Koen Romeijn - vocals & guitar
Mike Ferguson - guitar
Thomas Kalksma - drums
Otto Schimmelpenninck - bass
guest musicians:
George Oosthoek - additional growls on "Forever Buried Pain" and speech on "Sword-Carved Skin"
Jorre Jansen - additional growls on "The Prophecy Unfolds" & "The Last of My Commands"
Daniel "Conan" Nak - additional growls on "Crawling Through Vile" & "The Last of My Commands"
mixed & mastered at Excess Studios (Rotterdam) in 14 days during August&September 2002
2. An Epic Defiance
Averting the plague
I shall repent injustice
For whom may ever retake my place
I shall be forever.
Prodigies of valour I see
Forever an epic defiance.
Revenge on those who command
Witness a setting of a burnt land
Eternally doomed in frustration
Fire in the eyes o
f my creation.
The blood-drenched window I laugh at
Feeds off my decay, rot!
I spent my days looking at death
Dying to gather sanity, needing no sympathy.
Prodigies of valour I see
Forever an epic defiance.
A soul with never-ending pain
A shadow of a lifeless form banished from sight
Left alone to decay, torn apart
As blood turns black.
Eager to taste
Consume to survive
As night devours its prey.
Prodigies of valour I see
Forever an epic defiance.
3. The Prophecy Unfolds
I have foreseen the conspiracy of the next confrontation
Decapitated bodies, abandoned lives
But yet not all is what it seems
The prophecy unfolds.
Our time will come
The prophecy unfolds
Shapeless being, filled with lies
Your presence is creating blood-shaped skies.
Defeated on our own ground
As if filthy slime always darkened our lives
There's still no solution found
But to tolerate and await the prophecy.
"Pay for your share in this crime
You shall repent, when the first light regains its strength"
Be gone!
Do I deserve to be distracted?
Be gone!
I am not yet on my knees.
Behold my becoming
Leave with nothing, suffer from shame
Behold my becoming
Admit your failure and leave no stain.
4. Sword-carved Skin
Somewhere I'll find the truth
Though I doubt, I wonder
Is there a truth to be found?
Where lies the soul of my being
The purpose of my presence.
The theme that haunts me
Carved with a knife
On to my feeble skin.
Several years before
Negative pulse arisen from shore
All my sense appeared gone
Yet reason came back to me
Sword-carved skin!
Like a storm, it made me forget
But still I remember.
Nothing can drive this pain away
Though I doubt, I wonder
Is there are a truth to be found?
The days grow in sorrow
As the blood soaks the ground.
The theme that haunts me
Carved with a knife
On to my feeble skin.
"I feel the powers coming back
Closed wounds start bleeding again
The earth below my feet
Urging me to take command
Of this pathetic form of growth
We call life..."
I do not fear them
Though ignorance can be mistaken for
I only fear myself
Apparently I should.
5. Forever Buried Pain
Into a new state of presence
My body thrown away
Earth and flesh collide
As blood goes down and let wounds reborn,
never to be closed again.
Lost inside
Forever buried pain
Cast aside
Facing, bleeding, shame.
I dream of reaping through your soul
Slit your fucking throat while you're not aware
Submit your life, deserve the pain
Suffer the flames, they'll fade, they'll fade!
Into a new state of presence
My body thrown away
Earth and flesh collide
As blood goes down and let wounds reborn,
never to be closed again.
Lost Inside
Forever buried pain
Cast aside
Facing my bleeding shame.
6. Crawling Through Vile
Crawling through spaces oh so vile
Screaming out suffocated air
A cave from which escape is divine
Where sanity is left behind.
Flames roaring through a clouded sea
Beyond the reach of light
Dissolving...
I am beyond a state of life.
Crawling through spaces oh so vile
through the corridors of time
this place from which escape is divine
will night and day entwine?
Fear not! For your soul I see
Fear not! For the demons you lost are with me.
Fear in your eyes, I see not!
As I recall the dismay in which you dwell
Knowing I'm cast away
Denying the spirit of a light that soon will fade.
Flames roaring through a clouded sea
Beyond the reach of light
Dissolving...
I am beyond a state of life
For many years, I've been waiting for this pain
Dissolving...
7. The Collision Of Despair
Despair! With every attempt you make
It grows back, twice the strength.
Despair... an arrow, shot through the soul
Challenging thoughts, whether to bleed, or to restore itself.
With every attempt you make
It grows back, twice the strength.
Can I leave this place behind?
As once before... in terms of fear.
The collision of despair!
8. Deserving Death
You are all that is disgusting
and filthy of this world
The bastard son of a whore
who led a thousand maniacs to her womb.
To her womb! To her womb...
I rid myself of the sewer swine
and all that lies beneath
I rid myself of death
which is far too lenient a task for thou thus deserving...
Deserving death!
I rid myself of the sewer swine
and all that lies beneath
I rid myself of death
which is far too lenient a task for thou thus deserving...
Deserving death!
9. Voices Beyond Reason
Blinded by the withered thoughts of lust
I shatter a dream that left me no longing to trust.
What it is, is an ocean frozen in time
What it feels like are hours that are not mine.
When I tried I could not brake it
For the life I lived I could not take it
The dead man within me took over my realm
I walk into another life that feels like hell
For disease, the one that forged my blood,
the one that shaped my soul
Can you recall the summoning of angels.
Blinded by the withered thoughts of lust
I shatter a dream that left me no longing to trust.
Voices beyond reason
Gather around me every day.
As paradise crumbles into infinity
The rest of my life has left me to betray.
Blinded by the withered thoughts of lust
I shatter the dream that left me no longing to trust.
I wither away, to be left alone
For disease, the one that forged my blood
The one that shaped my soul
Can you recall the summoning of angels
like an ocean frozen in time...
10. Lost Euphoria Part II
11. The Last Of My Commands
Drawn into another night
Forced to submit to the presence of time
Take me out of this paranoia
A still betrayal feasting on the silence that I create
This is my life, were no one follows
Sight of a dead stare, cold, hollow.
Surpassing my fierce being
Drawn back my will to succeed.
Behold and beware!
The wrath of time
Which no one has noticed
And no one has seen before
Take me out of this paranoia
A still betrayal feasting on the silence that I create.
"Claimed to be a meaningless cause
Nothing takes more from a soul
But there is nothing more to lose
And nothing less I will give in"
Nothing lasts forever, my soul left to die alone
With a sickness that I have spawn
The dying of our world, a follower to sea.
12. Starve
The fear of losing an oblivious past
I would die alone, feeling that it cost me so much
My dreams and hopes are taken away
I see no light within the soul that used to light up my day.
The hopes and dreams, the counts I missed
You left me with no reason to cry, as I vanish.
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up.
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up high!
In a constant state of being I am not
I starve, my life taken away from me, I wither
My shadow is one you do not see
I abstract myself from my life.
I want to change but I shall not
I poisoned myself for too long with you
As I murder the world I defile myself.
Starve!
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up.
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up high!
The love I felt for so many years
Has died in an ocean of tears
I see the light of a new day come forth
As I hold my head up high, I will starve!
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The blood-drenched window I laugh at
Feeds off my decay, rot!
I spent my days looking at death
Dying to gather sanity, needing no sympathy.
Prodigies of valour I see
Forever an epic defiance.
A soul with never-ending pain
A shadow of a lifeless form banished from sight
Left alone to decay, torn apart
As blood turns black.
Eager to taste
Consume to survive
As night devours its prey.
Prodigies of valour I see
Forever an epic defiance.
3. The Prophecy Unfolds
I have foreseen the conspiracy of the next confrontation
Decapitated bodies, abandoned lives
But yet not all is what it seems
The prophecy unfolds.
Our time will come
The prophecy unfolds
Shapeless being, filled with lies
Your presence is creating blood-shaped skies.
Defeated on our own ground
As if filthy slime always darkened our lives
There's still no solution found
But to tolerate and await the prophecy.
"Pay for your share in this crime
You shall repent, when the first light regains its strength"
Be gone!
Do I deserve to be distracted?
Be gone!
I am not yet on my knees.
Behold my becoming
Leave with nothing, suffer from shame
Behold my becoming
Admit your failure and leave no stain.
4. Sword-carved Skin
Somewhere I'll find the truth
Though I doubt, I wonder
Is there a truth to be found?
Where lies the soul of my being
The purpose of my presence.
The theme that haunts me
Carved with a knife
On to my feeble skin.
Several years before
Negative pulse arisen from shore
All my sense appeared gone
Yet reason came back to me
Sword-carved skin!
Like a storm, it made me forget
But still I remember.
Nothing can drive this pain away
Though I doubt, I wonder
Is there are a truth to be found?
The days grow in sorrow
As the blood soaks the ground.
The theme that haunts me
Carved with a knife
On to my feeble skin.
"I feel the powers coming back
Closed wounds start bleeding again
The earth below my feet
Urging me to take command
Of this pathetic form of growth
We call life..."
I do not fear them
Though ignorance can be mistaken for
I only fear myself
Apparently I should.
5. Forever Buried Pain
Into a new state of presence
My body thrown away
Earth and flesh collide
As blood goes down and let wounds reborn,
never to be closed again.
Lost inside
Forever buried pain
Cast aside
Facing, bleeding, shame.
I dream of reaping through your soul
Slit your fucking throat while you're not aware
Submit your life, deserve the pain
Suffer the flames, they'll fade, they'll fade!
Into a new state of presence
My body thrown away
Earth and flesh collide
As blood goes down and let wounds reborn,
never to be closed again.
Lost Inside
Forever buried pain
Cast aside
Facing my bleeding shame.
6. Crawling Through Vile
Crawling through spaces oh so vile
Screaming out suffocated air
A cave from which escape is divine
Where sanity is left behind.
Flames roaring through a clouded sea
Beyond the reach of light
Dissolving...
I am beyond a state of life.
Crawling through spaces oh so vile
through the corridors of time
this place from which escape is divine
will night and day entwine?
Fear not! For your soul I see
Fear not! For the demons you lost are with me.
Fear in your eyes, I see not!
As I recall the dismay in which you dwell
Knowing I'm cast away
Denying the spirit of a light that soon will fade.
Flames roaring through a clouded sea
Beyond the reach of light
Dissolving...
I am beyond a state of life
For many years, I've been waiting for this pain
Dissolving...
7. The Collision Of Despair
Despair! With every attempt you make
It grows back, twice the strength.
Despair... an arrow, shot through the soul
Challenging thoughts, whether to bleed, or to restore itself.
With every attempt you make
It grows back, twice the strength.
Despair, expanding itself beyond belief
Divided minds collide with senseless grief.
Divided into different states of despair
Reclaiming what belongs to be
Though light shall be taken away
among the ones that strive to see.
Despair, expanding itself beyond belief
Divided minds collide with senseless grief.
Can I leave this place behind?
As once before... in terms of fear.
The collision of despair!
8. Deserving Death
You are all that is disgusting
and filthy of this world
The bastard son of a whore
who led a thousand maniacs to her womb.
To her womb! To her womb...
I rid myself of the sewer swine
and all that lies beneath
I rid myself of death
which is far too lenient a task for thou thus deserving...
Deserving death!
I rid myself of the sewer swine
and all that lies beneath
I rid myself of death
which is far too lenient a task for thou thus deserving...
Deserving death!
9. Voices Beyond Reason
Blinded by the withered thoughts of lust
I shatter a dream that left me no longing to trust.
What it is, is an ocean frozen in time
What it feels like are hours that are not mine.
When I tried I could not brake it
For the life I lived I could not take it
The dead man within me took over my realm
I walk into another life that feels like hell
For disease, the one that forged my blood,
the one that shaped my soul
Can you recall the summoning of angels.
Blinded by the withered thoughts of lust
I shatter a dream that left me no longing to trust.
Voices beyond reason
Gather around me every day.
As paradise crumbles into infinity
The rest of my life has left me to betray.
Blinded by the withered thoughts of lust
I shatter the dream that left me no longing to trust.
I wither away, to be left alone
For disease, the one that forged my blood
The one that shaped my soul
Can you recall the summoning of angels
like an ocean frozen in time...
10. Lost Euphoria Part II
11. The Last Of My Commands
Drawn into another night
Forced to submit to the presence of time
Take me out of this paranoia
A still betrayal feasting on the silence that I create
This is my life, were no one follows
Sight of a dead stare, cold, hollow.
Surpassing my fierce being
Drawn back my will to succeed.
Behold and beware!
The wrath of time
Which no one has noticed
And no one has seen before
Take me out of this paranoia
A still betrayal feasting on the silence that I create.
"Claimed to be a meaningless cause
Nothing takes more from a soul
But there is nothing more to lose
And nothing less I will give in"
Nothing lasts forever, my soul left to die alone
With a sickness that I have spawn
The dying of our world, a follower to sea.
12. Starve
The fear of losing an oblivious past
I would die alone, feeling that it cost me so much
My dreams and hopes are taken away
I see no light within the soul that used to light up my day.
The hopes and dreams, the counts I missed
You left me with no reason to cry, as I vanish.
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up.
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up high!
In a constant state of being I am not
I starve, my life taken away from me, I wither
My shadow is one you do not see
I abstract myself from my life.
I want to change but I shall not
I poisoned myself for too long with you
As I murder the world I defile myself.
Starve!
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up.
My will stands fast as I hold my dagger up high!
The love I felt for so many years
Has died in an ocean of tears
I see the light of a new day come forth
As I hold my head up high, I will starve!