HYMN OF THE UNHOLY DARK (Dark Metal) --- [Intro — whispered over funeral bells] In the name of the Abyss below... The gates are opening slow... --- [Verse I — Demons & Satanism] Rise from the sulfur, you legions of old, Demons of fire with eyes made of cold. The seals are now broken, the circle is drawn, I summon the darkness before the new dawn. I pledge to the Serpent, the Light-Bringer's flame, I carve on my chest your inverted name. --- [Verse II — Necromancy] I call to the corpses that rot in the ground, By words of the ancient, by blood and by sound. Awaken, you dead, from your six-foot sleep, Your souls are not yours — they are mine to keep. From graveyards and crypts, from the ashes and bone, I bind you forever, you rise not alone. --- [Verse III — Mysticism & Invocation] Through veils of the mist, through the shadow of time, I speak the forbidden, the unholy rhyme. The candles are black, and the sigils are drawn, I invoke what should never be woken at dawn. Invoco te, Pater Ignis, Invoco te, Mater Noctis, Per sanguinem, per ossa, Per nomen tuum in tenebris. --- [Pre-Chorus — Exorcism reversed] They came with their crosses, their prayers, their rites, To cast out the shadows, to banish the nights. But the priest is now kneeling, his scripture undone, The demon he feared is the one he's become. --- [Chorus — Pandemonium] PANDEMONIUM! — the throne of a thousand kings, Where chaos eternal on blacked wings sings! SATANAS! — the flame that devours the light, Exorcise the holy, and crown the night! PANDEMONIUM! — the legions arise, With necromant hands and with demonic eyes! Through myst and through madness, through death and through flame, The dark is eternal — and I am its name! --- [Bridge — slow, doom-laden] Mysteries of the dark... unveiled... Necromantic altars... impaled... The invocation spoken... fulfilled... The pandemonium wakes... and the heavens are killed... --- [Outro — spoken, fading into silence] The rite is done. The dead have risen. The demons walk among you. There is no god here... ...only the dark. ---
