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Awaken The Ancients

by HATRED REIGNS

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    HATRED REIGNS - AWAKEN THE ANCIENTS

    This 8-track conceptual album follows the story of the protagonist succumbing to the darkness and crossing over the planes to embark on a journey to the ethereal plane. They face treacherous obstacles along the voyage to Necropia where their ultimate fate will be judged.

    Music was written by Hatred Reigns
    Lyrics were composed by Jeff Calder, Brandon Mayhew, and Mitchi Dimitriadis

    Engineered and Produced by Mitchi Dimitriadis & Hatred Reigns
    Soundscapes designed by Jeff Calder & Mitchi Dimitriadis
    Recorded at Moria Studios in Ottawa, Ontario Canada Spring 2021 thru Spring 2022
    Mixed & Mastered at Darkmoon Productions Studio Fall 2022

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AWAKEN THE ANCIENTS Plight of the tyrants, prevail over mankind Deliberate confusion, manipulate the blind Misfortunate souls, powerless and weak Shepherd the cattle, through poetic speech False deities parade before the meek Upon their pulpits, they preach Bound to the fate of your own direction Progenies judged by their own discretion A predetermined reckoned heresy Ascendancy through salvation To ensnare others in negation Your eternity will be spent in damnation Extreme factions revolt and retaliate Exact tactical assaults to dominate Erupting legions with molten disgust Expelling the fury results in blood lust Mislead, abandoned; we feel betrayed Resulting in an imminent vehement response Images of despair penetrate the mind Your monolithic church; a vicarious daemon to find Spewing scriptures of false erudition Pressured to litany for lustration Burned bodies lay glowing with red embers As smoke scorches the skies unremembered Mass graves are filled with the perished As crucified martyrs remain admonished Unwilling to adapt to this criterion Constrained by the facade normalcy Unable to resist the simulacrum Consider the solve of antipathy Trumpets sound, spirits abound To bear witness, for breaking ground Beckoned entities emanate translucently Awaken the Ancients The ability fractured to appear upon the surface Abet the damned, hind condemnation The transformation, beyond creation To call unto thee O shapeless specters Evoked to rise; Arise! Awaken the Ancients
2.
PAIN LEADS TO NOTHINGNESS Channeling all disgust Misplaced ambitious lust Gives cause to transform So depart from this platform Abolished in disgrace Compelled to aberrate It's better to end thy life, Than to remain asunder. Looking towards all strife, Absolution reflects encumbered Observe the soul, Calculating countless strategies. From great heights, Offering numerous possibilities. Determining their fatal demise Taking action to sever all ties Staring off into oblivion Thy blade singing in the sun Slicing deep like a pendulum Expelling life, a definitive continuum Losing hold from mortalities grasp Hurling towards everlasting wrath Deflecting between converging schism Obliterate thyself from expected derision Solace yearns, as all turns black Never to return, never to come back I can't wait to die, falling through the sky Tightening my eyes, my mind breaking. As i hit the ground, salvation is found Hearing my last sound, so it begins!
3.
TO DEPTHS UNKNOWN Unparalleled quandary Delineated by a universal paradigm Questions spun of quarrel To seek beyond this realm divine Irresolute infinity In the deepest chasm of the soul Harrowing relentlessly Betrayed by gravity Frantically falling, flailing to and fro Eternal quagmire of the blackness Consuming all I have ever known Plunging further into the abyss Aetherial; void of flesh and bone Molecular transmogrification Fragmented and reconstructed Cytoplasmic evolution Annex spectral embodiment Seething entities are writhing past The sightless seams of my existence Dark spirits are stirring abound Shifting inhuman form. Your fate a supplement to restore The mana of subsistence Time’s Ancients surrounding In a dissolution storm A strange sensation is felt Descend unto my sights To depths unknown I have succumbed to my fate Destined toward my plight Descend unto my sights To depths unknown I have succumbed to my fate Without fear, the darkness drones
4.
Obsolarium 02:36
OBSOLARIUM Plenary of the mind Divested intuition Unbound by material realms Incognizant of all opinion Oblivious to their treachery Confined within this obsolarium A boundless vortex Surpassing mortal awareness Impervious to all temptations Vivifying emptiness Surcease percipience Dogmatic vacuity Of a vestige remnant form Movement irrelevant Evolve beyond inference Extend beyond ethereal Bereft of chroma Intrinsic existence Merging with the macrocosm
5.
USHERED BY CHARON Awoken from insensate Alerted to morphing foreign environs Atop of a broken precipice looking Aghast upon a sea of desolation Observing endless droves Of imprisoned aimless souls Leads to the river Styx waters entangle The foredoomed lured to inveigle An ancient mariner scullers near Their vessel propelled by inflamed oar Charon: warden of the wretched Charon: a sordid disheveled specter Son of Erebus and Nyx Breaching the shoreline For the approaching voyagers A mean-spirited, foreboding entity Torn rags adorned their obscene torso Ushering the anathematized Between the nether worlds divide Of the living and forgotten souls An excursion athwart this realm A debt of torment and agony Consuming each fare to be replete of energy In the distance, other farriers of souls Are venturing off in opposing directions Derailed from crossing the planes divide Trapped, impaled within the treacherous voids Between the nether worlds to remain forevermore As I take a step towards Charon: a shepherd of specters Charon: with igneous glaring eyes The cursed incapable of requitance Left to wander with unwavered persistence A hundred years but a day The impure with no coin to pay
6.
PLANES DIVIDE Shifting between the planes divide Surpassing gateways, as worlds collide Tormented by thee sinister appellants Crossing hellish tides with power impellent Draconian hellions; celestial obsidian Dwelling, lurking, reaching, seizing Dripping with sin As beneath, so beyond Evil incites this immortal bond Enchanted by the flux of the river Seduced towards with desire aquiver Leaning in, mirage breaks with a grasp And engulfs thee into a swarm like an asp Fighting and drowning against sodden souls Choking on water as they pull towards the shoal Swim to the barge; escaping this canal of carrion To venture towards thy fate down the Acheron In sufferance, a distinct sound Through the mist; this isle mound Necropia lies yonder bound Waves of plasma mercilessly flow Thrashing through spectral undertow Unwavering onwards, the oarsman rows Abroad this cosmic sea of obscurity Entranced souls slowly bled for eternity As the seraphim falls, Mephistopheles manifests
7.
Absentia 04:58
ABSENTIA Transfixed by the transmogrification Enshrouded with hallucinations Whisper supremacy Darkness envelopes thee Subjugate into a hypnotic trance Succumbed by mired dreams Nothing is as it seems; in absentia Malevolent ancients orchestrate Deceiving thine path of will Imprisoned forever or until Ascension unto thy kingdom Descend into the infernal abyss Eternal infliction endured Mercilessly bestowed upon Merely a pawn in this menagerie Competing against the opposition's rules Unsuspecting voyageurs are incapable To fathom this reality A test of thine own will to fight or flight Sharp talons clasp at failure’s plight Succumbed by mired dreams Nothing is as it seems; in absentia Giveth thy will; of abolished beliefs In absentia; give into disbelief Thy prayers go unheard To whom doth thou speak? Purity for the damned As demons come, angels fall
8.
DEPARTING ACHERON Welcome, we’ve been waiting for you To unearth these forlorn lands Riddled with prolonged suffering Crimson storms whirl above desolate shores Enthralled by the isle’s mysterious yore Entranced by structures of lusters gold-laced Gothic tombs carved into thy mesa face The damned scale the precarious staircase Breath of the unknown awaits this foul place Oozing souls spew from ghoulish spouts A failed requiem Sentinels post neath arches of a spired light An ominous place cloaked in a timeless night A veil pulled down slowly; shattered to pieces To bid farewell finally to delusioned anamnesis Enamored by the ignis fatuus lure Enticed within to pursue the spoor White noise fills your thoughts like a dream Details of your visions become crystalline Unable to identify the source Disinclined to ignore the temptation Drawn towards an unknown force Surpassing your worst apprehensions Closed mortal eyes Open your eternal mind Release it to us now This deafening silence so hypnotizing Stepping off to a realm so mesmerizing Acceptance towards wonders so dispelling Ancients surround this domain so compelling

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Prepare to be transported on an unparalleled auditory journey with Hatred Reigns' sonic might "Awaken The Ancients".

“Awaken The Ancients” is not just an album, it’s a conceptual epic that traverses uncharted realms of sound and emotion. The album’s narrative follows a protagonist grappling with oppressive forces, leading to a summoning of the ancients who rise to liberate the tormented from their prolonged suffering. Plunged into an endless abyss, the tormented emerge upon a desolate shore, surrounded by aimless souls.

In a quest for liberation, the damned are ferried across by Charon who must navigate treacherous planes, confronting challenges from demons above and lurking waters below. Their odyssey takes them across the enigmatic river Styx, lured by the ancients towards Necropia, where ultimate judgment awaits.

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released December 1, 2023

Music & written by Hatred Reigns
(Brandon Mayhew contributed to lyrics)

Orchestrations created by Mitchi Dimitriadis & Jeff Calder

Engineered & Produced by Hatred Reigns
Mixed & Mastered at Dark Moon Productions

Cover Artwork designed by Pedro "Lordigan" Sena
www.facebook.com/PedroSenaLordigan

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HATRED REIGNS Ottawa, Ontario

Hailing from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Hatred Reigns are:

Mitchi - Vocals
Jeff - Guitars
Adam - Bass
Neil - Drums

All Music, Lyrics & Orchestration were written, engineered, and produced by
Hatred Reigns.

Mixed & Mastered at Dark Moon Production Studio.
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