Carnal
consummation in the Empty Space
Lyrics by Khristof Bathory
Colonized worms
searching for Omega’s seed...
This placid touch from the Devil’s codex.
The
desert’s curse of demon shades...
Putrefied shadows from their sullen fury.
They writhe corpses for their blood lust
cancer...
Nightmarish wasteland of the
relic race.
Chorus:
I saw hell in the
empty space.
It took my soul to the darkest place.
And I shall worship
nocturnal rites.
This arcane life…demonic paradise.
Malefic sands
,devouring the mortal clay.
Vexing the
damned by crippling peasantry throats.
The serpent ghouls
of primitive darkness, known as the horde of burial leeches.
Funeral thirst
lies within machination. Viscera erosion, tormenting the flesh that rots.
Chorus:
I saw hell in the
empty space.
It took my soul to the darkest place.
And I shall worship
nocturnal rites.
This arcane life…demonic paradise.
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Meaning of the lyrics
According to Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon" (written 1927, first published
1938), Alhazred was:
- a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba El Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients—and "Dahna"
or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited
by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many
strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have
penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus.
In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in
Arabic,
al-Azif, which would later become known as the
Necronomicon.
Those who have dealings with this book usually come to an unpleasant
end, and Alhazred was no exception. Again according to Lovecraft's
"History":
Of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. He is said by
Ebn Khallikan
(12th cent. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in
broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of
fright-frozen witnesses. Of his madness many things are told. He
claimed to have seen the fabulous
Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of
a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind. He was only an indifferent
Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called
Yog-Sothoth and
Cthulhu.
Taken from: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Alhazred"