1. |
Communion Carbonized
03:30
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It comes in walls of silence
The hatred of the hidden flame
They always seem to strike the match
While you retain the blame
From the corners of a fuming mouth
Such fire chars under your chest
Insanity lit by lashing tongues
These minds that fail to see
So they strike the inferno flame
A blaze that burns yet casts no light
Commitments now combust
Our final communion now carbonized
For every falsified claim
The moments that you maim
Bore to a depth unbound
This connection cremates
From the corners of a fuming mouth
Such fire chars under your chest
Insanity lit by lashing tongues
All acceptance fails
Every action soaked in malevolence
Your prevalent chosen accelerant
Accusation eminent
In the holocaust of prominence
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Can you feel the unnerving
Pressurizing swells inside your mind
Tension ascends
Infernal forming hell
Dark clouds are breeding
When all remaining life begins to flee
Deluge descending
Under the watch all hope deceased
Into the winds that whip
The consuming storm from the crawling sky
Through the merciless
Deceitful watch of the silent eye
Claustrophobic
The darkening disarray of light
Faith deformed
In ripping tempest wind
You suffer the deadly
Retribution from revolted skies
Infrastructure
Air-born and un-paralyzed
Into the winds that whip
The consuming storm from the crawling sky
Through the merciless
Deceitful watch of the silent eye
Into the winds that whip
Consuming storms from the crawling sky
Merciless
The deceitful watch of the silent eye
The infernal gaze of the silent eye
The blackening
Winds of vengeance and pulverizing rain
I watch the horizon crack
Released from restraint
Can you feel the unnerving
Pressurizing swells inside your mind
Tension ascending
Infernal forming hell
Dark clouds are breeding
When all remaining life begins to flee
Deluge descending
Under the watch……..
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3. |
Vagrant Death
03:48
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Lingering desiccation
A banquet of dust for cadaverous kings
Infinities are eaten
Such an ill-gotten and grotesque feast
Inhale the guilt
Yearning nooses
Groveling, forever in wrest
These morsels ring around
It’s never ending slake, engraving your neck
Inhale the guilt
You choke on it still
An all elusive end
For the ever-long abraded soul
Wandering starvation heart
The vagrant dead around your darkened home
The everlong abraded soul
The vagrant dead around your darkened home
The vagrancy of death
Lonesome in ruined reek
Slithering starvation
Such cravings that never cease
The vagrancy of death
Lonesome in ruined reek
Emptiness eternal
This famine is now your feast
Roving erosion
Withering flora forever in search
Vile eccentricities
An infected bloom in roaming thirst
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4. |
Planetary Mortuary
05:31
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As gravity grips I speed from astral possession
Decelestialized falling from seamless space
Through luminous bodies fever soaked in hysterics
Under thundering clouds beneath:
Tidal waves of blood as far as I can see
De-ascend the abyss
Through the septic heavens into scabbing seas
Oceanic necropolis
This world of blood
Planetary Mortuary
De-ascend the abyss
Through the septic heavens into scabbing seas
In solitude, still left adrift
Behold a world of blood
Planetary Mortuary
I hit the violent tide
Swirling sights I can’t unsee
Down in the fathomless maw
My crimson salted crypt at sea
Through the cracking shift of atmospheric recession
I see tidal waves of an endless crimson hell
Through the expanse of the reddening wake Into madness
I see a world of endless blood
This hemorrhaging sea that swallows me whole
De-ascend the abyss
Through septic heavens, into scabbing seas
Oceanic necropolis
This world of blood
Planetary Mortuary
De-ascend the abyss
Through septic heavens, into scabbing seas
In solitude, still left adrift
This world of blood
Planetary Mortuary
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5. |
Surface Of A Dead World
01:36
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6. |
Grieving Winds
04:48
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Worship unhallowed nightmares
Of horrors unsurpassed
This funeral thirst in putrid praise
A frenzied feast fantastic
Hand in claw - demonic grasp
Oblivion breathing - a howling rasp
Bursting spores of consummate gore
Eternal reach miasmic
These grieving winds they carry
The stench of the exhumed
Verminous choirs call out in praise
Forever
These grieving winds they carry
A song for the exhumed
Verminous choirs call out in praise
Forever you are unentombed
You’re unentombed
In salted psalms of nocturne
This profane verse in polluted pen
Such picturesque vulgarity
Majestic and grandiloquent
Panoramic swirls - passing mists
Skies embalm - deflorate flesh
Engorging feast of eternal song
This summoning ovation
As these eyes pierce through my soul
I befell the spectral glance
In the lunar rays of equilibrant gaze
My obsession ritualistic
Such distance is un-beloved
Disembodied, ever-blackened might
The memory of a nighted king
Draped in abysmal twilight
Your image engrains eternal
Such an array of majestic sights
An empire of sunless sleep
The bringer of descending and never-ending night
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7. |
Fleshwalker
03:42
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Mutation awakens across my skin
As flesh unfolds deformed
Severance befalls in shock and awe
Twisting and adorned
So swell in rage
Bare and befouled
Behold flesh walker
You’re making my skin crawl
Flesh Walker
You’re Making my skin crawl
In the torment of your impaling voice
Silence now condones
Indignant to your inability
To relate in rational tones
Now swell in rage
Bare and befouled
Behold flesh walker
You’re making my skin crawl
Flesh Walker - Making my skin crawl
Flesh Walker - A plague unto us all
Flesh Walker - You’re making my skin crawl
Connections defleshed skinless in seconds
Devoid of all feeling
Watch as my flesh weeps off the bone
Porous and peeling
I delaminate
Bare and befouled
Behold flesh walker
You’re making my skin crawl
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8. |
Escape Artist
04:43
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Looking back it’s all too simple
Clarity like unstained glass
Prosperity crushed into dust
End actualize
So move on beyond the myth
Into a manifest loss of a toxic trace
To be devoid of the disharmony…
Such a saving grace
But there you are
Holding the threads of a forfeit past
Severed strings unravel and snap
Into nothingness
The audacity - born in dread
Exit strategy - fade to black
A god complex of spineless stench
Cross-less with no resurrection
But there you are
Clinging to the threads of a forfeit past
Severed strings unravel and snap
Into nothingness
There you are
Dreaming of an end all existence
The truth is this: you were the one who left
Farewell escape artist
The audacity - born in dread
Exit strategy - now fade to black
What could have been - what a waste
Unable to see the face of your own fate
The masterpiece that you create
Is making an art out of your own escape
But there you are
Holding the threads of a forfeit past
Severed strings they snap
into nothingness
There you are
Dreaming of an end all existence
The truth is this: you were the one who left
Good riddance Escape artist
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9. |
Breeding Hysterics
03:58
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I petition the ghost to give up
As the strength of grace corrodes
This bitter trickling voice in my head
Indecent and exposed
Predatory justification
Laying blame like hand grenades
Phantom limbs are reaching out
From dead solidarity
Petitioning an apparition
Beyond the light
Crawling inside your mind
I’m wasted on desolation
I’m haunted by ghostly resolve
A lonely calling drowns in sensation
Obscured and unfound
Predatory justification
Laying blame like hand grenades
Phantom limbs are reaching out
From dead solidarity
Petitioning an apparition
Beyond the light
Crawling inside your mind
Petitioning your apparitions
Into the dead of night
Leave your old ghosts behind
Dead mind assessment
Crippling convention breeding hysterics
All that is present
Remnant resentments of constant contention
Now Confirming all accusation
As this wretched possession makes
The final revulsion reveal the result
Exorcise and excavate
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The Absence Tampa, Florida
Formed in 2003, The Absence have survived the ebb and flow of the metal community. After releasing 3 albums on Metal Blade Records and 2 on M-Theory Audio, the band’s 6th album will be released on Listenable Insanity Records in March of 2024.
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