Apotheosis of Death: II. As the Vultures Descend Lyrics


Slumbering in the abyss, murky visions of death

Gasping for air, inhaling my last breath

Crucified to the earth, by the sign of the Goat

The cold steel chain, gripped tight around my throat

Lucid I awake, no longer a nightmare

The black monks expressionless, as I am made brutally aware

The startling revelation, that I am but carrion

To the birds above, a cruel death for a barbarian

Begging to the gods, for their holy mercy

But for my blasphemy, they forbade me

Torment and torture, beyond belief

I scream out in vain, for my release

I shall become, their unholy feast

To those foul, crooked, feathered beasts

Awaiting the true horror, no longer can I pretend

Still alive, as the vultures descend

Pre-Chorus:

(You will fall!) Down towards an impious earth of unspeakable blasphemy

(There you will see!) Unimaginable despair and cruelty beyond corporeal suffering

(One will stand!) Upon the precipice of life and death, a revenant will rise in doom

(The Cosmos shall burn!) Sentenced the traitorous swine to endless darkness and gloom

Chorus:

You will never see, the burning darkness that devours, an inverted Jacob’s Ladder for the Apotheosis of Death

The Sol Invictus devoid, slitting his throat triumphantly, bereft of life, suffocating on his last blood-curdled breath

In all its blasphemy, nothing will be left save ash, in the cosmos created by the Apotheosis of Death

Upon the throne of victory, those who are too weak, shall eternally bleed in torment in Hades beneath

Staring out, with vacant eyes

My spirit wretched, from my flesh

Solemnly the black monks, stare jeeringly

Excruciatingly, as the shedding of skin begins atrociously

Beyond all hope, my life extinguished

As my bones are naught but the birds’ excrement

Seeking solstice, in the reign of the vultures descent

Upon Jacob’s Ladder, I shall ascend

Pre-Chorus:

(You will fall!) Down towards an impious earth of unspeakable blasphemy

(There you will see!) Unimaginable despair and cruelty beyond corporeal suffering

(One will stand!) Upon the precipice of life and death, a revenant will rise in doom

(The Cosmos shall burn!) Sentenced the traitorous swine to endless darkness and gloom

Chorus:

You will never see, the burning darkness that devours, an inverted Jacob’s Ladder for the Apotheosis of Death

The Sol Invictus devoid, slitting his throat triumphantly, bereft of life, suffocating on his last blood-curdled breath

In all its blasphemy, nothing will be left save ash, in the cosmos created by the Apotheosis of Death

Upon the throne of victory, those who are too weak, shall eternally bleed in torment in Hades beneath

Demonic laughter, at my own insanity

At the total absurdity of my life draining before me

Spitting catatonic, upon the crooked face of death

Lungs collapsing, I shall become one with violence

I shall become, the hammer of doom

Damn mankind, like a stillborn in the womb

The despair of humanity, the bane of existence

Vultures descend, I shall become one with violence

Wielding black death, the downfall of hypocrisy

The torrential waters, of Acheron shall flow within me

The black monks, established weakness

Embodying the rage, I shall become one with violence

Smite the disease of spirit, by becoming one with death

The disembodied souls, deceived into shacklement

The cosmos must burn, manically, I must transcend

Upon the inverted Jacob’s Ladder, I descend...