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Hubris in Excelsis

by Scythian

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1.
[Solo: von Moller] Effluent fumes infiltrate perception Blinded eyes with flickered reception An incessant haze of mass decay Abandoned is the fray Devouring souls and convictions alike Stripped of honour and our ancient pride Soon lost: the foremost divination In Original sin - a fanatic's citation! Somnambulism reigns Regression is now complete Civilisation crumbles Equal are leper and priest Prophecies of deliverance - Logic to the mad The dust; It feasts upon their judgment Ambassadors of pertinence beckon to the frail Descent into the quarters of the damned Those condemned unto the dust Those condemned by the dust… And yet we call upon tomorrow To rise beyond the dust… The dust! Imposters infiltrate our ranks Obscured by the consequence of fate An inexorable force upon the psyche As the borders between sentience and death… blur… fade… vanish… die! In genocide and sorrow… To ascend beyond the dust… The dust! [Solo: von Moller] In our final hour, acolytes of death The dust our master... master's wrath divine [Solo: von Moller] With dying infant in hand and laboured breath Forgotten is the wisdom of our time… [Solo: Iron]
2.
The ruling filth comes crashing down Perpetual vengeance in false wisdom found Hubris: Nemesis In the throes of power lust Hubris: Nemesis Into the depths of Hades thrust Upon the grave of a Demigod who dared beyond his boundaries fare Divine tragedy Tears of gods begot Yet the death of billions at once forgot His chariot in flames Son of Gods deceased A continent in ash shall witness his fall [Solo: von Moller]
3.
A rising sun illumes our endemic ruin Unravelled suspicions Apocalyptic Visions A mounting horde appeals against the naked milieu Truth’s bitter pill Clad in power... ourselves we shall kill Submerged in the darkness Cursed by Helios Collapsing skies Tales of cause and consequence Obsolete ammunitions now rust past recognition A drowning sun blows out the Terran candle dead No final petitions, just… Apocalyptic Visions [Solo: von Moller] Blame spreads akin wildfire Shifting riots within our ranks Turns brother into liar Paranoia cooks Artillery replaces faithful words Deceitful traitors Betrayers from birth Bitter be your end! [Solo: Iron] [Solo: von Moller] A rising sun unveils the darkness of this earth Outdated premonitions Only a sightless dying age
4.
Clinging to the scriptures Bestowed divine authority The earth in flames beneath thy feet With the ashes of their sin replete Their feeble minds too weak to grasp Their fading souls at final gasp In tragedy fury is born Dethrone the seed of hope forlorn In hope forlorn… come the children of celestial scorn! Release us from our spurious bond Deliver us to a life beyond An end to this immortal sanctum Awaken us from delirium As tyrants feast... at the world's crest All hail to us! The cross oppressed They falter, they succumb; into dominance they fall An unconquerable hurdle under which no man can crawl No quarter will be given and no mercy shall be sought For an age devoid of empathy a new reality has been wrought We'll suffer no resistance From the dregs of human existence Adorn them, gift them with chains As slaves they were born - they remain! They falter, they succumb; under butchery they fall An unconquerable fervour in the justice of the maul No quarter will be given and no mercy shall be sought For an age devoid of empathy, a new reality has been wrought [Solo: von Moller] Destroy the past to dominate the future Restore the Gods to satisfy the weak A cautionary truth for an apocryphal order A paradox repeats in the saga of imperishable slaughter
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Mankind in concrete buried Enslavement underground For centuries forgotten Mechanization-bound Terra's surface healed The war’s expired past Resurrected, thriving fields The fruit of greed aghast The penultimate truth… A lie! Despotic victors reign supreme To keep synthetic dreams… alive A murderous regime to guarantee Ersatz equality for all... to survive [Solo: von Moller] Subterrestrial masses fed by demagogues above With tales of deadly gases Nothing left of the world beloved Isolated lands, forsaken cities In the gaze of palaces and covetous committees Now rise, now rise! Let the sun blind your eyes Escape from your caskets and cells Gamble your lives, unveil their crooked disguise Revolt! Arise! Arise! Bring us the heads of their prophets Serve us their spirits in tatters The ultimate deceit Their banishment complete To vengeance and to terror The price of human error Bring us the heads of their prophets Settle our debts with their blood
6.
The Laws... 05:45
[Excerpt from ‘Dinosauria, We’ by Charles Bukowski recited by S. Vrath] Serpents of the Gods call upon your hypocrites Pray to the fates and the master of the odds Cry out in ruinous shouts; your end is near! From your defecated thrones we have feasted on your bones To mark your pitiful end Oh lords of mockery, clamour and shout! Master of the Odds, Your long unquestioned authority fades to obscurity Your servants led to the flame, your name is ground to the dust! We hold the spear of destiny Cursed with the thirst of a never-ending deicidal lust We hunger for your sacrificial blood! Your ruinous corpses draped in red You speak your names to the keeper of the dead O spirits of murder, vengeance, agony Howl out in glorious victory... and scream these words aloud! The laws of Gods and men are nothing... We are the lions of the east! The sons of blasphemy around us... Your hated relics at our feet [Solo: Iron] [Solo: von Moller] Heed us, kings and high pretenders This song written in your name Forgotten are your teachings Ashen are your houses Unrivalled is your shame Die! Serpents of the Gods Die! Master of the odds Die! Your time is over – your end is near
7.
[Solo: Iron] Parasite blood consumes last hectares of fertile land History halts to a standstill Its tides dead as death itself Elders perish, offspring falters Bloodlines break in thousands Forgotten victims of an unclaimed, nameless epoch The longest wait endures Religions die, preaching wanes No solutions the scriptures hold Few yet fly banners of yore Herald a vision they never saw And never witnessed Architects of metropolis past Of lethal reactors fuelled by death Sacrifice shaped into fortunes of the few Until the engine blew Pyres of stillborn ancestry warm the night The longest wait outlives us all! The reek of hypocrisy hangs heavy in the air Its venom invades our lungs Such welcome cleansing essence; it purifies our souls In its wisdom it teaches us Venture not to challenge the state of affairs There’s nothing left to salvage out there Just fire, death, and ash With prayers fill thy being Extinction eclipsed [Solo: Iron] Now go forth; shine my scion Deformed, oblivious child Inherit the world for your possession Our bane is now thine Reanimate this bleak façade Spoiled with defunct gears May this closing act of man be worthy of Remembrance!
8.
"Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori" by Wilfred Owen
9.
Dystopia 08:03
[Solo: von Moller] Blazing, spiralling smoke Turrets pierce the sky Into naught they were dissolved Beyond the needle’s eye Falling remnants cut the earth A mocking farewell Choking grip of circumstance None to sound the brazen knell Hurled thus into the void The foulest order of man Those prospered few by cosmic justice Stripped of this authority How do we proceed? Now climb through the scorching mist False truths in dying embers lie Their histories, their travesties Leave no page unburned! A globing sphere Unique, now free of purpose Gazes drop in loss as their exodus fails Castaways with no redeemers Captives of this toxic rock To extinction by its masters condemned... was our flock Transform we shall this hell In their image it was wrought From depths of doom to greater days Terra shall be brought We acclaim their curtain call And applaud this timely leave Inheritors are we! [Solo: Vrath] From their desertion reborn is our spirit Freed of phantom chains Slain lies Mammon at Mercury’s flank Their poison tongues are cut The words are ground to dust Samarithropia! Our nouveau utopia In screaming terror shine in this new-born dystopia Great usurper! Salute the slaves! False truths in flames they dance Our histories, our travesties Leave no word unwritten… [Solo: Iron]

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"Hubris in Excelsis" - the long awaited second album from Scythian!

After six years in the making we bring you nine new tracks of irradiated, blackened thrash/death... a world of apocalyptic visions, endless hooks and liquid metal that pays homage to the legacy of Philip K Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr and the greats of 20th Century dystopian fiction. Treading further down a path of no return, we give you a follow-up built to surpass the heaviness and individuality of our debut and restore the UK's reputation as a major contender in underground extreme metal.

HUBRIS! NEMESIS! INTO THE DEPTHS OF HADES THRUST!

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released August 21, 2015

A. Von Moller: Guitars
S. Vrath: Bass, Vocals
J.C. Volgard: Drums

Additional solos: B.Iron (Monumentomb)

Recorded and Mixed by Greg Chandler (Esoteric) at Priory Studios
Mastered by Leon Macey at Dreaming Studios
Artwork by Blanka Dvorak
Layout by Jack Latimer

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