Under the world In timeless frost and fire cocooned Cloaked in winged death A vast tectonic moon Ten million years, Scorching rock and flesh, descend, Howl their epitaph A funeral for a continent Within the naked bones of earth Crushed in mummified embrace Where stony fangs claw into space A slow cold heart awaits rebirth Rumbling in his grave Pounding in the deep Putrid fuming Erebus Stirs in his sleep And from the East The storm's atrocious blades Bring heaven's wrath, Skewer and cascade Upon the brave Desperately they creep Ride the tail of the buried Beast Above the skeleton of god In endless midnight, spectres dance Where land and sky in endless trance Dream in the dark of living blood Lie in wait Bide their time Craving flesh Arise Man against rock Heart against ice With devil's tongues the mountain calls Bodes blinded glory To the worm that crawls Taunts mortality Eyeless whiteness Soundless With devil's tongues the mountain calls A summons for the damned Shades of Azrael With devil's jaws the mountain mauls Yawning chasms, ghostly waters Falling through a maze of blue A quick demise for him who falters Worlds born anew for him who knew That underneath this silent death A frozen chthonic empire lies In crystal pressure draws cold breath Awaking slowly beneath the ice And from the summit The other side reveals no drop But 24 million billion tons Of living, shifting tombstone For a forgotten world To elevate Our vermin fate In the abyss We take the bait Defy the weight Of earth and sky Rejoice to die For one brief kiss Deep in the bowels of the earth Magma heaves towards the void Unseen thaw feeds mangled rock And within it, secret life