Artist: Nocturnus
Release: Thresholds
Release: Thresholds
1. Climate Controller
Lord Addu, master of the earth and sky
Kakodammu
I call to thee, hearken and remember
Bring forth the mighty storm that this world shall taste your fury
Lord Gibil, keeper of the fire and forge
Baalagnitarra
I call to thee, hearken and remember
Make the swords appear in the sky that all shall feel your might
Commander Luggaldimmerankia, master of order
Banutukku
I call to thee, hearken and remember
Deliver the legions of wind demons unto this world that they may seek revenge
Zi dinger anna kanpai
Zi dinger kia kanpai
I summon thee, creatures of darkness
By the works of darkness
Climate controller!
The weather dominator
Storms – manufactured to destroy
Fire – striking down from the sky
Wind – sweeping all rocks and trees aside
Lava – emerging out of volcanoes
Quakes – shake the earth to split
Death – from the clouds
Armies – marching into their doom
Spirits – plundering their very souls
Ions – displaced from deep inside
Weapons – of the Gods
Fusion of the ancient ways
With modern tech support
Bringing atmospheric change
Master of climate control
Chanting to the angry gods
Seeding clouds with ice
Causing shifts in ether planes
Master of climate control
Chanting to the angry gods
Seeding clouds with ice
Causing shifts in ether planes
Master of climate control
Incantation finished as the armies start to charge
Suddenly the air begins to take on many shapes
Demons of the legion swarm to take revenge
Sheets of blindness tossing every human fool aside
Nothing left to count, no bodies
Blood-stained earth and stone lie scattered
Aftermath of horror sends a message to the globe
Danger to the empire will result in hells untold
Ripping both the flesh and soul of anyone who tries
To take with force the realm of the one who rules the skies
Nothing left to count, no bodies
Blood-stained earth and stone lie scattered
Keeping enemy troops in sight high above the fight
Armies destroyed, watching with delight
Waiting patiently for an eye to subdue the sky
Counting the dead as they lie in waste
2. Tribal Vodoun
From deep inside the islands
Comes a religious belief of magical fate
Necronomic tribes of the secret societies
Conducting ceremonies of the Vodoun faith
Revenge in store for enemies they hate
Soon to die, awaiting to arise
Doomed to die by a malevolent curse
Carnival of chaos
Symbolic designs
Carved in the earth to beckon Legba
Rites of the Petro
Reflections of rage and violence
Thundering drums echo unforgiving
Tribal chants grow louder
Dancers travel throughout the fire
Deity of fire Ogu
Protects skin from the flames
Divine horsemen arrive
Mounting the initiation of possession
Tearing glass, utter pandemonium
Spirits indulge in burning torches
Spinning dancers wake to reality
Vodoun cannot be abstracted from the day to day life of the Believer
All is whole, no separation between material and spiritual
The Bokor concocts the powder with the poisonous Datura
Sprinkled upon the way of his victim
Body racked with terrible convulsions
Mucus flowered from the nose and mouth shaking horrible
The edge of consciousness
Criteria of poison
Lethargic coma
Indistinguishable from death
Comatose
Mentally alive, pronounced physically dead
Nails driven into the coffin buried prematurely
Mind slips, disoriented, complete amnesia
Three days, fermented incarnation of evil
Baron Samedi
Guardian of the cemetery
Preparing the victim’s soul
For zombification
The fear initiates the victim
Psychologically vulnerable
Powder does not secure fate
It’s the mind
Baron unleashes cadaver
A soul trapped in a vessel
Blood spilt offering
Resurrection of zombie
Body without character
Aimlessly wandering through time
Servant to the Bokor
Le culte des morts
3. Nocturne In Bm
[Instrumental]
4. Arctic Crypt
Locked inside the ice below
Forgotten long ago
An alien object lies in wait
Lost beneath the snow
Seismic readings from the north
Lights above the poles
Curious humans drawn to the sight
Staking camp in the frozen night
Legends told of the evil within
Still, forewarned, the man came in
Seeking knowledge forbidden to man
Bringing death unto their land
Nocuous emissions alert the team
The source is soon revealed
A strange capsule scarred by time
Covered with a foreign script
Anxious to unlock its secrets
They crack open the seal
Unleashing the beast contained inside
The frozen arctic crypt
Legends told of the horror within
An ancient traveller of the stars
Left entombed until disturbed by man
Bringing death unto their land
5. Aquatica
Modern warfare of today
Brings forth a new technology
Killing through scientific means
Destroy the world with technology
Now we’ll see what is to be
Inescapability
Cloud masses concentrate
Osmosis fills the sky
Scattered remains, bodies left to decay
On this disease stricken earth, plague of andromeda strain
Affected by the gas
Reduce them to subhuman form
As I glimpse at swelled up corpses
Infested with radiated insects
Global chaos, mass confusion
The conclusion of a dying world
Mankind death is close at hand
The world is hanging by a strand
The key to an oblitered land
No one seems to understand
Whosoever masters the seas
The last remaining frontier
Gains the wealth locked in the brine
Precious minerals sought by the surface
Hostile takeover of the mining communities
Stormtroopers of technology
Careful to maintain nitrogen balance
Surgically removing the enemy within
New leaders create order out of chaos
A civilisation beneath the depths
Arson of power
Conquering the oceans forming imbalance
Particles react
Expire life from the precious seas
Thresholds mend
Sludge chain reaction melts them down again
Depth charge
Destabilising crust and floor
Instructed probes
Sear the water from the toxic veil
Weapons system
Tear the living from their glory
Vandal masters
Carving up the biosystem
Submerged deep
Fatal dictatorship of the seas
Surface dwellers tremble
From a new superpower
Superior intellect choosing
Base in the seas
Systematically eliminating
All who do not take heed
Stench of the aftermath
Confirms Aquatica’s victory
No longer shall there be any separations between cultures
Remaining survivors cast into a melting pot of conglomerate slavery
Absolute extinction of the once praised heroic patriot
Lands of solid ground turned into a biodegradable human wasteland
Pay homage to the ocean where the kingdom now dwells
Aquatica, the submerged city
6. Subterranean Infiltrator
Release me from the sky onto marsh domains
Expose the parachute to ease the vicious fall
Unseen by those below preying on their blindsights
Shadows dance about the jungle bog
Agent of espionage
Bearing north of the peninsula
Invitation to lay clear
Think over the strategy
Advance into forbidden marsh
Scope all in the infrared
Create offensive resistance from the river banks
Searching, stalking
Mustard gas released
Enter smokescreen
Dodging lasers
Sailing through the smoke and debris
Tracking hidden
Fortress sighted
Underground entrance
Found
Begin clearing operations
Thermal scan revealing activity
Entering the concealed passage
Corridors extend beneath the surface
Manoeuvring through the radar beams
Alarm reaction
Progression is slow under canister discharge
Targets locked at the ends of the turns
Awaiting any enemy to approach
Infrared identification
Once inside the target’s range
Seize the moment by squeezing the trigger
Single lead injection
Intentions to wound, not to kill yet
Movement gives away strategic position
A regiment responds to the action
Trip wire set, suckered into the trap
They lay decapitated
Explosions underground
Send shrapnel throughout the air
Metal fragments
Lodge beneath
Heavy military uniform
Excruciating pain dealt with
Bandage cuts circulation
Limping severely
Mission must be accomplished
Moving quickly towards goal
Stealth the key
Clear path to achieve lethal detonation
Flares of weapons burst in synch
Give way
Delay charge
Chemical timers are now set
Once on the surface
Reconnaissance picks him up
On the scope
Subterranean specialist looks down below
As the mountain lies in rubble
7. Alter Reality
Your universe is only a product of your mind
No escape once the threshold is crossed
Life and death hold no meaning
Hidden doors interdimensional shifts
A dreamy state of paralysis
Bands of mass convert into energy
Forms of light where no light exists
Time dilation ad infinitum
Linear chaos, internal distortion
Once inside a dual state of being exists
Non sequitur
Traveller of the continuum
Alter time
Altered space
Waves of gravity
Alter reality
Entropy nonexistent in this place
Macrocosm situated in parallel space
Constant flux warping all that spins throughout
Elements
Sharing outer valence shells
Identity
Blends into waves of shock
Haxe of reason
Shades of deformity
Correlation on an atomic level
Portar ajar
He stumbles into unknown
Over by free association
Twisted region shown to joumeyman
Overload
All is dissipated
Displayed
Violently unto the senses
Altered time
Altered space
Relative deformity
Alter reality
Entering
Travelling
Unwittingly
Part of it, one with it
Lost inside
Identity
Scrambling
Memory override
Entering
Unravelling
Regrettably
Part of it, one with it
Lost inside
Infinity
Insanity
Memory override
Lost in the mix
Non sequitur
Movement is dimensional
No escape
Part of it, one with it
Ad infinitum
Part of the whole
Reduced to nothing
Ad infinitum
Lost in the mix
Non sequitur
Ad infinitum
Part of the whole
Time and space
Perpetual
Labyrinth
Memory override
Entering
Travelling
Unwittingly
Part of it, one with it
Non sequitur
Ad infinitum
Part of the whole
Reduced to nothing
8. Gridzone
From the edge of outer regions
Far beyond our solar zone
Exists an altered sphere of power
Earth and metal machine of war
Planet’s crust pierced by cables
Linking networks beneath the surface
Titanium plates shield the globe
Cohesion of the infrastructure
Friction of electromagnets
Simulates centrifugal force
Massive gyros beginning to turn
Enforcing acceleration
Thrusters fire across the region
Spewing forth nucleic plasma
Worlds consumed, astral threat
Perpetual horror, termination
Gridzone!
Brutally constructed designed warfare
Perpetuating evil awaits no more
Intruding on peaceful isolation
Conformity crushed, death is near
Neutralise – chosen targets
Essential – suffering terrorised
Gridzone!
Deceptive diversion, blinded satellites cannot trace
Mechanical malfunction
Deteriorating systems by the interface
Initial confrontation sieged by catastrophic annihilation
Inferior worlds destruction
Laser gouging, penetration
From the edge of outer regions
Far beyond our solar zone
Exists an altered sphere of power
Earth and metal machine of war
Light years travelled forming an elliptical path
Eons of galactic destruction
Creating a vacuum crushing the globe
Devouring the energy dispersed
Seeker of impending doom
Completing an eternal cycle
Worlds consumed, astral threat
Perpetual horror, termination
Gridzone!