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Death Is The Only Certainty

by Hekser

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Intro 01:35
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Death Is The Only Certainty 05:10
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Conjuring the haunting prospect of mortality A dissident shell shall contemplate its own inexorable demise Bearing obscure thoughts The impending void of uncertainty That which causes no pain in its presence Prompts only idle sorrow on the threshold of its essence The fear of death in the hearts of men Lurking in every man's path A black wolf in the dark Quintessential wrath, death The only certainty in our wretched lives There is no such thing as fate But the inescapable end The atavistic woe of non-existence Futile thoughts Hopeless prose Foolish arrogance Slumberous decadence We're left behind as eternity unfolds No Great Beyond Only a rotting bed in the ground Adrift in this mortal absurdity Death is the only certainty
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The Dreamless Sleep 03:56
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Fear not the sleep of death Never yearn for immortality The perpetuity of being dead is an atemporal immateriality The dreamless sleep is the great nothing For with the living it is not and the dead exist no more The eternal night awaits Never to wake up again Forever ceasing upon death The end of all sentience With one final breath The world is engulfed in the deepest silence, as it darkens The perpetuity of being dead is an atemporal immateriality The dreamless sleep is the great nothing It steers any sense towards eternal absence A sempiternal sleep awaits The empty void of unconsciousness Forever ceasing upon death The end of all sentience
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Mortality And Dissolution 03:58
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Dissolve into nothingness Bones undressed by the dying flesh Devoured by the earth This mortal curse, the bitter end Amidst the chaos lies the balance between life and death At the mercy of nature Destiny is decay And so, the wolf shall take my flesh The raven shall drink my blood The ground will engulf my bones The bitter end, this mortal curse Born to die Aware of the unreleting passing of time At the mercy of nature Destiny is decay Our only escape from this life of decrepitude and pain Is to die and to dissolve into the bowels of the earth
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Filament Of Sanity 04:59
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There is no fear of death Only the fright of life itself The endless foreboding To dwindle on the verge of madness Sliding towards slopes tinted with the colour of night Falling to the cadence of a dying man’s foresight The warden of stars, cold waxen's home, is set Under the moon, the old wounding woe is there Questioning the universe both in awe and in dread Wondering about this world until shadow descends with death Harmony is tamed disorder Balance is the aftermath of chaos Madness is the toll of turmoil Death is the embodiment of entropy In tenebris Velum, oculīs opertīs Caecus in aeternum
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The Moment At Which Life Ends 03:53
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Somewhere in that last breath, the moment at which life ends Like gallows, the shadows fall, life is replaced by death The icy claws of eternal night grasping at our necks The echoes of infinite quiescence whispering a fatal hex And then we die Our existence is erased Cold corpses devoid of life Fortune is the turning tide No man is ever safe Doomed to face the end Time is against us all Our fate lies in the grave There is no journey to be endured No more paths to tread In an instant we are no more There's nothing left ahead We don't exist a second after the moment at which life ends Reality as we know it caves in as the conscience evaporates And so we die And so we die Our existence is erased Cold corpses devoid of life Fortune is the turning tide No man is ever safe Doomed to face the end Time is against us all Our fate lies in the grave
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Eternal Oblivion 05:28
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Undermined by the weight of mortality Grasping at the edges of reality Facing the hollow stare of the universe Asking the unresolvable question of death The answer is granted as a final breath Death takes hold Time is no more No moon, no sun Extinct in eternity Memories dissolve and disappear Bereft of any joy or fear Dissipate into unconsciousness Dematerialize into nonexistence Soundless infinity Terminal escapism Full circle solipsism Fathomless emptiness Awareness is the paradox left behind As your mind turns into perpetual silence The imperious absence of eternal oblivion
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Deadened 04:17
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"Cloaked by dawn-flame’s downfall Death shall take my breath-surge Clad in nothing colder Keen to rest my breast-drum The wound-biter wending Way down oak-tree’s hawk-perch Carrion-bird’s wine carries Cold dead laments elsewhere" Deadened and tired Waiting for the end The epilogue of our lives Deadened and tired Passively dying The epilogue of our lives And yet, after a life immersed in sorrow and decay The doors of solace remain shut and away Breathing every second hoping that the pain won't last But death still takes its sweet time "Cloaked by dawn-flame’s downfall The cold-fire is drawn As the cove’s corpse-dew Falls and runs its course" And still they say Being alive is a race to delay the end Seduced by indulgence to escape fate Nescient and afraid, men kneel and pray Consumed by denial, their delusion is fed Deadened and tired Waiting for the end Passively dying The epilogue of our lives
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Nocturnal Harbinger 04:10
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And so, nightmarish shapes will crawl Hissing words of death As they flaunt themselves as harbingers Of what lies ahead The time is nigh The imminent dusk An omen of doom The end unfolds The wolf is here Fate is near Nocturnal harbinger creeping through mind corridors Reminding you of your mortality The desolate road leading nowhere but forward With no horizon but the certainty of death The time is nigh The imminent dusk An omen of doom The end unfolds The wolf is here Enter death
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The Imminent Dusk 04:37
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There's a black wolf lurking in the darkness along the path. Some fear it, some welcome it, but we all acknowledge its imminent arrival. We deceive ourselves hoping that we can delay fate, but deep down we know we can't escape it. And yet, it means nothing to us, for when it comes-- we are no more. It is the dreamless sleep, the eternal oblivion, the imminent and unstoppable dusk. Death is the only certainty in our lives...

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released October 7, 2021

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Hekser Santiago De Querétaro, Mexico

Black metal from Querétaro, México. Conceived in the depths of DRRG's mind during the chilling autumn of 2011, Hekser has emerged anew, embracing the ever-changing currents of darkness across unexplored sonic paths.

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