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Bloody Keep - Rats Of Black Death

by Bloody Keep

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Uncoffin’d 02:24
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Once man, now beast, beneath the Lunar sphere A Spawn of ancient rites, that prospers in pure fear The night's ancient magic, the forest’s eerie song A wolven terror howls, towards the moon he’s drawn A battle within, a constant strife The human spirit versus the beastly life Together they sing, in harmony they weep A lone werewolf's cry pierces the night: A Lycan Decree In a world of time tested myths and fables of yore, The werewolf's tale is one that will endure forevermore, A creature trapped in twilight's art, embrace the dark of night keening towards the silver orb that grants eternal life Beneath the argent glow of a regal lunar grace , post twilight's hush, dark arts flourish in our shadowed place, There dwells a creature, part man, part beast, deemed a lycan Sprightly in caves and castles lest the sun shines on horizons Fur as dark as the deepest night shrouded in pitch, Eyes aflame, and fierce with plight, eternally bewitched Bygone tomes tell of werewolves prowling with silent tread, the realm of the night, absolutely no sunlight shall be spread
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Imbibe 04:12
I prowl the night, entranced by vampiric Splendor Protuberant jugulars a mere husk for the nectar Rid pathetic kitchens of garlic before I enter cast a spell to crack all mirrors, eliminate all reflectors I shan’t been seen by jovial eyes of the sun Expelled from society, ousted and shunned Frenzied and fiendish I extract my nutrition A freak in the night shamelessly bereft of contrition pray on human lives like a hawk on meadow mice Fangs thrust in to veins the positioning precise Supple flesh as juicy as a summer ripened fig Wooden stakes foiled snapped in two just like a twig The collar of my shirt soaked through with drool Jittered with delight as Im searching for my food Slither in the shadows I giggle like a fool Drunken with plasmic honey, unconscionably cruel resent the earthward prise once the sun starts to shine Cramped in bootless coffins with grotty wooden sides cannot circumnavigate my all encompassing bloodlust I savor toothsome nectar while you eat plant matter and bread crumbs (disgusting!) A splash of holy water has no consequence I Reject fruitless vegetables wholly zoophagous Thrive in total Pitch blacker than obsidian Clinically vampiric a true Sanguinarian
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Half of Europe, in death's embrace, the throes of a pandemic Rats overwhelm cities spreading Hemic bacteria, and sepsis a scuttling throng Spreads the terror of unknown disease A black shroud draped o'er castle and cot, besieged by infected fleas Rat’s teeth orange as a carrot but no carrots could grow, the fields all barren Malnourishment apparent A pestilence gone errant No quinces no cabbage, no mutton no salmon agrarian collapse digs a deep famine Cold chains of hunger pains will grip you to your core destitute of prosperity your family is no more Rats of black death Half of Europe dead Rats of black death famines endless spread Rats of black death 3/4ths of Europe dead Rats of black death Famines endless spread Songs of birds replaced by wails of grief Bulbus nodes render remedies obsolete The staunchest of priests will question their beliefs When Confronted with the masses of the recently deceased Black death’s the ax that chops family trees Their fur a cloak for death's deceit, The reaper has not a scythe unsheathed But beady eyes and a Blameless squeak From Italy's shores to England's green, A solemn mournful dirge In chambers grand and hovels small, All felt the Reaper's purge a scuttling throng Spreads the terror of unknown disease A black shroud draped o'er castle and cot, besieged by infected fleas Rats of black death Half of Europe dead Rats of black death famines endless spread Rats of black death 3/4ths of Europe dead Rats of black death Famines endless spread
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Blood's sweet scent on the autumnal breeze, Moonlit lore of silvered blood whispers through leaves sanguine spirits free and tragic Lost in thought Nolstalgick Vampire Magic Gothic spires touch the skies Shrouded in mist 'neath moonlit chime Blood-red roses 'round the gate, Thorns guard arcanity no light can penetrate Elegies of the dusk's embrace, Gossamer wings in silent flight Across the canvased black of the night Eldritch fire deep in their gaze Vampire's kiss, a timeless rite Magic born from sorrow's seed, Eventide descends tenebrosity ferments Their odyssey’s fabric is embroidered with lament In this realm where night and mystery blend, The boundaries blur 'twixt crepuscularity’s start and end moonbeams dance on cloaks of midnight The stars above, so observant and wise, Glimmer faintly amongst the velvet skies With the rhythm of the cosmos so ancient and divine. Shh! hearken to the call of the crow gloaming ordains the raven's woe A Barren heart where love can’t grow blood will fall as plentiful as december snow Gothic spires touch the skies Shrouded in mist 'neath moonlit chime Blood-red roses 'round the gate, Thorns guard arcanity no light can penetrate Elegies of the dusk's embrace, Gossamer wings in silent flight Across the canvased black of the night Eldritch fire deep in their gaze Vampire's kiss, a timeless rite Magic born from sorrow's seed, Eventide descends tenebrosity ferments Their odyssey’s fabric is embroidered with lament In this realm where night and mystery blend, The boundaries blur 'twixt crepuscularity’s start and end moonbeams dance on cloaks of midnight The stars above, so observant and wise, Glimmer faintly amongst the velvet skies With the rhythm of the cosmos so ancient and divine.
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A beast stalking the mountains of Southern France Gobbles up children Innards in its teeth Terror in the kingdom, 1764 Odious monster finds nutrition in human meat Agile like a wolf but strong as a bear Cuts through human flesh as scissors cut a single hair A bounty on its head placed by King Louis XV, carve through deployed dragoons with it’s razored sharpened teeth A tawny beast with stripes, a dark streaked back, it hunts day and night Tall Stature like a horse coarse wiry fur throat torn out of your corpse Claws like knives of the finest forged steel, facultative biped, a devil prowls the fields Bullets repelled, as if its flesh were of iron, With the claw of a bear and the jaw of a lion. Behold! A tail a wolf would envy Teeth like daggers through the heart of solace Eyes of flame no hearth could match And A thick coat draped in obsidian hues Claws, not merely tools of hunt, but harbingers of a deepened woe. In hamlets, hushed voices speak not of love, But of evil spawned from below The dread of villages in every home and hall Fear infects the minds of all those near No lock or prayer or gun could thwart its evil wrath Devilish beast sows terror in the fields
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Celestial sorrow I bade the moon farewell The essence of my life Sinking behind the hills Lamentations of solitude A Vampyric depression I despise the sun that brings you life Eternally curse the heavens Each and every star in the sky represents a craving for blood A brooding presence ingesting every ounce of your life Fantastical anti christian personification A phantasm of night embracing unending darkness The castle on the hill is where i belong A being of death bound to flesh The antithesis of god I only prowl at night Forever resentful of the sun so bright 1838 my story begins A tale entrenched in misery Suffering, endless isolation Pure ice encrusts my heart Unholy apathy indifference towards life
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Samhainian falsehood Tawdry and a fraud Hallows eve a myth Cloaked in a hoaxed facade With ancient scorn, we watch forlorn, As humans mock fang and fear, We scoff at fright, in moon's pale light, No masks for us to wear, No pumpkin's grin, fraud spirit's din, Can lure the night's true form No candied sweet or “trick-or-treat”, Can tempt the ageless kin, Our solitude Mocks their candle's flame Their fleeting joys Beneath the gibbous moon Demons of the night Need no night of jest Beneath ensilvered light The egg of night safe in our nest Beyond their sight We breathe colder air The Blood moon's call True Vampiric despair

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All songs written by Abysmal Specter except "The Beast of Gévaudan" which is a reworked Mossen Song written by Abysmal Specter and Louis Fantôme III of Mossen.

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released January 17, 2024

Bloody Keep is Abysmal Specter

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Cover photo: edenpictures
Accordion on The Beast of Gévaudan: Sergi Trotsenko(Sergaccordio)
Logo: @woodcvtter_illustration

mixed & mastered by tidestudiolondon

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