2. Heaven Torn Asunder

3. Funeral In Carpathia

Candelabra snuffed prey - silhouette wedded

Nightfall take my hand

Seduce me with silky timbred limbs

Grant me thy dark command

Over the peaks framing tapestries

Of thick forest, dusk has filled

With Lucifugous kisses enwreathed in mist

Creeping like violations from the shadows

to kill

Lucretia

is my love in vein

When thy tears bleed sweeter

Thank the midsummer rain?

Bewinged, infested belfries

Toll o'er the sobbing throng

A writhe of lethargic, terrored nudes

Whipped and welted neath the barbed windsong....

(in saddean paradise

Ancestral legacies linger on....)

I am He

The crowned and conquering darkness

Satan robed in ecumenical filth

Livid Bacchus sustained by bridal echelons of sylph

This wintry eve when the snow glistens deep

And sharpened turrets wed the jewelless skies

I shrug off the shroud of preternatural sleep

Enbroided by these words Malaresia scribed....

"Beauty slept and angels wept

For Her immortal soul

In this repose, all evil chose

To claim her for their very own"

Carpathia

The pleasured dead speak of her

In necromantic tongue

When ambered daylights are done

Masterbating in their graves

On her zenith to come....

This catafalque night when awed stars report

Their absence from the heavenly brow

Crippled seraph shalt cower in illustrious courts

Whilsts the cloaked maelstrom resounds throughout

"How the storm it fulfills

My heart though unhealed

Celestial knifes ebonied

And wild woods thrill

Yet far fiercer still

Her lustre eviscerates me"

Carpathia

Priapic lovers twist in concert with Her

Covenants are struck, jagged lightning fellates

The path towards the castle weary innocence takes

I rule as Master here

Where feral hordes impart my temper

Love sank wounded when I, betrayed

saw death etch cruelly, upon my lineage

"Usher the spite seething Draconist

And commit this world to thy ancient

sovereignty"

Erunescent veil descend

Psalmed sunset thus portends

And laid to rest, I now am blessed

With this darkness.... Forever more

Supreme Vampiric Evil

4. A Gothic Romance (Red Roses For The Devil's Whore)

Evening minuetto in a castle by the sea

A jewel more radiant than the moon

Lowered Her mask to me

The sublimest creature the Gods, full of fire

Would marvel at making their Queen

Infusing the air with Her fragrant desire

And my heart reeled with grave poetry....

From grace I fell in love with Her

Scent and feline lure

And jade woodland eyes that ushered in the impurest

"Erotic, laden fantasies amid this warm Autumn night

She lulled me away from the rich masquerade

And together we clung in the bloodletting moonlight"

Pearled luna, what spell didst thou cast on me?

Her icy kiss fervoured my neck

Like whispering waves 'pon Acheron's beach

In a whirl of sweet voices and statues

That phantomed the dying trees

This debauched seductress in black, took me....

In a pale azured dawn like Ligeia reborn

I tore free of my sleep - sepulchre

On the sea misted lawn where stone figures, forlorn

Lamented the spectre of Her

Bewildered and weak, yet with passion replete

I hungered for past overtures

The curse of unrest and her ardent caress

Came much more than my soul could endure....

I, at once endeavoured to see Her again

Stirring from midnight's inertia

Knowing not even her name

On a thin precipice over carnal abyss

I danced like a blind acolyte

Drunk on red wine, her dead lips on mine

Suffused with the perfume of night

For hours I scoured the surrounding grounds

In vain that we might meet

When storm clouds broke, ashened, fatigued

I sought refuge in a cemeterty

Sleep, usher dreams

Taint to nightmares from a sunless nether

Mistress of the dark

I now know what thou art

Screams haunt my sleep

Dragged from nightmares thou hast wed together

Lamia and Lemures

Spawned thee leche

To snare my flesh

Portrait of the Dead Countess

Deep stained pain that I had dreamt

Flaunted demise, life's punishment

Leaving little strength to seal this wretched tomb....

But poised nectar within my stirs

Up feverous desire and morbid purpose to search

Through cobwebbed drapery to where she swoons

Goddess of the graveyard, of the tempest and moon

In flawless fatal beauty her very visage compels

Glimpses of a heaven where ghost companies fell

To mourning the loss of god in blackest velvet

Enrobed in their downfall like a swift silhouette

"Fleeting, enshadowed

Thou art privy to my sin

Secrets dead, wouldst thou inflict

The cruel daylights upon my skin?

Dost thou not want to worship me

With crimson sacrifice

So my cunt may twitch against thy kiss

And weep with new-found life?"

Red roses for the Devil's whore....

Dark angels taste my tears

And whisper haunting requiems

Softly to mine ear

Need-fires have lured abominations here....

Nocturnal pulse

My veins spill forth their waters

Rent by lips I cherish most

Awash on her perfidious shores

Where drowning umbra o'er the stars

Ebon's graves where lovers whore

Like seraphim and Nahemah

"Nahemah"

Pluck out mine eyes, hasten, attest

Blind reason against thee, Enchantress

For I must know, art thou not death?

My heart echoes bloodless and incensed....

Doth temptation prowl night in vulvic revelry

Did not the Queen of Heaven come as Devil to me?

On that fatal Hallow's Eve when we fled company

As the music swept around us in the crisp, fated leaves

UNder horned Diana where her bloodline was sewn

In a graveyard of Angels rent in cool marbled stone

I am grieving the loss of life in sombre velvet

Enrobed in Death's shadow like a swifter

silhouette....

5. Noctumal Supremacy '96

[This is an extra track on the Digipack]

Weak midnight promises of love

Were wept upon Her grave

And shunned by stars above

In mortal life lurks my dismay

An Angel stole my heart

and Death took Her away

She sleeps beyond the grace of god

A dreaming beauty

If wishes could only fray that bond

The dead would sing for me....

Twelfth moon arose with ghostly voice

A poet's serenade

Her name a whisper 'pon my lips

And lo, Rorasa came

"Fear me not my grieving King

Funereal in breath

The secrets of the dark I know

And thus, we shall cheat Death"

My promises wrought though despondence that night

Have delivered me gifts from the grave

Rorasa enshadowed and eternal life

Never a Devil so vain

The Angel is fallen, for I thought her lost

And no heaven would silence the pain

Teach me these secrets, the sensual frost

Desire for warm blood again

Princess lay down thy florid cheek

In drunken splendour

Tonight rare regal fate has cast

The wolves among the sheep

Dark nature clasp my soul

Around Her throat mine arms enfold

To sleep, perchance to dream

And then....

To dusk and flesh ascend

The Sun descends, magenta spirits fill the skies

and wreak erotic maladies where sex and Death abide

From writhing tides where gothick siren weave their song to shore

Through the ashes of the battlefields where ravens and angels war

We rule like the red and risen moon upon the sea

The stars of judgement silent, for we share joyous

Eternity

Damnation

Salvation

Stigmata plague

The wine of Bacchus flows

Listen to the thunder rage

Deceivers dragged before their cross

I am He that vanquished Death

And bore the sting of loss

What vulgar christ will unprise my grasp?

His temple, ruined, burns

And sweet Rorasa laughs

I am enamoured and imparadised

To catch the fires dancing profanely in her eyes

"I will crush them all

If this holds thy delight"

Rather dead forever than to lose her

Nymph-lascivious Aphrodite

6. Malice Through The Looking Glass

Take away the wine

For restlessness plagues me....

I am assailed by a spectre profounder

Than hatred and grief or the sum of their hideous crime

I shalt suffer this confessional mime

Awaiting the sun to set, crimsoning seas

Only once it is dark doth my misery cease

She died to a sky dressed in flame

Eyes full of curses for her killers by choice

Who fell to their god o'er her vision and voice

"I am as dusk come to ravish the light"

Steal me from their stares and mute christ into night

"I will answer thy prayers"

If thou Wouldst drink of my life....

Encroaching evening skies

Die with such tragedy

And those interred in cold graves

Dwell on pleasures to be

In deep hysteria

Where our legend still breathes

Through sweet death and thereafter

Sweeping nightmares.... shalt feed

7. Dusk And Her Embrace

When the sun has wept upon the waveless lake

And the mists steal in with ease

Covened wolves are their eerie dissonant napes

In adoration of the moon and thee

"They call as I to thee...."

And I will come, as if in dream

My languid, dark and lustrous Malaresian Queen

Of vengeful, ancient breed

Gilded with the pelts of many enemies

Erishkigal, raven-haired

Thy seduction haunts the castle in erotic despair

I can taste thy scent by candlelight

Legs of porcelain traced and laced to their lair

Appease the beast on spattered sheets

Dyed unearthly red as sobriety weeps

Nocternity....

She shall come for me

A black velvet painting sprung to elegant life

Like a poignant Madonna perverted to night

And I have ridden from the westerning light

To expend my lust

Tear away the funereal dress

Know that I will escape from my death

Surrendered to the splendour of her sharpened caress

Lo! The pale moonlight

Weaves a poetic spell of vital death and decline

Of mist and moth and the hunger inside

Kisses took to fever and the fever, demise

"Through twilight, darkness and moonrise

My scarlet tears will run

As stolen blood and whispered love

Of fantasies undone"

Countess swathed in ebony

And snow-white balletic grace

Rouge-filmed lips procure the wish

For lust and her disgrace

Dusk and her embrace

We shall flit through the shadows

Like a dream of (were)wolves in the snow

Under deadly nightshade

Still warmed with the kill's afterglow

Beneath the stars thy flesh bedevils me

(Beneath the stars taste the death in me)

Bequeath to me thy fiery kiss

To sever thin mortality

Elizabeth

My heart is thine

Thy fragrant words Warm within like wine....

"Let me come to thee

With eyes like Asphodel

Moon-glancing, loose desires free

To writhe under my spell"

Ereshkigal, raven-haired

Thy seduction haunts the castle in erotic despair

I know thy scent by candlelight

Immortal flesh I yearn to share

Appease the beast on spattered sheets

Dyed malefic red as sobriety weeps

Nocternity

She shall come for me....

Unfurl thy limbs breathless succubus

How the full embosomed fog

Imparts the night to us...

9. Beauty Slept In Sodom

Death, spirit me away

My anguished soul doth strain

On taut and twisted reins

Yet, insatiate I still remain

Like a proud, unfalled star

That dares thee from afar

To calm my thund'rous heart

Else, rend it's knots apart

So I may never sing

Of jewelled skies o'er my strings

And love, a wanton thing

Can plunge on burnt, black wings

To hang amid the thorns

In scarlet, like velvet worn

About the clouded moon

Who wanes in solitude....

I am alone

Thirsting for the dark

That lurks beneath marbled stone

What black witchcraft

Shalt prise thee from thy dreams

And what perverse world-strategy

Will wend it's way with thee from sleep?

"Rouse my disease

And with cadent naked dance I shalt teach

Thee wisdom of darkness

From earth and red sea

Lightbearing Samael

Coalesce with me...."

Twilight

Through pagan city gates

Bred shadows play like twining snake

By candlelight

Thanateros rites

Death seduced and chaos wakes....

Obsession grips, blindragon fever

In throes of scythed orgasm, Eros dies

And Saturn rapes faith's lovelorn Diva

Upon a cyprean altar, stripped bare for sacrifice

Virtue births a demon

Pandora's box, unhinged, sets loose the night

Winged lilith born for want of Eden

Fanning plumes of harlotry

Like pearls before the desert swine

The skies, they darken

And the oceans part

Storm forth indignant Kraken

Reborn Venus as thou art

Feasting at my banquet

Of Saturnalia

I call thee having wrestled

The tides from lonely Diana

"For thee Endymion

I forsake the cerements of this star-flung tomb"

Be-with-us come

Unveil the ancient flame

Throw the cats our enemies

Desire's menstrual strain

Eastern Devil eyes

A cruel erotic plague

The Shekhina is in exile

And the Israelites enslaved to shame

Midnight

Jerusalem

A tenebrous phantasy

Revelates to men

Their celestial walls crumble

When walks the Xul

Born to the scarlet whore in Babylon

The centuries of wait have all but gone

Behold dark beauty stirs to conquer on and on

Now worship Everything

10. Haunted Shores

Herodias and I have led a phantom cavalcade

Through veiled and pagan history where superstitions reigned

And Christendom sought to pervert, but poets of my name

Sang of penumbral victories that sorcery had claimed

The Graal and mighty Caliburn as votive offerings

To an England rearisen under vast majestic wings

These are the shores whereto my soul

Blood drenched and unredeemed

Shalt seek solace in secrets told

Through the whispers of a dream

From the woods Pendragon-born, I rose Arcturius

A proud, audacious King mantled in the

vehemence of lust

Death and destiny undaunted me, I drew a throne divided

In awe of the glorious battles won, my dark Goddess provided

Then treachery, a wingless beast, came crawling to my court

And now I lie at cursed Camlann, from wounds a traitor wrought

I fear the Augean light

is sweeping through Camelot

How bittersweet my triumphs seem,

now Autumnal leaves succumb to frost

Morganna art thou near me?

Languid, I wend my path to grave

Cast my sword to the sulphyd grasp

Of the naiad neath the silvered lake

When waters stirred lay silent

Mistress let the mists descend

Thy tears cannot thaw Death's cold heart

His sombre gaze defies legend

More so than thine, else thy dew-lidded eyes

Art for the Banshees song

Or our souls entwined like vein upon

The haunted shores of Avalon

The haunted shores of Avalon

Bury me in velvet dream

Lest I unduly wake

And seek to reconcile my thirst

With the cowardly tailors of my fate

Unleash mastiffs of snarling night

To overthrow, plague and burn

As slumber lures me 'mongst the dead

To scheme of my return

Archaic ghostly echoes breathe like thunder of the storm

A tempest fools miscall divine as they crouch awaiting dawn

Their ignorance has forged for me over

centuries a sword

Burnished to flash like lightning on the precipice of war

The wolves are dead in Albion whilst the

passive flocks roam free

This my penetrant spearhead shalt pierce these foul,