Colludium from Apocatastase by CORPUS DIAVOLIS

Colludium

Tu es diaboli janua
(You are the portal to the Devil)

Tu es arboris illius resignatrix
(You are the destroyer of The Tree)

Tu es divinae legis prima desertrix
(You are the first sinner against divine law)

Persuasisti, quem diabolus aggredi non voluit
(Persuading those that do not wish to turn to the Devil)

Ubique Daemon
(The Demon everywhere)

Come forth bestial spirit
From the black core of my heart
I invoke thee

The earth gapes cold before me
I am thousands of feet tall
A colossal monument
My throat sings
Deliriously symphonic
A colossal monument
Trembling pandemonium

Mountains crush the horizon
Triumphant, faraway in the darkness
Only one star shines,
Upon the Satanist’s dagger

For the blood of endlessness
Midnight crucified
For the flesh of a stranger
A comrade sacrificed



Colludium,
Delectationis innocentium
(a secret pact, an innocent amusement)

I took the drugs I was offered
the horizon empties itself
She enters my blood like a lover
Time ceased to exist
my hand slides in the night sky
the black sea… to poisonous heights
And when you peer into the hollow
You can just about see the Beast

Ave Ravenna
(Byron wrote that the countess of Ravenna mailed him some of her pubic hair)

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