Downwards I turn, to the maze of Death
To the waste of creation, to the abode of spirits vile

I turn my back from the source of the light
From the Godhead into the night
I penetrate the nightside womb;
I'll journey to the dark side of the moon
I close my drowning eyes and venture into the unknown

A leap of faith into an ever storming sea
Tiamat of the black deeps churning endlessly
Take me to the tunnels where the phantoms lurk
Where the shadows breed is where I plant my seed
I will join you in an orgy of stark horror sweet
In my darkest of reams we will meet

Formulae, open up the vast black, open my mind to the
Formulae, open up the vast black, open my eye
Devour me with your deathly grace, swallow my soul

I turn my back from the source of the light
From the Godhead into the night
I penetrate the nightside womb;
I'll journey to the dark side of the moon
I close my drowning eyes and venture into the unknown

Formulae, open up the vast black, open my mind to the
Formulae, open up the vast black, open my eye
Devour me with your deathly grace, swallow my soul

In the gloom, in the sublime
In the crevice where the death bells chime
In the in between where darkness swirls
The twilight is the crack between the worlds

Night - bewitching, luring
Host of daunting spectacles
At dawn - a dance of death

There's a wind of disease
Emanating from a distant mist
Beware the dancing ones' breath
Beware the witches kiss
At the sound of strikes 13
As the feet turn backwards
And the air turns to ice Spectres appear

From the cold, from the moon
From the sounds of the Devil's tune
From the blood that the pious condemn
In the tomb we become

Night - bewitching, luring
Host of daunting spectacles
At dawn - a dance of death

There's a wind of disease
Emanating from a distant mist
Beware the dancing ones' breath
Beware the witches kiss
At the sound of strikes 13
As the feet turn backwards
And the air turns to ice Spectres appear

Out of womb, out of hell
Out of the worlds of distorted shells
Out of the smudge from the serpent's eye
A demon breed, the trail to the north
Through lady she-fox's cry

You come to visit me in dreams
In the borderland to where darkness gleams
In a state of bliss long gone from this earth
You appear before me

Far away where the skeletons are dancing
Where the moon is red and the magic is enhancing
Where the black birds are falling from the sky
Where I come to die

My visions

Covered with flies, drenched in black
You're dripping with burning oil
Twisting limbs, burnt, decayed
Alone you stand in barren soil

The roots go deep
And through them flows ancient continuity
Here are the secrets of becoming
And the doors to immortality

The becoming of ghouls
The becoming of ghosts that stalk the nothingness

I hear them, echoing in the valleys of my sleep
The becoming of ghosts
Ever drawing nearer
Those sighs coming from the deep

The becoming of ghosts

This be the second feather
Of a bird black as pitch
A raven of death, another one of the intestines removed
The shadowy gloom thickens; can you feel
The call of the witch?
The seas begin to roll, the earth begins to move

I turn the torch of life down against the dark soil
I taste the wine of death and my blood starts to boil
I quench the flame and the sky turns to night
I float in the absence of light

The sweetness of dead, no misery nor woe
We belong dead, dead where we are to go
A cursed land, the wolven father's seat
Where the Devil and his children
Still walk with earthly feet

This Velvet Blackness
There is a poison in my blood, in my soul
This Velvet Blackness
There is a poison in my heart, in my soul

Behold the pendulum's begun to swing
The reek of Death appearing, the darkness moving in
I see the night is coming, it's carried by the wind
A darkened sky before me, my monument of sin

This Velvet Blackness
There is a poison in my blood, in my soul
Come put your sweet disease in me
Now burn in me, scourge the insides of me!

Boiling Black Blood
Dissolving Black Blood
Boiling Black Blood
Coagulate Black Blood

In Barren landscapes - Parched with thirst
In Woods at Night - And Streams by Day
Her Hollow Voice - Sings through the Mist
To Lure you Out - Into the Wild
Creature of Beauty - A Darkness she Hides
To Take you Out - Where the Devil Rides

"Beware - beware of her bright hair
And the strange dress that glitters there
Many a young man she beguileth
Smiles winningly on youthful faces
But woe to him whom she embraces!"

She Stains your Soul - With Sin after Sin
Marks your Soul - Under the Skin
A Terror Rises - From Deep Within
A Muted Scream - In Her Eyes Gleam
In a Distant Dream...

A Curse for the Few - That call her Name
A Curse for you - That seek Her out
Remember this Tale - Forget not Her Name
The Gates of Death - Will Open for You...

The sky has turned black
By demons with lanterns in hand
The axis is mine to climb, for the light I withstand
The clouds open up as the night's roads expand
The wine is for me to drink, the nectar of eternity

Your ways are torn asunder
My ways are reborn

The energies are here, they are buried in the soil
The world seems to fade as the serpent uncoils
The unearthly, the death of life and birth of soul
The wine is for me to drink
The elixir of immortality

Your ways are torn asunder
My ways are reborn
My will begins the ascension of a slumbering snake
I feel the energy, the calling of a crimson moon

Drink with Rudra, drink from the cup
The drink is poison for the profane
As it opens passages to the other
It makes the very foundation of your world collapse
Drink with Rudra, drink from the cup
Descend into the underworld

Down, down, down...
Mutilation and death
Metamorphosis divine
Transmigration in ecstasy
Rebirth from death malign

My ways are torn asunder, I am reborn

Can you see the dead?
Phantom shadows
Now flicker through the air
Can you see them?
Can you hear their cries?
Wailing mournful
Lamentations of despair
Can you hear the dead?

Under a moonless sky the owls cry
Seed is spilled in fertile soil
Now banished from the light
Unions are forged
Through the forbidden
The alchemy of night

We are estranged
We are spiraling
Backwards through the haze
We are utterly estranged
We have spiraled
And turned backwards

And we are making
Our ways on through the maze

And as the flames of
The tripods expire
It enters the soul

Devilish Carpathian Lamentations!

Poisonous haze
The philter's stream
Deadly nightshade and mandragora
Step in to the dark
Float in to the dream
Take the last step into the mist

I can feel the
Right side of my face go numb
A pleasant chill is running down my spine
I feel the cold breath of something unknown
I smell and taste of blood - I am no longer alone

Shapeless dual figures
Swaying back and fro
Smoke like larvae flying
In the wind they blow

Subconscious calling
The dead will dance
If you sing their songs
In trance

When you call upon them
They will come
Haunting memories make these rooms sweat
Twisted shadows dancing, sinister silhouettes
A gateway, a gaping mouth
To these entities unknown
The beauty of night fills this energy flow

The dead shall dance as I lead them on
The dead shall dance as I sing their songs
In death - my path is sealed
I'll sing for death when my soul is freed

Spirits from the other side
Hollows in the tides of time

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