The Stag, by Ophidian Memory

The Stag

by Ophidian Memory

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1.	Covenant 04:06	lyrics	buy track
I see that your empty Thirsting, starving Come to me in solace Open and pure You've come so far for refuge Fleeing seraphs As long as you believe it Your faith shall not lead you astray The thousands I have cleansed here Mean nothing to me anymore Take all that which you hold dear For soon you'll pass through holy doors Desolation is peace When the flames burn clean Cacophony turned to silence Transformation obscene All I ask is that you bow before my humble glory Now follow me and carve your own wretched story Into this covenant Create this covenant Just know that I've returned As your salvation Come with me into the dark To witness devastation Desolation is peace When the flames burn clean Cacophony turned to silence Transformation obscene All I ask is that you bow before my humble glory Now follow me and carve your own wretched story This path that must be walked Will test your feeble strength As far as you can go Along unending lengths To seal this covenant The future foreboding Unveils this heinous story Prepare for your last breath The only certainty is death
2.	Spectral Liturgy 05:33	lyrics	buy track
I feel it in their minds Heretic faith sublime Surrounding truth with lies Deceiving lucid eyes Shatter the throne Offering of bone Left to atone For spectral sins before life begins This liturgy Presented to me Prophesizes our ascendancy In the cyphers of text Is described what comes next A voracious and self proclaimed god Whose means only hinder the blessed Here it reads What is law shall bend and then break and then bleed Now I see A portrayal of the future spectral liturgy Go forth and spread my work While these deniers lurk They'll be the ones left behind Salvation will be denied While they beg and plead and cry Mercy for us mercy for us Turn now and repent for me Don't live in complacency Become what you're meant to be Spiraling down as you Slowly degrade To violence and hate They will seal their fate Becoming as one, erased into none Chosen to burn Refuse to learn That their home land has become their urn At the end of the earth There will be one rebirth As I look towards an ominous sky, I see all those destined to die If I stay I am promised to witness this world decay There's no choice Whispers from an omnipotent angelic voice Here it reads What is law shall bend and then break and then bleed Now I see A portrayal of the future spectral liturgy Hear my words Walking off this path would seem absurd Can't you see? Your destiny lies with me Those who stay Will fester in a world that's turned to gray No more filth Cleansed atrocities and guilt
3.	Memoirs of The Lost 04:31	lyrics	buy track
Harvesting the soul like a reaper You come time and time again for payment Weve taken advantage of benevolence Left in this world for a slaughter This harsh world feels like a dream Inducing the past of nightmares Suffocating my senses, leaving me numb and bare The labyrinth of vanity gleams from our spite As many a sin take their toll Heathens struck by the heavenly sky Risen as fast as they fall I feel blessed to be given This test of hind sight May it lengthen my life Yet too quick It's dark and it's sick And the memories erased bit by bit Memoirs of the lost What god can we trust? Thousands turned to dust For all these crimes unjust Memoirs of the lost What god can we trust? Who will pay the cost? For all these lines we've crossed Our suffering will never end The only savior is ourselves There will be no ties left to mend Its harvest matters, nothing else The cycle repeats My chains are broken I stalk these realms again For those that need me, I wish to watch them burn Memoirs of the lost What god can we trust? Sacred holocaust No remembrance for us
4.	Fateful Attrition 05:03	lyrics	buy track
Soon I will conquer, examples must me made For you to learn what awaits in defiance Blood stained robes are the mark of my children Painted With rage by their kin Spew your curses And point your fingers It won't get you any closer The pack will feast Deranged and brief Drawn to their deaths by the ubiquitous priest With our prophecies nowhere to be found History has been led with a broken compass Guiding the congregation to a house that will divide them There was no purpose of worship in this place Why should we have to prove ourselves to this creature That Bred us all just to kill us all in the end It's your turn now Sacrifice your own Prove your worth to me and bathe in my majesty Or face my wrath And forget your life Specters wandering aimlessly throughout the night With our sacred land burning to the ground What remains in this world rends evermore Chaos reigns while Feeding off attrition only leaves everything starved Gather my followers, and guide them towards my sanctuary light
5.	Exodus and Exile 09:20	lyrics	buy track
We're fading away No reason to stay The supplicants beg for salvation to come Their ignorant rivers all flow into one And I know, that their pain will just go on For we walk this path, no turning back for home But to walk this path will mean never to know Kneeling, scarred Entrance barred Rushed headlong into the darkness, may we find our strength, everlasting We've left it all behind We've left it all behind To build a vanquished throne No truth we can deny The past of doom untold I ask you risk your life We travel the unknown To forge on or to die March As they wander into silence I can hear the breaking of bones The breaking of bonds which have held them together Will wither away as they go astray The misery And the suffering They will march one by one As if straight towards the sun Death shading their grim horizon Never return Never return again It's been so long since I've seen them The cleansing envious flames They burn brighter, in the black starless night Burning endless in strife, eager to devour human life Our minds have awakened Our faith was mistaken Fed perilous lies Were it no surprise? The misery And the suffering They will march one by one As if straight towards the sun Death shading their grim horizon Never return Never return again If I could stand Face to face Against the crooked frame of man I would cry Leave no trace You're never to return again Again We left it all behind To build a vanquished throne No truth we can't deny The past of doom unfolds I ask you give your life To journey the unknown You forge on then you die A sacrifice of light
6.	Those Who Bear Witness 04:51	lyrics	buy track
As we gaze at our glorious idol The light guides us through But I have grown close to the dark The shadow that points me to you Fire rains down from a hemorrhaging sky The heretics proclaimed our end, alas judgment came for them The city will remember its presence in their sleep Long after all the memories have disappeared Blinded by the hubris of your faith Have you not Been in the presence of gods before Thou shall not Return to Hedon forevermore No sunrise for tomorrow The ritual begins Your ghost are mine to borrow Ripped from your pallid skin Your offering Fails to suffice Many will not be spared For rebirth there must first be sacrifice Realizing too late the consequences of our own curiosity Here I stand in my home, yet terrified of where I am I'm here in flesh I'm here in bone This sacrament has torn my soul Our paradise, it won't appear I never should have been brought here Crumbling your sanity while leading blind to quick demises Like the ones who fell before you, there's no escape Call beyond the realms of time execute these fools with strength divine With Heresy in your head, you're as good as dead For the ground that you stand on is stained red Those who bear witness to the path will walk alone Those who bear witness unto me will have their home Those who bear witness to false gods pay the price Those who bear witness to my sins know endless vice This is the end, but you must go on
7.	When All Is Desolate 05:35	lyrics	buy track
When all you see Are barren wastes unmentioned Enshrouded devastation My heart breeds contemplation The countless lives Left to annihilation Souls of a hellbent nation Reborn into creation Useless forms of life You all deserved this blight I cleanse, erase, and feed Harvest for the next breed The cycle must go on Birthing my holy spawn When all is desolate The shadows can hide me No one path will guide me I long for each one to see When all is desolate No promises are kept Fleeting, ripped of meaning I havnt killed you yet To hell with others You're my chosen one Come revel in my gift When all is desolate Now that they're gone It makes communication Imbuing divination Preparing isolation To be the last Freed from my termination Left physical location To prolong my summation Useless forms of life You all deserved this blight I cleanse, erase, and feed Harvest for the next breed The cycle must go on Birthing my holy spawn You have fulfilled your life I free you from this blight My prophet, come with me Granted transcendency The cycle must go on Your angelic respawn
8.	This Is Not Your Grave 04:44	lyrics	buy track
I cast a shadow And in its wake Left are the ashes of those caught in its gaze No sign of warning None left to tell That faith was just a mask To open up your inner selves Powers seditious And powers beyond light Were used to show The weakened creatures fear and might Lo and behold Subsequence unfold The greatest tragedy that the world has ever known Breathing Feeling Seeing All just taken For granted Until they're ripped Out of our lifeless hands Bleeding Pleading Seething All just forced and then ravaged Until they've dug Deep into our own souls Where you lay You will stay But this is not your grave Come to pray Then Turn away Cause this is not your grave Erode yourself with haste Existence such a waste They'll be none left to save And this is not your grave I must strike you down Return into the ground I find your kind so brave But this will never be your grave Your Light falls New Life calls How long I've waited patiently To see you grieve insatiably You've done so well to pray to me Here's your reward for zealotry This form that no one else can be Birthed to destroy humanity's lands And lead them straight to my grasp As you perpetuate collapse There is no rest for a god Who seeks that which is unbound By the text, eternal power in your soul is found I saw hordes of demons Crawling forwards Towards the burning Fields of sorrow Come tomorrow None will be here What remains is All but lost Where you lay You will stay But this is not your grave Come to pray Then turn away Cause this is not your grave Erode yourself with haste Existence such a waste They'll be none left to save And this is not your grave I must show you how To make the humans bow You will die without shame But this will never be your grave Your grave
9.	Purge 03:28	lyrics	buy track
Can you help me Can you see me Can you hear my pleas of wandering I have been lost for so long but now that I've found you I can't stay this way Searching for epoch it feels but I know that death will be here any day Cleanse me of this Purge me from this Claustrophobic Anthropomorphic Husk Show me what it's like to live again Purge Purge Can you reconcile what you've put me through Purge my life Can you take me back to where I belong Purge my life Can you erase all of these memories Purge my life Can you even look me dead in the eye to purge my life Will you grace me and make me whole again Surge of life Will you stay by my side and see me through The purge of lives Take this time to look back on the life that you have lived and you have led Once I complete the purge your consciousness will become mine
10.	The Stag 08:04	lyrics	buy track
Watching Staring Exposed from the inside out Patient Lonesome Waiting for me to come home The phantom dwells in silence A coward in defiance Its empty words and odysseys have shown its true intent I've fallen into madness A consciousness of malice I led my people to their deaths while blinded by salvation Failed to complete your journey Tore off the mask, and transcended above worthy Alone, you will cast your wrath Puppeted by my hand Illuminance Of a shade in the open Revealing what was in plain sight The blindness of man, and the weight of our sin Has buried our kind in the ash Wandering Thirsting Lost all sense of time New grace upon my eyes I seek for what's within me The love and power empty My ideologies are scattered Consciousness divides My shell was left behind But soul becomes divine I reconcile for my mistakes Through this infinite life Born in a shattered garden A seraph in flesh, but human is not forgotten Struck by the light of godhood The tyrant will make you see Enlightenment Of my mind, an indulgence Revealing what was in plain sight Our faith for your feast, and our souls for your strength has reborn us both from the ash Why try to say goodbye I cry for your endless lies Reaping Scheming Lost all sense of mine Graceful Hateful Listened while alone and Looked past the illusion Come with me now, don't you hear the voice that beckons from the darkest of voids?

about

This album was recorded and mixed in an apartment bedroom by Blake Lamoureux. The first Ophidian Memory full length titled "The Stag" is a narrative prequel to the self-titled Ophidian Memory and begins a saga set in the fictional realm of "Existence" where beings of darkness and light destroy humanity and plot against one another to sustain their creator, The Tyrant. The Stag (one of the three ancients created by The Tyrant to harvest humanity and form Seraphs) has returned to claim its harvest of souls, and to begin construction of the Seventh Seraph. Little do the humans know they are to be used as bait; just pawns in a game of life and death.

credits

released May 27, 2022

Vocals/Lyrics: Blake Lamoureux
Electric/Acoustic/Bass Guitars: Blake Lamoureux
Drums: Written by Blake Lamoureux, performed by Superior Drummer 3
Mixed by Blake Lamoureux

Album art and logo: Caelan Stokkermans

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