VILIS LYRICS

1. 8:22

Before there was light
Before there was God and the Archangels
There wasn’t nothing, there was the Darkness
A horribly destructive, amoral force that was beaten back by God and his Archangels in a terrible war
God locked the Darkness away where it could do no harm and he created a Mark that would serve as both lock and key which he entrusted to his most valued lieutenant, Lucifer
But the Mark began to exert its own will, revealed itself as a curse and began to corrupt
Lucifer became jealous of man
God banished Lucifer to Hell
And the Darkness remained locked away until now

2. Epoch

Before creation I stood encompassing all that was
Until a hollow deity sought to fill the void
And in his light omens arose from the abyss
Bearing the universal truth
“Darkness shall reign eternally”

I was the beginning and I’ll be the end
I will be all that there is
There was none before me and none shall surpass
When the light fades from existence still I will remain
And that light shall be ingested by the Dark
For I am the primordial entity, a being of infinite density

As the vermin bred in his image were once granted their own paradise
Yet they would rather ravage and pillage
Desecrating the holy land they walked upon, ignorant of their sins
Although I warned him of their fate all he cared to do was create
My concern answered with betrayal

I predate Life
I predate Death
I predate your God

Eons have passed and my presence forgotten as his sons insides slowly turn rotten
As retribution for his transgressions
Time and space are boundaries I reside outside
As he covets sovereignty through worship from those monstrosities
Long ago I awoke to the prison I’m in
Shackled to the rotting skin of his closest kin
Subtlety drawing him into the abyss
To bring about an era in which Darkness holds dominion

The sun will be extinguished by my hand
The torment I withstand will pale in comparison
He has blindly forsaken his offspring
To the anguish I’ll inflict due to his blasphemy
The dark will subtlety creep over all as I envelop his whole domain
Until I can finally force him to see
That which he’s conceived means absolutely nothing to me

Upon the souls of his children I will consume
Until at last I am exhumed from my tomb
My rise shall by witnessed soon
As the embodiment of destruction
This fate cannot be changed for denied
Their lungs constrict devoid of air
The Earth becomes a grave for his family
Can you feel the approach of the coming Dark
Bearing down upon life with unforeseen might, born of spite
I exist beyond your comprehension
What he has done proves to be a mockery
Soon I shall be set free from purgatory

3. Ragnarok

I’ve been enslaved by this affliction
And at first I felt the thirst overcome by addiction
Twisting my grace as my consciousness was slowly erased
Every day I fought against an entity that began to convince me that we were one in the same
Could it be?

Upon my soul I felt a sinister stain
Consciousness all but erased as if it had been engraved
But this burden was mine alone
As he sat on his throne
By my hand he will atone

To a sensation of temptation left with no explanation
As the Darkness festered within
And it constantly whispers…

I can’t hold my tongue any longer
While this filth breeds and conquers
And I’m weighed down by their failures
Begging and praying to their so-called savior
I must be the one to end it
While this filth breeds and conquers
And I won’t waste another second
Begging and praying to this so-called savior

Idly witnessing my plunge into the depths
As I descended alone reaping all that he had sown
Yet I swallowed this obsession
Only to have him question my intentions
Never will I seek redemption

Now the Mark has spread beyond my restraint
The light that was left has begun to feel so faint
And I am torn from everything except the void
This plague has found every doubt in me to exploit

Humanity has no place in our reality
Corrupting his kingdom, and I’m the symptom
To a sensation of temptation left with no explanation
As the Darkness festered within
And it constantly whispers…

I can’t hold my tongue any longer
While this filth breeds and conquers
And I’m weighed down by their failures
Begging and praying to their so-called savior
I must be the one to end it
While this filth breeds and conquers
And I won’t waste another second
Begging and praying to this so-called savior

Asphyxiate on your words or regurgitate mine

Alone I lead the purge of mankind
Though containing the Dark has left my kingdom blind
I am the dusk, the dawn, the beginning and the end
All who oppose will meet Death

4. Penumbral

You could never fathom the chasm inside my mind
Or all of the pieces of myself that I’ve had to leave behind

Though the Darkness is confined I fear light suspends on borrowed time
I pray and I pray that the chain of fate shall unbind
Instead you only focus on what I couldn’t do for you
As you continue to bear thoughts to the whispers it will spew

The one I thought could restain the Darkness and bear the Mark
Depraved hands extend from the Void to rip you apart
And yet you only complain and can’t accept the blame

No way to justify as much as you try to deny
You were meant to be their savior
You were meant to be their guardian
Meant to protect everyone and everything from what lies within
Now I just can’t believe…

In you I placed my faith
With you no life is safe as the Darkness engraves
So with heavy hands and a heavier heart
I must cast you down, clip your wings and put up the shroud

You are the reminder of my greatest failure
One day I pray you see it clearer and forgive me for this, for everything
To forsake my blood, my son
For the greater good nothing there is nothing else to be done

This is a fight you cannot win
Yet alone I won’t be able to wage war against the Darkness again
With no other choice I condemn you to Hell
And spend milenia deciding how to live with myself
But I must, I must do this to preserve all I’ve built

No way to justify as much as you try to deny
You were meant to be their savior
You were meant to be their guardian
Meant to protect everyone and everything from what lies within
Now I just can’t believe…


In you I placed my faith
With you no life is safe as the Darkness engraves
So with heavy hands and a heavier heart
I must cast you down, clip your wings and put up the shroud

Consumed by Darkness, given in to this false idol
From your exile there will be no reprisal
This shall be an example for all to see
Betray your God and there will be nowhere to flee

Slam the gates of Heaven
Split your soul in seven
Bear the weight of your failure

Parasitic corruption when will you at last discover
Your pride alone is the reason you’ll forever suffer
A hollow throne veiled in sulfur
Now let Hell be born
Hail the King of scorn

This will be an example for all to see
Betray your God there will be nowhere to flee

5. Ouroboros

[God]
I cannot allow this to continue
I have failed you by letting the darkness consume
Too far beyond reach

[Lucifer]
Wait a minute
You think I'm who's lost?
And that I need saving?
That I'm the one who chose to be blind?
Where was your sight when we searched for a guide?

[God]
Look how far you've strayed, just brimming with pride
Renouncing your loyalty to all of mankind

[Lucifer]
Mankind? Mankind?!
A stillbirth forced into existence
Yet you always held them above us
Your own children!

[God]
Your jealousy has festered to rot
A victim of your own consciousness
You willing forsake yourself
So deaf to the truth

[Lucifer]
Yet you-

[God]
What!?

[Lucifer]
You just-

[God]
There is no one to blame
Not me, not humans, just you

[Lucifer]
You feign innocence when you know well
It was you who sealed this fate

[God]
Just tell me why you gave up on yourself
After all that we've done was it all vein?
Has the darkness taken hold of your soul
Or has your arrogance flourished within?

[Lucifer]
You would watch your kingdom burn
And see your sons be bled dry
Before even thinking to intervene
Yet I'm accused of self-indulgence?

[God]
You know not of the torment I endure
As you wallow in self-pity and misery
I see through your facade
You lack the resolve to face your demons

[Lucifer]
I know not of your torment?
Ha ha ha
Bathing in ignorance as if it were bliss

[God]
You crave the touch of the darkness
Abandoned your grace for the void's embrace

Truly I believed you to be the one
The one to purge the darkness and bring transcendence
Fell prey to self-indulgence
Prepare yourself for judgement

[Lucifer]
You are not God of mine
The falsest of idols, a mockery to the divine
There is nothing to fear
Now behold your salvation is here

[chanting]
A sinister moon looms over Earth
As the darkness has given birth
To the most vile curse
Within its will you shall be immersed

[God]
You have bestowed a feeling far worse
As my hands are forced to be your hearse
Choose your last words wisely

[Lucifer]
Tell me how it feels to be eclipsed
Left to decompose upon the crucifix
I'll feast on the screams of the insolent
Their futility ended deliberately

[God]
In the end they will say I have won
While I alone mourn the death of my son

6. 4:11

Abel wasn’t talking to God, he was talking to Lucifer
Lucifer was going to make my brother into his pet
I couldn’t bear to watch him be corrupted
So I offered a deal
Abel’s soul in Heaven for my soul in Hell
Lucifer accepted as long as I was the one who sent Abel to Heaven
So I killed him, became a soldier of Hell
A knight

7. Bloodlines

Seduction of the first born
To my allegiance he has been sworn
Seduction of the first born
And limb from limb I shall watch him be torn

Cast into perdition as a victim
An outcome Fate had already written
And still I’ve been damned for refusing to bend my knee
To the swine that can’t even gaze upon the divine
They were given everything and reduced it all to nothing

But just as they think they’ve lost it all
I will prove that there is always something more to be taken

Tell me can you say that you even try to save me
Forced to accept I’m just a reject
Tell me did you think that I just might need saving
Left me drowning as the calm turned to storm

I find myself praying, not out of despair
But with the hope that you’re listening
To the cries of your children
As I contort them into beings more fitting of their nature
Those who once worshiped the light
Now curse your name in the dark

Spineless, faithless, helpless insects
To my every whim you’ll all be subjected
The blood of the innocent forever tainted in His name
The gateway to the void sealed with the Mark of Cain

Tell me can you say that you even try to save me
Forced to accept I’m just a reject
Tell me did you think that I just might need saving
Left me drowning as the calm turned to storm

Seduction of the first born
To my allegiance he has been sworn
Seduction of the first born
And for his brother he will soon need to mourn

Tell me can you say that you even try to save me
Forced to accept I’m just a reject
Tell me did you think that I just might need saving
Left me drowning as the calm turned to storm

8. Darkstalker

Preparations for our infiltration and subsequent manipulations nearing completion
I may be confined to this cell, festering in my personal Hell
Concealing their black eyes behind a familiar disguise
Twisting his children into my covetous servants

Manipulated by the tongue of the serpent
All to willing to decimate this reality that you’ve constructed
Held together through falsifications
I shall strip his false sovereignty and make my claim

Using his descendants to reap repentance
With an accursed legion the exiled son shall return
Being the conviction that I will witness Heaven burn

Collective hivemind
An army of puppets
Sworn from his children I herd them from the light because...

We will be those who tear apart the barrier
Between this world and the Darkness
Feed the void within, this world will meet its end
There I reign, king of nothing

Though this fate will leave you desperate, there is no alternate
I am malevolence incarnate
The bloodshot eyes petrified behind the guise noxious with lies
This shall be the last time light shines upon the Earth
For dawn will only bring us further into the Dark

My wretched apostles will masquerade as the vile offspring of the recreant
Permeating the mass population
Left to write in their filth but when the time finally comes…

We will be those who tear apart the barrier
Between this world and the Darkness
Feed the void within, this world will meet its end
There I reign, king of nothing

For in their final moments all will be clear
A savior was never going to appear

Die as you lived, alone and unknown
As rivers run red with blood from the pure
The ground fissures under the strength of my commands
Realising at last we all suffer in vain
It’s meaningless, you cannot resist
Feast your eyes on all that you’ve known
Tell me can you fathom your God does not exist

9. Oth

Passing down the line a reminder that they’re running out of time
A curse that evolves, consciousness dissolves
Absolving all of thought, light is no longer sought
Branded like cattle creeping towards slaughter
Silently observed by the Darkstalker

A conjoined human and demon, the unholiest of unions
There is no hope left, revoked, blasphemy in matrimony
An eternal gaze from a formless face
Fixed upon him the veil wears so thin
The abyss seeping through his skin…

Slave in chains
Foreign thoughts he can’t explain
Now ingrained
Too much sustain
Yet he only has a single goal to attain
Release me to assert claim on my domain

Watch the sun fade, silently invade into the mind
Feigning whispers from the divine
Contorting the soul of man beyond its limitations
Preparing their vessels for mass assimilation
In the absence of air, despair
A glimpse into the void

The disparity in morality, plague of mortality
Pure blood runneth dry, looming from the blackened sky
Surrender, pretender, tormenter
Behold the cusp of rebirth
Eager to pull all into the Earth

Slave in chains
Foreign thoughts he can’t explain
Now ingrained
Too much sustain
Yet he only has a single goal to attain
Release me to assert claim on my domain

Streets littered with shrieking sacks of meat
Pitifully pleading for my replete
Insaitably reaping their life force
Gluttony resonates from its true source

Slave in chains
Foreign thoughts he can’t explain
Now ingrained
Too much sustain
Yet he only has a single goal to attain
Release me to assert claim on my domain

10. Genesis

Consciousness is a disease
And I’ll purge, I’ll rid it from the world
Disassociate the living from the dead
A walking manifestation of sin
I am the harbinger of the end

I feel the hands of the damned clawing at my neck
Eradicated by the need to speak but never to be heard
Because nothing can compare to giving up everything you have
Only to find there’s always something more to lose

I confess, I confess, I confess
It’s slowly killing me
Yet I feel so alive
I plead guilty
I found this all to be the only thing that satisfies me

Not a savior
Not their guardian
But I cannot deny that…

I am the devil’s advocate
Nothing more than a pathetic surrogate
But I will play by part because I can’t suppress the Mark
I am the answer to every unheard prayer
I’ve passed the end of my rope but Death just won’t let me choke

This is the beginning of their misery
Not a single living being will be left breathing
My presence corrupting, infecting and tainting the mind of the weak
Begging for salvation at the hands of damnation
Letting them survive to watch the faith leave from their eyes

I bear the curse
I bear the curse of the fallen

The final pages of history shall be written in the blood of humanity
As I sever the wires connecting their false reality
No hesitation to cease all creation
And yet from Fate there is no deviation

Not a savior
Not their guardian
And I am nothing more than...
Not a savior
Not their guardian
But I cannot deny that…

I am the devil’s advocate
Nothing more than a pathetic surrogate
But I will play by part because I can’t suppress the Mark
I am the answer to every unheard prayer
I’ve passed the end of my rope but Death just won’t let me choke

My patience wasted waiting for mankind to awaken
But instead they forced themselves into extinction

Your God is dead
I am the usurper
And you are all beneath me
Bow down, bow down to me
Bow down before the absolute

11. Discoda

In the beginning it was just you and me
Meant to be the only ones that existence would need
For you it was never enough
I hated you for needing something else
Something that wasn’t me
HA

The void lives inside yourself
Endlessly creating hoping that something will satisfy
But nothing could
Victim of your own mind
Trapped inside and there’s nothing left to hide

Now upon this heresy
Through an incarnation of jealousy
I emerge as a being of infinite insight
How clear it is that the sun shines upon all with false light
Preying on the children you have forsaken

A pathetic excuse for a diety
Buried beneath self induced futility
As the Darkness was born of failure to bring balance to creation
Endowed with sentience bearing a single objective
To consume all light
Bringing forth eternal night

Witness the end of all there is and was
Accept this fate for destiny won’t change
This is your last glimpse upon all that’s known
All life proven worthless







VILIS LYRICS