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Angelplague

by Kalopsia

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Forever silent, unmoving, refined an elegant tribute in marble The noose tied to the being divine tethered to the mortal Long after the names go unspoken the stone garden blooms Once again the soil is broken omnipresent - the specter that looms Amethyst chases crimson along with blurring vision Strangled with cruel indifference by time's relentless hands Amethyst and crimson striking with precision Dragged into mortality by time's unshaking hands We are all destined to return to blackened soil or ashes... burn Tears of mourning are the tribute demanded In the shadow of the garden of stone Forgiving fictions are whispered in sorrow Scorn the treason of speaking alone Hereafter when names are mentioned a grim finality will cut like a blade The future - apprehension into eternity the echoes will fade No stone - can minimize the loss No value - in the gold embossed Forever silent, unmoving, refined a tribute carved in grief forever tied to the being divine burdened beyond belief Long after the ritual is over the stone garden stays Soil and spirit shall always be broken that which blossoms must also decay
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So quickly we have forgotten The darkened caves from which we crawled On torn, quivering limbs Through trails of filth In frigid silence Our stammered whispers Sought to grow to thunderous cries Their echoes thought to be eternal Toiling aimlessly As in vein Sisyphus bleeds We writhe in agony As the serpent devours Eternally Rampaging through the wreckage of time Rebirthing the ceaseless cycle of decay We watch in horror as the beast Devours eternally Flesh and spirit of such noble prey Echoes forgotten in an instant Obliterated between ceaseless jaws Hopeless thoughts choked down As the never ending cycle of self destruction Regurgitated misery Lying in the wake of the shadow of false hope Lethean ambitions Joys of sand and sorrows of stone The cave from which we crawled Burrowed into our souls through the jagged rocks we bled upon An unending cycle Of growth and decay A ceaseless hunger And dagger-eyed gaze This predatory torrent - dampens The darkened caves into which we crawled Saturated, quivering limbs Begging for warmth In frigid silence Mouthpieces of dread Retched blood - died choking Their echoes thought to be eternal Toiling aimlessly As in vein Sisyphus bleeds We writhe in agony As the serpent devours We lost the way Shrouded in darkness Time marches as savagely As the serpent devours
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Struck suddenly A bruise fades To the yellow brown color of fields Tread solely by the knights of disease Not black But this ghastly gold Of the forgotten urn Is the color of passing Reborn - nameless Reborn - lifeless This sepian countenance A hollow shell A sacred promise Torn from the world What is our purpose? What are the signs? The brittle touch Of our flawed design In this finality with features of life faded away A vacant husk No love or ambition As being torn from sleep By a disturbing but forgotten dream Our destiny chosen By others Starting with the name Christened upon the slab Reborn "the body" Now just an object All out of respect A stoic distance Needed to stem the decay So suddenly This life fades Into the shadows of realms unknown Tread by all mortals in time In the final moments Of futures undone Where even the virtuous crumble Each of us shall know three The reaper The slab Earth or Inferno? Christened upon the slab Reborn "the body" A hollow vessel That once was alive Baptized in indifference And fed to hungry knives The reaper The slab Earth or Inferno?
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Beasts torment the nightmares of children with jagged teeth and claws I'm haunted more by the ruesome specters of regret and loss Those times whose visions faded still wounds bleed in my soul When everything fades away but the grief... time taking its toll The horrid solace that life presents Is never peace Only pestilence A grim reflection with no defense Never peace only pestilence Are angels plagued by such ghastly visions? The acrid fruit spawned from blighted trees falls where smothered flames choke the heavens winds whispering disease The hatchet's trusty blade rusts mere feet from a half-dug grave Virulent Midas turned ashen though fires could not cleanse the decaying sorrow of thousands of frayed loose ends Are angels plagued? Beasts torment the nightmares of children with yellowed, bloody teeth I'm taunted by the hollow whispers of unexpected grief And plagued by faded angels as sands of time descend Soul pierced by the gleaming tridents of the demons of regret The horrid sentence that life presents Is never peace only pestilence With sorrows mounting there's no defense Never peace only pestilence
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Ascending to great heights Ever fearful of the moment that we may lose our grip Clinging to false hopes Choking down the daggers of air our freezing lungs are ripped Cries that should deafen Are washed away by bitter winds Wandering souls carrying unlit torches We strive toward salvation - evasive Falling from great heights Is the terror Do we have the strength to climb again? Gasping in horror To climb we must fight ignite the flame within Try not to turn back For beneath is chaos' gaping maw Dragging ourselves toward the heavens Twitching flesh as bloody hands scrape and claw Cries that should deafen Die in throats as hopelessness and doubt Devour visions of truly ascending Mortality the inner flame burns out At last! A solitary flame in the distance beating back the frigid night A whisper can beget a choir of conflagration The torch will ignite The pyres are burning Sacrifice to the flames May the fires scorch the earth! And the smoke darken the skies! We continue our march forever Never knowing the reasons why Our destiny burned to ashes Washed away by the sands of time In defiance of our mortality All that matters is the climb The sorrow The struggle The strain The sorrow The struggle Ignite the flame Standing at great heights Ever knowing that time will strip it all away Bathing in the glow of torches As ice melts and the ground starts giving way Cries then falling silent Washed away by merciless fate The journey and the fire The torches carried by those who remain
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Beneath strained translucent skin Veins full of insects scattering from the light My stomach a coiled viper Fangs drip venom ready to strike Soon shall come that dire day Where hammers pummel as the echoing phrase "I'm sorry for your loss" Closes a chapter by burning the page This disquieting silence That shadows ignorant prey Unknowing the need for vigilance Not if, but when, life tears away Inexorable descent Visions of vultures circling overhead Mirroring the eternal cycle of violence Rats fleeing as if by compulsion Still the serpent is fed Carrion feeders with wings of razor wire Crash their concrete bodies in a desperate anxious rage Burrowing between sinews in efforts to escape The unhallowed living tomb within which they are caged The dread is constant Ricocheting synapse friendly fire There is a surge of terror Charging through veins like a sudden stampede Crushed underfoot with rampaging panic A worthless battle A futile frenzy For on that dire day Hammers will pummel as the echoing phrase "I'm sorry for your loss" Rewrites the story The world set ablaze This uneasy quiet That engulfs dismissive hearts Exhausts denial of any vigilance Refutation - lives torn apart The horror constant Waiting for the word Anxiety crashing in waves on the rocks of sleepless nights Below the water's surface a beast yearning for the kill Murder or face starvation so of course it will While high above vultures bide their time Holding dominion Decimation over all diseased Patience over violence scavenging with glee And as the chapter closes it prepares to repeat Inexorable descent Visions of vultures circling overhead Mirroring the eternal cycle of violence Rats fleeing as if by compulsion Still the serpent is fed
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KALOPSIA "has been leading the search for an optimal blend of brutality, velocity, melody, groove and technical pyrotechnics... and edged closer on every release" - Decibel Magazine

"An undisputable death metal wrecking machine. This is the type of release that has the potential to become legendary." - Brutalism

"KALOPSIA make sure that you are listening to the most sinister record of the year - this is abundantly true after my first listen, and I can't stress more to have you listen to it also." - Metal Temple

"Angelplague is a thrashing machine of such solid riffage and rhythms. It’s an absolute pleasure to experience" - SkullsNBones.com

"Every track is absolutely unrelentingly savage" - Ave Noctum

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released May 19, 2017

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Kalopsia New Jersey

From the sewage-tainted swamps of New Jersey, home of Tony Soprano and the Toxic Avenger comes KALOPSIA.
Featuring underground metal lifers from TOMBS, RUINOUS, HAMMER FIGHT and ABACINATE, "Angelplague" continues KALOPSIA'S horrific mutation, blending pit-inducing ignorance, melodic guitar interplay and an old-school vibe to summon a pestilential soundtrack of scorched earth and blackened skies. ... more

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