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Living in the Shadow of Death (Demo)

by Astralhex (Official)

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1.
Dance like the shadows do, so you can see the black spirit of reckoning and death. To face your fate, you no longer stay here in the world. Living in the shadows of death, the end will never come, the chosen descend the ground and yet live beyond in spirit . Dwell not in the past but dream of life beyond through death. A silent cold slumber in the frozen winter soil, touched by the winds of darkness nevermore. Living in the shadows of death, seeing the truth that darkness is an inversion of the light and cannot be seen. Thus, death is the inversion of life and cannot be seen. Letting the rot of flesh commence, the spiritual decay of thoughts. Going onward for eternity to the doom filled depths.
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My curse is waiting in a world devoid of any evil. The gate is through a long and narrow path at its darkest and most horrid, things are in place that will not return until after a long fall. A gateway of human life’s endeavors ended in so much sadness and fear of death is what keeps you from being able to learn the depths of the infernal truth. Reading the cryptic runes in the bark of ancient trees. Epitaphs of arcane gnosis of the mystics and mages of whom could speak to the world of the dead and black as the hopeless despair was the light of the dark world. The gate is closed but it is still in the woods with the light of the darkest night. Within the grasp of our collective being we see your face and the fear of eternal sadness in humanity and to the depths beyond your grave. Sacrifice, for the human life, of the world at large, does not know in its feeble mind that the gate to our evil realm is through death!!!!
3.
Below the forest, below the trees and worms, my corpse shall be the key to the portal to undying infernal lands. My death was the beginning of eternal age of immortality. For all whom drink of my blood shall feel the burning in your veins to slaughter and drink of the mortal vessels of holy flesh. For you will be a vassal to the dead when you drink of their rotting blood. Newly made disciple go forth as a knight of the empire of eternal death. With crimson eyes and bloodstained blade you must go out and find sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice!!!!Our lord finds his sons in the dying men who fought for him and bear the sign of the black mark.
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A sepulchral breeze and dying smell of autumnal decay blow towards where my being dwells. At first it is rather tepid but then becomes a gusting, very icy wind. It will finish all signs of life upon this realm. Its as though there is a gathering of demonic spirits under some sick spell. The winter winds have been summoned but not by me and I dare say we shall not see the light of summer days again. The arrival of the winter winds is making this world unbearably colder. The arrival of the winter winds will be here for much longer than we thought.
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Screaming at your mortal foe who cast you out of the realm of the living. You shriek, this sound is your dying gasps as you will be carried away by freezing winds to the ultimate void. No matter how hard you cling to your tombstone. The sounds of death are the most primal of them all. They inspire fear, the end of life, the great beyond unknown and infinite. Your life can end in a moment, the human life so fragile, pathetic, and weak!!!
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We leave at dawn when the light shines is dark and grim. The lord of night was worshipped and given praise. Heretical oaths were taken and we sold our souls to the underworld. It began as the winds of darkness had spoken . We spilt the sacred blood on the altars of aged stone. Primal evil so timeless and mysterious was carried out by our hands. The dust and fog of the ritual had settled now all of light is gone. a grim dawn of ashes as a memory of the cursed night will live on. A grim dawn of ashes after a black mass in the dusk. Malevolent spirits rise on this morning unholy!!
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A ghost seen through the gate of dark light peering through the realm of voids. Gazing upon our mortal presence and we slowly begin to perceive the beginnings of his existence in this world. It was a quite ghastly and a ghoulish sight to behold. He was a ghost caught between the shadows and the light of heaven. He was a curious soul to some yet to others he was a bad omen. He will possess your soul. Then you shall do his bidding. Sacrificial rituals must and will commence. It is fair and due recompense for the banishment behind the cursed gate. You shall not stop the arrival of evil spirits, it shall come!!! He will destroy humanity and will not stop nor cease until heaven is ablaze!!!

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Recorded in the Summer of 2019.

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released September 23, 2019

Summoner Tormentus- vocals, drum programming, lyrics and recording and producing as well.
Nithral- Guitar and composition on all songs.

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Astralhex (Official) West Des Moines, Iowa

I am currently working on a single and then a full length album.
Formed in 2014 as Unholy Inquisiton and became Astralhex in 2015.

Summoner Tormentus- Vocals, composing, and lyrics.

Currently on Cryptic Stench Records: crypticstench.bandcamp.com
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