The Screaming of the Valkyries

Demagoguery The hissing in the garden Wishing God's defeat Stalking the parameters of waiting prey We come like the break of day A litany of death about to play Its fatal hand here Clawed to the hilt, sordid, best beware Our swords will fill the air With a morbid poetry born of despair Under our rule Black trees scratch red the fleeing sunset Mist clings tight to Elysian fields Now we hatch plans ripe for upset Enflame belfries, time to be revealed Diabology No apology for a world upon her broken knees Diabology Spreading the disease Demons freed to spree and torture by decree Of our demagoguery Nightmare-fueled, bejeweled in scars Beneath the frozen stars Children of the dark, of the craft we are Deliciously grotesque Severe puzzle boxes bursting to be solved Not by any church absolved Firebrands thirsting to be involved In their ascent Thick thorns adorn a twisted halo For the fools and cruelly vain As cathedrals soar, our sisters lay low For the war-cry to roar back again Diabology No apology for a world upon her broken knees Diabology Spreading the disease Demons freed to spree and torture by decree Of our demagoguery What started as a whisper In the shadows of the night Has sharpened to a painful blister On the weathered heel of life And now our voices like a knife Carve out our vicious plan And set our hooks in the hearts of man The moon writhes in her orbit And doused in blood she stirs The tides to rise and deep inside Her womb her daughters purr Tonight the skies are spiteful The gates are wearing thin And through accruing torments shod Our hated reign begins again Poisonous these words of power Uttered back Engage the fatal mechanism And with that This virus Inside us Desires to be free Devotees whipped into a frenzy Of intoxication in celebration of sin Enchantment answers and dancers envy Puppet masters faster pulling the strings Diabology No apology for a world upon her broken knees Diabology Spreading the disease Demons freed to spree and torture by decree Of our demagoguery

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 23, 2025

Gargoyle-stanced at the edge of night The blushing skies Set their silhouettes to dreadful sight On a flush of gushing brides Three witches, leeches, feral bitches Predatory-eyed Huntress maidens, dresses laden With the gifts of thy demise With the dark They come, exotic creatures Drifting past The distraction of thy screams And as they start To come, erotic preachers The Trinity of Shadows Turn to black these Gothic dreams Nymphs, Moirai, Erinyes Nymphs, Moirai, Fates Neath great beauty and seductive charm These masks belie Lethal intent, pent corruptive harm All ties to laughter cast aside Three graces, faces kept in stasis On the crest of dawn Once crept to eaves they slept content By the restless dusk reborn With the dark They come, exotic creatures Drifting past The distraction of thy screams And as they start To cum, erotic preachers The Trinity of Shadows Turn to black these Gothic dreams Deep Gothic dreams Death undone The twine of life unwound In lament configurations Snuff the sun Their time is nigh, untied To moral aspirations And execration Just the need to feed These pale Messalinas Full-reddened, dripping-lipped Tease the frailties of Venus With their necrotic grip Nymphs, Moirai, Erinyes Nymphs, Moirai, Fates Nymphs, Moirai, Erinyes Nymphs, Moirai, Fates Angels of the fog and the rot of leaves Slaves to none but the Count of three The Shade supreme Three sisters, whispers, moonlit vistas Sirens undisguised Huntress maidens, dressed laden With the gifts for thy demise With the dark They come, exotic creatures Drifting past The distraction of thy screams And as they start To cum, erotic preachers The Trinity of Shadows Turn to black these Gothic dreams The Trinity of Shadows Turn to black these Gothic dreams

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 23, 2025

Do not weep I will drift to hauntless sleep Lay my weary head prostrate before the awning Spread my crow black sails Against the sunset Dressed to part the veil A led parade of shades upon Death's dawning Non Omnis Moriar Not all of me shall die For I shall leave my heart with thee Before I kiss thy precious lips goodbye Until we're borne Together in the evermore My darling One final time I will take this hand in mine Drowning in brown eyes That ghost the jewelled shoreline Fate adorn me Do not mourn me For I wait beyond the gates of slumber In my Avalon In our Avalon Strength to carry on Before the great penumbra Here Plant a tree Deep upon my silent grave Think of me in spring's embrace, when sadness lingers Feeding earthen grails Fresh roots I nurture And blessed with life's rebirth I take the sacred ring from winter's finger Non Omnis Moriar Not all of me shall die Cast off all trace of doubt in me Before I kiss thy precious lips goodbye Until we're borne Together in the evermore My darling One final time I will take this hand in mine Drowning in brown eyes That ghost the jewelled shoreline Fate adorn me Do not mourn me For I wait beyond the gates of slumber In my Avalon In our Avalon Strength to carry on Before the great penumbra Here I have not gone, life's majestic song Swims on the wind that stirs autumnal leaves here Come dry thy tears, my hand is near These sterling years Have forged a bond That still, that still lives on That still lives on That still That still lives on

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 23, 2025

My greatest misadventure Was my greatest test of all Shipwrecked upon your verdant acres In deep sirenic thrall Near-drowned you found me and in time Against the tide you saved this life With eerie grace, impassive demeanour Uncharted space, the place that had seen her An island in the grip of the sea My rock, a weapon, soon a beacon of peace You are my Nautilus The scourge of the abyss Anchored in the universe Adrift in utter bliss You pave the way to heaven You part the seismic waves Amidst the depths of dark despair, you light the way Immoral compass, come what may The latest of adventures Was the greatest of my fall Unfathomable, the best endeavours Saw my gravitas lose its all Lose its all I swam in shark-infested eyes Deep pools of sin, death stars arrived You are my Nautilus The scourge of the abyss Anchored in the universe Adrift in utter bliss You pave the way to heaven You part the seismic waves Amidst the depths of dark despair You light the way Immoral compass, come what may Immoral compass, come what may... To true north Hyperborean estuaries Once on from the bled horizon Set the tethered Kraken free When forlorn gales agitate the bed muck Into swirls of fantasies Storms above regale, and thunderstruck Hurl away our enemies Leagues ahead Twenty thousand hissing in our wake Together fed Our war machine accelerates Fates bow before me Fates bow before me In your embrace Fates bow before me Fates bow before me In you encased Fates bow before me Fates bow before me The world is braced Fates bow before me From sunken spires of Dunwich horror To sleepy R'yleh And deep aquatic gyres To the lakes beneath the earth Near-drowned you found me and in time Against the tide you saved this life Against the tide you braved this life You are my Nautilus The scourge of the abyss Anchored in the universe Adrift in utter bliss You pave the way to heaven You part the seismic waves Amidst the depths of dark despair You light the way Immoral compass, come what may Come what may... Come what may...

Rich tapestries of anguish Painted lilac by the moon Liche motes of dust carouse about Their silent, violent scenes of doom This perilous fort perched on a crag In forested mountain gloom Flickers with light, the candles drag Midnight will be here soon By their eerie glow The windows leer on a vast horizon The fallen snow Below is lying still My soul burns cold Wolves advance on the frozen courtyard Their yearning fold Cry out for blood to spill I walk these jagged battlements That call to foreign shores Majestic in death I grieve no stolen breath Just whet eternal appetites With the squirming Of all life-affirming flesh Hunger must be fed Evening has come undressed And blessed with her delicacies I now confess, I am possessed The night runs cavalcade Fast past this masquerade Whispered wings and twisted veins Amidst the pain And the mist it hangs With the kiss of dying Buried in the throats of prey Fog-ridden, eyes aflame We shun the light of day Exalt Ex Sanguine Draculae Ex Sanguine Draculae Not a phantom haunting graves I'm a curse supreme Imperious to all save for my brides Those most beauteous of graces Furies, gorgon sisters three I feel the weight of ages In their unreflective eyes Siren wiles beguile All sin and mystery Born sworn selenophiles To high tidal, never idle lunacies Drink deep and we shall see Our thirst is quenched, The furnace yearns The dark unfurls its charms Midnight ignites, the sight' returns The world curls In our outstretched palms Sharply nailed Beasts obeisant, spells so ancient Feast lycanthropy These gifts persist where devils kiss Where angels fear to dare the bliss And love and death clasp tight indeterminably Murder in these veins seeking sweet gestation Peace and sanctity in the passage of evil Thus by the crack of doom The fiery dawn that splits the heavens Towards the tomb We creep sated and free I am the warring Mars Allayed by Venus in the velvet cosmos The whoring stars Stray again this eve for me I sleep beneath the castle Governed by my coven's keep Majestic in death I grieve no stolen breath Just whet eternal appetites With the squirming Of all life-affirming flesh Hunger must be fed The night runs cavalcade Fast past this masquerade Whispered wings and twisted veins Amidst the pain And the mist it hangs With the kiss of dying Buried in the throats of prey Fog-ridden, eyes aflame We shun the light of day Exalt Ex Sanguine Draculae Ex Sanguine Draculae Ex Sanguine Draculae

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 23, 2025

Cantankerous the seas, Her verses cursed with this disease The long-awaited written in our veins That this golden age of wonder is undone Before the thunder Of another tyrant smitten with his gains Decadence shall dance upon the dead And the zealots of modernity Deafening, confirming that the heavenly are burning With the screaming of the Valkyries Plagued with regret Lest we forget Deep beguile, degenerate bile Ashing of the deeds as Armageddon smiles Where torment holds court And dreams are for naught The present is fraught With all-besieging danger But we recall Love, not the cruel Held peaceable rule When misery was a stranger Oh to those times Irretrievable crimes No reason or rhyme When misery was a stranger Clinging to the past I see tomorrow sat aghast Upon a raw epiphany Singing of the path leading to this final gasp As missiles score their symphonies How did despotic days turn to horror and decay Beneath these eyes of vanity? Now a war engulfs the face of a crazed inhuman race Fed on bred insanities Death to the false Red flags we repulse Unreconciled, the truth exiled Peace on earth, no mercy mild Where torment holds court And dreams are for naught The present is fraught With all-besieging danger But we recall Love, not the cruel Held peaceable rule When misery was a stranger Oh to those times Irretrievable crimes No reason or rhyme When misery was a stranger When misery was all but lost Now sticky ichor trickles down the window, not a little And feathers drift from sick and frightened skies Vast figures shift behind the roaring storm clouds, undivine Highlighted by the lightning strikes on high A heavy sorrow like a shroud, descends A winding sheet The wind lashes Poisoned tongues of our defeat Long poisoned tongues of our defeat A darkness comes to fester The dying sunset westers Then a flash like a thousand summers blaze And the pain is pressed to stay

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 23, 2025