Cradle Of Filth

Intrumental  

[Narrative:] And the earth was without fall and void And darkness was apon the face of the deep  

Spells lay daggers before me passion speaks in grue vehement stabs Trance my eyes, fix my focus to pain the tumour grows until the enemy is slain (Gut The Church) Slightless storm knee-deep in hate I seeth my purpose here has woken to breath Total war on the b...

Oh, listen to them The children of the night What sweet music they make May dreams be brought that I might reach... the gentle strains of midnight speech and frozen stars that gild the forest floor Through the swirling snow Volkh's children come to...

Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea A jewel more radiant than the moon Lowered Her mask to me The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire Would marvel at making their Queen Infusing the air with Her fragrant desire And my heart reeled with grave po...

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Pour the emerald wine Into crystal glasses We will touch the divine Through kisses catharsis Let us pitch to the seven-year itch Of the ultra-decadent To a tainted world and the painted girls That our fantasies spent Tripping through boudoirs laced with opia...

Night, that fateful raven alighted on the cusp of my bewitchment The beast in the clouds had swallowed the moon A silverback thundering across the cosmos In silence now stars followed her tune Winking from existence on the brink of chaos I penned an op...

Alice isn't it frightening Alice aren't you scared Alice isn't it wonderful Living life afraid Don't look around the corner I might be lurking there Under the bed at night You're up till dawn again Alison hell, your mind begins to fold Alison hell, aren't you...

A thousand nights once succoured Me In the shadow of Miss Anne Thropy Sat gargoyle-limbed amid My licking flame A cruel tongue at work in Her secret vaults Sent Rebellion's embers into revolt The comming of extinction Synched to whimpers of my name... Legion I...

Her bouquets are wilted Too long has She slept Their cruel red mouths darkened To bowed silhouettes I saw in a new moon With Her scent on my breath But then all to soon Came the hunger for flesh I held Her in eyes like necropoli Laying Her on a tomb...

As pride precedes a downfall So He took His place before the firewall Of dissonant choirs whose faith in one Was embraced in this wraith whose fate was hung Between forgiveness and the damage done An electric scent over drear decay Lent a violent surge to th...

Thrill, kill the black cult Walk among the weak by night Affliction... Deep as any burial Take their worthless lives... 

I bled on a pivotal stretch Like a clockwork Christ Bears sore stigmata, bored And as I threw Job, I drove Myself to a martyred wretch To see if I drew pity Or pretty litanies from the Lord So the plot sickened With the coming of days Ill millennia thickened...

[Limited Edition bonus track] "No human power can stop the will of heaven from being asserted." Worming through the mark Of Ezekiel and Mark Through the chapters of Honorius Gilles, as in a trance Screwed the pages up and danced Courting something vainly glo...

[I. Benighted Like Usher] Snuffed tapers sighed As Death left impressing His crest of cold tears on the Countess Benighted like ill-fated Usher The House of Bathory shrouded 'Neath griefs dark facade If only I could have wept In mourning by Her side...

[Special Fan Edition track] "Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God." [Jean Rostard (1955)] Born of the best of enemies Beyond the pearly constellations Wherein heaven has no em...

Death, spirit me away My anguished soul doth strain On taut and twisted reins Yet, insatiate I still remain Like a proud, unfalled star That dares thee from afar To calm my thund'rous heart Else, rend it's knots apart So I may never sing Of jewelled...

[Special Fan Edition track] I have come from the freezing seas From the warmth of foreign coals Through the dismal fog of insecurities To a cloud-enshrouded noble goal The world has cast me from its laughter Thrown to the wolves, to the dread thereafte...

Midwinter wrongs the rites of Spring Her spinal chill rakes the earth Whilst pensive souls at zero sing Woebetidings of rebirth Under cold stares of Mars maligned Near-suicides cross their hearts And unborns writhe in tepid brine For something wicked th...

Snuffed tapers sighed As Death left impressing His crest of cold tears on the Countess Benighted like ill-fated Usher The House of Bathory shrouded 'Neath griefs dark facade If only I could have wept In mourning by Her side I would have clasped Her so tight Li...

[Bathory Cover] She is open wide, She isn't hard to please She drives me fucking wild I want her on her knees She floats and insists I am hot and can't resist She suck me to the core (Now) I can't take no more That Bitch She turns me to a beast Bestial lust...

Heart in hand passed to the clasp of pain In a dark lowland that set bad blood in veins Burning, like penal fires roused to stain The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses The golden dawn Lay lost to mist where Emboldened thorns Made their bed with toppl...

"All mirrors lead to my palace My exotic pleasure temple Wherein my court is both gracious and insatiable Pure and obscene For where pumps the true heart of life There too seeps corruption And from this my new Eden of nightshades, black henbane, sphinxe...

Black is the night, metal we fight Power amps set to explode. Energy screams, magic and dreams Satan records the first note. We chime the bell, chaos and hell Metal for maniacs pure. Faster than steel, fortune on wheels Brain haemorrhage is the cure. Fo...

I wish upon a star And think of all the things I should have asked Instead, I let the moment pass And now I'm bleeding On her faded photographs Tears So hard to swallow Sorrow bleats and leaves me hollow Empty years, I should have followed My inamor...

Sibilant and macabre Walpurgis sauntered in Skies litten with five-pointed stars The work of crafts surpassing sin As She graced Her window ledge - An orphaned gypsy nymph This issue of the forest's bed Skin flushed with sipped absinthe - Her eyes reve...

Lurking in the shade Of dark and fragrant trees Shirking from the rage That tore the heavens free A vagrant Angel Hid with span to see The garden swell with terror To banish Man and Eve Another fall from grace Whiplashed from the gates Half-naked and insane F...

We rise with the sun in the underworld We suffer from a graveless name We prise wide lids And wounds with lips curled Over teeth that have tasted shame Cemetery and sundown Against the flora of nightfall We gather like the fauna of war To cure Aurora so spit...

The time has come To rise again Freedom lift thy sewered hem Free from beasts and skewered men My dreams unroll Ten thousand fold Their world will never take me They will never desecrate my soul The stars I have grasped Are so far lonely constellations And w...

"I have told you the truth and everything as it happened" "All the evil that I could do has been accomplished I am redeemable and I believe The clemencies of God And suffrages of the Holy Church Have succoured me with much mercy I have only ever wished to sat...

Welcoming the virgins fair, to live a noble life In the castle known to all - the Count's internal wife She invites the peasants with endless lavish foods But, when evening spreads it wings, she rapes them of their blood Countess Bathory Countess Bathory...

Wishing in contempt of love The righteous came to burn our forest With hissing firebrands For though we serve the gentle curves Of our serpent-girdled Eastern Goddess They thought they caught us Kissing hearses in their land Send away the pumpkin carriage Bli...

Hear me now All crimes should be treasured If they bring thee pleasure somehow Maleficent in dusky rose Gathered satin lapped Her breasts Like blood upon the snow A tourniquet of Topaz Glistened at Her throat Awakening, pulled from the tomb Her spiri...

Cthulhu dawn Spatter the stars Douse their luminosity With our amniotic retch Promulgating the birth Of another Hell on Earth Shadows gather poisoned henna for the flesh A necrotic cattle brand The hissing downfall pentagram Carven deep upon the church doors o...

[Narrative:] And there was war in heaven Michael and His angels faught against the dragon And the dragon faught And His Angels and prevailed not Neither was their place found anymore in Heaven And the great dragon was cast out That old serpent called the devil...

"Something thicker than despair Rides upon the midnight air The smell of blood, the taste of prey We spy you hiding Gilles de Rais" Under August swelter After banquet and soiree When spiced wine and song Have further heated veins To the ninth degree a...

From the primeval mass let precious chaos vent Sacred flesh drenched in fornication beloved by Set may the winds gather her together from the secrets of men after thousands of years of terrifying silence she comes again (All Destroyer) The abolition of the yes...

Moon childe Spawned of rage Soon childe... The dawning of a golden age Four and twenty acts have passed Since the pact was signed in blood Now this fifth lustrum will surely grasp The children of the holy With music wracked like final gasps From hear...

I spy the spreading fear That crawls wormlike beneath This ageing mask of time That grasps to call itself belief So down here in the Valley of the Shadow of Death To the best denomination I have taken To show just what faith-tested means Never seen the sun N...

Turn the lights down low And bolt the door up Future is coming Future rising up Whoa Shotgun blast, a demon piece of lead With both eyes open I wait up for the kill Feel the evil Feel the heat as I blast you open Death comes ripping And it's going, d...

Come distortured artists Bitter things seek meaning Even if they're madness to behold Once forbears to horizons Where the dead stayed dreaming Now nightmares waken souls That fear the living's toll Gova, Bosch and Brueghel Three times moonwise stain thy grave...

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to Kindle a light in the darkness of being ’ carl jung Sometimes red curtains fall Before the act has headed for the wings As on that night disaster crawled out from the stalls... Suddenly the d...

On the night all mirrors fell silent And the clocks struck accord with the rain A storm swept in with such violence The dead rose to complain The stars were ill-crossed as the weather Lost in its bitumen cloak The Angels were warring, slick with endeavou...

Cracked mirrors scatter reflection Beauty falls from her state of perfection Good grace has fled this dream While the cats away the rats will ravage Despotic, necrotic fingers Have lingered with rape's affection Hoods face this global scene As they sto...

Nights came tralling ghost concertos Heartstrings a score of skeletal reaper bows Playing torture chamber music allegretto Conducting over throes trashed to crescendo Skinless the dark shall scream Hoarse Her symphonies Deathmashed as the moon That had lifted...

Polluting the honesty of Christ with poisoned wine Laced with lines from the end of time From the herald and the bugler High voltage bolts the cellar door Switch thrown at midnight's peak To start the heart of a scarlet whore Gauged infernally A poetess in n...

I've had nothing but bad luck Since the day I saw the cat at my door So I came into you sweet lady Answering your mystical call Crystal ball on the table Showing the future, the past Same cat with them evil eyes And I knew it was a spell she cast She's just...

[Backwards] Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And bring us not into temptation,...

Carrion my name For those who choose to mouth the curse A tragic serenade With Judas in my stride The Gothic halls of shame Where statues coldly hold no worse Than the murders I reclaim From a dark, forsaken time Kissing heaven, spent He wipes lips free of hi...

To and fro, through freeze and thaws From zenith to nadir The universal tug of war Saw lines drawn in the sands appear Divisions for a promised land And Hell for those that dwelt Beneath a Pharaoh's granite hand Where death wed something else Millennia swam p...

When the sun has wept upon the waveless lake And the mists steal in with ease Covened wolves are their eerie dissonant napes In adoration of the moon and thee "They call as I to thee...." And I will come, as if in dream My languid, dark and lustrous Ma...

Inspired to mortal nightmare Ebony dressed for sunset In the dulcet whispers of the Damned The Forest Whispers My Name Black candles dance to an overture but I am drawn past their flickering lure to the breathing forest that surrounds the room where the vigila...

[Narrative:] And the earth was without fall and void And darkness was apon the face of the deep [Laughing]  

Seven brides serve me seven sins Seven seas writhe for me From Orient gates to R'lyeh Abydos to Thessaly And Sirens sing from stern But now I cease to play For I yearn to return To woodland ferns Where Herne and his wild huntress lay Now the tidal are turning...

This night is chilled by ghosts And the woods are full of werewolves My heart is pounding with the stars I feel the darkness rising I'm blessed, addressed By a voice of sweet caresses Intoxication feeds This freed reality My inspiration speaks Enshri...

Abandon hope all ye who enter here For herein lies the path to sadness The poetry of woe set midst the sweet lament of fear Carouses in fantasialike spirits cast to madness Here we pray Severe, the day Dies irae Dies illa Dies tribulationis Et angus...

I am a man who walks alone And when I'm walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious when it's dark Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have a constant fear tha...

There hides a secret Deeply twined inside of her mind A tried and confined egret That pines to fly south To this mouth of mine Pity Too long have these emotions Like potions, made me A sole castellan Trusted to keep The weight of oceans From her rusted gates...

[Sabbat's "History Of A Time To Come" (1987) cover.] Our tongues they could not silence with their malicious lies, Their unforgotten violence, remember those who died. And as my flesh is put to fire I hear their voices still, Their unjust accusations demandi...

Welcome with a stench of misadventure, Libertines and and sibling things a grim Slither forth trough the gateway’s hissing denture The moon, one up on the chateau battlements Gilds this torchlit drive to Shangri-la The solstice calls like the piper to rod...

Forgive me Father, I have sinned Darkness put her painted claws in me again Her vision drowns like service wine Whispered kisses so divine I was blessed but now I've come undone Storm clouds roll out overhead Above their master End of all flesh, end of...

Pour submission into me No church shall bar our paths Seductive evil drink... your fill of the bleeding christ in your arms Where scorn is fed in the blackest fucking soul!  

Everything here is so cold Everything here is so dark I remember it as from a dream In the corner of this time Diabolic shapes float by out from the dark I remember it was here I died By following the Freezing Moon It's night again, night you beautiful I ple...

Two thousand fattened years like maniacs Have despoiled our common grave Now what necrophagous Second Coming backs From the cradle to enslave? Sickle constellations Stud the belts that welt the sky Whilst the bitter winter moon Prowls the cloud, dead-eyed Lik...

Facedown I sprawl in the forest's cathedral Where she lies in thrall To a slippery coffin I first saw her grin in this graven lair My heart starting to canter Snow white skin and raven hair Lips full red as a blood decanter But hatred hunted there In...

Candelabra snuffed prey - silhouette wedded Nightfall take my hand Seduce me with silky timbred limbs Grant me thy dark command Over the peaks framing tapestries Of thick forest, dusk has filled With Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mist Creeping like violation...

Candelabra snuffed prey - silhouette wedded Nightfall take my hand Seduce me with silky timbred limbs Grant me thy dark command Over the peaks framing tapestries Of thick forest, dusk has filled With Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mist Creeping like viola...

Foul snake despair Where once you darkened gardens Another coils there Where twice you sliced all hope from me And left these present scars An insane love now burns above The weft of incandescent stars Hilt your dripping fangs that range Skywards to rend apar...

Your misery is worn as a veil To hide bewitchment of the ugliest kind In place of Eve a bitter parody hails Daggers from the swagger Of a sodomite's concubine Bine (Bine) Gilded cunt Oh, you gilded cunt Your thin pretence overstretched and sickly Fe...

"This is the moment I go to God" Burning like derision on the prism of night Still squirming from the sermon, those determined parasites Meant to overpower and bedizen his light He paced his tower prison with a dissonant appetite The moon was black Devil may...

I'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins the chime Reflecting of my past life and it doesn't have much time. Cause at five o'clock they'll take me to the Gallows pole The sands of time for me are running low....... MOTHER FUCKERS! When the priest c...

Eins Zwei Drei Vier Formulae ueteres exorsismorum et excommunicationum Strigas et fictos lupinam credere Metamorphoses lycanthropie Possunt inquam Daemon pellem lupinam Quodam cauae Arboris occultandum Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween Halloween,...

Breastfed red dementias Familiar with their suckled hostess Unhinge her bridle scold A quest for misadventure Wrests her glare of buckled gnosis From bloodstained floor to holy centrefold Death is tensing to explode Inquisitioners sought her Scenting...

Where does the madness end? How far down do the rungs expire In smoke and burning heat? In depravity and sin? In her shocking retinue I saw the worst Desire run amok amongst you And in her boudoir too The endless nights embedded In her beautiful coco...

Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcade Through veiled and pagan history where superstitions reigned And Christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my name Sang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimed The Graal and mighty Caliburn as votive offeri...

Before the war, this grave darksome pall Pressed upon the face of England We were sovereign to nothing less Than the map of our souls solicitous to reign Together in a peace these wicked times disdain Then empires saw much more to gain The Crown discou...

Rise, ablaze, libidinous Devildom voyeurs Ascend to smother the light Nascent aeons confer.... Chaos is spat From the black eternal sea Serrated mountains of mad shadows Carving towards misdeed Stormchoirs gather A pestilential hiss Sunset evokes Luciferian fi...

"The Moon, she hangs like a cruel portrait soft winds whisper the bidding of trees as this tragedy starts with a shattered glass heart and the Midnightmare trampling of dreams But oh, no tears please Fear and pain may accompany Death But it is desire that shep...

Praeclarum Custodem Ovium Lupum All Saints Day, the taint of rain Blood and mud and thunder all the same To those who close their ranks to Gille's men Bricqueville, Prelati and De Sille Creatures of the dark creeping up and down the countryside Little angles...

Bloated with disease A psychophantic grease that clings Like a shroud thrown over me A coat of gloden fleas And by their gleam The shadows grow to me This soul is sick with wicked exploration My vulgar habits stitched the rabbit hole A welcome mat for...

Distant vistas Swathed in the haze Of the reddening sunset Fell to whispers Neath stars that marred descending skies From the cusp of midnight mountains Wending as a mist Rebels truced with Feriluce (In thruth, few could resist) Came praising his hellraising...

The needle in the eye of the hurricane The poison in the font The nail in the coffin of the profane I am the lot Maniacal the fire That weaves inside my should When dripping tongues of hate, envenomed, roll Like carpet bombs in vast bazaars My blood runs with...

Forlornucopia, the wealth of misery And favoured haunts of sorrow hold no lure Deep swathes of gloom That once cocooned me in dark livery Now clothe me in suits ill-borrowed from the pure Alas it's true The beast you knew Found breath anew In the taut...

Swords in hand at the bloody fields of history We rend our blades through dogma and humility Carve the future according to our will Set worlds ablaze with our seething fire Let you all acknowledge that we are here As masters to rule this failing humanity Our b...

[Narrator:] When light no longer rose to kiss me, I swore to tear Heaven asunder As flights of fallen angels wished me Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder. 

Solsticial The lake is as a mirror For the moon That shimmers high above The sacrificial Lamb becoming clearer Soon shall be Just a shade that craved her love Arician oaks cloak the sacred grove Wherein her priest Awaits to greet His successor to t...

Howitzer glare and spitfire blade Wooed by Dresden serenades Her soundtrack now a bombing raid Bored of vaudeville God was six days sober On the night that she was born To the glistening star of a bible class An icon now in religious porn She was Alice throug...

Lilith Immaculate Church bells resounded like judgement day As they were making love In the rainswept graveyard She fucked him hard, silhouetted by flame A monsoon Tigress set upon prey Fall for the love of me Crawl for the love of me Drool for the love of m...

I was born with a birthmark of cinders Debris cast from the stars and Mother A ring of bright slaughter, I spat in the waters Of life that ran slick from the stabwounds in Her Dub Me Lord Abortion, the living dead The bonesaw on the backseat On this bi...

One might see in Mina My disease But it was She who has infected me For all eternity... As the sun slips the tearaway stars Into the scented scheme of night I kissed her mouth like a dark red rose Set upon a marbled dream of white So pure of thought like a Ve...

An Archangel in bondage Bediademed, souled With a murder of ravens But no less Astarte to behold Abandoned by Heaven To the dead, dark and past Cast Her dispersions On life's brittle glass And though Her eyes still held fire As stonewalls caged the beast 'Gain...

Take away the wine For restlessness plagues me.... I am assailed by a spectre profounder Than hatred and grief or the sum of their hideous crime I shalt suffer this confessional mime Awaiting the sun to set, crimsoning seas Only once it is dark doth my m...

Led to other worlds By the girls She curled within I took their skins to see Her Be my mannequin Be my mannequin I cannot remember How it was that we first met Curve of moon and haunted shore The stars were not those heaven sent Did we come together At mask...

Write a story, any story But let it have dragons... Oh Gods of war In the jungle corridor I feel your haughty presence feasting the Manticore She stalks the shadows, burning The smoke is thick and reeks of blood Her hunger an eternal yearning Tantri...

Mother X3 Mater Lacrimarum X2 Hail to the Queen of rare delights Malefic and tragic Are the strings of her magic Screaming through the night She is sex and death and more The scent of evil in the glittering city A virgin and a whore For the horns of blasphem...

Dim the lights, wrong the rites Toss the puerile cross away We are gashing from a venomous womb Burning bright, dead of night Pyres stain a milky way Lust is splashing the dark side of the moon In the Samhain mist We lay in welcome by the western gate With t...

[Narration:] "Sometimes I beheaded them with daggers, with poniards, with knives Sometimes I suspended them in my room from a pole or by a hook and chords and strangled them And when they were languishing I committed with them the evils of the flesh" The even...

Nightmares on a roll The spirit of fear Has alighted here Mercy on your soul... This fright, crepuscular Is muscular with vitriol Misericord I pass by as your shadow The ghostly burning arrow A marksman for your swerving heart Misericord I support...

[Special Fan Edition track] Oh dear God It is midnight in the labyrinth The night is set to taint the painted halls Moonlight is our cue The candelabra flicker at your passing gall I swear they're dancing just for you The dead leaves rustle on the man...

Mother of abominations Our Lady Overkill Smothering the congregation Grips the cosmic wheel A lover of acceleration No mercy or brakes applied I see dead stars collide In her cold unflinching powerslide Comets tear the skies Gushing from a shattered silence N...

Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head? Oh, Mr. Crowley, did you talk to the dead? Your life style to me seemed so tragic With the thrill of it all You fooled all the people with magic Yeah, you waited on satan's door Mr. Charming, did you think you were pure...

Tonight is the night The empowering wind that draws breath from despite Roars 'neath my wings as I soar with the end in sight Choirs ignite A swansong for Leda Deathknells for Troy Tragedy blooms from one act I am nemesis Poured in my arms When my d...

Thy hands were open, embraced my soul. Foretold allacy, now prophesied truth. Happiness is reachable, out to stretch a hand. Touch divine feelings hang on to something real. Caressed with warmth, confidence surge within. Chaotic joy in turmoil, surreal subcon...

Bursting with madness the moon shall derange The ether caresses my veins Cursing the feverous reign I taste the change Lips curl, my grip starts to harden Maelstorms are loosing in the garden Angels will whisper bane Hidden meanings in the teaching of...

It's just a feeling I get sometimes A feeling Sometimes And I get frightened Just like you I get frightened too but it's... (no no no) No time for heartache (no no no) No time to run and hide (no no no) No time for breaking down (no no...

It's just a feeling I get sometimes A feeling Sometimes And I get frightened Just like you I get frightened too But it's (No no no) No time for heartache (No no no) No time to run and hide (No no no) No time for breaking down (No no no) No time to cry Sometim...

Weak midnight promises of love Were wept upon Her grave And shunned by stars above In mortal life lurks my dismay An Angel stole my heart and Death took Her away She sleeps beyond the grace of god A dreaming beauty If wishes could only fray that bond The dead...

Weak midnight promises of love Were wept upon Her grave And shunned by stars above In mortal life lurks my dismay An Angel stole my heart and Death took Her away She sleeps beyond the grace of god A dreaming beauty If wishes could only fray that bond The dead...

Nymphetamine (Fix) Lead to the river. Midsummer, I waved. A 'V' of black swans. On with hope to the grave. And through Red September. With skies fire-paved. I begged you appear. Like a thorn for the holy ones. Cold was my soul. Untold was the pain. I faced w...

Evanescent like the scent of decay I was fading from the race When in despair, my darkest days Ran amok and forged her face From the fairest of handmaidens to A slick perverted wraith Nymphetamine Heaving midst narcissus On a maledict blanket of stars She wa...

Sister midnight comes blaspheming Screaming in the keys of faith and fear Unentweining our spines twists me to kneeling... Spilling like the moonlight on her glistering rear Defiled at heart In this perfect hell Under red leaves bleeding Over sealed chatéau we...

We, the nocturnal few bound by other laws to the service of the enemies of god are silent and hidden yet our exquisite fire burns on poised to engulf... Tie a man to his god he may not walk for fear of falling foul to temptation where once faith stood her grou...

The Feast of Fools, 1308 As January slipped into the grip of winter A leather leash tightened round the throat of fate Amidst the flock, disease and dementia Night was blighted more than ever before With screams of lust and obscene adventure And scenes...

Aching floorboards spoke my name In the belly of the beast to foreign shores In tune with tides that whispered fame And fortune for our humble Lord Ecclesiastical banners Unfurl in the manner Of those who seek conquest and gain Sail forth for Outremer...

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Here forms a knotted sorrow The vivid grasp of fading faces Storm clouds plot to follow... I wander despondent, a curse on the grave Her hair in my locket, a lock of nightshade And there in my pocket, I nurse the charade Her ring is awaiting her back I...

This is the end of everything Rear the tragedies That the Seraphim shall sing 

Reigning at the feast of Phantasia Heightened pleasures were endeavoured to bow Before my coronation and vocal aspirations To rule this fool creation fallen 'neath Me now I knew deep eyes Of a distant Christ Were scarred from afar under starry lustre Sighting...

Nightfall, in thrall I call her beauty to me Whose ebon-lidded eyes excite Shadows to wander through me Whose kiss glittered with sleep Is a thief come after dark To steal away the leaden wreaths From my cemetary heart Thrilled to see the light Bruise-reddene...

Even a man who is pure in the heart And speaks in prayer by night May become a wolf when the wolf's bane bloom And the winter moon is bright Listen to them Children of the night What sweet music they make Iniquitous I share Carmilla's mask A gaunt...

She slept in ecstasy In hands that fanned her wildest fantasies Freed from Christ's frigid regime And rigid nails... She was first in church To lick her lips and self-debased Each waking second felt like heaven In the scarlet One's embrace And at las...

Death darkens all Right wing of the garden triptych Left marks The Fall The middle ground apocalyptic Why stay the grim inevitable And play out with a whimper? Fate is raising armies of our faith Now The future cows Before the vows Prophets thunder...

One dark afternoon Like a shadow I flew Through the rain that fell sick with lament To this house of incest For when we undressed Blasphemies against Venus were rent Though a sister removed Her white body approved The parade of my heavenly quests Yet, all t...

Through arcades where shimmering snowfall Lay in state with the sad and damned A rent lament barely flung above a whisper Drew Me like a ghost to the haunts of Man I Found Her tempting fate between Her wrist and razor A kindred spirit in a graveyard Beneath t...

"Archangel, Dark Angel Lend me thy light Through Death's veil 'Til we have Heaven in sight!" 

Glory and praise to thee in all the steeps Of Heaven where thou didst reign, and in the deeps Of Hell where fallen thy dream, silently. [From "Les Litanies de Satan"]  

Sunset, expect This to be your last with Our vast return As Death is set At three sixes where hill-beacons burn Darkness, undress Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar Blood-red, yet still unfed Lips distend ending, time to falter Domines W...

[Part 1] So adept was unspoken Man At dusting ledgers of the seraphim That Lilith swept across a broken land In a whirl of lust to pleasure him This bland Adam, a reaper of the sun In bone dry season, for Eve was busy sucking thumbs Pricked in rosy gardens a...

Eclipsing violent centuries Like a dark scar over France Enter the nascent Gilles de Rais A warrior and a scholar He fought for Joan Of Arc Before she met with martyrdom in flames Far from fairytale A deathshead on his sail A light that would not fail Beneath...

Hasten to the bridal bed - Underneath the grave 'tis spread: In darkness may our love be hid, Oblivion be our coverlid - We may rest, and nione forbid. Percy Bysshe Shelley  

Where nature's russet beauty grew the roses of Utopia The stench of vented corpses floats abroad These killing fields will yield to new horizons so Cyclopean With the advent of our resurrected Lords Siding with the Titans Cast into the ancient dark of Tartar...

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And I often sigh I often wonder why I'm still here and I still cry And I often cry I often spill a tear Over those not here But still they are so near Please ease my burden And I still remember A memory and I weep In my broken sleep The scars they cut...

[From Sodom's album "Mortal Way Of Life" (1988)] Behind the scene of destiny I adore you in this song for me Call me within your holy house to dwell Let me raise for myself in spell Voluptuously dancing daughters of the night sky Sing the rapturous love song...

A voyeur in league with the great thief night In an overthrow of woven light Slid in to rob the prayers She whispered to the air with thin deliberation Spare me from the wolves Clawing past my door Tear me from the ghouls That start to gnaw my fingers Follow...

If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand Stay with me Stay with me In the silence of your room In the darkness of your dreams You mu...

Succumb to this slicker genesis The serpentine wish of a decandent stranger This fixed insistence From a twisted out-of-mind He is scum to his kind Slumming with the cast Of his vast Imaginarium Darkness come refined Succumb to this wicked nemesis The paraly...

I pace, alone In a place for the dead Overcome by woe And here, I've grown So fond of dread That I swear it's heaven Oh sweet May, Dressed in grief Roll back the stone With these words scrawled in a severed hand Tears fall like shards of glass that...

Through acrid clouds of summer flies the garden swells with a thousand more wise Forever flung to celestial dreams clawing at the grave of the dead nazarene I watch the storm approaching the darkness calls my name the trees are growing restless they feel the s...

Forgive the day's Last serenades Her skies they bruise like Nordic women Deep crimson stains That Death would claim His robes of office swim in As would I For his dark eye Has fixed, a basilisk, a scythe On charred remains With shared disdain For those I chos...

[Narration:] "I conjure you Barron, Satan, Beelzebub By the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit By the Virgin Mary and all the saints To appear in person, so that you may speak to us And fulfill our desires Come at my bidding and I will grant you Whatever you...

Biblical choirs soar beyond veiled light A swansong for ravens trapped flapping in night A tragic yet magical fall from grace Too awful to taste for the led and the chaste Those whose long fetters are addressed to all saints Free shining souls torn from...

I've never been closer I've tried to understand That certain feeling Called by another sound But it's too late to hesitate We can't keep on living like this Leave no track Don't look back All I desire Temptation Keep climbing higher and higher Temptation Ado...

Awaking in a sweat Forsaking pleasure for regret Another night of blight had slowly passed The morning skies once fresh and bright Darkened down no near twilight Once could smell the end of days were coming fast Gilles wandered as in purgatory Beyond the grav...

I, I still recall, the first fullmoon of May 'Neath whose rays we lay together And those bright nights on glassy waves When we would glide lightly away From the grain For wicked flights of pleasure Those visions fade Like ghosts to life's parade Though incisi...

Governed by the moon She's a bold headmistress I am lycanthropic Too evolved to miss this Opportunity to taste The pausing lamb By the grace of heaven Come the claws I am Emerging with the hunger Scented blood a tease Urges surging under Thunder bl...

[Narration by Doug Bradley:] Oh, how my rampant desire Ripped from the presence of God Now hungered like a beast For the knowledge of evil When Joan was burnt He knew malevolence At the heart of all A cold and jagged abyss bled of sense The throne he...

I sing desolation On the breath of centuries Bringing annihilation Slaughter courses through my enemies I was not always so cold Once upon a crime in times of favour I had lived a God amongst the bold Like a true poetic saviour But my people were dis...

Thee I invoke, born-less one, all woman, pure predator Wherein conspiracy and impulse dwell Like a seething fall from grace Thee, I worship Thou art darkest Gabrielle Lilith who rode the steed Thou art pale Hecate Rising from Thessaly Crush their unw...

Thee I invoke, bornless one All woman, pure predator Wherein conspiracy and impulse dwell Like a seething fall from grace Thee I worship... Thou art darkest Gabrielle Lilith who rode the steed Thou art pale Hecate Rising from Thessaly Crush their unworthy i...

As lonely as a poet on the walls of Jericho Or the moon without the comfort of the stars I am loathe to know it that a man without a soul Is nothing but a split canopic jar I proved it, improved it Drove a sonnet right through it And in this state of bl...

Sanguis minimus Corpus animus Tolle corpus satani Sanguis minimus Corpus animus Sanguis minimus Corpus animus Tolle corpus satani Sanguis minimus Corpus animus Tolle corpus satani Ave, ave versus Christus Ave, ave versus Christus Ave, ave versus Christus A...

I am She Lilith Mistress of the dark Of Sheba First offender And succour to demons Whose sweet seductions and wicked rites Lead all too enslaved by the flesh To trespass against God's holy law And tonight I come for you Midnight strikes, the candles...

[Narration by Doug Bradley:] Her penultimate sighs. Called softy on the kindling wind. Her saintly eyes filling with tears, lifting with truth. And then a golden flash like the onset of Heaven. Leaving her screams breaking my heart. And in the grip of fire. I...

I'm chaos international The writing on the wall A Lazarus in parable A dark and sullen lullaby Whispered softly as you die Promising torments are nigh Danger warning levels hissed out loud I saw the silver lining hidden in a mushroom cloud Now I'm reeling fr...

Black candles dance to an overture but I am drawn past their flickering lure to the breathing forest that surrounds the room where the vigilant trees push out of the womb I sip the blood-red wine my thoughts weigh heavy with the burden of time from knowledge d...

Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcade Through veiled romantic history where superstitions reigned And Christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my name Sang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimed The Graal and mighty Caliburn as votive offerin...

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Lighting forked like a bifurcate tongue Flickers on this wicked little pandemonium Theatrical the courted orchestra ripples The tumult of the skies is alive and highly verbal It plays for mass destruction Frightening the sight of darksome banners on the wind...

The world was her cloister, the abbess Duboir In the convent at All Hallows fair A pearl in an oyster she shone like a star Augmenting her sisterhoods prayers Her singing touched Angels and melted their hearts her choirs inspired the search For the lost...

At the very start There were whispers in the dark And for all the world to see There was witchcraft at its heart And on the autumn air The scent of bonfires everywhere And a fell wind stirred the leaves... The persecution song Telltale signs of posse...

From the primeval mass let precious chaos vent Sacred flesh drenched in fornication beloved by Set may the winds gather her together from the secrets of men after thousands of years of terrifying silence she comes again (All Destroyer) The abolition of the yes...

In the beginning Rimmed with wind and storm A great black wrath of infinite math Spat snarling into form And there was Heaven Lit up with precious stones Each one could fall but for the rule Of Faith and love and stronger thrones And therein rose vast wonders...

Hosannas in Extremis Invading tempestuous skies When Inanna rose, bringing angels repose And Narcissus' fate as their prize Blinded by Diana's mirror Wherein coffined truth struggles, forlorn And covetous stars out their eyes to deceive The horrors performed o...

Flowers lift your precious head to me I have come to her warm embrace The gentle touch of surreality A sweet kiss from beloved faith The gardens swim with fervent life tonight I sense the beauty that waits for me there Dancing with the statues in the pale moo...

Silked like a ghost in infinite splendour The moon illumes like a madness vendor Lycaning hosts to a coarse surrender Frightening most lest they offend her reign Proletariat enslaved In whoredom with Moloch London run amok is Sodom bathed In an eerie light an...

Earth and sea cower from my screams As I climb into the skies Atop sins towered heaven high for me From whence I see no reason why I should not smite with vengeance And hurl thieves down from paradise For storms before were as nothing more Than a breeze next t...

They see me there Their eyes are everywhere Sniffing at the linen for the dirt I feel their burning stare That hate will later flare And writhe upon their women full of hurt Lace magic ink with venom, critics Milked from infant teeth Though scathing blows are...

Poets racking absinthed brains Could never fully paint these nights No martyr parting from his pain Could utter words so erudite As those she now divulged to me In throes of passions grip Indulging latent fantasies That ran forked tongues along the lip...

"Mirror, mirror on the wall Shouldst not grave pleasures be my all? For if I shall see thy Will be done Grant Me the Witchcraft of thy tongue" Three moondials froze in the shadow of six As another soul passed to the grasping Styx Clutching their trinket...

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Accompanied by bloodshed Neath the Reaper's sallow craw In league with fallen angels Came a wolf unto my door A portrait of perfection Potent her siren song I spread my dreams beneath her feet And had them royally pissed upon Burning with this itchin...

Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed To the ravenous wolves that the elements led From crag-jagged mo...

[Narration by:] "God can deny nothing to a De Rais And should He ever There is always the Devil" 

Crawl in awful stealth to me Forever a voyeur I've been Nocturnal Goddess of the Moon So she comes, unseen Thus (Uzza and Azel) speak The burning seed, is thrust in Eve and yearning keeps me, captive of desire Make me as a flower that grows forever in your thr...

"I will give to drink without cost from the springs of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this. and I will be his God and he will be my son." When contrary winds blow across the sands Their murmurs can be easily swayed But when storms q...

"Oh, sweet Midian I burn for thee at heart Don't despair Come bare me on wings of graveyard robbed leather To where pleasure rings deep secrets In spurts after dark..." * Under full moons waxing lyrically Death's poetry floods the soul Like the freezing seed...

Here sat Babylon Fattened by the purses of the worst and wrong Where the decadent tastes of Hell grew strong Like a curse upon This tragic kingdom Dusk descended like a final curtain On this stage only death was certain Singing through the turrets Like a velv...

[Special Fan Edition track] Mother's milk has soured My life's a bolted door And from it runs a trail of vagrant gore My wounds are open flowers Fragrant gifts for my encore Bouquets of praise for bleeding, towered On the sacrificial floor I summoned...

A celebration of the damned The unfettered few who choose to roam Sharing more than sexual excess Sowing more than vexing stones Favourite haunts of depravation Where the morning fears to tread Covenant revere the sullen cain Strike the tethered liar dead D...

With the snow fallen thick And bonfires alit And shooting stars portents of rips I ascended to spur A mere glimpse of murmur From her precious celestial lips Be it sun to your moon Be it moon to your sun Together we promised to come With a turn of the screw A...

A storm to break steeples is nigh I feel it in my deviant pathology The autumn leaves no longer sigh But instead hiss a virulent cacophony Stricken in the dead of night Fear quickens me to flee or fight This otherworldly parasite Who stalks my very dre...

Today was spent in languor Drifting through the fold As midsummer vent its clamour In cobbled streets a thousandfold I bore cruelty from the sun The jewellery that it hung About me, God it stung Like life’s betrayal Now shadows lengthening Hear the nightside...

Purring the sweet tempered soughing Of lucrative Savannah wind Stirs the great flotsam of clouds that are vowing To usher the evening in Affecting the set of the reckoning sun From burnished gold to crimson hue Before this night is quite sorely undone T...

Bedight, this pre-aestival Festival drew darkly near And our delight at its festival Was a roar to rival loosed Fenrir Let the Hellish celebrations begin Ragnarok is rolling, magma abrim The blackest mass the Brocken has ever seen Invoking Loki, smokin...