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The Rivers

by LOATHER

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1.
Styx 04:48
Pouring bile Till black basin filled The breach: Styx Despondent, Wrathful To brackish filth Malefic lives Damned to Malefic depths Bodies curled Under Miasmal veil Thrashing Defiant Open mouths Would crack rocks of hell In battle cry In endless war In torrent of Fang and claw Sinking bone Sunken stone [impotent] [unfulfilled] Gagged by a swollen tongue Their Hot blood rushing Drives aimless hate Limbs lashed to Tendril Coil blackened mire Ensnared in a Fouled Black Churn Flesh tears at itself As a dog Gnawing its wounds - Neither the heat of anger to warm you Nor sickening joy of shattered carpal bone No light to emblaze the sterile vanity - A coin in the mouth Son of Ares A coin in the mouth My toll paid A coin in the mouth Debt remains Bring me from the shore Son of ares A coin in the mouth My toll paid A coin in the mouth Fingers Wrapped to fists Sadist folds Masochist blooms Muscle Tendon Their own chain Fist engulfed Crawling mire The endless return of rage’s Venom burn
2.
Phlegethon 05:42
Drive A flailing tongue down the throat Can you scrape the soot from lung The ash wedged between teeth A worming contortion Dredge up another cry To mix in broiling air Burning alone Chorus screams Ascend in columns of smoke In roaring pillars of fire The metallic taste or earthen ore A gut swimming in boiling gore Quartered in Phelegethon’s current Again and again Flesh slough off Every nerve torn Throb from incendiary air From skin to bone to ribboned flame clings Cough clear the chest Swallow Boiling viscera Cauterized Amidst the flows A volcanic dread of endless gray Whistling stones The sulfuric hiss From boiling blood To cries unheard Bursts forth The mercy of arrows A crucible never to refine Vastation Void-catharsis Just slag Just dross Just slag Just dross No sanctifying fire No purifying flame Just marbled glow in coal among ash and smoke Just a slow burning just a raging loss The endless Infernal flame Consuming Unsatisfied Ever spilling unto itself
3.
Acheron 06:47
Oh Charon Where have you carried me The fell of heavy air A starless canopy Treachery led me from shores What wind brought me? What tide stole me? This: heresy of nature A grand deceit The great illusion This Dread grips me with A chill steals the warmth of blood Fingers Swathed arteries Amidst the haze The light your torch suspends an aureole glow Of sour air Where light strains To dancing shadow To frigid depths Who - muse most cruel Do senses deceive me A spell— A mirage— Wake me What dream has dragged me Clawing into the air What shelter a tomb would be A grave a warm berth What relief Wake me from my dreaming I’m not meant to toss in waves Toward foreign shore Take a hold and Shake my bones Make them move in earnest Before this current claims me Clawing into the air
4.
Cocytus 05:05
Woe to all who in their bosom carry breath [Woe to all] Woe to all who in their bosom carry breath [Woe to all] No prophet’s manic reverie can foretell A web of life’s own conspiracy Lo! The heart beats In a vigorous deceit A hysteria of of the epileptic Their fervor betrays the fear To be found hung by strings A chain of being broken Yet stitched anew And unfreed Give praise to Annihilation Rejoice Rejoice Unto swirling entropy Denial breaks into grief The threaded strand leaves it’s stain What cry to hear — pierce a veil A rueful song deafen the ears Silenced by stone gods Drunk on their tears All failed gods Gnawing on Judas
5.
Lethe 04:45
Gripped In the white light of fever The crawling Sentiment Ever Coming Unto nothing A creeping certainty Behind the eyes To trace the threads To pull the strings Each twitch — A desperate sense What has been What yet could be To thrust itself In mind’s light The warmth That brilliant fading form Held and lost All at once Hallucination Crashes Then drags back out In waves and torrents Her chalice: Overflowing Let the it’s brine crest To meet the lips May its bitter taste linger sweet on the lips In the vomit of seizure What a mercy to forget What grace to be forgotten Maiden Oblivion Damn my memory To dust and worm Maiden oblivion

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released August 27, 2020

Vocals: Evan
Guitar, Percussion: Cory
Bass, Guitar, Backing Vocals: Holland
Drums: Tyler

Additional vocals on Cocytus courtesy of Mia Mendez

Recorded and mixed by Kris Hilbert
Legitimate Business, Greensboro, NC
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Mastered by Brad Boatright
Audiosiege
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Album art by Evan Roper

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