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YECHIDAH ENTWINED
Thou art the viper an ebon omen
Adorned in sigils - Seven pyres alight
Benighted visions writhing betwixt the snakes
Invocation - You enter the spheres beyond
Sacra orbis
Sacrum actum
Consummate flesh and spirit begotten by chaos
Make me one with thee!
Absolution
Discern the nature of all
The lashing will of the maelstrom
Winds of a transient cosmos
Inexorable flames devouring all
Meaning lost in dissolved intent
feeding upon the bodily cosmos
Descend into nothing
Relinquish thy form
Robe thy spirit in dusky shadows neath an ebon sky
Rove among these fields of nightfall
where fading spectres dwell
Heeding thy call
Divine, thy sigil
Claiming my flesh as thy own!
Come to me beneath the stars!
Let thy wisdoms be known!
Undefined and infinite
This wordless, mystic union!
Bathing in light from the stars
Performing transcendental rites
Spilling the blood of the soul
Abandon failed humanity!
Time unfolds from hidden manifolds
The absolute truth no mind shall grasp, nor hold
Cognitive constructs dissolving into The All
Be reborn
Relinquish thy flesh and soul
Begotten - A bolt of light aflame
Shevirah - Scattered in shards
Qelipot - The other side entwined
In mystic symbiosis the art of Sitra Achra
Born of nihil and naught a web emerged
Thy will is law
Do what thou wilt
Naamah Mekeshar Adonai ha-Aretz
Blood flows, thy divine river
hidden from the ego's eye
A Mammon, false richeousness
Clouds vision with untrue sights
Transcending sight
as stoic watchers exaltate the void
from the edges of time, unfurled
where spirits dwell to teach in vain!
Genuflect by writhing fingers of thy flames
and scented clouds of myrrh
Visions of exalted ones fade to the obscure
as sigils ascend to the stars!
Inverted reflection
Departed, beyond this world
Throw open the gates of Guf
Walk thy path, find answers sought!
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THOUSAND TONGUES
Under a dark and balefull sky
I wake up and open my eyes
Finding myself amongst the trees
in this sheltering bed of dead leaves
Unknown feelings unworldly and deep
an all-encompassing sense of time and space
None of my feelings
are familiar to me anymore
like an out of body kind of rebirth
I can taste rain and ice like blood
on my thousand tongues of moss and stone
I can hear the thunders roaring
and winds are blowing
a scent of old sheets
from long forgotten tomes
A strange perception of cosmic concepts
unimaginable shapes
drenched in colors unknown
glowing spheres crying perceptable wisdom
turning wheels in the face of endlessness
As a part of this dark and balefull sky
with burning tears of despair in my eyes
I'm looking down on this sea of trees
on my sheltering bed of dead leaves
...in grief
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Demiurge - Axiom
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AXIOM
Fire burns inside the soul
Flesh is the vessel
I have been born
A being within the flames
From where came this soma?
Aware in cognizant thought
Axiom praeda fugacior
Unknown in true essence
Intangible constructs
What defines the incarnation of a mortal being's mind?
From the abyss, moving in sleep
Spiritual fragments meld into me
Emanate from beyond the light
Awake into a dream
Still the soul burns bright!
When we return to vast eternity
and abandon this corpus
defining fragments will always remain
And still we fail to define the soul
and what it means to be alive
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PALE WHITE NOTHINGNESS
The moment is gone, my thoughts are drowning in the remains
Dim lights in the distance, a pathetic scenery
Leaves carried by the wind like the essence of my soul
The dance of St. Vitus in the looming void
Mere despair is what’s left at the dreary end of every day past
Where is my will, where is the urge to thrive? I need to let go in order to embrace
My desires are dragging my body across this last barrier of paltriness
Eyes are chasing reflections of future - a distant promise of fading pain
A white horizon, an icy wind easing the rush of blood in my veins
Finally breathing - stretching my limbs
Finally silence - no voices, no fight
I'm nothing more than raw material for the seasons
Floating in between, scarred and shattered by their forces
Fed by the unmeasurable pulse of day and night
Until the heavenly bodies finally die
Haunting pictures of miserable moments
chasing away all the love an joy once felt
Scenes of long forgotten darkness
spinning through my inner world - so fragile and bleak
Give me something to hold on to,
my body is weak from years of suffering
Grant me one single moment where nothing is hurting
and future is more than just a word once said
Let me lay down my head in these fields
of pale white and well-known nothingness
Let me sleep by your silent side, oh mother earth
Let me forget about the distance I feel
Give me patience - a reasons to endure,
a single impulse to fill my lungs again
Shut my eyes and bury my mind
in your eternal womb of certitude
I'm calling the waters, the bringers of life
to fill my veins and cleanse my inner most
I'm calling the soil, the carrier of fertility
to be my leading host
I'm calling the winds of the realms above
to blow away the stench of decay and idleness
I'm calling the fires, the bringers of light
to burn down the borders and brighten my path
With words of anger I'm carving my desires
into fragments of smoldering air
When my journey is ending, when I'm free of desires and pain,
bring me back to where spirits dwell to teach in vain.
Wenn meine Reise endet, wenn ich frei bin von Schmerz und Begehren,
bring mich zurück dorthin wo die Geister leben und vergebens lehren.
Where spirits dwell to teach in vain
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Askvald Dresden, Germany
Founded after years of expierence in various projects and bands, during the
year of
2013.
Melodic, rough till emotional Black Metal,
theme inspired by nature, society and personal conflicts and experiences.
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