Information
Artist – Monstrosity
Album – In Dark Purity
Label – Olympic Recordings
Released – May 4th, 1999
Type – Full-length
Genre – Death Metal
Notes
Music video
- Destroying Divinity
Co-released by: Slipdisc Records and Mercury Records.
At the end of track 12, someone (thought to be Morgan) whispers "get the gun, get the gun, shoot shoot shoot", which is a dedication to Ozzy Osbourne's fiasco with the parents of a kid who shot himself while listening to his song "Suicide Solution", which supposedly had those words subliminally embedded in it.
Recording information
Engineered at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida.
Produced by Monstrosity.
Identifiers
Barcode: 600863800221
Matrix / Runout Code (Variants 1 - 3): 008 638 0022 01%
Matrix / Runout (Mould stamp, Variants 1-3): MADE IN USA BY PMDC
Mastering SID Code (Variants 1 - 3): IFPI L007
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 0347
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 0360
Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 0369
Tracklist
1. The Hunt – 01:08
2. Destroying Divinity – 03:26>
Within the bounds of this world
A legion of hate, observing it's prey.
Preaching it's word,
Offering strength to those that relate,
Engulfed in the black.
The rage in their souls wait to attack
Killing the child.
The son of God shall burn.
Crucifiers
At one with the dark
Defying the words of the world.
At one with their rage
Their numbers increase.
Awaiting the lights judgement day,
Exposing those who are opposed to the blade.
The blood of the lamb spilled anointing the face.
Screaming their words demanding moral decay
Taken by force in darkness they find their way.
Wage the war on life
Suffocation of those who inhabit the light
And crucify the worshippers.
So they may die the same as their God
Their screams in vain ring in my ears.
Caressing my soul with their fears;
Devourment consuming the blood.
Their bodies are left for their God.
Incinerate the enemy's flesh,
Melted away by the burning force of the rage
Which we possess.
Growing inside the hatred, disgust and detest
To be released on those who oppose
Resist or try to defeat.
The quest were on
The strength of our numbers.
Completely devouring all
Defying the light.
Burning inside
No escaping the dark
Destiny calls.
Exposing those who are opposed to the blade,
The blood of the lamb spilled anointing the face.
Screaming their words demanding moral decay,
Taken by force in darkness they find their way.
3. Shapeless Domination – 03:30>
Rising from the depths of creation
Timeless with rage and wrath infernal.
A God with no form to man
Lies dormant observing generations of existence,
Dormant awaiting the time.
To rise upon the wind of fire
Devours all flesh and bone
In Supreme Shapeless Domination.
In this landscape of burning life
Those who suffer the wrath
Dissolve and become one
With the body of the beast infernal.
Destruction
In burning ashes
Blacken the sky with your fury.
A burning rage illuminates
And erupts to darken the light of the sun.
Burning flesh permeates
And death screaming on searing winds,
Infernal prophecy realized
In this prelude to incineration.
Deep below the ground it lives
Now it awakes to feed on the flesh of a nation.
Caressed by the touch of fire
And exists to awake
It awakens to destroy itself.
Forced to yield to it's power
Its form adapting to that of it's prey,
Its hunger never ends.
In destruction in itself creation
Cleansing the face of the earth.
With the wrath of the earth itself
Al life burned alive,
Regeneration through incineration.
Deep below the ground it lives
Now it awakes to feed on the flesh of a nation.
Caressed by the touch of fire
And exists to awake;
It awakens to destroy itself.
4. The Angels Venom – 05:22>
Stagnant in this existence,
I quest to free my mind.
No longer captive
This freedom my desire.
My quest never ending
With flames I light my path.
Yet death impending,
Shadows me on my way.
So the quest consumes me
As poison in my blood.
Pulling my body downward
Soon sleeping death shall come.
And how the light it tempts me,
I hear the trumpets call.
Tasting the lips of angels,
My soul is ripped apart.
Lost, awake, yet dreaming.
Asleep, yet conscious still,
My soul extracted.
I stumble through the dark.
I have no vision,
Yet I see everything.
The essence coursing
Ascension killing me.
Burn, the angels venom raging through my veins.
Violent hallucination venom draining me.
The trumpets ringing the light begins to fade
Into a new existence I am thrown again.
Burning in distress and my body reeling,
Traumatic visions form
My mind erases
Memories I'll never know.
Listen to the screams of the souls in mourning
Dissolving entity.
Shown the ways of horror
Writhing ecstasy.
Burn the angels venom raging through my veins.
Violent hallucination, venom draining me.
The trumpets ringing the light begins to fade,
Into a new existence I am thrown again.
Hear the voices of the dying crying out to me.
I hear the message clearly, voice of infinity
Their words caress me and tell me of my end.
Into the door of passage will I know flesh again?
So the quest consumes me as poison in my blood,
Pulling my body downward, sleeping death will come.
Now the light it tempts me, I hear the trumpets call;
Tasting the lips of angels my soul is ripped apart.
5. All Souls Consumed – 02:31>
Engulfed in my aggression
All souls consumed like this
Looking upon your body
Upon your flesh empty of life
And cold
A female virgin body
Lifeless, so pale the skin
Dead stare with eyes wide open
Bring your flesh unto me
Unto your flesh I give myself
Power, complete control
Engulfed in my aggression
All souls consumed like this
Burning is my desire
To see this lifeless body
Bare before me
The tears of sheer terror
I taste the pain, my pleasure
Upon my skin her virgin blood
Forced submission
My dark intention is my power
Complete control
Engulfed in my aggression
All souls consumed like this
6. Dust to Dust – 02:41>
Nonexistent in a plane of void before
Merely dust in winds that form the storm
Now restored as lord of my world
Or disperse into the realm of discord
The extraction of my energy
Evolution, descend into the grave, dust to dust (Dust, dust, dust)
So I strive and struggle to find the way
Living life, I'm blind, unknowing what can be
One chance to grasp
To finally see another side of my being
The extraction of my energy
Evolution, descend into the grave!
Cursed matter blinds inner being
From astral form
In this world we exist
Only seeing horror!
Nonexistent in a plane of void before
Merely dust in the winds that form the storm
Now restored as lord of my world
Or disperse into the realm of discord
The extraction of my energy
Evolution, descend into the grave!
7. Suffering to the Conquered – 03:37>
Time has embraced a ruler
A bloodbath, conquering
The weak rejected
Will die for all to see
No fight for life
Blood saturates the ground
Prayers of the opposition
Ring out with their screams
A futile gesture
Of conquered suffering
No faith to save them
The impalement destiny
Legions gather
They form behind their king
Suffering to the conquered, left dead for all to see
Pray for the impaler
The dying wither
Bleed beneath their king
Bloodbath conquering, dying flesh leads the way
To this mighty kingdom
Time has embraced a ruler
A bloodbath, conquering
The weak rejected
Will die for all to see
No fight for life
Blood saturates the ground
8. The Eye of Judgement – 02:47>
Shroud my face in this veil of scorn
At one with Darkness I am reborn.
Eye of judgement
Staring at you;
Turn your face and hide.
I impose my wrath upon you
Imploring me, you'll die.
Burning in the flames
Cast upon your life.
Feel the darkest energy
Infect your soul.
Screaming rage of negativity
Dwells beyond my eyes
Inside I control.
Inflict my horror
To the heart of weaker useless souls I despise.
No longer
Will I allow my enemies to contimue life.
Descent into the grave
Is the punishment.
I impose on you
Your flesh consumed.
Swirling mass of omnipresent
Hate and solitude
Beckons you
Eye of judgement.
Covered in the blood of my enemies
And pure virgin innocence.
My soul can rest
I've imposed my judgement
On the feeble beings
And their souls are raped
In my God-like state.
9. Perpetual War – 04:04>
Stare in the face of this humanity;
Frantic beings searching for their immortality.
Hear the rage of the ending call
And fight for life in the war on death.
Perpetual War
Fight
Replenish mortal form
Replaced with an artificial one.
An illusion of continuance
Life sustained only to be consumed.
Strive to see the end of a mortal plague,
Only to be defeated again.
Discover cures, alter destiny
Incubation of doom.
Much more aggressively
Burns in the fear of their passing on.
Descent to darken oblivion
To withstand the course of time,
Is to deny the very fact that we die.
Regression into the hands of disease we resist
Fools imploring their Gods for regrets.
Pray to idols for their sanity
Yet ultimately reach submission.
Into the hands of death we detest
So surgery is performed.
Open flesh for alteration
To preserve our being.
Pawns in perpetual war we engage.
Stare in the face of this humanity
Frantic beings searching for their immortality.
Hear the rage of the ending call
And fight for life in the perpetual war.
The passion for the flesh
And the burning desire we have to exist.
Observe the weakness of our entity
And in the quest for matter
Become a casualty.
Fight
Replenish mortal form
Replaced with an artificial one.
An illusion of continuance
Life sustained only to be consumed.
10. Embraced by Apathy – 02:54>
Raise in the screams of the dying light;
Born into tragedy,
Existing violently.
Forced disregard of all humanity
Product of a war.
Where a generation of souls,
Embraced by apathy,
Caressed by dying energy.
Released from the bodies
Who can't adapt
The weak are attacked.
Horror
Forced into life is this genocide.
Where endless blood saturates the eyes
Of those who kill prepared to die.
Their hunger craving life.
Embrace their minds
Their apathy keeps them blind.
Surely our demise
Within their screams we die.
In vain, force in the blade.
Voluntary plague injected foolishly
Answer to a life obscurity.
Product of a mind
Where a generation
Has drowned themselves in stupidity.
Project aggressively
Choking on the blood of their enemies
Their searching for
11. Hymns of Tragedy – 03:29>
Open your mind; see beyond your realm
Into the eyes where such horrors dwell.
Singing the hymns of this tragedy
Are the voices of the suffering.
The end of our time drawing near
As displayed in the face of the tortured ones.
Entombed in their graves
Voices still screaming for salvation.
That will never come
As thousands more die,
The screams remain
For the ears of the living.
Reminding them all of their death
Hear their cries
Hymns of tragedy.
Rising from within the flames
As the skin of the face slowly melts away
The flesh becomes ash
Screaming is ceased by the touch of death
But those who have seen.
Screams of the burning child
Within their mind.
The cries still ring,
Suffering, waiting for death.
Hear their cries
Hymns of tragedy.
12. In Dark Purity – 06:11>
Born in the dawn of a new era
Existing in the vast confines of infinity.
Reaching out toward the light
Reaching out to burn alive.
Breath down in the sea of desperation
Engulfed in the burning wrath
Of the beast inside,
Devoid of life.
In the flesh it lies
The soul a portrait of rage
Which dwels beyond the eyes.
Its hunger devours from inside
Wrenching your soul until it cannot be
In dark purity.
In the flesh it lies
In dark purity.
Alone inside
The screaming silence will not die;
It beckons me
To the things the silence screams.
13. The Pillars of Drear – 03:43
14. Angel of Death (Slayer cover) – 04:48>
Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The way that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life
Forced in like cattle, you run
Stripped of your life's worth
Human mice, for the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
Destroying without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race
Surgery with no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher
Angel of Death
Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
How long can you last in this frozen water burial?
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time 'til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve the holocaust
Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain reach out for you
His face of death staring down, your blood running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of the mutants he's creating
Pathetic harmless victims left to die
Rancid Angel of Death flying free
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher
Angel of Death
Angel of Death
50:11 –
Total length: 50:11
Lineup
Band Members
Tony Norman – Guitars
Lee Harrison – Drums
Kelly Conlon – Bass
Jason Avery – Vocals
Guest / Session
Jamie Osbourne – Guitars (lead) (track 12)
Miscellaneous Staff
Eric Johnson – Artwork
Jim Morris – Engineering, Editing
Tim Hubbard – Photography
Mitch – Engineering (assistant)
Robert – Engineering (assistant)
Wendy – Engineering (assistant)
Jose Perez – Logo
Walt Rossmann (R.I.P. 2020) – Design
Paul Kuhr – Layout
Jay Fernandez – Songwriting (tracks 2, 4, 7-10)
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