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Volume 4

by Silenced Minstrel

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The Black Journal Of Alkrun-Nar 05:04
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THE BLACK JOURNAL OF ALKRUN-NAR What price would you pay To dethrone established gods? Would you glean accursed pages Is knowledge truly power? Blow-by-blow high secrets solved Earthly feelings sated! For controls and endings complete I offer deep catharsis! It answers to those deemed worthy A tome esteemed all mysteries undone So sweetly enlightened—no terms attached Whenever it speaks all minds must silent! Beyond the diamond sky, upon the furthest field Great wisdom gained at last—once more unto the fringes! Blurred visions crisp and clear—The Journal kept its word The Throne of God is yours, O Master Darkest Mind!
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The Dark Almighty 04:16
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THE DARK ALMIGHTY Praises be My Twisted Lord O ye with painted faces ire! Care to taste this oblate blood Sweetly crackling sacred fire? Foul be thy name thrice be damned What pain each hand of yours held? Which tongue which face must we kiss Sweet leafed greatness drunk on piss? For thee none but endless hate Each day each night supplicate Rites and rituals harvests gone Giving my all till there’s none! Sinners, faithful, punished floored Down on bended knees implored Out with all hope here’s obeisance Dance the pain of aged aggrievance! Then comes the fall, idols tall Scriptures burned, faces turned Faith since torn—no kingdom come Hear these words: Non Serviam! Masses once meek they rebelled Praise and glory no more! Gone all deified has-beens… Blotted out of spite! Churches temples mosques… Left in wrack and ruin! Hear the past retold… Pay the minstrel’s coin!
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The Silenced Minstrel 03:00
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THE SILENCED MINSTREL Twilight sets in; the hour grows bleak Shadows roam free, cold stones alight! Hark! Did you hear that wretched voice? Did the dead now walk the streets? Or did nightmare comes to bleed you dry? Hymns and curses, soliloquys Black robed bloodless, eyes of deep bliss! Would you pay the minstrel, or would they silence you? As the strings are played, sanguinary death is much assured! No need for bell book and candle All sacraments now redundant! Shun holy words, burn all relics Pleasures of the flesh lead the way! Truly ‘tis a monster much uncouth And your science your logic matters not! Twilight sets in; the hour grows bleak Shadows roam free, cold stones alight! Hark! Did you hear that wretched voice? Did the dead now walk the streets? Or did nightmare comes to bleed you dry? Hymns and curses, soliloquys Black robed bloodless, eyes of deep bliss! Would you pay the minstrel, or would they silence you? As the strings are played, sanguinary death is much assured! No need for bell book and candle All sacraments now redundant! Shun holy words, burn all relics Pleasures of the flesh lead the way! Truly ‘tis a monster much uncouth And your science your logic matters not!
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Mortifications Of The Flesh 03:17
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MORTIFICATIONS OF THE FLESH Find me there at the edge of reason Where reality stops and time it matters not Watch me dance the secret of secrets ages past Unleashed enfeebled flesh, a soiree ever-blessed! A shortcut to catharsis, few so ever heard Found on sacrifice, mortifying greatness! Of dripping skysent nectar, all incantations paid Ichor in my veins, found godlike merriment I am one with truths, no mysteries unsolved Eyes contented gleaned, heart aglow with praise! Marbled edifice, from starshine fell condensed Skies of perfect crystals, all spirits now be flesh! My years in destitution, they passed by like a dream Devoid of earthly stains, I since then wend my way Ascended Masters come, the Company of Light The chrysalis burst forth, the Chosen One’s going home!
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Godkiller (Forever Burning Me) 03:20
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GODKILLER (FOREVER BURNING ME) Metaphysical sigh Deeply bleak unrest! Dark catharsis nigh Found at Light’s behest! Living as a freak Hearing shadows speak Dark and Light entwined Senses six all primed! Eroding piety killing God… Forever burning me! Shady future parted… The third eyed terror started! Breathe the living hell… Can you feel my pain? Come and live the life Hearing through the veil! Cursed with psychic strife… Weary of all evil! Midnight hour comes The Devil’s touch still bleeds Of blood red pentagrams… Such unrewarded deeds! Fighting dark unhallowed kind Upon His judgment owned Friends, reprieve, they won’t come to mind You’ll live and die alone! So leave me be or soon you’ll know What it’s like to die alone!
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Dark Brotherhood Of The Mind-Benders 03:57
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DARK BROTHERHOOD OF THE MIND-BENDERS A dark fraternity, from times before Creation A hollow embodiment, of lies and deception Black robed and aloof, with one befouling gift To conquer feeble minds, to take all what they wished! Lurking in the corners, the darkest part of psyche A gathering of whispers, and hopes all out of reach Such deathly swift procession, they twist reality And bending all free will, your sanity they’ll breach! Eschewing all the limelight, all deeds anonymous So were they from beyond, a spawn of ancient ones? Or maybe they’d be Nephilims, of demons and of angels? What magick arts enchanting, what purpose it fulfills? Forsooth this wretched ode, it says they served no evil Alas for those who heard it; none lived to tell the tale! All hail thee Brothers Dark, the truth will set all free As here be the Silenced Minstrel, grim praises I bequeath!
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Laments From A Forgotten Age 04:07
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LAMENTS FROM A FORGOTTEN AGE What lies through yonder window breaks? Whatever the moon did naught but to hope As far as the eyes can see... But never too clear when you look deep within! So here lies the crux of the matter... For nobody comes back from the grave of smiles! For penitence perchance a payment so due But what if the past did set all afire? Then I am but the beast of past burdens Here much elated far beyond mad and driven As we'd come to worship--unsated at best But what if we are who we think our enemies? Then come as the one or pay debts in blood For I am the one with powers to enchant Too much lore unearthed at dusk As well as untruths much revered thus behooved But would the captive bewail the tried? Then here ends the play on night and benighted Mayhap last seen on wings and dark prayers... Bedeviled for laments from a forgotten age!
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The Final Journey 05:40
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THE FINAL JOURNEY We’ve been friends for far too long How I cursed the day we met I never knew you’d be this way But that’s okay now that you’re dead Let me kiss your frozen face Can’t you feel the venom dripping? Pale and cold you always we I’m glad it’s you and no one else! Years of pain shall now depart As you make the final journey Can’t you see the smiling mourners As they haul you to your grave? Poisoned tears from those you scorned Wishing justice to be served Can’t you see the twinkling eyes How they’re laughing in their hearts? Down and down you go, you devil incarnate… Feel the living earth, as it comes up to you… Life that you so wasted, death shall now waste you! Rest in pain dear friend, none shall miss you now!
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Canto Diablo 2 - Necrotic Chaos 04:10
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NECROTIC MANTRAS Stark be death compared to birth, cradled stiff by dark cold earth Away from life here be much rotting, liquid flesh and pus a-flowing Come foul creatures take this food, feast ye en masse make it good Gone from hygiene morbid stench, microbes burst out gruesome bugs Putrefying enzymes spilled, vital fluids drained! Good or evil that won’t matter! Rich or poor infernal platter! Shredded brawn or thin and tall, ‘tis dark buffet free for all Where’s your pride your dignity? Pink of health or haggard glee? I’m the ground you shat and pissed, hearts and lungs found chomping bliss Angels devils God Almighty, this bleak pit is all you’d be Hear the listless gnawing maws, as you lay sweet darkly bores Dumped ignored soon crumbling bones, would you dare say this be home?
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Quod Damnum Omnis Spes 05:44
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QUOD DAMNUM OMNIS SPES For all that was good and cruelly subdued What ails the sane what pains what sullies? As the turning of the wheels they pulverize Torn realities moldering faiths silent tears To a life so black so gone, all hope is lost? For each one’s own though this wend’s now bleak But what if we are, what darkness did vouch for? Would you turn and praise, or turn to profane Him? Alas what causes us foul beasts to breathe still May differ in context from one soul to the next We came alone we’ll die alone, no truths did smile Oh hope wherefore you be…when soon you did leave? Quod Damnum Omnis Spes Invidia Ordinem Nescit Mors Certissima, Mors Omnibus Miserabile Visu, Terribilis Audire

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The fourth album in the series, the album that helped define the band's sound. Recorded in Sky Panacea Enterprise Studio back in 2019-2020.

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released January 3, 2020

Silenced Minstrel - all vocals and instruments, songwriter, sound engineer and producer.

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Silenced Minstrel is an underground metal band started by Silenced Minstrel (now Void Tenebrous) from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and has been active in the local metal scene since 1996. He was once a co-founder and keyboardist of the gothic black metal band HALUN before the band broke up in 2010. ... more

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