through the ruins of mystery
I scoffed at the altar of solace
In the ruins I dreamt nothing
I raised my lance to the sky
Curing those dust covered statues
Then a raindrop stuck brow
And the oceans of the sky fell

The mountains sank into the sea
The crumbling earth had betrayed me
Fleeing to nowhere sanctuary barred
The rainwound begins to bleed

Grim haunts of the heavens and hells
Emerged from the cracks in the sky and the rocks
A mob of fiends encircled me
Through undivine ascension I was taken to the gods

I was made to kneel
Before the gods
Their stares peeled flesh and bone
Bludgeoning my soul
For insolence in denial
I was to make penance
And my legacy was to grasp my kind

On the mountaintop I was put
An iron chain bore into the wound
Linking my mind with the heavens above
Forever thought was taken from us


2. The Siege

Look over the battlements
At the burning countryside
There the army of wicked madness
Besieges this castle of will

Feel the frozen wind
From the bleak outer world
The banner twists in agony
Tortured from the world around
The wind seeps through the walls
Whispering revelations of despair
It skulks in high lofted ceilings
A messenger of the fallen realm

The moat displays whitened bloated corpses
A cesspool where the slain float
For miles back their casualties are strewn
Ours burn on pyres smoke replacing sky

Listen to the sound of the pounding
Battering rams
Their black winged echoes
Fly down these desolate halls
Each catapult stone defeats the walls
We labor to repair what falls upon us
The bringers of insanity
Dance bizarrely
In celebration
Of their coming conquest

Look and see their campfires
Like obscene stars fallen to the ground
Wallow in dread at the moment's peace
For the battle always resumes

No shining army will rush to our aid
We are to die in this crumbling tomb
I'm being driven mad
Specters of bitterness and confusion
Circle my head
The mist goes in my ears and exits my mouth
And within they destroy all they can

The bringers of lunacy have breached the walls
Remnants of innocence put to the sword
Engulfed into the kingdom of the mad
My psyche lays in ruins but now I'm born


3. Gutspawn

In the land of abhorations
Through the Versian mountains
Birthplace of the Gutspawn nation
Their evil king's a bloated creation
Stomach with a mouth liquefying crematorium
He ingests the dead for incubation
In the gut starts the deformation
In his swollen innards the creatures go through
A twisted genesis to be born anew

Vomited up
Grotesque mass
Ill contorted
Body parts

If their mutated misanthropomorphic form survives
They owe fealty to their father
The detached womb of hell
Now a vessel to the king of defiled flesh
Allegiance to the army
A child of the gut

In older times an order arose
The vanquishers of chaos came to dispose
The lord and his children
And their appetite for carrion
Armor and swords facing
Exoskeleton, tentacle and claw

The instrument to kill the creator demon
Was an ancient blessed weapon called the spear of Gan
The spear was lost for thousands of years
The knights sought council with the sage in stone
They found him weeping imprisoned in rock
For a stroke of mercy the spear shall be yours
It's in the rotting mountain
And eldritch giant beast
Forever decaying in the subarctic ice

Crusade to
Unholy land
Swallowed up
By destiny

Through the cavernous mouth they entered
Into a tunnel like digestive tract
The temperature rose in the hollows
Seeing worms as thick as trees
There was the spear
Held by the maggot god
Warriors yelled their war cry
Let your sons bore into you

Their banner on the spear
The mighty host entered the Gutspawn pits
Past vaults of the dead
They marched in groaning silence

Steel flashed
Visors down
Abattoirs made
Battles begun

Through the brutal assault wading through the gore
The spearman went the Gut he stood before
Before he could strike the mouth ejected spittle
Bathed in acid screaming without a throat
The hero on his knees threw the spear
His arm went with it eaten at the socket
He want down halved at the shoulders
But the spear struck home
In the volumous belly

Vomited up
Grotesque mass
Ill contorted
Bodily parts

Atrophied limbs flailed in agony
Gaping mouth splattering blood
Croaking and wheezing dying in seconds
Vile blubber shuddering in anguish
Watches his empire crumble
Through rolling blistering eyes
Then it explodes starting a cave in
Killing all but the world survives


4. Infinity Coda

Confronted with things that are finite
Logic deals with all that ends
Confounded by infinity
Man's great ignorance

Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Warp

Concept deleted mortal minds
Denied godliness mortal pox
Fettered by the riddle of foreverness
Thorned wall around paradise

Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Warp

Enlightened to the point of bewilderment
Deaf to the song of creation
Blind to the light of the afterworld
What has always been shall always be

Confronted with things that are finite
Logic deals with all that ends
Confounded by infinity
Man's great ignorance

Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Warp

Concept deleted mortal minds
Denied godliness mortal pox
Fettered by the riddle of foreverness
Thorned wall around paradise

Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Coda
Infinity Warp


5. Boiling In The Hourglass

Man’s betrothed to time
Life a pageant of decay
All have a grain of sand
In the shower of the hourglass

Warp
Born was an idiot savant
Spared the bane of logic
Feeble minded yet gifted
Redemption of the curse
Conception of infinity
Dwell in lands man shuns
Poisoned fruit of Ambrosia
Chemistry of the divine
Granted fellowship only of dogs
Scorned as befits the dullard
Each act of cruelty towards him
Built his keep of vengeance
Falling further into the inverted pit
Broadening cognition
Plunging off the cliffs of impermanence
He became a god

Mortals float the river of time
While he drowned in its current
Clutching the dimensional roots of the shore
He stepped into the ceaseless beyond

Turning away from the flow of time
To a peak that pierced the bubbling sky
Grynpholg Mountain, lair of the Timeghouls
Blackest of hells, the fledgling god’s home

The tribes of Pulk
Black hearted Timeghouls
Loose knit marauders of the time procession
Banded together under the god’s sword
To wage a holocaust verse the age of man
Up and down streams of humans’ feeble course
Grandiose massacres retrograde things to be
Burning paths of future souls
Erasing those that are
Last clock’s reading: 11 past 11

I am a god, the prime being
I shall impale you
On the crumbled pillars of the millennia

Warp
Pendulum swings cutting the thread of continuum
The heavy hands of clocks strangle babes and men
Bells hang still and silent falling on the faithful
Earth’s matter and light mathematically blur
The battered refugees of the prime dimension
Fall from the decayed, weathering remnants of stone
Ravaged epoch of the infinite truth becomes extinct
A tornado of eroding sand
Boiling in the hourglass


6. Occurence On Mimas

“Transmission 82-09-4
From the imperial archeologist Beznan
On the cadaver world Earth
Concerning data in the fossilized brain
Of the last human being”

Upon the initial strata scan
No brains were found intact
Until the crystallized corpse
Was found in a mineral pool
A male homo sapien, face down, floating flat
Hulking blackened carcass
Fossil anchored to the bottom
With a brain tissue sample using memory chambers’ blood
Paint the research grid regard Earth’s history
Extract the tale of extinction of the timid human race
A titanic war verse a non-indigenous
Alien scourge

Behold Mimas
Shrouded moon of Saturn
Brandishing a crater
The girth of a mountain

Two warring nations
Ecology based on war
Underground dwellers
Infinite conflict

The one race smaller
With a larger frontal lobe
Mastered explosives
Severed their enemies’ world
Like a rotting useless limb
Causing the crater
Now an asteroid
Nomadic home drifts to space
And Mimas died

Earth’s gravity
Beckoned the meteor
Pierce the skin
Of atmosphere
Atlantis sunk
Dinosaurs cease
Landing in the Himalayas

Parasite world
Lie dormant
On the surface man thrived
While beneath him
In the flesh of the Earth
The scourge of Mimas became strong

Through instinct
The hordes from beneath emerged to murder
After the sun had fallen, up through the ground
Like stigmata
Dug through soil like blood
A poison from below
Tainted well spring of the planet
On crooked gait
They conquered, dragging corpses
Into the Earth for food
Remains reemerging, clogging the seas
Alien invasion from within their fortress
The Earth lay siege to home
Valiant struggle against oblivion

Mounted on evolved dinosaurs
Or on human ferocity matched ten fold
Swarms of fiends under the moon
The rapacious season of the dwindling age
Billowing clouds in the sky
Are gasses from the rotting creates of Earth
Cities collapse from below
The dove lies crushed under heavy laden foot
Victory adorns the horde’s sword
But the heaps of corpses poison the world
The soured filth purges the crust’s wounds
And underneath they parish from the blackened bounty