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Rot of Ages

by Abscession

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1.
Nightmare A horror is crawling within your sight Demon You can't believe your eyes Is it dead or alive? Rat King Crawling as one Rat King Second to none Rat King Coming for you Rat King What are you gonna do? It comes to feast on your flesh Come see the rat king crawl Your guts taste warm and fresh Come feel the rat king crawl It devours you alive Scream as the rat king crawls Once it gets to your heart Be one with the Rat King Crawl Rodents feasting upon your very eyes Vermin causing a painful slow demise They feed off your life Rat King There is nowhere to go Rat King Rats take over now Rat King You are their source of food Rat King And man do you taste good It comes to feast on your flesh Come see the rat king crawl Your guts taste warm and fresh Come feel the rat king crawl It devours you alive Scream as the rat king crawls Once it gets to your heart Be one with the Rat King Crawl
2.
Walking home all alone On a dreary night Grab your keys, on your phone Quite the fright Suddenly you feel a sting A sharp pain in your neck Now you can't feel a thing Spinning the world goes black In solid darkness a voice is heard Dripping ichor as if disturbed Interspersed with a sullen shriek Through the edges light now leaks The theater of pain is all you see In his chamber Stainless steel shines Plastic sheeting To conceal the crime No faint traces Will be left behind Your existance Erased from all life From the darkness now arise Consciousness and horror alike Strapped to a metal slab Naked as the day you were born The shriek arising is all yours Feel him watching from behind Try to turn but fetters bind Hear him picking at his tools Bile now rises as you drool The solid darkness now dispersed The sight you see is so disturbed You try to close your eyes in vain Forceps bring nothing but pain And then you see him leering insane Questions coming Fast as your breath Panic fills you Until you wish for death No more screaming No more tears Paralyzed By your own fear Will it be over in a flash? Will he take time carving your flesh? Will he molest you as you cry? Will you live... OR WILL YOU DIE?
3.
When it’s time to die I stare into the afterlife As the veil begins to rise Yet I refuse to let go of myself Remember who I am A mortal and a man To be alive again Afterlife be damned I step out of the circle of light It disappears in front of me No pearly gates, no choir of angels Just the flickering of a flashlight And the crickets chirping in the night The patter of rain on the leaves And my body dead in a ditch I hear the shovel biting the ground I see the sweat on my killer’s brow As he works to dispose of my corpse There’s no return to my decaying flesh Suddenly I sense it all All the creatures of the night The bugs and worms infesting my flesh The predator just outside the light Like a spider following a thread I seek out the strongest life Our thoughts mingle and meld To a mind set on rage and blood I hear the shovel falling to the ground I hear the fear in my killer's cry As my claws rend his body to pieces There's no escape from a Dead Man's Hate His spirit comes alive As his body dies Another circle of light One of brimstone and fire As he is pulled into the nether realm And I'm trapped in this body With a mind full of rage But I can't break free
4.
In the rains of death All life melts away Like molten led from the sky Existence is wiped out in a single day Nuclear demise Disaster will strike The fallout shall spread And the air itself will soon ignite Oh the rains shall fall And end it all But the cowardly few They breed and start anew And so the weak inherit the Earth The last of men Trapped in concrete pens Hiding far beneath Survival their mission even in defeat An extinction event This man-made descent Into chaos and death On a scale we dared not even dream Oh the rains shall fall And end it all But the cowardly few They breed and start anew And so the weak inherit the Earth There in the rains of death Where we can truly find out Just what we would sacrifice To live another day
5.
Rot of Ages 06:02
Hail the Antichrist It's the end of life The final day where darkness kills light We're the harbingers We're the catalysts We're the bringers of the end You'll be forever lost In the fires of the damned As you scream You bring us to life Undead and rotten we ascend Rotten we ascend Screamed back to life Fallen angels rise No end to our violent delights Deliverance is just For those who defied Nothing tastes as fine As vengeance on all mankind Rot of Ages Trapped in desolation Rot of Ages Punishment eternal Rot of Ages The chains of hell are now broken Rot of Ages The truth shall not go unspoken The Rot of Ages past The fields where dead angels lay Now empty and void Of life and death alike I've seen the storm inside my mind I've felt it burning through my eyes I - I feel it inside of me Like ice, like a fire that… ...Burns! Akephalos - oh headless one Help usher in the end of times Daeva of dark desires - Aka Manah Bring untold pleasures unto the damned Extasies of revenge Rot of Ages Trapped in desolation Rot of Ages Punishment eternal Rot of Ages The chains of hell are now broken Rot of ages The truth has been spoken
6.
Go down into The sordid pits of hell The flaming abyss awaits you The first circle stands open Yet down you must go Further than any before Tread the steps of bleak despair A spiral staircase Winding ever downward The final furnace beckons Sins of a lifetime cleansed Through flames for eternity Repentance in the fire Acceptance through the blood Reject your every desire Deny thy beloved god The final furnace Burn your sins away The final furnace Enjoy your fucking stay Welcome to hell Nine circles for your soul Where you will die again Inside the cleansing flames And as your flesh burns away You realize you are not alone All of humanity They burn as one Into the pit Of boiling tar below Your immortal soul Shall suffer The pain consumes you Eternally enthralled As the flaming abyss Devours you
7.
I awake in the night Chains hold me down Awaiting first light Disorientation For a moment I don't know where I am But then it hits I have been damned To be released from it all To feel the blade cut deep When the guillotine falls And I howl into the night As I realize There’s nothing to be done No benevolent god will save me No man will say their prayers They reek of death I taste their abject fear I am but beast to be put down For my hideous crime I wear the sinner's crown A gift divine Judgment of god Passed out by men Kill them all And let god sort them The harlots, the beggars, the thieves The children of night The fallen without a reprieve They have been damned To be released from it all To feel the blade cut deep When the guillotine falls And they howl into the night As they realize There's nothing to be done
8.
War Machine 03:24
Staring out at the enemy lines The trenches deep and fortified Await the order to charge in the night Who will be the first to die? Behind safe doors Unsullied medals gleam Commanders and generals grin As soldiers are fed to the machine Unsung heroes sent out to die Millions and millions to secure the lie A sovereign state above the rest Propaganda put to the test War Machine Thrives on human screams War Machine The armchair general's dream This is the War Machine Watch it's muzzle gleam The War Machine As it burns the down world This is the War Machine The War Machine Fire! Burn down the world Aiming down the iron sights The bugle calls we charge tonight A dead run across no man's land Straight into enemy hands And so the mighty safely hide In their castles far and high While the young must fight their fight For the rich their lives are sacrificed War Machine Thrives on human screams War Machine The armchair general's dream
9.
Christ, you suffered To steal the sins of men To bring us to an end Our free will revoked again We stand against you And all your fucking lies We are the harbingers Descendants of satans light We are the eye of the storm The Omega reborn Oroborous unwound Prometheus unbound My brothers! Await the return Of the one who still burns He who shall guide our black path In the days of the blistering aftermath Nazarene deceiver You met your timely end Resurrected just to die again Now bow down before the wielder of flame Sentenced to suffer in his fiery domain
10.

credits

released November 19, 2021

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Skaldir at Kalthallen Studios. www.kalthallen.de

Abscession are:
Thomas Clifford: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Lyrics
Skaldir: Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Markus Porsklev: Drums
Sethras: Guitar solos on: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 - additional lead guitar on: 4 & 7

All music written by: Skaldir
All lyrics written by: Thomas Clifford

Clean Vocals on track 5 by Skaldir

Cover art by Adam Burke

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