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Pioneer
05:13
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Fog is on the edge of a thought
Bridges left unfinished and forgotten
Incompletely dreaming of scattered sheep
Am I counting them or are they counting me
Mark my words though I know them not
I’m delirious and splitting at the seams
Is it me plaguing corners and periphery
Or is it you haunting my sleep
Lucid waking as a marionette
Ventriloquist of violence
Judge and jury I am pleading of thee
The murderer manifests at dusk
My Siamese spine is forever entwined
Psychopathic parasite inside my mind
Imprison and cage me simply if you must
But I’m pleading for a fleeting ending
The Midnight Pioneer shall stop at nothing
Bestow upon me a death penalty
Lucid waking as a marionette
Ventriloquist of violence
Rest my child in serotonin streams
These hands are ours to do as I please
Together we’ll create a masterpiece
There’ll be no washing these fingers, after this
Ravaging bliss
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Moth Priest
05:59
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Esoteric lines he reads
To ascend past consciousness
And Lose all his lucidness
A man to moth he shall be
Avert your eyes from it
Lose autonomy
Lose your sanity
See past boundlessness
Boundlessness
Labyrinth
See now his bending knee
Kneeling for Oblivion
Giving way to gravity
Pay the price for transcension
Avert your eyes from it
Lose autonomy
Lose your sanity
See past the infinite
Boundlessness
Labyrinth
Study now before it’s spurned
Churned to mulch and rots inside
Studying now before it glows
Thriving bright consuming your soul
The early Autumn of your lifetime
Malevolence contorting your mind
Contorting your mind
Nefarious scripts shall start to show
As the Moth Priest prays for humankind
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3. |
Kamikaze Sun God
06:02
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Lace your boots, pull your goggles down
And embrace your solemn servitude
A lonely precipice on the landing strip
Reveals a red dawning light is calling you
When they need you the most but not enough
You’re the one to see it done
When they shower you with praise and honor you
You’re the last to see it through
Divine wind from the sun
My patriotism has drained
Utility provided as needed
Alchemical metal into blood
Belching oil from an aluminum tail
Sixteen years old, determined to be your time
Praying and pleading that this will tip the scales
As death comes screeching across the sky
When they need you the most but not enough
You’re the one to see it done
When they shower with praise and honor you
You’re the last to see it through
Divine wind from the sun
Sail this mortal messenger
Across the solar holy sky
Alchemical metal into blood
The sun is staring up from the ocean
Glaring it’s single one opal eye
Your heart beating drum is thundering away
The singing of your veins urges on
Less than a minute until you will collide
You see the the faces of the men you’ll find
Ignore your guilt and civilized humanity
To be the Kamikaze Sun God
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Tyrannicide
06:34
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Capsized and in too deep
We’ve killed the self and diver
Treading water for eternity
Gasping the last air left
Can’t we revitalize
The fire and rebreather
To ascend from the ocean
Twenty fathoms deeper
Existentially locked inside
By ice on the surface
The only way out at this point now
Is to venture inward
Becoming one with an ocean
Is simple if you’re drowning
So swallow the sea and all she breeds
To steal Poseidon’s crown
Fear is the murder of the mind
(I’ll let it pass right through me)
I will turn the inner eye
(And see the path it leaves)
This monarch shall be left behind
(A force from my core)
As I commit Tyrannicide
Power risen back in my palms
As I shatter through the tension
Tall, Herculean, and giving all
As fear falls to descension
High above the water now
I’m vulnerable and naked
I’m flying skyward
And my mind is awakened
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5. |
Seeds of the Dead
04:58
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The Tower is alive
With blooming poetry
The Tower can swallow
The mental state of me
The grass is growing through my feet
These trees resemble anything
Listen to the structure breathe
Hear the heartbeat in her throat
Favor your control
For it’s powerless, you know
Below my state of sight
Dispose your former life
Favor your control
For its effortless, you know
Breathe out the light
Dispose my
The Tower is alive
With strange biology
My coding is refracted
In prismatic mirroring
The edge is leaking down my skin
In the light of a lighthouse distant
My world is breaking down it seems
And I am becoming all of this
Favor your control
For it’s powerless, you know
Below my state of sight
Dispose your former life
Shred it out and
Release the cry aloud
Breathe out the light
Dispose your former life
My humanity devoured by
Tilling blood in the reeds of the faceless forms to be
A menagerie of twisted, writhing things
Changing fauna into flora for the final state of all
Changing (fauna into flora for the final state of all)
With the coming of the ending and it all becomes one
(With the coming of the ending and one becomes all)
With the coming of the ending and it all becomes one
(With the coming of the ending and one becomes all)
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6. |
Black Lung
06:40
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Send my body to the bottom
I’m a cavern servant and a slave
The alchemy of the Rockefeller
Turning blood into gold through me
Heritage work is overrated
Energy source has been outdated
Canary falls down to the floor
Carbon death for the ore
Lost the sun and led astray
I’m drowning in this black decay
Lungs have filled with dust and death
Choke the living, steal their breath
Heritage work is overrated
Energy source has been outdated
Canary falls down to the floor
Carbon death for the ore
Violent strikes and violence mine
I rape the earth and kill her light
The stars go out my lamp is last
I clog the air and choke her fast
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Am I a sheep, a swine, or a man?
Sick of shoveling shit with a spade
We will sweat in the breath of the sun
We will drown in the salt and the mud
Break me from the
Shackles chaining
My swollen feet and
Blistered hands
I will stand with my feet in the sand
You will not see me bow
To your promiscuous crown
You lie with the wolf and the lamb
You’re fueling the fires right now
You will not see me bow
I’ll bury my feet in the sand
Call me the flame, the wind, and a grave
I’ll scorch and salt this earth to the shade
Escaping through the fields we run
My spirit will not be undone
Dreaming of stars
Guiding lightning
Maybe waking
Maybe dying
I will stand with my feet in the sand
You will not see me bow
To your promiscuous crown
You lie with the wolf and the lamb
You’re fueling the fires right now
You will not see me bow
I’ll bury my feet in the sand
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8. |
(Backrooms)
00:55
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(none)
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9. |
Skin Hunter
07:08
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1978
A loner on the freeway
Victim to your primordial side
Shattered glass and shallow mind
Temptation rules to bound and gag
Tossed in the back of a Cadillac
Cigarette stains and stale ash
Muffled panic and rope rash
Burned into mildew and oiled steel
Lost to direction, sound, or reality
Carried off to someplace else
Cruel and hollow, an earthly hell
I am not somebody else
I am the same as you could’ve been
Auctioned off my human shelf
Chained to a wall in the skin hunter’s den
Free this body from my cold cell
Give back my strength and my free will
Slave to man, enslaved to taste
Please don’t forget my name or face
(Please remember my name or face)
I am not somebody else
Listen up now and hear me out
Sold straight off my human shelf
Break the silence in secret vows
Free this body from my cold cell
Give back my strength and my free will
Slave to man, enslaved to taste
Escape again from this foul place
(Let me out from this foul place)
Dull eyes, dead eyes
Return the light unto my sight
Needle, need holes
Channel my urge to fight back
Can’t find, won’t find
Fall farther into dry rot
Under, sunder
Broken bones from buckshot
Shed the thinner skin
Set fire to the den
Out or farther in
Identical twins
Bright eyes, cold ice
Harvester of my insides
Needle, blood holes
What did my skin look like
Emaciated, desecrated
Bury me in a dumpster
Beauty, wonder
This body is your own
Shed the thinner skin
Set fire to the den
Out or farther in
Identical twins
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10. |
Bloodrusted Mother Earth
03:40
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All I know is a lonely mountain
But I remember building every one
Eulogy
Lamenting
Bloodrusted Mother Earth
God has forged my final blue tomb in the winter’s arms
From marble, moonlight, metal and blood it is slowly carved
While I find my peace in this cold, hard solemn decay
In the still, snowy waste of Mother Earth inside her womb
The sun won’t rise again it’s frozen below
Now I wait for the moon to follow suit
Wondering how long it takes a star to drown
And if they scream as they go
My children have all grown and gone
I’ve given all I can to their garden
My children of humanity I hate to love
But this Mother made them who they are
Will someone sing a eulogy or hum a lullaby
There’s no one left on the planet
I just want to tell someone goodbye
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11. |
Ritual Violence
05:56
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Dig these bodies deep, fifty people wide
Dig down far below enough, keeping them from the flies
Decaying in the heat, calling to the Earth
Larvae, eggs, and maggots would all bring much more than Her
Come sundown we’re completing
The unknown ossuary
As we turn to leave
I see a boy watching from the trees
One man says ransom, another says the gun
Regardless of the outcome we agree that his life is done
Pursue him through the woods, bag him quickly now
Toss him in the trunk and we will figure the way out how
To claim this child as our own
A boy turned into man
Giving him the gun
He’ll have a murder on his hands
See his crimson grin, his soul is buried now
I see clearly my own past has been reflected somehow
This cycle of violence; Its ritual in the Earth
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Based out of Baltimore, MD, Arsena is a 4 headed chimera of genre-defying influences creating a new, unique spin on its core sound of old school thrash metal. The group expands upon its musical similarity to Havok, Mastodon, Primus, and Megadeth with a haunting sense of atmosphere and melody long since lost by the genre. Members: Luke Albert, Owen Duff, Robb Hollowell, Josh Deckman ... more
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