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...
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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
supported by 18 fans who also own “The Citadel Awakens to the Gaze of an Incensed God”
Heaviest thing I’ve heard all year along with Altarage. Okay I’ve been listening to this record for the past two weeks and it just gets better and better. Dissonant grooves galore Jacob Ballance
Joseph Hawker subverts the musical and sociopolitical status quo with a black metal triptych that's as incendiary as it is impressionistic. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2022
supported by 18 fans who also own “The Citadel Awakens to the Gaze of an Incensed God”
Ἡ εἰκών was an impressive debut, but way too short! Luckily, Ψευδομένη arrives to satisfy the urge for more of what made its precedessor hit hard and fast: some atmospheric moments (don't be deterred as this is still brutal, dissonant and disgusting to the core) and at the same time, J.L. is exploring longer tracks - e.g. my personal favourite - and implementing some cavernous lows. If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's most likely that this man refuses to stand still. What a pace! David Fischer