust and justice
Flesh on the talon
Law of the Tooth
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Coil/Strike
04:51
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Every movement is a weapon
A quickening preparation
A constant meditation
To find the weakest point and strike
The serpent slowly coils, collecting all the spoils
It contemplates the right time to strike
Your heartbeat knew, this would be your ending
As life withdrew, another world is waiting
End your life
A debt of blood must be paid
A pound of flesh is unmade
Worthless life is detained
In the endless maw of death
The heart beats faster in meeting
This companion of steel and lessons
Every part is knowing the fragility of living
As knowledge is imparted as a wound
The serpent slowly coils, awaiting all the spoils
It contemplates the right time to strike
Your heartbeat knew, this would be your ending
As life withdrew, another world is waiting
End your life
This wound is pouring bounties
The skin is getting colder
The world is seeming farther away
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Sterile Initiates
04:38
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Weakness procreates inside these feeble veins
A voice of empty promises that loudly proclaims:
"Join us as ye are empty and full of sin"
"Join us as ye are hollow and rotting from within"
Emptying your coffer, into changing whims
Awaiting the whisper of the holy seraphim
Cloaked in the shadows of righteousness
Every page in this book of light
Dripping with serpent's venom
Clipping the wings of the sparrow's flight
Eyes fixed firmly on the sullen earth
Mouths sewn shut that cant express their mirth
Doctrines of sorrow
Spread to a myriad
Nothing is left, but this sterile man
Nothing is left, the initiate shall not transcend
To subjugate, seal a fate wanton justice
Man's folly raining down like blood
It is envy of the open eye
It is envy of a chainless life
Nothing is left, but this sterile man
Nothing is left, the initiate shall not transcend
Cloaked in the shadows of righteousness
Every page in this book of light
Dripping with serpent's venom
Clipping the wings of the sparrow's flight
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The Nameless Tongue
07:24
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Pitch and obsidian laced within these words
Ancient malfeasance waiting to arise
Beneath blood and cryptic writings
A power untouched and unbridled
Open ye' gaping maw, Typhon
To swallow those destroyers of Gaia's young
May your will guide my movements and motions
To topple the hollow empty kingdoms
Becoming the hidden, silent meaning
Of every cry that's gone unheard
A life sworn, to wage war
To crush the gates of heaven, beneath a storm of sorcery assault
Worshipers of the formless void
Practitioners of the darkest light
For beyond death there is a throne
Where the empty one waits
Transcending this meaningless flesh
Through steel and fire
Burning away my frail humanity
With words the ancients spoke
Becoming the hidden, silent meaning
Of every cry that's gone unheard
A life sworn, to wage war
To crush the gates of heaven, beneath a storm of sorcery assault
The darkest light shines from these words
A place where life simply cannot grow
An empty, hollow altar...
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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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