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The Grand Machination

by Construct of Lethe

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Embrace me Thanatos that I might fall Seduce me Hypnos that I might lap the silver waters and forget But lo, at his heel bone I stood shackled and forced to witness My glass eyes were held open by another's will Had I the faculty to shatter my vision! And I beheld a pale man, and the name by which he called himself was Father and Hell followed with him And he gave power unto himself over the expanse of nothingness before a crystal throne Casting forth the hand emblazoned 'Solve' spewed all manners of tribulations, whereas from the hand emblazoned 'Coagula' flowed ecclesiastical vexations Streams of spheres ablaze rent the formless firmament, for his vainful pleasure I dared loose my tongue against such lurid extravegencies and I would not serve I fell and I rose like a star, like a sun I slipped into a shade-less plane of nonexistence Bright arms radiating about my core, collapsing and yet bursting forth Depthless chasms of lucid dreams Stalactites of scabs are the clotted veins, like slowly curing wax Let flood waters of Acheron bury the flesh on Ararat As feathers fell away the vestments of ivory warped into obsidian As the halo of gold melted away, the hood removed revealed horns of ibex Cast aside to form Saturn's rings
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My scars are symbols, lashes formed sigils, I have become The dread abomination that spawned four lecherous cruelties within a whirlwind Hear uttered a child's creation upon festering incantations carried with miasmic breath Logic castration, a eunuch of natural order Blistered flesh as a scroll unwound before me, I saw and read the names Qemetial, Belial, Othiel Draconian aeon writhes formless, birth pains pierce nebulous womb Amniotic bile flows as mercury, transcribe the riddle of constellations A vintage of frothed rouge disease drips from a gorgon's maw Impaled are those who come against, and they shall break and fall to the soil Plucked as the eyes of Gestas, flung unward into moil Behold the world lies prostrate, genuflect As it prepares to coronate death to reign from the throne of wounds Let me be the catafalque of christ, another skull upon the goat throne
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Jackals teeth jut from a child's jaw, rending the suckling teat From the manger he treads the Via Dolorosa unknowingly, each step closer to Golgotha Seek out a name which is not found in all the letters, signs or sigils An unspeakable sound which plagues the mind and besieges the soul In him lies the redundancy of hell, pale horse incarnate, in him is the vast funeral of man I went about seeking and beheld the Mashiac... Thy speech is as a swarm of flies that presbyters to a world that is hell enough Blessed oscularum infame dethrones the man of sorrows His flock, lo, would unfetter a murderer in the stead of a scourged bastard Lashed then lashed to the stauros, fixed by the nails through capitate and lunate Use of hypopodium...Aufbinden...Shackled and suspended E'li, E'li, la'ma Sabachthani? Ridicule within the Aedicule, iconostasis separates Tears of the mother - Lo Spasimo Woman, behold your son Cracked lips so parched from delusions I thirst As titans swallow the Omphalos It is finished
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A vain clergy profoundly indignant of their inherit falsehood Vomit atrocities from the great defiler A most lamentable configuration, lusting fingers trace spheres to open the All Gifted's box A realm of shades is the abattoir beneath your narthex Transubstantiate this ossuary – give rise to pale mysteries, those that lurk within the candelabrum Skeletal chandeliers suspended from his lofty grace where the wick lies snuffed Malicious triptych conceals decapitations in the transept, transcend your decrepitude Frocked in vestments of apocalypse
5.
Aghast, I depart the pestilence of creation, breathless dream void Leave them to teach the gospel of soul suicide and the anathema of Zos “Breed consciousness in the charnel house of putrefaction” Conjure the seven wicked storm demons who darken the moon Do not suffer to endure the light, yet cause the shroud of night to be as cannibal Sister consumes the flesh of brother Hideous concubation Inverted holy self-nullification, Be'er Shachat Rise up Bar Kokhba replace the gouged city with Aelia Capitolina For thine is truly the falseness, and the anti-kleos, forever Philosophallacy Terror mechanism Souls caught as grist in the mill of salvation
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Return once more to a void resplendent Silent choirs emanate through fissures in shattered time Such a vast deception I shall never witness again Sequenti die aurora apparente, Altis Vocibus Baphometh Invocaverunt As the next day dawned, they called loudly upon Baphometh Trisagion invocate barabaric infliction Seraph connotate serpent or Akero Apotheosis transfixion, repulsive hekhal resounding Self immolation decreed for those so far from Atziluth I dissolve and fall away like rain against the chapel glass
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Bonvin Solos 05:13

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released October 7, 2016

Dave Schmidt - Vocals
Tony Petrocelly - Guitars, Bass
Patrick Bonvin - Lead Guitar
Kevin Talley - Drums

Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Tony Petrocelly
at Trepan Studios, Woodbridge, VA, June 2016
Vocals recorded at Hanger 12 Studio, Mountlake Terrace, Washington
Lead guitar recorded at NDC Studio, Sion, Switzerland

Remixed and Remastered at Trepan Studios, April 2023

Cover Art by Paul Gerrard
Pencil, pen and ink Illustrations and layout by Tony Petrocelly


All songs published by Corpsegod Music (ASCAP) ©2016

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Construct of Lethe Woodbridge, Virginia

Construct of Lethe began in 2016 as an avenue for guitarist Tony Petrocelly to release music he had written for previous bands that split up.

The band has constantly sought to evolve and expand their sound, and A Kindness Dealt in Venom is a testament to that. It introduces synth and electronic elements, symphonic instruments, and greatly expands on the noise/found sounds introduced in Exiler.
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