Real life invasion, I slide into your mind
Staring through your mask, I am no longer blind
Feeling with your fingers as they wrap around a blade
Raise the knife up to your throat and unmake what they've made
Then I fly back to my body locked in some machine
Seizures wrack my being as I'm flung back into me
Another mark assassinated by my hand
Slowly my soul's rearranged by their master plan
Visions swirl inside my mind
Butterflies and blood found inside
One by one my body count is raised
Every murdered target earns me so much praise
This mask pulled so tight as I descend with blades
Who I am and what they are slowly fucking razed
Blood must flow so hot as I ascend with knives
Memories coalesce as I'm paid to take their lives
Mental subversion, I dive into their brains
Victims pant and gasp as they drown under rain
Wipe my hands, say goodbye, a bullet through my skull
Awaken in the throes of violence after one more cull
Ask me again what the artifacts mean to me
Every time I take a life it's easier to see
A device inside my head reprograms me to kill
My memories reconfigured to bow down to my will
Visions swirl inside my mind
Butterflies and blood found inside
One by one my body count is raised
Every murdered target earns me so much praise
This mask pulled so tight as I descend with blades
Who I am and what they are slowly fucking razed
Blood must flow so hot as I ascend with knives
Memories coalesce as I'm paid to take their lives
Pulverizing, brutal, extreme and surreal black metal from this UK one-man project, “Vessel of Iniquity” is the sound of terror. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 30, 2017
supported by 5 fans who also own “Mask of the Assassin”
Pretty sure this is a concept album. Can't decide enough of the lyrics to be sure, but the song titles sure make it seem that way. Regardless, the thing fucking slaps. Dig the tone, the riffage, the general vibe: the fact that ASHEN HORDE understand the concepts like 'pacing' and 'build' (a lost art in our time). All around winner, regular rotation material. Ghuughra