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Nihilum

by Vilis

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1.
8:22 01:05
Before there was light Before there was God and the Archangels There wasn’t nothing, there was the Darkness A horribly destructive, amoral force that was beaten back by God and his Archangels in a terrible war God locked the Darkness away where it could do no harm and he created a Mark that would serve as both lock and key which he entrusted to his most valued lieutenant, Lucifer But the Mark began to exert its own will, revealed itself as a curse and began to corrupt Lucifer became jealous of man God banished Lucifer to Hell And the Darkness remained locked away until now
2.
Epoch 03:15
Epoch Before creation I stood encompassing all that was Until a hollow deity sought to fill the void And in his light omens arose from the abyss Bearing the universal truth “Darkness shall reign eternally” I was the beginning and I’ll be the end I will be all that there is There was none before me and none shall surpass When the light fades from existence still I will remain And that light shall be ingested by the Dark For I am the primordial entity, a being of infinite density As the vermin bred in his image were once granted their own paradise Yet they would rather ravage and pillage Desecrating the holy land they walked upon, ignorant of their sins Although I warned him of their fate all he cared to do was create My concern answered with betrayal I predate Life I predate Death I predate your God Eons have passed and my presence forgotten as his sons insides slowly turn rotten As retribution for his transgressions Time and space are boundaries I reside outside As he covets sovereignty through worship from those monstrosities Long ago I awoke to the prison I’m in Shackled to the rotting skin of his closest kin Subtlety drawing him into the abyss To bring about an era in which Darkness holds dominion The sun will be extinguished by my hand The torment I withstand will pale in comparison He has blindly forsaken his offspring To the anguish I’ll inflict due to his blasphemy The dark will subtlety creep over all as I envelop his whole domain Until I can finally force him to see That which he’s conceived means absolutely nothing to me Upon the souls of his children I will consume Until at last I am exhumed from my tomb My rise shall by witnessed soon As the embodiment of destruction This fate cannot be changed for denied Their lungs constrict devoid of air The Earth becomes a grave for his family Can you feel the approach of the coming Dark Bearing down upon life with unforeseen might, born of spite I exist beyond your comprehension What he has done proves to be a mockery Soon I shall be set free from purgatory
3.
Ragnarok 03:33
Ragnarok I’ve been enslaved by this affliction And at first I felt the thirst overcome by addiction Twisting my grace as my consciousness was slowly erased Every day I fought against an entity that began to convince me that we were one in the same Could it be? Upon my soul I felt a sinister stain Consciousness all but erased as if it had been engraved But this burden was mine alone As he sat on his throne By my hand he will atone To a sensation of temptation left with no explanation As the Darkness festered within And it constantly whispers… I can’t hold my tongue any longer While this filth breeds and conquers And I’m weighed down by their failures Begging and praying to their so-called savior I must be the one to end it While this filth breeds and conquers And I won’t waste another second Begging and praying to this so-called savior Idly witnessing my plunge into the depths As I descended alone reaping all that he had sown Yet I swallowed this obsession Only to have him question my intentions Never will I seek redemption Now the Mark has spread beyond my restraint The light that was left has begun to feel so faint And I am torn from everything except the void This plague has found every doubt in me to exploit Humanity has no place in our reality Corrupting his kingdom, and I’m the symptom To a sensation of temptation left with no explanation As the Darkness festered within And it constantly whispers… I can’t hold my tongue any longer While this filth breeds and conquers And I’m weighed down by their failures Begging and praying to their so-called savior I must be the one to end it While this filth breeds and conquers And I won’t waste another second Begging and praying to this so-called savior Asphyxiate on your words or regurgitate mine Alone I lead the purge of mankind Though containing the Dark has left my kingdom blind I am the dusk, the dawn, the beginning and the end All who oppose will meet Death
4.
Penumbral 03:38
Penumbral You could never fathom the chasm inside my mind Or all of the pieces of myself that I’ve had to leave behind Though the Darkness is confined I fear light suspends on borrowed time I pray and I pray that the chain of fate shall unbind Instead you only focus on what I couldn’t do for you As you continue to bear thoughts to the whispers it will spew The one I thought could restain the Darkness and bear the Mark Depraved hands extend from the Void to rip you apart And yet you only complain and can’t accept the blame No way to justify as much as you try to deny You were meant to be their savior You were meant to be their guardian Meant to protect everyone and everything from what lies within Now I just can’t believe… In you I placed my faith With you no life is safe as the Darkness engraves So with heavy hands and a heavier heart I must cast you down, clip your wings and put up the shroud You are the reminder of my greatest failure One day I pray you see it clearer and forgive me for this, for everything To forsake my blood, my son For the greater good nothing there is nothing else to be done This is a fight you cannot win Yet alone I won’t be able to wage war against the Darkness again With no other choice I condemn you to Hell And spend milenia deciding how to live with myself But I must, I must do this to preserve all I’ve built No way to justify as much as you try to deny You were meant to be their savior You were meant to be their guardian Meant to protect everyone and everything from what lies within Now I just can’t believe… In you I placed my faith With you no life is safe as the Darkness engraves So with heavy hands and a heavier heart I must cast you down, clip your wings and put up the shroud Consumed by Darkness, given in to this false idol From your exile there will be no reprisal This shall be an example for all to see Betray your God and there will be nowhere to flee Slam the gates of Heaven Split your soul in seven Bear the weight of your failure Parasitic corruption when will you at last discover Your pride alone is the reason you’ll forever suffer A hollow throne veiled in sulfur Now let Hell be born Hail the King of scorn This will be an example for all to see Betray your God there will be nowhere to flee
5.
Ouroboros 03:29
Ouroboros [God] I cannot allow this to continue I have failed you by letting the Darkness consume Too far beyond reach [Lucifer] Wait a minute You think I’m who’s lost? And that I need saving? That I’m the one who chose to be blind? Where was your sight when we searched for a guide? [God] Look how far you’ve strayed, just brimming with pride Renouncing your loyalty to all of makind [Lucifer] Mankind? Mankind?! A stillbirth forced into existence Yet you always held them above us Your own children! [God] Your jealousy has festered to rot A victim of your own consciousness You willing forsake yourself So deaf to the truth [Lucifer] Yet you- [God] What!? [Lucifer] You just- [God] There is no one to blame Not me, not humans, just you [Lucifer] You feign innocence when you know well It was you who sealed this fate [God] Just tell me why you gave up on yourself After all that we’ve done was it all vein? Has the Darkness taken hold of your soul Or has your arrogance flourished within? [Lucifer] You would watch your kingdom burn And see your sons be bled dry Before even thinking to intervene Yet I’m accused of self-indulgence? [God] You know not of the torment I endure As you wallow in self pity and misery I see through your facade You lack the resolve to face your demons [Lucifer] I know not of your torment? HA HA HA Bathing in ignorance as if it were bliss [God] You crave the touch of the Darkness Abandoned your grace for the Void’s embrace Truly I believed you to be the one The one to purge the Darkness and bring transcendence Fell prey to self indulgance Prepare yourself for judgement [Lucifer] You are not God of mine The falsest of idols, a mockery to the divine There is nothing to fear Now behold your salvation is here [chanting] A sinister moon looms over Earth As the Darkness has given birth To the most vile curse Within its will you shall be immersed [God] You have bestowed a feeling far wose As my hands are forced to be your hearse Choose your last words wisely [Lucifer] Tell me how it feels to be eclipsed Left to decompose upon the crucifix I’ll feast on the screams of the insolent Their futility ended deliberately [God] In the end they will say I have won While I alone mourn the death of my son
6.
4:11 01:38
4:11 Abel wasn’t talking to God, he was talking to Lucifer Lucifer was going to make my brother into his pet I couldn’t bear to watch him be corrupted So I offered a deal Abel’s soul in Heaven for my soul in Hell Lucifer accepted as long as I was the one who sent Abel to Heaven So I killed him, became a soldier of Hell A knight
7.
Bloodlines 03:23
Bloodlines Seduction of the first born To my allegiance he has been sworn Seduction of the first born And limb from limb I shall watch him be torn Cast into perdition as a victim An outcome Fate had already written And still I’ve been damned for refusing to bend my knee To the swine that can’t even gaze upon the divine They were given everything and reduced it all to nothing But just as they think they’ve lost it all I will prove that there is always something more to be taken Tell me can you say that you even try to save me Forced to accept I’m just a reject Tell me did you think that I just might need saving Left me drowning as the calm turned to storm I find myself praying, not out of despair But with the hope that you’re listening To the cries of your children As I contort them into beings more fitting of their nature Those who once worshiped the light Now curse your name in the dark Spineless, faithless, helpless insects To my every whim you’ll all be subjected The blood of the innocent forever tainted in His name The gateway to the void sealed with the Mark of Cain Tell me can you say that you even try to save me Forced to accept I’m just a reject Tell me did you think that I just might need saving Left me drowning as the calm turned to storm Seduction of the first born To my allegiance he has been sworn Seduction of the first born And for his brother he will soon need to mourn Tell me can you say that you even try to save me Forced to accept I’m just a reject Tell me did you think that I just might need saving Left me drowning as the calm turned to storm
8.
Darkstalker 03:05
Darkstalker Preparations for our infiltration and subsequent manipulations nearing completion I may be confined to this cell, festering in my personal Hell Concealing their black eyes behind a familiar disguise Twisting his children into my covetous servants Manipulated by the tongue of the serpent All to willing to decimate this reality that you’ve constructed Held together through falsifications I shall strip his false sovereignty and make my claim Using his descendants to reap repentance With an accursed legion the exiled son shall return Being the conviction that I will witness Heaven burn Collective hivemind An army of puppets Sworn from his children I herd them from the light because... We will be those who tear apart the barrier Between this world and the Darkness Feed the void within, this world will meet its end There I reign, king of nothing Though this fate will leave you desperate, there is no alternate I am malevolence incarnate The bloodshot eyes petrified behind the guise noxious with lies This shall be the last time light shines upon the Earth For dawn will only bring us further into the Dark My wretched apostles will masquerade as the vile offspring of the recreant Permeating the mass population Left to write in their filth but when the time finally comes… We will be those who tear apart the barrier Between this world and the Darkness Feed the void within, this world will meet its end There I reign, king of nothing For in their final moments all will be clear A savior was never going to appear Die as you lived, alone and unknown As rivers run red with blood from the pure The ground fissures under the strength of my commands Realising at last we all suffer in vain It’s meaningless, you cannot resist Feast your eyes on all that you’ve known Tell me can you fathom your God does not exist
9.
Oth 03:12
Oth Passing down the line a reminder that they’re running out of time A curse that evolves, consciousness dissolves Absolving all of thought, light is no longer sought Branded like cattle creeping towards slaughter Silently observed by the Darkstalker A conjoined human and demon, the unholiest of unions There is no hope left, revoked, blasphemy in matrimony An eternal gaze from a formless face Fixed upon him the veil wears so thin The abyss seeping through his skin… Slave in chains Foreign thoughts he can’t explain Now ingrained Too much sustain Yet he only has a single goal to attain Release me to assert claim on my domain Watch the sun fade, silently invade into the mind Feigning whispers from the divine Contorting the soul of man beyond its limitations Preparing their vessels for mass assimilation In the absence of air, despair A glimpse into the void The disparity in morality, plague of mortality Pure blood runneth dry, looming from the blackened sky Surrender, pretender, tormenter Behold the cusp of rebirth Eager to pull all into the Earth Slave in chains Foreign thoughts he can’t explain Now ingrained Too much sustain Yet he only has a single goal to attain Release me to assert claim on my domain Streets littered with shrieking sacks of meat Pitifully pleading for my replete Insaitably reaping their life force Gluttony resonates from its true source Slave in chains Foreign thoughts he can’t explain Now ingrained Too much sustain Yet he only has a single goal to attain Release me to assert claim on my domain
10.
Genesis 03:55
Genesis Consciousness is a disease And I’ll purge, I’ll rid it from the world Disassociate the living from the dead A walking manifestation of sin I am the harbinger of the end I feel the hands of the damned clawing at my neck Eradicated by the need to speak but never to be heard Because nothing can compare to giving up everything you have Only to find there’s always something more to lose I confess, I confess, I confess It’s slowly killing me Yet I feel so alive I plead guilty I found this all to be the only thing that satisfies me Not a savior Not their guardian But I cannot deny that… I am the devil’s advocate Nothing more than a pathetic surrogate But I will play by part because I can’t suppress the Mark I am the answer to every unheard prayer I’ve passed the end of my rope but Death just won’t let me choke This is the beginning of their misery Not a single living being will be left breathing My presence corrupting, infecting and tainting the mind of the weak Begging for salvation at the hands of damnation Letting them survive to watch the faith leave from their eyes I bear the curse I bear the curse of the fallen The final pages of history shall be written in the blood of humanity As I sever the wires connecting their false reality No hesitation to cease all creation And yet from Fate there is no deviation Not a savior Not their guardian And I am nothing more than... Not a savior Not their guardian But I cannot deny that… I am the devil’s advocate Nothing more than a pathetic surrogate But I will play by part because I can’t suppress the Mark I am the answer to every unheard prayer I’ve passed the end of my rope but Death just won’t let me choke My patience wasted waiting for mankind to awaken But instead they forced themselves into extinction Your God is dead I am the usurper And you are all beneath me Bow down, bow down to me Bow down before the absolute
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Discoda 02:47
Discoda In the beginning it was just you and me Meant to be the only ones that existence would need For you it was never enough I hated you for needing something else Something that wasn’t me HA The void lives inside yourself Endlessly creating hoping that something will satisfy But nothing could Victim of your own mind Trapped inside and there’s nothing left to hide Now upon this heresy Through an incarnation of jealousy I emerge as a being of infinite insight How clear it is that the sun shines upon all with false light Preying on the children you have forsaken A pathetic excuse for a diety Buried beneath self induced futility As the Darkness was born of failure to bring balance to creation Endowed with sentience bearing a single objective To consume all light Bringing forth eternal night Witness the end of all there is and was Accept this fate for destiny won’t change This is your last glimpse upon all that’s known All life proven worthless

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released June 2, 2018

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