The Stars of Never Seen

Part I: Cast of Shadows Those who cast a blanket Of perpetual dusk Those purveyors of vile, black mystery Those cults of the arcane Speakers of murky tropes And those who wear a mantle of threadbare illumination... Be gone! Part II: The Vengeance of Light, the Cover of Shadow Draw your weapons, bare your claws The conjured beast is nigh The violent cleaving of the ground Is not a trick of light Strike forth, lash out the song of war Dark spirit hounds can kill Scuttle and run or hide again And on they follow still On and on Under cover of shadows To lie still is to wither and rot Paralyzed eyes (of silent lies) On fear they do feed And murder with calm folded hands Unloose the fire in your lungs Spit venom, seethe and fume Scatter the bones of the incubus Cut like whetted stone Fight on, fight on with axes drawn Pound thunder from the drums Rive the misty flesh of imps Tear out their prattling tongues...Ride on! Under cover of shadows Silence will fester and hollow Spellbinding fire and smoke in our eyes On relic charms they must feed us lies -Judgment solo- Part III: Consequence The blanket of dusk has fallen And black mystery still rising And again recite their creeds Part IV: The Witch Chant There are no truths that cannot bear falsity There are no things never known No secret doctrines There are no words that are never to be touched They'll tell you that the sun's disappeared And night stains eternal (Don't ever close your eyes, don't ever turn your back) Gray fades to black (Blackness is light) The dark sky descends to blot out the shadows The ones you hold so dear...fallen Like the very last tear Remember the night before Bind the cloak and hide under cover of shadows Part V: The Elusive Epilogue Under the cover of shadows To lie still, to wither and rot Paralyzed eyes We secretly hide On relic charms they will feed us lies Lift the cover of shadows!!!!

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Conceived am I the first and final traveler Craft of mine a tear of light Soon I will see Animated alien them to discover From another time, another galaxy Resonated alter Left behind all traces of legacy Useless gods, the fault of Man To the sun's red tide Disgust for its eulogy, hungry of discovery The stars of never seen A human game I dare will want to play Dust is the fear of the coming crossing! Here there is no dawn or day Or end to what I see It's night that has no name Still calls to me Time has lost its evil gaze Until the end of days Till then I'll seek horizons known to none at all but me! Breach the wall and step into infinity To an edge of what can't be I know it can be Passing Andromeda far from the dead past Never to return Meeting those of greater minds Accelerated speeds, I chase the all expanding Feeling the ebb and flow of tides Of dead dark seas A sense of fascination, calm in my solitude An age to overrun Until I die I will still run Unknown to the end is the endless calling! Here there is no dawn or day, Or end to what I see It's night that has no name still calls to me Time is finding evil ways, To speed my end of days Hope soon I'll find horizons grand enough for all to see! Cold fight...dead dark light (Lonely entity) Alone...tenth my clone (Extend my life I need) To far...far, far away To remember Earthly needs I need to dream again Within this greater shadow! Until then...I'll transfix my eyes ahead Until the end Believe in no tomorrow...or the dead I've left it all behind Solo Time at last has found my name To thee I give its claim The night of final flame Has called to me Found my final dawn and day The end has now found me At last I'll finally... (Across the shores of a billion sunrises) (Lies the light of the grand horizon) (Leave behind all apparent reason) Hear the song when the grand horizon sings!!

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

I'm not the only one Who can put out the fire I only want to be left alone Wise man high upon your hill Please hear the prayers we cry You we beseech We rest our hopes on the promise Of your good name I'm not your providence I live, I breathe I cannot stop the flood An eye for an eye, The innocent fallen The cities are dead, The guilty are dust Walking the hillsides, Dotted by followers Ritual blindness, Bookkeepers in their citadels The wrath of princes and kings A flood not of water but flame Evil born of sovereignty Patterns are followed the same It comes again The sand of the ages is falling away Knowledge and violence, Hand over hand Are up from their graves Wisdom is left in the dirt Solo I've seen the wrath Of princes and kings Flood not of water but flame Evil born of sovereignty Patterns are followed the same

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

Looking ahead, innocence mine Before me lies the life I'll find I will never forget that first midnight I crossed awake I felt that first powerful song alive and free It was there so real and close as the stars I did see And I touched, then listened to new whispers To this day they are still calling me I saw the glory And the treasures I'll take tomorrow I wrote my own story 10,000 midnights ago I never knew I'd change voices Never thought of the angel's disdain Deep down I know my efforts have dwindled But the dreams they still stay the same Here and now I'll take the time that is mine To reach, my tranquil, domesticity The home that I left long ago I found the answers Leaving me with more questions unknown And I long for that memory 10,000 midnights ago The eyes I had as a child still remain in me Memories are vivid paintings I still see Rest thy head traveler man Who has seen many empty miles Your heart will find home Solo Far away still is my grave Unknown are the years I will own The once forsaken whim, the absurd of age I'll try to deceive once again Help me, find me, heal me I'll try again Older, wiser, closer To my home I have found the answers To the questions I asked long ago Once more I'll identify The dreams of 10,000 morrows I chose my destiny 10,000 midnights ago And I sealed my fate to be 10,000 midnights ago Looking behind, innocence died Lost are the days of bygone time

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025

Whisper, do not allow the loud Keep all angst unseen Silent the thoughts that do one sway Make yourself to...Believe Up and away it's a brand new day Again we hear, again we've spoken Only the words they wish we speak Not true thoughts of our heart Again and again we row perfect stroke To the beat of the drum of the pacing master Promises laced with lies We see the truth that we choose not to see Wretched frowns painted upside-down With artistic hands perfect liars Drowned by the pain of useless gain Feel the ache in your heart Gather round we will make you proud With false icons of grand achievement Body soft and a brain that burns I'll be here tomorrow yet still I'm gone today Slowly closing my eyes (I'll blind the things I need to see) Feel no more (I will not be) Hear my cries (Cry to the ears that do not hear) Empty is...the treasured temple that is me Passive, cold and fair are words I give to you But you won't know 'cause I will not reveal The unmasked pain in my heart Time I feel my anger will engage And erupt my patient emotional magma Shut down numb with ever glazed eyes and Keep an agreed dull sting always denied Always holding inside (The tears who will not choose to fall) Feel no more (Nothing at all) Senses gone (Until I feel a safer calm) Empty is my only temple Solo If I could, only could understand If I had a darker reason If the answers could find me Then maybe then I could flush away the madness Ever shaking and twitching is My mind of lasting prison In a passive aggressive life Long is the heal of the wound that must be filled Cutting through the knots left undone May pain be the light of the setting sun (Close your eyes, feel no more) Long fear are stones that we haul Set them down, let them be (Hear thy cries, empty is...) The disciples lost in its walls Ring an alter that shall never fall (Taste your drops, be no more) Hollow shells with a will not to lead Guide to the temple of the empty (Senses gone, empty is...) Hollow shells with a will not to see Welcome to the temple of the empty

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Once again I'm here within The source of my emotions Sadness dies as envy tries To build my inner fire Spawn of father evil and then Bred by mother revenge Can feel the lion of my rage Breaking free of his cage In this state It's not wise to be near me Or you will be the first To see My anger True and sure so raw and pure The anger Enjoy the flood of boiled blood Until I'm cold again How I'd love to place you back To your pathetic weakness Give me reason to find justice For my fallen anguish So many times, so many ways Have I constructed vengeance It's strength from pain, the source of war And Metal's muse unequaled Time is right Body is quaking You won't be the last To feel My anger True and sure so raw and pure The anger Feel the flood of boiled blood My anger Will volumize my own darkness The anger Forever feeds my violent needs Till the end of time Tasting sweet aggression Intense eyes won't leave you Now behold it's power I command Solos Time is mine I am anger Now you'll be no more My anger True and sure so raw and pure The anger Feel the flood of boiled blood My anger Will volumize my own darkness The anger Forever feeds my violent needs Till the end of time!

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Dramatis Personae C ... The Chorus Y ... The Young B ... The Bellman "The Chorus" Curse the hand of the man With the bell he doth ring One did tell me "The Young" Old man with traveler's hands Scarred by age and salt of the sea Tell me, warn thee your tales Of cried from the ocean's abide "The Bellman" You fallow lads with smoother hands Beware the beyond sea The sun does not quite follow The skies of the water you seek C Sunsets sadden Mornings terrify! B On and on from the shores they do go With their hearts and minds one way do they know My bell will ring And they will sing A song I did too once sing Y Mercator's Poles and Meridian Lines The stars will guide, the sun will time The winds of trade will guide the way To the unknown and then Home B Hold my hand and stay With me listen to what I warn you For so long am I imprisoned To these streets of ports call Still they sail, hence I raise My bell and strike its chime of fate! Y On and on from the shores we do go With our hearts and minds one way do we know Our bell will ring, And we will sing The song we always dreamed to sing Mercator's Poles and Meridian Lines The stars will guide, the sun will time The winds of trade will guide the way To the unknown and then Solo C Unseen or heard is the ghost Of the Bellman we know B Unless you're the fool who Is doomed from the moment you sail C Once was he the arrogant Bellman ago B Cursed to live on to call The cry of the fell C Cursed be the hand of the man With the bell he doth ring B Death to you all whose Warnings you never did heed C Beware of the shivering bell When you set forth to sea B For it rings the chime of fate!

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Part I: A Third Gathering Brave men wanted For hazardous journey Low pay, bitter cold Moths of complete darkness Constant danger Safe return doubtful Great recognition in case Of success Ernest Shackleton The south facing madman Will try for a third time To walk at then end of the world! Five thousand responded for A crew of thirty on a Brave sailing ship Along for the journey were sixty-seven Of Canada's finest four legged ice runners To speed...the men And their dreams Across...and alive! From the years I have learned Twice before I returned Under stocked and overwhelmed Lost what I sought More seasoned and well prepared The continent again I dare To reach the pole again I drive Let it be the end This time alive! Part II: To Stab the Sole of the World South! We sail with pride Our keel will slice the ocean's heart with anger once more Feel the wind at our backs, and our faces... Already charred with frozen black! We meet once again My old foe South Atlantic Spawn of jigsaw ice all around The cracks closing in Till there's no more Imprisoned in this icy hell! Here so close To the land of last and barely found For the winter we will batten down Never given... Honor to stab the sole of the world! (Listing) Free the ship with ax and pick (Breaking) Loot the ship with quick and wit (Sinking) Abandon ship...abandon ship! What the ice shall take The ice shall keep! "She is gone...none more to say" Ice gleaming sunshine Five feet to the deepest blue Part III: Run On Water North! We run to save our lives The albatross and emperors Have sung our due dirge Warmth will keep our souls alive We move with haste through Jaws of cracked bergs We haul small boats that carry life We only have necessities as Bare as our skin Vile, the hide of ocean's dead Flesh of the dogs A pleasure filled sweet meal! No dreams in brief sleep In the midnight light So terrified! Hungry ice swallows me Cold sheets argue louder now They find we're so terrified Follow no horizons seen We row to where we do not know Deception Isle, too many miles On cracked numb black fists Cold, a word no longer known Far beyond the freezing snow drifts Eat, we see in only dream A cannibal's insanity I see in thine eyes Drink in the salt and misty rain Still pushing north To the Elephant's domain There on the crashing walls Of black jagged teeth So unbelieved Last land We could ever see! We will try to endure (South Georgia our final try) Will we ever meet again? Where will we meet again? Solo Part IV: The Endurance Within Two years of death yet all survived Endurance had to be the key On painted waters we awake to find A day of wonders so divine The Yelco awaits on the silent sea Is thee, the angel of death that we see This isle of life, now left behind We leave nothing but our own demise My loyal comrades never left my side (Honest bravery) In the black icy sea, the secrets and memories She will always keep (On land, on ice or on the stormy sea) The endurance we have left behind Endurance we will always find

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025

For some it lasts for seconds For some a thousand years Time's a given, and time we take There lies a line of all our fears For some it's just a minute For others the same's a hundred days Some old survive, or young will die And all who live can not decide... How many days are given As a predetermined guarantee We think we'll live forever By the reward of our better deeds Man writes of his denial And many praise of what could be The animals are given The answer of true fate that we choose not so see End to an end is our own lifespan Our only one since time began Imprint of our mold thus soon destroyed Then is the fall of the hourglass sand Hold true to your thoughts and your memories burned In your mind remain till the call of your last day Truth is the song, the finite dance End to an end is our own lifespan I don't believe in heaven Or hell or afterlife From book to truth, is dust to dust And I will not reincarnate I'm terrified of dying I now know why the prey do run For once it takes for all to end The first time in my life I see... How few the days are given And knowing of just how they'll be Nothing lives forever The only thing that time will see I've lost my taught denial And live the days given to me My life is slowly ending The fact of fate in time I've now chosen to see End to an end is our own lifespan Our only one since time began Shattering glass and the pattern it holds No other life can repeat my soul Dead is the dead of the living mind Now random waves that escape all lifekind Truth is the song, the finite dance End to an end is our own lifespan See...all that life can be Let it be...all that you can see Come and see...all that is not seen Let it be...all that you have seen For when your own life dies In a flash memories in vain erase And wash away Beware the afterlife lie Never hear, never feel the cries and pain of those Still alive Who still mourn Solo What once I thought was evil Is now a means just to survive The drive that makes me human Is the love of life I live another day alive End to an end is our own lifespan Our only one since time began Fear the day when our blood runs cold The only last truth we all behold True paradise is the air we breathe The knowledge we teach, the pleasure we feed Truth is the song, the finite dance End to an end is our own lifespan Born into living life alive Dying to stay alive in life See...all that life can be Let it be...all that you can see Come and see...all that is not seen Let it be...all that you have seen End to an end is our only lifespan

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025