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Resting Peace
01:12
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2. |
Inside They Crawl
03:53
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Feel them burn as they provoke the light
Crawling beneath the skin to feed on your decline
Every second absorbing every sense
A mouth of poisoned words that speak when sorrow flies
Drown in floods of rage
A never ending strain
Sunken deep inside the coil
Flee as they caress
Each sin becoming guilt
Beast of man is now awake
Dusk falls in cold embrace
A truth arising from the sphere of nothingness
Night slowly forming black figures in the mist
The purest form of shadow sleeps inside your soul
Drown in floods of rage
A never ending strain
Sunken deep inside the coil
Flee as they caress
Each sin becoming guilt
Beast of man is now awake
Hand by hand we march
Drained and scattered
Spiraling down to mental imprisonment
A haunted monologue
Shielding your face from the winds of possession
Seeds of reprisal
Mind aberrations you failed to perceive
Disclosure moving in
Forcing to overcome the stench of submission
Will suffocated
Voices translated to animal instinct
Resistance is futile
The final corruption of reason
Drown in floods of rage
A never ending strain
Sunken deep inside the coil
Flee as they caress
Each sin becoming guilt
Beast of man is now awake
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3. |
Blood Axiom
05:09
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Welcome to your own design
Speak truth as pain is received
This fraud declares failure
Spiritually conceived
Flesh is calling sad and weak
In a labyrinth of bonds
Spilling life in liquid form
Vows are broken
Wounds are screaming
Hurting ways in every corner
Reconcile - crucifixion
Tainted breed
Sown upon the path you reap
Wearing a mask in a cage
Cloaked by ancestral beliefs
Lost to the sins of the fathers
Carried away by the wind
Flesh is calling sad and weak
In a bitter sense of loss
Spilling life in liquid form
Vows are broken
Wounds are screaming
Hurting ways in every corner
Falling grace - lucid dreaming
Sacrifice
Instinct failing in retreat
Deep inside it hides a sickness unknown
Answers are growing within baptized in obscenity
Enter wake erase your chosen misery infected with blood
Preaching twisted words and meanings
Conscience wrapped in blackened wings
Moments cling to false connections
Hunger in the pit of snakes
Serpent tongues paving wisdom
Serpent souls in a maze of broken bonds
Flesh is calling
Flesh is calling weak
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My soul is a mirror reflecting your wrath
The fault and the fail united as one
I summon the rainstorm when seasons collapse
A heart raised in sulfur a song from the past
A broken rhyme engraved on the stone of regret
I float in your nightmare I conquer your pain
You suffer in silence you bleed in my name
You flirt with the razor to brighten my smile
Your eyes are now closing before my command
A broken rhyme engraved on the stone of regret
A curse is cast to ever follow
Forsaken and cold
A fear is born to ever haunt you
The paradox of drowning hope
Bleeding in whispers
A voice that no one hears
Speaking in words that only you can understand
Frozen tears locked inside future shock
And time slowly sanctifies the kiss of doubt
Afraid to face what I created once denied now burning
Spiraling visions descend as you’re sleeping awake
A rush of illusions that somehow returned as a threat
Breathing with shadows that wake me up dead
Black drops of venom injecting my veins
Holding on nothing that’s keeping me sane
Breathing with shadows that promise to carry me dead
Days coming lifeless
Dreams falling stale
Moving in circles
Holding on nothing
Choking on something
Under my shadow
Under my blade
Keep me sane....proceed!
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Daylight dims in the wake of a vision
Temptation at peace with the spring
A liquid fate seeps from your breathing wounds
In the cutting edge of a dream
Naked and freezing now everyone knows
Sick and confused as the drapery falls
Crimson haze in the mist of her light
The sky enthralled with beauty
Eyes that meet at the coming of dawn
Feathers fall from your wings
Within seconds a whisper distracts you
And slowly relieves you from sleep
A part of your essence is cleansed
With a promise to be reborn
No sign of life yet life enshrines you
And you are still trying to heal
A taste on your lips so bitter and sweet
To fill up the void in between
Pale and forgotten now everyone knows
Cold and alone as the drapery falls
Heart pumping fast in the heat of her flame
The sky obscured by the rain
What came as a blessing was holding a curse
Resting upon your remains
Within moments the voice speaks again
Replacing your bliss with a grief
A part of your essence is cleansed
With a promise to be reborn
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6. |
Burial Dawn
04:22
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Dawn – A tragic waste
A plague proclaims its birth
Walking inside a frozen realm
Baptized in the coldest light
Dawn – A shifting curse
A solitary man embracing a lie
Tears fall like drops of bitter rain
Among the ruins of a lost sanctuary
Dawn – You wake up sweating
And your eyes no longer see the sun
Dawn – The sky is weeping
And the earth is soaked with blood
Feeling old and weak to face the end
Behind the veil of a suffering pride
Dawn – You wake up screaming
In a world that is no more
Rise and fall, hope and pray
Through the vast deceiving grey
Weeping cries mourn the name
Carved in stone upon an empty grave
A song is heard
Tunes in the distance, hurting the silence
You stand paralyzed
Cursing the hours storming your clock
Surrounding strain
Watching the underworld swallowing heaven
Enslavement
Afraid to revive – Afraid to exist
Rise and fall, hope and pray
Through the vast deceiving grey
Mourning cries chant your name
As the headstone seals the grave
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7. |
The Inmost Winter
04:42
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Severe emotional struggle
At the place where mentality bends
A spot of the mind where you constantly weep
For something never worth
The scent of the rose is the weakness
The thorn in your side is the cause
Silence becoming your weapon of choice
And all that was you is lost
Enter a landscape of darkness
Hiding away from the eyes of the world
Where feelings fall like white flakes of snow
And emotions are buried in ice
Death comes alive as an instinct
Encrypted in thick fractal mass
A sorrowful face and the ghost of a smile
Reflecting nothing but scars
Seasons lie dead and forgotten
Distorting our hopes in a murderous way
Bodies sleep cold in the background
Caressed by the frost of the winter within
Crossing the border of conscience
Afraid of yourself
Now fear is your lover
And your closest friend
Stillborn the vision appears in crystalline form
A glimpse of reality between lines of smoke
I see red
It’s filling me up
Embraces the mirror
And cracks the ice
Inside a conceptual abyss
The voice rings hollow
It completes the illusion
But never the dream
Deaf and blind - Your own extinction
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8. |
Feeding The Flames
03:01
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9. |
If The Dead Could Speak
06:13
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I stand on the edge afraid to make a step…
I stand on the edge of eternity…
Eternity follows…
Will it pay off? Will it punish me?
Or is it all in vain?
I feel you…
Where are you? Can you listen?
…can you speak?
Inside the light of remembrance
Life seems a long distant dream
Sins lay their weight on the spirit
…and the struggle begins…
It’s all coming back in seconds of clarity
Dead eyes staring the absolute nothing
Spine chilling cold by a frozen caress
But the question remains
If the dead could speak
What would they say? What would they do?
Would they curse the sun and bless their ways?
If the dead could speak
Inside our minds, inside our souls
Would they reconsider or decline?
Trapped into the endless space
Nothing really matters now
All you ever stood and fought for
Was it worth the wait?
Inside the night of repentance
Life seems a vast mystery
Whispering thoughts fall silent
…and the voice dissolves…
It’s all coming back in seconds of clarity
Dead eyes staring the absolute nothing
Spine chilling cold by a frozen caress
But the question remains
If the dead could speak
What would they say? What would they do?
Would they curse the sun and bless their ways?
If the dead could speak
Inside our minds, inside our souls
Would they reconsider or decline?
An eternity to wonder
Was it really worth this pain?
All you lost and all you hoped for
Was it worth?
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Alterself Athens, Greece
Alterself were formed in Athens, Greece in 2007. Their first self-financed demo/EP entitled ‘Ashes Over Eden’ was released at 2009 and received very good reviews from the press and audience. In 2013 they released their first full-length album entitled ‘Seven Deadly Blessings’. The band right now is ready to release its second full-length album entitled 'Frost'. ... more
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