Ceremony of Ascension

by Wallachia

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1.	Self-inflicted Stigmata 03:07	lyrics	buy track
Discipline beaten in For trespassing to the land of sin To be like him - suffering Is the mandatory mission of your kin Martyrdeath destiny Extension of his misery Heavenly treachery won't set you free Torment your soul for eternity Enter genesis genocide With deception as your guide To explore the ways of how he died You must incinerate inside Nourish bloodshed prophecy The neverending story Conjure the bastard deity And kill yourself plurally Follow the way to Golgotha Selfinflicted stigmata In nomine nothingness Flagellation of the blessed flesh Achieve pain divine Seek and ye shall find The hoax exploration Seppuku salvation
2.	Refusalvation 04:34	lyrics	buy track
Father, forgive me not I'll find my own way without an autopilot Indoctrined to believe, in oblivion deceived What is there to achieve? Imprisoned in flesh, the mind - the key Reach for the dreams that will set you free Eclectic perfecting the ways of the self My way for myself and nobody else There is no God looking over my soul Cursed, abandoned and out of control Hold me down and throw the first stone The burden is mine to carry alone I find no forgiveness in thy faith Condemned before I turned away Let the blood of the martyrs wash away the blood On the path that leads to your God Deities, conspiracies - twisted myths throughout history No higher cause, no deeper meaning, no hidden truth to believe in Flex-fit wisdom, divided kingdom - a thousand ways to salvation Lost, not found, each to his own - united under one condemnation Smoke and mirror, war and terror - heaven is just a state of mind The earth laid to waste, inevitable fate - build a tower to reach the sky Comfortably numb, to the word succumb - between me and God there is nothing at all Judge me not, are you righteous enough? - I stand alone and I take the fall Throw me to the deeps where I've already been Torment me with visions I've already seen I was always on the outside looking in Self-awareness is the greatest sin The deeper the fall the higher the rise From their ceremonial shortcuts to paradise With awe thou shalt crumble into submission Reach out for the clenched fist of salvation
3.	Kamikaze Christians 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Deathcult, catapult - thrown into the abyss Swallowing, following - words of celestial bliss Fantasy, can't you see - condemned for all eternity Slavery, willfully - you are your worst enemy Crackers and wine, consume the swine - this is what you call divine? Insanity, normality - no difference in the world of thine Mundane, profane - No lifeforce through your veins Paradox, mark of crux - blow out your fucking brains Kamikaze Christians Path to Hell pedestrians Kamikaze Christians Branch Davidians Heaven sent, last prophet - the words according to himself The name Koresh, it means death - it all makes sense in the end Chosen ones, thy kingdom gone - armageddon Ranch Apocalypse Bibleverse, in reverse - to cover up acts perverse Polygamy, exclusively - harem of 12 year old wives His will, fulfilled - in monogamy with Christ Farewell, Mount Carmel - obey the rules of enslavement Bow down, eschaton - the seven seals are opened Death by masturbation To the book of revelations Now let the trumpets blow For the day after no tomorrow
4.	Rival of a Cursed Destiny 02:41	lyrics	buy track
Hatred, despise - hostile towards life The world outside is a widowed wife Rid me of pride and fill me with contempt Grant me the strength to withstand myself I am wrath From a torn asunder past Within these scars The final habitat Two becomes one One must be gone The prodigal son I have become Flesh of thy flesh - blood of thy blood Cast out by will - all ties undone Memories fade until nothing remains Release the soul and absorb the stains Share my pain as I wither away Curse thy name into the grave Absence, ignorance is what you give So taste thy own medicine Nothingness shaped my being Soulabyssic sightseeing I am the epitaph of the world above That no longer holds me down Hatred follows me, swallows me To become like thee The only solution - become the conclusion A mirror falls to the ground Ascend, transcend - at one with the end No phoenix rising when the sun sets The only enemy lies within Rival of a cursed destiny
5.	Sanctimonia XXIII 06:23	lyrics	buy track
The one and only Spirit within The source of all That enlightens me Another wanderer The path of destiny My all and everything The law of 23 Awakening to myself from (mundane) apathy Transcending this spiral of negativity Every day you try to hold me down In every way I will rise above Reminders of divine righteousness Now take a look at yourselves I'm so far outside your walls of complaints Swimming in dirt just like the saints Flesh of sin Scorched within Attain purity Non-conformity This is the moment where everything ends Exhale the past and let new life begin No one or nothing can break me anymore There can't be any pain left to endure Shaped from the bowels of nothingness Crawling uphill to reach myself A dual journey for a common goal Two spirits within one soul Exploring the abyss with nothing to lose The pathway of chaos is what I choose As exterior forces drag me to the dust A smokeless fire of desire and lust Pure to the vision deep to the core Now take me away forevermore Dwelling far beyond any redemption I only search for the conclusion One step further away From this ghostworld masquerade The truth is only for the arcane Shut the lights and end this game I am at one with nothing An empty shell withering Catharsis of the soul Swallowing the void
6.	Genesis Enigma 05:10	lyrics	buy track
What is the entity we descended from Is it an eternal cycle Will I find the answer one day Then it has to come my way Should we be worried and drenched in fear Is the apocalypse really here Pretending to believe rather than to know Confusion as conviction until we go Reveal, appear, come near, be here - dream on Deities, theories, conspiracies, hypocrisy - be gone Mysteries of cosmos never to unfold The truth out there remain untold Fortune seekers searching the Father His presence not found on Terra Mater Body and soul was dead before birth Will the spirit ever leave the earth Who can tell us what we are becoming All we know is that we know nothing Eternity, mystery, reality, fantasy - genesis enigma Puzzle, riddle, fable, bible - devouring dogma
7.	Void Expansion 08:07	lyrics	buy track
Polluted minds - chemical veins Within apathetic flesh Spiritless beings - drained and empty Degenerated subhuman waste Nothing to strive for - decaying with pride Floating in a haze - directionless Cast thy reflection in the sewerline Mirror of infinite nothingness Taking it all with nothing to give Without a reason to live World salvation by your demise One step closer to paradise Thieves of the air we breathe May you all cease to exist Synthetic life in slowmotion death Empty vessels never to be filled Betrayal and greed for thy own needs Materialistic satisfaction achieved Consumed by non-directional hatred From all directions thrown back at thee Fade away - make my day A world gone astray You blew the only chance Near life experience
8.	The Wreckage of Innocence 01:49	lyrics	buy track
The wounds won't stop bleeding Time heals nothing Where is my redemption Fall into oblivion Sun of hopelessness Pass thy judgement Melancholy overwhelms A dying star descends

about

Released on CD by Twilight Vertrieb April 17th 2009.
A cassette re-issue was done by Night Birds Records in 2012.
Also re-issued as disc 2 of the Carpathia Symphonia 2 x CD digipack by Debemur Morti Productions.

credits

released April 17, 2009

All music & lyrics composed and written by Lars Stavdal between 1998 - 2006.
Recorded in Soundtempel Studios, Germany in the summer of 2008.
Engineered and produced by Stefan Traunmüller.

Lars Stavdal: Guitars, bass & vocals.
Paal André Sandnesmo: Keyboards & pre-production.
Tom Kocher: Drums.

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Wallachia Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Wallachia started out primarly as a one-man band located in central Norway. The band became a duo for the debut demo recording. Further on several other members have been included for the album recording sessions. Wallachia has existed since 1992 and play an epic symphonic pagan style of black metal. ... more