We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Citadel Awakens to the Gaze of an Incensed God

from Frankincense & Vitriol by Verzauber

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

lyrics

Atop the savage mountain
Aerie Zeus of the seared heart
Bleeds golden drops of time
On those running wild with the world

Atop the savage mountain
Sleep duplicitous demagogues
Oblivious to the enkindled bolts
Piercing vessels of the sky

Atop the savage mountain
The citadel awakens
To the gaze of an incensed God
Heaven's vault flooded with gilded mist
Treading citrine grapes of wrath

Crack the fucking sky!

On rolling thunder
A gleaming sceptre
Empyrean crown
The proclamation to lay their world to waste
A surging tide of blackest terror
Permeates every impious bone

Foul reign expires, their time is spent
Cultist reprobates hasten to their ploys
Their deceit, their subversion, their fortune
All for naught

With dread hysteria
Utter madness takes hold
Head consumes the tail
Lifeblood flows and stains the salted ground

Spears of creation, alabaster lightning
Impaling throats agape in horror
As the hoarded riches of the miscreants
Are turned to dust

A thousand tongues, a thousand mouths
A thousand voices pleading in despair
Serpents of the proverbial garden
Eyes rapt on the shards
That scythe their bowels undone

Strike!

Temple of collusion, reduced to shattered ruin
House of godless prayer, cleaved and torn asunder
Draconian decrees, cast into the ravenous pyre
Noxious rhetoric, tomes of disease
Turned to windstrewn ash

As embers fall to earth
So does the amber rain

Relentless Khronos
Counts their doggone minutes
Stumbling blind like maddened fools
They set the world on fire
Only now may Gaia convalesce...

~ ~ ~

Atop the savage mountain
Beside the tranquil waters
Sweet tears of Mnemosyne flow down
To stir mankind awake

Enshrine how the limb was severed
How the monolith came to fall
We razed the fucking earth
To the augured edict of the king of kings

Wingbeats of wordless judgement echo forever
Through the immutable marbled atriums of time
In these amaranthine halls of elation
We shall sleep
With adamantine chains of knowledge
We shall persevere
And be reborn in the pools of truth once more

As water carries gold from the welkin to the sea
Atop the savage mountain lies the key
To the halcyon days of yore
We must never let this fade
Lest we drink from the river Lethe...

In ceremonial proclivity the morrow lies in wait
Crystalline visions of a certainty
Long since spun by the stars
Feed the earth with the blood of cloven tongue
Feed the sky with the pyres of ignominy

And Hades, O sweet Hades
We shall feed you with the spineless
The two-faced, and the damned

And blackest Tartaros
Awaits... for... you...

credits

from Frankincense & Vitriol, released April 6, 2023

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Verzauber Cork, Ireland

ver·zau·ber
[fɛɐ̯ˈt͡saʊ̯bɐ] : Enchant, hex, bewitch.

contact / help

Contact Verzauber

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Verzauber, you may also like: