paul rote
Killer extraordinaire!
Heavy doomy 1972 sounding organ doom .
Favorite track: The Logan Stone.
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Devil's Gold
07:58
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You stare at the wickedness of her eyes
While she’s tearing flesh from sinful graves
Now you’re gasping, starving at her side
Her black tongue is slithering but you are blind
You don’t want to see her blackened mind
Still you’re moving, you’re moving closer to her side
“A crone from Devil’s orchard
Led me there
And I gave in to her temptation
I grasped the Devil’s gold
Dark moon was rising
No more light
And then in the mist she was standing
Together with her lies”
Gold has turned black before your eyes
Inside your mind you’ve found the Devil in disguise
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Five Obsidian Suns
08:52
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Standing in this house there’s an old mirror
Coming from a distant land and time
Every time I look in it I see things
I can barely understand
Creepy shades upon the hill
They’re all masked, I don’t know what
They conceal
Yesterday I felt like the old mirror
Was wanting me to look inside its eye
In the frame it’s me surrounded by five stars
The five obsidian suns
Masses gathering around the Stone
Elders celebrating ‘round a throne
Waiting for the obscure stars to align
They pray to have a sign
Then the High Priest calls my name out loud
People stare at me and I can hear
Symphonies of death, dark harmonies
The suns invoking me
The room is dark and silent while the mirror
is covered, its reflection has gone blind
Symphonies of death are still inside my head
The throne, still there for me
In the land of the dark stars
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3. |
The Logan Stone
05:20
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She was climbing on a tree
The day that I left her
My daughter was the forest queen
For the last time I kissed her
War was spreading thru our land
We were in danger
I told her that she was my heart
And then I hugged her
Days, weeks, months and years
Have passed in a quick breath
I kept dreaming that she was near
The woods full of her laughter
When I made my way home
Oh what a sadness
The country that I used to know
Was ruled by blackness
All of her beloved trees
Were lying down lifeless
Among them was the forest queen
Buried and hopeless
I cried and screamed in vain
And when the night came
With my tears I wrote her name
My pain was a mountain
My pain was a mountain
Now they call it the Logan Stone
Wizards and witches are all wrong
Their spells are useless
The only power within the Rock
Comes from my distress
Beneath the wonder where she sleeps
Queen of the mountain
No more fear and no more tears
Behind the stone curtain
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When the young man came
From a faraway land
At first he thought
He had escaped from hell
He left home and family
Chasing his destiny
Hoping to become free
This was his only dream
The man walked for days
To reach the sea
And then he travelled
Over the abysses
All of his friends were dead
Buried beneath the earth
No way for the light to shine
In that bloody emerald mine
When I met the man
He was beaten and lame
No more hope and his eyes
Couldn't hide the shame
"I came here from misery
Dreaming of liberty
But I've found only mockery
You're slaves, more than I've ever been"
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Marble Eyes
05:31
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Can't you see
The children of darkness are roaming free
They think that the time is right
To kill the light of equality
Darkening all our minds
There you see
The kingdom of greed and hypocrisy
Is spreading its sleazy wings
Over the concept of harmony
Trading it for vain things
They believe
There are no beliefs
They keep running around
Hunting their stupidity
Depleting lands
For vanity
The marble of their eyes
Will never see the light
Haughtiness
They seed like weed
While they drown all our dreams
In a casting of concrete
But we won't hide
Them we'll defy
And we'll be back to life
And we will bring the light
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Obscure lights
And floating satellites
Entropy
And mystic energies
Converging into an endless night
Beyond the speed of light
We’ll find a divergent time
Where hate and love
Are thawed in a crystal shadow
As above, so below
The truth and the unknown
Are fully tied
In a magnetic glow
What we’ve yet to find
Will be lost in a future time
Where we’ll foreknow
The shape of things to come
What gravitates in space
Will crawl at the end of days
When death and life
Will stop their perpetual fight
Darkest shades
Across the universe
A crusade
To make each soul perverse
The eternal gates are to collapse
Even the brightest stars
One day will fall apart
And drops of light
Will dive into a cosmic rainbow
The mystic ocean’s tide
Will grow strong and will glide
Across the sky
In emptiness it will billow
At the end of time
We’ll find a love sublime
Where heaven and hell
Will fade in the afterglow
The truth without the lie
The peace without the fight
There we will stand
And there we will cry no more
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G.O.L.E.M. Piacenza, Italy
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