SAMAEL "CEREMONY OF OPPOSITIES"

Okładka Ceremony Of Opposites Album "Ceremony Of Opposities" powstał w 1994 roku.
Zespół występował wtedy w skladzie:
  • Vorphalack - Guitar & Vocals
  • Rudolphe H. - Keyboards & Bass
  • Masmiseim - Bass
  • Xytras - Drums
  • Płyta ta zawiera utwory:

    1. Black Trip
    2. Celebration of the Fourth
    3. Son of Earth
    4. Til We Meet again...
    5. Mask of the Red Death
    6. Baphomet's Throne
    7. Flagellation
    8. Crown
    9. To Our Martyrs
    10. Ceremony of Opposites
    "Black Trip"

    I've chosen the dark, I've chsen the night
    I've lost hope of loving a day of live
    the shades of night belong to me
    I am at one with hell

    Death inside, I've watch the time pass
    I await the comming of my day

    My journey are always within me
    There where is found the bottomless pit
    Where, there in I plunge, always a little deeper
    There, in that other world where only unity is harmony

    Sheltered from the regard and the rules of men
    There colour is absent, light is black

    Enemies of the sun, the phantoms of the shadows
    Have taught me to delight in horror
    Faces without eyes, and the silent lips
    Float in the immensity of empty space
    A sweet melancholy fills my heart
    Life as a whole seems absurd
    Silense is so pure, so profound that it intoxicates
    The emptyness, annihilates all
    And nothingness takes it place


    "Celebration of the Fourth"

    Oh purificator fire, that burns in me
    Rekindle my courage, gife me your force

    Blow, northerly wind, come, wind of death
    Storms, hurricanes, be at my side
    By water, by air, by fire, by earth

    Oh purificator water, essence of life
    Mirror of time, drown the lies

    Earth, mother's man
    Dissembowelled by your sons
    From your blood of fire
    Will rise the chaos

    By water, by air
    By fire, by earth


    "Son of Earth"

    Hideous louse!
    The face deformed by horror
    By the fear of life's duties
    By the anguish of the unknown

    - Born in blood and tears
    - You'll bleed and cry when the day you die

    Welcome to the world of the living
    Here's your supreme punishment
    Look at the wound of life
    That only death will be able to heal

    Oh! Bulged tummy women
    Oh! Deformned body women
    From your filthy womb
    It's death to whom you give birth
    Hideous louse!
    The face deformed by horror
    By the fear of life's duties
    By the anguish of the unknown

    Welcome to the kingdom of the dead
    Here's your promised reward
    Looks on you to close again
    The great vagina of the Earth


    " 'Til We Meet Again..."

    To those whom I miss,
    And to those who would miss me

    Life is short, but long in the living
    Going forth on the uncertain paths of the future
    Seeking an outlet, a path, in vain

    There where that tunnel so familiar
    And that wall banishing the light
    Stifling forever the hope of a better day

    Curs'd be she who gave me birth
    Prisoner of live, I await my deliverance
    I am weary of the struggle for chimeras
    Of sensing the weight of time, past and future

    I began my descent as from that first day
    This night shall be mine, that of the great leap
    There will be a war, a key, a door

    Faced with the dilemma of the cord
    Short are the paths which lead to the tomb

    Drunk with eternity I topple the chair beneath my feet
    The phobia of the infinite is speedily replaced by darkness

    This profound and absolute darkness
    Which I have dreamd of for so long


    "Mask of the Red Death"

    Sickness born with life
    She is a careful and patient shadow
    Man's faithful enemy
    Unceasingly transformed, rebaptized

    Behind a different mask
    I know it's always the same face,
    Always the same eyes greedy for agony
    Always the same compassionate ears
    Listening to our Moans,
    To Our Heartbeats

    Passive and disinterested
    Like an infidel wife
    This cold and wet mouth
    Will give us the very last kiss

    Death is red,
    For those who experience her torments

    Bound to death like a daughter to her mother
    She gives her mass graves overflowing
    Of sketched life, of projects and hopes

    What's good to see her so active

    Abandoned, in the arms of another plague
    Humanity slowly disappears
    Someone prays, some others cry

    What's the good to see her so active

    "Baphomet's Throne"

    Each blaspemy is another stone to edifice of Your glory
    I want to be a rock on which You'll build our church

    Am I the son You've been waiting for?
    Am I the chosen one?
    To be Your Messiah on Earch
    And sit at Your left in hell
    I've always ignored the doubt
    answers are in the question

    Show me the way to the Baphomet's Throne...

    Guide my hand, light my path
    my mouth will speak with Your words,
    I'll make statements with Your orders
    I'll be the supreme insult
    Which will forevermore soil the image of God
    I'll be Your revenge, I'll be Your victory
    Guide my hand, light my path

    Show me the way,
    to reach one day the Baphomet's Throne...


    "Flagellation"

    Plaesure in pain
    Desire of mortification
    to achieve the extreme
    to know the ultimate

    To be a slave for a moment
    the body offered up to cruelty
    to the lash which whips on the skin
    which slashes the flesh, lacerates the back

    To fell the blood, thick and warm
    flow over my wounds

    Flagellation...

    To thrust aside the limits
    to say "yes" to death
    without fear, without remorse
    to give up oneself to torture

    Punishment and reward
    The whip is ambiguous
    is disills vice
    in a perverse refinement

    To be a slave for a moment
    the body offered up to cruelty
    to the lash which whips on the skin
    which slashes the flesh, lacerates the back


    "Crown"

    If eyes are the mirror of the soul
    You will find in mine the scorn and apaty
    You will read my hatred as in a curs'd book
    You will see yourself as I see you

    It is a mirror sombre and opaque
    Which protects me, which stifles me
    A great ditch around the heart
    Which rejects, which estranges me

    There is a world in my head
    A dead world where nothing lives
    And it is there I am, too far,
    Far to far to be rejoined

    A crown of thorns is still a crown

    I am a king in a kingodm of suffering
    I have taken my time to reach this stage
    I have taken pains to tourture myself
    To descend, to descend
    Into Pain, I exist
    An if my brain is numbed
    The thorn in my flesh
    Can overcome apathy

    There is glory in humiliation
    A throne to be taken, a crown to win

    I have no more tears,
    And my smile has lost its brilliance
    I have forgotten who I was
    I have killed my emotions
    Crushed, empty, weary
    Always standing, I am a tree
    Awaiting the lightning


    "To Our Martyrs"

    Reign of fear, of war,
    of silense, of resignation
    under the rules of the book of lies
    trawling the wrong path
    led like cattle

    Never try to understand, accept, obey
    follow followers
    and forget who you are

    What's a life style, to live for orders
    to share all with everybody
    to answer love to hate

    Never try to understand, accept, obey
    follow followers
    and forget who you are

    Take each single insult and injury
    as a present, as a spiritual gold
    to buy your place in heaven

    I spit at your god's face
    I piss on the cross
    I vomit on the holy Bible
    I shit on the blessed whore and her bastard son
    I desacrate, crush and destroy
    all which is sacred, all which is blessed
    I've found the one who lives in me

    Brothers and sisters
    time for change is comming
    bells for revenge strike the end of times

    By faith, by forse
    we'll walk toward the light
    and forever be our own god


    "Ceremony of opposites"

    The top becommes the bottom
    the fantasy becomes the reality
    the conceptions change
    the landmarks dissolve

    And all becomes intermingled
    To flirt with the despicable
    in a trance without end
    where the ice burns
    like growing emberns
    and where one shatters
    by fits and starts of sperm
    the morale of men

    Serve another god
    Lose another dream

    Sentiments imprison and leave
    their wictims without defense
    love as a poison which
    flourishes in the heart of the weak

    From the lover world we direct
    the atraction of the distasteful
    makes us ignore the vile
    since only from below
    can be better see the heights

    All music by Xytras, except "To our Martyrs" by Vorphalack/Xytras.
    All lyrics by Vorphalack.

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