Leçons De Ténèbres

Leçons De Ténèbres

1. Lecons du tenebre

Me involvunt tenebrae cum lux paulatim evanescat.

Obrigescunt formae et nox regnum suum celebrat.

Anima mae signum cerae occultorum sinu totae claritatis secre-

torum scindit

Incipit lectio tenebrarum.

2. Chanting

'We, the host of Seraphim, the armies of bright,

We do not rue the dire event

That, with sad overthrow and foul defeat, hath lost us Heaven.

Ever to do ill will be our sole delight,

Reassembling our afflicted powers

On the burning Lake of liquid fire.

Hail horrours! Hail infernal World!

Here at last we shall be free!

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven!'

3. Into Bottomless Perdition

He of the first, if not the first archangel,

Great in power, favour and preeminence,

He resolv'd with all his legions to dislodge

And leave unworshipt the Throne Supreme.

With ambitious aim they gather

On the Mountain of Congregation,

And, against the throne and monarchy of God,

Raised impious war in Heaven.

Him the Almighty Power

Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,

Down to bottomless perdition.

He with horrid crew,

Lay vanquished rolling in the fiery gulf,

Confounded through immortal.

Confounded through immortal.

Confounded through immortal.

4. Deploration

'The emerald rain shines and falls in vain.

Away! Away! Away!

Visions of sorrow, doleful shades, unfathomless pain.

Rebuke me not in thy anger nor chasten me in thy wrath!'

5. Infernal Beauty

6. Lucifer

Nominem tuum despicamur, denegamus nostram originem.

Spiritus domini atque verba deceptoris preces perdiderunt.

At once, he views

The dismal scenery waste and wild,

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,

Flam'd ; and there the pale light

Served only to discover sights of woe.

Regions of Sorrow, doleful shades, where peace

And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes,

That comes to all ; but torture without end

Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed

With ever-burning sulpur unconsum'd.

--'Thou, profoundest Hell,

Receive thy new possession ;

One who can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven,

He whom thunder hath made greater!

I am Lucifer.'

7. Eclipse

'We are only pain,

Our fighting was vain.'

Say the evil.

Drowning in the sea of lamentations,

Sinking in the Abyss of desolation

Orb Within Orb,

The Moon Marry The Sun,

And The Universe Will Burn,

Orb Within Orb,

Eclipse.

Upon this realm of grey,

Neither the night nor the day.

But the death of the Sun.

But the agony of the Moon.

Neither the day nor the night,

Below the Holy Throne, no delight.

Orb Within Orb,

The Moon Marry The Sun,

And The Universe Will Burn,

Orb Within Orb,

Eclipse.

The sky is open wide,

The black pit masking the light:

The Kingdom of evil.

The clouds have drawn the Pentagram,

This, the time to be what I am.

ECLIPSE! REVOLUTION!

8. The Reign Of Chaos And Old Night

Abject and lost lay these legions,

COvering the flood

Under amazement of their hideous change.

Lucifer, above the rest, stood like a tower.

He calls his servants, host and knights.

Horrid appeal, at which the Universal host up sent

A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond

Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

9. The Emperor

And Hell saw first the Bringer of Light weep.

'O myriads of immortal spirits! I should not cry,

For who can yet believe, though after loss,

That all these legions, whose exile

Has emptied Heaven, shall fail to reascend

Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?

For this infernal pit shall never hold celestial

Spirit in bondage, nor the abyss

Long under darkness cover.'

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge,

Built like a Temple, rose, with the sound

of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet,

PANDAEMONIUM was built!

'In this Capital, of Hell the Temple,

Worship your Emperor,

Worship Lucifer!'

Les Ténèbres Du Dehors (1996)

1. Nocturne

2. Ethereal Journey

3. The Luciferian Revolution

4. Eden (The Angel In The Garden)

5. The Silence Of Light

6. Antienne

7. Dancing Under The Closed Eyes Of Paradise

8. Les Ténèbres Du Dehors

1. Nocturne

'Lost in a dream

Drowning in the eyes

Of a statue who dreamt a little dream of me

Incipiunt hic tenebrarum lectiones secundae,

Cum Lucifer receptaculum noctis evasus,

Demergitur in undis somniorum suorum

Quem statua observat.

But here there is no light.'

2. Ethereal Journey

Vaste oceane stellate, virgo omnis malefici,

Est hospes mirus se mergens in sinum tuum.

Creaturam tuam custodi,

tempestate ignem arce,

Quem non restinguere potes.

Venit Lucifer!

Venit angelus mortis!

Luciferian Revolution!

Far beyond the sky,

Far beneath the heavens,

Where once before I died,

To perpetuate my hymen

with a star

Heading for the open sky where the flames

never dared to come

The rays of the moon linking

the spheres the molochian comets

During my ethereal journeys,

With celestial glory and pride,

I will celebrate the day

When you become my bride.

To rape the shining stars in the secrets

of the dying light.

The starred delights will enrapture

my soul to insanity.

Rapturous elevation frightening

the God of Light.

I tear the flowers of the sky,

The firmaments of stars embosomed

in His Creation,

But the starlit ocean will not quench my

thirst for their glowing nectar:

I drained the wine of a thousand suns.

Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus,

Dominus deus sabaoth,

Pleni sunt caelum et terra gloria tua.

Hosanna in excelsis.

You are the light, I am the flame,

The freezing blow of my thoughts

unburns me

And I am dying but cannot die.

The divine has deserted the altar

Where your pain is multuplied in the prism

Of my lust witnessed by the stars.

The delight burns at its paroxism.

To rape the shining stars in the secrets

of the dying light.

The starred delights will enrapture

my soul to insanity.

Rapturous elevation frightening

the God of Light.

I was made the Morningstar,

Embowered from the night

God of Lie, I am the Prince of Darkness,

the Star of Mourning

Hunting the light of salvation.

O Domine,

Dona nobis vim, ut eum oppugnemus.

In nos luminem perpetuum fundi iube.

You took the fire in my eyes

When I was starving of light.

You take delights in my cries

For I am dying but cannot die.

While entrusting the flame

to a celestial abyss,

I will get drunk of screaming and of pain,

And the silence and the night

will move at last unto me.

Far beyond the sky,

Far beneath the heavens

Where once before I died,

To perpetuate my hymen

With a star!

3. The Luciferian Revolution

Flores solis, ardentes in aeternum,

Ne secuti sitis fatum floris venenati

Colores delectant, inebriant odores,

At siccatur sinus perpetuo lacrimando

Nam angeli cursus firmamentum

lacrimarum

I depart from this world of grey

to reach the red eternal.

Red, the scarlet letters burn within my mind:

We won't follow the Sun in its course.

We will follow the Moon in its curse.

Lacerate the heavens, devour the Sun,

rape the light.

We are waiting for an eternal night

Where to keep Heaven's tears away from the

eyes of the sun,

Cast away from your universe of warmth,

of love and shelter,

The path of the angel is a firmament of tears.

Luxuries of pain, lurid agony,

The universe echoes the scream

Of a soul overflowed with sorrow.

Exhausted, let me drown in your eyes!

Shatter the stars, drag out the ligth

And drown it in the deepest seas of my mind;

I need no more brightness:

I am the night and the shadows.

I am the field when pain is the seed.

Flores noctis sumus atque alas pandimus

In profundis tenebrarum

Solus halitus emanans penna speculae,

Quam expellit folium mortis.

Shatter the stars, drag out the ligth

And drown it in the deepest seas of my mind;

I need no more brightness:

I am the night and the shadows.

I am the field when darkness is the seed.

The golden pandaemonic silence soothes me

As the streams of my satufied thoughts draw

the pattern of my kingdom,

Imperium infernale.

But we will regain the paradise

For in the east of Eden,

I will shed the blood of Christ

4. Eden (The Angel In The Garden)

Horror atque terror

Quid faciebas, malefice

Die irae, dies ille

Sovet saeculum in favillam.

Lost in the garden,

with the blood on my hands,

Captive of the luminous trees,

Of wisdom and of life

the Holy Keepers,

My face unmasked, monstrous, bloodred,

Is shining through the emerald light.

Numquam diruetur templum

adamantinum

Nos, qui olim vicimus,

vincemus te iternum.

I eat the deadly flowers

of murderous lust,

And begin to chant my freedom.

Musical death, of Heaven the dirge.

The Universe I master,

I make mine the burning delights of life,

The joy of power unbounded,

Eternal Fury of celestial destruction

Lucifer, damnatus es, pro ea,

quae faciebas.

Persequemur te,

iterum perdemus te,

Inferna dulcius perfugium

Quam vorago cruciatuum,

In quam te praecipitabimus.

Non est dominus noster,

nihil potest.

God is dead

God is dead

God is dead

As I tore the shreds

of this morbid dream,

I abandoned my heart,

And on the silent ocean of my soul,

The waters were so calm

one could hear the dying of light.

5. The Silence Of Light

I heal my wounds in

the orchard of misery

Where the fruits and the trees

have turned to dust.

Be merciful, my Lord.

The meadows of Light and Pulchritude

Are blackened and soiled

by emptiness and despair.

Domine, eius miserere,

Lord have mercy on me.

Eam libera de animis damnatorum

Sine eam fulgere in refugio tenebrarum.

Confutatis maledictis,

Alas, that day of tears

and mourning.

Flammis acribus addictis.

Miserere, miserere,

Salva me.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Gloria.

Hosanna in excelsis.

Eternal rest give unto me, O Lord,

Perpetual Light cannot shine upon

the soul of the Damned.

Salva me, libera me.

Ille sanguis, ille cruor.

Lumen moritur.

Numquam lumen moritur!

Numquam!

Hosanna in excelsis.

Eternal rest given unto me, O Lord,

Because Thou art merciful.

Non dono tibi soporem aeternum,

Nam misericors sum.

6. Antienne

Errante à jamais sous la lune blafarde et voilée,

Qui pleure la nuit, la pluie des douleurs étherées,

La pierre au doux visage, levant ses yeux étoilés,

Guette l'ame seulette qui va au travers des cieux

Son envirant périple - rêve inachevé des dieux!

Et songe, sous l'if sombre et le cèdre mystérieux,

Voler cet attelage avant qu'il n'atteigne des lieux

Que son impuissance empierrée ne saurait explorer.

7. Dancing Under The Closed Eyes Of Paradise

SOPOR AETERNUS

O mortis secretum, ubi finis nervorum?

O funeris algor, ubi sonus somniorum?

The insane wine of the night misled my soul

At the confluence of dream and of pain

We dance under the closed eyes of paradise,

And our eyes tear the insane space

of the light.

Saltemus sub oculis coniventibus paradisi!

The voilence of the winter moon

spreads a mantle

Of cold icy pain over my petrified landscape.

Seized by the freezing frosts

of the diabolic winter,

Our hearts breathe the winds of sadness.

Saliamus, saliamus aeterno,

Saltemus, saltatum mortis!

Saliamus, saliamus!

But what is in my heart can only be read

by the winds

That gathered my words of pain.

The veil of the nigth falls at your feet

Revealing the views of the fiery sky.

Kyrie eleison.

The gentle sapphirian night wrapped me

in its maternal warmth

And her hair, studded with stars,

had a scent of sensuality

As I lay embraced in her sweet caress.

How tender is the nigth

in her amorous delights.

Where are the flowers I gave you, my love?

The amaranth, the rose and the lily.

Buried within the glacial vault

of my thoughts,

Take from me this fading breath,

Enfold me in your veil of darkness

To celebrate the reign of black eternal night.

And in the snows, glittering

in the cold fragile moonlight,

Appeared the incandescent flowers

The blood of angels,

Said one of our round.

'Our blood'.

We dance

and the blowing of the winds is

our only music,

We dance.

8. Les Ténèbres Du Dehors

Lamentorum tuorum error cordes nostra refrigerat,

Lacrimarum tuarum tener ros adustiones mitigat

Stella diuma, caelum tuam lucem continere non potest

As I entered the limbs of solitude,

Cum Lucifer paulatim penetraret

Cum penetrares sinum tenebrarum

The darkness grew deep inside me

In simun limborum solitudine,

Reflected in the eyes of the statue

Eum tenebrae impleverunt

Lux te reliquit

Of what I once was and no more shall be.

Atque chaos interius astri morientis

In oculis statuae angelicae repercussum

Weeping Nights (1997)

1. Weeping Night

2. O Solitude

3. The Embrace

4. Nocturne

5. Ethereal Journey

6. The Luciferian Revolution

7. Eden

8. Dancing Under The Closed Eyes Of Paradise

9. Les Ténèbres Du Dehors

1. Weeping Night

The thousand sunsets are flaming

Through the blood of the rainbows

And the darkness of my eyes.

Kiss my lips forlorn and dwell in me

As I lie departed in the cathedral of your tears.

And let all my people know that Hope died this night

For all your sins and fears and grieves and pains.

Salva me.

2. O Solitude

'O solitude, my sweetest choice

Places devoted to the night,

Remote from tumult and from noise,

How ye my restless thoughts delight

O solitude!

Oh, how I solitude adore!'

3. The Embrace

From your embrace

Where sleeps an eternal Night,

Let me emerge and sing this Elendian plaint,

For all the pearls have vanished that shone before.

Teach me in pure melodious songs to move

With sirenian might

These hearts who died in joy.

Lord, let the soul of music tune my voice

For death and despair have soiled the shores of Heaven.

Ah! Let the soul of music tune my voice

And cast down with sin oppressed I'll be longing

For your embrace.

4. Nocturne

'Lost in a dream

Drowning in the eyes

Of a statue who dreamt a little dream of me

Incipiunt hic tenebrarum lectiones secundae,

Cum Lucifer receptaculum noctis evasus,

Demergitur in undis somniorum suorum

Quem statua observat.

But here there is no light.'

5. Ethereal Journey

Vaste oceane stellate, virgo omnis malefici,

Est hospes mirus se mergens in sinum tuum.

Creaturam tuam custodi,

tempestate ignem arce,

Quem non restinguere potes.

Venit Lucifer!

Venit angelus mortis!

Luciferian Revolution!

Far beyond the sky,

Far beneath the heavens,

Where once before I died,

To perpetuate my hymen

with a star

Heading for the open sky where the flames

never dared to come

The rays of the moon linking

the spheres the molochian comets

During my ethereal journeys,

With celestial glory and pride,

I will celebrate the day

When you become my bride.

To rape the shining stars in the secrets

of the dying light.

The starred delights will enrapture

my soul to insanity.

Rapturous elevation frightening

the God of Light.

I tear the flowers of the sky,

The firmaments of stars embosomed

in His Creation,

But the starlit ocean will not quench my

thirst for their glowing nectar:

I drained the wine of a thousand suns.

Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus,

Dominus deus sabaoth,

Pleni sunt caelum et terra gloria tua.

Hosanna in excelsis.

You are the light, I am the flame,

The freezing blow of my thoughts

unburns me

And I am dying but cannot die.

The divine has deserted the altar

Where your pain is multuplied in the prism

Of my lust witnessed by the stars.

The delight burns at its paroxism.

To rape the shining stars in the secrets

of the dying light.

The starred delights will enrapture

my soul to insanity.

Rapturous elevation frightening

the God of Light.

I was made the Morningstar,

Embowered from the night

God of Lie, I am the Prince of Darkness,

the Star of Mourning

Hunting the light of salvation.

O Domine,

Dona nobis vim, ut eum oppugnemus.

In nos luminem perpetuum fundi iube.

You took the fire in my eyes

When I was starving of light.

You take delights in my cries

For I am dying but cannot die.

While entrusting the flame

to a celestial abyss,

I will get drunk of screaming and of pain,

And the silence and the night

will move at last unto me.

Far beyond the sky,

Far beneath the heavens

Where once before I died,

To perpetuate my hymen

With a star!

6. The Luciferian Revolution

Flores solis, ardentes in aeternum,

Ne secuti sitis fatum floris venenati

Colores delectant, inebriant odores,

At siccatur sinus perpetuo lacrimando

Nam angeli cursus firmamentum

lacrimarum

I depart from this world of grey

to reach the red eternal.

Red, the scarlet letters burn within my mind:

We won't follow the Sun in its course.

We will follow the Moon in its curse.

Lacerate the heavens, devour the Sun,

rape the light.

We are waiting for an eternal night

Where to keep Heaven's tears away from the

eyes of the sun,

Cast away from your universe of warmth,

of love and shelter,

The path of the angel is a firmament of tears.

Luxuries of pain, lurid agony,

The universe echoes the scream

Of a soul overflowed with sorrow.

Exhausted, let me drown in your eyes!

Shatter the stars, drag out the ligth

And drown it in the deepest seas of my mind;

I need no more brightness:

I am the night and the shadows.

I am the field when pain is the seed.

Flores noctis sumus atque alas pandimus

In profundis tenebrarum

Solus halitus emanans penna speculae,

Quam expellit folium mortis.

Shatter the stars, drag out the ligth

And drown it in the deepest seas of my mind;

I need no more brightness:

I am the night and the shadows.

I am the field when darkness is the seed.

The golden pandaemonic silence soothes me

As the streams of my satufied thoughts draw

the pattern of my kingdom,

Imperium infernale.

But we will regain the paradise

For in the east of Eden,

I will shed the blood of Christ

7. Eden

Horror atque terror

Quid faciebas, malefice

Dies irae, dies ille

Solvet saeculum in favillam.

Lost in the garden,

with the blood on my hands,

Captive of the luminous trees,

Of wisdom an of life

the Holy Keepers,

My face unmasked, monstruous, bloodred,

Is shining through the emerald light.

Numquam diretur templum

adamantinum

Nos, qui olim vicimus,

vincemus te iterum.

I eat the deadly flowers

of murderous lust,

And begin to chant my freedom.

Musical death, of Heaven the dirge.

The Universe I master,

I make mine the burning delights of life,

The joy of power unbounded,

Eternal Fury of celestial destruction

Lucifer, damnatus es, pro ea,

quae faciebas.

Persequemur te,

iterum perdemus te,

Inferna dulcius perfugium

Quam vorago cruciatuum,

In quam te praecipitabimus.

Non est dominus noster,

nihil potest.

God is dead

God is dead

God is dead

As I tore the shreds

of this morbid dream,

I abandonned my heart,

And on the silent ocean of my soul,

The waters were so calm

one could hear the dying of light.

8. Dancing Under The Closed Eyes Of Paradise

SOPOR AETERNUS

O mortis secretum, ubi finis nervorum ?

O funeris algor, ubi sonus somniorum ?

The insane wine of the night misled my soul

At the confluence of dream and of pain

We dance under the closed eyes of paradise,

And our eyes tear the insane space

of the night.

Salternus sub oculis coniventibus paradisi !

The violence of the winter moon

spreads a mantle

Of cold icy pain over my petrified landscape.

Seized by the freezing frosts

of the diabolic winter,

Our hearts breathe the winds of sadness.

Saliamus, saliamus aeterno,

Saltemus saltatum mortis !

Saliamus, saliamus !

But what is in my heart can only be read

by the winds

That gathered my words of pain.

The veil of the night falls at our feet,

Revealing the views of the fiery sky.

Kyrie eleison.

The gentle sapphirian night wrapped me

in its maternal warmth

And her hair, studded with stars,

had a scent of sensuality

As I lay embraced in her sweet caress.

How tender is the night

in her amorous delights.

Where are the flowers I gave you, my love ?

The amaranth, the rose and the lily.

Buried within the glacial vault

of my thoughts,

Take from me this fading breath,

Enfold me in your veil of darkness

To celebrate the reign of black eternal night.

And in the snows, glittering

in the cold fragile moonlight,

Appeared the incandescent flowers

Said one of our round.

We dance

..and the blowing of the wind is

our only music,

We dance.

9. Les Ténèbres Du Dehors

Lamentorum tuorum error cordes nostra refrigerat,

Lacrimarum tuarum tener ros adustiones mitigat

Stella diurna, caelum tuam lucem continere non protest

As I entered the limbs of solitude,

Cum Lucifer paulatim penetraret

Cum penetrares sinum tenebrarum

The darkness grew deep inside of me

In sinum limborum solitudinis,

Atque te saepires solitudine,

Reflected in the eyes of the statue

Eum tenebrae impleverunt

Lux te reliquit

Of what I once was and no more shall be.

Atque chaos interius astri morientis

In oculis statue angelicae repercussum

The Umbersun (1998)

1. Du Trefonds Des Tenebres

2. Melpomene

3. Moon Of Amber

4. Apocalypse

5. Umbra

6. The Umbersun

7. In The Embrasure Of Heaven

8. The Wake Of The Angel

9. Au Trefonds Des Tenebres

1. Du Trefonds Des Tenebres

[Premier Nocturne]

Horror, Lucifer solutus,

Anguis a catenis suis liberatus.

A sparkling shade of hate embraced the whole horizon.

A shadow of horror is risen

The Sun is bent,

Consumed with deepest sins.

Terror rains from the skies.

De caelo pluit terrore,

Igne et aestu, igne ardenti,

In fornacem ignis aeterni.

Abyssus umbras suas ingentes

Iacet in latera adamanteia.

Nos devorat lux repercussa.

Above your visions, a circumradiant Sun,

And in your Eyes, vibrant with echoes,

A deafening and neverending commotion.

The path of the Angel is a firmament of tears.

Fawn blazes of fury from the First Eye of God.

Mikhael. Raphael. Gabriel. Uriel. Raguel. Sarakiel.

Moloch. Chamos. Baalim. Ashtaroth. Astarte.

Belial. Beelzebub. Apollyon.

In Inferno reigned the enchanters of pain.

We write the scriptures of moans.

We spread the spawn of Despair.

Shaitan Lucifer

Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris.

Kill me for Thy Name's Sake.

Omega and alpha, the last and the first,

He that liveth through death and life inverted.

Hell was not so dark a labyrinth to hide this face,

Admire it scarred by lightnings.

For Thee I beheld no Mercy Seat of gold

But the screams of Heaven crucified.

In profundis tenebrarum

Aurei cruentique solis occasus.

Dominus fletum e Styge hausit,

Solus beryllus continet lucentes illas lacrimas.

Dominus fletum e Styge hausit,

Tamen in eius profundis abyssus abyssum invocat.

The Light echoes the Light.

The dead envy the dead.

Our burned feathers cloud

The infinite reflexion of the decentred moons.

In the dead of night,

The heart of the night

Knows a more shining star.

Sub atro sole

Tenebris lucet abyssus temporis.

Domini nomen foedatum,

Peritum regnum caelorum.

I unname Thee, Ialdabaoth.

Under a black sunset

Every creature foundered

In the petrifying abyss of Time.

Paradise regained!

Paradise regained!

Paradise regained!

We'll reap the fruits of glory

Miserere

2. Melpomene

[Premiere Lecon]

I looked into the eyes of the Basilisk.

Beside the shores

Of silver streaming sadness to be,

She came to me disguised as Melpomene.

Like asphodels winding through the chasms of Heaven,

We were passing along the waves of the ocean

And slowly reaching the gates of the Sun.

The beams of the night preceding me

The streams of light preluding you

The walls were weeping blood

But feverish was our waiting, Love.

You once cherished our embrace

That day the horizon was weeping nights.

The instants of time were running low

And every shape set like bronze

Reminded me of your name.

The shore landscaping your face

The sea piercing through your eyes

A sea died from the salt of our tears.

As the scale of a pearl preventing her from being an eye for the Sun,

I am but death and stain within you.

As the foaming quiver of life softly soiling the surface of ennui,

You are the dream in me.

Surround me with colours I am longing to see

And shadow that light upon me.

Sear me in a sea of snakes.

3. Moon Of Amber

[Premier Repons]

Umbra,

We watch the Moon of Amber.

And again, the Garden mourns its silent dream.

Unguarded, some fragments of light linger in your sky.

Were we like sublunary lovers

Straying on the seas of your heart,

Sailing down the streams of your mind,

Soothing your marble face anew

Dim in the shadows of our sun,

We have been blinded by agony,

Our dazzling eyes empty of stars,

Our voices wordless with fear,

Our ears so envious of deafening,

Our withdrawing souls longing for death,

We drowned in a Moon of Amber.

4. Apocalypse

[Second Nocturne]

Deus in adiutorium meum intende.

O Domine,

Te ipsum luce velans,

Prodis ex alis ventorum.

O Domine,

Exaudiens omnes preces,

Admitte precationes suppliciaque tuorum.

O Domine,

Illustret facies tua

Adytum tuum desolatum.

We hide from the Face of God.

Domine Sabaoth, Sabaoth Domine

We hide from the Face of God.

Turn loose the angels of your Face, Lord Sabaoth,

Libera angelos faciei, Domine Deus Sabaoth,

Thou who hast the keys of Hell and of Death.

Custos clavium infernorum atque mortis.

The sky torn apart, departed,

Caelum laceratum

Pours the fury of an empire pervaded.

Furorem imperi pervasi profundit.

And the eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful host.

Conversi oculi Domini ad improbas legiones.

We hide from the Face of God.

Coronam vitae dona nobis, Adonai,

Qui habes Davidis clavem adamantinam.

Nemo aperiet quod clusum a te,

Quod apertum a te claudet nemo.

We hide from the Face of God.

A door is opened in Heaven,

We hide from the Face of God

For the Seventh among the seals has been broken.

And there was a silence in Heaven.

5. Umbra

[Seconde Lecon]

We entered the heart of darkness.

And in the dead of light,

The Seventh Angel poured his vial into the air.

Embosomed in my Temple is a statue bereft of life.

Sweet umberbird, lighten her eyes lest she sleeps the sleep of death,

For she has seen the Face of God and her life must be preserved.

We met Luvadea, Maughter of mine,

And crowned her with emeralds and innocence.

But she was wearing the cobalt raiment of the Angel of Death.

Your bloodstained hair sears me in a sea of snakes,

A sun of amaranths,

With rays crawling on the Fields of Tears.

Adorn me in your torpid Temple

And forgive me if I cannot wake this dormant smile in your eyes.

The Cyllenian god did love my sweet music forlorn.

Elohim, Elohim Sabaoth, EloÔ ShaddaÔ, AdonaÔ,

When the Sun remains silent,

I will lay my angels down,

For the Arch of my Temple is a parchment of blood.

Even Death has fled from me.

I have seen the Face of God

And yet my life has been preserved.

The Bride of the Lamb poured herself into me.

And Despair fell on us,

As if we had entered the heart of darkness

6. The Umbersun

[Second Repons]

'Ehyeh 'asher 'ehyeh,

Heylal ben Shahar.

Agnus in medio ante solium nos duxit ad aquarum vivos fontes.

Flammas Lucifer matutinus inveniat,

Ille Lucifer qui nescit occasum.

Nam supremus dies irae ventus neque unus quidem stabit.

Haurient caecum vinum irae Dei, quod infunditur non mixtum

In eius calicem.

Letum infernaque in mare ignis deiecta sunt.

Fawn blazes of fury from the Seventh Eye of God.

Est mors secunda. This is the second death.

Est mors secunda. This is the second death.

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachtani.

7. In The Embrasure Of Heaven

[Troisieme Lecon]

I'll die without a whisper against you, my Lord.

Roses her eyes on the weary veil of Dawn.

We were lost in a sea of darkness.

A darksom opalescent sky left us stranded

Within the remnants of our dreams.

Oblivion ensnared the azure in our visions.

The Moon became as blood,

And I wash its reflection in my own blood

Which dyes purple stars to ivory rain.

But we were lost in a sea of darkness.

And we met her, Luvadea,

The first born of Death.

Plorans ploravit in nocte.

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine.

We drank the water of life from a sapphirian stream.

An amethyst tear,

Your thornless tear.

The offspring of David is the bright and morning star,

Christ Lucifer.

8. The Wake Of The Angel

[Troisieme Repons]

I am the eyes of the Basilisk.

As you enter the forest of my sleep,

Drawing aside the bushes of glimmering light,

You will remember the prayer of Orion.

Drifted in me, you are alone.

The hour approaches and the Moon, dim as clay,

Pours a sea of tears into our swollen eyes.

Kill the dying in my soul, my love,

For Death once dead bears no more dying then,

And you'll be dead to strike the dead.

I have written your name so often

On the chiselled vault.

But my writing hands are the roots of my misery.

Now everything stands still in the wake of the Angel

9. Au Trefonds Des Tenebres

[Dernier Nocturne]

Cele cette encre qui parchemine ton visage

Dans l'orbe d'une caresse,

La Troisieme Soeur adombre la lumiere.

Elle aime en silence, libre et inexorable.

Fidele la seule, offerte et elue,

Elle entend ma voix sourdre au trefonds des tenebres

Et ils m'entourent,

Ils m'entourent les gemissements de la Mort.

Winds Devouring Men (2003)

1. The Poisonous Eye

2. Worn Out With Dreams

3. Charis

4. Under War-Broken Trees

5. Away From Barren Stars

6. Winds Devouring Men

7. Vision Is All That Matters

8. The Newborn Sailor

9. The Plain Masks Of Daylight

10. A Staggering Moon

11. Silent Slumber: A God That Breeds Pestilence

1. The Poisonous Eye

We've waited so long

My starving eyes

Drunk to see

We've waited so long

Blind

Neither living nor dead

We could have died to see the world in bloom

Poisonous eye

The eyes of men, they withered in the sun

And reason enslaves us no longer

Yet vision is all that mathers

To a wayward traveller

Another dream another dream is all we are longing for

In every shade, a fragment of light,

In every shape, every colour, the chasms of solitude

In the temple of truth, we were burning

And we saw the dim sun swallow the sky

Cast out by the scorn of men

In the desert of faces

Can we live without shame?

Can we die without pride?

Poisonous eye

All joy is gone

Seven eyes to see

All joy is gone

Seven eyes to bleed

2. Worn Out With Dreams

Don't tear apart your name

It hides you, and it heals the pain

Don't tear out your love, you can't depart from me

You'll stay away from harm

Abide bt me, when indecision strikes

Down there with me

Let me enfold you

I can't escape our frail embrace

I bend under the morning light

But I could scale the face of life

Mock me, mock me

If my voice is unsteady

I'm just worn out with dreams

Under your pale, sardonic sky

I am watching myself crawl

Down to me

Down with me

Onward a new path

Let me enfold you

We cannot escape our frail embrace

We bend under the morning light

3. Charis

Beauty dies of beauty

Love of love

In the fever of our waiting

We were decieved, without deceivers

Betrayed, without betrayers

A mirror waits for your face

And I have been awaiting you

4. Under War-Broken Trees

Skies visible

Under the seaside shadows

By the city, by the gates

Streets of sands/sadness strays

The war is over now

The pain is over now

Fair eyes still can't see

The healing time provides

Warless I could not see

Sous des cieux fades promesses

Des horizons hallucines

La terre nous etait desormais etrangere

Patris

Pontos

Les flots brises

Le sillage un enclair

Terre, mer, cieux melanges

Seuls les vents hurlent a nos oreilles

Nos yeux francasses que le sang aveugle

Sur une mer demontee, machine de colere

'watch over me'

Beyond the velvet veil of fear

A firmamant of grieves

A century of burning

We were tempted by a shade

In war times, only

The shell lonliness is safe

But under war-broken trees,

Dreams come fast

Dreams come when you are weary of the sun.

5. Away From Barren Stars

Worse than mourning

Disdain, dances at my side

Another wasted day

And shadows stained your silent face

Yet

Weary with passions

The sevenfold seas were young

Your sibilant eyes, bloodied with tears

I'll pray for you, I'll stay away from barren stars

The land is just an ocean of fear

And your love has vanished

6. Winds Devouring Men

[Instrumental]

7. Vision Is All That Matters

I became the great deciever

To see what fair eyes still can't see

A tear in every sea

A fragment of light exhausted

Vision, is all that matters

To a wayward traveller

Through centuries of burning

We have waited so long

Cloaked in a serpent's skin

From the portal, I was calling you

You lay me, in the dust of the dead

A swan in agony

8. The Newborn Sailor

At night we were drowning

Mesmerized by your songs

We were lured

Into the maze of your love

When the drop of life bursts

An ocean of joy

And freedom for the newborn sailor

Through aeons of time

Our eyes were smothered by the sun

Now even in the dark we see

Wanton light steers us no more

Eyeless we sailed

When the drop of life bursts

An ocean of joy

And freedom for the newborn sailor

9. The Plain Masks Of Daylight

The night shade

A dark colonnade

The cypress, then the shore

I sought comfort in the foam

The wind heals the pain

A pale november rises

You know how the days gone by

Even night sought shelter

Under the plain masks of daylight

Bitterness we wait

We ate the fruits of rainy hours

As ulysses looking seaward

We mocked our innermost abodes

We sailed on older seas

And reached the bounds of deepest water

A wreckage in the rain

But the wind heals the pain

10. A Staggering Moon

Amidst the streams of the river

The flow

Was achanging

And autumn rain unfolded its charm

With the thorns of absence

So sweet to your skin

In the dusty veils of morning

You had forgiven all bearing

The land blessed the manifold

Faces of your love

The garden

Lies asleep

The grave unclouded

And we dance about a fallen sun

Night-moths on her wings

A staggering moon

11. Silent Slumber: A God That Breeds Pestilence

[Instrumental]

Sunwar The Dead (2004)

1. Chaomphalos

2. Ardour

3. Sunwar The Dead

4. Ares In Their Eyes

5. The Hemlock Sea

6. Le Terre N'aime Pas Le Sang

7. A Song Of Ashes

8. Laceration

9. Poliorketika

10. Blood And Grey Skies Entwined

11. Threnos

1. Chaomphalos

2. Ardour

Dying into a dance,

The wait will be over soon.

The vision is gone, What is left to see?

A poison for the eye, a cure for the heart

And the end of all faith.

3. Sunwar The Dead

Sunwar, the dead walked into the sand

Watch! the winds are dawning.

March with the streams of awe.

Prince Phobos I tear your wings

Released from the poisons of your grieves,

I am a front,an army of joy,

A century of burning.

Forth on this crawling sea,

I kill, I don't forget their shatterd lives:

The perished shall pass alongmy shores,

They can't stand your eyes.

Raining down under the waves of blood

I chaos,I sunwar

Purple grains attached to linen of war

Sunwar the dead

In every deep, every ocean,

In every stream,every river

We have sailed our way,

The storm has led us this far.

We slay and slay,

We shatter and acatter

Carnage

Watch!the winds are swirlringm

Rest, let the night fall on your eyes.

- O the night in your dying eyes -

But never long for slumber and mourning.

Raining down under the waves of blood

I chaos, I sunwar

Purple grains attached tolinen soil

I roll, Idrown into the chasms of war

Sunwar, Sunwar, Sunwar,

I chaos, I sunwar

4. Ares In Their Eyes

Drunk of our blood, a sky's faded.

We burned like lions with

Ares in their eyes

But it is only in songs

that I envy the winds.

O let the scatter

my heart

among the ruins.

Ashes the cold,

the silent cast in stone,

Lifeless the corpse,

The stench,the horor.

I pouredinto the vial of life the terror of living,the worst poison of all.

Depart from us or we will leave you

In the raining fire above.

We were so proud in your pale masquerade

And we were lured by your glimmering shade.

We burn like lions with Ares in their eyes

But it is only in songs that I envy the winds.

O let them scatter my heart among the ryins.

5. The Hemlock Sea

The joys of sleepless nights are awaiting you.

The son of Morn may cry and never reach you.

I have seen the veil,

I have seen the grave,

The rain it came

And silence covers all.

The drop like spears, this hollowed chest

These salty eyes that never rest.

They have seen this world

They have seen the dead,

The night is came

And silence covers all.

O praise the moon

Don't await the dawn

The river's stream,the glimmering sky

I wandered all alone.

O sweet hemlock kiss,

The poisonsea burns

And Silence Covers all.

You turn, you shiver

Your skin so pale, your breath so cold

I have been longing for your love,

I have been trying not to loose you.

Come,come,fear not

The son of Morn may cry, he will never reach us.

Thus is the promise of the winds.

6. Le Terre N'aime Pas Le Sang

[Instrumental]

7. A Song Of Ashes

Onde de sang, vent ardent.

I rolled like the sand

the

water

unfurls.

We are the everdead, the spark in the air.

Dust and water,

The blood of the harvest

And aimless on those muddy fields,

We wandered all night.

from the pyres draw

a solemn temple:

We have reached the altar.

Les corps n;en finissent pas de bruler.

8. Laceration

Hollowed by the pain,

I feel the rage coming in

Suffocating waves.

As a wreck in the streams of my bloodied kin's blood,

I dreamt of timessaturnine when the festring might

Enflamed our hearts to the point where the lacerating

Was a joy

It was a joy!

And then, whenthe Vision's gone

And Death's unformed,

I am torn.

Our eyes are enslaved by the sight of the pyres,

Cast under the yoke of our own death.

Uttermost the drugs that have led us thus far:

The eyes, the poison, the vision, the might,

But still we dont probe the silence.

Here I am rolled and rolled by the stream.

The state of foam,

The moaning of the winds.

Over

the

cracked roads,

Through the reeds

of the

marches,

Hollow voices

blow

and the leaves

bow down

to

other masters.

9. Poliorketika

10. Blood And Grey Skies Entwined

Dying into a dance,

Dismal the tide of woes,

Your eyes still can't see

A wave in the foaming streams

Turned loose our prayings son.

The crawling snakes of massacre mesmerize the worn-out.

We gathered the first drop after the bite

And spilled the poison

Over

the earth.

The taste of rain was bitter:

Blood and grey skies entwined.

11. Threnos