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Hornets Nest

by Monolith

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1.
MALIGNANT 00:59
2.
CATALYST 02:41
Myopic nobody Befitting medicine The catalyst frothing at your lips Wounds coalesce Vessels dilated The pursuer able I need but a trace My skin is flushed No words will be uttered The air awaits the revulsion Cast aside Brought to the knife Life denied For those who cried Cast aside Brought to the knife Life denied For those who cried The splinters of bone littered the cracked slabs Pummelled out of existence No more can you spew your falsehoods The blood inhabits the ground And to begin once more No longer a part of you I wipe my brow of your loathsome remains A break in the clouds And my frame emerges unscathed I cleanse myself of these violations and grin Knowing that there's one less Piece of shit
3.
INQUEST 01:38
Conscious shift, self doubt Abandon resolve Conscious shift, self doubt Abandon resolve The hate finds its way back in Equanimity dissolved Will be the gavel be cast or the fall of the axe The judging stares of the well adjusted The old canards resonate again The foul concubine murmurs Shameful inquest, mordant applause The assemblings of the elegant all leave their appraisal Too predictable, destitute, irredeemable, classless The act of the jilted vassal is so dramatic The act of the jilted vassal is so dramatic
4.
BONEFARMER 02:51
Fuck them, blood night The inaugural cut on their flawless skin Flesh rich, pure strikes The galleria at the surgeons whim So abruptly, nothing feels wrong We are all brought to the same level When they cry, so assuring, I've made no bad decisions For once everyone gets their turn Flailing around, like their favourite performers Their limbs pirouette, detached from their bodies No return for the weak minded Confront me and see your true standing Always carried by the arms of others The vast miasma barely held together Endless hoarding, while we had to suffer Never blameless, no test will be tougher The final prize, the opulent man A bloated symbol of supposed winners
5.
THE CAVES 02:53
The primeval tormentor who cannot think of yielding His leer unmatched even by those who were inculpable Spirit breaker of the saviour The rays piercing and boundless, no concept of virtue From the foundation of the world for me to inherit Spirit breaker of the saviour Our works and words will condemn us No flesh will be justified in the undeniable It pursues me waiting for one slight abberation Far superior in its persistence and perfectly concealed I dare not present a counter for I was clearly born to fail Even if we can move in the herd, our fate will not chanage It lures us inside, our jaws clenched and the teeth grind The cave walls echo with the sounds of frightened sobbing Its trophies pile to the ceiling The pugent odor fills the nostrils I hallucinate that there is a better place waiting as I catch my physical form being dismantled So this is how it feels
6.
No meaning, no truth Just here to avoid despair No prospect, no use We can just end it here In death we are denied our context Pointless are your little moral whims Your plans to change everything are made in vain In time they will return to their natural state In death we are denied our context Pointless are your little moral whims In life we don't give a single thing Brief passing from the eternal void There is simply silence Utter and absolute A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence Man is garbage Man is garbage
7.
Each time I awaken nothing changes You wouldn't know that there's a hellfire outside Maintain, persist, endure Must keep the cogs turning Ignore the fatigue that clambers round my bowels The droning can subside The strong and silent type Nothing of concern to me A new lesion appears, I can still go on Maintain, persist, endure Still I keep the cogs turning The conflagrant forest burns, i'm sure there's a thousand more The old passages give in to rot, there were no lessons on there anyway There were no lessons on there anyway Each time I awaken nothing changes Pay no need, go back to sleep We've seen worse than this
8.
THE OFFERING 02:53
In this bag the prizes of war I cast a shriek to any deity God where in hell are you I can gain access to the tombs of the unbelievers Just stop the pendulum from swinging, suspend the ruin It was in your design to be surpassed, admit it In my hands the offering of ascent The goats throat has been slit and the body burnt whole All I see is a lord of cowardice Worlds asunder, no gods rage No creation, just a series of mistakes Worlds asunder, no gods rage No creation, just a series of mistakes I await your wrath, anything to feel alive Nothing screams back, can't see a reason why I await your wrath, anything to feel alive Nothing screams back, can't see a reason why To think they wrote texts on your acts of cruelty, it must have be a lie I stand felling the tree of life, the only sound that remains is the spuming of blood
9.
They parade me around in chains The ritual to sentence years when we've only got days One can only laugh when the affairs are so absurd Nothing can be considered wrong when the lines are blurred I gave the vermin the easy way out, no dread and no panic Just their pointless life snuffed out Yet i'm trapped within these walls Loathed by all who have encountered me As far as rats go, there's no difference between you and I But at least I have a chance to witness the vermillion sky To see all of your arms linked like the very shackles that hold me here To see you atop the bridge but you're ensnared just like me There is no escaping this They rampant seas baying for another person so credulous You've gained their attnetion, lead by another priest Oh the things I should show them So who is really free, as you're stuck inside a beacon The light would make me blind Begging for release and running from no one, I could only offer tranquility So as you slip on down the stones, into the raging foam, rather you than me Cascading towards the maelstrom, the foolish hounds behind you If god was real then he'd make the tide take them As their bodies begin to surface, suddenly it all seems worth it To watch the zealots meet their end I slump back down, to inhabit the ground and be pummelled out of existence. The vermins end, turned to paste to begin again The vermins end, all your creations down the drain The vermins end, the fate of all good men The vermins end and so the rot will descend

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released March 22, 2024

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Monolith Devon, UK

Monolith fuse relentless aggression and a cold atmosphere to create a uniquely impassioned form of modern metal tied to a conceptual narrative spanning their discography. Using each album created to showcase and explore varying forms of the genre. 'Hornets Nest' - their latest offering and the first of three planned releases for 2024 is their inquest into blackened hardcore. ... more

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