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Stellar Cartography
07:00
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dark heavens
brim of light
doomed eclipse
bring me night
arc sage precipice
cartesian point in time
speaks true, anomalous
respond the lights in kind
stumble through darkness
klaxon, its wail so calls you
unknown black silhouettes
phase in and out of sight
I
decode not why
I
relinquish my
command of the
flight
hard steel of surface
echo the screams and cries
ringing, the toll of death calls
my crew and I
there is no hope in blackness
Emperor, at your will
I call upon your mercy
we fall beyond the sky
this is then
we are of now
chords of when
lift from the ground
decode not why
I
relinquish my
command of the
flight
dead of night
dark heavens
brim of light
blinding light
doomed eclipse
bring me night
pull of the system
wells of all gravity
resist not airless gliding
toward the sphere aligned
it seems to call me
it's voice was all along
the siren singing softly
leading my eyes, becoming
blind
decode not why
I
I am alive
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2. |
Descent
06:26
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blind eyeless
screens radiate
all systems lost
thus is my fate
constricting airways
sealed sections decompress
drawn by the strings is my escape
toward the seas
from the skies
searing atmosphere rungs
so lone capsule
for one life
pressurize air and lungs
barreling
scarlet red
pale dune's dust grows so near
turbulent
I descend
dilation of fear
null vertex
dot terminal
split tunnel fading
discernible
oh human pathways
stray vessel terimus
steel-bolted wings pray merciful
toward the seas
from the skies
searing atmosphere rungs
so long capsule
for one life
pressurize air and lungs
turbulent
scarlet red
pale dune's dust grows to near
turbulent
I descend
dilation of fear
through the clouds
to the ground
bracing gravity lands
so lone capsule
for one life
crashing wave of the sand
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3. |
Sky of Ultraviolet
05:57
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before the flame
ruin likeness
steel remains
infinite majesty
gilded mountainous plains
oh, cold coarse river
guide toward salvation, my soul
behold this cragged cavern
sanctuary
I approach and I
gaze through eyes
a shadow resembling man
clawing forth
it breathes a promise
by its hands I
die
and return
bound to life
scaling my form,
the phantom sighs
“lay upon
my bed of stone
for I am death
I am alone”
wake by the stars
burning skies
nacreous
protean gravity
synesthesia tides
oh, cold coarse river
guide toward salvation, my soul
behold your weary servant
momentary
not alone as I
gaze through eyes
a shadow resembling man
clawing forth
it claims a promise
I shall never
die
unbound
mortal life
tracing my form,
the phantom sighs
“sail toward
edge of known
I am death
I may not roam”
gaze through eyes
a shadow resembling man
clawing forth
it breathes a promise
by its hands I
die
unbound from mortal life
heaving my form, the phantom blind
“distress, in parts unknown
this place is death
where shall I go”
I
can walk no more
heavy steps
slow as they
cold
each grain of sand
infinite
unforgiving
how will I soar
through the black
towards the sun
I see her name
vessel of
Luminara
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The Valley Ritual Orlando, Florida
An eclectic mix of metal, The Valley Ritual hopes to tell a story with heavy energy and scathing brutality.
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