Ontological Mysterium

by Horrendous

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mb Terrific. The bass brings such a sick dimensionality to these songs. Yall are really firing on all cylinders now

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1.	The Blaze 01:59	lyrics	buy track
O lucent pariah Dweller in the muted depths Of calcified hearts Grant me wisdom archaic And a resolve unrepentant, blasphemous To soar beyond the pale A phoenix apostate For I cannot return I will never return... I’ve seen the blaze On blood red nights And I’ve wept at its’ wane Dimming like a dream each dawn
2.	Chrysopoeia (The Archaeology of Dawn) 07:15	lyrics	buy track
Immerse me In jubilant flames With iridescent tongue Lick away the skin Don’t dare be kind Paralyze me in paraffin And spark the match Teach me to tear chitin back To flirt with fear To tunnel through from a new morning womb To splay out anew Coarse and naked as the truth Each digit like a compass pole Glowing starlike in the white hot heat I will coax you out Like vermin hiding In every crawl space in your heart And you’ll flow out, blinding An opalescent river Molten being of vigor Hurtling toward oblivion I passed straight through the eye and screamed May we all be When I reach for you When I stretch out my arms And beg your guide You should know I speak not to you There is no you You never were I speak to me - I command me I see you clear as the dawn There’s no more hiding now I feel the ache that gnaws at your heel Did you think this was any less than fate? Feel your spring boiling up from the black Like the eyes of a bride beneath her veil Ecstatic and resolute Abduct the absolute Dismember the deceiver And rise Bury your mask and burn
3.	Neon Leviathan 03:29	lyrics	buy track
Man-machine Paralyzed By eyes that gleam In vicious luminosity Glint of chrome Formaldehyde And ozone Bio-transformation Slip the needle in Narcotic hush to calm your trepidations The senses awash In vaporous information We’ll pluck out your eyes To bring new vision Divine Consciousness liquified Extracted with precision A small price To pay To end The pain Of your condition Let it begin: Scalpel pirouettes In deft abominations Red landscapes Carved with reverence To mark your pilgrimage To the holy land of the post-human Voyager Catatonic voyeur Inept omniscience Another crippled god In phantom creation And when you’ve reached the end You’ll bear witness To the new leviathan Thriving in the void of consciousness The liminal spaces Between the real and the imagined Sublime, lay down your mind Immanentize the new aeon
4.	Aurora Neoterica 01:55		buy track
5.	Preterition Hymn 03:57	lyrics	buy track
The tides rise again Carry me close to see the skin But these arms cannot mend the vision The waters fall trembling Cast out beneath the heavenly tree And still we dream The hand of god will lift Weary Tantalus To fruits that gleam To cease suffering Rise, Tantalus Unfurl your chains Arise in flame, Enochian I’m robed in flame, Enochian Free from this dream, Enochian Unfurl your wings
6.	Cult of Shaad'oah 05:23	lyrics	buy track
Beat me back but I'll keep on climbing When you're lost in the dreams of the dead And the final sun burns Oh, the battle begins... Prepare for brutal ascent With sword in hand (Succumb to steel) Cast out the leeching demons Don't give in (Succumb to steel) Remember, YOU are the mountain Keep climbing, journey within Your weary heart will burn again Charge headfirst into the wind Soul aflame, fate abreast Feet light as air Let arrows fly If they despise you Become the tempest And the deceivers, they shall kneel Before your fiery blade of steel Obey your will's command Shaad'oah! And the gods who mocked each step Will bow before you in the end Rise, oh flesh bound demigod And hear the cries and moans Of the false gods and deceivers Collect your spoils You're the master Of sea and sky Of fire and air The thunder from above The flames beneath the earth Keep on climbing Let your chariot ride across the sky Pierce the shield of the universe I'm alive I'm alive in the flames
7.	Exeg(en)esis 03:37	lyrics	buy track
Obelisk to creation Molecular assembly Dancing in the Garden of Eden Ionize Hybridize Sensitize Idolize The ontological mysterium
8.	Ontological Mysterium 04:43	lyrics	buy track
Let there be light! Behold the Garden of Eden Bathed in ultraviolet and fulmination Nigh infinite untold worlds Unseen, lost and forgotten Organic crystallization A magma miasmic, bubbling, swirling Whispers of primitive chemistries Poems and prose in scripts of replication Mutatious lexicon Genesis Imminent speciation Flowing with acrid ichor Division, swelling, expanding intensify Dominion, animated, ascendant Transcriptional and nucleotidal Prolifically suicidal Encumbered by growth itself Hark! Life becomes death Gradually petrified Self-inflicted genocide Reproduction rectified Suffocate solidified Atoms cease, vitrified Coils writhe, unalive Unalive, unalive Boundless becoming bound Burning spark terminal and fated to be A headstone of aeons Ontological mysterium Triumphant obelisk Calcified effigy of what once was A monument to the unliving Cenotaph of centuries And glories past Testament to the ancient
9.	The Death Knell Ringeth 05:17	lyrics	buy track
To all the creatures In gossamer disguise With phantom hands And hagfish eyes Toothless cretin Blind to the promise of spring Grasping at ghosts Follow your nose off the cliff’s edge Just let me sit in peace on the precipice Anemic dinosaur Drunk on nostalgia Clinging to crumbling walls Wipe that grin off your smug face Before I teach you what life’s about What it really means to suffer Don’t bother making my bed In your ghost town Dense automaton Digging up graves To please gods lost to history If you need me, god forbid I’ll be out back shooting at stars Small-minded misfit You think I’d spend a moment Of this ethereal voyage Basking like a lizard in your twilight? I’m ringing the Death Knell GO TO HELL Kneel for no lord Time’s too fuckin’ short Strutting all night, Satan nips at our heel DECKED OUT IN LEATHER AND STEEL

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With 'Ontological Mysterium', HORRENDOUS have built a towering death-metal thrill ride.
The sheer size and scope of their new album is massive. Riffs twist and turn through labyrinthine arrangements, busting out into soaring melodic leads. 'Ontological Mysterium' captures the true spirit of the halcyon days of extreme metal.
It sounds timeless but marks a bold step forward for this rising band.

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released August 18, 2023

Engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studios

Artwork by Alexander L. Brown (wroughtmaterial.com)

Recording line-up:
Matthew Knox
Jamie Knox
Damian Herring
Alex Kulick

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