The Masquerade
by Inanimate Existence
Stephen
Stephen
Much like the two previous albums, this album grew on me the more I listened to it. IE know exactly what they are doing. 10/10, can't stop listening to this.
Please do a tour in California! Favorite track: Ending the Ritual.
Please do a tour in California! Favorite track: Ending the Ritual.
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ewilt15
In addition to the blazing and intricate tech-death that IE is known for, the boys are also tuning their guitars low giving the songs pleasing extra-heavy sound that I can’t get enough of.
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1. |
Endless Waves
04:12
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1. Endless Waves
I wake
day after day I stray further from what I am
All that is left of my mind erodes
from pressure that eats at will for continuance
My soul fades into the gloom
Sinuous repetitions seal me in
Despondence manifests as
Pain I cannot evade
so I seal the door away
Restless when I sleep
tired when I rise
Cannot break the cycle
I've lost the strength to try
Never ending pain
I feel I'm made to suffer
Exponential growth
of animosity
Hatred toward my species
I condemn my breed
Internalize, I isolate
On the surface they see what I want them to see
But underneath I will deteriorate
Sinuous repetitions seal me in
Despondence manifests as
Pain I cannot evade
I seal the door away
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Buried Beneath Scars
05:47
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2. Buried Beneath Scars
Spiraling spiritual entities emanate
Circling infinite in the night
I cannot run from them they imbed
Into my nightmares repeatedly
More of them every time multiply
Chanting in dissonant unison
Entrancing, I am immobilized
Adhered to the web
The fiber strengthening as I fight
to free myself from enchanted silk
Their ears are all deaf to my cries
As they strap me down deep into sleep paralysis
Their power grows with every passing eve
As my own strength seems to fade away
They feed on all that is left of my
Sanity
Hidden behind
Tribalist masks
Inhuman forms
shifting their shapes
The unholy dance
I try to discern
What lies beneath
Their power grows with every passing eve
As my own strength seems to fade away
They feed on all that is left of my
Sanity
Hidden behind
Tribalist masks
Inhuman forms
shifting their shapes
The unholy dance
I try to discern
What lies beneath
Their forms twist with hypnotizing momentum
Their limbs flail and ceaselessly grow
Traced through the haze, demonic emblems
Materialize
The smoldering text falls from the air to my flesh
Marking my skin their scripture imprints
Cauterized, they bury me beneath the scars
Chanting a hymn they bless the sacrifice
Every night resolves the same
The smoldering text falls from the air to my flesh
Marking my skin their scripture imprints
Cauterized, they bury me beneath the scars
Chanting a hymn they bless the sacrifice
Every night resolves the same
Ending the ritual
Every night it ends the same they feast on my living flesh
I cannot move but I still feel pain they consume continuing to devour from my legs up
to my neck and to my face
Only then will I wake
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The Masquerade
05:40
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3. The Masquerade
Wrought in constant terror
Born of boundless rancor
This night is different than the other ones
I couldn't wake from the ritual of cannibals
The dream continues with my body gone
I am only but a mask
Lifted from the alter, I can't control
Before me
A burst flame that lights darkness
Revealing
In the heart of the inferno
An apparition begins to form
Reaching to me from the portal
This demon is different than the other ones
It conducts the ritual of cannibals
Commanding the other ones stop the dance
Advancing it begins to speak
" I am defined by all I can control"
Wrought in constant
terror that let them inside
Born of boundless
rancor my hatred resides
"Join the masquerade, I'll take the pain away
I will free you from all that you can't escape
Become a wraith and feast upon the energy
Of the ones that condescend your very existence"
Wrought in constant
terror that let them inside
Born in boundless
rancor my hatred resides
Wrought in constant terror
I've let them inside
to infest
And defile
My soul
Wrought in constant terror
Born of boundless rancor
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Into the Underworld
05:49
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4. Into the Underworld
Rancid stench of the rotten one permeates
Wreaking of decomposition
From beneath the dirt
Now unearthed and crawling up onto the alter
Fighting to break from the roots
Detaining the beast
Risen from below
Struggling to approach
Shackled in the vines
They try to pull him into the underworld
But the animated corpse continues toward me
As they peck the features from it's flesh
Rancid stench of the rotten one permeates
Wreaking of decomposition
Upholding the mask
Holding me and standing up onto the alter
Fighting to break from the roots
Detaining the beast
I am all that's left of your embodiment
Look what they inflict upon our body now
How long will you let them feed upon our flesh
And defile the gift we've been given?
Like the swarming of fowl they tear away the skin of the sarcous undead holding me
high above his head
The creature adorns the mask that has imprisoned my soul within its construction
disincarnate, my severed spirit and this mangled carcass
Coalesce and join as one
I inherit the wounds and once again I can feel the torment
but this time I welcome the pain
They try to pull me into the underworld
the unholy wraiths continue toward me
And they peck the features from my flesh
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5. |
Wandering White Halls
05:35
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5. Wandering White Halls
I awaken, the nightmare relinquishes
Yet the wounds I've endured still remain
Embedded in my skin
My intestines are gone and im fully bled
Bones exposed and I can feel the worms
colonizing my insides
My reflection has shifted and I cant
recognize
They have severed the final tether
Connecting me to myself
Nobody can see the blood
I walk alone
No one can see
That my soul
has left my body
My open wounds
They don't perceive
My only yearning
is to be buried
They say I'm living
They say that it is all in my head
They're medication does nothing to pull me from the edge
They say I'm living
But I know I'm one with the dead
Their assessments mean nothing
Now they have put me away
Hiding me within their walls
Pumping me full of their opiates
Forever wander white halls
If they refuse to put me to sleep
I have no other choice
Ill do it myself
Why can't they see the blood
Why can't they smell the putrefaction
The stench that never leaves me
Haunting on and on
I walk alone
No one can see
That my soul
has left my body
My open wounds
They don't perceive
My only yearning
is to be buried
They say I'm living
They say that it is all in my head
They're medication does nothing to pull me from the edge
They say I'm living
But I know I'm one with the dead
Their assessments mean nothing to me
I sit to rot forevermore
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6. |
Return to the Dream
04:01
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6. Return to the Dream
How long have I been in this room
The nights all blend as one
Concealed, and in isolation
When will I next see the sun
I must end it there is no other way
And so I accumulate pills given to me
Broken glass shards smuggled back to my cell
This is the night that I return to the dream
Swallowing a multitude of pills
Only numbs my sense so I clench the glass
And the shards open up my flesh
Bleeding profuse but still remain
I can hear the spirits
Calling out to me telling me that
I am now so close
To returning home
Draining my blood
I've stained the room
My vision begins to fade away
But still I cut deeper in
Until I can sleep
And the shards open up my flesh
Bleeding profuse until I can sleep
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7. |
Heart of the Inferno
03:53
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7. Heart of the Inferno
Reality fading away as I let it go
Free of all that's shackled me to the
Realm that has forsaken my existence
Everything is silent until the cult returns
The ones I can't forget
Forming a phalanx surrounding me, they whisper as they close in
Summoning the ruler of the denomination
Familiar burst of radiance now lights the shadows
Appearing again in the heart of the inferno
You are the one that took everything thing away
"You had nothing and have been broken for decades.
I offer you the chance at respite, take my hand"
Reaching
out to me
His arm are
Still burning
I extend
Clutching
The demons hand I pull close
I close the gap with my own plan
Reaching
Behind me
And wielding
The shard of
Broken glass
Stabbing
Deep into its throat with all my fury
I will make you bleed for my pain
Rip flesh, bathe
in the blood of the demon upon the alter
The flames of hell are crossing over
Enveloping me in the fire
But nothing can stop my fury
I will make you bleed for my pain
Rip flesh, bathe
in the blood of the demon upon the alter
The flames of hell are crossing over
Enveloping me in the fire
But nothing can stop my fury
I will make you bleed for my pain
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8. |
Ending the Ritual
04:36
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8. Ending the Ritual
The cult dances
Approaching the mangled
Corpse of the demon
And begin feeding on
The ancient one
Tearing at it's legs and
Up to it's face
And leaving only a mask
The cult now bows to me
The usurper of their lord
The cult now bows to me
The usurper of their lord
As I gaze into the mask
The light from inside
Projecting my past
A window within
the deepest reaches of
My soul before i was lost
As I gaze into the mask
The light from inside
I feel it invite
Burning underneath my grasp
I adorn the flaming mask
As I gaze into the mask
The light from inside
Projecting my past
A window within
the deepest reaches of
My soul before i was lost
Incinerate
Burning my flesh
I am burning as the fire crosses over enveloping
And consuming my whole body, I've become the flame
I've become the very thing that despise and destiny has brought me here
I've become the very thing that despise and destiny has brought me here
Incinerate
Burning my flesh
The ritual has come to a halt as the tribe offer me a crown of burning thorns to signify
my in vicious descension
I have transitioned into the form of a demonic creature
Burning eternally in the depths of a parallel universe
Incinerate
Burning my flesh
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