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Overture
01:49
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All you fucked up politicians / With all your fucked up agendas / All you fucked up priests / With all your fucked up beliefs
What is it that turns you on / In pushing innocent people down? / You keep praying your divinity / I resign from this insanity / Spitting lies to keep you safe / Is what you do keep your narrative / As a priest you know no shame / You will always find someone else to blame
What is it that turns you on / In pushing innocent people down? / You keep praying your divinity / I resign from this insanity / When your time has come you´ll see / Your congregation´s just a perverted fantasy / And to give is to recieve / Measured in shitloads of misery
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2. |
The Lotus Covenant
03:58
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Decapitate the ungulate / Cut it deep, can you see / Travelling through places / Unknown to you and me
The walls of flesh are moving closer / The smiling faces turning rotten / In the temple of the nine / The unholy icons bleed
Magician´s prayer just a sigh / The smoke of incence´s rising higher
What is this monstrosity / That dwells in this dark reality? / Pools of blood are boiling high above my head
Dimensions of sleeping Gods unfolding / Visions of daedric horror opening
The ancient horrors of miscatonic kind are closing in
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Resignation
04:04
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4. |
Sword Of The Apostle
07:20
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As the armies gathered closer / Ships were sent to the east / Leaving mothers to the shore / Weeping for their children
From the deepest trench of an ocean / To the highest peak of a mountain / The cry of a soulless magician / The silence of a righteous Cimmerian
Hold this sword up high
Take this life of mine / Unchain these shacles / Onwards to sunrise we ride / Casting a shout to the great wilderness / Vanishing in great oblivion / Chasing shadows all their lives / None could deny what they had become
Frozen tombs of apostles / Stoned relics of disaster
With a heavy heart they made their stand / Drawing the lines of a nation / So lower the bridge, let loose the animals / If this is the day we die let us comply
And so they rushed into battle / The desert wind in their backs / And the wind in their hearts / Singing with a voice of longing / Their women´s eyes full of stars / And their laps full of moonlight / Their mind´s eyes open for / The Lotus Covenant
...Hold this sword up high...
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5. |
Sometimes Dead Is Better
05:03
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I wake up in the morning / My feet covered with soil / Was it all real or just a nightmare..? / Following the dead I walked towards the cemetery / The ghost of Wendigo beside me
Beyond the barrier and up the stony stairs I must go / “The ground is sour” I hear them screaming / This overcoming sorrow eating all the grace inside me / My heart as cold as her remains
Sometimes dead is better
My mind collapses to insanity / Losing my will to live as all my loved ones die / Is this a bad dream or reality? / My shovel´s tip digs to the ground
From the ancient mountains the grid of darkness falls / Come bless this family reunion / Curling the night around this twisted miracle of birth / Love never truly dies indeed... but
Sometimes dead is better
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6. |
The Golden Galley
02:41
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Do you remember the white summer nights of childhood that just wouldn´t end? / The lifepower in you and world so enormous and wide / Life full of chances to take and to learn of all things just grow and believe / It seemed so magical, those endless possibilities
Now, the goodbyes we say with the goodbyes we hear let us cherish those things and to feel / That we’re still alive, though the tears in our eyes blind our way / Slowly we let them go / Close those doors forevermore / Give in to being this far / Far from those moments, still close enough to foresee
Seeing yourself in the mirror and find the traces of life you have lived / The scars and the wrinkles, stories of live history / Day after day we march onward and on / Building this house made of cards / and one day it´s gone, and all that is left is just lore.
Never forget who you are and believe the day comes for you to be free / From this reality consiousness travels / And on to the next life and the next after that by sleep you travel through time / Through dimensions returning to sunshine and love
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7. |
Return To Celephaïs
03:36
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“In the dim dawn they came upon the village which Kuranes had seen alive in his childhood, and asleep or dead in his dreams. It was alive now, and early villagers courtesied as the horsemen clattered down the street and turned off into the lane that ends in the abyss of dream.
Kuranes had previously entered that abyss only at night, and wondered what it would look like by day; so he watched anxiously as the column approached its brink. Just as they galloped up the rising ground to the precipice a golden glare came somewhere out of the east and hid all the landscape in its effulgent draperies.
The abyss was now a seething chaos of roseate and cerulean splendour, and invisible voices sang exultantly as the knightly entourage plunged over the edge and floated gracefully down past glittering clouds and silvery coruscations.
Endlessly down the horsemen floated, their chargers pawing the aether as if galloping over golden sands, and then the luminous vapours spread apart to reveal a greater brightness,
the brightness of the city Celephaïs.”
H.P.Lovecraft “Celephaïs”
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8. |
The X
04:32
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White moon of Chesed / Black moon of Geburah / Sphinx of the occult / Suns of ten thousand worlds / The goat of Mendes / Flame of intelligence / Soul beyond matter / Symbol of eternal life
Have mercy / Have justice
Secret of the Templars / The physical and spiritual / The Great God Pan / Sea foams under an unknown sun
I take your name to my hand / Like a monster in the shadow of a God / You are the golden idol built by cunning men / Carried and represented as a gift of foul / X marks the spot and the prayer´s left unheard / The star-maps for the blind to see / The muted horror through a pantheon of lies / The fauna of my sensless dreams
I take your name to my heart / Like a monster in the shadow of my soul / I am the golden idol built by holy men / Exulted and diminished by a friend and foe / I will reincarnate through fire and through blood / Through star-maps for the blind to see / The muted horror through a pantheon of lies / The fauna of your sensless dreams
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Byron Joensuu, Finland
Byron is a metal band from Finland. Music mixes elements of classic melodic metal, doom and NWOBHM. Lyrical themes are of
the occult and esoteric, dreams, loss and horror literature.
After 2021 "The Omega Evangelion", Byron starts the year 2024 with the successor, releasing their second full-lenght "Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant"
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