1. |
Black Dolphin
03:16
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In a frozen wasteland
At the edge of forever
Lies the final frontier
Here are the worst on Earth
Serial cannibal cons
And terrorist killers
Kept under surveillance
24 hour watch dogs
Where no one leaves alive
A dark statue stands tall
At the entrance for the damned
It’s white eyes seeing all
The only way
To escape
Is to die
The only way
To escape…
Isolated and imprisoned
Shackled and celled
This is the place
Where the wretched dwell
Trapped
Behind three sets
Of steel doors
Living
Inside a cell
Within a cell
To live without hope
Is to cease to live
We are
The living dead
Despair is on order
Cruelty handed out freely
To these demons of men
When hell becomes empty
And all the devils are here
Black dolphin holds us all
The only way
To escape
Is to die
The only way
To escape…
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2. |
In Darkness I Dwell
02:15
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Isolation fucks with my mind
Desperation leaving me blind
Deprivation crushes my will
Aberration in me to kill
The illusion of life perplexes
With its endless mysteries
The frustration of death announces
Its intentions with clarity
Foul are the graves I’m digging
Innumerable and profane
Deep are the wounds I’m leaving
Cuts from mistakes I’ve made
The illusion of death amazes
With its endless simplicity
The frustration of life renounces
The struggles of captivity
Trapped in a cell devoid of light
Slowly I break
Trapped in a hell I cannot fight
No more can I take
Even in the darkest depths
You can’t hide from yourself
It’s amazing the pain you can take
When you don’t even have a choice
Down in a well of solitude
Screaming till you have no voice
The wisdom that’s found in misery
Gives no hope of reprieve
The touch of darkness overwhelms
Spreading like a blood disease
Isolation fucks with my mind
Desperation leaving me blind
Deprivation crushes my will
Aberration in me to kill
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3. |
Bloodthirsty
03:37
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People speak
Of the cruelty of beasts
No beast
Is as cruel as man
Been down so long
Forgotten what light looks like
Driven underground
Banging my head against the wall
There’s whispers in the dark
But I don’t know
What they say
My troubles multiply
There’s only emptiness
Down in here
Cry the whispers in the dark
Destroy my desires
Wipe out my ideals
Been mean so long
Forgotten what love feels like
Running rampant
Breaking away from my fears
That wait in the shadows
Destroy my desires
Wipe out my ideals
Show me something better
Than what my blood thirst reveals
Murder brings release
In the hands of the broken
These doctors
Believe there is a cure
Destroy my desires
Wipe out my ideals
Show me something better
Than what my blood thirst reveals
I am bloodthirsty
And will not stop
Until I’m dead
And the Earth rots
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4. |
Ideological Intoxication
02:09
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Don’t think
It’s too hard
And leads to depression
Just feel it out
And give in to it
There’s pleasure in submission
Drunk off the spirit of ideology
Compelled by the power of purity
Left in the gutter like wallowing swine
Beaten by reality time after time
Don’t work
There’s no point
Life is cruel and unfair
Take what you like
When you can
And live without a care
Murder is the wine
So drink from its cup
There is no
Internal struggle
Inside the fanatic’s mind
Succumbing
To corruption
Comes in its good time
Drunk off the spirit of ideology
Compelled by the power of purity
Left in the gutter like wallowing swine
Beaten by reality time after time
Murder is the wine
So drink from its cup
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5. |
Dead Within 3 Hours
02:14
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Beaten so badly I die
Bleeding from the ears
Breaking my jaw and my neck
To the sound of the guards’ cheers
I’m a fool
The dumbest of all
I never saw
The hammer fall
I’ve fucked up
For all my life
Now it’s gone away
Relieved of existence
Pain and suffering
Stark raving mad
Silence deafening
Nothing’s worse
Than dreams of freedom
My nightmare has come
Dying
Left for dead
Crying
In my head
Knowing
This is wrong
Growing
Fear growing strong
I’m a fool
The wisest of all
I know
How this ends
It’s all for naught
It’s Meaningless
Only death is real
Beaten so badly I die
Bleeding from the ears
Breaking my jaw and my neck
To the sound of the guards’ cheers
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6. |
The Penitent Void
05:48
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I’ve been molded by failure
From my first memory
I’ve taken all the world can give
And turned it into misery
There are things I’ve seen and done
No man should endure
Redemption is a fantasy
My poison has no cure
I kneel before the darkness
And feel it in my bones
Prostrate in my desire
To be at peace in the unknown
I kill me
With my desire to live
Forsake me
I have nothing more to give
Suffocating fury
Disemboweling dread
Funerary practices
Worshipping the dead
This experiment in terror
Is waged upon the spirit
Created to destroy
The last shred of my humanity
Facing the terrors of the abyss
All alone in spite
Learning the lessons of failure
My weakness turned to might
I kill me
With my desire to live
Forsake me
I have nothing more to give
I kneel before the darkness
And feel it in my bones
Prostrate in my desire
To be at peace in the unknown
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S.H.I.V. Dallas, Texas
Dallas, TX based hardcore death inspired by the works of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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