Mortal Vessel

from Astral Throne by Ora

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I've seen the keeper
Of scourge and scorn
Its malformed appurtenance
Was shroud in thorns
Poisoned breath and blood
So virulent, its tracks were sibilant
This mortal vessel
Devoid of life
Seeks the senseless,
The blind, to rise
Rise

Its path becloud with decay
The stench of rot and bone
Impelled disciples of its malice
Spread malefic intone
Their bodies contorted
A lifeless cold in their eyes
Not shells but husks of men begotten
All around me arise
Arise

How can you stop a shard of cloak and demise
That's plague spreads through this morbid landscape
At the hands of our minds

This rage can sunder mountains
And churn the eternal sea
How am I forsaken
Is this punishment or reality?

The lantern it carries
Flame is ebbing and old
It did not light its way
It signaled the approach
Of the

Purveyor of pestilence
Light your lantern and dine
Its pale glow
Poised in the absence of space and time
Bewitched by its luster
This light one ebbing now grows
This mortal vessel
Devoid of life
Seeks the senseless,
the blind, to rise
Rise

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from Astral Throne, released January 11, 2019
Rory Markham

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Ora Salt Lake City, Utah

Ora melds doom metal with progressive archetectures, and classic melodicism.

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