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The Cult OfVenus Aversa
I am SheLilith
Mistress of the darkOf Sheba
First offenderAnd succour to demons
Whose sweet seductions and wicked ritesLead all those too enslaved by the flesh
To trespass against Gods holy law
And tonight I come for you...
Midnight strikes, the candles sputterMuttering their reeking spells
I snuff their tongues, my heart a-flutterThese words I speak are gates to Hell
Casus belli
In hoc signo vincesVeritas vos liberabit
Casus belliIn hoc signo vincesIn aeturnum, amen
The scent of death is rentIn this ornamental verse
It ventures down the centuriesTormenting me with secrets so anathema
And now the fires grateI must relate, to end this curse
I'll break through spires to escape my fateAm I too late or just perverse?
Midnight strikes, the candles sputterMuttering their reeking spells
I snuff their tongues, my heart a-flutter
These words I speak are gates to HellSo the blight begins
Near the woodland of a frightened villageWhere the rites of unimaginable sin
And the howling on the windChills the blood for fear of spillage
Where nightfall used to beBlessed with best tranquility
Its now caressed by misadventure
Templars cursed from the crusadesHave birthed a church, more masquerade
In which they worship mass dementia
They came from dust and flameBy the Red Sea on dead shoresFleeing claims of blasphemy
And bestialityDevils fed them back to us
Knights of holy wars, inviting hordesOf grim infidelities
In the grip of cryptic landsAnd desert sands
They found just cause
And midst their entourageUnder the stars
They brought relics and partsOf saints
And evil left to clerics charge
With Muslim plunder they built their sectTo the composite Baphomet
An androgynous sphinx, open, erectUniversal in its closet display
Spawn of Lilith and SamaelFirst offender and the snake
In thrall like pawns beneath its spellThe Templars grew to astute surrender
Sabbatical, fanaticalThey adorned its monstrous bust
With a kings ransom of Eastern jewelsThe embodiment of beast and lust
Many moons then proved the boonOf immutable and beautiful
Darkness ever-afters
Then one eve when the ancient treesOutside, drew back, unnerved
The pleas from those impatient, teasedSomething from the black beyond of nowhere
A stunning woman, summonedComing scimitar-curved
Statuesque, but living fleshDraping nakedness about their pagan saviour
She came Lilith, a perfect mythThe scarlet whore
Skinned in magnificenceIn her defence
She only slew a few of them
Born of a sacrifice, a virgins priceFor the merging with a Goddess
She prowled the world againEnslaving men
With the surging of her bodice
Midnight strikes, the candles sputterMuttering their reeking spells
I snuff their tongues, my heart a-flutterThese words I speak are gates to Hell
Casus belliIn hoc signo vincesVeritas vos liberabit
Casus BelliIn hoc signo vincesIn aeturnum, amen
One Foul StepFrom The Abyss
The Feast of Fools, 1308As January slipped into the grip of winter
A leather leash tightened round the throat of fate
Amidst the flock, disease and dementiaNight was blighted more than ever before
With screams of lust and obscene adventureAnd scenes of raw debauch
The darkness was aroused with every kissAnd all who fell under it's spell
Were one foul step from the abyss
One foul step from the abyss
Scared villagers there in All Hallows FairFeared the Templars and their Queen
For Lilith compared to a royal nightmare
Dani FilthMouthpiece of Venus/Deceiving Highs
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Fever-dreams
The beast was loose and beauty partyTo the horrors of this sonorous whore
A seducer, MedusaA frozen Hecate cloned
Stealing seed, her needs were like a cancerGrowing stronger with each whimpering dog
Knelt before her, thirteen necromancersCalled from desert sands to this land of opportunity
The darkness was aroused with every kissAnd all who fell under its spellWere one foul step from the abyss
One foul step from the abyss
Love was drugged by a copious vendorA train of servants for her decadent gamesPurring on rugs in fugs of opiate splendour
Vain Lilith spread her wings again
Stars, they gasped and comets in ovationLit the towers, their very presence declared
They watch with lust, despair and venerationFor the Goddess seated naked there
The painted eye of the storm
Plagues of sin, played to winAll hearts and souls in thrall
To her embrace, her fatal whimsDesire meant to conquer all
Until that fateful day, 1308With a force blessed by the Kings of Hate
Facing winter grey to disintegrateOnce noble halls
The villagers in a belligerent hordeFraught daughters fanning flames
Rose like pillars for their militant LordThoughts of slaughter haranguing hot veins
They assailed the fort beyond the woodsAs the howling broke on the stroke of midnight
Many lost their sanity at what they fought
Amidst those walls, the creed of dementiaAnnihilated by sheer weight of the surgePut to the sword, freed from their calenture
The great estate was given straight to the Church
Of Lilith, no limb ranked amongst the deadBut that she drank the blood of many men
That dark night it was said
The Nun WithThe Astral Habit
The world was her cloister, the Abbess DuboirIn the convent at All Hallows Fair
A pearl in an oyster she shone like a star
Augmenting her sisterhoods prayersHer singing touched Angels and melted their heartsHer choirs inspired the search
For the lost Holy Grail, the Benedict artsAnd the best of the Catholic Church
But if one thingOne precious little thingWould darken this facade
There would be such consequences
Like the nig ht Sister VictoriaStepped in from the freezing cold
No candles would light at Evening Mass
The days passed by without a sighBut dusk came thick with dread
Intangible, the air was full
Of wanderlust and approaching bloodshed
In truth, the Abbess with her pious whimsEnjoyed the new girl's pain
Proof to the rest that the briars of sinEntangled all the world in Satan's name
Victoria Varco, once an heiressTo a proud noble estate
Fell pregnant by her recklessnessWho then fell foul to a violent fate
Such was her crime in expedient times
And the shame of besmirching her nameHer child was burnt, she was dragged to these wallsFor a life in obedient chains
But not one thingOne precious little thingWould darken this facade
Like the nig ht Sister VictoriaWoke screaming in her room
She spent a week spiralling from heaven
And as the seasons wheezed and pinedHer dreams grew more perverse
For no good reason she would findAn alluring woman naked save for jewels and verse
When her eyelids closed, on a moonlit shore
This intoxicating beauty would appearThe sweetest symphony composedThose abating lips rose
To whisper dirty secrets in her ear
Clandestine secrets
A dream within a dreamShe finds herself this nymph
Abreast a desert duneAnd below the crescent moon
Atop a darksome stranger
Ah, the spurting of his seed inside herTriggers paradise
She rides the beast until the heavens tremble
Forcing eclipse, her lover licks her bloodThat drips upon the sand
And almost out of handCoarse plots assemble
For somewhere in the con vent wallsA Templar treasure rests
Forgotten to the vestibulesLike pleasures of the flesh
So, in return for nightly runsPast tongues and wisdom's hissShe promised to assist the hunt
For an ancient golden chain amiss
Paul AllenderGuitarlot On A Pedestal (Exhibit A)
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Retreat Of TheSacred Heart
She slept in ecstasyIn hands that fanned her wildest fantasies
Freed from Christ's frigid regimeAnd rigid nails...
She was first in churchTo lick her lips and self-debase
Each waking second felt like heavenIn the Scarlet One's embrace
And at last, clear memories, aghastRelinquished their control
All things held dear to the wretched pastCoalesced within her soul
Madness crept into her sightThough her sinful gait
Spoke of nothing to the contraryOnce-dulled eyes leapt alive with life
Her piece of broken mirrorBarely recognised
The worm was turning
For here sat grinning VictoriaWho, not three weeks ago
Was flogged red to euphoriaFor her dour love of God
And the ardour of his crows
Cold cloisters kept the dead apartAt The Retreat of the Sacred Heart
She stepped in ecstasyNeath skies that plied her wildest fantasies
Freed into love's reacquainted dream
And sudden gales...Nights grew sultry late September
A man came from the villageThrough the woodsTo help with harvest
She was burning like the fieldsAll her vows lay unfulfilled
His name was Isaac, silent, blessedA mute whose tongue impressed her lately
But now red skies darkenThe rooks lament
Windswept maelstroms harkenThe approach of Lilith's
Nightmare kingdom
The woman in her astral dreamsBecame more vivid, livid, obscene
Seated on a throne of onyx blasphemiesEmanating raw desire
And the surging urge to scream
Darkness crept into her faceShe stood erect
And spoke of riches and their whereaboutsFinding in Isaac the need to place
A hidden Templar necklaceLest the month run out
For now stormed the vaingloriousIn her palace of mass delightsHer power dawned victorious
Victoria the key, her mind unfastenedBy flights of morbid fancy
Psychomancy, rites of ancient wrongSweet seductions, peaked eruptions
Spiking through impatient song
Cold cloisters kept the dead apartAt The Retreat of the Sacred Heart
The gate to Hell was forced apartAt The Retreat of the Sacred Heart
The PersecutionSong
At the very startThere were whispers in the dark
And for all the world to seeThere was witchcraft at its heart
And on the autumn airThe scent of bonfires everywhereAnd a fell wind stirred the leaves...
The persecution song
Telltale signs of possessionLittle Miss Demeanour in the demons bed
Gasps she just could not suppressAfter lights-out midst the dead
And a past on which sin cast its darts of wickedness
Time was running faster for disaster
Strange nights were burningIn the furnace of her dreamsA name was uttered, LilithMistress, playmate, master
Such sights were stolen in the throes of ecstasy
And in the thick of allIn the Black Goddess's thrall
With the wood unseen for treesVictoria stood tall
Promiscuous in stepThe Devil breathing down her neckAs jealous zealots stitched apiece...
The persecution song
Telltale signs of possessionFickle Miss Demeanour hissed and disappeared
To her Sisters of the cloth
She now reeked of AstarothAgain the curse had surfacedSneaking back the pagan years
Weaving webs of great revealingHidden in the convent
An evil libido abided, undoneBreathing, deceiving
Feasting on her deviant feelingsShe'd clung to her crucifixOnce her torturers begun
Her screams came quickThe miserichord
Den to vice and screwThat had reddened many tongues
Wrung symphoniesOf suffering from her
Dave PybusFive Foul Strings From The Abyss
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Many moons hardened pure hearts
Those plagued by her black artsTheir rooms secreting phantom orgies
Vile rites and rifled graves
Mere hours, now toweredAbove this bent and beaten flower
Her naked body privy toThe Abbess and her ways
Victoria foughtNo guilt was wrought
Just a torrid retort of blasphemiesNails and crosses vomited forth
From this pretty little whore now arched like Hell
Arched like Hell
At the very startThere were whispers in the dark
And for all the world to seeThere was witchcraft at its heart
But then the end grew nighA dirge inferno filled the sky
In its customary key...
The persecution song
Telltale signs of obsession
No wailing banshee would dishonour their nameNuns dragged her to the blasted oakStorm-clouds threatened holy smoke
They hanged her there like JudasWith the Hellcat in her reined
Time was running faster for disasterExorcism, torture, gallows
Now a shallow graveA name was stuttered, IsaacTongue-tied, simple, bastardThey made him dig the pit
Mindless of what it claimed
Deceiving EyesOn the night all mirrors fell silent
And the clocks struck accord with the rainA storm swept in with such violence
The dead rose to complainThe stars were ill-crossed as the weather
Lost in its bitumen cloakThe Angels were warring, slick with endeavourFalling like tears through the thickening smoke
Blood redeems, heaven torn asunderA flood of souls scream on the rolling thunder
Blood redeems, heaven torn asunder
She stirs from dreams barely three feet under
"Victoria, I come to claim my prizeStealing from the convent neath the wrath of seething
skiesFor though you greased the palm of Satan
With those moonlit silver thighsI knew the beast took second place
When I looked into your eyes
Your deceiving eyesFilled with lies
And missed good byes
And serpents hissing revelationsYour deceiving eyes
They tell enoughOf how I fell in love
With the goddess creeping deep inside you"
And with the tumult up above him roaringIsaac sought her shallow grave
As lightning bolted through the grim down-pouringrain
He struck the hallowed earth again
Having torn at the soil like a man insaneHe threw his fists at the poisonous cosmos
And from that pit of shameHe bore the coffin from her sorry lot
Neath trees whose eaves were knotted with rotThrough ornate chapel doors, unlocked
To splinter her sarcophagusAnd gaze upon her face
Victoria...
"Victoria, I come to claim my prizeStealing from the convent neath the wrath of seething
skiesFor though you greased the palm of Satan
With those moonlit silver thighsMaking mockery of rosaries
His needs will never rival mine
I recall a summer's dayThe sunlight bathed your penitential scars
As I sat and washed the blood away
Now your body staysAnd the coldness of your lips
EclipseLike the first true kiss of winter"
Pining for the deadOn the stone floor spread
She was shining through her winding shroudA moon amid the mad, this son of Adam had
A gift for the pretty young nunA necklace wrought of twining snakes
Two gold illicit tonguesHe laid it at her throat
Where the rope had wrungHe was burning from the furnaceOf his roused desire
He wrested with temptationTo be or unfulfilled
She was undressed for ovationHer sumptuous form, the storm revealed
And with his driven lust explodingHer lashes brushed his cheeks
They flickered with life, her limbs enfoldingPurring, licking wicked teeth
"Victoria, I come to claim my prizeStealing from the convent neath the wrath of seething
skiesFor though you greased the palm of Satan
With those moonlit silver thighs
You have left him just for meI see it in deceiving eyes
Those deceiving eyesFilled with lies
And missed good byesAnd serpents hissing revelations
Those deceiving eyesThey tell enough
Of how I fell in loveWith the goddess re-arisen in you"
Martin 'Marthus' SkaroupkaWhiplash and Concussion
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Lilith ImmaculateChurch bells resounded like judgement day
As they were making loveIn the rainswept graveyard
She fucked him hard, silhouetted by flameA monsoon Tigress set upon prey
Fall for the love of meCrawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent swayI grow more master the faster the days
Lilith Immaculate
This delectable reaperHer eyes were profoundDrawing him in deeperUntil he was drownedHurled on the shore
Of the world underground...
Lilith ImmaculateMortal kind, a morbid wineFor this dark moon goddess
And freed to stretch her clawsThis beautiful whore
Would be brutally honest
Tortuous one, taboos undoneA glittering star on a sea of myriad waves
And a thickening mist, a seductressLeading lovesick hearts astray
Lilith
In the throes of orgasm, she bucked and he brokeAt the height of the storm, the chaos they'd smote
Burning behind her in arabesque smokeFramed a vision transformed as she sucked from his
throat
Victoria smiled, her now golden eyesPossessed a regal bearing
Of omnipotent powerFrom wet lips to her smouldering thighs
Her beauty perfected and her will agonised
Fall for the love of meCrawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent swayI grow more the master the faster the days
Lilith Immaculate
With dread single purposeHer mind told him stay
She strode through the fireDesire aflame
She murdered the nunsIn such horrible ways...
Lilith Immaculate
"That night we lay entwined on hayInside a soldier's barn
Her panting breath an opiateAs in her bolder grasp
I caught the scent of desert sandsThe Holy lands, the fall of reasonBut only when I smelt the blood
Did I fear her colder hand"
"I am darkness, I am sinThe Queen of lust invited in
Reborn at last to cast myFecund shadow on this world
You shall worship me, enslavedFor many lovers shall I craveAnd in return, i'll gladly paveYour psycho path with pearls
For I have been gratingAnd waiting so long to find
The most perfect hostess close to meWhose thin-ice troubled mind
Was like a cracked, black ornate mirrorTo slip right through in time
When at last I wore Harmonia's necklaceThe cursed twin serpents mine"
Tortuous one, debauchery wonThe attention of Emperors, Prin ces and TsarsFor the toll of her kiss, no soul could dismiss
The advance of her throne from afar
This English rose with traits of thoseWho graced the harems of the East
Adorned with thorns, she raised the hornsAnd scarlet hems to wasted priests
Fall for the love of meCrawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent swayI grow more master the faster the days
Lilith Immaculate
This delectable reaperHer eyes were profoundThey drew him in deeper
Until he was drownedHurled on the shore
Of the world underground...
Lilith Immaculate
Fall for the love of meCrawl for the love of me
Drool for the love of my virulent swayI grow more master the faster the days
Lilith Immaculate
The flutes and sweet wineOf her voice anodyne
Her power was growingEvery hour malign
The truth, Lilith's kingdomDrew closer with time
The Spawn OfLove And WarPoets racking absinthed brains
Could never fully paint these nightsNo martyr parting from his pain
Could utter words so eruditeAs those she now divulged to me
In the throes of passions gripIndulging latent fantasies
That ran forked tongues along the lip
Of fate's pudendaThe twisted snake's agendaNow the world would bend
James McIlroyGuitarlot On A Pedestal (Exhibit B)
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To her deadly legacy
Life's graveyard was waiting, such dizzying flightFrom the convent at All Hallows Fair
Without contemplating, we fled through the n ightToo blood-drunk and cunt-sated to care
The Goddess had spokenAnd awoken desire
It crackled in the air around usA psychic force shimmering like fire
And on her breasts, that old necklaceThe one I snuck from the fucked AbbessWhose dirty little secret, other than me
Now shone with bold intensity
Vast the power it possessedThe darkness brought to living flesh
This treasure was ancient, taken by forceFrom an elite caste of priests in Delphi
The Templars were patient, they stayed out the courseThen fleeced their Greek hosts in their sleep
That necklace traversedVile murders and miles worse
But what was a curseTo this perverse demoness?
Legend swore it was a gift of malice
For the maiden HarmoniaThe illegitimate spawn of love and warJealousy made it gleam for her
For with it clasped, her looking glassWas ever beautiful and young
But disaster choked her royal casteAnd every throat on which it hung
There madness, death and horror clung
Immortalised in mortal guiseShe was a sight for blighted eyes
A plague to gladly plagiariseAnd spread like red excited kisses
She was more than meMore than words
Could fulfil in the parlance of the angelsShe cast a spell on every cell
In my nobodyShe gave me back my tongueThat she might run it on herself
She was Lilith, she was lightI was but a parasite
Beckoned to temptationIn her velvet overtones
Through frozen arches, dressed in whiteShe led me into paradiseNeath comets in ovation
Like the Queen of winter, throned..
Pleasures archetypalThen much rarer agonies
I was a sworn discipleOf her whims and dark decrees
In Europe's hairHer spies were everywhere
A sylph amongst the filthy rich and debonairHer greater plan
All chaos and the fall of manFor as she fed dark appetitesShe bred her children there
The spawn of love and war
Presiding over Hellfire clubsArch-masons and Agharta
The spawn of love and war
She rode the beast, her legs apartA blazing pyre starter
Life's playground elated, such dizzying sightsAnd sensations ignited her grin
As slaves celebrated her Satanic ritesWe climbed up to heaven in sin
She came to meAs she will come to you
Intoxicating in her seductionHer siren sway, devastating voodoo
Persistent, resistance is useless, foolTo this Goddess, i n lust she's cruel
Beyond any measure, her pleasures will foundA perverted Eden on sacred ground
Vast the power I caressedThe darkness brought to vivid flesh
And in it she now rules a cowered universe
Harlot On A PedestalWhere does the madness end?
How far down do the rungs expireIn smoke and burning heat?
In depravity and sin?
In her shocking retinueI saw the worst
Desire run amok amongst youAnd in her boudoir too
The endless nights embeddedIn her beautiful cocoon
Turning black and blue and jaded
Kneeling at her feetMy heart atrophied at her ravishing formThe ultimate test
Her cult obsessedWith this body of the Goddess reborn
When she first laid me to restI saw such sights of wickednessFrom this harlot on a pedestalThis Scarlet Woman scorned
I glimpsed desertion, the bluster of shameThe tribes of the moon, their lustre improved
A morbid aversion to the limpid domainOf Eden and Adam her dark temper moved
I witnessed reverie thenPerverse resurgence, souls on fireBlood and seed spilt for centuries
For this imperious bitchIn her shocking retinue
I saw the worstDesire run amok amongst you
A gnawer of tabooDread appetites were threaded
Right throughout the mortal zooHer Immortality now hungered
I remember, in ThebesEnthroned with cat-skinned girls
Her long dark hair braided with pearls
A red gown split revealed her thighsAs full lips rose to feline eyes
Egyptian black outlined each lidIt's clear who owned the pyramid
Ashley EllyllonTinkle, Tinkle Little Scars
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Temptress LilithHer beauty stirred me more than words
Could ever paint, her bible hurt
Tempered LilithHissing in the darkPissing on my heart
I was missing every part of Victoria
Victoria
I found them hypnotic, the years of displayOf court life and parties, political biteNarcotic, erotic, her bleary soirees
Left daylight a dream in the scheme of the night
The scheme of the night
But I grew uneasy, she wanted the earthFor now she was spinning her sins
Breeding fell children and biding her worthBefore the new orders disorder begins
Feeding from the weakSavaged on their feet by her ravaging lust
Evening-dressedThis young Countess
Led lovers astray under cover of du sk
When she took them to her breast
They passed last rites, deliciousnessSwept into their every poreThis matriarch of darkness bored
Harlot on a pedestalThe night orchestralHarlot on a pedestal
Never vestal...
Forgive Me Father(I Have Sinned)Forgive me Father, I have sinned
Darkness put her painted claws in me againHer vision drowns like service wine
Whispered kisses so divineI was blessed but now i've come u ndone
Storm clouds roll out overheadAbove their master
End of all Flesh, End of all DaysLove predicts disasterIn her precious ways
I was burned, a sacerdotal soulBy the Demon Queen of my dreamsInfatuation turned to total control
Her rose was sweetBut her thorns were barbarous
"Love meAnd worship me
I'll lavish you and ravish youFulfil all wishes and fetishes too
Many never want to see
Many never want to knowThe truth behind their fantasiesTheir deepest needs
Let alone be shown them"
Forgive me Father, I have sinnedDarkness put her painted claws in me again
Her vision drowns like service wineWhispered kisses so divine
I was blessed but now i've come undon e
Nothing left to do but run
Sodom rolls out modern deathOn casters ever faster
End of all Flesh, End of all DaysThe stars predict disaster
In her bastard ways
"Love meAnd worship meI'll nurture you and hurt you too
Fulfil all wishes for my sad Aladdin"
She comes to meLike a sandstorm in an hourglass
A whirlwind of desire
I'm hypnotisedTo think beyond the pale
Beyond heart-stopping eyesAnd sopping thighs
I'm wont to fail
A wicked spell cast over meAddicted to her utterly
Despite the horrors that gestateBeneath the beautiful
"I'll grant you life beyond your kenThe envy of all other men
Whatever vice will make you spendEternity with me"
Satan's concubine
She makes her crime scenes shine from heaven
Forgive me Father, I have sinnedDarkness put her painted claws in me again
Her vision drowns like service wineWhispered kisses so divine
I was blessed but now i've come und one
Beyond Eleventh HourAll mirrors lead to my palace
My exotic pleasure templeWherein my court is both gracious and insatiable
Pure and obsceneFor where pumps the true heart of life
There too seeps corruptionAnd from this my new Eden of nightshades, black
henbane, sphinxes,opium and roses weaned on tears and blood
Will rise up like lustAnd the shadow of my dark consort shalt extend
Himself across the face of the world...
...And Hell will come with Him
Part of the garden, her dark EdenFed blood by poisoned fronds
My heart hardened in her wet seasonTreading mud in her slough of despond
But only nowA path lies straight before me
The maze is ploughed half through with hateAnd her crop is dripping red
Beyond eleventh hour
Her beauty and brute powerGrows stronger by the day
And with each rose that she deflowersThe longer her throes of madness stay
In her grip on shredded sheetsOnce our fingertips had dug and clutched
She whispered dreadful things to me
She wanted war with GodThe underdog baring sharpened teethWith her armies raised from suffering
To ascend on jet black wings
She'd break off holy limbsOn the racks of her witch hunt
And crush the church beneath her heelThe Pope in homage to her cunt
A dark horse forcing nightmaresTo wring submissives dry
A vampire madam batterfangWith vicious streaks a mile wide
Beyond eleventh hour
Her kiss has turned dismissiveHer glance holds slight contempt
Instead those eyes burn on the prizeOf fates she really likes to tempt
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In her grip on shredded sheetsGasping from conquered peaks of passion
She whispered dreadful things to me
She wanted war with GodThe underdog baring sharpened teethWith her armies raised from suffering
To ascend on jet black wings
She'd tear down mighty spiresThen rear them up anew
Orders forged to her desiresThe eleventh hour nearly through
Lilith, the abyss, the slithering mistsThat cause all souls to stray
How to resist those seductive giftsOn the shore of her un holy ways?
She calls my name so softlyFrom deep banks of scented fog
I almost lose myself before it startsBut my spirit keeps its silence
As I drift across the lakeA glimpse of harem secretsNow her velvet curtain parts
She is glaring like the moon
The wind dies down, eavesdroppingAs I bow before her throne
And she descends to greet meLike the royal bitch to which she's grown
"Come closer, what have you to say?Black cat got your tongue?"
"I am not your slaveNor are you my saviour"
"But Isaac, I'm the only one..."
I hold those cold deceiving eyesHer once hypnotic gaze
And pledge eternal love, then walk awayThunder seethes behind me
Death adjusts her favourite maskAnother lover smothered by her sanguinary darkness
Clasped in the garden, here you heardThis story blustered through
I asked her pardon, swore my wordI'd score her sweetmeats just like you
For only nowThe truth lies prone before me
I couldn't leave her even if she stormedThe heavens as were promised
Beyond eleventh hour
Lilith, the abyss, the slithering mistsWill come for you this eve
Lustrous the cusp of her lingering trystBefore those fatal kisses bleed
Beyond eleventh hour
She will make of you a playthingScant amusement for her bed
And when naked flesh forgets to singShe'll take your fucking soul instead
Midnight strikes, the candles sputterMuttering their reeking spells
I snuff their tongues, my heart a-flutterThese words I speak are gates to Hell
Produced by Scott Atkins, Doug Cook and Dani FilthMixed by Scott Atkins
Engineered by Scott Atkins and Doug CookWith roadside assistance by Rupert Matthews and Andy Sneap
Invoked, recorded and sexual-favoured for at - Monkey Puzzle House Studio,Woolpit, Suffolk, England, as Spring melted in to Summer 2010 E.H
Mastered at Backstage studios, Sneapy Hollow,Derbyshire, England, August 2010 E.H
Orchestration duties shared by Mark Newby-Robson
The sweet, lustrous voice of the Goddess - Lucy AtkinsHaunted subtly by Dora Kemp
Frightening Conductor / Arranger - Ralph WoodwardThe Full Score choir - Ruth McCabe, Tim Cutts, Craig Miller, Philippa Mann,
Dora Kemp, Anna Asbach-Cullen
Additional Guitar Soul - Andy James
All music smitten by Paul Allender, James McIlroy, Mark Newby-Robson,Ashley Ellyllon, Dave Pybus and Martin SkaroupkaPOEtry and amped Vampyric Lyrics by Dani Filth
Published by Cradle Of Filth Music Ltd
Artily, Artily, Venus Perverser... Scenes of raw debauch by Natalie ShauModels - Stella Mouzi, Natalie Shau and various untagged corpses
Additional artwork & booklet Layout by Matt Vickerstaffwww.darkwaveart.co.uk
Tyrannagement - Fay Woolven at In Phase Management Ltd
Maelstrom-to-come Booking Agents - Michael Arfin & Justin Hirschman at AGI(US), Paul Bolton at X-Ray
Touring (Rest of World)Legal charge d'affaires - Tim Northrop, NMD Solicitors UK
Heavy duty weapons of choice-
Sennheiser mics, PRS Guitars, Engl Amps, Rotosound Strings, Jim DunlopPlectrums, ESP Guitar and Basses, Ampeg Amps, Pearl Drums, Sabian Cymbals,
Vic Firth Sticks, Remo Drumheads, Ibanez Guitars, Peavey Amplification,Orange Cabinets, Bodenhamer Electronics, Roland Keyboards and Taser C2
handheld stun guns.Peace Through Superior Firepower.
Thank-lists, merchandise, news, invasion plans, mucky picturesand other material deemed morally offensive
by the general herd, can be found online at
www.cradleoffilth.comCradle Of Filth play hardcore drinking games with Satan exclusively.
This album is deadicated to the memory of our very good friend,The Green Man, Peter T. Ratajczyk Steele, 1962-2010
You will be sorely missed.
jei
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Venus Diversa
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Beast Of Extermination"Kill a man and you are a murderer.
Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror.Kill everyone and you are a God."-Jean Rostard (1955)
Born of the best of enemiesBeyond the pearly castellationsWherein heaven has no embassy
And hope no surly grip on reason
Yahweh; frankincenseSatan; gold and murder
He is sly, bejewelled with sylphSlick limbs spread wide to guide you through the filth
And rustCrawl to him fuelled by lust
He's the horned one in the pentagramA waste of chaos by the gramDark eyes for trouble, double damned
DespairThe storm upon lake Lacrymose
Restless, never comatoseThe thorn upon the single rose
We share...
Germination
His a renegade a capella now obeyedA shitstorm without warning
The pleasuit King In Yellow on paradeSon of the thund'rous morning
Yahweh; frankincenseSatan; gold and murder
He is high, inured with viceThe tower-creeper on our edelweissCareer
A foreign power cut of utter fear
Taught curiosity, he's atrocity, bannedThe taste of chaos by the dram
A tortured course like slaughtered lambBest rare
The curse that haunts this thirsting tombDisturbed, becomes the worst of doom
Rehearsing all his worth for soonHe's there...
Extermination
He is hatred, greed and war
He is everything we ought abhorWere it not for the fateful truth
Be sureWe suffer him all the more
And lo! his tyrant's eyeIs fixed upon our rich and vibrant sky
Now hear the windHerald desolation
As on that eve when angels cladIn nothing but their whispered virtues
Slipped into the valleyOf the dirty serpentine
He's the horned one in the pentagramA waste of chaos by the gram
Dark eyes for trouble, double damnedDespair
The storm upon lake LacrymoseRestless, never comatose
The thorn upon the single roseWe share...
Desperation
Disdainful, he self-deprecatesThe mirror's jagged stare
And it's painful how we subjugateThe grinning face reflected in there
Yahweh; frankincenseSatan; gold and murder
Truth and AgonyMother's milk has souredMy life's a bolted door
And from it runs a trail of vagrant goreMy wounds are open flowersFragrant gifts for my encore
Bouquets of praise for bleeding, towered
On the sacrificial floor
I summoned and you cameTo the peel of twisted bells
To the gelid whisper of my name
I blanched, erotic dangerHad me whirling like a star
To the dark advance of strangers
And then I heard you laughA throat of broken glass
Leather stitched to weeping skinA coat of death and suppuration
Be my truth and agony
An architect for my total destructionMy erector, my dissector
My flesh will be wet for your best seduction
Be my truth and agonyInventive and deranged
Loves proof is in, its plain to seeThe fluids we've exchanged
Part of these soul killersThe Gestapohood of scars
Carved an ornate invitation on my heartThe scent of French vanillaWith the stench of abattoirsPast tense of present playthingsOn those stained red lips ajar
I summoned and you cameFrom the churning guts of Hell
With your Christmas hiss of chains
Down the endless centuriesYour torture bed of lust
A shrine for us to redesignAnd sign in blood and rust
Be my truth and agony
An architect for my total destructionMy erector, my dissector
My flesh caressed by your best corruption
Be my truth and agonyInventive and derangedLoves proof is in, its meant to be
My cells are rearranged
I suffered and you cameTo the splintering of bones
Winning pinnacles for my pain
Raped and racked and mutilatedRaised from dregs again
Autopsy-turvy, back elatedIn brazen arms that sacked my veins
Skinnatra, take me to the starsThrust me through to paradise
Endorphins breaking fast
Creature from the black abyss
Teacher, sadomasochistYour tortured soul has led meTo this altered state of bliss
Mistress FromThe Sucking Pit
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Oh dear GodIt is midnight in the labyrinth
The night is set to taint the painted hallsMoonlight is our cue
The candelabra flicker at your passing gallI swear they're dancing just for you
The dead leaves rustle on the manor lawnsAs a light breeze whispers throughThe call of wolves, the owls lament
Our screams shall soon soar skyward too
Mistress from the sucking pit
All the world crawls lovesick at her feetThe stars are passing observationsHer voice is music, her legs go on
She's got full orchestrationAnd been known to use it
But trepidation is a far slicker song
Amongst dull suitorsShe's bright and razor sharp
A tree of woe uprooterA viper still at heart
She's alkaline and far acidicAs sweet as clementines
This mistress from the sucking pit
All the world crawls lovesick at her feet
The stars are passing observationsHer voice is music, her legs go onShe's got full orchestrationAnd been known to use it
But trepidation is a far slicker song
Mistress from the sucking pit
Embossed by her postulant gazeLike Medusa on a plinthI am lost in her embrace
Oh dear GodIt is midnight in the labyrinth
A peacock fan of sinful eyesSwim wide across the room
This night, espied, your thin disguiseDoes wonders for the sundered gloom
For all lit up the shades retreat
To dark Italian pewsAnd corners where great vases standAbrim with thoughts of naked dais with you
Mistress from the sucking pit
All the world crawls lovesick at her feetThe stars are passing observations
Her needs are dire, her rites are wrongShe burns with exultation
Like a fiery vampireFor desperation is a far slicker song
Amongst dull suitorsShe's bright and razor sharp
A tree of woe uprooterA viper still at heart
She's alkaline and far acidicFluidic, serpentine
This mistress from the sucking pit
The waiters pass in gilded framesWith glasses sparkling too
The ball tonight grows magicalLike the finest Venice threw
And at it's heart a mythic queenHer skin of purest hue
Whose beauty is unquestionableBut whose duties are askew
For beneath the airs and divine gracesA slim tornado whirlsOn the precipice of her poisonous kissThe devil dwells deep inside this girl
Embossed by her postulant gazeLike Medusa on a plinthI am lost in her embrace
Oh dear godIt is midnight in the labyrinth
Mistress from the sucking pit
The wine has sat and breathed it's lastIn blood red ruby where
I find you by the roaring hearthA blaze of golden hair
Cascading down an angel's face
To pool about the breastsThat many minds have wondered onBut only I caress
And then i'm yours, the velvet crownOf Venus in my hands
Fists grip hard the eiderdownDesire firebrands
Every mountain, every routeMy wanton tongue must take
To taste that once forbidden fruitBefore your bloodlust starts to...
Behind TheJagged Mountains
I have come from the freezing seasFrom the warmth of foreign coals
Through the dismal fog of i nsecuritiesTo a cloud-enshrouded noble goal
The world has cast me from its laughterThrown to the wolves, to the dread thereafter
So now I forge a journey fraughtThrough these bitter wastes of snow
Over ice and gorge to an Eden soughtFar from the human races afterglow
This sightless climb is treacherous to weatherAs the cold bites deep, old heartstrings sever
Behind the jagged mountainsBeyond the frozen North
At the back of Boreas, the zealous windThere crest celestial fountainsCrystal waters soaring forth
In the realm of our sacred Angelus kin
Neither muse nor music fleesThis garden of delights
Everywhere the soothing hands of nature pleaseIn this state of pure Euphoria
Paradise lies at the heart of darknessAnd one must pay for this deep catharsis
Now the storm-clouds retchA vision fleets before my eyes
Wherein minarets and spires touchPhantasmagoric skies
And meadows stretch to woodlandsOf sweet nymph and fireflies
Death is in the breezeAnd his breath will paralyse
My mind is in the clutchOf something too long fantasised
Behind the jagged mountains
Beyond the frozen peaksAt the back of Boreas, the zealous windThe Gods of love are countingDown the nights until we meet
In the realm of our sacred Angelus kin
Now the mirage blearsAnd the howling gusts renew their fury
The gleam of moonlit towersFades to utter fear
The mountains rear in angerAt the righteousness i lack
And in their monstrous grasp I know-Dear God-
They will never let me back...
Free of enemies, no death, diseaseThe doves of peace, in flight
Carouse upon the ever-Summer breezeIn this land of Hyperborea
Behind the jagged mountainsBeyond their icy stares
At the back of Boreas, the zealous windMy soul is now surmountingPast the grasp of last despairs
To the realm of our sacred An gelus kin
Behind the jagged mountainsBeyond the frozen North
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