1. |
Will Embodied
06:18
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We grant them life
we give them purpose
we define their meaning
and watch them grow
Flowers most perfect
blooming at the heart of spells
teeth most sharpened
exacting each curse
We cut their cords
we decree their path
we slit their throats
and bury them deep below
Riddles that remain unsolved
faint whispers in the void
such are the masks of wisdom
such is their nature concealed
They sing in our ears
the songs of wordless victories
and of bitter defeats
Authored in blood
by a hand not my own
authored in blood
upon the parchment of ash and smoke
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2. |
Oneiric Portals
05:54
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Each night at the crossroads
my own death I seek
there to be hung by the neck
until I come alive
With nails of seven metals wrought
upon the sacred earth I was pinned down
so that in dreaming I could go forth
through the mirror of the compass round
And there I walked
ankle-deep in the stygian waters
with the fire of the stars in my hair
My arteries open
pumping out their crimson gold
my lips engaged in a song never-ending
to exchange aether for god
From the uncharted corners of the soul,
runs the river of blessings untold
May this body be the wax
that feeds the flame of our lady on high
and this blood the very ink
for the verses of her quill's design
Thrice crowned
thrice cursed
son of light
the moon on earth
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3. |
Stellar Flesh
04:11
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Hail, icon adorned
the living mirror
prepare the marriage bed
for the self and Other
In the alembic
under the pestle
upon the anvil
I am transformed
I will shed my skin
yet keep the scars
and the desert will bloom
by the boons of the Arte
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4. |
Your Mysteries
05:47
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Be they sung
by a nymph in the grove
or whispered
by a half-eaten corpse
my ear is ever open
to the mysteries of night
What the hand of flesh erases
its brother paints again
what the dust of the land covers
the cunning eye restores
Be they glimpsed
in a soothing spring
or written on the dirt
by tears of loss
my sight is ever awake
to the mysteries of night
A forked stave
reborn through the grave
is raised up to the moon
to draw down a kingly crown
or the stone to slay the fool
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5. |
Blood Acre
05:45
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From the frozen black earth
I crawled out
like a moth drawn to the lantern
of the brightest star was I
Though the waters dark
and the dew of dusk
fell upon my wounded tongue
the thirst still remained
The merciless gods of white fire
came to me with nails of flame
and with my last strength
I handed them the hammer
Mounted on a steed of wind
the ashes of this offering
ride the reddened skies
towards oblivion
towards a new dawn
The seed of the soul
to the plot in the east
the plea of the heart
to the sun in the south
the fruit of the work
to the scythe in the west
the loaf of my life
to the lord in the north
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6. |
Anointed Bones
05:01
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The poem of ancient steps
across the pages of an unseen book
is for me to read and re-write
with my own cloven hoof
Once the wind has claimed my secrets
and the earth my ripened flesh
my beating heart is offered
to Hell's unsparing winepress
To quench the thirst of bards unborn
to anoint the bones of future lore
to wash away what was penned before
and make the shroud of secrecy fall
The beauty of an empty canvas
the stone left unturned
the all-possible in the forsaken
the key in wisdom lost
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7. |
Golden Suffering
07:05
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Upon a sturdy rock
we built our temple
with silk we covered its walls
from the finest marble
we fashioned an altar
and adorned it with gold
We sang carefully crafted hymns
and filled the space with incense smoke
yet upon the emerald pedestal
the throne remained empty
We prayed by night
we prayed by day
we dreamt
asleep and awake
Eventually
the songs ceased
the altar was overturned
our temple fell to rubble
and we were lost in the desert
Tortured by the sun
Freezing under the stars
Abandoned by all but ordeal
Our hearts were shaped anew
There, in the seeming nothingness
surrounded by the silent darkness
we finally saw our god all around us
and gave praise to his blessings
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Aethyrick Finland
Formed by Gall and Exile on the winter solstice 2016, Aethyrick's medium is black metal, methods uncomplicated and motives unknown.
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