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Our Shattered Garden

by Ophidian Memory

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1.
Awakening 07:49
Breathe Be not afraid Your path Is not done yet Welcome to your truth Where you trim the branch and preserve the root See it as a friend The beginning of the end No I found myself Awakening An ethereal garden right before my eyes Left destitute and formless in A begotten void that cleansed me of my sin And let new life begin How can this be Transformed into the very Creatures that scourged our kind Just tricks on our frail minds This is what’s meant to be Only The Seven see Rebuilt but sound within Shed from our human skin I am obsessed Eternal rest Escapes my grasp And taunts from a distant mirror Lies Fed to my soul To satiate Manipulate Everything’s fate for Ækyr That wretched wraith Disguising hate With open arms A warm embrace that burns Burns your flesh Burns your soul Burns to show your faith Faith in lies Faith despised Faith that blinds us To re take first breaths Awaiting second death In hopes I kill it first Destiny: demiurge Chosen to cleanse On solemn wings Encased in flame Clutching the last piece of what’s Mine Returned to flesh My sanity Slips through the cracks Exposing a broken martyr Nothing Will stop them now With stag and crow Serpent entwined Left to their own devices Pray Beg to the dark Yet when I cried into the void It just stared back Ever black We are More than Creation We are one Seven in one one throughout millions of minds, Hearts, lives, deaths All Betrayed by those confiding in hope, Faith, truth, lies No No No I refuse to kill those who did nothing I refuse to be pawns of the ancients I refuse to submit to this tyrant Fool, succumb to to call of The Voidbound You have much to learn but It has all of you It has all of us You know not, the grounds you tread The countless dead Of centuries bled Let your self Grow numb of your past life Our wealth Of powers provide Pride Honor your pride
2.
Mentally defiled from the cold black absence Fighting for control of my new corpse Haunted by the presence of a million memories Plucked from kindred souls Histories and tombstones but a faded practice No one left the victors to survive Led to burn for nothing but a brand new horror Forced upon the meadow taking life My mind is open wide Thrust into a realm Of dark and light forsaken Crafted by its hand To muse the sins of man While plotting its revenge With ash and sacrifice The herald of the end Behold, the product our sin And when you see it’s portraits on the walls Then you will know just what it meant to fall This is your home, we’ve waited far too long The seventh birth, you are right where you belong Within this realm Where it found peace We have found secrets of our Tyrant ruler And if you seek For truth or lies You will find both inside our shattered garden Personify the soul attached within you Evoke the strength left vacant for the hatred in your heart The pure one The gathering one The bleeding one The blinding one The darkened one The nurturing one The burning one Bred as captives knowing only death So when you feel your fated lonely call Then you will know, its lies were told to all Bringer of fear, a harbinger in thrall After your wrath, there will be nothing to recall The Tyrants plan Will be fulfilled Now that the burning one is manifest There’s no escape From truth and lies You’re now a patron of our shattered garden
3.
Know your god Meet your god Eons ago There was a deity In duality of darkness and light Secluded and lost Caged by eternity The bounds of its reach stifled by none In its divinity The ether transformed into flesh To share in the physical realm A body and garden for rest See the flaws in me Mechanical gaze of the omnipotent Feel the thoughts of me Projecting fear of its past loneliness Be the catalyst The jealousy rages of fire and ice Destroy all of this An envious self siphoning paradise Creation was too much to bear My plague unaware It brought forth new life A change for its solitude An effort of love that can’t be undone Cursed to conceive yet not destroy A fatal mistake that can’t be unmade Millions of lives Conformed to travesty Their withering vine Spreads only death Come for the end Stay for the aftermath We’ll be alive When humankind dies Slowly but surely it dies See the flaws in me Watching the downfall and decay of man Useless hope to be Waiting for reason to reclaim their hands Loss of everything Stripped of my strength at the behest of sin Dare to make again Sacrificial ceremony begins Creation was too much to bear Spawn of mine Bathe In degeneracy Witnessed from this Esoteric Menagerie Why Why defile my righteous gift you take for granted Ill create monstrosities to lift their burden off And supplicate my throne Who feast upon the essence and the marrow of your form Transmuting their crop of humans into seraphs torn Harvesters whose gluttony will shortly learn to mourn I confess to wishing for the way things were before I will rest until the ancients’ conquest wins my war War One by one Blood for blood The altering of their only world Please, persevere and claim your hordes To bide my time The void surely will make do Stripped of my power Locked from flesh When I return They will not see a mirror But a vengeful god in scorn March Fight Kill End Rest Rise Fall Fall Fall into my arms and see such majesty Crawl amongst the dirt until you’re chosen for my plan See the flaws in me Existence denied that an Angel was born Give my throne away The Garden was shattered to make it a home Death of what was pure Abandoned in darkness to fester and rot Birth of something more The light of a seraph restoring its heart To live in the Tyrants abode Spawn of mine Bask in its Dark mystery Living in my Esoteric Menagerie
4.
Tulpa 05:16
Potent omniscience Conquering myself Rended from The husk I claimed in mortal life A separation very few perceive Installed in grafted flesh for servitude Curses whisper Permeating every thought No space in mind for conflicting ideals Revenge can find itself in many different lights Utilize your hatred, witness grace in flight Through emerald skies With wings ablaze Reaching at stars For endless days Surreal that I’m with you But not what I’d pursue A manifestation I didn’t know I knew A Tulpa rises Becoming shadows draped in light Subconscious agony controls my throes of life Emotions flood as memories phase Through wasted lives And empty graves Too many empty graves Too many empty graves I long for the place of the pain For a place I can rest my weary soul I long for the comfort of discontent Take me away from here Shelter me in your love Save me from myself I begin to break Odysseys Of corporeal hosts denied Their sacrifice regenerating strength For its return to right it’s one mistake Fear smears Perception And regret entrenches deep Admonished for my time in Existence There is no exodus from this palace of lies Our restoration of the garden I defy Detecting hordes Within my mind Becoming one With the divine Seraphic forms Myriad of eyes Symbolic of Our view inside The place once familiar I longed to return to Is now cold and barren completely alien A Tulpa rises Drowning my shadow with their light Lift me from my sorrow liberate this mind Emotions flood as memories phase Through wasted lives And empty graves My quest for peace Comes with a cost If Aekyr lives Then all is lost
5.
The lies Of ancient ones and tyranny Consume my consciousness with guilt No choice But To bend the knee to vile gods May they know That my vengeance is devouring Humans Who perish Under seraph wings Restore the tyrants flesh Weep for their souls An offering of the innocent Ether flows, cleansing my soul As my vengeance devours me whole In time Spilled blood stains morality As my Restraints degrade and rust Cursed are those Who gaze upon The Burning One Lest they know That my vengeance is devouring Behind The flames I wait for it’s return Now I’m the one who burns Weep for their souls To justify reprisal Ether flows cleansing my soul As my vengeance devours me whole Suicide would be an easy end To rid myself of all this pain Deicide will be the only way To erase Aekyr from our plane Not in vain Why Why me I have but one careless final wish To watch a tyrant suffer Burn Condemned all while cleansing my soul Unholy means will bring an end to suffering Of life In Existence A chance for a new fair beginning So I ignite the spark
6.
Reap what you sow Legends are Passed down from elders to the young Seeding thoughts Those mythic tales woven and spun I’ve become That nightmare bearing many names Be afraid I’m the Apocryphal existence of white flame Chosen to induce the Final days of chaos coming to obliterate your world I ask forgiveness for my sins Against my home Against my own I feel remorse For what must be done Cities engulfed No person spared Their ether siphoned For flesh to be prepared I will make my legendary exit from this godforsaken realm Making haste to lay waste across this tainted garden leaving cinders in my wake Behold My flames Illuminate, disintegrate the land Of sacred rest And fleeting peace Revealing that Which laid beneath Betrayal now becomes a rite of death Crumbling in fear of pain Embrace the reckoning Trust is meant to go both ways In me, your faith must stay strong Opening the gate to Climb from depths below emerging as a pyre in the sky Bestowing death to save your world From tyrant hands and ancient blood Ancestors perish For progeny to thrive I retch and weep One foolish lie The stars align For the innocent to die Keep my name from your tongue
7.
You Will feel the pain you’ve caused I’m The one who breaks your laws Unforeseen But a dream Denied Love Disdain From our god Leeching sourceless energy from that which made this world Led to fear and hate arising in its purest form Forced to suffer by the hand that mirrors us no more Gone Left in the dark Guidance is lost Everything falls to pieces Rot Reflecting what Permeates all Plaguing the world eternally There is one hope That can save us But we’re the offering Your sacrifice Will relieve you of pain and suffering Eternally With ashes to prove You were a gift of life Discarded, wasted in strife The end of time Is drawing near Though worry not, ‘cause I’ve Become something to fear Unforeseen In revelation My fate was destined to Seal the world from our god To foil its plans of sworn revenge On its children Breaking the wheel Of cyclical doom Burning one You dare move against me? Hah Gone is the thought of a god Darkness incarnate is All I am now The void Swaddles my ether in shape Given away all I have to Conjure my envisioned fate These worthless shells; an imitation of my grace No person ever blessed enough to see my face Would you risk everything to save the human race? I’ll end your life myself and keep your soul encased As a trophy, a symbol now ingrained In the fiber of every single plane Bear the burden of watching all you know, Disappear When I wave my hand and wipe it all away Civilization erased Swallowing all time and space I have waited for millennia Contemplating how it feels to rend and devastate Existence All the lives Siphoning immortal strength Basking in their ignorance Halted in an instant that Converges all into one I, I will be one I will be all You, The Burning One, you’re nothing at all Come confront your loss, your power so small No longer enthralled, protocol swept to the wayside as I take my form The peace that we left Was bound to slip away You will fear a greater fall I will burn until you’re gone In revelation My fate was destined to Seal the world from our god To foil its plans of sworn revenge on its children breaking the wheel of cyclical doom In revelation My last creation Has turned; defying all odds When born from death and ether into Existence My only fear is The Burning One

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Our Shattered Garden starts directly after the events of The Stag and the Self-Titled EP, where the protagonist awakes from life after death in a strange place in a new form; The Burning One, aka The Seventh Seraph. They are now one of the very monsters that had haunted and decimated the human realm for thousands of years. Throughout the story the character learns secrets of The Tyrant, Aekyr as well as the rest of the Seraphs and the history of The Shattered Garden. Its fate has been planned by Aekyr for thousands of years; to ultimately bring Aekyr back into Existence to end the human race, as Aekyr has been trapped in The Void. But The Burning One has revenge to take, not only on The Stag for tricking him but on also Aekyr for being the manipulator of human suffering. In order to take revenge, atrocious acts must be made against humanity. Will it be willing to cross a line that may never be undone? Are they able to change their fate? We shall see…

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released July 7, 2023

Written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Blake Lamoureux
Album art by Caelan Stokkermans

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Ophidian Memory Des Moines, Iowa

A solo project by Blake Lamoureux (Kobra). Looking for other metal artists and musicians to collaborate with.

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