The Prodigal Empire

I am the messenger of the ages, brought forth to sow the seeds of despair I am the wolf to lead your flock astray And those who follow me shall be met by death Your children will live on your remains and your kingdom will dissolve at my wake Listen to the words I speak: Your judgement is determined not by your god (absent is your god) Your actions shall be tried by the generations to come I come in the name of indulgence Every passing moment I am fed As the fight for survival becomes a conquest for power As the conquest for power is met with a life of ease (as this life of ease cradles the feeble) As you forget what it means to fend for yourself Your society crumbles at my feet I have become too powerful to defeat I come in the name of greed Look at me; I am the future Embrace me; I am your fate Fear me; I can destroy you Hate me; I have been created by you I am the messenger of the ages, brought forth to sow the seeds of despair I am the wolf to lead your flock astray And those who follow me shall be met by death You have sealed your future -- its stale fate a crippled skeleton of the past You have condemned your children to burn from the flames from the fires of your greed Now you serve me Say goodbye to your world Say goodbye to your precious possessions Now you serve me Say goodbye to your precious future I am the enforcer of the things to come -- the raven feasting on this carrion Your decisions have led you to me, and I will make you suffer You've lived your lives with everything you need Even the poor participate in greed And now the time has come and you'll burn at the stake The embers rising higher from the choices that you made Soon the world will be free of its curse Soon the Earth shall once more be cleansed to start again The enforcer of things to come Say goodbye You shall be no more

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

This is a lie Deep asleep ‒ forceful wake Locked in limbonic state Still frozen in your false world Feeling what shouldn't exist Life beckons a testament What is reality? Is it what your mind entities? Saturated view of charcoal skies In your dead mind that feels alive Invisible god ‒ the eater of time Raping your senses to comply Forcing a world that doesn't exist Your mind rooted in the darkened abyss Only feeling what you don't resist You're left alone How can you escape what you are? Your defenses fall Solid is this fragile world; losing your grasp Instructed to feel what your soul shows as truth Lead- Vance Pulled apart by vermin limbs Mentally crucified by this chimera Lead- Mikey Your senses ‒ are false to you but you believe Your vision ‒ is gone but still you think you see Your body ‒ is paralyzed but still you move Your thoughts ‒ are focused but you're still removed And now you're binded to your world A stitch in your threading that shall unfurl Wake and you shall see: Your coma is self-inflicted A second; eternity A moment; a lifetime Hallucinations ‒ a dream that is meant to be A force-fed reality

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

Dream or reality Your memories hide what you knew Gone, one life ‒ enter a new perception Enter a new perception No hope for a dying world To stop this beast, you must set society free Remain in permanent psychosis Everything you knew ‒ everything thought was true ‒ is false. Emancipate the suffocating Only then will your mind be your own Only then will you destroy this throne Red sand, breathe in; your lungs collapse This vacuum craves your flesh (permanent psychosis) No air, breathe in; the body dies The answer lies within the ruins Never trust our human nature; death will reveal the key to life The impure deviations of society shall wallow in their filth Their lives mean nothing now (their lives mean nothing now) You must wake from this delusion; save yourself and free your mind Deeper you fall in the infinite depths of this false world No, you must stay; this is real Hundreds of lives depend on you Destroy this deceiver and your treacherous love This vile creature that was sent from above No air, breathe in; the body dies These blood-soaked floors a price to pay For the freedom of these mutant slaves Bleed the world; rid the plague Drain your veins and stain the soil red Uncover the tombs of the dead The bones will lead the way This closed world shall only be spared with the embrace of the atmosphere; be salvaged by an open mind Start the reactor A traitor among the faithful few A newcomer to the world of the doomed Deep in the ruins you shall find the machine With its inception the red shall be blue With its inception the slate is wiped clean Stop the machine

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

Contagion, the decay of the sun Crawling, feasting on us Wasting our flesh, ourselves Free to roam endlessly, society is withering A giant wandering, driven by its plague Seeking to leech the land; to feed from the rotten hand Begging for more Nirvana from the ash The body is collapsing from within Threatened by its pathosis The end is approaching, pulling us toward our demise And yet this entity, which wallows in its misery Continues to tear the skin from its bones This is the end The Earth has gifted us with our extinction And so it shall be The giant falls from its gluttony Buried by the Earth, and swallowed by the sea Skin and flesh from its eyes has now petrified And this prodigal empire ceases to climb the skies And now the empire that once stood above the rest Is now a memory spread by its wretched dust The end was forged by the hands of the beast Feasting for so long it blessed us with famine Lust, gluttony, Greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride Preached to us from the Twisted words of faith Lust, gluttony, Greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride Practiced by the weak that crawl the entire empire You shall collapse once your wretched heart stops beating We shall collapse once our wretched heart stops beating

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

The wretched bleed from the earth They shall smother the sun; to the end give birth They crawl the skies; life wastes away The oasis dries Terra atrophy Extinguish the stars; the darkness sweeps The world is still as the spirits weep The final plague Sentenced to Earth Our final days ‒ enter dead world The sun drips down and melts the sky The mountains part; soil and flames collide And through this pain, they watch silently All life they disdain Now a memory Earth ‒ Fall to your knees The end is a gift to your kind ‒ An end to the suffering The final plague Sentenced to Earth Our final days ‒ enter dead world Sorrow, suffering The bodies of the Earth shall scar the land Flesh burns to ash Ash lifted by wind The dead that remain are dissolved by the sea ‒ a blank canvas left by death's masterpiece And finally she rests Parasites and disease conquered by death The bleeding from humanity Stopped by the wretched guest The architects of sorrow have exhausted the light The Earth now cast in shadows of an infinite night The giver of light now demands it back The darkness is pulled, crumbles the Earth painted black

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

This track is instrumental.

Is this song not instrumental?

Flames of Hell lick this tower of cards The Devil's called our bluff on the hand he's dealt Exodus ‒ awaken to consume Rip the flesh from us Tear the core apart As the weeds slither over our own coffin Lucifer has arrived Now risen to collect in pain and suffering His fire burns with the sins of indulgent wealth The time of reckoning at hand Crumbled cities at our feet With no time left to take a stand Carnage abound and death replete Those who survive to tell the stories of their scars May well continue the road to nothingness For human nature is to drown out what we wish to forget And thus we drown ourselves in Satan's caress Fallen, we will not stand up or band together Only time will tell if our wounds will heal The fiend destroys himself time and time again No memories remain, no peace of mind attained We turn to God, but he turns away We turn on our brothers cutting ties and killing hope We turn inward to see the treacherous, to see the parasite We turn a blind eye to the sacrifice Suffering will be our salvation Death and rebirth are one And though we perish, at last we vanquish The scourge that we've become

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Live as he lived, suffer as he did Feast upon these lies like a peasant fed ambrosia A leech on the wound, verminous knowledge unfiltered yet still consumed Persecute those who have denied, escaped, exposed this divine prison Worship he who embraced the wrongdoers; become an arbiter of the noble Teach humility and practice arrogance Praise peace and annihilate the wicked A sheltered life insured by blind faith This policy defined by the interpretations of your clergy Bringers of truth or a deceitful disease? Construct this your pedestal-- high upon it you rest Deluded from the moniker "sinner" The blind lead the blind into the depths of an exit-less pit Suffer as he did Suffer for your god Shunned from the diversity of the light Cast down to be shackled by vague prophecies You've taken false hope and enforced it on the free Suffer as he did Suffer for your god You've sheltered your eyes from the sun and become blind Saved from your sins by your effortless conviction [Lead - Mikey] Ask for forgiveness so thou can be cleansed, now able to look down upon the miscreants Praise your idol, praise your church, praise your priest You will always be sightless You believe he died for you, but would you suffer for him? [Lead - Mikey] Through the centuries you have fallen from your grace Created senseless violence from a prophecy of peace Forged a cult religion with a focus on true greed Become so diseased you can never be freed Hierarchies of insolence control the flock of sheep Sinners turn to preachers then to spreaders of disease The bodies of the dead build your towers to the sky A good word turned to poison by your infinite lies Sightless

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

A hideous glow in the cerulean sky A messenger; evil forebodes this dim twilight A world for the soulless, callous, vacant lives A void that God forgot ‒ a gift to the sleeping mind He walks alone and the feral walk with him A solemn presence unaware and an absent requiem He despises those who suffer; those who are awake This land shall remain in slumber; souls for him to take a nightmare in the devil's name Now lost, they shall be lost forever The lost will roam this wasteland For what they seek cannot be found There is no solace here No hope from this forsaken, sour ground This he knows; one fleeting thought That at this moment he is naught Never redeemed; Forever they rest Forever their sleep; An infinite eclipse [Guest lead ‒ Malcolm Pugh] Cursed is this silent world A dream that has no end Abandoned in the nil Omitted from the blessed Woe this gift to the sleeping mind A feast for the ethereal Paradise for the specters An obscurity left in silence Woe this gift to the sleeping mind A feast for the ethereal Eternally imprisoned in this barren illusion Cognizance left a ghost Forever they shall sleep A paradise for the specters An obscurity left in silence Forever they shall sleep

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025