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01. Birth Of The Nephalem

The sky god ruptures to rid itself of darkness
Initiate internal war
Conceived in conflict the high heavens and the burning hells are forged into creation
After centuries of discord soon the world stone was seized
The creation of the sanctuary led to banishings
Prime evils infiltrate the minds of men to weaponize humanity against forces of justice
Conflicting creeds indoctrinate
Divide the mortal realm
Queen of the Succubi breaks free
Destined to overwhelm
Framed for the murder of cult leaders
Hunt down Uldyssian
The stone of worlds mutated
Enchant the Nephalem
Perceived as abominations
Dwellers in the sanctuary
Exposed to beings of light
Descending from the ether
Minions reign down upon them
Bludgeoning the legions with might
Consuming all the destruction that ravages world
Uldyssian in exile retreats into the void
Unprecedented energies have been released far across the land
Time reversed
Undone is war
Born anew
The world once more
Prime evils banished
From perdition
Horadrim pursue
Endless missions
Imbed the shard in the magi’s chest
Imprison destruction
Hate sealed beneath temples of Kurast
Guarded by Zakarum
Beneath a doomed cathedral lies Terror’s forgotten catacomb

02. Fouled Sanctity

Thick fogs of dread roll through this village unbeknownst to unforeseen atrocities
Below the ghastly depths this house of worship festers with malignancy
Kings crazed with wicked possession beckon executions
In a dying breath sworn knights are cursed into pacts of unholy servitude
The stone of souls gouges the scion’s brow
Iniquity will now take flesh
Archbishops corrupt by maliciousness
Slaughtering the righteous
The butcher
Licks his blade
As screams fill the sepulcher
The blood stains
Cenotaphs
Flooding the ossuary
Minions raze the countryside
Dominions have been claimed by wicked thrice
Follow the trail of blood leading
into the mouth of the fathomless bowels
Descend the steps below
The sanctity of this place has been fouled
The stench of toxic wounds drift through the lungs exhaling effluvium
Corpses mount the jagged pikes
Adorned in diabolic fashion
Proceed through the winding portal
Challenging the slaughter master
Poisoned waters cascade forests
Infecting the roots and soil
Plague and infestation ravage
Ruins of the sanctum
The shadows
Engulfing
Lost realms of the forgotten
Eyes rotting
Visionless
Unsighted halls eternal
The anvil of fury forges the steel
Weapons divine the crusader wields
Tunneling through cobweb ridden halls
The skeletal monarch is destined to fall
The map of the stars leading to the maze
Dwelleth the terror in pits set ablaze
A battle for ages begins now to wage
Fell the accursed savage with rage
Befall
Burning with the crimson flame
The essences of sin have been contained
Tormented voices haunt the mind
Resurrection in due time

03. Nemesis Confession

Voices call across the halls of a weathered asylum
Footsteps inching closer like a swinging pendulum
Bats fluttering, following a hooded visitor
I lay writhing in this cell, whips crack in the distance
Speak your grievances
To the archangel
Searching, looming, judging
Seeking refuge in the mountains with the exiles
Dreams of the monastery corrupt and defiled
Burning terrors spawned in flesh crawl from chasms below
The citadel blazing in a raze of damnation
Witness blasphemy
Birthed from depraved dreams
Onward, always East
Sanity speaks now only in whispers
As we descend further into the crypt
Beguiled by sacrilege rapid and cunning
Foolishly ensure the doom of the world
Search for the temple ravaged in pestilence
Gatherings ghastly around the altar
Voices are dismal, piercing and ruthless
Thresholds have opened into the madness
Skies will rain fire, seas become as blood
Righteous have fallen before the wicked
The wanderer mutates into horned one
Send trepidation unto the forlorn
Framed in suffering
End in misery
To prime evil deeds

04. Maiden Of Anguish

Rains descend on this mangled camp
A fortress withered by endless affray
Sisterhoods befell to a hex
The demoness initiates her reign
Strongholds corrupt, dissolution
Manipulated rogues against their own
Horrors from beyond the grave
Lurk deep within a cobweb ridden cave
From the monastery graveyard
Rise the blood raven in possessed rage
Tortured spirits banished now
Dust ridden crypts we must investigate
Through the murk of the dark wood
Roots run deep below the molded turf
The eldest tree withholds the scroll
Open portals to ruination
Plunge through the sunken passageways
To the monolithic monuments
Liberate the elder Cain
Foretelling terrors imminent to rise
And so it came to pass
The countess bathed in virgin blood
Buried alive beneath a castle fell to ruin
Fortunes lie alongside the rotting skulls that bear mute witness to the inhumanity of the human
creature
Across the marshes black
Carver shamans lie slain in packs
The vile archers exercised and put to rest forever
Night Clan blades shatter under the weight of retribution
Nests of wretched blood hawks cease to discharge for eternity
Storm the barracks, smite the smith, retrieve the enchanted malus
Weapons bound in sorcery are hammered on this weathered forge
We march through rusted prisons up to the inner cloister
An armored stand is made against darkness upon us
To the depths of the poisoned halls where the lamia waits
The maiden of anguish felled
But the battle is far from complete

05. Seven Tombs

Tread through the desert sands
And deep into the sewers
In search of undead mages
Merciless and brooding
The burning dead march forth
Flaming arrows piercing through chain mail
Fumes of the deceased
Pervade archaic passageways
Guardian spells ancient
Begin to unravel
Across the dunes of the rocky wastes
Sabre cats unfurled
Scarabs surging bolts of fury
Shocking to the core
Enigmatic messages
Etched into the sibylline scroll
Retrieve
The Staff of Kings from the undead halls
Reclaim
The cube from maggot lairs
Secure
The amulet from viper claws
Transmute
To cleanse the seven tombs
Cadavers line the floors
Slain within the palace harem
Barbed clubs soaked in blood
are gripped firmly by the Urdar
A portal to the sanctuary
Arcane and unearthly
Vanquish the vile summoner
Pursue this wicked journey
Retrieve
The Staff of Kings from the undead halls
Reclaim
The cube from maggot lairs
Secure
The amulet from viper claws
Transmute
To cleanse the seven tombs
Mage clans divided
Dissolved brotherhoods
Strengthened evil festers
Beneath the cold earth
Through the magi canyon
To Tal Rasha’s Tomb
In the burial chamber
Waits the pain lord’s doom
Vanquished
The Maggot King lies gutted
Unleashed
Terror and Destruction reign

06. The Blackened Temple

Lurking in the darkest reaches
Far beyond the mortal realm
The hatred lord consumes its host
Possession succumbs him
A fetid jungle devours the vestiges
of an ancient city
Populaces decimated by
the withered sanity
The malice ridden tyrant’s presence felt
In every fiber of the morass
Canals are flowing red with blood of thousands
Drenching the Spider Forest
Lurking in the darkest reaches
Far beyond the mortal realm
The hatred lord consumes its host
Possession succumbs him
The viridescent inferno has conquered
A smoldering metropolis
Religious orders in league with the forces
of unrelenting repugnance
Capitals now laid to waste in ruins
Unto the deprivation
Compelling orbs controls the priests
And wretched congregations
Lurking in the darkest reaches
Far beyond the mortal realm
The hatred lord consumes its host
Possession succumbs him
Unearth the divine mage clan blade
To reenforce the repelling seals
An elder warlock recasts the force field
Kept at bay, the willowisps yield
With volition impenetrable to evil
Standing in defiance to all
The insurgent slain and mutilated
Relics hidden in untold strongholds
Slicing through the suffocating silken webs that weave
Paths to the arachnid ridden caves
Severing the limbs the of the burning arthropod fiend
Laying claim to the eye of Khalim
Plunge through the great marsh and into the jungle of flayers
The dungeon tests the strength of all who dare
A witch doctor strikes black magic spells that fill the veins
Before one must obtain the mage’s brain
Beneath the bazaar rubble cesspool discharge suppurates
Ghoulish bone fetishes lie in wait
Amidst the muck and grime to find the heart we must prevail
The high council is slain to seize the flail
Smite the orb that manipulates
Agape the doors of the prison of hate
The zealot’s blood upon thy blade
Approach the befouled durance
The blackened temple trembles
Pulsing with abhorrence
The toxin clears the stagnant, dampened halls
Fallen the first of three

07. Not Even Death

From my reign
Never free
Not even death can save you from me
You will burn
Sufferer to be
Not even death can save you from me
The last bastion of light
Withers before the outposts of hell
Amidst the countless souls lost
Fiendish vessels confine archangels
Awaits the perdition forge
Your bones will be used for vile munitions
The river of flame boils your flesh
As you approach the terror fortress
From my reign
Never free
Not even death can save you from me
You will burn
Sufferer to be
No not even death can save you from me
Harrowingly the seals unfurled
As legions of loathing spawn shall infiltrate
Hadriel’s bid at admonition
Attempted in vain, demise lies in wait
Tempests discharge of flame and thunder
Brimstone ruptures whence a glutinous stride
Even if bested by rivals victorious
Rue their days weary, besieged by my curse
Not even death can save you from me

08. The Way Of Ancients

The frost caresses the winter laden tundra
A prestigious fortress is left unscathed
All else in destruction’s path left in ruin
Guardians of the passage standing firm
Against frozen winds
Worth must be proven amongst the warriors
Who forged tested walls
Of stone and steel
A moment of reprieve is all but short lived
Barbarian blood thaws the freshly lain snow
Protective wards constructed by the elders
Keeping the stygian furies at bay
The siege of destruction has taken its toll
Nevertheless
The monarch of desolation roams the mountains
in search of the sacred stronghold
The heart of creation’s nature now poisoned
insatiable desire to control
Remaining forces slain at the hands of the whip wielding overseer
Lay down thy hammer and raise up a sword
Merciless forces of tusk bearing minions
Roaming the tundra, imprisoning brave souls
Far and adrift from the war beaten path
Liberated from bone chilling confinement
Escape the highlands frigid
Catapults raining down unearthly wrath
Nether realm portals spew forth the wicked
The way of ancients leads to sacred summits
Here lies testaments to our destiny
Conquer the gods on a path to our glory
The rite of passage to the world stone keep
The final quest
To dethrone the lord of destruction
Cast the blade celestial
Slay the infernal