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The Primordial Ruin

by Sentinel

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1.
Hubris 05:16
“My pride has doomed us all” This is my greatest betrayal Throughout the rivers of change and the sands of time I, the eternal pillar, forever parting the surge This enigma of limitations stains my soul Where is the breach?
Am I god? A final test to gain truth. The thirst for understanding has shifted to perversion Lust for certainty leads to the wells of knowledge dark Drinking deep of its waters my gluttony is still not sated The disease of curiosity consumes The greed will never cease The skies of Isolation now a bridge between worlds My spirit once pure, now a mire of arrogance Diving from my sanctuary, my passage through the portal of reality Oh tortured heart, let us find certainty The howling wind, screeching songs of sorrow and woe With the ground fast approaching, begging me “Return!” A paused world, pleading time to rewind One thought shrieks with searing wrath “Purge” Writhing in agony This mimicry of Icarus My envy of the empty, attained This is death, my final truth Now can we rest, my troubled heart? Slowly spiralling through the siphon Sensing my soul now wasting away My heart it fails as I realise “My pride has doomed us all”
2.
The heart won’t cease a beat Prevailing despite my disloyalty Perseverance of purgatory A mind now rotting, distorted with disease Burdened with despair Creating a serene illusion Losing the glimpse of the fatal delusion Fate I have tempted and with knives I have danced Have I paid my debt, was the full price exacted? Am I being misguided by the velvet glove? Am I the bringer of rapture, the bearer of the darkest days? The pressure ever mounting, I can feel my spirit break Will I leave a legacy of woe? I cried the swans’ song though in error I sang The purest notes of its melody reverberate Echoing all of my shameful sins Mesmerising and haunting Echoing all of its whisperings The phantoms of uncertainty haunt my visions edge Slowly gaining substance, then fading into smoke In the mist I see my bravery reflected I find myself lost in the workings of Life’s complex faith The reality rift distorted by the sleeping shift These sands constantly fluctuating in a sway too foul The heart and mind waltz discordantly Mimicking structure but failing at grace Tranquillity is but a flicker of a memory In the forms of family I entrench myself Trusting that through love’s misleading lies there will be some sanity My wish is to end the desperate dance of dissonance Though the present skies seem bright and clear It’s for the futures bitter promise that I now fear I no longer believe in the terrible lie that we forever call “Hope”
3.
Nadir 02:58
Almighty sundering Precursor to death Descendant of failure Elemental energy now swarms in myriad devastation Arrested by the pattern of turmoil We are entombed in the horror most foul Exposing our fragility The mortal bonds break And the threads of time unwind and fray Oh. Giants of nature I am the tyrant of sin Depose me, smite me, but just leave humanity be The ground spews forth masses of flame Oceans of mayhem now crash down on the land Air now thick with the scent of the dead This is the ground where the dark god treads The shadow now cast over the waning sun Black as pitch, the demonic negation of light Despair now hangs thick with a toxic scent The devourers’ presence engulfs with malignant storms Purge Deconsecrated The ashes in the winds bear the remnants of life The product of a vile master plan The ruin and chaos guided by wretched hand Shuddering, the earth heaves a final sigh We bear witness to the ascendance of darkness. Ushering in the final silence The fable of salvation There is no blinding light of deliverance This is Perditions Throne My final home
4.
Boring through the soul The devastation of a heart once strong The failing pulse faintly thrumming Shaking with urgency my body now aches for revival Deliverance, I beseech you, claim me Alter the story, blur the lines and leave this as a sordid memory A world balancing on the knife of ruin My legacy remains no longer No lore shall bear my deeds Offering myself, my life, my essence Forfeit, sacrificed Pleading for retribution Rewind the hands and reverse my wrongs I must atone my sins Softly, silently, the rain of cleansing I will purify Restore the joy to the place that life once called home The claws of divorce, ravenously rend my soul This is not rebirth, I can still feel the world break A form of black, fathomless and ethereal Its arrival heralding judgement With hands of void seizing my foundations “For you, Custodian, I hold no enmity Now you can sleep, just dissipate But know, your pride, your son, has doomed them all From the shackles of Life you are now free” The Vessel departs with one last sigh There shall be nothing hereafter
5.
Revelations 02:58
6.
Odium 04:27
Released from the martyrs chains Primal force unleashed I reign now once again This is the beginning of the fucking end I destroyed the tapestry of the ages Unravelled the weave of history The threads now dissipated into the void Aeons of mistakes left to breed and evolve Birthing blight and carrying contagion My essence shakes with purpose and passion The flower of annihilation blooms Harbinger, wiping clean the slate Of wrath and rage my soul is buried beneath A disease ignored without halt In their putridity I am entranced Potential squandered without fail A cosmic stain The perfect aberration Cleaving all asunder Scratching and scraping at the very fabric of existence I am that which mends I am that which rends A complete revision, violent abolition The systemic and gruesome design I will not cease until their souls I have reaped Finally the peace of the purge Purified and perfected All the machinations disrupted and ended My purpose beckons alluringly Only one flame burns brightly Now we must dance Alone in the emptiness, all creations erased This is our destiny This is how it was meant to be Exiled Despised Fratricide A god will die
7.
Delayed no longer Castigation, the tone of judgement rings Twins of creation and desolation Reunion or retribution? Finality looms in the heavens The ages of separation have brought the oaths to breaking point The constant dance of dreams and doom Each second poignant, fraught with tension and fear Death speaks “I bear the wounds of fratricide Blood of my blood A reign of errant neglect Mirror of my soul Your trace scattered to the abyss” Burdened by the weight of bonds once had The severed ends still clinging to the soul constantly Death speaks once more “Once, we were whole Towards perfection we did grow In unison we did develop and thrive But you disregard your purpose, destiny now scorned Creation’s flame brightly blazed beyond control Callous architect I rid this universe of you” Life speaks “Brother, my villainy is beyond redemption For each second that passed I grieved for thee But it is forgiveness I plead In reverence I offer myself Let us mend this rift and become whole once more We can reign as king, sovereign souls Let us cease the cataclysm Together we shall cultivate creation” Betrayals I shall revoke your stain on the realms I will dismantle your very essence Overthrown Now alone, the emptiness echoes my lack I, everything, am bereft of Life I embrace existence Confronting my cowardice Released, my bonds disband My spirit dissolves Atonement I attain Life and Death, united for eternity The void silent once again Peaceful, quiet, forever purged

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released July 3, 2015

All music and lyrics written by Sentinel.

Guest vocals on The Terrible Lie - Chris Millward from Glorified
Guest vocals on Nadir - Mark Poida from Aversions Crown
Guest vocals on The Primordial Ruin - Mason Bunt from Pridelands

Recorded and engineered by Aaron Beale at Parallel Recordings:
www.facebook.com/ParallelRecording

Mixed and mastered by Brian Hood at 456 Recordings:
www.456recordings.com

Artwork by Pär Olofsson:
www.parolofsson.se

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