Emperor of Hell - Canto XXXIV

Towards the hell's monarch The last round of the traitors Between the shades of night Frightening conclusion I drew behind my guide To shield me from the cold wind There was no other way Eyes of disillusion The emperor of the kingdom dollars From his mid-breast forth issued from the ice The emperor of hell Then I recognized The great shape of Lucifer Those souls beneath the ice Across the land of silence Down in the ninth circle Behold the lord of darkness The emperor of hell He creates three winds that continue To freeze all the Cocytus The emperor of he'll Oh! Don't ask me how Frozen and how faint I then became Facing the king of hell! Petrified by fear I saw him Who was the prince of angels Now you are bearer of pain A giant demon, genius of suffering That's your realm of sorrow You paid the price, you dared to rebel I beheld three faces on his head! Under each came forth two mighty wings to freeze the infernal lake At six eyes he wept, his tears down three chins distill'd with bloody foam In his three mouths he chews the worst betrayer Emperor of hell! Emperor of hell! "He lied up his brow against his Maker, well may proceed from him all tribulation! "The teeth of each mouth held a sinner, he held three of them in eternal agony" "It's time for them to go, return to the fair world Descend, ascend to reach for the light" We left evil behind, depart from these lands of suffering Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars The creature who had beauty in his appearance Who rebelled against God. He fell from heaven to the underworld And so it was We left the realm of torment The put of mystery The deepest desolation We saw the stars again Outride the world of terror Towards the endless light We left behind the darkness From the infernal region The angel who was cast out of heaven The emperor of hell Antithesis of light Creator's agony without a soul The emperor of hell The emperor of the kingdom dolorous Sovereign of the underworld The emperor of hell

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025

Ora sen va per un secreto calle, Tra 'l muro della terra a li martiri Lo mio maestro, e io dopo le spalle.

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Walls of flame Outside of the gates The heavenly messenger Is coming down Lowes hell Land of epicureans Inside the unsecured walls That hem the region round Down a secret path Heretics, we went in The sixth circle of hell Tormented souls who have Disbelieved in immortality And now we go, along a narrow way We proceed between the walls of flame Into heresy, dead more tan the other shades Denying the soul's immortality And as we walked, through the city walls A voice came from a fiery tomb! Farinata "O tosco, who though the city of fire Alive art passing, so discreet of speech: Here, please thee, stay awhile!" Sudden that sound forth issued a vault Whereat, in fear I closed to my leader's side He told me "Turn what dost thou? That's Farinata, he's exposed, behold him!" Who were your ancestors? Why this hatred against my family? I defended my noble land I am serving my eternal condemnation Cavalcante Another shadow rose behind him He said: "If thou through this blind prison go's Led by thy lofty genius and profound Where's my son? And why is he not with you"? And I: "Not of myself I come; by him Through this clime conducted Who perchance thy son had in contempt" "What did you ay? Had? Doe he not still live? Does the sweet light not strike his eyes?" Then he dropped again and showed himself no more Finale Prophetic words See only distant thoughts Suffering shades in hell Battered and resigned We left the walls Deeper than mourning earth Sign of bad omen Comes to mind We walk to the middle space Out of the city of flaming graves Encouraging words as we proceed Awful stench came from the deep abyss Where the lowest hell begins In the city of Dis The city of Dis Dis!

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

There is a place within the depths of hell All of rock dark stain'd With hue ferruginous Right in the middle Of the evil field A deep well, exceeding wide I saw new pains wherewith The foremost bolgia was replete Fustigators of hell, wrath! Circle of the fraudulents Wielders of the lash Tormented souls by pain Like fortresses to defend the walls From their threshold to the brink without Are flank'd with little bridges Within the place we turned around From the back of Geryon we found us A new journey was just beginning Between seducers and their mourn Smothered in a filth and hideous stink from below And the simoniacs from the evil world Upside down in the fire Blasphemous fraud From bridge to bridge we walked on Seers and fortune-tellers are punished here! To the lower rungs of hell We can see Tearful lands And insanity Another way and other vain laments The barrators are throwed in the boiling pitch Visions of chaotic vehemence Black demons into the fosses of the great deceit Solitude and pain for those they lived on hypocrisy Thieves! Mutilated souls and metamorphosis Schismatics and falsifiers Diseases! The ring of giants Hell's final depth "There is a place in hell called Malebolge" (The vil ditches). It's the circle of fraud. In this circle of hell there are souls of those who committed ten different varieties of fraudulent sin. Bolgia I: seducers. Bolgia II: flatters. Bolgia III: simoniacs. Bolgia IV: astrologers, seers, sorcerers. Bolgia V: speculators, barrators. Bolgia VI: hypocrites. Bolgia VII: thieves Bolgia VIII: fraudulent advisers. Bolgia IX: schismatic Bolgia X: falsifiers.

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

This track is instrumental.

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Scattered signs through the landscape Ruins and keepers of hell A monster guards down the seventh circle It's the infamy of Crete Blind cupidity and madness Look at the river of blood A great fosses as my guide had told Armed centurions, as to the chase They on the earth were won't And so we descended by a rugged way Screams of distress Their eyes to the valley where those souls are boiling in blood A cry from far: To what pain are you heading across this river? Speak from whence ya stand, or else the bow I draw! The answer was made to Chiron: I ask to be led so that the river we can cross Chiron to Nessus spade: Return and be their guide! And command other troops keep aloof Onwards we moved Along the seething flood There where the souls of tyrants, guilty of blood and rapine They mourn aloud, their immense lunacy, wail for their merciless wrongs When I turned to the poet, he said: "He'd be the first, I'm the next! We went on, in that sea of blood until our passage lay athwart the foss We cross that valley of torment Weeping of agony At the edge of the infernal river Where souls are immersed in the blood Circle of desecration It's too late to repent Celestial acts of retaliation Tears of despair, inhuman laments The divine justice gives 'em the right suffering Screams of insanity And we went through the valley where the souls are boiling in blood Eternal pain, for all the bringers of desperation There's no rest for who fill'd the ways with violence and war After fulfilling his task The centaur turn'd alone repass'd the ford Turn'd alone repass'd the ford He went back to the other side Where Chiron was waiting ...a forest, where no track Of steps had worn a way

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

What you feel inside? You have nothing to ask yourself You've been living a lie It's not a way to deceive your mind And you try again So you can go against your destiny There's nor rest! What did you real? Regret some things and you close your eyes You remain in silicon, under the sky You knew it was time to go You still seem to hear a scream of your soul? You don't want to look forward You are looking back at the past Into your eyes! Goodbye! You not keep the pain inside You hear a voice in your head Believe in nothing, life and fate Harvest of sorrow With the eyes of illusion, see your past You don0t need anything else! You decided to go away! You know you wasted your time You've been living a lie You have no choice, you have nothing left And you cry again You think about your failed task What's the reason to still keep the mask? Goodbye! Goodbye!

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

There were sinners Faithless deceivers Lonely dreams Unreal mirrors It can be seen An imaginary world When the angels fell down Cruel rule! Universal destiny Sinks into the sea of despair Where the evil was complete and clear Cries of intoxicated souls Desperate voices are ever so close Holy messengers of fate Victims of their own unrelenting faith Unending melancholy Sometimes there's more than meets the eyes Even if we don't realize it In the silence, we have to take our time A voiceless pain Falling out the other side You're going to open eyes A traveler who leaves all things behind Nothing's by chance Chance! Dissolved souls Out of reality They did get wallowed into hell Extreme mercy A cry of agony Nature takes its course Endless season Unworldly onder Human abjection Relentless judgment Signs of destiny Inviolable walls Insane creations Of an ideal world Utopian existence Images of transcendence Eternal pain Visions of unreality

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025

Midway upon the journey of life You know that a new night begins Walking in the weeping darkness You feel abandoned, you will find your true way You get up with great hope Turn to all things you have escaped You realized you'd fallen, look The planet's ray which leaders by every road By every road At the end of your despair, you wait for the silence At the edge of existence, fading to the darkness Hear the voices of despair, along the ways of sadness All your answers to your pain are screaming in your silence You can't see beyond the darkness Don't tear your dreams apart Don't think of your loneliness Seek and wait... wait Hear your silence... Again! Someone appeared before your eyes "Have mercy on me, whoever you are!" Climb the hill and leave the dark forest It's the beginning, cause of all happiness Of all happiness At the end of your despair, you wait for the silence At the edge of existence, fading to the darkness Hear the voices of despair, along the ways of sadness All your answers to your pain are screaming in your silence...

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025