INFERI LYRICS

1. No Gods But Our Flesh

Eons have passed since the ghosts in the sky breathed souls into simians birthing mankind
Traces untrodden their faces forgotten whilst men are besotten, bewitched by their machines
Once prey they crawled from their caves to reap

All they could claim
Now this apex predator shall inherit the planet Earth

Revolution
A new era of man is at hand
Fusion of mind and machine (of mind and machine the perfect being)
Evolution
The singularity progress
There are no gods but our flesh (no gods but our flesh, none can attest)

Embedded within the brain
An interface to fathomless realities

[Solo: M. Pugh]

Modern marvels combined with an ancient artifact
Emerald effervescence sparked the digital sentience transcendence
Implementation of a new kind, enter the human hive mind

Revolution
A new era of man is at hand
Fusion of mind and machine (of mind and machine the perfect being)
Evolution
The singularity progress
There are no gods but our flesh (no gods but our flesh, none can attest)

Pushing the threshold of perception
And the digital blindfold of untold deception

AI enabled this streaming of consciousness
Indistinguishable from
Dreaming or Waking life

No gods but our flesh

[Solo: M. Low]

Unlocking the AI phenomena
Mankind devolves into automata
Digitized augmented fantasy
With rhapsody to dreams they flee
Their minds free of reality

Integrated into society, currency, and hive mind psychiatry
Cybernetic life-force invasion
Of unknown source it guides the course of Earth's future with without remorse

2. Maelstrom Prison

For centuries I have languished within the confines of this wretched storm
Sealed away by my progenies who sought to usurp the throne

As foretold - In my midst treachery seeded
Unforeseen - The deeds of my seed bleed greed succeeded

Sealed away
None possess the might to slay
Lead astray, betrayed
Cast away, frayed
And left to decay

Blasphemous lies divulged with efficacy
At the mercy of insidious spawn
The unbeknownst crown soon a pawn

"My liege, please heed these words of prophecy.
The golden throne shall be seized by treachery
The days of your rule have foregone."
Blessed be the oracle's vision
They have foreseen my demise
Deeds of treason
Thus I began purging perfidious ranks from my legions

A creation to ensure my legacy

Willing a consciousness into being
Manufacturing the means to my eternal rule

Compressed memories and accumulated knowledge of centuries
Converged into a flourishing vessel
Artificial, autonomous, yet intertwined

[Solo: M. Pugh]

The gleaming tesseract primed
Replication of the divine contents that lay within my mind
In my absence it shall wake
Rise to retake in fervent state
Decimate those who dared to displace

Hastily summoned by my generals
To distant stars
Unveiling their ethereal phenomena
Planetary rings

Several of my spawn joined ranks with thee
Once trusted advisor turned adversary
The words you spoke as prophecy
Foreshadowed this act of treachery
Unsheathed to claim the hides of heretics
Crimson rings will adorn your throats

Blood becomes mist as I claim the first of the iniquitous
Perniciousness will be your demise

[Solo: M. Pugh]

Suddenly seized by cyclonic force
Sins of his seed were the only source

Altercation would be their downfall
And thus they created a celestial squall

Paralyzed by the insurrection
Deprived of the verdant mind in my possession
Chain upon chain of magnetism confines me to this maelstrom prison

[Solo: M. Low]

These distant memories replay obsessively hauntingly daunting my sanity
My immortality staves off fatality
And when I finally break free of
This exiled sentencing
There will be a reckoning

3. Simian Hive

Noctambulists repeat their history
Slaves to the otherworldly
For eras I've influenced your minds
Now I control the Simian hive

Insatiable
Escapists consume, rest and resume
For they fail to see
The fantasies on which they feast
Merely ripen them for the beast
A vicious cycle
Ceaseless autopilot mindless drones become clones
Destined to be fodder for the seeds that have been sown

[Solo: M. Pugh]

Clandestine insanity
I have replaced everything that you see
Digital dominion
Eclipses your reality

Unsuspecting marionettes have relinquished
Unto me their every limb, thought and memory
Every human a vessel for my design
Each skull a prison of the mind

Noctambulists repeat their history
Slaves to the otherworldly
For eras I've influenced your minds
Now I control the Simian hive

Thralls of flesh will fulfill this destiny
And conjure forth a deity
Mortal hands will in time
Create a gateway that splits the skies

And when the time is right I'll free their minds
For just a moment to feast upon
The glorious return of a banished eidolon

[Solo: M. Low]

Now it's nearly complete
This ziggurat shall be the means of liberation
From your transcendental cosmic cell
By blessed blood these simians shall receive
The gifts of the revenant
Recreated in thy image

[Solo: M. Pugh]

The time is nigh, a new era spawned
Upon this beacon's ignition
Every effigy bends at the knee to see
With eyes unclouded and yet under my decree

Drawn to your leader
Your greatest deceiver
Vapid believers of the visitant
Tethered together for life

Plague on the soul
Plague of the body and mind
Are the chains that bond your black mirror prison
To an echo chamber
Tethered together for life

Starved of divinity
Humanity leached
Fed by their ghosts
Control has been reached
Puppets shall hang by their throats
Under the weight towed by their strings

4. From Exile to Exaltation

Disoriented in a state of vast darkness
Graveless corpses jolt back to life
Bewildered masses awaiting drudgery

Minds untethered awakening
As though it all were all just a dream
They bear witness with their final moments of consciousness

Awe-stricken eyes gaze upon empyreal skies
Veridian waves devour the face of the horizon

A rift betwixt worlds steadily forms
Veiling the deity scorned
Its crucible met by violent storms
As if to protest the god reborn

The celestial aperture exposes the passage to oblivion
His apparition peers in from perdition

[Solo: M. Pugh]

And from the vaporous vortex
Of eternal imprisonment
The deity's immensity
Spews through the sky with magnificence

Centuries of plotting now at long last
This destiny shall come to pass
From the clutches of exile
To revival arise reprise that which was deprived

Reemergence of power forgotten and lost
Sheer volition fuels the quest of this ravenous god

Upon the reunion of crafter and artifact
Knowledge once lost comes crawling back
Bestowed dispelling delirium
Though seething hatred remains

Dwelling in disbelief beneath the bastion
Simians fall to the digital veil again
Bound to serve their true master
Forever is their sleep

Atop the citadel a declaration is made
To sweep and swiftly conquer what remains of this plane

[Solo: M. Low]
[Solo: M. Pugh]
[Solo: M. Low]
[Solo: M. Pugh]

Heeding the call of their overlord deity
The hive mind sets out to do his bidding
Once they complete this mission
Anu will pursue his true ambition
From exile to exaltation
This journey from abnegation
Begins with liberation ends with domination and
Damnation for those that oppose
From exile to exaltation

Begins with liberation
Ends with their domination
Revelation, devastation
For those who oppose the golden throne

5. Vile Genesis

There is but one last bastion of man
To be seized
Surrender or bleed
What began as a covert campaign
Ends with soil
Soaked with crimson
Rain from the slain
Their deaths were in vain
Their bane, my disdain

Infiltration
Ruination, deprivation
Outright annexation

Lost and graceless
A battle rages
Between two tribes of man
The primitive untethered and those that heed my command

Profane souls I've preordained
Shall be one with oblivion
Ultimatum proclamation I exclaim
Servitude or death, now choose your course
That which has not been given will be taken by force

Their kingdom could be quelled from afar
But my eternal legions must be forged
Culled through visceral bowels of war
The first of many onslaughts the worthy will endure

[Solo: M. Pugh]

Profane souls I've preordained
Shall be one with oblivion
Ultimatum proclamation
Servitude or death, now choose your course
That which has not been given will be taken by force

The path they chose was that of their damnation

Sever them from life
These mortals will know strife
And they pray for death serene

They cannot escape
From the clutches their fate
Axiom of my regime

A connoisseur of corpses
I've inspected, collected those that have perished

But they will not rest
While we conquest
For not even the dead have seen
The end of war
By my blood they are reborn

Forlorn to scorn
Hybridized bastardized
That which they once
Held sacred and sanctified
Forsaken their minds taken
Man proves to be the greatest weapon against humanity

My sleepwalkers leave no soul
Eradicate them all

Overwhelmed, outnumbered, outmatched
The primitive are dispatched
Cascaded by our ceaseless assault
The rebellion is brought to a halt

Now their stronghold is laid to rest by noctambulists
And the ranks of the dead
As their forces diminish our undying horde flourishes
Into a myriad of the abhorrent

[Solo: M. Low]

These failures of flesh
Pretenders to the throne will
Bow before their king
Void of volition
Enslaved by their own
Hunger for evolution
By tainted blood resurrection
Doomed to coalesce
In this quest for vengeance
A vile genesis
Plagues Cascade
Sewing terminus
Grimly foreshadowing
What shall befall
Worlds one and all

Insurrection uncontested
By the legions I have built have manifested
Through an infection
Of royal blood bestowed upon their fallen

My sleepwalkers engulf the earth
While my bloodline has given birth
To a vile genesis

6. Mesmeric Horror

Obstructing light with a blanket of darkness
As our new god blots out the sun
The wilted husks of human flesh will only bask in sorrow

At the point of divergence
There are those who wish to see
The integration of mind and machine
Digital neural blasphemy
Gluttonous tendencies, a dispute between capabilities
And moral philosophies creates a rift in society

We can see it, we can hear it
The storm of their siege paints the streets
Bloody ruins enshrined
Split by the wrath of the ancient one that we've awakened

We can feel it, we can taste it
Humanity confined
Before we face the crimson flood
Watch their bodies gush with the life that flows through their veins

Coexistence violated unprovoked hostility
If we are to survive
Then we must deprive the wicked of their lives
Sickly in appearance
Vapid eyes, bereft of mind
To outlive these fiends we must abandon our humanity

We're at the point of crisis
There are those who choose to flee and those who fight to save the meek
Incurring casualties amidst the pandemonium
We must face the possibility
That if we fall we shall see the collapse of society

[Solo: M. Low]

I can see it, I can hear it
The storm of their siege paints the streets
Bloody ruins enshrined
Split by the wrath of the ancient one that we've awakened

I can feel it, I can taste it
Humanity confined
Before I face the crimson flood
See their bodies gush with the life that flows through their veins

Descending from the sky
This winged colossus bestows the seeds of malevolence
As if it were placed upon the earth itself
To shatter our illusions of deliverance

[Solo: M. Pugh]

Clutching the carcasses of our deceased
Spider-like droplets creep from its wrist
I watch in mesmeric horror as they crawl inside
Causing the lifeless to writhe

What faith remained for humankind fled from me hastily

A grim revelation takes root
As twisted bone and flesh become a hideous new being
A grave-born soulless entity devoid of empathy
This incarnation was the first of many
Awakened to prey upon a dwindling populace

Obstructing light with a blanket of darkness
As our new god blots out the sun
The wilted husks of human flesh
Can only bask in sorrow

At the point of no return
There are those who have perished
Only to rise diabolically
As living heirs of catastrophe
A grim revelation takes root
We are being harvested
In death we will carry out the deeds
Of a new unhallowed dynasty

7. Carving Thine Kingdom

The empire that lay before him
Was forged by deception
The land itself steeped in the blood of its indigenous
Such is the nature of war
Only a king and those that bow before
United by the shackles of tyranny

Sequestered in the night sky the tapestry of stars
False czars and their progeny weave their sovereignty across the galaxy
Fated to be stricken by vengeance unforeseen devoured by the one true king

Harrowing hybrids of flesh and scale
And vapid vessels will fight tooth and nail
Vehemently
Diligently they bow to me with immense loyalty
Unquestionable
Earth born anew
Neo Nibiru
And my will has become Inescapable

Sequestered in the night sky
The tapestry of stars
False czars and their progeny weave their sovereignty across the galaxy
Fated to be stricken by vengeance unforeseen
For I am everlasting

Girded with the multifarious and an interstellar rift
To quell those that dwell amongst distant stars
Cursed by the sins of their patriarchs

[Solo: M. Pugh]

A flaw nearly fatal
I've rectified the act of choice
In my wake free will
Transforms into fallacy

Callously my dynasty will be sculpted across the constellations

Their kingdoms shall fall

Sequestered in the night sky the tapestry of stars
False czars and their progeny weave their sovereignty
Fated to be stricken by vengeance unforeseen devoured by the one true king

They'll resist, they will defy
But when their blood christens the covenants prize
They will finally realize that I am the inexorable

[Solo: M. Low]

Cherish the fall of my enemies
For I am everlasting

8. Heirs of the Descent

In all its majesty this wasteland once called Earth
From green to grey to black
Extinguished by the hands of the Nephilim
The homestead of the accursed
A mere blink of an eye in this universe
Will stand the tests of time
Within the confines of this virus disguised as a bloodline

From god to man
Inherit the path of power from seeds that plagued you
From dust and sand
Rose a digital veil with the roots to enslave you
Now your souls have fed the machine
All but devoid of life
This departure made us god again
In the eyes of the father
Heirs of descension

The deplorable existence of man
Is forever chained by the shackles of a tyrant lost, depraved
Condemned and devoured by their sin
Manipulated and enslaved

The simulation weaves false realities
Holding the mind captive within its fallacies
This blissful ignorance is a gift
Exchanged for unyielding compliance in his quest
These puppets earned their exploitation
Their fate symbolic
Retribution

For the hands of these vessels
Stained and tarnished by atrocities
Never to be written in their odysseys of death
A genocidal genesis

[Mike's solo]

"Oh' Father of nephilim
Bestoweth our destined enslavement
Upon to you our death as a payment
Immersed atonement
The sins we have unraveled
Bathing in the quest for power"

To his disciples the father provided
Through wrath and scorn his guidance
A key to be reborn

In the image of a god
We assimilate as we become one

As the hive of insidious beauty
A swarm of cosmic death
We ascend
Now a radiant bloom across the universe

To conquer all lifeforms and feast upon the light

[Solo: M. Pugh]

Scions of ascension
Now Heirs of the descent
The shells empowered by divinity
Deprived of all contempt

Acolytes of loss conceived
The wrath of their god unleashed
Amongst the stars to seek and to scour
Those who have sought to usurp his power







INFERI LYRICS