Terminal Redux

Blasting forward through a filamentous sky Beckoned by the flash of exploding light My soul crosses over the great divide Charging the void Isolated, I’ve been redeployed A rider on the crest Carry forth or plummet to death Autopilot function has been overridden For isolation subjects, choice has been forbidden But death and destruction are what I’ve been given Charging the void Isolated, I’ve been redeployed A rider on the crest Carry forth or plummet to death Particles known only in theory, within my grasp Entering the cloud of the exploded mass To live is to die, disjunction seals our fate So many tyrants lie, pleading at the gates Regimes at an end with policies left to amend Where would the future lie if regimes had time to bide So bring unto me, morbid mastery I shall revoke the throne atop the stellar tree I choose a different path from those now dead in the mire They could not wield the flame of life. To which, now I conspire I charge the void I’ve found the purpose Immortalize this life I will return to the surface A lust for control and power Has grown in isolation A sky that once brought hope and light Now brings me desolation I must wield the sands of time to reclaim what is mine Stargazers have made the claims Of enocules bursting from Alshain Deep within the serpent’s spire I forge a path that takes me higher I’ve crossed the great divide Now I peer into the depths of death’s door Through the rippling veil I acquire The dust of life that Cygnus obscures To the other side, I have done it I now command the draw of death’s door To the relic Alshain, now I’ve got it A molecule like nothing before Star fields of Aquila set ablaze Reap the ashes of the great Alshain Relic Alshain Oh Shahin-i-tarazu, now my flesh is born anew Within my hands, I hold the sands A sky of pillars gives life and land The blackest night unveiling death One inhaling, exhaling breath Of the swan with blackened wings outstretched A path unseen unfolds for me I charge the void and ascend the tree To the bird of morbid mastery I heed the Cygnus call They will want the dust obtained through my gall I bring the gift of extended life No longer will control be born of strife I burn through disregarded space Dispatched, forgotten, now I stake my independent claim I will rule this stark domain

Through the black, the hull is stacked Taking in the haul from Alshain Growing cracks, but still intact Encroaching on the Cygnus domain Beacon light within my sight The terminal is glowing in space Symbol for the free, but not for me I’m preparing to plead my case Like the Moon is silent, consumed by the void All screams from inside are destroyed I was served an injustice as head of the guard Unbalanced and covetous was my charge I have returned With malice that can’t be unlearned I have arrived Like the rise of a massive tide Cygnus Terminal Iso Subject 5, where were you? Gone for 13 years and only aged 2 We deal with the terminal, we deal with death We are the bringers of balance; we are the lungs of the cosmic breath Iso Subject 5, your tracker was damaged at take-off How could you survive? We thought you were gone Cygnus Terminal Iso Subject 5, you say that’s not your name? Isolation must have twisted your brain We deal with the terminal, we deal with death We are the bringers of balance, we are the lungs of the cosmic breath Iso Subject 5, you’ve strayed from your tests You must have lost your mind Why don’t we just kill you now and put this all to rest? I crossed the great divide I now have command over time It’s futile to object Now grant my parole from the isolation project All the years trapped in silence All there was to confide in Was my waning sense of worth Now reprieved of the tests My soul is battered at best But I’ve lived to see my rebirth Policies of my decree Once again, are enforced by me Epsilon, Pteropticon Failing now because of my leave LCD, at full capacity This is where I’ll restart my work Take the names of those who caused me shame Be silent, swift, and deft on your search Like the Moon is silent, consumed by the void All screams from inside are destroyed I have returned With malice that can’t be unlearned I have arrived Like the rise of a massive tide

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025

On Epsilon, 14 billion strong Cygnus has always struggled for control; they told me it could not be done Lies! All they need is a technogenic disease We supply for free Parasites of technology So easily moved in line Addicted to the use of our Exclusive rights Have them screened (x3) We feed off their disease Track down the terrorist cells See who is on my side Interrogate the world While we stay out of sight, right You choose a page; we’ll pick apart your brain We track your eyes with our cameras; we see your pupils dilate Subliminal are the ways that we tame you You’re feeling proud of what you have consumed Parasites of technology Addicted to our LCD screens Molded and sleek to gain your trust Now give yourself to us Have them screened (x3) Liquid crystal disease Intangible cyber life Too complacent to look outside We are shaping the world While we stay out of… Parasites of technology Your addiction is a disease No regrets of a wasted life You cannot touch what you see Death, seems the only way That you will even stray Think upon what you’ve lost As we archive your thoughts I can use your remorse To steer my ship on its course Open the Oculus Fear Cygnus, fear Cygnus You can have claim to grounds Of Enocules I have found If you report to me Morbid mastery….. is yours I turn the screens on Cygnus The cameras reading their eyes Affixed to every device They can tell no lies Freedom of choice within What you are given No choice outside the small World that you live in They have led you astray While I’ve been away I can quiet the noise I can give you a choice I see Cygnus now as it truly is They claim to bring balance, but they cannot to this World with ideals that can’t be controlled by Shadows in the sky who lie Parasites of technology The looking glass shows us the obscene I see myself disconnected I can wipe it clean Have them screened (x3) Feed their disease Have them screened (x3) Liquid crystal disease Cygnus always thought this planet was unbalanced I’ll do what they could never do. A full-out cleansing by a thought out annihilation

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

This track is instrumental.

Is this song not instrumental?

Envelope the world in storms After a great reprieve Chaos and terror breed in my lies I will make you believe Master of ancient darkness Who lives by the black decree Looms over dark, flashing upbursts In facilities unseen A parallax is forming Within the sanctioned sphere A parallax is forming An oculus to the stars appears Ultimate artificer You live to spread fear Usurp the world in silence Quelling defiance Low orbit power grids Placed by the Cygnus creed Were used as a docking point That I now oversee Lightning ignites the air A glimpse of the grand design Cumulonimbus cloak Sprites explode to the sky A parallax is forming Within the sanctioned sphere A parallax is forming An oculus to the stars appears Ultimate artificer You live to spread fear Usurp the world in silence Quelling defiance And the Reapers fly in Soon, the cleansing begins And no longer we crawl Before we rise, many must fall Obelisk to the stars Your shadow splits the graves Of the ones who lived for you They have died in vain Obelisk to the stars Your shadow meets my eye You are obsolete because I am What you symbolize Cygnus exploits the alliance Cygnus demands compliance And the Reapers fly in Soon, the cleansing begins And no longer we crawl Before we rise, many must fall Low orbit power grids Placed by the Cygnus creed Ready the power Ready the machines A parallax is forming Within the sanctioned sphere A parallax is forming An oculus to the stars appears Ultimate artificer You live to spread fear Usurp the world in silence Quelling defiance Ultimate artificer (x3)

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

The screenings have been reviewed The targets have been compiled We’re coming after you Swift justice with guile My eyes now blanket the world and beyond We are charged for the attack There is no turning back I have gained the trust from all the peoples within the sanctioned spheres Epsilon and Cygnus: you have much to fear Neither of you could maintain the natural order; you’ve become unbound Like a weed that has to be plucked, I am breaking ground Blackened wings outstretched over the sky Harbingers of death invading your mind Sentinels deployed to Earth Epsilon Flee from the Reaper squadron: Pteropticon The Reapers break through the clouds Missiles unleashed on the weak My terror kept under shroud Stealth fighters, black and sleek Compiling terrorist cells I get the help that I seek Taking down the Cygnus regime Panic inspires chaos: the discordant order of things Before the waves wash you clean, you are beaten down, nearly drowning You have been screened and your fate I am summoning You hear the sound of their engines humming; they are coming Blackened wings outstretched over the sky Harbingers of death invading your mind Sentinels deployed to Earth Epsilon Flee from the Reaper squad Everything falls into place As I cure the plague of falling empires Balance restored Cygnus is in contempt of my desires Blackened wings outstretched over the sky Harbingers of death invading your mind Sentinels deployed to Earth Epsilon Flee from the Reaper squadron: Pteropticon We have our eyes on you From every Reaper wing They are tied into your mind Knowing what you think The population will be halved through our cleansing: every defect razed Cygnus V.2 is now in command; your future will be safe

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

I have ended their reign of strife The land is cleansed with the ebb of the tide I give you the sands; now we must rebuild The world is ours to be shaped by our will Psychotropia An ageless utopia Psychotropia A reflection to be a Mirrored image of my reverie Our thoughts are aligned; connected by screens Imagine a world where we are the force That shapes this planet without recourse Yield from the pain in the path of resistance You’re a sheep unshorn, nothing more Believe in the gain from my path of persistence A seed unborn, nothing more In our time we have seen A new light of liberty A new dawn now unfurls We create a perfect world Revel in the consciousness Of a world in a waking-life Watch as all my hopes and dreams Materialize Balance attained through stability We must eliminate change Change is the force that brings down regimes Balance must be maintained Forward we go Psychotropia In a world that’s shaped by our minds Aspiration designs Sterilize the population The ageless have no need to procreate Genetic banks have my hand-picked genes If misfortune on someone awaits Forward we go Psychotropia In a world that’s shaped by our minds Aspiration designs We are aligned; we’ve bound our minds A new regime: what will it glean? What will we find with endless time? Unleash the hive (x3) Raze the land to construct a new beacon That will shine out from every surface We are Cygnus V.2 We dictate balance and purpose Forward we go Psychotropia In a world that’s shaped by our minds Aspiration designs In our time we have seen A new light of liberty Now we spread our cosmic law Through the skies over all Psychotropia An ageless utopia Psychotropia A shrouded dystopia Trudging through the heaps of waste An abstract world outside the screens we embrace The air imbues a film of scum The city’s center rises above the slums

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Blotted skies subdue stellar cries Bleeding out from the pillars Nebula of Aquila You have served a killer Time warps these hallowed grounds As if to draw a line in the sand Time brings disdain for the weak Time is what I have With Reaper squads still dispatching You place your hopes on pillars crashing Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don’t seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time I have built an empire On the dust of Alshain Collection sails extract the Enocules From vast mines in space And so, we live as ageless men From the time the reaction begins The dispenser is strapped to your wrist You are shackled to my every whim You are enslaved by the promise of tomorrow You’ve paid the price for the time that you borrow Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don’t seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time Time moves like a crack in glass Sometimes slow, sometimes fast We all know the fate of the pane But we move forth, piling on more strain On the glass of melted sand Forged by our greedy hands On a path we choose to belie It makes us feel alive Pillars of sand fall down as gravity remands The bones of the dead in a dusty mist Pillars of sand cannot ascend Such are we at the point of the Obelisk As Reapers dock in the Cygnus port My eyes are captured by the pillars Nebula of Aquila Your skies have never been stiller We have come upon the line Where gravity intercepts with time Time is without mass And cannot exist in broken glass The unrepentant nature of all Everything falls Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don’t seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

We don’t belong at these heights Watching over all We’ve come to the point of the Obelisk Impaled as we fall Collapse under the weight of time In this still life of our design Collapse into a great resolve Everything falls A broken image reflects from a shattered surface Its shards of truth cut clean their meaning, our purpose A tearful dawn sheds light On what we have become We were not meant to live like this No life, no freedom Collapse under the weight of time In this still life of our design Collapse into a great resolve Everything falls A broken image reflects from a shattered surface Its shards of truth cut clean their meaning, our purpose To struggle, to glean, to want, to bleed We’ve bided time We’ve traveled to distant worlds On our quest for knowledge and power We’ve traced the galactic whorls And now full circle Unfulfilled by what we’ve seen This is it, one galaxy Out of the shadows, my silhouette is torn Freed from the darkness, I see my vile form Bleeding out from a spiral clade This is all I have This is all that I have To live, to die, to lose our pride To accept our fate. Life is not ours to dictate Stagnation is death in a constitution of progress Now at the zenith there is nowhere left, nowhere left to go but down Ruling in the present while the future eludes us The further we push forward, the harder it becomes to look back To struggle, to glean, to want, to bleed To live, we must die. We live to die

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025

Follow me to Alshain toward a fiery grave We have spun a web of worlds, spinning out of control I crossed the other side But I was brought back The air sucked from my lungs My hull was cracked The dust sifted in Like an hourglass It sealed my ship And I was in tact Hourglass between worlds Emptiness on the side that employs The upper hand Recharging the void Each half of the cosmic breath Moved by a void With our lungs at capacity Recharging the void Follow me to Alshain toward a fiery grave We have spun a web of worlds, spinning out of control We’ve lived beyond our years And now we hear our calling We’ve outlived our pillars falling, falling I must return to Alshain To release our clutch Terminal Redux Like our star at its end Time will warp in the space we bend As we burst to our stellar tomb Its planets will be consumed Hourglass between worlds Emptiness on the side that employs The upper hand Recharging the void Each half of the cosmic breath Moved by a void With our lungs at capacity Recharging the void All the things we’ve destroyed But there is one thing left: bring balance through our death The Cygnus tide can be restored To a cosmic state Before man perverted it Before we staked our claim Ultimate sacrifice To revive the flux Turning back, a shrinking world Too small for us (x2) Illuminate what remains From a time when all sanctions were hallowed And our freedoms sucked straight from our marrow To bleed after refrain All we knew was the suffering Away, all of the shame and the sorrow Only hoping for endless tomorrows We look to cold, shimmering skies Feel the light passing by There’s no light that reflects from our gallows Planets stricken to live in the shadows Of cold, shimmering skies All we ask is our story be told To young, beckoning, yearning worlds Who are struggling to be as one We are the light from a dying Sun In darkness we will remain Feel the light piercing your eyes Open the skies to the Cygnus tide Countdown to the end The terminal descends Into Alshain’s cloud To be kept under shroud Rulers of life We’ve seen the limits of our minds Our foresight is blinded by our bias To which we cannot hide (Sung in unison) Cygnus is calling Bound to our graves The pillars are falling (x6)… In stellar remains (x6) Cygnus is calling From beyond the grave It rises once again With balance staved we make amends A ruler without plots or schemes Of cosmic law, we could only dream I heed the Cygnus call A symbol for life and death’s resolve Our fate implodes upon our crux The terminal is set to self-destruct Relic Alshain Oh Shahin-i-tarazu I return my flesh to you

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025