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Arbitrator - Humanicide
03:23
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The dawn of man gives way to dusk
Our golden age now left to rust
Unnoticed by those we’ve left behind
And for how far we have come
There’s progress to be undone
Opportunities to cast aside
Ashes give rise to fleeting existence
An empire becomes a prison
The reign of man a flickering light
The gift of life so freely given
Death prophesied as no one listened
Our own shadow blotting out our skies
As all look on, the horizon will fade
Poised to swallow a world gone to waste
By this hunger, our kind is erased
And those to come are, for a moment, sustained
As all look on, the ground will give way
Poised to crumble from beneath the world’s weight
By this weakness, our path leads astray
And those who follow are led to their grave
Worlds left empty
Marred by the tracks of all who wandered too far
Gods left hungry
Our prayers turned to doubts, our flesh to a scar
Turning their teeth on one another
As our belief
Gives way to wonder
Turning their teeth on one another
As our belief
Gives way to wonder
Worlds left empty
Memories soon lost to time
Worlds left empty
With none to replace our kind
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A crown is dawned
Heads are bowed beneath it's weight
And every knee is bent
In reverence and decay
The rot is taking hold
In chapels built of blighted bones
Sanctuary in the weak and the old
A god born, as foretold
Of that by which we’re overthrown
Laying claim from within every soul
Baptized in the flood of a virus
Anointed by its dregs
While acolytes cloaked in putrid pelts
Collect each tithe of flesh
Redemption for the pious
Whose faith is made to spread
Those who would offer up themselves
And all their dearest friends
A crown is dawned
As the weeping congregate
Their every tear communion
To ever-thirsting plagues
A world is drowned
In these oceans of decay
Our every prayer falls silent
As we are washed away
Praise sung by those we've silenced
Through lungs breathing their last
They stagger and they falter through carrion and ash
The air on which we choke
From pulpits redefined as thrones
Painting the lies that spill forth from tender throats
With every bitter stroke
Death sentences redressed as poems
Binding together those whom our doctrines broke
Slaves, now, to our messiah
The age of man has passed
Now piled upon the altar
In a putrid blackened mass
Slaves, now, to their defilers
The faithful now the chaff
Their deaths to be exalted
Their prayers bring their collapse
A crown is dawned
Heads are bowed beneath its weight
And every knee is bent
In reverence and decay
The faith by which we’re led
In every ragged, labored breath
Evangelism in diseases that we spread
The devils we reject
Deliver us from welcome death
Resuming cycles we would have brought to rest
A world is drowned
In these oceans of decay
Our every prayer falls silent
As we're washed away
A king is crowned
As a kingdom’s laid to waste
Our every prayer is answered
With the ending of an age
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Arbitrator - Gravemind
04:46
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The abyss
Has opened again
To join the tired chant
As we lift
Voice in unison
Call plague upon the land
The abyss
Has opened again
To a world scattered like ants
As we lift
Wings in unison
Blot out the dawn of man
Autonomy had so long led us astray
To wander ’til we were extinct
Intuition, then, to instinct gave way
Our lives, our purpose now succinct
No longer, from then on, would we be enslaved
By these ambitions we called king
Our knees worn to the marrow, we continued to pray
Forgetting what it means to think
Our bodies are many, our mind is one
And we hunger for what keeps you alive
Our ascension will eclipse the rising sun
And through your sacrifice, your famine, we thrive
The abyss
Has opened again
To join the tired chant
As we lift
Voice in unison
Call plague upon the land
By his guidance, by his hand
We’ll blot out the dawn of man
By his guidance, by his hand
We’ll blot out the dawn of man
By the will to which our minds are the throne
We’ll work, always, to ruin the place we call home
Satisfy the hunger that we could never call our own
Offerings so willingly and so often made
Amounting only to a single piece
Of all the sacrifice through which the price is paid
Our blood communion for a thief
No longer, from then on, would we be the same
Our kind resigned to take its leave
To crawl along empty horizons we razed
Forgetting all we once achieved
Our bodies are many, our mind is one
A plague upon the world by which we’re conceived
Our fall will echo for ages to come
Always unheard in a space left empty
Our bodies are many, our mind is one
A parasite whose host has nothing left to eat
We are the famine by which worlds are undone
The abyss
Has opened again
To join the tired chant
As we lift
Voice in unison
Call plague upon the land
The abyss
Has opened again
To a world scattered like ants
As we lift
Wings in unison
Blot out the dawn of man
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"So much misery...Man against man, they kill each other..."
"They have no faith. I used to think the world would change, but it hasn't."
"We'll tear your soul apart."
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The split
The rupture
The unraveling to come
From the mouth of god now fall
The mind, the teeth, the tongue
The sins
The rapture
The threat of the impending flood
Answers to riddles he painted across the blinding sun
Mocking the failure of his own creation
To see the meaning of it all
Keeping a distance while the whispers still reach us
Spreading gospel of our faults
Crack our facade, weaken our foundation
Create illusions of shelter when ours begins to fall
We stitched the glimpses of our creator’s failures into the portrait of man
Portrait of man
We made a god of a mirage when fate was in our hands
Within our own homeland, we wander as nomads
With another’s tongue we speak
Chasing the paths left by our own tracks
Murmuring of what is left to see
We’re of one mind; detached, in decline
Unwilling to accept
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world left for dead
We can’t survive
What’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
We've left for dead
Mocking the promise of all we could be
With words we’ve spoken, never thought
Heads in the clouds, our kingdoms sunken beneath us
Our minds astray, our bodies rot
Broken, bred to spread our weakness
That some lines are never crossed
We made a god of a mirage
When fate slipped from our grip
With only thought, prisons were wrought
His words trapped us within
Tricks of the light we called divine
Following ’til our time’s end
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
We can’t survive what’s left to find
A world we’ve left for dead
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Arbitrator - Soulseeker
05:07
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The rot begins to spread
On the winds of ragged breath
Survival now inspired from deep within
Sunsets flee overhead
‘Til they fall through open necks
Feeding fears that bleed through fragile skin
The hunger seeps from underneath a veil that’s wearing thin
Baring its teeth, prepared to feast on the souls of our kin
An inspiration yet unknown to us all
Until our wills became as one
The cycle we preserve in man’s rise and fall
A gift to all that would see us undone
Through sacrifice we will serve our own demise
Sanctuary in the loss of our lives
Through every tithe, flesh alone can’t pay the price
For unworthy are our bodies and minds
All devoured by what cannot be observed
Laid to rest in a world beyond this earth
All devoured by the hunger we have served
Laid to waste in the ash of lessons never learned
Revelations we have spurned
Through sacrifice we will serve our own demise
Sanctuary in the loss of our lives
Through every tithe, flesh alone can’t pay the price
For unworthy are our bodies and minds
Annihilation that encompasses all
Fading the line that lies between
The blind sensation of what we never saw
And the facade that it was buried beneath
Never to recognize what we’ve truly lost
The age of man gives way to the age of ghosts
Satisfying their undying urge
Through sacrifice we will serve our own demise
Sanctuary in the loss of our lives
Through every tithe, flesh alone can’t pay the price
For unworthy are our bodies and minds
All devoured by what cannot be observed
Laid to rest in a world beyond this earth
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Arbitrator (US) Old Lyme, Connecticut
Symphonic Blackened Deathcore
Our new EP NEPHILIM is out
now!!
Vocals by Ryan Dennis (Exhuminator, Seek Misery)
Songwriting/Instrumentals by Sean Sparaco (Seek Misery)
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