Spectre of Ruin
Flies have taken this perverse asylum Disease has hold where others would not dare Forced confessions - colony of lepers Deathly stench is clinging to the air Footsteps where there should not be a presence Starving voices groaning in despair Sadistic maestro wields the scalpel like a bull whip Erratic technique sprays the wall with blood Cold horizon of unmarked graves Ledger entry - numbered days Laughing shadows - labyrinth eyes Bandaged in a cloak of lies Unwanted visitor, levitates, comes to taunt me Tormented prisoner, no escape, from this haunting Sideshow in this carnival of nightmares Perspiration frozen to my brow Altered with a steady-handed ice pick Fragments of me dripping to the floor Down that corridor to the furnace and beyond Ingested by the smokestack and ejected further on Random rearranging in that crucible of death The shadow of that silo is my final chariot
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
Shape shifting consecration delights in this matrix of blood Hissing serpents murmuration feasts in the raging flood Your warden of despair Prophetic lifeless glare Foul tempest lurches forth and marches right in league Spurning out a pact of murder- not before my death's foreseen Sunken eyes eaten away Adipocere mocking wraith Fleshless bones in the pyre's flames Plume of smoke and none remains Tortured by this vision - double walking entity Gas lit premonition - light betraying reveries Cursed apparition Scavenger! Harvesting! Violence! Inquisition The hoards of omens haunting me Silhouette usurper - open up your pits of hell Collector! - say you've come for me Silhouette usurper - open up your pits of hell Ride out wretch be free
Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025
Chaos splits the sky and unifies all portents A great otherworldly howl and futile to defend Chromatic shrieking radiation rings from the feathered vortex Riotous cacophony from the lacerated winds We are the seers The architects of plague We are the one and the many A thousand different names Cower as you call to us You should never have been freed Pray you're dead when our comets come Worthless progenies The sky is black and blotted with a satiated frenzy Scarecrow arbitrator between the lying and the others Never since those windswept plains has come such annihilation But this one is the shadow that was feared since we were born Hammers swing to seal the tombs without a good word spoken Every curse on that vile crypt cast with glorious commotion Locusts pick the harvests clean begging for atonement Ground gives way and joins the sky in the shadow of the eclipse Once more I stand in awe and weep before such visions What's more I'm looking on your temples as they burn I've shook the ground before to rid a surface nuisance But never have I had the pleasure to look upon such works I've buried all your cities as you've pissed away your lives I've relished every second of your eventual demise So fight yourselves and eat your fallen hiding from your truth I always have and always will be here when you are through
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025
So long I have waited for this moment This toxic malignant breed Forged in acidic boiling oceans Hatching brood take wing Phantom I am - creator Sneer of cold command - no master Anthropocene event Polluted to your end Contusion of the land Thy name be sapien Now suffer - cry out - sing for me Mother - into extinction - on your knees Anthropocene event - pollution to you end Contusion of this land - thy name be sapien Like a weed growing into the sun Cut you down when my work is done Spreading - across the cradle the pregnant fertile crescent Bleeding - blinking moon draws wolves in to the excrement Bloated - distended womb the stillborn starts to ferment Bloom! Descend one flowering experiment Phantom I am- creator Sneer of cold command - no master Anthropocene event - pollution to your end Contrusion of this land - thy name be sapien Licking clean my carapace drawn out from hibernation Fpollinating virus - spread your wings - abomination Like a weed growing into the sun Cut you down when my work is done I will cut you down
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
Stalemate - all is quiet Pummeled by bombardment Splintered forests Shattered trunks Vultures gather to the drone of war drums As the toolmakers take the stage - the valves are opened On tens of thousands downwind Soon to drown on dry land Those who once would dwell in darkness and dream of the augur's visions More still who in spilling blood would read the sprawling entrails Care the tongue out - seize the lungs - silencing the sages Severed link to knowing when and how we meet our end Throw the curtain open! Hail the rolling sky! Breathe the corrupted ether! Bleeding from the eyes! Spellbound by the churning cloud as it writhes into the ages The heavens shed like leprous skin Rife with the disease of life Death march of green and yellow turns the ground before it silver Soul sucking mist of horror raining death across its pages Now you meet your end Drowning in your skin
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
Years I've spent in this creature's craw - I am its hostage Circling devils spiral round and churn the waters surface Lurking shadow twisting down below into the growing maelstrom Delirious into its jaws I was taken by a beast And there are no stars for me to navigate by And now there is no light for me to see I am adrift on some creatures whim Passenger of disease In these catacombs of madness Isolated rumination Temple of leviathan Symbiote dependency Catacombs of madness At the bottom of the world Bowels of leviathan lumbering monstrosity And there are still no stars for me to navigate the sky No more light to be seen I'm the prisoner of some creatures whim Passenger of disease I must have been hunted down To become another meal I wish first I would have drowned This cannot be real And who will rid this loathsome muse Crude and only useless I'm the titan of the seas this virus merely hubris Still I shudder sick inside and set out for the answer Cetus I with man inside and sinking down with cancer And so I will dissolve And now I do dissolve
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
Many names I have known In countless ages conjured Of foreign tongues and darkened times Invoked but never pardoned Vain attempts on famished lips And shadowed whips bartered In dire dealings at the fire's hearth Vanished sons and daughters Of the mist - spectre rides Famine angel - treason bride Hunting seraphs rule the night Mounting heads of regicide Taking forms, of severed horns, written of in threes Invading kingdom, of the living Bring to its knees Augur evil, vilified, in tattered rags they see I'm the mistress of the moon, corrupted blasphemy Possessions at aix, I'm to credit Told them I was he Watched the sentence from on high Laughing on the wing I've boarded ships and brought pestilence Damning all to death Inspired servant of the insect The mare upon your breath I'm the empress of the moon, your kingdom is my fodder Lustful convents bear my mark vanished sons and daughters
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025
Fall away Blistered blackened carcass Peel away - rotting barren husk Its form unfurls in this neon realm Radioactive and retching Pulsing signal - the insect sings Nightmare life form oscillating Fear its very presence Absent of all essence 'Conjured ascension risen to the surface Marching without any purpose Growing - appetite for bloodshed Glowing - drunk on radiation sickness Roaming old one - live again Tyrant of the wasteland Error of the fossil record Summoned from the abyss Reclamation - vengeance makes its entrance Oblivion - mutual assurance Virulent spore this mote of dust Bathed in aberration Nasty and brutish - wolves of war Another failed mutation Fall away - amputated existence Smoldering - embalmed in nuclear twilight Its form unfurls in this neon realm Radioactive and breathing Pulsing signal - the insect sings Oscillating nightmare being
Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025
There's a rumor that you're speaking in tongues And you've lost all control Motor functions not a power you hold Least not a power of yours O queen of mischief - mysterious one I want your beautiful soul Your tales are legend The things that you've done They say you're not of this world Contorted angel - they sent you a priest But you were busy in told You're a weapon of the darkest design You claim you're centuries old Now come with me Suffer as my fugitive Sliding in between Other worlds Into dreams You and I infiltrate - horror Manifesting scream take them down Unholy spectre Can this be the end Am I finally free Transmission in the marks on my skin You know I've tried to come clean You know I've tried to come clean O let this be a dream
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025