Reduced To Ashes
(Deeds Of Flesh - 2003)







1. Reduced To Ashes
2. Infested Beneath The Earth
3. Avowed Depraved
4. Empyrean
5. Human Trophies
6. Banished
7. Disinterred Archaic Heap
8. The Endurance






1. Reduced To Ashes

Human kind greedy for perversion
Existing as a disease type specimen
Spreading all across its host
Uncontrollably

Rendering all forms of extinction
Consuming all essential elements
The planet's response forced to rise
Weather shifts to heighten defense

Tidal reactions engulf whole countries
Imbibing billions
Increased volcanic aversion
Floods cities with rivers of red
Gradually melting
Everything and everyone

Unbearable winds
Makes movement
Impossible
Lightning gorged
Hurricanes
And tornados
Guard the land and seas

Nuclear level
Planet-wide quakes
Engross Most
Of the life which remains

Human kind greedy for perversion
Existing as a disease type specimen
Spreading all across its host
Uncontrollably






2. Infested Beneath The Earth

Remnants of existence
Stacked with one another
Profit for the twisted with insane
Burials

Disposing of human remnants
Beyond the mortuary
Family members praying to
Soulless urns

Foul soil seeping puss
Replenish the Earth
Lying motionless decaying as
Festering oozing stench builds
Like the profits from the dead
Rancid leaking matter
Replenish the Earth

Buried not cremated
Instead lie rotting
Instead lie rotting
Infested beneath the earth

Worthless, soulless graves
From unknown cremations

Buried not cremated
Instead lie rotting
Instead lie rotting
Infested beneath the earth

Foul soil seeping puss
Replenish the Earth
Lying motionless decaying as
Festering oozing stench builds
Like the profits from the dead
Rancid leaking matter
Replenish the Earth






3. Avowed Depraved

Lecturing with human archives
Containing copious accounts of sorrow
Lashing out to gratify
The petulance within

Grisly exhibition of prey
Refined to a science
Unleashing wrath and vengeance
Egotistic author of disdain
Praising the fame

Barbarous
Insolent homicides - Thrill Killer

Licentious avarice
Viciously Inclined - Driven

Embracing immortality
Avowed Depraved

Overcoming
Imposing distutants
Designate prey for symbols of retaliation

Carcasses put on display
Resentful of humanity
Authorities left to investigate
The evidence leads to no one

The killer laughing in their face
Toying with forensic science
Exasting domination
Rejecting all standards of morality

Overcoming
Imposing disputants
Designate prey for symbols of retaliation

Barbarous
Insolent homicides - Driven

Publicly disposing trophies
The ultimate violation
Proud of his addiction
He will never desist






4. Empyrean

Sky of fire of endless magnificence
Our souls united once more
To conquer and rule again as kings
Of the great halls of Asgard

Ancient legends to an ancient people
Viking might we drink all night
Boasting tales of great deeds
And to the battles eternally victorious
Victorious

Hail to our brothers fallen
And their blood sacrificed
For the righteous determinant
Slaughtering to attain

Flawless steal cuts down our enemies
With ancestral precision
Precision
Fulfilling our pleasures of war

Ancestors fulfill our glory
Gluttony soaring
Merciless groping
Offerings sent
From the mortal plane
Mortal plane

We send our strengths






5. Human Trophies

Into the psychology
Of a developing
Serial killer
Retribution for
Perceived abuses
Diagnosed bipolar
Effective disorder
Infantile behavior

Methodical personality

Never socialized
Remebered as a loner
Dangerous sociopath

Stalked the lowest of society

The killer spree
Continued for twelve years
Victims were lured by promises
Found all he would want

Women released
Into the wilderness
Hunted down
Honoring his stills as a hunter

Into the darkness
Into the wilderness

Thirty rapes
Never showed signs of remorse
Obsessed with getting even
His basement storage for
The human
Trophies






6. Banished

Pulled from our homes
We've committed no crimes
We don't know why
Stolen and incarcerated
The red army marches us out like pigs

Onto trains like creatures
Of some unknown plague
For days we travel
To an unknown land

A frozen world without end
A pure dehumanizing hell
Physically and morally abused
We huddle together like slaves
In the galleys of old
Cold & hungry

Descending into tales
Of a forever destroying genesis

Where the depth of human
Depravity has no bounds
Our final destination
An unbearable existence

Thrown into black mines
My mother and sister
Raped daily while I'm blind
I can only hear their cries

By night, we live off scraps
To keep us working for a
Master who will never look
Upon us with his own eyes
We are doomed and will never
Know what it is to be free






7. Disinterred Archaic Heap

Drudgery in the smells of putrid human flesh
Over time insects devour all remaining tissues
Rotting and shifting remains
Sixty miles of carcasses

Making residence under an ancient city
Burial galleries of ritual artifacts

Countless Legends of lives past help preserve
The memory of battles wrath

Reptilian woman figure
Guards the keep from drifting souls
Skeletons of the afterlife
Piled high in the catacombs
Dark paths of dimly fit bones
Skeletons of the afterlife
Piled high in the catacombs

Acknowledging deaths place for man






8. The Endurance

In the days of old
Journeys to the middle of sea
Brought fortunes from the products
Of monsters

Yet one such fateful journeys would prove
Trying to even the most hardened sea bearer
For the beasts of the sea would take their revenge
On a vessel of maritime lore

Somewhere in the deep south
Near the grounds of great white beasts
The ship approached to pillage them for their greed

When one struck back, the vessel took to the deep
Now abondoned, stranded on small open boats
Three doomed parties left on the open sea

What lye ahead was ninety days
To endure the harsh elements and insanity
Nothing but hard bread and stale water
A diet of ocean slavery

When the storm came to feed
The crew was left with nothing
Left starving and hungry
Winds of unbelievable nature
Waves upon waves, the beating

Watching the bailing till morning
The rain it never goes away
The nights never seem to end

Day by day the famine grows worse
Exposed to the full force of the meridian sun
Without shield, the burning influence pierces through skin
The thirst unbearable, fastly wasting away

Dying from the elements
One boat lost at sea
Survival would soon turn to depravity

And out they spoke
And out they spoke for lots of flesh and blood
And who should die
And who should die for a fellow's food

As one fell to weakness
The corpse ready to be disposed
In the sea
Lying there like a tasty meal of salty meat
In that, they should find relief from present sufferings
So preparations were made to preserve the meat
From spoilage
Separate the limbs - Cut the flesh from bones
Open the chest - Take out the heart

Now the cravings of nature
Could be eagerly devoured
A most deplorable and affecting picture
Of suffering and misery







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