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To The Doom Of All

by Gravenloch

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ashenlight Wielding a distinctly old school approach to the modern, Gravenloch is probably the best death metal band you've never heard of, not reliant on standard formulas of either 'brutal' or 'melodic' construction but richly conversant in both. The Schuldiner-like lead guitars are particularly outstanding, but every element contributes significantly to a powerful mix. Undergirded by distinct, tightly arranged songs, this impressive and potent band deserves a much wider audience. Favorite track: Permutation.
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1.
Permutation 04:59
Complacency...servitude...slavery. The recipe for achieving a closed society. Develop a crisis invoking an ominous threat. Establish the houses of reticent torture and death. Commission a volatile force unrestrained by decree. Itemize all who assess the importance of their liberties. Infiltration...intimidation...persecute all opposition. Incarceration ...interrogation...insidious, lawless detentions. Re-define and vilify...criminalize all dissension. Autonomy...prosperity...massacred by trepidation. Destitution and discontent...revolution and mass contempt. Populations, steeped with rage...civilization is under siege. The fortunate few...are seizing control...corrupting dominion possessed by the most powerful. It happened before...it will happen again...an empire falls, another ascends. (Solo-Beau) Voracity...decadence...disloyalty. Integrity...nullified by greed...democracy ceases to be. The powerful few...under control...no longer adhere to the values they swore to uphold. It happened before...it will happen again...an empire falls, another begins. (Solo-Beau) Disaffection...revelation...conflagration of hatred. Retribution...revolution...no conclusion. The arrogant few...the ones in control...shall beg on their knees for the mercy that they've never shown. It happened before...it will happen again...an empire crawls to a cold, bitter end.
2.
Born dead...into this world you are Thrown .... Forced to suffer your existence alone... Every time there is a glimmer of hope, Your salvation is cast to the black depths below... Defeat has beaten you...you wish you could die...you dwell in spite of everything you despise.... In despair you lie awake in the night, contemplating a quick and painless demise... You know life's not worth living...always taking, never giving Kill yourself...because you know life has no meaning... You know, deep in your soul, you'll never be at peace again... Kill yourself..spare yourself...another day of unrelenting pain. Solo-Beau Solo-Sean The noose is swinging in the eyes of your mind... The pistol gleaming in the dimly lit grime.. Poison coursing through arterial lines... Seeing your blood spill forth as you die... Fear of death invades as courage descends Apprehension keeping you from your end. You cannot let go of this life you resent and so the nightmare begins again... Solos- Beau Fear and regret have trapped you where you are...as retribution for the pain that you have caused... Each day that you exist, your guilt destroys your will... Repenting for your sins won't save you from this hell... Forsaker of life...no paradise awaits to claim thee... Salvation denied...the air is rank with your incessant hopelessness and fear... Let go of your life...and let the timeless sleep relieve you of your misery... Now you must die.....DIE !!! Solo- Beau ....Kill yourself or save yourself...spare us all from your pathetic weeping... Weakness will not survive in a world that cares not if you die... Kill yourself or save yourself...spare us from your unrelenting pain !!!!
3.
Nothing but misery, pain and fear for all mankind. Let there be no hope, no love, no light. Only the darkness of the spirit and the mind. Only the purity that suffering provides. Staring into the abyss...reaching down into the blackness...into the vastness of the emptiness...into another realm of consciousness. Below the depths of endless suffering...beneath the seething, burning agony...into a realm of nightmares seldom seen...amidst the vile things of darkest dreams. (Solo-Beau) Obsessed by dark powers...devoid of light. Possessed by dark spirits...older than time. Communing in the black with cold, horrific beings...without mercy or empathy...only the pleasures of suffering. Driven by ceaseless, ageless terror...deriving solace from despair. Gleaning the screams of perpetual anguish...harvesting the grief of endless, paralysing fear. Evil unleashed...in the darkest of dreams...inflicting a curse on the filth of humanity. (Solo-Beau)
4.
Into the fray...conquered by reason, destroying your faith. Exposing the lies...confronted by truth too unfeigned to deny. Mentally progressed...delusions laid to rest...Belief is a word you're becoming inclined to forget. Awakening into a world...controlled by the inept ...where ignorance is exalted and enlightenment is death. For far too long you held the belief...you could transcend what you see. A society infected by greed...and consumed by disease. Eating away at themselves...diluting their souls from within. Evil has shattered your view of the world. Into conflict your faith now descends. (Solo-Beau) For this world do not care...for the ending is near. A contingency for releaving the strain of a life lived in fear...Prepare...Beware...for the future is here...and few will survive it's despair. When the conclusion arrives at last...and the fires rid the lands of decay...a superior version of man...will evolve from the flames. Endowed with the strength and the will of a God. Unhindered by petulant, frivolous thoughts...only wisdom is sought. (Solo-Beau) Everyday is our final sunrise...in the midst of the weak and the blind. For as long as our fate's they decide...we'll continue to lumber toward our demise. Till the day when the darkness descends...and the fear grips them firmly in hand. Far too late but they now understand that we shall all suffer in pain in the end... Where is your God?...Where is his grace? Who now will save you...from these dark days? Absent of light...devoid of life. Where is the kingdom built for you in your own minds? Where is your God?...where is his grace?...Where is his mercy?...Where is your faith?
5.
Ode to the frail human beings...expending their meaningless lives unaware... Woah to this lowly, wretched, fake society The end for you is near... We're led by incoherent slime... Greatness will die as their standards decline... They cannot see the path before them leads to certain doom... Their culture...to consume... Drunken by a eucharist of excess...fat, ripe and ready for the end... The herds of soul indignant sheep are fast asleep...and filing to their deaths Lambs to the slaughter, pathetic and weak...methodically trained to ignore what they see... Lambs to the slaughter, they're like a disease...an infection that can't simply be washed away... An incognizent brood slithering out of the womb... Writhing up from the cracks, no virtues, no souls... They've never heard of sacrifice or grattitude... Their greed is all they've ever known, their greed is all they'll ever know. solo- Beau ...they do not resist... This world is a cess pool because they exist... Fattening up on the cud they consume... Rank with the stench of the shit they exude... Lambs to the slaughter, just lay down and die, there will be no reprieve for your kind... No more will ignorance be praised... As the millions fall prey to demise and disease... No more will weakness thrive while strength is ostracized... No more debility will pester human kind... Solo- Beau ...The end for you is near !!!
6.
Odyssey of the deranged...poisoning this world and all life it sustains. Granting power over them to the insane...propagating misery. Mankind shall reap what they have sewn. No escaping the events that are to come. Proceeding down a path of hatred, fear and death...powerless to quell their grim, horrific end. How unlucky to be alive. Bearing witness to these troubled times. Singing songs of dying light...nothing left to do but die. Agony...tortured by ineptness. Misery...tormented to the end. Suffering...that can not be relented...until the day eternal darkness sweeps the land. Silvery...the screams of human kind. Their euphony...a dirge of gleaming light. Engendering...the final declarations of their lives. (Solo-Sean)(Solo Beau) Screams of torment fill the air. The riffs of horror and despair. Choking ashes rape the sky. Ushering eternal night. Dark, frigid symphonies rehearse in burning tombs. Their black souls laboring to scrawl their sounds of doom. Honing requiems of death and evil times. Harmonic effigies, dirges of light's demise.
7.
Their style has tainted the scene with emotional refuse... Polluting the airwaves... With the pathetic bullshit they spew... Songs without substance, words without meaning, nothing about them worth hearing... Go join a rock band if you want to cry... Who gives a Fuck what you're feeling?...YOU !!!! So sick of hearing them whine about their petty, meaningless, lives... Herd them all into the desert and turn it to glass... Wasting our time with their failures, their hopes and their dreams... Immasculinating the essence of our way of life... Why don't they leave metal to those who know what metal means? Everything about them is a lie... We cannot wait for them to die... Reach through your speakers and choke you to death, THIS IS METAL !!!! Pounding your fist to the beat of the drums... Screaming along till your throat starts to burn... Banging your head until you're out of breath... Reach through your speakers and choke you to death! We are the ones who kept it alive.. While all of the plastic pretenders... Turned their backs and they left it to die... Yet it still survives... Transcending the boundaries of time... Driven by hunger that dwells deep inside.. Sadistic, savage, determined we stand... Exterminate the vermin plaguing our music today... Primal sensation, burn all that stands in our way.... Thrashing destruction pounding your bones into dust.... Everything about them is a lie... It's in our souls and we won't let it die...
8.
Upon a hilltop at the center of the world A temple rose up from the ashes of the old For near an age, has stood on hallowed ground All eyes are fixed upon the temple mount Long has this sacred site fueled wars for its control And been the catalyst for prophecies of doom All factions warring for the same demented cause To see their gods return no matter what the cost! All sides deemed righteous by their prophets and their priests To seek the end of days, fulfill their prophecies Satan is a scapegoat, for their grim atrocities Satan is a symbol, for their avarice and shame Each looks upon the other as the enemies of God As the armies of the nations of darkness Each seeks the Holy Land, Will fight until the end Spread death across the world until no world is left! To the Doom of All! Prophecy will lead! Towards two crossroads of fanatical beliefs To the Doom of All! Insanity will bring! A slow and painful death to every living thing With such elitist views, their numbers were so thin They could not save themselves from those who ruled their lands This lead to the formation of a master plan To raise an army from the empire who enslaved them Control through guilt and fear, the focus of their plot Persuade their enemies to rally to their cause They crucified a demigod and passed the blame Manipulation, twisting master into slave Across the ancient world, the message in received To free the Holy Land from godless tyranny Dissoluting their decadence, converting the minds of man Crushing an empire from within (solo-Beau ) Their armies amass, their bloodlines intact They watch from on high, while their slaves and their gentiles combat A fight to the end, for those unlike them So the Earth may be cleansed, of inferior men Contemplating the Doom of All Things! Orchestrating the Doom of All Things! (solo-Sean) Prophecies from all sides who contend When the old temple rises again That the armies of Hell will ascend Provoking the battle of Armageddon Perpetuated by Mullahs and Priests Consecrating the Doom of All Things For the will of the ruling elite Orchestrating the Doom of All Things!
9.
(Solo-Sean) Lamenting victory averted...for all the wars we could not win. All aspiration has diluted...all hope for triumph now is dead. All the countless years we've battled...they seem to all have been in vain. And all the things we took for granted...are doomed to never be again. See the smoke and fires burning...the choking remnants of our dreams. We've reached the end of the beginning...at the beginning of the end. Our despondency exploding...adrift on ashen, severed wings. (Solo Beau)

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released August 15, 2013

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