I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Within this pain lies no salvation Impurity strengthened by mutilation Branded by wrath
of ageless pyres Excrement's of purgatorial: fire Endless lashes across Christian flesh With
sick instruments of suffering Forged from the bones of their own master Malevolence will never be
condoned Void - horror Hell: Black vomit dungeon Punishment is now a forever sanction
No repentance, worthless flagellation Void - horror Abyss: Oculus Infernum Scarred, burnt, an
Esoteric coat of rust Carnished chrome cuts through holy crown Mangled catastrophe, rivers of
carnage Tied down, strung up, hung from inside out Void - horror Hell: Sodomy and
Suffering punishment is now a forever - sanction Clench the wheel, taste the flame Void - horror
Abyss: Oculus Infernum Within this pain lies no salvation Impurity strengthened by mutilation
Branded by wrath of ageless pyres Excrement's of purgatorial: fire Into the eye of Hell
In a gathering of horns Into the eye of Hell the tormentorium is born With iron blades of
hate we split open the hopeless hearts of God Raped and racked: resistance dies by suffocation
Blasphemy and sickness hails - leads to reign of perversion Sick act after another, Christendom is
forever imprisoned Torn from within - throats removed The bastard prayer spoken no more
No purity dwells within caustic blades That skin and sever books of sacred beliefs Void - Horror Hell:
charred Eucharist Punishment is now a forever - sanction Sermon of torture: holy genocide
Void - Horror: Oculus Infernum
of ageless pyres Excrement's of purgatorial: fire Endless lashes across Christian flesh With
sick instruments of suffering Forged from the bones of their own master Malevolence will never be
condoned Void - horror Hell: Black vomit dungeon Punishment is now a forever sanction
No repentance, worthless flagellation Void - horror Abyss: Oculus Infernum Scarred, burnt, an
Esoteric coat of rust Carnished chrome cuts through holy crown Mangled catastrophe, rivers of
carnage Tied down, strung up, hung from inside out Void - horror Hell: Sodomy and
Suffering punishment is now a forever - sanction Clench the wheel, taste the flame Void - horror
Abyss: Oculus Infernum Within this pain lies no salvation Impurity strengthened by mutilation
Branded by wrath of ageless pyres Excrement's of purgatorial: fire Into the eye of Hell
In a gathering of horns Into the eye of Hell the tormentorium is born With iron blades of
hate we split open the hopeless hearts of God Raped and racked: resistance dies by suffocation
Blasphemy and sickness hails - leads to reign of perversion Sick act after another, Christendom is
forever imprisoned Torn from within - throats removed The bastard prayer spoken no more
No purity dwells within caustic blades That skin and sever books of sacred beliefs Void - Horror Hell:
charred Eucharist Punishment is now a forever - sanction Sermon of torture: holy genocide
Void - Horror: Oculus Infernum
Lyrics submitted by Bloodmouth
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