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Oh, hear the choir
In the top of the cathedral ward
Lies our darkest secret
A daughter of the cosmos
Ebrietas, a great one
In our search, through nightmares, we found
The great ones, elder gods, and so
We realized, that we are, thinking
On the basest of plains, what we
Need granted, are more eyes, inside
Our own minds, only then, could we
Make contact, beyond our realm, grant us
Eyes like you did, for the spider
We must
Transcend
We must
Become
We are, the great, choir
We pursue the eldritch truth
We are, the great, choir
Drink the blood of the left behind
We must
Transcend
We must
Become
We are, the great, choir
The hamlet held the truth
We are, the great, choir
The corpse of Kosm
A call beyond
Our secret rite
This phantasm
Reaches new planes
Outer reaches
Of the cosmos
Ebrietas
Guide our way
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Curse of the Werewolf
03:18
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The good and evil in every man’s soul...
In the shadow of the moon
Things go blood red
I no longer see this room
Or hear what was said
I don’t know what happened next
Was it the thrashing of limbs?
Am I the victim of unholy hex?
Violence became my whim
I wake naked and bloody
My comrades seem to be gone
My surroundings I now study
Is this where I belong?
The curse of the...
Of the Werewolf
In the nighttime
Things are different
I become beastly
I become not me
The curse of the...
Of the Werewolf
Loved ones no longer
Here with me
Intoxicated
I am not man
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A sense of
mortal agony,
crept over
my frame
All the misery
of reflection,
is what
I became
All men hate the wretched,
how then must I be hated,
who am miserable
beyond all living things
My soul glowed with
love and humanity,
but am I not
alone
Where they ought to see
a feeling and kind friend,
they behold only
a detestable monster
I only tried
To be like them
To learn from them
And yet
People of this world
Took one look
At my countenance
And screamed
They pushed me away
And drove me down
Into total
Darkness
My all encompassing
Endless sorrow
Is all because of
Your fear
I am alone x2
If I cannot
inspire love,
I will
cause fear!
You refuse to
Even allow me life
To be with my
Own Kind
If this is
All you’ll allow
Then this violence is
Your fault
So much does suffering
blunt even the coarsest
sensations
of men
How strange is that
clinging love we have of life
even in the
excess of misery
Even that enemy
of god and man had
friends and associates
in his desolation,
I am alone
If you won’t accept me then my sorrow,
will wreak havoc across the land
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To be burned
This is our fate
Lies are spread
So is their hate
Always questioned
Not listened too
Now we are
Not given due
Burning
Drowning
Tortured
Can’t be
What we
Are now
Reduced
Down to
What they say we are we cannot be
Traitorous
We are scapegoated for existing
Persecution
They round us up with total glee
Puritania
Yet cut us we all bleed the same
Futile, feeble is our bleak lifespan
Traitorous
There is no escaping these trials
Persecution
Was this all part of their dreadful plan
Puritania
To them we are all accursed
Our craft is in nature itself
Traitorous
Our deaths are their entertainment
Persecution
Crushing us to expand their wealth
Puritania
And yet never will this end
This isn’t over till we’re dead
Traitorous
And the birds are eating our eyes
Persecution
Will you make the streets run red?
Puritania
You can choose who bears the scars
When, Salem
Is, on our
Own, doorstep
Lives, will end
These, witch trials
Can’t, sustain
We, will rise
And, come back
When, Salem
Is, on our
Own, doorstep
Lives, will end
These, witch trials
Can’t, sustain
We, will rise
And, come back
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Karnstein Canterbury, UK
Vampyric Black/ Doom Metal from Canterbury, UK
Ria - Bass/Vocals
Bret - Keyboards
Oli- Guitar
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