[Intro]
[slow
Grinding build]
Censer smoke
Tastes like rust
Candles drown
In clotted dust
[Verse 1]
Torches spit pitch on the coffin wall
Rot-wreathed psalms in a maggot drawl
Tongues of plague lick the altar stone
Every cracked jaw praying to the bone
Black-robed swarm in a spiral crawl
Knives held high for the empire’s fall
Blood-wet chalice on a spine-shaped stand
Drips like venom on a branded hand
[Chorus]
Kneel to the throne of ash and hunger (kneel)
Crown of filth on the howling void
Gnash your teeth in the furnace thunder
Every pale god ripped and destroyed
Throne of ash and hunger
Roar my name
Carve it deep in the marrow of flame
[Verse 2]
Ribcage bells toll a rusted chime
Flesh turned script in a blasphemed rhyme
Eyes sewn shut still stare through the dark
See that pit where the fallen spark
Skulls like lanterns
Cracked and split
Draining light till the heavens quit
Spit that creed made of venom and tar
“Praise the wound
Not the withered star”
[Chorus]
Kneel to the throne of ash and hunger (kneel)
Crown of filth on the howling void
Gnash your teeth in the furnace thunder
Every pale god ripped and destroyed
Throne of ash and hunger
Roar my name
Carve it deep in the marrow of flame
[Bridge]
[halftime stomp
Cavern reverb]
Raise your knives to the cancer sky (hey!)
Let the sacred scaffolds die
Drink the rot
Let the marrow sing
Blight-born faith for a carrion king
[Chorus]
Kneel to the throne of ash and hunger (kneel)
Crown of filth on the howling void
Gnash your teeth in the furnace thunder
Every pale god ripped and destroyed
Throne of ash and hunger
Roar my name
Brand it cold in eternity’s flame