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Gather, Darkness!

by Burning Shadows

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In a time when darkness was king and man was free And the commoner pledged himself unto liberty The baron of flesh and decadence carried us on To be shackled in freedom until the infamous dawn Living in vice and lechery, power divine Yet mute in anger, awaiting a reverent sign Where sinners reform, wisdom and wrath may reign A sentient realm where honor and greed are the same Holy in effigy, wicked in prophecy Arise the darkness, famine and misery Halo asunder, blessings are cast aside For an eternal grasp on our immortal pride Holy one A vision in dark as night surrounds him Sanctuary Dominate and killing blindly Pestilence Famine and attrition calling Reverence The seventh seal breaks Our hearts are full of anguish And our spirits cold and gray But the end of graven pestilence Will see the light of day With a caustic inquisition And the burning tides of war We will crucify the infidels To be free forever more A thousand lies constructed this elite society With the promise of a Golden Age and a free humanity But the virtue and the valor of this barren prophecy Will succumb to mass hysteria and our fateful destiny
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Living our lives in a spiritual prison Serving a god in his infinite wisdom Three hundred years from the day we retreated Might and marauder sublimely defeated "Why can’t you see you are blind? Your sanity left behind Treachery without shame Your sinful mind to blame" Wretched, barbaric and ignorant beings Silenced by force and the lies they are feeding Fearing descent into maddening splendor New faith created for them to surrender "No man will heed your words A dogma quite absurd You’re playing with your life Headed for endless strife" Axes grinding, twisting as I see our fate unfold Devilry and insolence for centuries untold "Power till mankind’s fall Within these ivory walls Our reign will be undone Beyond the blackened sun The light of day will pass Their age has come at last"
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Halo in the dead of night The sanctuary my guiding light Streets are dead, the air is black Archpriest in for the attack Thirty score and thirty reigns Won’t undo this endless pain Witches in the Lord’s domain Never see the light again Bound in mortal savagery Magic, sin and heresy Shackled in the lie we fight The council’s blood will spill tonight
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Night, with the darkness falling Hand of Sathanas reigning down Upon this coven Bred in secrecy To the wrath of God we pledge Suffering and agony Blessed by the will to end this tyranny Death to the Golden Age at hand To the ones who cast me down And decree that I shall never see the light Yet deceptively exact All your magic and your spells Aren’t enough to end this ghastly, ill-bred site Silently awaiting clemency Abhorrent forms, monumental relics of old Shapeshifters, blessed once by entropy Stand frozen in a premonition foretold
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Centuries of oppression breeding endless servitude Flesh and blood we’ve given you is shamelessly subdued Altar of hypocrisy now falling like rain Imminent this prophecy unfolding once again Clouds of smoke consume the sky as fire burns below Cities crumble, kingdoms fall, a noble seed we sow For the servants thou hast slain with deadly effigies I dissipate my vengeance by God’s own decree
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Holy apparitions, immoral tragedies Seemingly reveal themselves and put their minds at ease Frequency transmissions, deadly photonic rays To cast them down, seal their fate and set their lives ablaze Five for every shadow cast Five for every stone Armaments of death’s design Will seize this hollow throne Great pangs of heresy Sathanas is my my name Summoned to destroy the god Behind this wall of shame The time is close at hand We take the final stand But in the darkest corners of your jaded mind You know that I’m a fallen king long left behind
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Fading away to the distant fields Ruins of false prophecies Visions abound of the Golden Age Given to its destiny Ninth of the circle won’t deem our fate Nine whom we trusted in vain Kingdom of lies now crucified Only the shadows remain Blinded by power and greed Feigning ascent to the throne Last in the line to be free Brandishing powers unknown Baron of flesh I foresee One in a million would find Lost in a great travesty Foraging under your minds Order projected into my mind Hallucinations above Sent at all costs to defend his name Guard it with undying love Here in the temple I found the truth The imminent future they seek Reveal atrocities from within Burden and suffer the weak Severed and hopelessly frail Breaking the Sanctuary Ages of old will prevail Curse of the Hierarchy Under the repulsor dome God of the Stygian crusade Commoners silently roam Seeking a kingdom betrayed Fallen from grace to his home again Upon your plan I’ve exacted vengeance
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It was my darkest hour, in misery unknown I pledged to see these maddening illusions overthrown With heresy amongst us, the plan will never fail The virtue and the valor of our wisdom will prevail At times I’ve felt the burden of darkness on my side A coven mad with power set to ruin and divide For though their will is strong, and force unparalleled Their savagery will see this creed of tyranny upheld Truth in this madness, a power to behold The pawns in this game of Sathanas now unfold A scepter in the heart of God we knew would set us free Is but another human curse within this entropy I’m the way through the dark I am destiny On through the circles I ride Saving man from man Heaven’s reflection in me Wicked in prophecy Coven of earthly demise The blood is on your hands
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Now the path that you have chosen It was never meant to be So I claim this world for reason and its rightful destiny For the burden lies upon me to bestow our suffering On the orderly projections of this ill-begotten king For this might and this marauder, it seems to me in vain To believe your wretched dogma and the centuries of pain And your weapons and your witchery, they are but quite absurd As the words you all have spoken now reveal a voice unheard The pangs of reconstruction for he who so denies Time’s solemn warning that a new dawn will arise Archpriests and commoners, we are all but men Toiling in fields that we can’t comprehend Fighting our fears in the sky Wasted, a dark battle cry Ages decreeing your soul’s agony

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A thunderous concept album comprised of eleven tracks divided into four distinct sections that tell the story of Gather, Darkness!: In a post-apocalypstic, dystopian future, the Great God’s Hierarchy uses technology to oppress its subjects in a New Dark Age, but the secretive coven of Sathanas possesses its own technology that has the power dismantle the Hierarchy and truly return humanity to the Golden Age.

Gather, Darkness! is a tightly woven work that opens with a full orchestral Overture, immediately plunges into the twisted world of the Hierarchy in A Thousand Lies, then sows the seeds of rebellion in To Ruin & Divide, and ensures Sathanas’s victory in Breaking the Sanctuary. From the ominous grandeur of “Hymn to Sathanas” to the gut-wrenching, bombastic climax of “The Infamous Dawn,” Gather, Darkness! traverses a world fraught with chaos and unrest via a soundtrack of tight harmonies, haunting vocals, and a thunderous rhythm section, invoking at times feelings of fear, wonder, despair, wrath and even hope.

credits

released June 2, 2012

Tom Davy: Lead Vocals
Greg Jones: Lead Guitar, Vocals
Tim Regan: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
David Spencer: Drums, Keyboards

Produced by Tim Regan and Burning Shadows.
Recorded January-September 2011 at The Halls of Glory, Jessup, MD, USA.
Engineered by Tim Regan.
Mixed by Kyle Paradis, New Alliance Audio Productions, Boston, MA, USA.
Mastered by Bill Wolf, Wolf Productions, Arlington, VA. wolfproductionsinc.com
Artworks & CD Layout by Jean-Pascal Fournier. jp-fournier.com
Gather, Darkness! is based on the novel Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber.
All music by Greg Jones & Burning Shadows except “Hymn to Sathanas” by David Spencer and Greg Jones.
All lyrics by Greg Jones.
Additional Percussion in "Hymn to Sathanas" by Greg Mueller.

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