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Catalyst - A Different Painting For A New World lyrics



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01. Gathering Of New Forces

[Instrumental]

02. To Unleash Thy Heinous Fate

Raise my tower! Crafted from an ancient spell
From this hour! I will build your extinction
We send you a sign of a real pernicious swarm
Strange corpses invade your sight, stare at the martyrs above you

Behold, my art!

Feel this noxious fear filling your soul with anxiety
The Earth is about to be subject to the wrath of the nine Lords

We despise your kind!

We’ve seen the grave of their world
Now they face the Lords’ endeavor

Thy creation will collapse for I hold the power of the wise
Now, your selfish reign is about to end so beg your successor

A black firmament discloses this deadly future
The fall of your kind, dire path of your end
Everlasting awe, perpetual doom on Earth
We curse your world and your breed to dethrone the woeful foe

I lead your fate!

We’ve seen the grave of their world
Now they face the Lords’ endeavor

Watch me come to be
A nightmare for humanity
Chaos and wisdom flow in my veins
I shall be your final thought!

03. The Last Warning

Unleash thy heinous fate!

Those corpses are now waving in a pure shape
Perceive this dread air we unveiled

Gaze upon those dead men
Disgraceful demise of your peers
Pale faces struck in dismay
Conceived by this illusion

Scapegoats are hanging from the highest sphere
Ominous vision of a ghastly torture

A discernable pain
Lies here, in front of them
They are the witnesses of
A trauma for aeons to come

This is a silence worth a thousand words
No one can speak yet the world realises
A change has come
Is this the end Human’s beliefs want us to see?

Only the eyes of a pure man can perceive
The guidance of a father in this nightmare
Will there be a chance?
Or is this the single outcome promised for men?

This is the last warning and the decline of the Almighty
As carcasses are falling ashes infest your fields
This is the last warning before the obliteration
Of this bleak reality rough and utterly uncontrolled

The nothingness you were for all those years
Shall back down to be nothing again

For an eternity yet to come
Your wretched kind will suffer
The same issue as your master
He, the corrupted among the wise

Beyond the abstraction of space and time
An odd aura descends upon us all

A malevolent influence
Induces our downfall
A symbol of perfection
Oozing from unseen forces

This is a silence worth a thousand words
No one can speak yet the world realises
A change has come
Is this the end Human’s beliefs want us to see?

Only the eyes of a pure man can perceive
The guidance of a father in this nightmare
Will there be a chance?
Or is this the single outcome promised for men?

04. Worms And Locusts

For the first time we appear to the eye of the treacherous swarm
Forged and shaped in different flesh, hidden from the sight of the Omnipotent Death quietly settles in, constrained penitence
Its supremacy is about to collapse under the weight of our excellence

The havoc we wreak!

The watchful eye of the Great Architect is blinded and weakened
Cold bloodshed hammering down the sinister breed
Worms and locusts! Decimate the structure of mankind
Worms and locusts! Cast away those abominations

No grief for the swine!

Like worms, they burn and crawl before their long unseen Lords Still, the demented idol will vanish from this world Unspeakable atrocities fiercely striking the Earth
A dismal silence spreading out while they die

Disdain of lives!

Trapped in this place, a vicious vortex
I am here to create, with the power of the Eight
Immense torment, anthem of your banishment
Abide in my word, thou shalt not repent

Existence of humanity disappears as we proceed
Our plan reaches complete fruition, wicked pandemonium roams the Earth From this divine wrath a sublime world will be reborn
A grand opprobrium overwhelming those doomed creatures

The watchful eye of the Great Architect is blinded and weakened
Cold bloodshed hammering down the sinister breed
Worms and locusts! Reap the sentence!
Worms and locusts! Reap the sentence!

05. Arise Of The Anathema

From the deepest slumber I awake
Absolute clarity fills my air
As I stare at the embodied fate
Of my magnificent art and of my pawns

Such a disillusionment, a betrayal to my creation
But with pure authority I reign upon this universe

Sitting on my unseen throne
I witness this abhorrence, a shameful slight

I am the father of everything, the reason for all that lives!
I shall regain my stature, almighty force of yore!

Still I am an anathema, a pariah
Among the wise men I despise
Envious of my boundless virtue
Desperate to reclaim my former strength

They foist their will upon the weak
They won’t reach this ideal they conceived
And I will reconquer what was taken
I stand still, unyielding above everything

As I redeem my sway
A malediction will strike your scheme
Fool, you thought you were the sovereign,
Don’t forget that I am the essence

Sullen awakening from this abysmal torpor
Listen to my voice, fear these mighty words
This world is a mirror of the perfection I symbolise
I am... your paragon!

Arise my swelling madness
And sail into the depths

So hear my laughter
A frantic scream, an echo from beyond

Slavery, mockery, is all you deserve
For you are my servants, you belong to me,
The horrible yet perfect warden
Nine holy vultures won’t change my reign

You shall serve me,
You shall serve me.

06. Paragon Of Devastation

Catastrophic machination awaits the renegade
Stuck in a pure paradox transcending their might
Change of paradigm, let my will prevail
Unfathomable corruption ingraining the core

For my greatness reached the apex of its potency
Worshipped by disposable lives I forged and raised
As I imbue discord and harmony at once
Horrid peripeteia for a crippled reprisal

Out of sheer hatred I wipe out my art
The time of reckoning approaches for the Catalyst

My realm is boundless, so is my shrine
I am the sole Emperor, bound to undefeated might
There is no control you could take upon me
I am the paragon of devastation

This grand dolor of treachery finds an ease
Through this calamitous situation I steer
Piercing the light around them, bearing wide haze
Let chaos and obscurity reign again

The time of reckoning approaches for the Catalyst

My realm is boundless, so is my shrine
I am the sole Emperor, bound to undefeated might
There is no control you could take upon me
I am the paragon of devastation

A timeless rest awaits the servant of this universe
Left to rot away until I construct once again

Lords shall fall,
Lords shall fall,
Lords shall fall,
Lords shall fall as I rise again!

07. Behold Thy Purification

I was once among yours, ashamed to be part of your kind
I’ve been chosen by the Lords to watch over you, to choose your path to be
And now I stand here silently, ready to tear your world apart
Born to engender titanic mayhem

Chained hands of humanity trapped between wisdom and chaos
From its spreading plague, my will compelled to carry extinction
The death of knowledge, a paralysis of years of evolution
A sacrifice we have to make

Abjure your quest of salvation before me
For there’ll be no greater perspective for you

Lords of light
Is there bliss in our design?
Or do we have drowned
In the same void that we have made?

Be prepared to consume your last breath, decimation of lives
To rejoin a desultory nameless space, illusive sign of death
As the lunacy of the almighty is draining the sands of time
Thus, nothing will be relieved

Stare at the last rays from the sun, time freezing for a moment
A leap to the other side for humankind, abominable and hateful
Strife between the majesties of this monumental universe
Behold thy purification!

Cherish the behest of your crucial downfall
For there is no greater perspective for you

Lords of light
Is there bliss in our design?
Or do we have drowned
In the same void that we have made?

Can we avoid this dreadful fate conceived for all?

Struck with shades of light at the crack of dawn
For there is no other perspective for you

Lords of light
Is there bliss in our design?
Or do we have drowned
In the same void that we have made?

See how your lives
Are nothing for the Omniscient
No one can be saved
From the grip of its loathsome scourge

Now the voices slowly extinguish
A deafening silence for centuries...

Oh, I mourn thy loss!

08. Peripeteia

[Instrumental]

09. The Catalyst's End

Cataclysmic storms came from beyond the skies
Shafts of light arose from the horizon
Striking their eyes, let them be crucified
Deep in their mind, they knew I’d prevail

Bend the knee before me, I shatter this unity
To send those deities into forlorn nihility

Prostrate the stars with abysmal screams
Release my spleen, your wardens collapsing
Your feeble frame will face oblivion
I am peerless, and I will cast you down!

This is the meaning of the end
A vast bottomless hole where they fall
The emptiness will be their final land
Hear your screams crashing on the wall
Destroying your plan by my hand
Now cue the horns, embrace your fate
I draw chaos upon the Eight
Consider the Catalyst’s end!

Can you feel the chthonian heat of the Earth?
Can you hear the celestial bells chiming your demise?
Outstanding symbol of an aborted birth
Of a perfect realm you couldn’t reach

Watch those dreamless pawns being annihilated
And contemplate the prodigal child dying

Now, burn my rage
The brim of this age
Crown back my reign
May we suffer until the end!

10. A Different Painting For A New World

I venture beyond boundaries
A vociferous lull surrounds my shell
Overwhelmed by an abstract landscape
A breathless experience

I soared to the heights of my power
To plunge to the inmost depths
Our vision collapses in the obscure chasm
Dimensions fall down beneath

Out of the blackness, show me the way
Unveil me the passage
Where are you Lords?
Enter my tomorrow, bereaved of dusklight’s soul

Through death and chaos I was assuming your fate
I was the future, the promise of a better end
For this tyranny that grieves our inner self
I had an image, a different painting for this ideal

Die with me in vain
Watch our souls melting
In nothingness, meaningless,
Lest this is our end
A portrait of misery
Devoid of all poetry
Nothing to save down here

There is no whole if the wise men fall
My muted tongue cannot shape the call
I was the only chance to change this tragic thrall

I remember those shrill cry
And the sudden dearth of sound
A scene of painful desolation
Decline and failure of a lost fortune

Face the absence
That strikes the deepest part of myself
My soul falls as a feather, forever
Engulfed in the void

Through death and chaos I was assuming your fate
I was the future, the promise of a better end
For this tyranny that grieves our inner self
I had an image, a different painting for a new world.