The Holocene Termination

I gave you life Birthed you from my seed I gave you life My past misdeeds It catches up with thee You can't outrun the monster you feed When you took form little did I know The destruction you'd unfold The havoc that you’d wreck Upon my majestic creation Consume the earth Drink it's blood Extract your pound of flesh To feed your lust The process of extinction Is written in the stones We ignored the wisdom Passed from the stories of old A graveyard is all that is left At the depth on the ocean floor All life has left these creatures These are the skeletal remains All the wonders been turned to wasteland Our garden of eden is now lost Can you hear the songs the whales sing A song of melancholy of a world that's lost Solo: Nick Padovani Terminate Annihilate Obliterate This world This is the ending of existence Aeterna sunt (everything decays) Aeterna sun (and the lights will fade)

Submitted by Warbringer — Apr 26, 2025

It all begins and ends with man. The vastness of green, Turns to wasteland Once free flowing rivers run dry. The oceans are rising, The icecaps are melting, A visible truth he denies. The rain falling down, A silent serenity. Rain falling down, Mother Earth, she weeps. Parasitic humans, Leeching off the land. Harvest. Feed. Repeat. Bleeding out this world. Consume. Create. Demand The great master plan. Spark the flames of fire Till you burn this world. A world once that was Untouched and unscarred, A harmony in which we lived. We shifted the scales, Tore equilibrium, Disrupted the balance of nature. We knew, we always knew, That our house of cards would fall. We grew, we grew The burden of our existence. Through eons passed A slow decay, Of a world once pristine, Now laid waste. This epoch of ours, Chipping away At a world once pristine, Now laid to waste. A world laid waste At the hands of man. The circle of life was once complete, Broken and shattered by our greed. No hope of repair a time to despair, This ship will sink beneath the sea. We ruled the lands, we ruled the sea, We conquered the earth that's beneath our feet. We soared the skies straight to the stars, But where we failed was in our hearts. We bore not a care of the consequence That our actions would lead us to face. We had not a care for our misdeeds, Till there was a price to pay. The epoch of degradation we have been, The epoch of degradation we have seen. Our time has come and our time has gone, All that remains is bones and dust of us.

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Only through death does life begin. The ancient tales they all speak From death of the old a new life begins. Once life was spawned the circle was drawn, The cycle continues, repeats and repeats. A single cell mutates At an accelerated rate, No divine intervention or fate Starting a chain reaction. Extinction is not unusual, It is evolution you see. Combustion. Destruction. Trigger the extinction event. Bound to the finite, To this reality There is no other choice, No other home you see. Change is constant, Inevitable degradation Of our species, Inevitable evolution. Even from the grave life will find its way, Clawing through death and decay, reeking putrefaction. Rapid genetic change for survival ingrained, From the great dying we are born. Open your mind To what you can't perceive, Look beyond What your eyes can see. Only through death does life begin, From extinction evolution begins. The ancient tales the ones you believe, From death of the old rebirth you seek. Once life was yours the throne you adorned, The castle crumbled beneath your feet. There is an edge to our existence, Our perception does often mislead. The mind is small and cannot fathom Or look beyond our biases and beliefs. All your gods have failed, No prayers can save you. The dissolution it has begun, This catastrophic transgression. Out of sight is out of mind, Blissfully ignorant to our demise. Through it all life will find its way. The spark did ignite the blaze in the sky, Fire did reign upon this world. The rivers run dry, no signs of life, Visions of a wasteland. No divine will ever save, Life will find a way. We paved the way, Forging a new path. A world full of promise, Never built to last. [Solo: Fabio Bartoletti]. These howling winds Over arid lands, Resonating a song they sing. Lament the loss, lament for us, For all that could have ever been. But the song goes on and life will spawn, Bringing a new age in.

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

I gave you life and this is how you repay. The end of your divine delusion, The day of reckoning is here. Rapturous execution, Sentenced to obliteration. One by one the dominoes fall, Hopeless desperation. For the human race it is too late, Irreversible desecration. You left me no choice, You put me in this place, For what I created I must destroy. Bountiful lands, Bestowing plenty. Merciful I was, But you were unrepentant. This pristine world, You turned puerile. It was your own Poison that killed you. You weren't content, It was your greed. I was merciful but you were unrepentant. And you left me no choice, And you put me in this place, For what I created I must destroy. The living world will endure, But you will perish. The fires rise a world in flames, The oceans run black, toxic stains. The living world will endure, But you will perish. The world will find its way, Even when you've lost yours. I gave you life, this is how you did repay, I won't take all of this pain. You have left me with no choice, I will destroy. And you left me no choice, And you left me crying in the rain. You left me no choice, And you left me dying in this pain. I gave you everything, And you turned it all to dust!

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025