CEREMONIAL CASTINGS LYRICS

1. The Great Old Ones

By the words of the Mad Arab Alhazred
From the nameless city & keeper of the keys
Behold my findings from behind 9 doors
Rushing devils now invoke my dreams
Dark univers I hear ye yawning
Black as the Witches' Cauldrons are
Old Minds more intelligent than Miskatonics
Here I seek you and dare to travel far

Gathered now the black brotherhood be
Under stars aligned in Trapezohedron form
Bas-relief readings from the idol stone
conducting rituals; Cthulhu be reborn!
Before hell-wind & titan-blue
Aeon-shadowed Walpurgisnacht
Rise from Yith-infested Seas
Psychic-tentacle mind rot

Cthulhu, Azathoth
Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath
Father Dragon, Dagon
Mother Hydra, Yog-Sothoth

Borne on the wings of night
Are those out beyond space
From dim eras & dark stars
Entering here through the spirit gate
Black-winged ones travel through sky
Cephalopods of cryptic lore
Stretching beyond Arkham minds
Cthonian prophecy shadows forth

Electricity from below
smoke-wreathed world of dream
Violet lamp-starred twilight
Nothing here is what it seems
I see the tower in the dark
A shadow that is out of time
Lightning strike from cloudless skies
In their name dark star Yuggoth shine

2. Return To The Cosmic Infinity

Trembling earth, under chanting cults,
Chill winds bring vast new fear
Shattered-sky holds luminous bolts,
Old ones cast bondage of strange fever
Cosmic secrets of the glowing stone,
Planetary Giza alignment
Gates and Passages through voids unknown
Now unlocking a true god's confinement

Night howls peer haunting ecstasies,
they tear & echo like the wolves of hell
Possession through control-lost orgies,
for him...we are whipping ourselves
High-delerium & stagnant motion,
our minds are not our own-
Imprisoned animalistic fury,
peaceful now to the phantom; a drone

Soon be the season of the proper moon's cycle
Resurrection when the stars align
First signs of liberation & revival
Mi-gos plunge like comets in our skies

Like glowing hale falls alien orbs,
crashing violent into colossus-wave
Descending down upon our oceanic floors
implanting us with visions of his grave

3. The Depths Of Dreams & Terror

The horrors I've seen
within my sleep & dreams
awakens my mind
to the absolute strangest things
From deep inside
it's astronomical mind,
starring from below
watching with gazing eyes

Reverse anthropod abortion,
convulsive subconscious contortions
A new unrestricted reality
trapped in prismatic distortion
Dark universe coursing through my veins,
black planets begin to roll without aim
Beyond the realms of my mind,
lays a city I cannot yet name

Unknown superior; he who will drown the sun
Laying below a chasm of stone,
shielding him since the sun was young
Blasphemies from elder stars
which dream beneath the sea
The old ones were, the old ones now
& again the old ones be

4. Below A Mirror Of Stars

[Instrumental]

5. Submerged Stones Of R'yleh

Awakening now, from an emerald-hazed slumber
Panic & mania...brought from what I have seen.
A city shrouded in complete & utter silence
Forbidden landscape of my blasphemous dreams
Obsolete vista of unknown architect
Cyclopean structures; malachite-like dripping ooze
It will bring horrors beyond the likes of Dunwich
It will bring horror, revelation & truth

It has gripped my mind; subconscious residuum
Involuntary visions of an estranged citadel
Luring Master; Telepathic Disseminator
I will find you through consciousness & will
Supreme dweller, who whispers in darkness
Seeking one...made of flesh & bone
Necronomic scriptures shall map my path
Descending unto undimensioned crypts of stone

"What I see is unmeant for mortal eyes.
Paralyzed in dream state I somehow telepathically
float towards the abstract monolith.
I seem to be lowering further & endlessly down.
Diminishing is the light of the sun which breaks through
what I can only imagine to be the crown
somewhere on the Pacific.
Darkening becomes my vision except for the unworldly
structure I fear to know. Engulfed in black oceans,
I am channeled forth...beyond my will.
As spoken by the Esoteric Order, here lays the sea soaked perversion that houses a great dead dreaming priest.

I have reached the monstrous acropolis. It sits in
loathsome shapes that could only be built by travelers
from dark stars beyond galaxies we've yet to discover.
Oh what mass this holds. Surely only a titan
must lurk within these stones.
Not even the gates of heaven could rival these dimensions.
Here surely rests the supreme dweller.
Deepest of deepest ones laying behind the wall of sleep.

I now must begin my decent beyond earth's
alternate dimensional plane. Outside the circles of time
& downwards through dark pillars bearing inscriptions
foreign to the eyes of man.
Behold the mighty nightmare-corpse city we once
thought unreachable.
Behold a dripping Babylon of elder-demons.
Behold the metropolis tomb & colony of Cthulhu.
Behold R'lyeh"

6. Crypt Of The Kraken King

Those of The Void, seek passage here
Dead but dreaming...His time draws near
Continuing forth...following forbidden signs
I must crack the seal to release the chains that bind

Elder-devil who dances in astral flames
I hear your silent howls, I hear you call my name
Eater of time & space, ancient spawn of the stars
Illustrate your dementia, unseen haunter of the dark

Submerged sepulcher, inert daemonical pool
Hair-raising silence slumbering nightgaunt & ghoul
Divine Viridian Nexus, magnificent celestial tower
Entombed super-Omega, ensnared sleeping power

Great Nodens of the Silver hand,
Abysmal-lord beneath the waves
Secret teacher of the nether,
Yog-Sothoth stands behind the Gates

Unknown darkling-forms move & gather round,
Leering shadows guide my way
Supreme Sultan who controls my will,
Deliver me unto his grave

7. A Throne Below The Black Sea

Iridescent golden flecks radiate within blackened stone
Hieroglyphic-colossal blocks, undoubtedly
The Destroyer's Throne.
Indestructable contraption that bears inscriptions,
Resurrecting instructions, aloft a heap of bones.
Terror of apprehension...creating imagination
I weave wild witchery to wake...thee unknown.
Alternative Universe, descend unto our atmosphere
Dark gods ascend in us, we reap what we have sown.

Let the voices of the faithful be heard beyond boundless
wells of night.
Chant boisterous, spirits of earth...shout hymns amidst
greatest might.
Dread & admiration, dream-sculptured incantations,
Psychotic mind-molestation, he is within my sight!
Great old one, elusive external King,
generate stellar blackness; our world devoid of light.
Electric anathema, bring song from Tru'nembra
cease the clock of time, import our spheres last rite.

My orifices dripping with jellied-green
For sure Shoggoths within my limbs
Protoplasmic organ fiends
Moving through my blood like a slithering Yig

Re-animator; I am the chosen one
Gifting re-birth to he who eternally lies
Yet with strange aeons...
Even Death may die.

8. Above A Reflection Of Water

[Instrumental]

9. Storming The Pacific

Formless presence smoke rising
Black Aether erasing our horizon
Seven seas freshly flood
Seven continents concealed in blood

Ceaselessly Crawling Chaos,
Planetary-wreckage holocaust-seance
Ithaqua flares riding winds
Abysmal stares burst unhinged

"Praise him;
he with tentacles like serpents,
Praise with the black goat of the woods
with a thousand young,
Praise the blind demon
who dwells within the pit of chaos,
Praise the destroying eye,
the cold flame & the burning ones"

IA!
IA!
IA!
IA CTHULHU!

10. Swallowed By The Aeons Of Time

Darkness constructing, the vast deep rises forth
Great poison from the sea, tenebrous wings storm the shore.

Lunacy exploding, reclaiming realms of wonder
Wailing out to infinity, roaring like a thousand thunders.

Rise & set blackest sun, shine upon the end of man
Let us pray to see Kadath, let us dream on plateaus of Leng.
Cover Earth with slate Abyss, reverberate our all-knowing end,
Welcome us through shamanic portals,
let our minds from our bodies ascend

Transparent being gleaming through emerald light
Undimensioned knowing not the day or night
Great mountain of madness, wielding wormholes from beyond,
Space-aquatic-levitator; summoning star-clusters blocking dawn

Yuggoth descend from what is left of our sky, and now the world & all contained inside shall die

This is the end, the end of all.
For all is lost...& lost are all.

11. Endless Oceans

[Instrumental]

12. Cthulhu Unbound

[Instrumental]








CEREMONIAL CASTINGS LYRICS