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Perhaps You Deliver this Judgment with Greater Fear than I Receive It

by Crusades

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Exordium 01:34
AS FAR AS HEAVEN, HELL THEIR FACES TURN: FROM WHOM, IN LENGTH, DEPTH, THEIR PATHS EXTEND WITH SENSE, WITH MIND, WITH REASON, I DISCERN, THAT ACT, RULE, RECKONING, MAY NOT COMPREHEND BEYOND ALL LOWER, MIDDLE, AND SUPERNE, THAT POWER, BULK AND MULTITUDE WHICH TEND BLIND ERROR, RUTHLESS TIME, UNGENTLE DOOM, DEAF ENVY, VILLAIN MADNESS, ZEAL UNWISE HARD HEART, UNHOLY CRAFT, BOLD DEEDS BEGUN, SHALL NEVER FILL FOR ONE THE AIR WITH GLOOM OR EVER THRUST A VEIL BEFORE THESE EYES, OR EVER HIDE FROM ME MY GLORIOUS SUN
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ARMSPAN WIDE AND TENDRILS TRIED, YET NONE COULD STRANGLE TYRANNY OF WILL HERESY INHERENTLY, FORESHADOWED FINAL HOUR UPON THE HILL HEART AND MIND AHEAD OF TIME, A ONCE UNQUESTIONED VOID BEGAN TO FILL PERHAPS THE FIRST TO CAST THE CURSE, A TORCH IN THE DARKNESS STILL THE SHADOW OF IDEAS HAD NO DOUBT BEGUN TO LOOM WHEN THE COLD AND BLACKENED EMBERS SET ABOUT TO WARM THE TOMB THROUGH THE DARKNESS INTO LIGHT WE SOAR (THE SHADOW OF IDEAS)
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FLIGHT FROM CONDEMNATION - BROKEN FREE FROM GAG AND BIND UNRESTRAINED AND INSPIRED MIND A DESPERATE SEPARATION - SHACKLES SHATTERED, KIN AND KIND SIGHT AND SOLACE FOR THE BLIND THE MALLET AND THE WEDGE BETWEEN DISCERNMENT AND BELIEF
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THE SHADOWS OF IDEAS NOW ARE LOOMING, THE WHEELS OF MEMORY BEGIN TO SPIN THE PROPHECY OF NUMBERED DAYS CONSUMING, THE FATE FORGED IN THE FLAMES IGNITES WITHIN THE WITCHERY OF INTELLECT INHUMAN, THE SINFUL LUST TO IMPUGN AND INQUIRE THE PROPHECY OF NUMBERED DAYS CONSUMING, THE FIRST STEPS IN THE LONELY MARCH TO FIRE FEAR NOT THE SHAFT; FEAR NOT THE HUNTER'S AIM: INTO THE SPLENDORS OF THE LIVING FLAME THE FIRST STEPS IN THE MARCH TO FIRE
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AND THROUGH THE DARKNESS INTO LIGHT WE SOAR, EVOLVING DAY FROM NIGHT FOR EVERMORE SAY THEN, THESE HEROIC TEARS - THESE GRIEFS ENDURED THROUGH MONTHS AND YEARS OBSCURED AWHILE, TO BE REVEALED ONCE MORE BLINDNESS, DEARER FAR THAN OTHERS' SIGHT, SWEETER GRIEF THAN EARTH'S MOST SWEET DELIGHT FOR YOU HAVE LED THE ERRING SOUL - BY GRADUAL STEPS TO THIS FAIR GOAL AND THROUGH THE DARKNESS SOAR INTO THE LIGHT BUT IN HIS HANDS THE WHEEL OF FATE - TURNS, NOW DEPRESSED AND NOW ELATE
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THE MOTH BEHOLDS NOT DEATH AS FORTH HE FLIES INTO THE SPLENDOR OF THE LIVING FLAME THE THIRSTY HEART TO CRYSTAL WATER TRIES, HEEDS NOT THE SHAFT, NOR FEARS THE HUNTER'S AIM THE TIMID BIRD, RETURNING FROM ABOVE TO JOIN HIS MATE, DEEMS NOT THE NET IS NIGH UNTO THE LIGHT, THE FOUNT, AND TO MY LOVE, SEEING THE FLAME, THE SHAFT, THE CHAINS, I FLY SO HIGH A TORCH, LOVE-LIGHTED IN THE SKIES, CONSUMES MY SOUL; AND WITH THIS BOW DIVINE OF PIERCING SWEETNESS, WHAT TERRESTRIAL VIES? THIS NET OF DEAR DELIGHT IMPRISONS MINE AND I TO MY LAST DAY HAVE THIS DESIRE: BE MINE THINE ARROWS, LOVE, AND MINE THY FIRE
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PRAY TELL - IF ANYTHING - WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM CENTURIES LIT BY THE FLAME OF COUNTLESS GODLESS MARTYRS BOUND AND BURNED, OF SACRIFICE IN FABLE'S NAME? AS FAR AS HEAVEN, HELL THEY TURN - WITH SENSE, WITH MIND, WITH REASON, I DISCERN AS FAR AS HEAVEN, HELL THEY TURN THE SILHOUETTES ARE DANCING IN THE FIRELIGHT, THE ASHES STILL FLOAT EARTHBOUND DOWN FROM THE SKY THEIR ECHOES BEG WE LIVE OUR LIVES (AND JOIN THE FEW WHO TRULY DARE TO FLY)
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TREMBLING, TREPIDATION - THE SENTENCE UTTERED INTO STONE NOW CAST CONGREGATION - GATHERED CLOSE TO WITNESS JUDGMENT PASSED UNREPENTANT - THE WANDERER ACCEPTS HIS END, YET SCORNFUL UNRELENTING - A PASSION THAT NO SOUL COULD BREAK NOR BEND EIGHT YEARS IN THE DARKNESS - TORTURED, CONFINED AND ALONE LED TO THE PALACE - THE WORD HANDED DOWN FROM THE THRONE ABOVE THE ROARING MASSES - THE FLAMES NOW CAST TOWARD THE SKY HIS FINAL PERFORMANCE: TO SHUN THE CROSS HE’D FOREVER DENY THE SHADOW OF IDEAS STANDS TO LOOM - THE COLD AND BLACK EMBERS WARM THE TOMB
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INVITE INTO SUBJECTION UNSUSPECTING, FINESSE UNDER THE AUSPICE OF A FRIEND ARTIFICE AS AFFABLE AFFECTING, PREFACE TO INEVITABLE END KEPT IN CLUTCHES OF THE CONGREGATION, SWEPT ADRIFT WITHIN THE HOLY SEE UNWELCOME REVERSION TO MOTHER NATION, LIBERTY NOW MERELY MEMORY THE MALLET AND THE WEDGE BETWEEN FACT AND BELIEF - DRIVEN BEHIND, BETWEEN, AND BENEATH
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Exitus 03:21
SINCE I HAVE SPREAD MY WINGS TO PURPOSE HIGH, SPURNING THE EARTH AND SOARING TO THE SKY THE MORE BENEATH MY FEET THE CLOUDS I SEE, THE MORE I GIVE THE WINDS MY PINIONS FREE ACROSS THE AIR, I HEAR MY HEART'S VOICE CRY, WHERE DOST THOU BEAR ME RECKLESS ONE? DESCEND! WITH MIGHT THE CLOUDS, AND BE CONTENT TO DIE, IF HE, SUCH GLORIOUS DEATH FOR US, INTEND

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A meditation on the life of philosopher, heretic and antichristian martyr Giordano Bruno as an archetype for the modern atheist, freethinker, artist, poet and lover.

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released November 5, 2013

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Crusades is:

Jordan Bell - Drums/Vocals
Skottie Lobotomy - Bass/Vocals/Keys
Emmanuel Sayer - Guitar/Vocals
Dave Williams - Guitar/Vocals

"Exordium" narration by Ozzie Bell
Additional Vocals c/o Alex Thurston & Erin Ewing


Recorded in Spring 2013 by Mike Bond at Pebble Studios
Mixed and Mastered at The Bond Cave
Layout by Dave Williams at Rock Among Us


No Idea Records #333

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