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Seasons of Attrition

by Sumptus Ignis

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Whispers from the long-departed Songs of stillness carved in silence Sorrowed secrets, words of anger Locked in time like wasps in amber Clutching hands – Fever shakes The concrete bed so cold Rags over bone Staring bloodshot Insomniac dreams intrude Staining the landscape Obscenity unseen Desperation lingering A broken thing discarded Ragged nails – Plow the scars The hunger digs below Deep in the soul Boiling empty Chew the dregs Digest the filth of decisions past Every waking moment – Voices of the dead Phantom vicious babble – Drains his sanity Constant mental battle – Hear them screaming Nightmares never buried – The traumas trail his life Eyes closed – Still the visions remain The past tears through the comforting lies Cracked skull – the walls are crumbling down Burdened by atrocity Blistered grin – A vulture’s laugh Like rusted links of chain Dropped to the earth Broken shackles – the guilt undone Forgiveness comes with a gift of silence
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Disbelief washes over him Sight erased by an unspeakable fate Swallowed up by blissful waves of gray The mind reacts to save itself — too late Glimpses from a realm beyond Through the cracks of the world A shimmer in the dark The night grows colder The gods return As is foretold To reign insane So shall They rise The world of man When blackest stars With force reclaimed Again align Broken minds heralding the day Twisted fingers trace the glyphs – dark rituals Fragments of the eldritch arts Sorceries lost to time return in dreams Unspeakable blasphemies All shall sing praise to the devourer Sprawling entity Awakening Nightmare manifest Disgorge the cosmic rift The faithful shall be blessed With slaughter swift To satiate the fiends from slumber
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In the stillness Hot breath of decay Dead sky crushing down sweltering A stinking weight Oppression Conversations of carrion Black waters yawn Awaiting your misstep Surrounded by watchful eyes Driven to the edge Beyond the blighted shore A victim of obsession Drawn into the mire Hunting for a ghost Among the flies Hear them sing Lips of phantoms Whispering From the depths Fists of bone Erupt to ensnare Fallen trees stare Hungry and vigilant In the half light Hope leads the eyes astray Every shadow concealing The pale limbs Dancing out of reach The beauty of the bog Claims another wanderer
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Ash and alabaster Buried century No headstones to describe The silence beneath Wastes bled white Unbroken miles shriek Grim winds standing guard For what fools would unleash Dread swords in slumber Forged from hate and aggression Armaments of cold disdain Woe awaits Devastation Deferred but unrelenting Though we stand at December’s end The winter rages on and on Our frozen fears are never far Until the ice has come to thaw All walls shall crack From frost and thaw The plans of man Castles of straw Patient pestilence aplenty Persisting under the ice Hidden from sight and mind, they linger 'til the worms shall have their turn The legacy of bloodless feuds From forestalled enmity to total ruin Permafrost to slush The glaciers weep Dead oceans stretch their fingers All borders erased When warmer winters rage And shielding snows subside The flotsam on the rising seas Shall bear an ill tide

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released March 3, 2017

Music by Joshua Wojtaszek and Bryn Schurman. Lyrics by Bryn Schurman.
Recorded and produced at Watery Grave 2016-2017.
Cover art and logo redesign: Richard Perdomo at Demiurgic Designs.

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Sumptus Ignis Key Largo, Florida

Progressive metal five-piece Sumptus Ignis (Sum-tus Ig-nis) began in 2016 as a side project for Identity Collapse members Bryn Schurman and Joshua Wojtaszek, Silura's Richard Perdomo and Joshua Thomas Williams joined in 2021 on bass and lead guitars respectively, along with John Scott adding clean vocals and slide guitar to the mix.
Look for their next release The Kindred Dark mid-2022.
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