The Promise of Hell

"There are moments in death where events transcend the expected and can transform the very foundations of our existence. Where death flees the ones who seek most to embrace it only to return in another form, so familiar to us all..." A table set for two The candles lit for one In a reunion of the two Drawn apart at the dawn when all life begun Waking restless to dead hours The world now feels a different place Upon the fields of burning flowers (lie) the monuments of our disgrace The breaking down of old ideals and fears too monstrous to be spoken of And the crumbling of old laws once thought that never could be broken Broken down - and buried unto unshallow ground Left are only broken beings Souls merely filled with emptiness Burning on the grips of an everlasting, Ever-tightening cold caress Caressed, unblessed to a morbid life in death In a world where each breath is both mute and suppressed Stealing empires from serpents no more As our eleventh hour has struck twelve After vain glories and false purgatories We are left only with ourselves I watch the world now turn as if it were the same Beneath starplunging rain, under nightmares we crawl Where all is lost and nothing gained But a harsh newfound death now living deep within us all... Where all is but a dream, a dream and yet so real Within our Hell concealed, by this unlife reclaimed I watch entire worlds fade away only to return the same... A whole world once cut in two Now entwined as one And with breath we inhale We both live and become undone...

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025

Where all is lost and invaded In a realm of dust and tarnished soil Our minds and hearts outworn and jaded Slowly turning to black as oil Surpassed the filth of life once dear Ventured far beyond hope and fear With a sense of nothing drawing near Where can one go from here? No point left to go on from here... For so long I knew the question That in fear we dared not even ask Hoping to never learn the answer But it was out of our grasps... Beyond worlds expired and graved Past false hopes of being saved Between life and death enslaved We are the fallen When all is lost and all is bound In a broken world that keeps on turning My feet still feel the ground But my wings are already burning... For now I know the answer The one buried so deep beneath our shells But now I know the answer It will hurt like Hell "The more we tried to hide, the clearer it became, bashing down every door And how can one prepare for a pain knowing it will hurt like nothing before..."

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Forged in the fires of our distorted selves The burning victims of our self-proclaiming Hell Invading, assailing New darkness once more unveiling Beneath the blanket of a thousand stars... Condemned to a future that none foretold In one perpetual midnight of the soul Waning and cascading Our strength is utterly failing Beneath the cosmos of our shattered dreams What brings the end What will bring forth the Night What kills the soul Would surely be worth the fight "What will be lost What will remain When life and death Have become one and the same..." We who once reached for the skies dreaming we could fly... We welcome the darkness We welcome the new age We welcome all the throes from our past mistakes As long as one day it will all end For we are bound for death... No more than fumes of the ires that once befell No more than ghosts in the shells that we now dwell Waning and cascading The world beneath us is falling Yet our grim cadavers continue marching on and on... What brings the end What will bring forth the Night What kills the soul Would surely be worth the fight So we could leave This Hell called life This undying world Finally behind

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 25, 2025

In a world where life now slumbers To a lullaby without a sound Roads once leading to brighter futures Now all lead us further down In a world that tears apart Even the strongest and the best What hope can there be ...for the rest? We were dreaming in the darkness When we fell into the light Ethereal and corrupting It burned anew our sight Now bound for absolution Something we will never find Our hearts the shape of shadows Burning with scars aligned "Lay the burden finally down and let your fears cave-in Lay your burden finally down and embrace the newfound sin" Once dreaming in the darkness We fell into the light Violent and unyielding It tore away our sight Yet still we search for something Something we can never find Our dreams have long since withered Along with our scars aligned...

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Burning through the pages of history Ruthless like an ancient plague on words Onwards with our tales of inglory Infecting worlds beneath our herds Burning! Ruthless! Onwards! Infecting worlds beneath our herds... But now the silence has spoken The curtains drawn to reveal a whole new play Play no more with your games of war For we all in Death's sweet lullaby...now sway The warmth, the light, the joy, all the love and the care The cold, the dark, the grim, all the death and despair Within these walls they have all turned the same And with eyes aflame we cast around the blame... Burning - with flames long died out Ruthless - with no one to cast down Onwards - on a road long dried out Infecting - the dead with life newfound Burning... Restless... Onwards... Infected by this death unbound... This is not the calm before the storm For they have now become as one Fix your eyes from the outworn To see what this world has become... This is not the odd outside the norm For this is all we'll ever be So feast your eyes upon the swarm And let it all devour thee Awake! Sleeping through the ages In dark dreams that go on for days Grim sights in these slow hours We pray the soul within us would slay... The warmth, the light, the joy, all the love and the care The cold, the dark, the grim, all the death and despair Within our hearts we know who are to blame And long ago we have learned to curse our names...

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

The strike of midnight All is silent, all is Hell The dream evades us In this endless nightmare cell The stones lie forsaken Only shadows here collide Once more the world has turned And left its children aside "Even the crows have long since fled these tombstones..." The crows have long since fled these tombstones No fresh meat left for the beasts of the earth Our throes have led us to new dimensions (of death) Further away each day from joy and mirth Lightless is the path, on this forlorn trail Bleak are the days, full of death and travail After battles lost that no one won Still cold beneath the Sun Our woes have long since fled these tombstones The last signs of life left on this earth Echoes resounding through empty halls and thrones Deeper each day into our monstrous birth "Further away from joy and mirth Deeper into the arms of this monstrous birth..." Despite the promise of fire Still cold beneath the Sun Depths of this Hell transpired Our salvation remains undone

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

Stormbound is our world, seething and confined Profound is this Hell, draconian in design Arise from slumber to the call of the awaker Renounce your leaders and lead me to your undertaker Deep in Death's realm we still lay hiding For despite our demise we still keep dying A dystopia formed from the traits of our kind Incarceration unfitting our crime Recall ideals we once held so uphigh But the die was cast and we were all cast to die... Lost in Death's realm we continue trying For despite our demise we still keep dying Dead and dying Lifeless yet espying Trapped in Death's realm we carry on denying For despite our demise we still keep dying In spite our cries the truth remains binding Dead and dying Deceased yet defying

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 25, 2025

Never have I seen thee in these cold rooms of the night Never felt thy presence amidst the horror and blight It is but ourselves we have to face in the end When there are no depths left for us to descend Gone past the shades of god and the gods of shades Embraced morbid flesh with brand new blades Explored dimensions of death in a thousand ways In this unlife that begun with the end of days The stage lies abandoned The actors all gone to their graves The curtains remain undrawn and none of us saved... Bring me my demons! I am now ready to face For I have crossed rivers of denial Bring me my shadows! Stripped from all traces of grace I am prepared to begin my trial Souls long lost and forgotten somehow Past all life only the dead can save me now Bring me my demons! All Hell I am ready to face Grown so weary from all this denial Bring me my shadows! Stripped from all traces of grace I am now ready to begin my trial So go and gather all the children of Hell The story is ending, the book will soon be shelved This undying final chapter in the tale of our kind Once it was our world but we gave it to the blind So go and gather all the children of Hell The story is ending, the book will soon be shelved So go and gather all the sons of men left behind For once it was our world but we gave it to the blind...

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

I have lost myself within a curse And must become someone else, someone worse... I have lost the track of days for a night has fallen upon me A darkness too thick for all light to penetrate My eyes have grown to wear the dark yet still I cannot see No strength left in this shell to rise from my ill-fate It feels like ages since I've last spoken It feels like aeons since I last slept But in this silence there is no comfort Nothing to dry the rivers I have wept I barely remember what joy felt like Hardly recall what it was once to live Drowning ever deeper into the dark despite for ages This wretched soul has had nothing more to give And forgive me for holding you too tight That just to breathe you had push yourself away And forgive me for far too long stealing your eyes That without sight you were bound to walk away For what is given can never be returned A heart, a life, a shell now broken, incomplete Like a world far too long allowed to burn Nothing left to salvage, nothing left to keep And forgive me for all my dreams That far too long kept you awake And forgive me for replacing the Sun with you Leaving you in the dark, too dense for you to take Now at the heart of dying, from the depths I dwell I grant thee heaven, and for myself I reserve only Hell... Like all flowers too fair for this world Draw near the beasts to devour and to rend Then how could a love far too fair for this cold world Do nothing more but end And in my heart the memories of those years I would cherish and I would hold But without one there is nothing left to do But to succumb to the bleak and cold... And forgive me for all my crimes Unforgive me for all these lines...

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025