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Sanguis est clavis ad portam

Invocamus potentiam obscuram

Ex umbris ad inferos

Tenebrae regnant in aeternum

I drank from your chalice, gilded with silence,

And woke to ash between my teeth

In your temples,laughter sleeps beneath the altar

Wearing the face of a child that never was

Dust to dust, and bone to ash,

Time erodes the mortal mask

Oh light, gleaming mouth of hollow gods

Cracked behind the veil, feeding the blind with polished bones

Black-robed voices, bound in a spell,

Open the gate to a deeper hell.

The flame does not warm, it devours the soul,

One with the dark, we lose control

But the shadow...

The shadow bears no mask.

It speaks

In rust,

In breathless stone...

Per ignem, per sanguinem, per tenebras

Black candles burn in the hollow crypt,

Ash on the altar, blood on the script.

Whispers crawl from the mouth of the tomb,

Calling the night, summoning doom.

I walked beneath the wound of stars,

And the night taught me its names

Not with sound...

Ad inferos!

Wolves cry low for the hidden moon,

Thirteen steps to the ancient rune.

Flesh turns pale as the sky bleeds red,

The gospel of fear, the book of the dead

So call it sin.

Call it descent.

I call it

The return

To fireless light