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Toppled Reliquary
05:18
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Upon the hill that overlooks
The roughshod village
An obelisk stands destroyed
Humming with evil power
It searches the valleys
Glistening ‘neath the moon
A false lighthouse and mimic
Of savage cathedral bells
Tendrils of black lightning
Roll in ropes over every knoll
Reanimating the long dead
Hymns still in their throats
The toppled reliquary
Older than the ground
On which it is racked
The toppled reliquary
Fouler than the skies
Under which it endures
Upon the hill that overlooks
The hamlet’s grisly tangle
An obelisk awaits sanguine renewal
Upon the hill that overlooks…
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Cairn of the Mage
04:25
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Pyramids of precious stones
Each the treasure of kingdoms
Flung to the corners
Of the known world
Here gathered in loathsome ritual
The elemental wonderworker
Mummified by sorcery
Her moldering grimace frozen
Enshrouded by great heaps
Of blackened diamond
The mage's cairn shimmers…
Here gathered in loathsome ritual
To mark each blighted site
Where an enchanter fell
What febrile horrors were unleashed
In the Hour of Living Glass?
Conjured from earth with vile swiftness
The idolater’s cultus unmistakable
Her poisoned song a moonless mist
Bound to the spirit of the wood
What febrile horrors were unleashed
In the Hour of Living Glass?
Still gathered in loathsome ritual
The wisewoman’s lightning
Mewls as a numinous prayer
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Ignoble Draught
04:35
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Ferrous magick
Bloody magick
Arcane thaumaturge
Sunless denouement
Chyme of worthless cullions
Rising to fill the parched moat
Occult savagery rains down
Haruspex vomits forth
A tincture of bitter gore
Ignoble draught
Ignoble draught
Scinlæce evokes sin
Potion to ensorcell
Ignoble draught
Potion to ensorcell
Slurried mire and reliquiae
Bursting in vile unison
Occult savagery rains down
Witcheries draw potent forces
Newe magick
Exalted cicatrix
Somber murtherer
Tenebrous butcher
Hordes moonstruck and frothing
Poured like living blood
Over the ghostly landscape
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Time's Mace
04:32
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Enchantment of Achlys
Prostration to Phanes
Imprecation to Hypnos
Nyx and Erebus open to thee!
Sacrifice to faultless Chaos
Exterminate for Nemesis
Sacrifice to faultless Chaos
Exterminate for Nemesis
For Tartarus smear the bloodied clay
Ananke’s truth overtake thee!
To Chronos present the crushed bone
Though Vendzad guides thy spear
Vile liquid clouds
Upon Ourea’s shoulders
The Nesoi are also open to thee!
Thalassa’s waters baptize thee!
Uranus and Gaia gaze luridly
Eros and Thanatos
Evince their namesake
Time’s mace is swinging
Swinging…
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5. |
The Room in the Ground
06:55
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Lilith's pit cracks open
With undead muttering
Brimstone's dreaded incense
Cleanses the glade of life
Cage of gnarled runic bone
Golemic force baptizes earth
The witch’s familiars
Flee with their offerings
Back into the room in the ground
Jackal’s rotted spine
Gland of the hyrax
The buzzard’s black talon
Slices lichspider’s egg sac
Brain of the red bat
Daubed across white roots
The gyrfalcon’s beak
Jutting evilly skyward
Satan’s hungry tines enclose
‘Round the hole like sores
That room in the ground
The door to which is open
The door to which is shut
Satyr’s gilded hoof
Witch’s pitch-mucous
The devivole’s snout
Weeps fire in the night
Eel’s paste wasted not
Kneaded into faerie’s blood
Poisoned humors
Subjugate Yahweh’s breeder
Satan’s pale tongues enclose
‘Round the cherished whore
Dragging God’s sopping prize
Back into the room in the ground
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Occult Blood Eugene, Oregon
Sorcerous blackpunk evoked 'neath an evil moon. A coven of four based in the PNW.
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