Incendiary Sanctum (2025) A Flock Named Murder 🇨🇦 Canada
Garden of Embers
Twisted and decrepit, we struggle through the fields
Dawn an ocean in our footsteps, we chase away the light
A clangor of bells herds us in droves toward the gallery
To disperse with weary hands this landscape of bone
Our turmoil scorches out the seasons in a militant burn
The feral dawn stoked high and wild in the hell we made
Those of us who remain yearn for a sense of home
In this forlorn abatement, silhouettes call my name
Burden grips within; the jaws that cripple serenity
Encased in a house of glass, I am depleted by the sun
I feel safe in my prison, arms open in rejoice
Fingers of light grazing luminous walls, embers settle in my blood
The wind dances across these lonely leaves like a flock of nervous birds
Heavy limbs carry the hangman, eyes wide and daunting in his sorrow
The skyline is beautifully on fire, and we marvel at its gruesome, twisting light
Reaching out into the firmament, as if to stop the stars from falling
As a figure of shadow, I pass through the wake of life and death
Dressing wounds weathered by years of affliction
The beacon of my viscera incinerates the truth of all form
A heaviest of hearts, and a fading radiance bleeds into the night
Pierced Flesh Catharsis
Synapses crack like whips in the endless dark
A wild lightning born in the fire of the eye
We bind shadows to our eyes so we might cloak our gaze
Rivers of vermillion ash are wept into the broken hourglass
I'm suspended in the doorway; the veil has been severed and senses wither in the cradle of unbeing
Crystallized in willful possession
The void burns my skin and digs deep into my bones
A knife in the wind to pierce my body and cleanse my soul
Bathed in the astral lake, I soar with radiant wings
Defiant in the husk of flesh
In this night we open our hearts to the wind and spill our wounds into the sky
The Eulogy Fields
In the silence of a darkened drapery, their bodies are radiant
Memories rekindled in a hearth somewhere between waking and dreaming guide them on a lonely pilgrimage
Frail nomads of that distant shore
In pastures that stretch beyond death and resilience I hear them singing
Their voices not unlike the tide
An undertow unbroken and a heart aching for the marrow of the sun
Emblazoned lifelessness and holy decay
Their sullen bones reach for the skin of twilight
Where neither gods nor man walk in faithless dominion
In the years following our struggle your apparition grips me by the soul and refuses to let go
Like ships that pass in the night your course is shared
A silhouette walks the gilded tightrope through constellations until the death of every star
A great wind choking out the flame of a million candles in the sky
Lanterns growing dim, I will scream your vengeance.
To Drown in Obsidian Tides
Nothing is forgiven in this place
Rage sweeps it's dunes over the frontier, obscuring all purpose
Orphaned by grief and waned by passing years
Sifting the dust of desire with phantom limbs
Scaling the crumbled fortresses of pride
Shallow depths, a sallow unblinking eye
Vanity our keeper, I despair and writhe
A pained exultation
A beacon
A toll
Desperate ode to filth, beckon this child of God
Gather your moths in forms opaque and absolute
Devour this false dawn
Whisper with your venomous lips and voice of scorched earth
Manifest that imposter into flesh and tear into a realm just beyond the gaze of the mirror
The infernal gateway
Woe to the culling flood
Abide the cataract and it's furious grace, and spill from windows of the skull
Forthright is that river that gave birth to me
It's perfect silence dissolved into every shred of my being
In fervent stillness a darker garden blooms
Come forth, and drag me into wretched bliss
With potency you lit a fire in my lungs, so that every breath would be a reminder of what led me here
What dismal beauty in this ever growing wilderness
Stone angels stand sentry as the reaper leads the masquerade
Dispirited fawn in their feigned joy, moving to the bitter clock of impermanence
Matter is desperately clinging to emptiness as the ashen pendulum falls.