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Crushed Skull Moon

by Graven Maul

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A brutal death decree The shaman cries Under his shrieking call The clan enthralled And with our sacred blades Their flesh be flayed But it is with the maul They’re all condemned to fall They will pontificate Debate, deliberate Housed in ivory towers Charlatans in contrived finery Violence is our highest law Way of fang, horn and claw A legal deed is worthless In the grasp of the dead And when the sun has set Their scalps and skins are stretched Tanned and marked with curses Crafted into pouches for discarding defecation Violence is our highest law Way of fang, horn and claw Your law means shit When your skull is caved in
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Cleanse yourself before The festival of the crushed skull moon Feast, celebration and praise Coursing powers spill from cosmic rays Sacrifice, a death consecration Bowing to idols to ward off doom The young warriors engage in ritual combat Be pinned or wounded, walk free in shame The unscathed champion, the pride of the tribe To appease dark gods, will fall on his knife The crushed skull moon has risen Wonder fills their eyes The sacrifice steps forward Offering his life Servants bring oil and tinder To stoke a roaring blaze The companion virgins Are placed upon their knees They are asphyxiated To serve eternally The life drains from his eyes With a euphoric grin All placed upon the blaze The clan shouts words of thanks The day of doom staved A blessing upon their grain The ashes gathered for the youth Are muddled into caustic paste They drink the fermentation of the sacrifice To grant them dark infernal strength
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Oppressed by a tactical tyrant Heavily armored, superior weaponry They break down our walls, raze our crops Possessed by avarice, they’ll never stop But we are the tribe of the cave bear Vicious and savage are our men We possess dark ancient magics A force of nature, he is hell sent Black magic corrodes their armor fast Our battle horns sound the attack Arrogant fools they’ve never seen The blackness that’s instilled in me The horn blast, then an aeon of silence Our giant rises to meet their gaze Horror fills their face as he quickens his pace They level their spears, shields lock in place He plows through with a gorey crash Bones break, intestines splash Their ranks decimated, slowly beheaded Their general racked and burned, Skinned and castrated Heart masticated Obliterated, disintegrated Break through the phalanx Destroy the opposition Break through the phalanx Crush the front formation
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Our coven ancient and primal Adept in the ways of magic But we forsake not body and mind Flesh and bone, tooth and hide Lycanthropic transformation Elemental transfiguration Our ways are hexes and curses Grind the herbs for potion and poison Venom for our spears and daggers Elixirs for power and speed We are the thirteen red witches Holders of curses and healing The greatest magic of all Is within our voices The tribe bolstered by our screams Sent into rage, blood bolstered dreams A feral warcry to frenzy An order to kill, intensely shrill Lycanthropic transformation Elemental transfiguration Thirteen red witches Holders of curses and healing Greatest magic of all An order to kill, intensely shrill Intensely shrill……..

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Recorded on the 3rd of January in the CYC.

Tape released by Redefining Darkness Records

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released January 12, 2018

Michael Ramirez - Guitars, Music, Backup Vocals
Jacob Lee - Bass, Production
Peter Ruacho - Drums
Thor - Vocals, Lyrics

Logo by Gabriel Gagné
Cover art by CurseofFace

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