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The Bone Hand Speaks
06:50
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Candles light the way
Down corridors of stone
See the oracle of bone
I draw the circle
I draw the runes
I feel the air begin to move
I hear the scratching
Of fingertips
I taste the blood on my lips
I see it reaching
For ink and quill
Tell me who I am to kill
On a long ago crusade
I killed an evil man
Took his power, a mockery
I bound his right hand
I see his face in dreams
He smiles at what I’ve done
We’re not so different now,
Our purposes are one
Now the bone hand speaks
The names of the damned
‘Til the final breath of man
I’ll be there
Driven by hunger and hate,
Craving flesh
Name the sacrifice
Write me a death
The last turn is mine
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Flesh Eater
05:02
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Once I dwelt in the light
I knew the taste of beasts
In halls, sitting side by side
With hypocrites and cheats
Once I stood with the light,
I fought for shining cause
Now I feast on enemies
In cold fortress halls
Hear my dinner pleading
They offer much
Soon only bleeding,
The skull is crushed
Cool-fires dry the supple flesh,
Blackening the meat
I prefer the taste of blood
Pulsing through my teeth
Save your tears for your gods,
I only hear my need
The rot upon my cursed soul
Demands that I feed
Once I dwelt in the light,
The warmth was my home
I think of all I used to love
As I chew the bones
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Corpse Queen
04:59
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She was an ivory tower
A vision of regal pride
Some vied to take her power
With an assassin’s knife
They bucked the guiding touch
Of a softer hand
They came to ask for death
From a wretched half-a-man
They brought the golden price
With shining fever eyes
The smell of cowardice
Clung thickly to their hides
Her beauty stole my breath.
And I began to cut
The flesh is a funny thing
It craves a spark inside
Or a dirty, darkened flame
For burning those still alive
She was born for ruling,
More fair than they deserved
They paid for a life taken
I gave one back to her
Fields of bone
Fields of living bone
Bodies in the streets
She’s coming to get you rats
All hail
The queen of the dead
The kingdom of the dead
All hail
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Instrumental
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Craterhoof
05:44
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His footsteps today
Are the lakes of tomorrow
Rumbling cross the wasteland
On crown of godlike steed
Awakened by a clever, ancient word
And bound to me
The ritual was costly
The flesh was long deceased
But as it treads the barren, sickly earth
I know it sees
History marks the vigil
Of mighty Craterhoof
The keeper of all the growing things
The forest wide
But man is a virus,
A dogged, hungry plague
And none but profit can be king
All else dies
Feral legions keen and bark
There, the raptors flying
Behemoth risen
Has promised feast
Tracing fire splits the dark
As the hoof is rising
Too late they scatter
Down the streets
See the hammer as it drops
Can you hear them dying?
Food for hordes
Of maddened beasts
Day of entropy has come
Now the land is fighting
Flashing canines
Bleeding meat is how it ends
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Blackstaff Seattle, Washington
Seattle, WA-based sludge/doom.
If you know the world is shit and everyone deserves to die,
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