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Torment Enshrined

by Molten Chains

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1.
Blackened tentacles chain me to the deep This hypnosis breaks me where I´m weak Tearing till the dagger hit the bone Shatter my instinct Pulsing through my flesh till I´m reborn I am reborn They´d sear a brand upon me Labelled to the elite formidable throne With their Mark they´d buy and sell me Bought and sold I am left with nothing Remove the limbs and the worthless eyes The withered hands A lament from the rotten lung as stainless steel and flesh are one Mercy is a waiver signed Toward deliverance The levee breaks damning all mankind As a heart and soul are forever confined And as the memories fade History erased And from a singular cell At midnight Reborn Still it teethes the silhouette Mounting contempt And as it bores I recall the pain Locked in the urn with my human name In the cortex I insert the code I revel in the flames Above the fire is the sordid moon She´s returning me to mothers Broken womb.
2.
Robbed from slumber conviction shattered and unnerved Their pitiful minds Bound to insolence their actions were not their commands Only ordered upon Cursing futility the rope burn gnaws the flesh For this taste I had waited Lawful tongue now advocates silence As the blade threatens Certain death Hark! The coward on his knees Begging for mercy beneath a sword of burning hate Mark! The medallion encased in dust all but forgotten The beast I warrant awoken Prithee! The ghost forestalls your plea Confess now unto me did the cult ordain you loyal? And at once I fulfil the oath I´d sworn As the blood spits from the open vein I kiss the eyes of the nemesis Rapturing the serpent hisses passage to me `Sly hand for the croaking raven the scourge delivered her final reverie` Wherein! Hidden in the woodland till the morning bought relief Dispelling the cursed blood And thus! My end foretold and conviction sought By righteous ghosts of men That spiteful cross spelt out justice to me The cracking of bone within the gallows will unseat The bearers of enlightened dreams And in you Godless usurper Satan´s lie is true Now hear the chants The call for you head Your blood will flow in the halls of the kingdom of man And wading in deeper Into the mist unknown My sight is clear as I pass the gate The forest sings my name And here I´ve found you Look upon me now Does the Black Flame beckon you? It´s summoning the truth The pulse now waivers I drift into those eyes The spirit greets me with an open mouth Drawing out the pain And here we dwell now Catatonic inside Their moral God in shackles enslaved The hamartia to their faith.
3.
Weaponised 03:42
Lost in the shadows I found a passage marked by light The fire from a star newly died And it led me through quicker to a land draped in white A world free of delusion and blight I was lavished with promises of peace by messengers of God The nectar fraught What I knew to be self By his hand pain and hate succumbed And in childlike submission Mesmerised by the chanting I boke bread with the one The messiah The unwavering Divinity With the stench of wisdom And with heavens blessing He claimed possession of the weak Who had nowhere left to run Withered our hopes began to fade I found a way below To a reptilian cave And upon the altar lay the sacred scroll Outlining the fee Yet no word of our fate Beyond the final release And cowering in the darkest corner I marked a figure Blackened from beatings and dried blood Beginning the sufferance anew She relayed the horror of his reckoning The crushing of bone and the debauchery of soul Lay in wait for those who bow to that throne From cruelty and sufferance you have sought to hide But beneath this A shallow semblance of life So struggle with your will and fight with your might Be the one who swam against the tide Not engulfed by his fancy A castle build on lies Where hopes and dreams Go forever To die.
4.
Seeping from the coffin Miasma greets me ill Clawed from the awaited solemn prespun phrase Behind the mist leers that grinning face Mocking deaths command by a greater will And the manacle of hate Still razor sharp Encroaching my thoughts and guiding my hand To a metallic trigger Infesting my touch to the one I adored Quivering in fear In a trance the nights eclipse and bleed Through the haze I wander Condemned to the seventh spiral I am pinned in the lair Through veins of innocence courses that oil Of sadistic intent How can one defile fate? With the Black Mark sealed An inherited malignant eye Plotting Mocking My promises As I succumb to the malady He embodies me whole Devouring my soul The father The son One and the same A circle sealed Locked tight For the ritual I sacrifice To the birth right I receive In fevered awakening she beckons me Her voice above the rapture Through dutiful naive trust you were scorned You bastard son Of no wicked spawn
5.
There you lay A corpse upon a practitioners bed A stainless instrument And my heart froze as you were wheeled away to the fire pit To liquify Does he await you there? I try to say but there´s a loaded gun Pointed straight to my head And he´ll take your hand and trace you back to the life before This horrid disease Behind that mask I hid away From the fatal flaw Of a surgeons blade And I spoke the oath Whispered to an empty room To a photograph And through its twisted form, the storm drew me deep into The wicked eye I was debilitated Voices spun above me head A cacophony Revealing to me The sorrow I thought I bore alone But you saw it too So find that peace I can hear you say And I´ll carry the weight For the both of us The moor opens and by her command, I step inside Ushered by waves and led by a snake with a familiar face Breathe once more Exhale the terror and look for her sign And he can go no more Beyond this ring you are alone To journey through... The moor opens and by her command, I step inside Ushered by waves and led by a snake with a familiar face Breathe in time Exhale the terror and look for her sign And he can go no more Beyond this ring you are alone To journey through The Blackness And Silence
6.
Citizen 07:39
Here I stand The wounds of the soul have led me to solitude Where the nights are so cold In the ash beyond flesh the ghosts wander listlessly Where our life way a lie From that cruel world below I awaited my dignity Still I laughed as he cried For those tears of fear could never birth from me They hissed those flames And the cold teethed me raw as I was shown my worth in code Did the dead find a way? All that remained were the bones and a chamber of death And the weak looked back To find black blood upon every trampled star To forgive was not mine I will march in their name and suffer for those left behind Yet she calls to the evening tide there's no more to remember? Our dancing in the dead of night And from my cage I can see her dragged away like the others Eyes burning in a Zykolinc fire Awaken the fury bury the sentimental deceit for whom does their pact benefit? Not the sorrowed nor the weak who could not even cry out in pain, I will avenge you the ragged who to them, had no name And consider if this is a woman to you without strength to remember empty eyes and womb whose worth is still yours to judge alone may your children turn and never meet your gaze As you relinquish your guilt You coward Righteous Citizen Colourless one, you were a strong man, A woman walked at your side. Empty companion who no longer has a name, Forsaken man who can no longer weep, So poor you no longer grieve, So tired you no longer fear. Spent once-strong man. If we were to meet again Up there in the world, sweet beneath the sun, With what kind of face would we confront each other?

about

The second full-length offering from Austria´s Molten Chains. A punishing album full of blazing riffage and emotional depth. A continuation of the bands uncompromisingly original sound.

Recorded, mixed and co-produced by Devon Graves at Epic Sound Productions Austria.

Mastered by Peter at fineTune Amsterdam

CD released by Alone Records

First vinyl pressing is self-released

Wholesales or distributors can get in touch with us via
moltenchains@hotmail.com - trades also possible

Please note: The vinyl release is slightly delayed. Orders will now be shipped on the 20th of December. CDs will be shipped on the 11th of December. Sorry for the delays, corona man...

Contact: moltenchains@hotmail.com

credits

released December 4, 2020

Brenton- Guitars, Vocals, Bass
Michi- Drums

All music and lyrics by Molten Chains

This album is dedicated to the memory of Marjorie Spencer, without whom none of this would have been possible.

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Mocking death´s command by a greater will.

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