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The Age of Decadence

by Gallows Hymn

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1.
The gods are on the side of the stronger, history, written by the victors Those who created peace, do so stained in blood It is only human nature, to hate, those you've injured And once the killing starts, it's hard to draw a line Because of their ignorance, they called it, a civilization Ensnared under slavery, servitude, their submission To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp, and to call it an empire, we created a desert, and called it peace To rob, to rape, to plunder and call it an empire, we created a wasteland, and called it peace What started off as a cause for the righteous, by the holy and pious, who claimed to be just Is now reduced to violence, in the herd no ideas are allowed to stand above This immoral, sinful place, sanctimonious faith, lures you in And their hate filled dogma, calls all free thought sin Individual thought and skepticism, is suppressed, for the sake of all Burn the texts, burn the knowledge, burn the art; this city in fire will fall The lies, despair, and fear, leads to superstition You created an age of decadence, and called it right Guilt, hate, self-righteous condemnation, you created an age of darkness, under shadow of night!
2.
(Messala) Be wise! For it's a Roman world you live in If you have will to survive, you must become part of it Judah, I tell you! Fate chose us to conquer the world, connect every corner Our laws, our codes, our architecture, paved roads, our Legions rout every tribe and place The glory of the human race (Judah) For you I would do anything, but not betray my people The past and future of our tribe, to your will we won’t proscribe For the sake of friendship, I will not commit sedition, this evil, this treason! You may conquer our land, you may slaughter our children But that is not the end, we stand above, rise again A man can be broken, but you cannot break his spirit An idea cannot be vanquished when its fiery words are spoken (Messala) You should know when you’ve been conquered, your dreams are dead and gone You live off myths of the past, the lost glory of Solomon Your prophets will not rise again.... Look to the future; look to the west! (Judah) An affront to our god, strangling his people You control the whole of the Earth, and steal its lives and freedom A day will come that Rome will fall, freedom will be heard Such as the world has never seen, the page of tyranny turned! You may conquer our land, you may slaughter our children But that is not the end, we stand above, rise again A man can be broken, but you cannot break his spirit An idea cannot be vanquished, when its fiery words are spoken You may conquer our land, you may slaughter our children But that is not the end, we stand above, rise again A man can be broken, but you cannot break his spirit I swear I’ll take my vengeance, for justice, for triumph! The spirit to fight, the sense to control it My soul is full of hate Keeps me alive, gives me strength ROW, ROW, ROW, ROW, ROW, ROW, ROW, ROW! BATTLE SPEED! ATTACK SPEED! RAMMING SPEED! ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK!
3.
SEKHMET, Mother of the gods SEKHMET, Give birth to us all SEKHMET, Lioness and Goddess SEKHMET, Your people call Deity of life, daughter of the Sun, grant us good harvest, fertility, and protection Your will divine, lady of the ointment jar Mother of the Gods – Guardian, the eye of Ra BAST, Silence in the darkness BAST, 'Til your holy light appears BAST, From your throne give us comfort BAST, Beloved end our fears! Drive out the vermin, drive out the pestilence Protect us from the spirits, that prey on the unborn Your feline grace, shines down your light upon us Trample down our evil, we worship your likeness LEAD US, TO THE WATERS, OH GRACIOUS SEKHMET, OUR BELOVED FEED US, PURE HOLY, BAST PROTECT US, OH CURIOUS, SEKHMET GUIDE US, PROVIDE US THROUGH ALL THE TRIALS OF THIS WORLD We bow before your grace..... your granite smiling face.... Your visions of the future, guide us through the sands of time We answer to your call.... before the one and holy all.... Huntress of the vile, protector of the Nile Rid our hearts of fear.... bestow your strength upon us.... Seep into our souls, seize our regrets, make us whole We call upon you now.... hear our prayers well.... Heal our bodies, restore our vitality, the waters of life!
4.
SUNRISE! Over the vast, city, of Jerusalem! The holy, the sacred, the city of christ! Reclaimed by the forces of crusaders might! Martyrs and soldiers and pilgrims we fight, for salvation our sins are forgiven in time Much blood we will shed in the name of the cross, forgiven, our crimes, through sacrifice lost In Acre, baptism by iron we learned, the enemies of god must be vanquished and burned Heathens and heretics, in all but name, how many Christians were captured, enslaved? The forces of Saladin ride in from the east, with swords and with arrows we drive back these beasts Burning with heat from the Judea sun, with steel we meet until battle is won One signed by the cross, we fight for our faith! One signed by the cross, what price have we paid? One signed by the cross, we give our own lives, for land and for church, we leave none alive! In the heat of the battle, flesh impaled upon my blade When my sword tasted blood, I knew this was my way! Took up the blade, left those I loved, vowed to take up arms, for heaven above! One signed by the cross, how far have we gone? One signed by the cross, our journey yet long? One signed by the cross, the battle rages on! In the name of all of Christendom, we fight to save the city of God! Would you know when you’ve been conquered? Pushed back to the gates of hell We fight for more than home and country, for eternal salvation, from mortal damnation The burning fields, a no-mans land, from wild forests to desert sands This brutal world, cold and dark, crusader might will make its mark One signed by the cross, how far have we gone? One signed by the cross, our journey yet long? One signed by the cross, the battle rages on! Over countless years of conquest, I have wandered, fought, brought the sword But a few years of peace out of decades, and what for? The sieges never end, dismantling walls, stone by stone Vanquishing the Saracens, we cut through flesh, we smash through bone We offered protection to the pilgrims, to the defenseless, on their holy journey To protect their wealth and riches, and to guard their passage The barbarity of the world is often cruel and senseless, wanton, rampant We vow to protect the innocent, we protect the whole of the masses Desert passage, guide my way, ancient secrets, hidden demons! Desert passage, our knowledge deepens, dogmatic prophets slain! Sermons of shame, preaching visions of doom! Denouncing the common man, for his inaction Looking down from the castle bastion! Leading the masses to their carnal tombs! Led astray, from their normal lives, took control of their superstitions Their fears extolled, their thoughts surmised, some joined for glory, some joined for riches Holy preachers, guide our thoughts, keep the sheep confused, forever lost Tongue of fire, twist our words Burn our freedoms, let your lies be heard.... Scheming Kings, denounce the whole of the masses Wage your wars of conquest - no matter the cost Let the people suffer, let the fields burn Use the texts of the holy, let the pages turn.... To my homeland I finally return, having fought through and traveled through foreign places To come back to enemies, wearing familiar faces For the cause we have fought for is lost, has not brought us salvation but brought us ruination With the devil a game of chess, for no man can live within the face of emptiness! Macabre dance of death! “What will your move be?”
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Intermission 03:25
6.
From a distant unknown, a new voice will emerge Calling me to another place, too late to escape A shimmering light of auroras surround us Guiding our way, to distant dreams Once thought a story, of a long time forgotten A world we repress, with civilization We shall not seek to halt our true human nature But master our instincts and to understand Modern tools of evil, used by liars above Forced upon us by the outside world Break the seal of this mortal coil Transmitting through your eyes, the plane of another dimension Goes dancing into the skies, misguided meditations Into woven wilds, we ride past constellations and the stars Place your soul upon the pyre, prepare to be reborn Into woven wilds, we ride across the mountains once again Between the lines that divide the worlds of spirits and men With rays of fire my heart bursts forth at the site As arctic winds breeze by me in the middle of the night Climbing ever higher, to the top of the mountainside Captivated by a distant sign of nocturnal light, my hands are reaching out for eternal life I’ve tried to escape these tormented visions Trapped inside of this somatic prison Faces worn of sickness, even in their own dreams Human spirits torn apart by chaos and machines Windswept trees painted in white skies Hypnotic rhythms, mystic hymns The great holy beings shine heavenly light Upon vibrant flowers, the colors of life Into woven wilds, we ride past constellations and the stars Place your soul upon the pyre, prepare to be reborn Into woven wilds, we ride across the mountains once again Between the lines that divide the worlds of spirits and men With rays of fire my heart bursts forth at the site As arctic winds breeze by me in the middle of the night Climbing ever higher, to the top of the mountainside Captivated by a distant sign of nocturnal light, my hands are reaching out for eternal life Ride! For wisdom begins in wonder Rise! Till your heart finds its tribe Ride! To what within, its written Rise! Of flesh we're born of flesh we'll die Ride! The world we know has fallen Rise! With the fears inside ourselves Ride! Let new days cleanse our spirits Rise! On earth we roam, in skies we fly,
7.
Chiaroscuro 04:58
Balancing light and darkness, to create a vision, of the divine In shadow, tells a story, of when nature and desire collide Two factions at war, one a great family, patrons of art, victims of envy In the house of god, butchered before all, blood fills the streets, violence is law Cut down like trees, once men of power, hanging disemboweled from the city tower Conspiracy is foiled, nowhere to run, justice is served under the Tuscan sun Smiling in torment, strength in distress Your following eyes tell a story of loneliness Faces of marble, bodies of oil Fiction to tell truth, immortalized youth When all we have left are our memories, unfinished, our works abandoned Telling a story of humanity, the joy of understanding The sacred is portrayed by the sinner in love, the image of christ, the frescoes above A brother and sister, bonded in incest, a cloak of ermine, the smell of frankincense Our faces unmasked, our eyes wide open, sanctity of marriage, vows are broken Born into privilege, but power corrupts, scandal matters not to those beloved Smiling in torment, strength in distress Your following eyes, tell a story of loneliness Faces of marble, bodies of oil Fiction to tell truth, immortalized youth When the bird has tasted flight, it will stay in the sky, never to look back To earth it will never return, once it has spread its wings it will only fly A beheaded martyr, a prophet a baptist, portrayed with ardor by a distinguished artist A sacred image of a saint divine, salvation obtained for the apostles maligned Blue eyes shining in the Florentine night, apprentice to a painter, the stars burn bright Forbidden love, our one befall, accusations of the holy in the house of god I thought I was learning to live, when I was only, learning to die Between the shadows and light, where the beginning and end of all things lie A beautiful body may perish, but a work of art, does not die Spread, and open your wings, like an eagle above, you will learn to fly!
8.
Erecting fields of corpses A voice spoke out of dragons Passed into perdition Impaling by the thousands I feast upon indulgence On silver wares I dine A savoured bath of flies Accompanied wine Burning at the stake The gnawing crack of bone No mercy have I shown Nailing in their skulls There is suffering in masses This is only the beginning A voice spoke out to reason Let this be a warning Their cries a lone lament All ears have fallen deaf Faceless and forbidden In decomposing scent These travesties, beliefs All dies is burning scorn Your children, mothers, fathers, sons Through fire is reborn Petrichor and death The stench of burning war Rotting septic flesh Upon these fields of gore Carried in the winds The mighty beath of god To whisper fears of death Upon a crucifixion rod Tortured, blinded, and buried alive Hosting fire at a banquet with our callers inside Solidify dominance to a choir of shame Impale upon them masts and to savour in their pain Tortured, blinded and buried alive Hosting fire at a banquet with our callers inside Solidifying dominance A choir of pain Impale upon them masts and to savour in their shame Unto on high Shame! His flesh we eat Purified white souls as bright as snow Shame! I drink the blood of Jesus Christ Shame! Our father not to be forgotten Wallachia! Bound by my rule The masochist! The gruesome sadist fool I renounce, blood fraught with sin In conquest! Deceitful men chagrined Heavens be praised By the blood of my enemies I have earned victory By the Order of the Dragon As the ruler of this land I have vowed to vanquish the destroyers of faith Forsaken, the disloyal man Blood shed by the unbelievers Deceitful ways now forbidden Those violaters and great deceivers Shall perish from the earth In the fires of hell
9.
I renounce god This is how I'm repaid I shall up from my own death Forever a slave I feel myself changing I hear voices in my dreams The mice in the attic Stomping like elephants Lost in a sea of wonder, doubt and fear Upon this altar I wake from horrible nightmares Such sweet music they make Love lost, immortality gained Love lost, forever the same Ecstasy, in lust for her blood Agony, and promises of peace For hundreds of years I've worn this crown of sympathy Sinning without remorse or pity All of these terrible memories Such tortures upon me Fangs drip wet of weakness The worlds cross to bear Lifeless, soulless Hated and feared Warped by the ravages And blisters of time Misinterpreted, twisted, distorted demise Love lost, immortality gained Love lost, forever the same Ecstasy, in lust for her blood Agony, and promises of peace I can hear the sound of birds they sing Silenced by stirred wood and ruffled leaves Terrific beautiful melodies I call to her in winds! From this old church I am excommunicated Suicide graves are desecrated Ageless Old, gaunt and strange Moving as dust, The dead travel fast Now horrid, whispered gothic myth Once a great Romanian prince Now a shell of what is left Their pale king of ashes Great pillar of past down story Dark summit of forgotten fear Dizzying visions, werewolf legends Listen, he grows near I cannot be saved for I am cursed Mourning weary of an unquenched thirst Tears shed upon her final words Dire loss yet undeterred Across the fires of hell I shall burn beside you Sleep and find me In another life Give me peace I miss you too much to forsake you Whispered voice from what remains My hearts been plunged with stakes My spirit, locked in chains My love first lost to flame Across oceans of time I have sailed to find you Drink and join me In eternal life "Make me yours" I love you too much to condemn you

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released October 1, 2020

George Miller: Vocals and bass
Nicholas Spevak: Lead guitar, backing vocals, orchestrations and drum programming
Zach Hornung: Rhythm, lead and 12 string guitars, orchestrations and drum programming

Produced and engineered by Zach Hornung
Mixed and mastered by Art Paiz at Mana Recordings
Guest vocals on "Chiaroscuro" by Olga Nuit and Revere Taylor
Extra sound effects by Soundsnap
Artwork: "The Romans in their Decadence" by Thomas Couture, 1847
Logo and Emblem design by Vojtěch Doubek at Moonrot Logos
Layout and design by Nicholas Spevak

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