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Ατραπός
12:42
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Inside the gaping jaws of Apocalypse
To steal old treasure from the serpent's mouth
The Sentinel turns from stone to flesh this time
And descends into the realm of the material
Stripped from the armor of the theory
Thrown into the world of pure possibility
Not exiled but by own volition fallen
A baptism in shadow fire
To awake the Dragon within
To fight venom with venom
Victory the Way to Nether
For the blackened storm of the Devourers
Is rising to engulf the entirety of cosmos
Courage! Resistance!
A quest to rediscover the well of Power
Hidden and guarded by the few
Against the plight of the discouraged
Amidst deafening silence from the halls up high
Not to rebel is to be complicit
The Well of Power must be reconquered
From the teeth of the elite
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That which emanates from the Whole
Desires to take its own form and attributes
To embrace multiplicity and expand infinitely
Yet also longs to return to the source
A war inside of us and amongst ourselves
The eternal dance of the cosmic drama.
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The Golden Armor
07:33
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Guardian, anointed one
Truly you believe that the ways of liberation
And dominion do not overlap?
A savior he has been self-proclaimed
For he has walked off his palace
And waved his hand to the conquered
They were impressed by his shining armor and his sword
And what will these mean when he fights for them
And they praised you and they fed you and they loved you
But will you ever fight?
For the only thing you do is speak to the other dwellers in the palace
Words of judgment and spirited critique
But they have grown used to you and know that you will never leave
As do the people, yet their few hopes cannot relinquish
They say "it is important for these words to be uttered inside a palace!"
As if the lords will be convinced to lay waste on their own claim.
Woe betide to those that avert their eyes
From their internal discrepancy.
Accept your falseness and your smallness
Relinquish the shining that has been given to you by birth
Suffer the wrath of those you used and let down
Υοu do not represent anyone but yourself
And Cast them Into the Pyre
Arise then, Ksatriya-Without-Caste
Pick up your weapons and remember
One must fall to attain true wisdom
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Τhe sages of old took on to enlighten men
By telling us to lift our gaze towards the above
Yet did not mention that we can only go as far
As the shackles and the prison walls
That bind our mortal shells allow
O wise ones, why do we stand on the battlefield
With righteousness and honor on our side
But our limbs betray us with weakness?
For you to exalt the spirit meant
To wage war on the vessel that it comes with
Such is your trust to the Eternal Soul!
And so you taught us to hate the rottenness of the flesh
As much as its pleasures
To be ignorant of our own ownership of our flesh
And our power to transform it
A TOTAL REVOLUTION OF THE SPIRIT DEMANDS FOR
A TOTAL REVOLUTION OF THE BODY
Dark mother, allow me entrance
Into the forgotten catacombs
Of somatic wisdom
True power comes from surrender
Woe to those who have understood the path
To the stars as a solitary quest
When the Other is always missing
It stands in secret opposition
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As my soul and body broke their chains
My childish wonderment has returned
I travel in the endless seas of creativity
My eyesight cuts through the fabric of the world
To reveal the invisible dance within
A multitude of entities and potentialities
And I rage, because the sights I witness
Do not reflect the order of the world
Taught by the sages and kept by the sentinels
Which I've been told is built upon them
I sing then the song of Heresy
It cuts through earth and skies in blasphemy
All those who know but dare not speak
Have gathered on my court
And each of them has brought a stone
For me to build a tower up so high
To study the Arts and write a new decree
To reveal the true Order to the world
Sheltered and guarded by my faithful ones, I did
Furiously I worked, to majestic spiritual heights
Who waited of my guidance to wage revolt
And great victories they had, bringing down false towers
As mine grew larger and larger
Until the eyes burned from the Sun
Of anyone who tried to look at the top
And my voice came down frail and blurry
Translated to the people by the elders
Who did not want to recognize the subtle shifts in tone
And the dire warnings that turned to bloody curses
Curse to you all men who seek for kings and sages!
You will raise them to sky to turn them into relics
To convince yourself there's someone
Who won't ever fail you
Your order will never be eternal
But only eternally Everchanging
Ι smite your crumbled thrones
And spit at your baseless pride
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Apocalypse
08:04
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Amidst the turmoil between the nations and the divisiveness
The fires that engulf the forests and the breaking ice
The rotten lies of despots and the invisible chains of oppression
A black vapor rises
It calls from another universe
Yet it's always been here
The same pulse that nourishes with life
Your face, your skin, your embrace
In the negative
Warrior! You have returned from heights aloft
You have reinvented and realigned yourself
Drank from the well of power and
Ripped off the lies from the book of wisdom
Now stand Guard!
Prepare to face a Billion Stars
Can you hear the trumpets?
The cities are already flooding with blood
They are descending upon the earth
For you to witness the true price of rebellion
Το βαθύ
Μίσος
Προς την ύπαρξη
Unlucky those that search for their enemy on the outside
For their aim will strike at nothing
And yet, now you must thrust your sword
Not to the frail flesh but to the Netherworld above
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Ετερόφωτος
09:30
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Among the debris and the charred remains
I vomit black poison into the ground
The vapor from beyond the space
Defeated, returns into my veins
A shining stone beneath
Radiates a beam into a far away star
Thousands more emerge to illuminate the nightsky
Revealing that I never fought alone
I touch it and my eyes travel light years away
Into the city of the Gods where my guardian statue
Used to proudly stand, now crumbled
And each piece resembles a familiar form
A thousand different stones
Each with their own radiance
Ι am all
All is me
My light is not my own
It's borrowed from you all
Should we return to the source
Or wander in the endless void alone
Should we have the same fate
Or each of us end up to where we dwelt
We'll always have a choice
Down here in the material world
Between love, bravery and justice
And the unending doom of self-deceit
With eyes looking outside at last,
REVOLT!
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Terean
19:09
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Spectral Lore Αθήνα, Greece
This page hosts most of the music I've released through Spectral Lore and other projects. Atmospheric black metal, ambient,
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