Enter the Void
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Straying through the labyrinth of thoughts Not even close to finding an exit Mankind has depleted its future And escaped to utopia Seduction of the mind, a new mentality's reign begins Though they're still close enough to see themselves end their senseless lives They do not care for nothing but serenity Creeping apathy disguised as freedom and peace Ignorance gave them strength to abandon Their will, their soul, their grief No will, no grief So love your infamy, enjoy your self-incurred dependency So love your misery, injecting pure perverted fantasies, an orgy in paradise The compromise, malfunctional minds Come closer to the wall of glass to see it all pass away in time Innocent drowning eyes, you cannot deal with what they see You will not deal with what they show, desperation is The final vow with eyes wide shut, eyes wide shut Prey! In last consequence you'll try to tear down this wall of lies With blood-caked fingers, humanity drowns in an ocean of selfishness In last consequence you'll try to tear down this wall of lies Too late, now walk the path you've chosen. So love your misery, injecting pure perverted phantasies An orgy in paradise, the compromise Recognize you've betrayed yourselves There's no way back from where you've just arrived So love your infamy, enjoy your self-incurred dependency The price for your paradise The compromise, malfunctional
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
The lungs of hell are gasping for air While I breathe deeply in a dreamless sleep A faint whisper of a shapeless presence Sent to wake me from my dormancy And pull me down to the edge of my imagination Unease, discomfort Building up to confused terror Rules I've known do not apply Daunting shift in comprehension Losing my grip, losing agency This is all I never wanted Shaken and appalled Unable to move Steps I ought to take Fall on broken glass Took my decisions with no second thoughts Blinded by my shining facade But now as it starts to crumble Its shattered fragments bury me Took my decisions with no second thoughts Blinded by my fading charade But now that it's dissipating The bridges behind me are burning So I fail in betrayal A king of ancient tale Deceived, misled, stabbed in the back Contempt is all that I have left So am I to retreat To mediocrity? A path that wasn't meant for me Yet suddenly it's all I see. Forced to concede The questions remain Is this confined? And what am I to be? So I fail at denial Washed up on this small isle A glimpse of what I used to be Now walls are closing in on me Wake up from your sleep Wake up from your dream Wake up from your sleep Wake up to your nightmare My dream is over and it won't come back No order, no structure remains You say the journey's the reward So I must have gone astray How ignorant of me Covered up with empty phrases My supremacy, it was founded on sand The ground under my feet is dissolving In a lye of pain and despair The abyss below me opens its jaws And I drown in the laughter of numberless mouthless wights I'm drowning in this vitriolic water Although I'm so close to the shore So close to the shore, yet so far from the shelter So close to the source, yet so far from release Depravity and deceit invade my mind An overdose of the deep, cold stare of the void inside No way to refuse this injection No way to antagonize the effect Resistance declining under endless pressure No one can fight what no one can decide My last clear thoughts are drenched with hate Before my total inner collapse Trying to find all the answers Dying before even having a clue The tragedy of a man unfit To come to terms with incompleteness Searching for the lost continent That was swallowed by an ocean of pride He never even considered the fact Of his first steps falling right on its shores This is all I never wanted
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Without memories, lost and disoriented Strangers among strangers, connected by a sense of purpose In the distance, a faint flickering light is our only point of reference Each step toward it lets the memories return We have been here before Crawling out of the darkness on all fours We expanded, we evolved, we accelerated We diffused, dissipated, disappeared Moving faster on the paths of those before us Along ruins searching the same destination Seeing these ruins, memories flash back into our minds A million needles, a million tiny scars Was this city built by our own hands in bygone days? Were we reborn or have we merely returned? Built in the night to bring forth a day We submitted to isolation by design Confined by walls to seal us off And cast shadows on everything except ourselves Our echoes became all we heard and all we wanted to hear Each second of standstill let the walls erode Compromising Undermining As time passed we refused to admit that We had not yet reached our destination Frivolous were we to strip uncertainty of its purpose Stating the light as proof of being chosen Blinded, as we searched not for reason But reasons to solidify a status quo Mistake dusk for dawn King moves his pawn Blinded, as we searched not for reason But reasons to solidify a status quo This day it dawned on us: the architects were we Built in the night to bring forth a day We submitted to isolation by design Confined by walls to seal us off And cast shadows on everything except ourselves Divided by subjection, diverted by division Objecting objectivity, rejecting reality Was this city destroyed by our own hands in bygone days? Is this home or still part of our journey? With every step toward it, the light gets weaker Will we arrive before it finally fades? It fades
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
(<em>Instrumental</em>)
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Silently I walk through crowded streets, empty to my own eyes, open wide Shadows forming, reforging my sight Surreal, this place where dream and reality melt into each other Faces swarming, dragging me away Left with no need for a final look back Ready to break out and leave all behind With just the slightest idea of what lay ahead Yet fully determined to take every step You fool! The reins are no longer in your hand, you have lost control Too late! This journey will take you much farther, much farther than you ever dreamt. Yawing, stumbling, falling through maelstroms of dementia Sanity slips through your fingers, awaiting the impact Is there more than meets the eye, just because you can't see anything? Shattered and wounded, sunken spirits, you weren't prepared for this Silently I walk in disarray, empty wholes in my eyes Straying and wand'ring, crawling down low, consumed by nothingness When you've played all your cards And your mind's torn to shards When your senses collapse and the stimulus fades Prepare to be born Every time you think you have the answer You discover that the question makes no sense Spiralling in contradictions The failure of causality Life is a fever dream in a city of glass Trapped in a maze with infinite exits Which all lead you to nowhere at all Life is a fever dream in a city of glass To save you, you have to come within an inch of destroying you Zero in on the edge You won't find meaning, won't find sense, you won't find direction Until your back is against the wall Reality lies within the eye of the beholder Watch carefully what you see Left with no need for a final look back Ready to break out and leave all behind With just the slightest idea of what lay ahead Yet fully determined to take every step Move on! Replacing the dogmas instilled in you since you were born So close! You're finally transcending into what was hidden inside for so long. Even that which meets the eye may never meet the mind When you've played all your cards and your mind's torn to shards When your senses collapse and the stimulus fades That which you see does not determine in what you believe What you believe in determines what you see Serenity lies within the eye of the beholder Choose carefully what you see That which you see does not determine in what you believe What you believe in determines what you see When you've played all your cards and your mind's torn to shards When your senses collapse and the stimulus fades Life is but a fever dream in a city of glass Life is but a fever dream in a city of glass
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026
Estimating, quantifying, measuring Just to find that finiteness is not a question of scale Exploring, investigating, deciphering Just to find that meaning is not a question of perception You have left the city behind Your thoughts severed from your mind You have left yourself behind Disappearing Embrace the void Silently you walk from crowded streets, empty to your own eyes Silently you walk from disarray, heading away from the light Silently you walk to disappear and leave the city behind
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 18, 2026