Hammer of the Witches
Cradle of Filth
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Walpurgis Eve
01 : 29
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Yours Immortally…
06 : 01
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Enshrined in Crematoria
05 : 46
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Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess
06 : 56
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Blackest Magick in Practice
06 : 50
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The Monstrous Sabbat (Summoning the Coven)
01 : 51
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Hammer of the Witches
06 : 29
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Right Wing of the Garden Triptych
05 : 55
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The Vampyre at My Side
05 : 45
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Onward Christian Soldiers
06 : 59
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Blooding the Hounds of Hell
02 : 10
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King of the Woods
06 : 17
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Misericord
06 : 19
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Track Lyrics
Enshrined in Crematoria Lyrics
3 ContributorsEnshrined in Crematoria Lyrics“Lyrically, the track ‘Enshrined In Crematoria’ is hilted in the legendary Ark Of The Tragedian, the poet’s Holy Grail. It is the author’s inspiration personified as a tombed angel, much like that of Poe’s… Read More This night is chilled by ghosts
And the woods are full of werewolves
My heart is pounding with the stars
I feel the darkness rising
I'm blessed, addressed
By a voice of sweet caresses
Intoxication feeds
This freed reality
My inspiration speaks
Enshrined in crematoria
A sight of winged delight
Two great cherubim abreast her
Encase her grave, like once I prayed
Upon her sacred chest there
None more tragic for the lovelorn addict
Than the death of a beautiful girl
Although I was the author of sin
That compelled her wings to furl
She represents the pleasant scent
Of asphodel in this wretched world
Moonlight
Announce the presence of God again
The Ark of the Tragedian
Glitters like bright Hittite treasure
At best, obsessed
By her loss and my excesses
Judgementalism heaped
Upon the mercy seat
Means nothing to her sleep
Enshrined in crematoria
The trees are gaunt
But the cemetery beckons
Before her marble colonnades
I feel a stirring in the temple
As Israel waited with bated breath
At the foot of Mount Sinai
So I sated my wait for death
And miracles from on high
In wine and finite poetry
As fires bathed the sky
Moonlight
Announce the presence of God again
The Ark of the Tragedian
Church to her virgin measure
My tethered heart, a sacrificial lamb
Thrashes madly as the Lioness approaches
Moonlight
Announce the presence of God again
The Ark of the Tragedian
Is built on biblical pleasures
Poe-esque, grotesque
In my need for this catharsis
Her dark commandments teach
Through my prolific reach
A taste so bittersweet
Enshrined in crematoria
I find phantasmagoria
Enshrined in crematoria
Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess Lyrics
4 ContributorsDeflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess LyricsThe track ‘Deflowering The Maidenhead, Displeasuring The Goddess’ is based on the ancient belief of the world personified as Mother Goddess, concerning itself with her self-preservative measures when assailed… Read More Cracked Mirrors scatter reflection
Beauty falls from Her state of perfection
Good grace has fled this dream
While the cat's away the rats will ravage
Despotic, Necrotic fingers
Have lingered with Rape's Affection
Hoods face this global scene
As they stoop to prey nature grows more savage
She shudders at our foetal, fatal touch
Heavenly her body reft and left amongst the dead
Once grateful seeds in Her natal hutch
Our species breeds, deflowering the maidenhead
Religions caw epistles
Twisted laws extend their thistles
A crown to justify
Our place atop this hellbound carriage
This judgment has come from on high
Deforesters pray to the amplified sky
Stripped of her gowns, temples ripped down
Her curses hearse NOW
This judgment has come from on high
Look to her spears with true fear in your eyes
Summoning the coven, The Four Horsemen, Eschaton
She, the sumptuous Earth deep scars were forced upon
Queen Catastrophia seer renewal grew to see
Humanity in ruins sped to Death on rotten knees
We freed the flames that came to haunt Her
The greed that tore Her Elvish bodice
She was the storm that warmed to slaughter
Our selfish needs displeasuring the Goddess
Plastering disasters, faster pandemics appear
Anthropocentric pockets, last plagues are spreading near
Grand levelling with seven tongues acerbic, whore-astride
As the oceans swell in venom at our slick black ecocide
This judgment has come from on high
Poisoners choke on the smoke-ridden Sty
Forewarnings ignored, faith in a Lord
Life's blessings uncared for
This judgment has come from on high
Suffer this Kiss as She whispers goodbye
Goodbye
What have we done?
And what have we become
In this distance from our Mother
From the gates of late Eden?
Blinded, undone
Glowering into the sun
A world of mass congestion smothered
In the waste of late Eden
And what of Her?
Gaia, Cybele
Where is jewelled Ishtar
That shone forth like the stars?
Now maniacal
Now maniacal She moves against us all
To destroy, recreate anew
To dance amok amidst annihilation
Extinction greets foul creatures left
Deflowering the Maidenhead
Displeasuring the Goddess
Blackest Magick in Practice Lyrics
7 ContributorsBlackest Magick in Practice LyricsI wish upon a star
And think of all the things
I should have asked
Instead, I let the moment pass
And now I'm bleeding
On her faded photographs
Tears
So hard to swallow
Sorrow blears and leaves me hollow
Empty years, I should have followed
My inamorata to the grave
Uncertain words my heart denied
Now seem so trivial
I lost it all the night she died
Lies!
She is alive!
Beneath the ice
Only darkest mirrors crack this
Curse
And I, immersed
Invoke the worst
Blackest Magick put to practice
I remember then
When the Autumn moon
Would turn us back again
We'd laugh and bask
Amidst the underworld of men
Both citing Baudelaire
As our immoral saviour
Tears
So hard to swallow
Sorrow blears and leaves me hollow
Empty years, I should have followed
My inamorata to the grave
Words are so benumbing
In my head, I hear the drumming
Summoning, the dead are coming
From fetid crypts my lips create
Now grave powers start to rise
Deflowerers shall suffer
And witness to your sacrifice
Lies!
She is alive!
Beneath the ice
Only darkest mirrors crack this
Curse
And I, immersed
Invoke the worst
Blackest Magick put to practice
I think upon our time
Those golden summers
Of love echo so sublime
As do winters drinking
Too much festive wine
Now the seasons shift
Neath a creeping mist of horror
Malefic entities
I call upon thee
Vibrating cosmic threads
With shredded flesh
Manifest destinies
For those opposing me
Everyone is killable
Some just choose a vulgar death
Now we will see
What terrors shall be
The dark crimson sea
Drags the sun to oblivion
Faced demons
Arousing fire with tongues
Laced with vicious memories
Spatter twisted trees
Rape is returned a thousandfold
In the garden of unearthly delights
Only when their minds lie in ruin
Will I then hand them the knife
Towers fall like broken skies
Crashing through to Hell
Where amid the debris, angels writhe
Lies!
She is alive!
Beneath the ice
Only darkest mirrors crack this
Curse
And I, immersed
Invoke the worst
Blackest Magick put to practice
Death left me hopelessly blinded
Resigned to the wrongs of his design
I will never be alright
Never be alright
Never see the light
That shone in the heart of heaven
Hammer of the Witches Lyrics
5 ContributorsHammer of the Witches LyricsBreastfed red dementias
Familiar with their suckled hostess
Unhinge her bridle scold
A quest for misadventure
Wrests her glare of buckled gnosis
From bloodstained floor to holy centrefold
Death is tensing to explode
Inquisitioners sought her
Scenting the bent in her veins
Stripped and readied for torture
Enslaved to shame
The fist of humanity taught her
Scissors and spiked tourniquet
Dionysian daughter
Pressed to confess from the pain
I say "Toll the demon bell
The rotting hearts of Man
Shall light the path from Hell"
Vestial desecrators
Familiar with her secret ewers
Soon tied to licking flame
Rest their 'tests' fir kater
As sweet revenge from reejubg sewers
Ybciuks and skudes amidst this unfair game
A Storm is rolling in
Unleash the fucking curse...
Striking unbiblical chords that roar
Invoke raw branded skies
As forked lightning feeds the hordes of war
Her broken hands revive
Calling the fallen
Crawling from the shadows of God
Now their tables turn, blind faith learns
Papal sermons oft have lied
Save that the coven the Black Goat governs
Is very much wide-eyed, alive
She summons prool
On virulent wings, a plague is coming
Cuntfire-hoofed
From mating with the Devil
On the torch-lit Brocken
Baphometic by design
A penchant vent for vengeance
Cut deep by horrors fought
Those dungeon-screams for mercy
Shalt keep for everybody
Nine circles down they heard her
Ten times the hecatomb
A thousand souls for those church-murdered
Dark ken align to render doom
Their punishment overdue
For sisters, missed, once powerless
Tongues torn out by the root
Fell whispers rose to a seething congress
Of spirits born for Death's pursuit
Never a dusk so drunk on lust
Caressed the cobbles red
Frights she called, the flights of Ghouls
Left little of their brittle flesh
Judgment night descended
Like the bonfire's fall of ashes
Inquisitioners slaughtered
Venting the dent in her brain
Stripped and readied, debauchers
Prepared to stain
The gist of humanity taught her
Intolerance, murder in vein
Dionysian doughier
Soon to deliver the pain
I say "Toll the demon bell
The rotting hearts of Man
Shall light the path from Hell"
And refreshed of this dementia
Their thumbscrews
Pears and cruel whiplashes
She turns her craft
To the next fat secret grove
King of the Woods Lyrics
[Bonus Track]
Solsticial
The lake is as a mirror
For the moon
That shimmers high above
The sacrificial
Lamb becoming clearer
Soon shall be
Just a shave that craved her love
Arician oaks cloak the sacred grove
Wherein her priest
Awaits to greet
His successor to this ancient throne
The King Of The Woods
Stands staunchest guard
O'er the golden bough
In the eldritch haunts of Nemi where
I rake the fecund dells to take his crown
Midsummer night grows pensive
On the murder to befall
The incumbent fright defensive
Against my intense intent to rule
Divine right by the bravest slave
To perpetuate the flame
To ascend to watch blest vestals bathe
Where their temple bares Diana's name
The King Of The Woods
Rex Nemorensis
Cleaves the gilded tree
And accepts the sentence of the God
To rest his kindred spirit free
The Queen Of The Stars
Alights to earth
And from the silvered water's edge
She means to take me in her arms
But favours fulsome forest beds instead
Communion with heaven
The Goddess of the wild countryside
An Egeria and Virbius
We pleasure endeavour
Together we ride
I show my face, the lustrous one
And by my grace, all men undone
Fall neath my spell to fell delights
This one I chose, I froze on sight
Come sow me, mould me thy seed
So I might grow to Spring's relief
Fulfill the circle's ritual needs
Untold delights, twelve months to be
Torches draw me from this reverie
Where maids debauch me reverently
And when night dissolves, I self-absolve
Mounting my days with fate's resolve
Now
Deep in the coals of my soul
A hot tongue flickers
A reign for her flame to unfold
Before the hunt quickens Death's bow