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The Purge

by Zero Degrees Freedom

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1.
The Fine Art 06:09
Oh, this is bliss, this fatal deliverance, travel portals to failures unknown. Oh, what is this, this foetal indifference? The storm that plays only for you.. Watch it burn! Such colours! How those shades, they mesmerise! Such sounds, the vicious arts! (such vicious hearts!) Ink blackens the aqua vitae Behold this, the fine art of self-destruction! What darkness is this? Parallels of beauty laid bare Bow to chaos, feel the pain complacency brings. Feel the pain humanity brings. Such colours! How those shades, they mesmerise! Such sounds… the fine art of self destruction. Sunrise. How it burns the lids. Drown in elegance...a fever so ineloquent. In twenty, thirty, six. Ill drink on the shore as the first wave hits. In 2036... I’ll greet Apophis with a smile on my lips.
2.
Worms 06:27
Spit out the worms... Diluted, the festering wound awakes A detour on the greying paths we take. Failures of circumstance, awaiting dispute Distortions of nothingness, cold; resolute. (Spit out the worms) Passion; the crown to crush kingdoms beneath, sever all sense with those lessons you'd teach Just spit out the worms. There is no perfect cure, apathy-stained and bleak The cancer of the modern age feeds on it's sheep Spit out the worms. Watch it fade, watch it fade away. See your hope as it withers away. Failure's call Solid now The worms they crawl, bloated now. Heaving mass, the bitter truth Fills your soul, failure screams... Screams your name...
3.
They 04:08
Bleed as you will martyr, for naught shall avail you, eyes ever bleak, scarred by Winter's crooked claw. Broken! The mirror returns your most wicked stare Carry your tune to the well too far to tread. SILENCE! They demand of the unwashed before them still your tongues, lest your leper-minds betray! Dark though your sorrows, these depths you shall never see. Your idols are crumbling, burned to dust! Shackled in thrall, in fear we trust; her voice on the winds speaks of fire, death, blood! They. Warned. You. Safe 'neath the watchful eyes of a malignant mind In strains against the maelstrom, caught in webs of light. The hive ever-watchful. Ever in wait. Deep within those catacombs, yet the end is in sight. To comprehend the great answer, we created the lie.
4.
Tranquillity 06:50
Against the tide, perspective is lost Upon these wretched shores, swim such wicked ghosts Solace denied as the birds of carrion scream The peace disturbed, drowning in tranquillity This silence pollutes what the wretched birds convey The ghost sits laughing, as the gulls stalk their prey And I hear, the sombre voice of death. The siren calls my name on the wind. Still that fucking ghost it tries to call my name. It wails, it heaves. That crooked finger of blame, points so soundlessly, yet aimlessly it burns. Oh! The bleak caress of hatred paints another shattered portrait now In bitter ink so black. A watercolour hell from brushes made of bones Unfettered thoughts better left beneath the waves. Cold; I ripp'd the albatross' peacock plumage from my throat And cast it to the sea. Those bitter nails of pain, loosened from my spine, as I watched those feathers fall, upon the wretched tide. Nevermore; to see that cursed raven in my blackened sight; Cast down from off my door. I watched those feathers fall, that hollow shell submerged Turned my back as the waves consumed her.
5.
The Crash 03:49
Home again. Home and I'm wading on through these failed memories Im going home again. I feel a change coming stealthy as the dawn. Sliding through depths, fear stalks your shadow. Stalking. Sanity fails, crumbled hope heaving Oh regret, culpa mea propria est ... drink failures bitter nectar. to cure that cursed complaint Stagnant.. Stagnant.. the epiphany lies stained Shaded. blackened. Falling. Fading. Slipping away. Set loose the hounds Revel in dismay (as you revel in your total decay) Breathing in death, hope stalks your pallor. Stalking. Sanity fails, crumbled and gone.
6.
I woke with a start Found myself within a forest dark, With but a shade to guide me The path long lost, I faced the looming hill So far away. The ghost motioned not to stay Three withered steps And the path behind a distant memory A distant spark, midst winters breath which misguided hope could never fan Old, yellowed ghost, tearing the strings from the puppet master’s idle hands (at straws we clutch) An empty glass, pour out another of myself Once more alas the butchers bill remains unpaid An empty gaze, the mirror shakes its head in shame The ghost departs Beneath the shadow of the hill A pointless path, midst winters breath which misguided steps can never find Old, yellowed ghost, abandoning First lead the way, then simply leave it all behind OH! There is no absolution No grand epiphany left to fake The old ghost had left me here for dead Lo! There is no grand solution Only the forward path to take Towards the pinnacle blindly tread Headlong to failure, no wisdom here to find Ghost of the void Belong to failure, give in to nothingness Follow the void Follow the ghost Drown in the void OH!! Abandon all hope ye who enter here! Old, yellowed ghost, sever the strings from the puppet master’s broken hands
7.
Failure 05:43
Ah, the light of hindsight burning Now…the bitter fruit revealed A glipse of comprehension Beneath denial firmly sealed. The long night has ended, the long walk has just begun ..and so i stood, staring down a forboding sky never were clouds so dripped in doom never a face so pallid stood awash in light, I waited for darkness to fall Alone, I stood, the hill before me Slowly, I TOOK. The. FIRST. STEP Burdened with doubt, I walked the dimming path Shadows converged, to failures absolute Failure! Burdened with doubt, I walked the shrinking path Shadows converged, to failures resolute. Failure!
8.
The Purge 09:25
The siren calls again, her voice cuts air too thick to breathe. A mistake perpetuated by inflated vanities. The token effort hailed, this empty canvass now unveiled A pointless passage drawn in blood... Wearing my cancerous crown, slick with defeat a mind torn asunder by the human disease Bow to failure's call, my bastard crown is slipping That onerous seventh scar exposed again... The emptiness exposed, yet that geis damns us ever on Drown in failure; through damnation find catharsis. Upon Tantalus' path, far too often trod only in my madness shall these haggard hooves be shod. Oh! We fall, we fail, we find no answer here...Behold! the fall of man. Lo! We fail, the burning path awaits Atop the hill, to find salvation Lo! The damned in the wall To consume the unwhole Cast upon the mountain Sear the sins from the flesh! The flame cleansed icon Fork-tongued pledges taken Bask in token penance, til we inexorably, relent.

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released August 5, 2017

Simon Frech - Guitar, additional instrumentation, vocals
Andrew Serisier - Guitar
Heath Keleher - Bass
Nathanael Evans - Drums

Drums recorded and Engineered by Joe Haley at Red Planet Recordings, Hobart
Guitars, bass and vocals recorded by Zero Degrees Freedom.
Mixed and mastered by Joe Haley
Art and layout by Tom Pryer. (www.darkmantra.net)
All songs written and performed by Zero Degrees Freedom.

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Dark, melodic metal from Tasmania.

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