Ritual Entombment, by Apocryphal

Ritual Entombment

by Apocryphal

	/

Streaming + Download

Full length debut from Apocryphal. Download includes the cover, layout , and other assorted oddities!

Purchasable with gift card

1.	Austere Dwellings Below 05:58	lyrics	download
Mist obscures sight Cloaking the fissures Suffocating adolescents Elders pass on All begin to huddle A void envelopes Will it pass? There's no life Existing beyond here Down through crevices Ancient tombs await Laughter ceases in depth Elders mourn ruination Suffering commands all Austerity reigns supreme!!!! Disease and famine Skulk in every corner One cannot escape To a world above For beyond exists A smog of disease Entombed below Austerity reigns supreme!!!! Above the world Reeks of decay Fetid scattered corpses Litter the ground Plague of mankind Extirpated all life Humans continue below In austere dwellings
2.	Calcified Death 04:09	lyrics	download
An unusual feeling Inside your veins Burning hot sensation Necrotic sections of skin Begin to appear Renal failure follows You are in agony Now you begin to writhe in pain The searing heat in your veins Prompts you to consider suicide The medical community has no cure How much more can you take? Is it worth hanging onto life? It is decided to amputate First your arms then legs Your genitals show necrosis They will be severed to Lesions form on your face They can't cut off your head Hope is being lost You are numb to life Unable to commit suicide You lie and wait to die Calciphylaxis robbed you Of your body and life All methods to save you Have failed horribly Slow and painful demise You will die a calcified death
3.	Swallowed Into Perpetual Madness 13:18	lyrics	download
Clansmen banished you into a chamber to rot A buried dead mind appalling visions plead death Fed like a vermin waiting with hunger Hatred of human form envelopes your mind Forced to live in dampness Consumed by moss and infected rats Alienation leads to nightmares Feel the intense need to kill Next human you see will die Rip out their throat and crush their head Show them the suffering you feel No remorse kill them all He approaches with the ration Reach for his larynx and clench it His open eyes wide with surprise Watch him collapse to the cold floor Emerge from your den of wretched solitude His flesh and heart still flow with blood Consume his cartilage and his muscle Your diner is now served in blood Look at the light Culling you to follow Proceed towards more humans Cacophony of beating hearts Flesh lust need to kill Terrorize pathetic human masses Propel your hate outwards Swallowed into perpetual madness
4.	The Crushing Darkness 07:58	lyrics	download
It seems for eons Cold has crept upon Millions die off As they struggle To ward of freezing Brutal cold death Darkness encroaches A dead star Life forms have lived and died in this world Always with a way to warm themselves Now in this age, caliginosity possesses life Non intelligent life have already passed Humans now look for solace and protection Turn to holy scripture So where is their fictitious weak God now? Wasn't this world and dying star his creation? Pray to him as the frigid winds blow Cry out to him as the darkness crushes life O' Heavenly Father above, why is this so? Is this truly the end of all life on earth? Will you not restore our home to abundance? Cries and prayers unanswered Then the star dies With A silent exhale Black day marks life Humans are frozen statues Constant black night Fire is scarce Encased in thick ice No chance to survive Entombed in glaciers Humans frozen to death Termination of life A dead planet
5.	Ritual Entombment 09:23	lyrics	download
Deemed worthless, a pathetic vermin Forced to submit themselves to death Forgiveness is all they want Another chance to prove their worth His eminence begs compassion His pleas meet a spiritless gaze The Entomber will have none These indigenous souls Tread towards cessation Only glance skyward To offer smite In the direction Of their adversary On the bleak pathway To final confinement Each has their own casket Lined with maggots and mold Lummox soldiers poke and plod One by one they fall Indigenous cries of terror Now they are all interned A cold, moribund ritual Entombed alive, liturgy of death The Entomber motions To cover the caskets Muffling their horror Eerie silence pervades The Entomber snickers He turns away Triumph... is his!!!!

about

Full length debut from the Phoenix Arizona old school death metal act, Apocryphal. 40 minutes of crushing, primal and feral old school death metal. Only for the true at heart and for the ones that have real underground metal in their souls. For fans of Rippikoulu, Bolt Thrower, Disembowelment, Incantation, Cianide, Rottrevore, Mythic, Derketa, Profanatica, Obituary and Asphyx.

credits

released August 23, 2014

Recorded between March and June 2014 in Phoenix Arizona
Mixed and Mastered June 2014 in Syracuse New York

Produced by Damen P.
Engineered by Evan S.
Mixed and Mastered by Evan S.

Cover art: "Idealised Landscape with Waterfall" by Caspar David Friedrich

Layout by Evan S.

Apocryphal is:
Damen P. Guitar, bass, and vocals
Evan S. Drums, synth, and effects

license

about

Apocryphal Phoenix, Arizona

Apocryphal is a US based old school death metal act with hints of doom. The bands sole mission is to create high art in the form of aural devastation aka underground metal. Death metal is an art form and thus it is not entertainment. Nothing is real but death, and with this outlook, the death metal genre becomes more relevant. ... more