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The Unearthly (A Quest)
Trivia
Henry Veggian said in an interview once that this album's lyrical content was influenced by some work of H.P. Lovecraft.
Recording
Assistant producers Chris Milnes & Revenant.
Recorded at Quantum Sound, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
Identifiers
Barcode: 727361600211
Label Code: LC 7027
Rights Society: GEMA
Additional
Prophecies of a Dying World is the only full-length original album from Revenant (their later The Burning Ground release included demos and live tracks), being technical thrash metal for the most part, with unique, seething vocals, intense drumming, and tempo changes and start/stop riffs galore,
Tracklist
1.
Prophecy of a Dying World – 06:14
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I spoke to horrors of a dying planet
Creatures of a drying sea
Nature was forever altered, warped by reality
A truth to me was then revealed, born on the wings of destiny
Decaying in my silent grave
I spoke to kings of heirless thrones
An oath to me there was sung
The prophecy of their bones
I saw by the light of a dying sun
A world drowned in blood
Descent into ancient crypts of purity unpolluted
Transformed to a point of light my essence reconstituted
I prepare to carry my burden, prophet of a dying world
Into the endless continuum
Fated servant to mankind
Born predestined to let sound
The herald of our doom
"And the empires will rise and grow mighty,
Engulfing all humanity in their tireless domination, erasing
The past and twisting the future... in ancient tombs forgotten
Spirits will wither and die, and from the dust of these
Crypts there shall rise an entity born of vengeful winds,
And from his soul beings will spew forth, abominations
Of consciousness who will corrupt and weaken the world,
Twisting dreams into nightmares, creating new pain, a suffering
That will last forever, and curse our lives through all time..."
Apocalyptic visions invade, and the grave opens before me...
I ascend from eternal crypts my purity reinstated
Cleansed of my human faults
I accept the existence to which I am fated
Returned to my silent grave
Mute witness to our end
An oath it is that I now sing
The harmony of my suffering
I speak to those who shall forever be
Twisted spirits who refuse to die
Skeletons of forgotten kings
In swollen tombs of man they lie
I see by the light of a dying sun
A world drowning in blood...
2.
Spawn – 05:21
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Within the tombs of the centuries
The gods of the void awaken
What has past is retribution
The mirror of our damnation
In the seeds of time
Negative beings leave their spawn
Demented obscenities manifest
Ravenous appetite led by insanity
- A thousand years of misery
In the seeds of time
My image appears in fury
Raging through the centuries
To avenge my progenitors
For now that I am free
The time is at hand
No safety in my judgement
When my vengeance engulfs the eart
Damnation born upon pestilent winds
Unleashing the fury of those reborn
Armageddon descends upon apocalyptic horses
Driven by warriors of hate
Emissaries of vengeance ride forth from the sun
Flames consume our dying worlds
And all the blood shed by the past
In violent glory shall cleanse the earth at last
SPAWN - malevolent beings rise
Ghastly hunger in their eyes
SPAWN - The breed of abhorrence
Mankind's abomination
SPAWN - Devourers of the earth
Creatures of the abyss
SPAWN - Precursors to our failure
Children of the beyond
3.
Ancestral Shadows – 06:51
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Awoken from dormancy I find myself alone
Standing in primordial ruin
Of an ancestry unknown, a race of elder gods
Dreams caress my agony as I live in decay
My spirit pines for a time before humanity
Voices haunt my sleep
As I travel by the moon
Vibrations from the dawn of time
Shadows beckon me
Cannot resit my heritage
I leave behind a corpse
Torn back through the ages
Through the memories and dust
To lands of ancestral shadows...
Arrived my visions a reality
My reign to survive eternity
An emperor of chaos
A ghost of insanity
Enthroned I am now king
Dominating prehistory
A forgotten lord of blasphemy
But soon the time shall come
When I awake in frenzy
To slaughter the invaders
Known to me as man
4.
The Unearthly (A Quest) – 04:45
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I am sinking into caverns of my mind
Dark abyss has opened
Into breathless midnight
I lose identity
Subterranean descent into ultra conscious non existence
Abstractions are elusive, reality confining
Illusions are redefining
As I approach my genetic core
As I approach the unearthly
World of grotesque images
Abrasive complexities threaten
Symbolic metaphors approach
Thoughts devour thoughts
Through my being unexplored
Times ceases continuity
Shroud of weightless life
Plunging into depths unknown
The unearthly - Isolated within
Sub atomic reasoning
Creatures uncertain distances
Between reality and consciousness
Temporal existence disintegrates into micro molecular infinity
Representations of ideas cloud eternal skies beyond the minds eye
Thoughts devour, thoughts devour, thoughts devour...
5. Asphyxiated Time – 07:55
6. Distant Eyes – 07:16
7. Valedictions – 07:30
Total length: 45:52
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