Come the sulphur tongues, strike through the elements
The forked ensigns of death binding soil and sky
Witness retribution , a swirling monument
Thundering hearts avow commencement draws so nigh
Gaze inwards and sink down tides of dreadful splendor
Struggle for consciousness through currents of unrest
Stars freeze on the brink , terrestrial spheres surrender
Renewal calls out to the floodgates of the West
No wave stirs the unreflective surface
Monolithic voids drown unreciprocated stares
Question not the potential and the purpose
Let the cycle swamp you, embrace what it prepares
To plumb the boundless, to aspire to the greater
Whence hopes and dreams stream incessant up celestial paths
So far apart from the stain of unworthy creators
To breathe the primal pulse of ecstasy and wrath
Tehom-Apsu!
Sunder thy bitter waters
Bear the lure of potentia pura
And the formless dread of unrest
That I may be the scourge for all insolent eyes
Which dare dissect these expanses
Once bare and unfertile, now consecrated in rage!
Perfection is e xcruciatingly vindictive
The hungry roots never cease to stretch and slither
Expansion won't tolerate anything restrictive
Divine seeds were never spilled to stagnate and wither
Surge towards what soars above, rain down on what lies below
The aorta of materia awaits your pantocratic flow
Flames writhe and coil to scribe this covert chapter
Breathless we plunge to ascend, equals in stormborn rapture
Filling every aspect from primeval vacated spaces
Furious renewal against what stasis debases
A sonorous assembly in praise of that which is
The resolute instant fulfills the new completion
Captives of rot tremble before what the sweeping wind says
Bounteous creation through bounteous depletion
All around the pillars of each transient manifestation
The shapeless substance gnaws and nurtures, untainted and untamed
And beneath the din of eons of attrition sentience can never elude
The heart of the abyss, the recurring tides of chaos
The restless wa r ning, the hungering call
credits
released October 7, 2020
Music and lyrics by Jörmundgand, arrangements by ICM
Recorded and mixed at Nebula Studio, 2015, by Marco Panzanaro, Luca Buono and Jörmundgand
Additional mixing and mastering by Luca Buono at Luca Buono Servizi Audio, Summer 2015