That Which Haunts the Dead

by Citadel

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1.	The Offering of Oblivion 06:34	lyrics	buy track
Renaissance cascades the crimson skies The shrine to Gods, withers beneath the stars Promised a throne, far from this place Victory, a blind offering Befallen to us the wretched go unnamed Come to me, drink from the well of bleak Nótt A monolith to light sunders it's path Nocturnal embrace, my blade sworn by epitaphs Hail, the fated harbinger of night Surrounded by hordes, my dear Barelorn I shan't let you fall from me Fire breathes through the stone Ten thousand arrows swallow the silver sun I arise, souls fragmented, shattered by the one who sees Passed the stained glasses of forsaken light Awaken, the prophecy My blessed blade whispers to me Power eternal, wielding ancestry Promised a curse, it echos deceit Ahead I ride from black spears of sleet Father, Elora, forgotten from name Prisoner, revenant, the reluctant seed Forlorn in masses of men, mountains of lost effigy Tread on the frozen wastes, vessels of righteousness Just as the blade rends flesh, so must power scar the soul Nightmare bred champion, knight of the dying day The tyrant moon, murders the purely sun Usurper Forth I bound my hand to blasphemy Betrayer Chosen of pale, betrayer of oblivion
2.	Nocturne's Descent 06:29	lyrics	buy track
Waited the throes of clockwork Unearthed the seed Unlatched gates of fury Descends upon this burning throne Followers of memory Bloodline tainted, hunters of my name appear Serenity, the pain of grief, follow your worthless sun Treasonous hegemony, the light casts its judgement Concede the blessing of day Smothered by depths of hatred Forevermore, a life fated Dearest friend of me, patrons wearing black Under the moors of corpses Shattering the shield One beckons from the entrance One calls for me Followers of memory Bloodline tainted, hunters of my name appear Serenity, the pain of grief, follow your worthless sun Treasonous hegemony, the light casts its judgement Concede the blessing of day Smothered by depths of hatred Forevermore, a life fated My death awaits, for they don't see, the abyss that follows this life No cure, atrocious entity Thrown into dark waters, my hand sinks into the grave Once violet eyes, a decaying glare Now I am complete
3.	Ataraxia 11:53	lyrics	buy track
Break of day, these ruins speak names of oaken pasts Carbonized from desecration's grasp, gone all to waste Blackened valor lines the broken shores My name burnt to forgotten ash, white mist sends me afloat Carry my body through these scenes of victory Songs of triumph fill these streets but this day my eyes stare cold A home I've paved, structures woven beneath To those I pray, for dire peace Go without me Gushing winds from the east, now a winter's silence Aura of distortion, shattering horizons Distant now, funeral pyres vanquish my carcass Grey flame drowns me into obscurity Seethes off of my limbs For we descend now Collapse before the starless darkness of night My frozen heart, eclipses the blackened eye Turn from me, Born to see, desolation, the tyrant bleeds Weightless now, I throw myself from this stone Flown to my lost home Color folds to gray, the fields below shriek my name Their hands reaching for me My decay Unto the bloodstained masses of bone, the rain melts me away I hide now in reveries, the beautiful warmth of day Tell me soon, of harmony, waters flow with velvet dreams Mother now, watch us sing, frolic beneath the trees Left us here with each other, a day eternal comes to cradle A king's blessing, a father's death, you will lead us passed the fray They sing for me, I turn away Back away from delusions of old Sent down to cold below, Reflection reveals to me, no longer I remain Only a glow Lunar seed Carry me Passed the trees For eternity Far from life A cursed scorn This tragedy Of the deceased They sing for me, I turn to gray Lost forever, a Wisp of Barelorn
4.	Wisp of Barelorn 10:42	lyrics	buy track
I've passed the dream A luring voice A beckon made for me Searching through the trees A path clears Their lies of mockery I fly from this sleeping death Back to my beginnings We cradle away from our disease Her voice pierces the darkness I panic amongst the screams Release to me The echoes of a lonesome grief The begging tears within No You can almost feel the second Her eyes turned to me A touch of a radiant scorch This warmth of agony Burn, feel my wrath form from space Your taunts of horrid peace Foul, this world concedes For Elora gone, I proceed Oh to see, your face fall from memory This severed loss of land Sown to me, your touch flows of majesty Lifted the burden off my hand Through the fog, the spell of discordant Veil of gods, they peer from the kingdoms below Look passed this bliss, reaching for the silver wane For when they sleep, the spirits they frolic Away from time, the heir of the darkest of thrones Bestowed to me, failed of humanity The gate opens to me Fear of all that is gone The rupture lies beneath Of pain, I remember what lies Passed the brink My spirit trembles through phase Dissolves my skin into shade Waters still, I peer across the lake
5.	Before the Rain 05:08		buy track
6.	Lady of the Lake 08:37	lyrics	buy track
Bound, voices lure me here To the pastures of home Remembrance across these stones Light the waters, reveals my home The anguish, mourn of soul My fire burns far from here Your lovely, face appears Through the glass, I see your heart at ache I sit across the lake, shape the mists into a windowpane Lost time has wrought us away The house withers to gray Fruit of life, hang by pleadings Failed I have, left you behind One absolved, of love's true meaning Bear this soul bound decay, Of the life once we breathed Your soul still holds me A fate I fear Where you are forever gone from here The weight of the years Of pulling the threads Our time lies with the wretched dead I watch the waters return to life from the lock of my demise I carry myself to her one last time
7.	Cowl of the Unseen Night 09:25	lyrics	buy track
Darkness returns Our hands never touch You back away, ignoring my reach Deliverance to see Your mind parting with me This gravity, the glass reflects black, I turn to The tyrant of night, consume the seas Sworn enemy, distant I watch light's defeat Pouring void, this canvas of gray, a fight astray Horizons consumed by bleak nothingness I look into the abyss The flight of windless scars Above the trees, disperse a faded star Close the book, of my mystery The night realm calls, it tethers me free Evaporating fountains, the mere forgotten plane The silence abhorrent, it's deafening Tendrils of shadow, pulling my soul asleep Relinquish me Cowl of the unseen night speaks To hell, charred one awaits me Purgatory, the choice has been made Damnation, to the fiery grave The curtains of bleak moonless silk The lines of my hand loathing lies, the patterns I seek Wings of mine demise, fall through the earth, I sink This gravity, the glass reflects black, I turn to The tyrant of night, consume the seas Sworn enemy, distant I watch light's defeat Pouring void, this canvas of gray, a fight astray Horizons consumed by bleak nothingness I look into the abyss The flight of windless scars, Above the trees, disperse a faded star Close the book, of my mystery The night realm calls, I hold the key Spectre drones circling me, the beyond sends its horrid faceless beasts Streaking black stains the auroras I gaze, a blaze of darkened pasts The murmurs of the lonely depraved, at the behest of death's doom The bell tolls now, the council of night, a sentence of exiled tombs The valley shrinks, mountains cave in Narrow the breach, the passage of redemption The quiet collapse, quaking the rot of the earth All for the taking, my life has lost its worth Legions of grim idols and griefs, the walls endless now, hallow the soul of defeat The essence drains me, spiral of disbelief Passed the horn stands the wood Passed this fold, the light withstood Illuminated patch of grass I fall exhausted, darkness halts its wrath Lone spire of my memory Desire of grief Against this fallen tree I sit, weep the prayer Around, the black night holds Forever, a place gone
8.	A Forgotten Place 13:59	lyrics	buy track
No breath draws near No suit of hardened disdain The truth beholds A place I've found In the confine of nights, absent of all sound Whispers ignore me The depraved moon returns, stares into my eyes Above it watches me here Where the bitter winds come to die I glare back in despair Watch the stillness fall around me The stars are far too late Time withers away The death of night holds me, the treelines begin to fade away A nothingness casts down onto this place I've made This place I've come to lay I long for rest, Tired of running from the memory of day I praise the one with this eternal night, a nocturnal blessing of shadow and decay To become faceless, in the shallow breath of lovers None will be as foolish to seek me None will ever beckon my name Ghost of exiled, apparition of pain Disperse I will into a hymn of a darkened travesty and disdain Eclipse the fallen shade I join the unknown to their dance of anonymity, where souls may sleep I lie awake restless, to infinity, I dissolve To set us apart, the night's corruption Embrace the moon into your blood Against all deemed unreachable Has cracked my time into black My darkest rage, the final retention, locked from your dreams You have sent me here, this quiet world of stillness Forever I will scream soundlessly your name My credence of grief In this place I've come to stay In this place, I will forget you

credits

released December 10, 2021

All music and lyrics written by Ameer Aljallad
Guitars, Bass, Drums and Vocals by Ameer Aljallad
Flute performances by Paige McFadden
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ameer Aljallad
Album art by Altar of Sorrow
Citadel would like to thank Paige McFadden and Ed Fuhrman.