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1.
Abholos 16:24
The jaws unhinge Bellowing virulent air Humanity’s lungs contract, they concede These are the last throws of a dying world The world Panics as the terror sets in While the rich eat the rest out of their skin Sitting in their ivory towers built on the backs of the common man The beast has shown its teeth And they chose apathy Bearing its teeth, it threatens all And they chose apathy Consume, digest Take back what is yours You gave us life Now take it away Another failed experiment The collapse of a species At the top, what a contradiction As they sink into an early grave "How much blood must be spilled? How many god’s will you pray to? Understand there is no savior. There never has been. I am all consuming darkness, I am the gnawing doubt in the back of your mind As you slip into nothingness Accept you were always mine. This whole planet would be wiped clean. Culling the cretins that pollute the air we breathe. Stealing the innocence from children You should have never had You’ve done the hard work for me Burning the flesh of this Earth I watch forever waiting As this planet falls to its knees" Existence long before man came Created or evolved the ending is the same Taken for granted the ground beneath Like a star light years away You’re already deceased We watch the grotesque unfold As they turn on themselves Cast out and exiled Our control taken by the flesh Fear Bred into the minds of billions What sadistic manipulation Half full, half empty The glass is broke The greatest flaw In humanity Constant hunt for something greater Never to be satisfied The grass is always greener When you choose to hide As you stare into space Remember your insignificance You tried and failed Now find silence in yourself Such a disappointment Destroying your own home Imagine a world without such greed As you continue to rape this land As you continue to rape this land Triumphantly upon your kill you stand Like a fucking poacher You just brought about your own extinction Wipe the slate clean Never seen again weak minded fools wandered aimlessly Seeking answers to questions that they’ll never understand Searching for a higher purpose You’re nothing, you’re useless You are but man Clutching to the edge of the abyss. And on this day, common sense dies The masked overseers demand your blood Caught in the never ending cycle Risking it all for their unsoiled hands I am all consuming darkness, I am the gnawing doubt in the back of your mind As you slip into nothingness Accept you were always mine. This leech Under the skin tearing at the flesh Leaving nothing but sinew and bone left This Leech Begging for freedom but finding none We could’ve won this fight but it’s too far gone Hang up The noose I want the black pestilence spreads across the Earth No one is safe, the rich and poor, all die the same Burning to death Drowning on land The bodies line the trucks Corpses Dumped into Mass graves Life will start anew Atop a mass grave Invisible wars fought without ammunition A proxy for all excuses we’ve used for tradition Everything we teach Passed down by corrupt leaders Who claimed all others were weak They use fear To control the masses Still caught up in delusions What they’ve done is right With no one to blame And no where to run Such arrogance for eons It’s time to reap what we’ve sown For those that come after Standing upon the ashes Remember us But not for what we’ve done But what we had not Remember us And we return to the earth All that’s left is Silence
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Abholos II 11:01
An artery cut will bleed til it’s empty Seeing no one tend to the gaping wound So why watch this pool of blood rise When the scalpel is in their hands. Rip out the corruption at the roots Where it’s had a foothold for too long I can’t remember the last time I closed my eyes and found peace There is no hope here. This is the birth place of death. The mind begins to unravel Claustrophobia, agoraphobia No comfort to quell these demons Just the soft glow of a portal below Turn the lights low, shelter your eyes Don’t deviate beliefs With your blinders on, march forth Condemn what you can’t understand You are the darkness living amongst man. Peeling the layers of obfuscation back Enough to justify, not practice what you preach When you pray to god what do you say? Killing in the name of a dead god. I want to end the perception shown of our species Corrected nature driven instincts to believe In a false hope designed to keep us bound Never moving just working to stay above the ground But what the fuck is the point? You’ll never be heard They will never listen to your plea Somehow you think they’re on your team No one ever cares Not the soulless carrions of disease Yet you still believe their regurgitations No one will fight for you So why fight for them When the rug is pulled out Fall to your knees like you always do And then you stare in awe As this horrifying cycle repeats Just another casualty A casualty of neglect Just another casualty Of oppression. The hive always swarms behind the queen Yet begging for freedom never seen Clinging to the promise of a time now lost As if it were a lucid dream Night descends upon us all in these dire times Screaming for help fallen on deaf ears We are nothing more than the pawns in their game A constant reminder of what they are… Expendable… We owe them nothing. As the fissures grow deeper And the unknown becomes the known We will all be forgotten Only then will we be equals I can’t say I’m surprised At the way the world reacts to inequality Something seemingly so simple Becomes a civil war Families beg for freedom to live Families beg for safety They don’t have to come at a cost I won’t stand by idly and watch My bloodline fall victim to them There’s the line in the sand Dig the graves where I stand Let the fortunate pretend to suffer Let the rich step down from their kingdoms In the end, close the body bags Fill the graves where I stand There’s no amount of expiation For humanity to give They cannot come back from this They don’t deserve to live They continue to divide us While we fight for the scraps They continue to divide us Take up arms and fight back While we struggle to breathe They’ve been standing on our throats Our Lungs filled with hatred for each other The ouroboros continues to feed They continue to divide us While we fight for the scraps They continue to divide us They profit from the lives of the innocent Giving power to greed Monolithic faceless beings Blood oils their machine We won’t ever rest While destruction screams Creation toils in silence This country is poison Soaked in the blood of indigenous The soil beneath our feet will give way We all slip into the abyss The ouroboros continues to feed On its tail forever wrapped around our lives The cycle will never end Cut off the head of the bastard snake And watch it bleed As the blood pours from its neck Vermin drown attempting to adjust to A new world and find another dividing line The head will grow back And when that day comes The ouroboros will feed again The ouroboros continues to feed…

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A single track spanning space and time. From the perspective of onlooking celestial beings to the front lines of humanity itself, sit and bang your head to the swan song of a dying civilization.

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released April 18, 2020

Chase Holton- Vocals, Guitars, Drum programming (is that the right word?)

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Jolly Jack and the Jazz Flutes Ann Arbor, Michigan

A solo game developer with a passion for music.

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