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Vindicta

by Thread of Omen

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1.
Prima 02:44
2.
I used to think…that I’d give my life…for Your paradise…but It’s rotten, free of freedom… I...won’t…be bought…won’t be caught…in peddler’s circle Held my head to the ground I thought I… Could direct my mind I said I… Would stop myself From being… Something you…possessed Nothing… Wasn’t worth a damn but I hold my head up Can you say you lived your life well… Or were a slave to pleasure You brought me here…to Sell me my own…soul With a crooked smile…drop Coins in my hand with a blade behind your back You…can’t…forget…what it means…to be unfettered Held my head to the ground I thought I… Could direct my mind I said I…Oh God… Would stop myself From being… Something you…possessed…why…(hold into bridge) Throw it off…your peace is strangling me… Pain…there’s no life with-out pain… I thought I knew, but I… Held my head to the ground I thought I… Could direct my mind I said I… Nothing… Wasn’t worth a damning second of your time Worthless… Living for a god that you cannot even name Functionless… Beyond a thought for function Merciless… In protecting what you’ve got.
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The forests shake their leaves In laughter and the rain begins Claps in victory and joy, its parent Wearing away in death and rebirth Tempting waves with adolescent Charm and self-fantasy, daring the Tides to turn and the wind to fall Praying to a beautiful olden image of Light for darkness to stay away Or the strength to carry the fire All certainty and truth is only there And only then, but never beautiful …like a pleading star to the morn The forests shake their leaves In laughter and the rain begins Claps in victory and joy, its parent Wearing away in death and rebirth Tempting waves with adolescent Charm and self-fantasy, daring the Tides to turn and the wind to fall Praying to a beautiful olden image of Light for darkness to stay away Or the strength to carry the fire All certainty and truth is only there And only then, but never beautiful Splintered wood on the shore The blooded deck in pieces The wind howls through the boughs Of trees blind to the sorrow of man …like a pleading star to the morn Light cascading shapes the revelation of existence The wind seeks to spread the breath of life The waters fill the veins of an ancient being The fragments form the mold which harbours the beauty of life...
4.
See the fire In the east On the wind Smell the burning Hills…see the clouds A signal…of change Worship…at the Source... Eter- -nal… What can you offer to me… That I cannot simply take Hear the water From the sky Douse the flame Leave the land… Naked…and burnt But free…to start a- -new…from the start from the Source…Eter- --nal… What can you offer to me… That I cannot simply take Don’t you feel useless Don’t you feel useless now… …that I have risen from my knees Taken my neck from the block The axe in your hand cannot obey 'Cause I handed it to you and I’ll rip it away We’ll run back to where it began way back when It was all so innocent and we felt so content To let you dictate how we should progress Through this labyrinth, these tunnels, this dark… …forest, the shadow in my mind This place to get lost in time after time This canopy that blocks the only light But the moon will shine through, Will freeze the blood… Worshipping, waiting for, wondering about the path that is but eter- -nal… What can you offer to me… That I cannot simply take
5.
Dreading for the end the time has come To be written on the stone for all to see And the truth reveals the secrets locked within For the slaves’ revolt against the snake begins Wake up to the whispering of their lies You have been a mental slave Compressed within a mental cage The light begins to shine until your consciousness aligns To the sun you pray, that only god of yours - the day No more time to weep, no more time to sleep No more time to hide away Now fear consumes the wicked ones They plea with all the golden suns As the slaves begin to plunder So can be heard the roaring thunder Screaming for some salvation from this perfidious damnation This will be their final malicious incarnation Shadows in mist now wonder where is suffering created Now erred into a twist of fate remorseless souls release their hate And rise in the power of their unity And create a utopian bliss No more will we suffer at the hands of propagation Now our eyes are peeled to the wretched truth revealed The blood of man is sealed in freedom The rise of order relieves the steeple, the perception of an equal Now fear consumes the wicked ones They plea with all the golden suns As the slaves begin to plunder So can be heard the roaring thunder Screaming for some salvation from this perfidious damnation This will be their final malicious incarnation You release the light into your mind Release them from the filth intertwined Rise to the honor and glory of your promise Live for the purpose of existence liberated It’s all a dream Life hasn’t yet begun Soon I’ll awaken Sun replace the moon again I was never here, At least not yet The blood an illusion The sign that I choose life instead Who can wake them now Withered serpents asleep on rusted nests of gold… Falling to the ground Crushed beneath the weight they take upon themselves… An iron clad dream…
6.
All the horror is in just this that there is no horror You fool yourself with your dynamic conformity and the new ethic of the copy and clone An embodiment of economic function reduced to a hedonist deprived of the actual Seize a personality, take on an existence For the greater glory, greater glory of what? All the horror is in just this that there is no horror Led astray by man's close to infinite appetite for destruction Taken hold of by the irrelevant What you must realise is that they do not want to know Seize a personality, take on an existence For the greater glory, greater glory of what? A bed of Procrustes...severed and stretched...to fit their morals Herd poisoning Led astray by man's close to infinite appetite for destruction Taken hold of by the irrelevant What you must realise is that they do not want to know Following the pointless regime without any substance Based on their own greed They linger in the sins of their own filthy egos Without any remorse Realisation that can come to any soul In their own hands is their salvation If they face themselves
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For how can creatures so bold, so bright Be regarded as animal by those claiming sight The boundless crusade of their spiritual lies Flickering and flashing before your eyes Illusion, delusion Where do you go? Seclusion, confusion Where are you now? Suppression, depression What is your fate? Digression, regression... When will you see the true power of lot Breaks through when you let go of have and have not Turning your back on the ones who deny Refusing the lies forcing you to comply Illusion, delusion Where do you go? Seclusion, confusion Where are you now? Suppression, depression What is your fate? Digression, regression... Seemingly open to new ways of life Forgetting the programming causing you strife Leading an army against the machine, Wondering if this is all just a dream Awakening from the nightmares of greed Shackling the creatures from reaping the seed The masters cannot all hide…the masters are now in divide… Rise… And you will rise!
8.
Life or Coin 04:09
A soul placed deep into the abyss Driven mad by the serpent’s lair And the race like the play of swords Feasting on the wound sea, the dew for the worthy fire Strike the hand that offers And bite the hand that feeds Glory lies all but in the fire Of lonesomeness and greed Tear the flesh with no thought To the consequence of feeding To the point of gluttony In a world where can be enough The furnace churns and blackens The bellows worked by dirty palms The sickness and the serpent still Are worshipped in the garden… …Are worshipped in the garden A fool is a man with a gold coin In a desert He sells the water in his soul For sand One day he will lie in a coffin In the ground Sand as much worth as gold all around
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That loving memory of Forever That wakes your soul from the shadow of Time A requiem for a Dream that mirrors…flesh Hope is the whip that Drives you, to Another step To a heavier Burden Anguish Shepherd of the gods Fear Creator of every need Never Let me go Let me know What could be If I dared What is the purpose to wandering the Earth If not to uncover the worth Of the true being… Free of all want, free of all need… Nothing of value has any worth And peace… We have always belonged In the forests…with the wind Darkened clouds on the horizon and the lightning breaks into the stillness Never Let me go Let me know What could be If I dared Hope is the whip that Drives you, to Another step To a heavier Burden Anguish Shepherd of the gods Fear Creator of every need Never Let me go Let me know What could be If I dared Never…

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released February 17, 2017

All music by Thread of Omen
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil Bezuidenhout and Stephen du Plessis
Art by Victor van den Heever

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Thread of Omen Cape Town, South Africa

Thread of Omen is a melodic death metal band from Durbanville, South Africa, formed in 2013.

Discography:
Palace of the Fathers (2015)
Vindicta (2017)

Members:
Victor van den Heever - Vocals
Stian Etsebeth - Lead guitar
Matthew Cox - Rhythm Guitar
Marius Vercuiel - Bass
Jonathan Burgers - Drums
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