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Oh, Hvare-khshaeta! (radiant sun - avestan language, Zoroastrianism)
Hail to your fiery appearance
Our mightiest and long living god
Scorch the enemies of yours
But have a mercy on my wounds.
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Blasphemy condemned
Eternal sin
Blood sacrifice
To the glory of an immortal one.
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Luscious taste of sacrificial blood
Crams the maws of the unappeasable
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Scavenging corpses
around the pyramids
Blistering sun, oh, scorch those heavy wounds!
Transmute those carcasses
into the nourishment for Asha!
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Oh, Hvare-khshaeta!
Dreadful fate you cast upon me!
With a million of eyes you watch me fall
To the rays of your everlasting shine.
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Expel the servants of yours!
Wage war on evil goers!
Immolate the infidels!
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Gobs of sacrificial blood
Fill up the mouths of insatiable beasts
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The desert is covered in bones
The pyramids withstand the cadaver ocean
The ray of blood light appears in the epicenter
Oh, Hvare-khshaeta!
Condemn the doing of Angra Mainyu!
The most destructive of forces
But he is a powerless one without a time.
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Desecration
Profanation
Idolatrous thoughts
Sacrilegious
Impious
Lurking worm in darkness
of our thoughts and wrongdoings.
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He shall perish at the end!
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supported by 17 fans who also own “Of.dreadful.wounds.and.leniency.of.the.sun”
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
supported by 16 fans who also own “Of.dreadful.wounds.and.leniency.of.the.sun”
Heaviest thing I’ve heard all year along with Altarage. Okay I’ve been listening to this record for the past two weeks and it just gets better and better. Dissonant grooves galore Jacob Ballance
Oakland, CA quartet LYCUS return with a new album on Relapse Records. Heavy, epic, mournful, and replete with art by Paolo Girardi. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2016