Maladie For We Are the Plague 1. Antimundane I've set out on a thousand journeys at once Free and in peace where no one can follow me Oh, how jealous you would be Even more than in the here and now I'd rather caw like a raven Than sing a lying song for thee I'd rather spit poisoned black words Than waste a melody on thou Amidst the inner darkness I dwell And I wait, wait for eternity In me the brightest light rests and waits Oh, it could enlighten all black holes And then the moment passed It was too short and fast The time window is closed You choose false like the most The pentagram burns in the blood red sky Fields of white ashes are my only path The pentagram burns in the blood red sky Fields of white ashes are my only path I summon thee - Grand catharsis I redeem myself - Come necrosis Sweet emptiness - I embrace you Seeking darkness - Loosen the glue Yggdrasil fades - The black flame burns The devil's gift - Higher than ever before The great cleansing - Oh I praise thee Demons adrift - Thy renewal to the core Wraith of disease - The grand bleeding Lifeless pleasure - Into rebirth The conjuring - Shores of disease 2. And I Die Alone I am the bringer of the end of all days The awakener of timeless solitude I lost my voice and I lost my destination The final question and the final answer Dwell in nothingness, I will be alone Rise in my brightness, I will die alone The saving shores are burning high The bones inside me feel so cold Scorn takes over after all this time My mind of a thousand of years old The search for the keys comes to the end Realization that they never exist So the days of judgment are finally near Receive the embrace of enlightenment How could names be remembered when there is no one left to remember? Tell me how could anything ever have existed if there's no one left to see it? Deep within the grave of my head Where I am the king of all kings Gliding on the black of my thoughts Forward to everlasting peace The path to salvation is rocky And yet I still follow this road The black braid is thinning finally Light shines through the thicket void The reaper awaits me with open arms And his will be done The flame of life is burning low And I become the sun But my final scream echoes in eternity 3. The Growing This world feels so small... takes my breath away Tighter and tighter, suffocates my screams The older I get, the blacker the universe The wiser I get, the further the stars I grow and I grow, my thoughts waters me I sow and I sow acts of awakening And I'm gonna go and fly And I'm gonna fall and die In times when it's colder in the light than in the shade The bare walls come closer and closer When there are no more roofs to stop the rain And my demons free themselves from the cage of mind Beyond the inner strength, behind the wall of souls The world filled too bursting, and yet so desolate Into which universe should I escape? If even infinity is too cramped? What do I have to cut off from myself? When everything sinks into mud and rains? Being is illusion, just dreams of insane gods Seeing is conclusion like streams of foul black bloods Deceptive vast fields, just smoke and mirrors The mirage of life within the masses Nothing is all and all is nothing and the throne is unattainable Is an end also a beginning? or is the beginning the end? Where is the master of all answers? Did he ever exist? Or is he dead like all your gods? Hidden in oblivion? So bring him before me to receive his conviction Representing all the growing, too much mass for too small worlds You took me too much for granted my child You have been rejected by all the gods Because the gods are not with you I am an ancient wraith full of cold questions I'm not here to praise! Dead gods dissension 4. With One Voice The dance around the thorns, life and death in embrace The swaying of the damned to my discordant songs The rhythm of the lost, bright septic melodies And harmonies of pain for rhymes of endless doom Hear my words in dissonant chants, choirs full of desolation Feel my storms of immoral rants, ancient tones of a new nation Belial rejoices, for my demons awake Astaroth is reborn for I am my black chords This is the devil's music Love songs for the unholy We are God's final sickness Lightbringer's divine army We don't follow, we lead, we are a fucking centipede We've got the horned one with us, so we will never concede We speak in tongues, scream in blood, all talking with one voice And through it all, we take the toll so that Satan will rejoice Upright like Beelzebub's pillars We sing his verses with one voice The drums are forcing an atomic blast And all the strings are caressing the sweetest noise Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice We don't follow, we lead, we are a fucking centipede We've got the horned one with us, so we will never concede We speak in tongues, scream in blood, all talking with one voice And through it all, we take the toll so that Satan will rejoice Upright like Beelzebub's pillars We sing his verses with one voice The drums are forcing an atomic blast And all the strings are caressing the sweetest noise This is Lucifer's music, the source of ultimate sins This is organized chaos, Leviathan's healing wings This is the devil's music, love songs for the unholy We are God's final sickness, Lightbringer's divine army The dance around the thorns, life and death in embrace The swaying of the damned to my discordant songs The rhythm of the lost, bright septic melodies And harmonies of pain for rhymes of endless doom 5. Death Is Recognition I wish you could see what I see. I wish you could feel what I feel I wish you could fear what I fear and I wish you could understand Listen to the wailing dead : they sing the song of sorrow Recognize their words of wisdom 'cause you forgot the tomorrow Stars collapse into blackest mind, firmament forever dark Weep the times of the lost kind and see the lie of your God's mark The plague hails without disguise, we have waited a long time The hourglass of demise, no escape and no more sign Drown in your own tears. All your dreams are dead The truth in your fears and there's no way back Aeons are just a second, time is an illusion Eternity is a lie : that's your God's effusion The skeleton army is marching to the end Death is recognition and life is suicide Sometimes there are no answers Sometimes there are only goodbyes The deafening silence hurts while the heart's inflamed and lost Aeons in vain, a billion lifetimes for nothing Existence, pain... there will be no second coming Existence, pain... there will be no second coming Aeons in vain, a billion lifetimes for nothing Existence, pain... there will be no second coming Mancher findet sein Herz nicht eher Als bis er seinen Kopf verliert 6. Ghost of the Spaceless Void Ghost of the spaceless void, where our coldest futures collide Prison of thoughts revealed, when your existence is suicide I found the key to time, I became the divine tides I found the truest bride, I embrace death with pride The exit of false existence. I am as old as the farthest stars The end of all infinity and so will I be all born The grandest oblivion within cleanest remembrance I sail on the sea of souls into the storm of wisdom And the roots intertwine where once was pure regress The pillars of the spirit, I stand with my head held high The purity of the eldest newborn surrounds me like a faithful harbinger My blackened blood runs from your stigmata and pours the spoiled earth of your decadence I am the temple of katharsis, the truth of all truths I am the ghost of the spaceless void, the greatest cleansing I call thee my fleeing anchor, hold me in the realm I create I summon you my lord of light, enlightenment for dying hate May the descendants outgrow ancestors And overcome all their failures and learn May they have all the crying wisdom May they internalize all the knowing And murder themselves when they become gods 7. For We Are the Plague Into the world of the golden shimmering mist Where there are no points of compass, no here and there And nothing is tangible and yet so opaque The black book lies open and reveals the future Unknown letters form strange words but they fall from your dead lips Blessing consuming curses in blackest tongues of reapers Skeleton horses once so proud, forever bound to their burden Dissonant choirs chant strange names, steps of invisible horror For we are the plague, for we are the one For we are insane, for we are the one For we are the plague, for we are the one For we are insane, for we are the one All I see is burning fields and deceased forests Dust is raining on the ruins of too many dying castles On unforgivable mountains of bleached bones, it rests Under the endless blood red sky, from forbidden fables Pitch-black tentacles engulf all remaining souls Severe chains that are binding their mortality Bleak pale specters conquer brightest minds Until nothing remains of humaneness, and of humanity And the forgotten is the truth (all knowledge is emptiness) Memory is the last torment (as you fall in unableness) All wide open eyes blind (blackened by ignorance) Muted tongues cry out deaf (chopped up by all the lies) The deepest trenches empty in the midst of nothingness Comes the last recognition, the purity of wisdom For we are the plague, falling in eternity For we are the fate, failing in divinity And the earth will breathe, storm of redemption Freed from ancient plague, times of renewal And so begins infinity 8. Ruins in Triumph I've been drawn to all that would seem too dark for you And with time, the learnings of all things impure You've been drowned and baptized with a feeble mind And it's time you rise from the ground to the Light Die Sünde liegt im Maul der Schlange. Tief verborgen und doch so nah Das Sakrileg der Befreiung. Erlösung und Wiedergeburt The ancient grotesque bathed in fire and shadow The sick conception reborn in ice and embers Death and birth, combined fall and rise divine Redemption in sight, in my blood and wine The beast awakens, the blackness above Between dying stars, within healing vast Ich habe dir nichts genommen, doch ich gebe dir nun so viel Meiner Gnade ausgeliefert, schenke ich dir mein Innerstes The youth in old age, wealth in poverty And old age in youth, ruin Victory I give you my flesh and bones, I dedicate my skin to thee I give you screams and moans and I bled my black sap to see The pulse slows down while I'm fading The heart strengthens as the flesh burns I free your spirits from their shells The floodgates of the blood opened I end your constant suffering Broke through the gates to your father 9. I Am the Tomb Deep so deep within Blackness to stop time Eternal abyss – Where no light can shine The key to immortality, the dawn of the sick Abysmal throats mourn silently, Devil's grandest trick Buried in me, wrath and supremacy Open the crypt and you'll finally see Don't trust the silence, safe haven denied Impact so immense, follow the blind-eyed I am enthroned on 1000 skulls and no regret stirs inside me I bed myself on 1000 corpses, no looking back at darkest times Behold the storm out of my grave as cold as a hundred winters Paradise deprived Snake's fruit rejected You've chosen the weak Now rot from the core Behold the storm out of my grave as cold as a hundred winters The grand extinction has begun, I am the last womb and your tomb Paradise deprived Snake's fruit rejected You've chosen the weak Now rot from the core No more blood for your cryptic words, letters of lies and flattery No more oil and fire to burn books, your Reich falls into oblivion Divine ears forever deaf, can't hear your final prayers As you drown in pettiness, blind for the truth before eyes Lord, you did forsake us