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The Great Game

by Blackthrone Ascension

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Awaken From solace on through the endless night Foresight The purple sky drowns out the night Iridescent forms and unbeholden vision in sight Fate sewn To scorch the Earth below upon a burning throne The raven plots to usurp the gods Changer Forced evolution Feeding the prophecy Deathless With and without a form Unnatural growths - the reawakened; reborn Nightmares Feeding on the minds invoke the prophesied Wake to the horrors and behold As the sky burns red with the flames Of the changer’s ways eyes melt out from the insides of their guise Once the sky falls winged horrors in his shape black out the night As the Sun cries gold down upon The blistered bodies reaching to the heavens losing insight The sinking dread Of The past, and tomorrow They feed on our fear Changeling and Deceiver They feed on the fear of fear agony bleeding through this shattered time Breathe the acrid scent of dread this reality takes its final dying breath The Changer Deceiver, of solace beyond the endless night As the sky burns red with the flames Of the changer’s ways eyes melt out from the insides of their guise Once the sky falls winged horrors in his shape black out the night As the Sun cries gold down upon The blistered bodies reaching to the heavens losing insight The sinking dread Of The past, and tomorrow
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Bloodthirsters call For the chosen to fulfill their share As long as blood flows forth crimson to Scar the realm, while red tides overwhelm Eroding the essence of mortality Rage embodied finding the next flesh to open spewing forth the fury ever feeding Bloodfather’s will all-endearing They seek the glory of his favor To be enshrined atop the Citadel of Brass For the glory of his crown break and burn them black I won't kneel They swarm To the boiling pits of blood, coagulate Becoming one with hate and scorn Joined in the warp beyond Resting atop the skull throne, breaching the blackened skies Sacrifice for his blessings, or lucid insanity Care not from where blood flows, only that it’s in his name But you dare betray? Banished son of boundless hate? Bringer of wrath and ruin Corrupt this heart of gold Descended beyond madness Betrayer’s curse corrodes Betrayer; Exiled One
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The tempter’s halls Belie the future Clouding their fall Where beauty is no more Welcome to the indulgent halls Just a taste is not enough Picking at the mind we find Your secrets await inside a taste ignites desire Pleasure dulls as cravings rise How far will you fall? In the yearning covet eye They unleash this paradise Whose doors have opened For all, who yearn for more None may dominate Isolated in this carnal prison None may dominate Only be dominated Aroused and mass castrated Punished for eternal entertainment Payment indulged Succumb to The Dark Prince of possession All their lives sucked out and stuffed with guts All things turn to nightmares In this realm of greedy stares Intoxication Normality is never enough anymore to satisfy the hunger Carnality calls In the yearning covet eye They unleash this paradise Whose doors have opened For all who yearn for more Engorge; Indulge You've come so far for ungodly desires To roll around in your filth and scream Sit still you little fucking pig! There’s no release It’s not enough for the cravings you’ve built Blessed with new heights You fall upon your vice
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Birthed within the cauldron’s depths Arise through his love Decay is one part of the cycle of life and death Defecation condemnation The pulsating ooze, the stench of disease Humanity lost as his blessings replace Tender and moist, pestilence rejoice In his foetid embrace The cycle The Unclean walk bloated with rot The Children of Decay Their bowels sway while nothing hides as his gifts purvey The cycle of plagues returns and retreats Accept the love given Affection for all his children Breath in the falling skin Decaying kin rearisen Blighted; burning; itching; bleeding Bloated forms rise again Sinking; swelling; fleshy abundance The plague shall cycle back Regenerate Impending death sends all To green pastures of immortal flesh Grandfather Stirs the cauldron frothed New life for all Who face the affliction Accept the love given Affection for all his children Breath in the falling skin Decaying kin rearisen Receding back hallowed grass Infect blood as pus; buboes grow Death becomes ecstasy Imbue the maiden with your rot From hills and rivers to blisters and pus Scar and boil the remnants of this land As the cauldron stirs hot O Grandfather! Your gifts wash her clean! With disease Manifest Rebirth Decay is one part of the cycle Of life and death Defecation condemnation The pulsating ooze, the stench of disease Humanity lost as his blessings replace Tender and moist, pestilence rejoice! In his foetid embrace O Grandfather Of pestilence Take me away To your rotting plane
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Interlude 01:06
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A battle for the great beyond The never-ending war A four-way struggle of power For victory with no end in sight Those who bare the mark fall upon their supremacy Divinity Souls are taken for eternity Aeons of immortal plight If the end shall come It cycles back Sentience from life and unending plagues Sentience from love, death, and rebirth The garden of flesh grows so warm The rot takes shape in his immortal realm Stir the cauldron, to spread his love His affection comes with many gifts Sentience from war Decapitating for the Blood God Fill his kingdom with the skulls of all Who seek but do not fall Ascend to godhood and tremble As he cares not Of what you’ve become A lesser god The Great Game Claiming all things in their war Those who bare the mark fall upon their calamity Insanity Recycle souls for eternity Aeons of mortal plight The un-quenching lust For the unfulfilling prostration Bathing in immoral excess We become Mindless suffering, ceaseless atrophy Aimless, brainless meat Bliss for all

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"The Great Game is the name given by the servants of Chaos to the endless struggle for influence and dominance in the Realm of Chaos, the Chaos Wastes and the civilized realms of the mortal world between the four major Chaos Gods, their Daemon servants and their various mortal Chaos Champions and other followers." - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition: Liber Mutatis - The Book of Change, p. 4

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released June 16, 2023

We would like to thank our beautiful music scene in Vancouver, BC for years and years of support for all of us in our previous projects. Our friends who gave us doting encouragement when we shared the demo versions. Pacific Digital Media for printing our debut record. DoccyGore for the cover art. Games Workshop and Warhammer Fantasy Battles (please don’t hurt us) for the inspiration, theme, and near-endless source material that Daniel has based the lyrics and concepts on. Kesler Levitt for recording keyboard tracks and helping shape the symphonic aspects of our music. Mystic Rhythms Rehearsal Studios. Jessie Grace for giving advice for clean vocal tracking and lending her voice on Indulgence. Connor Gordon for mixing and being a great friend. Kendall for her continuous feedback on our songwriting. Mike Greenwood of Angelmaker who secretly inspires Daniel’s drive to become a better vocalist. John Roodenrys for letting us borrow his mics for drum recording. Eka Saputra and Lorna Philips for the awesome merch designs. Abysmal Arts for the logo. Most importantly, thank you to everyone who listened to or bought our debut EP. To be able to share our music which we are so proud of means the world to us. We will strive to write better and better music for you all, and of course, ourselves

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Symphonic Deathcore Band from Vancouver, BC, Canada

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