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The Orphion Descent
05:31
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Descend
From the bones of the netherworld enlivened
Senses are heightened from within
Subatomic pathways into the underworld
Flame lit matrix
All-consuming gateway to chasms beyond
Enter into the abyss primordial
Descending into obsidian realms
Subconscious subterfuge parted like ashen waves
Coiling inwards
The flame lit the cavern
Guiding the way
A journey to bring he who treads upon its path
Face to face with all that is hiding
Into the shadow's crawl
My voyage is sown
Touching down in the lowest realm of lifeless forms
The roots below
The surviving will of astral form
Lit from within
They became inverted from the deeds of one
Defaced
Now a foul king fed by the bones of his fate
Lost in the murky heart long since extinguished
The Blade of the Sun sheathed in an amethyst throne
Knowledge of the self sits silent for those with ears to hear
The light of consciousness begins to appear
Peering through prayers of fear
Without a pure heart
Inverting all into deception
Birthing daemons that slither and crawl through their phantom minds
Reflections of the trauma unhealed
Buried are jewels that lay hidden inside you
Lighting the path of the warrior and guiding the way
10,000 hungry ghosts longing to drink its illumination
They became inverted by the deeds of one
Defaced
Now a foul king fed by the bones of his fate
Seeking now the light of Gnosis
Closing the chasm of the nihilistic gods
This place of wickedness and gloom
A labyrinth of coiling walls
Now lit by the flaming sword of truth
Revealed in the light are legions of cannibals
Feeding on the abscesses of fear that fester and malign
Insatiable appetite
One must conquer their demons with courage
A hero dies only once a coward dies a thousand times
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Shedding skin as blood turns to gold
Writing on the walls etched in obsidian stone
Writhing within the shadows
In this abyss crawl the bleakest of creatures
Wearing mirrors as masks, wild-eyed and slithering backward
In the light of truth, they recede and recoil
Casting tainted howls at the luminosity within the maze
Their breath is of poison
Their touch are strokes from rusted blades
Their gaze encapsulates vivid reflections
Of what lies within your primal deep
Feeding upon their feeble hosts
This realm of hungry ghosts
Spreading from the hive, the opposite of alive
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Chained to an altar of mazes
Eating the fears of the hosts
The lowest realm where the empty go
All whispering the culling song
A flock of desperate souls looking to feed
Towards Cyrix they lurch in a fevered pitch
Filled with brazen chasms of hurt greed
As the choir of loss and grief begins to sing
The Hoards attack as he swings with might
Cyrix holds fast to the saber as they clash
And the blows cut through them
They shatter and coalesce into streams of vivid light
With the Embers casting shadows on the walls
Fangs drew like needles torn and swaying serpentine tongues
At the center of the ascendant mind
Cutting through the illusion
Reaching into psychic flowing currents of morphogenetic pulse
The careening expanse at the gates of the megalith
Beyond the threshold of the collective sub-psyche
Lost in the shadow cube
All whispering the culling songs
A flock of desperate souls looking to feed
Towards Cyrix they lurch in a fevered pitch
Filled with brazen chasms of hurt and need
As the choir of loss and grief begin to sing
In this labyrinth
The scent of death and rot
Rising up from the grave
Treading the depths of the hungry ghosts
Shedding skin as blood turns to gold
Writing on the wall etched in obsidian stone
Writhing within the shadows
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Abode Of The Deceiver
04:56
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He who sought to hold the sword of clarity before he was cleansed
Trapt in the center of the morphing labyrinth
A heart impure lusting for power now
Entombed and buried
In a sarcophagus of hate, rage, and confusion
Eater of fear, the progenitor of demon hoards
Deceiver of himself
For his form was merely a cage
Cast in the fire of hate and fear
Beyond the gates of amnesia
In a maze of infinite corridors
Shifting their shape
Cyrix enters knowing the blade he carries
Carving the flesh of the dead
The walls seem to move on their own
Out they crawl, the hoards of living dissolution
Cryix sees the pain in their eyes so he slays them and leaves them to rest
Enter the dark realms
That which is in the heavens also lies within the earth
Let the light of courage be your lantern
A gleaming paradox seated on the throne of worth
Phobius lurches forth to assail the light and it’s open form
In the center of the maze there was the king of fear and pain
His only language is to maim
Raising the blade of light and truth
Freeing the one enslaved from his aeonic curse
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Broken Glass Apotheum
05:48
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They were all made of glass
Entranced in their self indulgence
Distorted figures bent backwards to please their masters
A cesspool of Silver-tongues
Fake poets of illusions drunk on their poisons
Reprogrammed into confusion
Asleep at the wheel right where they want you
They stood before their reflection
I looked up into their eyes and said
Tell me why you are feeling this emptiness
Ask yourself, do you remember why your in this place again
Dark hands of the path stroking
Fragile Beings of binded duality consciousness
Shrouded in vanity, spewing contempt and distrust
Lanterns swaying to the rhythm of the darkness
Glowing before disfigured fractured monuments
I am Light I am Will
I am Present I am Still
I will fight I will wield
The blade of the sun piercing the sky
Blinding those who are drawn to its shine
Their new god, she was called Malevolex
Sitting coiled around the throne
Their disease left the temple in ruin
They were plummeting into decadence
Adorned in tormented gazes
Culling their own mass virtual graves
Blinding those drawn into its shine
You are Death
You are Hate
You are the virus that you have created
You will fight
You will kill
You are the terror you’ve fought to conceal
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Wayward Opulence
06:23
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The Kingdom of Pain
Where flesh woven and licked clean
A dancing masquerade lamenting playthings for their queen
Truth inverted
Fractured and obscene
Seduced into a trance
Lust and greed
Malevolex reborn
For ages she reigned
They worshipped her to the tone of inverted choirs
A matriarch reveling
Drowning in haunted mires
Unbalance reign in a queendom of severed skin
A dark metropolis grasping for a taste of flesh
Violent vanity left pregnant and ravenous
With an infected mind
In wayward opulence
Drought of divine exaltation
In a place with where the rivers of care were replaced
By a rip current of unholy wicked lies
A realm where truth is lost
The Light reveals where harmony lies
Wounded healer your time is now
Unbalance reign in a queendom of severed skin
A dark metropolis grasping for a taste of flesh
Violent vanity left pregnant and ravenous
With an infected mind
In wayward opulence
The rising tides of mental sovereignty
Causing the prison walls to crumble
Onward wielding the Blade
A tale perennial
The lunacy arraigned
In brilliant light and righteous flame
Dead inverted stairs
Cracked and broken smiles
Pulling you into caves of hollowed mortals
Thrashing in delusions
Led astray by the one they call Malevolex
She who knew no wrath
She splinters every path she crosses
Her disease it feeds on her tenacious need
Her other half was Amoria
Lower levels must be harmonized
Before you can ascend this place
Flow up
The way to ascend this inner world
Lies in the space of the heart
Darkness descends on the who often
Toil in Malevolex’s shadow sanctum
Drowning out the light and breath to the inner sun
Pulling on the strings of ego and solipsism
Free Yourself
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To Summon Amoria
06:20
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To carve out the map for the future travelers
To reclaim the path of quantum sovereignty
To stamp out their phantom fears
And assemble the tribe of infinity
The stone key of Pryra now within our grasp
Calling back the hymn
The ancient song from the moon of Amoria
The alluring dance of Malevolex
Her jagged shadows swayed in the halls of the immortal flame
Pointing at the moon
Her truth is the light that purges the darkness
The summoning of the siren who showed the way long ago
The greater mystery
The twins of infinity
The one who relinquishes the chains
That bind the mind from the living astral plane
The other one is the devouring mother
Feeding at the whole totality of all being
At the dawn of the eon she listens for the sound of her song
Waking her up, calling down from above to below
Reigning down, eclipsing the entire shadow realm
Once in 10,000 years this ancient portal opens
Out of the mouth of the feathered serpent comes her rival
Ages have past
The time has now come to return from insanity
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The Vertical Road
07:14
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The storm at the sea
A place where fleeting dreams bleed of humility
A rift between discomfort and discovery
Pulling me from reality
I must beat the demons before they devour me
I shall set them free
The ocean dissolving my mind
One lapse at a time
Eroding the walls
Taunting the gatekeepers of the deep
I struggle to breath
Tyrannical
They sift their claws
Into the subconscious neural core
Like mechanical chains that pull you downward
Beneath the sea are the spirits that feed on my memories
Sitting perched beneath the sea discrete
In their domain you can never escape
Without the lost word
Following me
Following me every step I make
Stay here too long
Roll the dice you may lose everything
They will betray
The minds that indulge in fantasy
I see them again and again
Their desire is to deprecate me
The ocean dissolving my mind
One lapse at a time
Eroding the walls
Taunting the gatekeepers of the deep
I struggle to breath
No more will the tsunamis of the dark aeonic
Whirlwind stop my will to live
To become free, my vitality
The vertical road from the trenches reaching
From the primordial deep
The ravaging sea, you’ve humble me again
Ascend
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Eminence Emergence
06:46
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Riding the wings of black solar flares
Masters of the dark laying waste to the children of the future
They whispered in their head like deranged laughing ghosts
They hold the spine and sip
Directly from the innocent
Their rending claws
Attached to our perception like binding chains
Hungry for your essence and longing to lap up your failure
Pay them no mind
The dead specters that laugh while you persevere and falter
It was his expanding brilliance distilled from nobility
Etched in the fabric of his essence and energy
For in his nature was the path to grow up and out
Excellence sprouting from composted fear and doubt
Left hand path magi's hiding truth and inverting
All they know in hidden symbols
Diabolical magicians, polar opposite of the divine
Malign, clinging to a rabid cult
Dominating this dimension
Feeding on opportunities to lie
Know their wrath
Cyrix raised his sword
Aflame in righteous blaze
Into the heart of the unfurling sun
Casting sacred incantation spells
Raving, hungry for souls
Demons feeding on a pleroma of dying light
They only way they survive
Pulling from the absolute
A metallurgic battle tome of exalted insight and blinding prayers
Gazing in obsidian stone
Traveling out of the void we go
As the flame of truth pierced into it's deluded veil
It ripped into the blackest of solar hearts
Amoria could be heard singing in the skies above
The siren song lifting my soul out of the void now risen
Through layers of the vortex root
Crawling like a newborn out from the ocean
Up from the depths where the bleakest of trials
Wag their tongues at your spirit
We have been waiting for ourselves all along
Living altars to the one true infinite spiraling all
Microcosms of the perfect original
Expanding brilliance distilled from nobility
Etched in the fabric of our essence and energy
And so sprung Cyrix through the ancient stargate grave
Back into the heart realm from which he came
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