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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Praeparet Bellum - 2023, Ridenti Mortuus - 2018, Apocalypsis Damnare - 2005, Risus Ex Mortuus - 2006, Principia Sardonica - 2004, I - (Single) - 2010, Amores Defunctus Tuus Mater (split with Dimentianon) - 2007, Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus - 2008, and 4 more.
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The Smiling Dead
08:50
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As the dawn breaks, a restless slumber cries in silence
As the darkness fades, a visionless path remains to break
To see the twilight crawl from a cloudless sky
To see nocturnal horror in the absence of night
A dead land of spirits without a soul
The wandering cries from aimless might
A blood-wept dream within a hole
The barren realm unfit for sight
The promised hope of salvation and grace
A stagnant death of hell and disgrace
The fertile fields of flowers to taste
A fallen virtue without it's own face
A shattered son
Alone and abandoned
Upon this very day, this very hour
Stillness gives way
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The Hound
07:08
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Bay, O' great hound bay, in the midnight shadows
Gone is the light of day, unknown is thy name
Conjured from the putrid graves and cast out from the flames
My soul is thine to claim, taken from this world
Darkness is my only sight
My brethren was taken from this life
Cursed is this evil relic
Damned am I, I'm in pain
Madness rides the star-wind, dripping death astride
Night-black ruins of buried temples of Belial
The baying of that dead and fleshless whirring monstrosity
Fangs yawning twistedly from grinning jaws of death
An inert mass of mangled flesh
Draws me to that foetid grave
This fateful amulet of jade
Will damn me to this ancient grave
Under the frozen light of the cold moon
Thickened in blood and rising full
Fear does call and life does fade
Upon the night when the hound does bay
Bay, O' great hound bay, in the midnight shadows
Gone is the light of day, unknown is thy name
Conjured from the putrid graves and cast out from the flames
My soul in Hell will blaze, forgotten from this world
Centuries of mangled corpses
Golden heads of new-buried children
That faint distant, large, incessant baying
Unnamed and unnamable
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The Unsepulchered Dead
05:00
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Rise up from the depths of the dead
Languish in the morning light
Scatter among ruins and decay
Take flight in the boxed grave
Cursed by life and given to the dead
Shackled from the dark night, cold to the earth
Rise upon the starlight, shrieking voices heard
Into the day cloaked in faded shade
Shun the stained breath, gaze to the sage
Mystified forms, chattering blackness
Fallen from time with fractured, crooked necks
Languid lies, a penchant for wretched life
Unclean decline, unseen in night or light
Arise from the darkened gloom and cherish as
Dead life slumbers awake unto nothingness
Go forth and become holy and infected
Come lie into the depths of the dead
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Intereo Parum Infantia
12:03
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Hush little baby and don't say a word
No ones gonna come and help you little girl
And when you're alone and the stars don't shine
Momma's gonna turn and put out the light
Hush little baby and close your eyes
You will never know the joy of afterlife
And as you cross time on the cold, damp earth
Momma's gonna mind to her dirty shirts
Hush little baby and don't say a word
Your obscene soul is not for this world
And when you've fallen so far from grace
Momma's gonna shun your life away
Hush little baby and forever sleep
No ones gonna learn your name, little sweet
And when your body swells and aches
Momma's gonna leave you at the rusted gates
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Rigor Sardonicous New York
RAW DEATH INSPIRED DOOM, RIGOR SARDONICOUS DRAWS FROM TRULY APOCALYPTIC SOURCES FOR THEIR INSPIRATION AND FORWARD INTO THIS VOID A SONIC ATMOSPHERE NOT OF FRIGHTENED AND DEPRESSIVE APPREHENSION, BUT RATHER OF FRIGHTENING, HORRIFIC BLEAKNESS DRAWN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ABSENCE OF HOPE FOR ALL LIFE! ... more
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