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The Hydra Void
05:50
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The starry beast climbs the sky
Serpent swims in night’s black sea
Shining dimly across its length
Alphard, the heart, the Solitary One
The Hydra Void
Poisoned breath, poisoned blood, smell of death
Guarding Hell, killed by sword, killed by fire
The snake, the bird, the krater
Glittering with the stars of the line
Serpent
The Hydra Void
Lernean serpent – son of Typhon
Species - serpentium
Serpens aquaticus, sidera juncta micant
Across the sky the beast uncoils
Chaotic stars like fiery scales
Gleaming heart pulses pale orange
Glittering with the stars of the line
Serpent
The Hydra Void
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Burn, Antares – scorpion heart – Kalb al-Akrab
Rise! Scintillating bloodlight heart – tendit ad rapinam
Flashing orange, flashing red – Per sepulchral regionum
Orion’s slayer, presiding over arms – Insidiata – The Lurking One
A fire that burns in the head and heart, fearful arc across the southern sky
A creature that treads the skyline and winter home for the Lord of Worlds
Exalted to the sky by the gods, and terror to the hunter
A dark summer nocturne – equal to its god
Sidus Martis
Creating an ardor for war, Shaula and Lesath – Quantus tremor
The old crowned serpent and basilisk capricious – Solvet saeclum in favilla
The terror of Phaethon – rutilans – Per sepulchral regionum
Melt cold shadows – carry warfare forward…burning orange, burning red
The flaming rays of the scorpion’s heart – the only rival of Mars
Celebrated in the palace of Sennacherib, red as the blood of his destruction
A Lance Star which forever chases west at the feet of Ophiuchus
Fleeing the rising sun to opposition - and chase it again as it sets
Sidus Martis
Now all the horrors of the heavens he spies
And monstrous shadows of prodigious size
That, deck’d with stars, lie scattered o’er the skies
In tail and arms surrounds a vast night
Sidus Martis
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Dark Waters Eridanus
03:59
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A river of light that cuts the night and flows beneath the horizon
Ligurian Bodencus, the Padus of ancients, into the Euxine Sea
Dark waters Eridanus surge to stella lucida – al-Ahir, al-Nahr
Like the stars of heaven he shall shine - like the River of Night he shall flow
Dark-Waters-Eridanus
Where the Shining One, bold Phaeton fell, fearing the mighty scorpion sting
Nilus, Nerus, Amnis, Rex fluviorum, the River of Orion
His long fall blazed across the darkened heavens – burning, burning, burning
Like the fall of Lucifer, Phosphorous, Morning Star, bringer of light
A starry stream for this remnant Eridanus
That stream of tears beneath the gods’ feet is borne…
A starry stream for this remnant Eridanus
That stream of tears beneath the gods’ feet
Beneath the gods’ feet
Is borne…
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Eighteen Degrees Beneath
04:51
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Dying light fades as the stars tremble into sight
One by one, emerging points assert their place in the black
Twilight dies as the strength of darkness grows
Twilight’s veil decayed black at eighteen degrees beneath
Night descends in swathings of black – enfolding all things
Swallows in shadow like before the beginning and after the end
Written in light that a single bare hand may eclipse
Yet suspended in those depths is the feeble light of creation
Revealed corona around eternity, the black infinite, in silent violence
Glowing luminous red across unfathomed depths
When gone is the one, two-thousand will come, between dusk and dawn
Arcing above, twisting around the pole, guarded by the Alpha Draconis
The path to the stars
Winds through the past
Astride ancient cultures
And empires now dead
Night sky ascending
The dead alive again
Their gods and terrors
Frozen helpless in the black
Darkness sweeps across the land
Absorbing guttering shadows
Melting into one
A grey world turns black
The gods and terrors above
Stare down eternally
Intent gaze flashing starlight
Drowning man where he stands…
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Allegory
01:13
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Cave miser – Ne meo te confium – Telo – In hoc tetrico collocem feretri lecto...
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The Bones of All Men
05:02
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Whitened bones in gleaming sepulcher shift in shadow
Afterlife animate cut to wood and wander the earth
Recomposed with parable sinews, resumed life frozen on paper
Clinched in diabolic resolve to strike fear in the living
Bones of all men, Totentanz to trumpet and drum
Ossuary, necropolis, stalagmites, eternal darkness
Bones of all men outlast the memory of their flesh
The bones of all men!
Death – Imperator – astride his decaying horse
Richly adorned with herald banners flowing in the stench-filled wind
Man, woman and child - equal in his abysmal black eyes
Putrid blast from his horn proclaims another’s end
Above the tepid moonlight filters the stars dim
Across this city of the dead – celebration – as numbers swell
Winged hourglass cut above every door and passage
Winged skull lifting mortality beyond its own death
Bones of all men, Totentanz to trumpet and drum
Ossuary, necropolis, stalagmites, eternal darkness
Bones of all men outlast the memory of their flesh
The bones of all men!
Oh human, consider from where you come and what you are now and what you will become in time...
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Iconologia
04:56
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Transcendent - resplendent, emblems of death and glory
A vision spanning the ages, inspiring awe and fear
Illuminate - celebrate symbolic fires of antiquity
Allegories of faith, virtuous beauty, deformed vice
Iconologia - oracle of the deathless
Once hewn in granite with sightless eyes
Cast into the heavens and frozen among the stars
Now suspended in ashes, dried upon the page
Allegories of faith, virtuous beauty
Sacred oracles with enigmas
Iconologia
Steady gaze down the corridors of time
Constant light of wisdom unceasing
Unchanged by time, their truths confirmed
And in the flesh, the cycle of sin and salvation
So, in man, the measure of all things
From enigma is drawn the mind's diversion
A union of the essential with the tribal
The way of the world and the folly of man
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Talis Chimera Est
05:58
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A thing of immortal make – a beast that ought to be
A trinity of terror – eternal fires of the Lycian Way
The omen that beats the forge of Vulcan – inflammable
Breath of methane drifts though the temple of Hephaestus
The rising of Cilicia has – Nam habet ab ortu Ciliciam
From sunset and noontime sea – Ab occasu et meride mare
On the north side of Caria – septentrione Cariam
Qui noctibus aestibus ignem exhalat
Twin horns twist and turn across the length
The head roars a fetid breath, rending the night air
Serpent tail rise in gleaming spectral gaze
Surveys the stars and prepares to strike
Talis Chimera Est, a thing of immortal make
The fire that breathes out the heat of the night
Talis Chimera Est, a beast that ought to be
A trinity of terror, by the light of their destruction
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Ares Kingdom Kansas City, Missouri
Founded in 1996 by Chuck Keller and Mike Miller, Alex Blume and Doug Overbay were recruited in 2000, rounding out a line-up that would remain in place until Overbay stepped away in 2015. The band released four online-only 'best of' EPs during 2018 and 2019, and unleashed 'By the Light of Their Destruction' in May 2019. The feral and unrelenting 'In Darkness at Last' followed in September 2022. ... more
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