1 The Unorthodox 00:38 2 Enigma (The Blessing - Celestial Dissension - The Loss Of Hallowed Life) 07:06 3 Incipience To The Butchery 02:00 4 In The Veins / Darker Than Black 04:42 5 Everlasting (Epidemic Reign Part III) 05:34 6 After Afterlife 04:37 7 Beyond The Unknown 03:51 8 Nocturnal 05:36 9 A Curfew For The Damned (...Blind Belief) 04:31 10 Cold Sun (Epidemic Reign Part IV) 02:54 11 The Day Of Maturity 03:45 12 Requiscon By Pace 01:24 13 Dead But Dreaming 04:04 14 When All Is Said 06:53
1. The Unorthodox
We were born pagans, never to live by the book of lies, we, who blash the church and spit on the cross, for we are the unorthodox.
[The Priest:] Confess your sins to God, don't be afraid. Just like me of flesh and blood you're made. I can heal your wounds and cleanse your soul, but never return all those lives you stole. [The Witch:] 'You can burn in hell' [The Preacher] God gives you shelter at heavens shore, abandon your thoughts to the mighty. Into the chapel of holyness, live for the sacred empire, engender the Enigma. [The Unorthodox] Sacerdotal majesty, a recreant nonentity? Do you remember when you said. [The Priest] I can heal the dead. [The Unorthodox] Paroxysmal ecstacy, dementia or deity? Sapless you are crawling, to confess your sins?
[Psalm 2 'Celestial Dissension']
The further side, a confounded lie, panegyration a reunion of riddles? The sorrow, the funeral truth, mentally fraud wih pseudo relics, enigma, unholy, ungodly, commander of the regeneration. Insidious and caught, implored by disgra- ce. Inhumation... The burial of man. Con- fession... Unify all evil. Deep inside, the unknown quest, the sphere is so depres- sed, a harp with broken strings, and the gro- und, this mazy world do still exist, the ghouls arise from the mist. Renascent through the holy scripture, submission to what for us is illusion. From the tene- brous depths of history, who will divulge the mystery. Unguiculated, unholy, ungodly, commander of the regenerati- on, insidious and caught, implored by dis- grace, inhumation... The burial of man, comfession... Unify all evil.
[Psalm 3 'The Loss of Hallowed Life']
Ha, ha, ha, haoow.
[The Priest Vocals: Andreas] [The Unorthodox/The Preacher Vocals: Dan] [The Witch: Yasmina Molero] [Cello: Anders Måreby] [Riffs: Swan”/Nerberg/Axelsson] [Lyrics: Swan”] [Arranged and performed by Edge of sanity] [Creation: 1991]
3. Incipience To The Butchery
The ghoul has reached my coffin now he smash the lid. All I see is darkness and two shining eyes. Crawling to the church and in a stream of light I see my mutila- ted remains gore instead of flesh. Rotten and filled with maggots I search for modern life I would die to see, my kids and wife. A scream break the silence (*) a human being died. Shocked of this morbid sight. Crawling in the night. I'm so near my dying place, I can see my loved. I open the door and there she stands, I hear the children scream.
[Lead: Andreas] [Lead: Sami]
I saw people die, as dead as I was. The children puked then died, love has turned to carrion.
[(*) Scream by Andreas] [Riffs: Nerberg/Swan”] [Lyrics: Swan”] [Arranged and performed by Edge of sanity] [Creation: 1989]
[Also featured on 1989 demo 'Euthanasia']
4. In The Veins / Darker Than Black
(...eye can see you) Look into my eyes, what do you see? I'm not man, I am no demon. I color you red, my murder's fuckin' art son of the dead. I was never born. I send you back to pre-birth. Beyond this life you shall dwell. I'm your fuckin' saviour suffer my everlasting pain. Don't even think about dying, you poor excuse of a human being, in the veins of evil, black blood flow eternally. This sabbath of sickness; proves my soul's bizarr. The master of morbidity, my cuts don't leave scars. Endless temptation to sicken the blessed, I swallow your heart as I carve in your flesh... In your flesh! Born of the dead, I am blasphemy. I'll end your fanta- sies, save you from mankind just like lambs to the slaughter. God made you blind, darker than black. I am the serpent of Eden... Eden. I've tasted the herbs of lust and desire. I am no enemy, I drain you of life and leave you in fire... Fire. In the veins.
[Backing vocals: Andreas] [Riffs: Swan”/Nerberg/Axelsson] [Lyrics: Axelsson/Nerberg] [Arranged and performed by Edge of sanity] [Creation: 1991]
5. Everlasting
Bleeding tears, crying blood a human (being) emotionally odd, hear the sight, feel the sound, spirits call from all aro- und, as I wander closer to what I'll never be a distant light approaches to prove (my) insanity, the shadow pointed its fin- ger, lies caresses my face it tells me it's the bringer of what shall, what shall end the phase.
[Chorus:] Everlasting, unapproachable, neverending, the immortal one always casting shadows on the gro- und. A blackened heart that won't stop to pound. Everlasting, everlasting pane. Reach the point of of no return as our pla- net slowly burns. Cracking ground's wat- chinme as I walk through river hades, and soon my heart is frozen it'll never stop to beat, nothing in this dimension can bring me my defeat, the secrets in your arteries will forever remain unsaid, our sun is slowly dying, never, never to burn red. [repeat chorus] you were meant to be another one, time has come, frozen earth, the stillness, the world will come and go, [repeat chorus]
(to be continued...)
[Riffs: Swan”/Axelsson] [Lyrics: Swan”] [Arranged and performed by Edge of sanity] [Creation: 1991]
6. After Afterlife
I am the master of your dreams, I am the creator of your screams, I pulverize your inner will invisible, no blood will spill. Sent by the powers of the wind, now you will regret that you sined. I am in com- mand over earth and sea. I hold the key to your lost infinity. Yeah. I am crawling inside. Yeah. I drain you of your pride. The sha- dows in the the darkness, are no reflection. Just the souls of anger pointing your direction. Enter the tunnel. Feel the smell of your grave, demonic majesty, you're lost to darkness... After, after, afterlife, I am rising after twilight. I am the reason why tomorrow never comes. Festerday goes on and on. Satan is my darkened son. Did life itself pull me thru this hell? There's no time so it will never tell. In this world of boiling heat, I faced my final, fucking defeat. None shall save, I enslave. Laughing, this can't be true. Dying, they came to steal your world.
[Riffs: Nerberg/Swan”] [Lyrics: Swan”] [Arranged and performed by Edge of sanity] [Creation: 1991]
7. Beyond The Unknown
Take a trip with me, to endless insanity where no souls could live. Where no soule could rest the echoes of tormenti- on, rips so psychic wounds into your mind. The longer we go, feeling the anaestesia of your soul, rise above the seas, the seas of torment. [Chorus:] A creation of abnormal souls an evil place that grows the dark- ness of the abyss knows a creation of thee. beyond the unknown life? Now take a trip with me to a world of insanity where no souls could live. Where no souls could rest the echoes of tormention. Rips so psychic wounds into your mind. The lon- ger we go. [repeat chorus] Go... Ia...
[Riffs: Swan”/Nerberg] [Lyrics: Axelsson] [Performed and arranged by Edge of sanity] [Creation:1990] [Also performed on 1990 demo 'Kur-nu-gi-a']
8. Nocturnal
[Intro: A hymn to the nightly]
(Preserve, preserve) Preserve me from the rays of dawn. I only feast at night. My sharp claws taste the flesh. I am the angel of the twilight. With deadly charm and sweet caresses I touch the virgin skin. As my soul becomes one with yours, your pain is my gain. Come with me. Beco- me eternity, as you die! Join & die to re- arise, re-arise, I am of nocturnal nature. I cannotstand the sun. I am an abominati- on, blood's my kinda fun. As the darkness sweeps my castle, and cast shadows on the northern light. Now my sleep is over. I spread my wings across the night, human but still a creature I trust for human blood, now begins my ritual I swallow your fucking soul! Come with me, become eternity, as you fucking die. Join'n'die to re-arise, re-arise...
[Riffs: Swan”/Nerberg/Axelsson] [Lyrics: Axelsson] [Arranged and performed by Edge of sanity] [Creation: 1991] [Intro: Rex Gisslén & Edge of sanity] [Sampled concrete, screams created 1992.]
9. A Curfew For The Damned
You true beiever. Die man deciever, for your prophecies. A fatal release. The tem- ple of the holy. We will blaspheme. There are no blessings, only a dream. Christia- nity = Insanity. Just another sect. None shall resurrect. If once you have been 'signed' to the creator of mankind. You're far beyond control captured soul. Light the candle. Light the lie. Yet another soul will die. The blessing that'll never come. Lies to us, truth to some. As I see the candles lightning up their 'sanctuaries'. When we die what happens