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Arkanum

by Cult of Lilith

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1.
Abaddon 03:38
I awaken Summoned by the beacon in darkness A host of souls ripe for the taking I am the eater of suns I am the eye in the void I am the father of swarms I am the end of creation My reign shall start with you Can you hear them My daughters and sons In the millions They hunger My kingdom of ruin shall be raised Upon the corpse of the winter way The sound of silence permeates And soon I shall consume the next Excoriate the flesh from the vastness Consecrate the infinite planes The crucible that burns away the sickness Abolish the infestation Purge the blight from this decrepit world Absolve the affliction its inhabitants have wrought I am the eater of suns I am the eye in the void I am the father of swarms I am the end of creation My reign shall start with you
2.
What was unearthed was not of this world Unnatural formation of stone and flesh Warm to the touch, peculiar shape A sort of grotesque beauty The abnormal sphere gave a beckoning call Only heard by men in their sleep The black hymn of the fiend within Made man into beast, and beast into man From the vessel it burst, an inhuman being Silence fell, and by her gaze were enslaved men by the thousands By her radiance, they fell to their knees Made misshapen, and reduced to fiends From her womb, sprang disease A plague of the soul The sun forever sets We are the doom of all worlds We unleashed the primordial truth the scope of what was to come Beyond comprehension Locust queen, daughter of storms She comes to lay her claim Abyssal mother, bringer of ruin She is the eater of worlds harbinger of endless desert By her hand shall the spheres fall Into the abyss which spawned her Tomb of Sa'ir
3.
Arkanum 03:18
Leave it unspoken Unheard, this perilous knowledge Scripture of mad men, songs of the void leave it to burn Burn, the words from the mouth of greater minds Hide it from the eyes This was not for men to see A divination of the wills of gods The black tongue of the abyss Terrifying image of things to come Immaterial voice Sings of the coming storm fleshbound destroyer Harvester, reaper of souls Steel your spirit He is coming Shed your flesh this reaping was foreseen Our minds are the signal fire Calling forth the blackened beast Avert your gaze, broodlord give us stay, father of millions The knowing of his coming, was never meant to be Tear the veil of blissful ignorance This cannot be unheard or unseen The mind is broken, there are no chains to escape Spiral into madness
4.
Trample them, stamp them out Climb upon the mound of corpses Ascend the broken dead Assume your crown of nothing Detested Empress Oblivious and blind Hate, a crown upon her head This kingdom was paid for in blood A throne forged in treachery Drink of her soiled soul Become one of the vermin This stigma will never fade You are marked, forever known to be Deathless, yet unliving omnipotent entity There is a price to pay A debt for what was given You will relinquish all Lest they take it from you Silence, you have lost your self as has your debt been paid You'll never see the light and the warmth has gone forever You servitude begins This is the cross you will bear Endless plains of ice The wages of sin We will grant you release At eternities end As the last falls from the night
5.
Night Hag 04:07
Shadows begin to speak Ones own flesh made unwilling Hidden eyes inside the black An unknowable intellect I have no legs and I must run I have no mouth and I must scream I dream of a sea of flesh Innumerable frenzied mouths I dream of the living shadow The blissful touch the baleful gaze She comes in the night A beastly form in shade A paralyzing gaze In the dark there is no refuge She takes what is hers From your seed she will breed A legion of offspring Pray for an end The cold embrace of nothing You have sown the seed What you will reap Transcendental infiltration Sins of the father incarnate The bastard nephilim disembark

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Released January 22, 2016
Recorded by Simon Th, Julian Parry and Daniel Thor Hannesson.
Mixed and mastered by Manuele Pesaresi

Drum tracking by Alessandro Vagnoni (recorded by Manuele P)
Produced by Daniel Thor, Simon Th

Songs composed by Daniel Thor Hannesson.
Lyrics written by Jón Haukur Pétursson

Guest guitar solo on 'Tomb of Sa'ir' by Simon Th
Guest guitar solo on 'Arkanum' by Hjörtur Ólafsson
Guest guitar solo on 'Detested Empress' by Jón Þór Sigurleifsson
All piano and string arrangements by Jón Þór Sigurleifsson

Album cover and logo designed by Ultrabat Illustrations

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released January 22, 2016

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Cult of Lilith Reykjavík, Iceland

"Necromechanical baroque", that is the province of Cult Of Lilith. A frantic collision of death metal, prog, complex classical structures and any other style they wish to incorporate, their debut album, Mara, is a restless, constantly shifting collection that is as imaginative as it is compulsive. ... more

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