BAND NAME: Apokatastasis
GENRE: Blackened Death Metal / Unblack Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Phoenix, Arizona
Lineup:
Jack "Malus" - Everything
Links:
Discography:
Fated To Reprobation (demo/EP, June 12, 2022, Independent) (Digital)
Track 4 is actually a parody cover of "Happiness Is Just Around The World" by Am Project.
1. Unholy Matrimony (Impure Consummation) 4:57
Bound to one in flesh
A wretched evil mess
When you have a taste
A premature death
The temptress subdued him
Her looks bountifully deceitful
Succumbed right to his whims
She unlocked his heart of evil
The day they consummated
He fell fast asleep
But as he lay upon his side
His neck she sunk her teeth
Drained him of his vital fluids
Not only his seed
Blood will birth the demon child
Her sick and twisted needs
His lifeless corpse consumed
Couldn't live to regret
The decision he had made
The fate that he had met
May God have mercy on us all
Our ignorant souls gone astray
Transgressions, the divine is appalled
The potter does what he must with his clay
Now the succubus is bout to birth
Unholy matrimony will shake the earth
Impure consummation
Malformation of the womb
Abusement of the gift
Descendant of doom
The curse will never lift
The child, now begotten
Starts to wreck havoc
Angels of the heavens
Attempt to quell the malice
As the angels battle sin
A lesson's now learned
Before you start to stick it in
Make sure she's righteously adorned
2. Beyond Hatred 4:24
Suffering from a betrayal
Now beyond hatred
As spite flows through my veins
My every action leads to destruction
Destroying your throne of lies
With you a part of me dies
I know back then I was desperate
My thirst for vengeance is endless
You expressed your affections
I thought I was an exception
It turns you lack direction
Now my chest is dissected
You are emotionally reckless
Kicked me when I was defenseless
Slander with contradiction
Fuck your unspoken friction
Piercing the needle right through your skin
You cannot escape now that the truth will be within
Exposed to the truth you tried so desperately to hide
The box you put me in, the way you trivialized
I told you all the pain that I had deep inside
But now it all breaks out, my fist will collide
I break your face, you squirm in regret
Now is too late, I gave you chances to repent
My impulse grows above my conscience
By the time it's ended I have left you unconscious
No more lies
I've dealt it with hatred
May God forgive me
For my transgressions
3. Cycles Of Struggle 2:58
The constant agony
Internal calamity
Stricken by tragedy
Can't take it no more
Wanting to screech
But I'm suppressed
Must climb to the peak
But I'm feeling depressed
Left with my doubts
I know that there is a way out
But this feeling has remained persistent
No matter how hard I resist it
Breaking the cycle with utter ferocity
My anger breaks my sadness, my hatred provides me satisfaction
I break the cage with bloody fists, it hurts but I have handled it
As emotions ravage me, I shall break the chain that shackles me
4. Outro (Am Project cover)
Son Of Cursed Harlot (single, July 6, 2022, Independent) (Digital)
1. Son Of Cursed Harlot 5:26
Sodomite bastard, son of a whore
Born to falter, parents divorced
Self induced suffering, coercion of sorts
Your pity party I indulge no more
I gave you truth, I showed you love
But you profaned it, how did I succumb?
Sodomite bastard, son of a whore
Don't let your self hatred cause others to sore
Ignorant fool, countless complaints
No wonder your mother was so ashamed
Reveling in all your lies
So afraid to be despised
I'll break this ground, your tricks will foil
Sympathy father can't till his soil
You had your chance to humble up
Then you showed your colors true
Slandering to all yoru friends
In the end they'll leave you too
I accept my wrongs, I know that I am man
I wanted to forgive you, but you already threw that away
I admit I was destroyed, felt right at the bottom
Had me down for long, but I got back up and learned
You're my enemy, nothing you can change
You are terrible, your life to me's profane
No more will I suffer in silence, unheard
Instead I will exceed, rise above the herd
I'm malicious, the maturity it was a farce
Act upon this hatred, is it wrong to follow my heart?
With this release I'm content
You'll drown in sorrow, I savor success
Remnants (EP, August 4, 2022, Independent) (Digital)
1. Remnants 5:54
I remember
Before it all fell apart
The prospects
Of a bright future
You had tore it down
To its mere base
Leaving me with memories
And remnants which torture
Now every time I build
I'm reminded of this despair
Thinking I'd forget
No, I'd have to tear this down as well
Always been beaten down
It appears I must stay that way
Everytime I get back up
A trace of bitterness follows
I hate to hate
I'd love to love
But vengeance
Always permeates
Can I create without fear
Without anger, without dread
I don't know
I'm afraid to let it go
Never given me a chance
You stripped me of my resources
Maybe it is time to start from scratch
Maybe it is time to forgive and forget
I have what it takes
But it shouldn't be motivated
By such vile emotions
I just want to forgive
And for the world to see
2. Remnants II 5:24
My revenge enacted
I've secured my place
But at what cost?
It brought a certain closure
But it was left unsatisfied
A loathsome person
Which I still express my sympathies
I'm now cemented
Within their memory
But against my own values
It is not my ordeal any longer
Some things just heal with time
I wish it was not that way
But I did learn
I still long and reminisce
But I know this is not the end
Still within my judgement
You have done me wrong
But this does not mean
I will have to spite forever
It still twists me
But that's alright
It breaks my mind
But I will be fine
We will see
When the final judgement comes
And our wills perfected
There is no worry in that
I believe in you
As I believe in me
I have this hope for everybody
My prayers comfort me
Divine Restituance (demo, August 23, 2022, Independent) (Digital)
1. Hell 6:16
Devoured by the flames
There's no sign of escape
You were destined to this place
Since the beginning of time
He takes no pleasure with your punishment
But His neverending wrath must be quenched
Poor wretched souls writhing
Weeping tears of posthumous guilt
The weeping of souls
The gnashing of teeth
In the lake of fire
The wicked now beseech
Forever sentenced to scald
Your trespasses made aware
You denied the One
Your life He cannot spare
While the damned cry
The virtuous pray
Their bliss shall remain
Until the end of time
The wicked subdued
All part of His plan
A punishment we all deserve
That He saved us from
2. Martyral Sufferance 5:32
Fettered into submission
The Romans strip your pride
They start to beat you senseless
They'll gouge out your eyes
Flayed with metal shreds
Tearing flesh and bone
Agony engulfs you
They bludgeon you with stones
You cry out for your God
He is seemingly not there
The faith of the martyr
Wanes, barely prepared
Now with his broken body
Hung, flayed and beaten
They erect a cross
For his religious treason
His body raised up high
Picked at by birds
They lodge a spear into his abdomen
This man now must die
After his painful demise
He meets his Father in heaven
His pain was rewarded
Steadfast in his faith
3. Weakness In Wrath 4:24
Hate permeates my life
Everyday is met with scorn
My brothers turn to enemies, I cannot make a friend
They all betray me in the end
My resentment's what I live for
My hate becomes my fuel
I live to destroy
All my enemies
It becomes so intense
Draining my conscience
Even if I sustain
It hurts too much
I started to break down
It was all too much
I hated everyone else
But I really hated myself
I cry out for mercy
I cry out for forgiveness
Blood
Tears
Sweat
Fire
Congealed
In my
Veins
Save me
4. Samaritan Sacrifice 4:28
A good man once roamed the earth
Blessed with such kindness
But his people still turned
A good man once roamed the earth
Giving to the poor
But his people hadn't learned
The good were not treated right
Their self sacrifice just
Made them easier targets
Man so selfish
His pride usurps all
The deadliest sin
The one that inspired the fall
Man that was mistreated
Given favor by God
His suffering on here
Granted him an eternity of bliss
5. Lust 5:30
I sin and sin again
No sign of ever stopping
My body says yes
My mind says no
Demonic control
Temptatious urges
I succumb
Yet again
I turn my face from the heavens
I cannot continue like this
How could He save someone like me
Who cannot keep His commands
Cannot contain
My insatiable lust
My seed held too long
Cannot do what I must
Thoughts implode my head
My pelvis starts to thrust
And now as I bust
I am filled with disgust...
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The Consecratory Secretion (album, January 20, 2023, Independent) (CD, Digital)
1. Intro 1:18
(Instrumental)
2. Divine Hypocrisy 4:23
You're held to certain values
Ones that inspire hate
And then when you are challenged
It's something you can't take
Your soul's essence of stone
Divisions, all that breeds
Presumptions in your mind
On inane rhetoric, feed
Accusing others
Of the same things that you do
The human condition
We're all accustomed to
Hypocritical violent flesh vessels
We think we're civil
Stripped of the facade
We revel in our evil
Hate boiling in resentful minds
Posturer of virtue, murderer deep inside
When subject to the same treatment you complain
Conditionally virtuous fool, you thrive on hypocrisy
Your chest burns like fires of hell
3. Subject Of Retribution 5:40
Shackled up with rusty chains
Piercing skin, exposing veins
Hellish torment of the body
For rejection of the godly
Engaged with
Debauchery
Sadistic desire
Filthy excess I indulge
Gorging on the delicious blood
Lust engulfs me, all I feel
I lust, I thrust, I devour
Gorging on delicious blood
It has never tasted this sweet...
My vice has lead me to a fall
The law has caught me, instituted by God
The hell I made, now I will pay
But reprobation is perpetual
Shacked up with rusty chains
Piercing skin, exposing veins
Hellish torment of the body
For rejection of the godly
4. There Was No King In Israel 4:21
God had handed them over to their enemies
Worshipping the idols, demons in disguise
They saw the Truth but still they denied
Repugnant works bringing retribution
Sacrificing innocence
Raping of the women
Dismembering their corpses
Penetrating orifices
Blood upon the altar
Tears of newborn children
Limb from limb they have torn
Feasting on the virgins
Collective masturbation of the soon to be damned
Babylon comes
Impious barbarians
Total devastation
Rebirth of Sodom
Vessels of pleasure
Impaled and Sodomized
Israel calls out only after their punishment
The righteous prophets of God
Have warned them of their iniquity
God had given them what they wanted
Trampled by rebellion
5. Black Perversion 3:37
Inversion of the Crucifix
No reverence for the almighty
Sigils of blood fill their church
Hallucinogenic esoteric rituals
Haters of life, they live to escape
Embracing the evil that they make
Inherently repulsed as our conscience says
Defiance reigns clear in their heads
Black Perversion
Black Perversion spreads
Cultish inversion of good
Using moral ambiguity
To justify degradation
Blackened Mass of Hate
Where they congregate
They will consummate
With orgiastic sodomy
6. Deblooded 6:16
I look upon my flesh
My desire to exit
Always considered man
I do not feel it inside
My emotions don't register
I don't feel their pettiness
I see them with disgust
I must separate myself
From my prison of flesh
Examine sharpened blades
Engaging in self-mutilation
Cut open my abdomen
Pulling out the viscera
Warm red ooze
Cathartic blood expulsion
I ravage myself with zeal
My smile vomits profusely
I pulverize myself
No use for my blood
No allegiance to this world
I cut myself to death and leave my flesh behind
Temptations do not hold me any longer
I die in a warm pool of gore
7. Dejected Core Of Earth 6:50
Time may heal my body
My spirit's still enraged
Enthralling mental blaze
Mental tissue scarred
Psychologically barred
Time and time again
The betrayal of a friend
A tragic cycle...
I reach out and I'm spoked
Their spikes jabbed firmly in
To sever myself from it
The blood will all spill out
Now I'm cold and scarred
Away from the warmth
Misanthropic disposition
Yet I long for a connection
Grow forever inward, lonesomeness my state
The hope has now all died, what lies now is hate
Apathetic eyes, reflect a withered soul
Living with this hole just another thing I've known
Now cold and hard just like the world
My weakness gets me punished
A truth that sent me my way
One I barely stomach
8. Angel Of Gore Part 1 4:47
Divine retribution
Against the bodily
A body of Seraphim
Surrounding the city
A city of sin
Purportedly holy
Idols crash and fall
The Angel of Gore
Purifies victims
Knife of the light
Dissecting flesh
Clots of impiety
Thousands of cuts
Black blood erupts
Slits upon the torso forming many crosses
The crucified blood is not spilt for them
Their own punishment now commences
The Angel of Gore guts the impure
Angel of Gore guts the impure
The blood of the flesh
The taint of the spirit
Debridement solution
Cut off my human form
Blood flowing
Throughout the town
Sky painted red
Burning like fire
The excruciation
Is done out of love
The sin at our core, our pain is to restore
Catharsis of a bodily flush
Pulsing growing fast, minds begin to fade
Ecstasy of spirit usurping the pain
9. Angel Of Gore Part 2 3:55
10. God, Save Us 4:14
Coercion of the masses
Broadcast mind games
Conditioned to a mold
That gives them your life
Digital vampirism
Your life drains
Raping of the soul
For material gain
Sitting on a couch
For hours and hours
Sedentary life
Making you a coward
Complacent we have grown
Hide away the issues
No purpose to your life
Besides your lotion and your tissues
Neutered populus, loss of agency
Depressed generation, illness of the mind
Societal symptoms, lowered to the dregs
They slowly radicalize, their revolution comes
Order is lost as the bubble breaks
Towns are now in chaos, people divide into race
Reduced to feral instincts that we had all along
Only Christ can stop this cycle, God save us all
The Withering Of The Disconsolate (album, September 11, 2024, Independent) (Digital)
1. A Spirit Of Warmth 6:26
Sentiments covered in a warm veil
Distant feelings maintained
Enveloping themselves in darkness
Frozen as the peak of night
A longing known forever
It's closer than any man
The corporeal state
Destined to degrade
Then life will fade
The flesh has lost its power
A cold reality slips
A warm Spirit triumphs
Weight of the world lifted from our shoulders
Through the power of One Man
Safe from the sorrow captured in our veins
Blissful relief from the perpetual price of pain
2. Cosmic Death 3:58
Blessed redemption saved my soul
From the pits of death He crawled
Took the torment I deserved
Emaciated body scourged
Drink His blood, eat His flesh
Through His death we gained His life
Pride will fall save for the best
Despite that he had sacrificed
The hour of darkness has come
The iniquity rests on His head
Suffer the sins of billions
Raised from the fate of cosmic death
3. One With God 5:24
Float into the night sky
What was once your life is now a glimmering speck
Enriching transmutation upgrading consciousness
The realms of the unknown lie behind physical fabric
Truth manifests in the abstract
What once was gained through deduction now laid bare
The glory haunts their souls
The taunted perverse meekly flee the kaleidoscopic spectacle
Flames of justice vex the damned
Spirit disperses at its mere presence
Ethereally atomized by unfettered joy
The flames appear in an embrace
To those wearied
The frightening holy power
Accepting the futile as one
4. Piercing Light 5:00
Glare pierces me blind
Stumbling within a cascading white
Burn my eyes
Fall into a blank abyss
Assaulting all my senses
Shouting, kicking, twisting
Unseen, except by his omniscience
Left with nothing but my thoughts
I pray for my release
I had not known my answer was right there
I accept the light and now I see
5. Lake Of Life 5:52
The river of mercy flows without end
Wash me on your shore
My frail body floats upon the stream
I let go and you take hold of me
Starved of salvation
Stranded from the light
Wash me on your shore
I need your lake of life
Wash me on your shore
I need your lake of life
6. Prayer Room 2:38
Locked within my prayer room
Beads within my hand
Wishing for the day to come
7 dim candles
7th in the week
All my prayers go to them, blessed are the weak
Locked within my prayer room
Beads within my hand
Pages of the holy book
Lay upon the stand
7. Night Of Redemption 5:33
Night of persecution, feet marching at the door
Knocks of impending doom, punishment awaits
Their cruel faith of One God alone
How can they believe such blasphemy
How can they worship one so pitiful
Rotting on the stick until death
Didn't last a day, they put him in the grave
But that tomb had opened up in next coming days
Followers dissent
Sword at the neck
They must deny
Or they will die
But truth returns
In full glory
Regenerated body
Incubates their Spirits
Night of redemption, they hide away
Knock of life, their salvation awaits
8. He Arose 5:47
(Instrumental)
9. Strike The Heart Of Iniquity 4:26
The stone stronghold swept up by the scalding wind
Hardest of hearts melt and are absolved of sin
A fool is harder to teach than the wise man
Mind and soul sealed shut, a force must besiege
Ghastly figures storm the gates
Guards in black see the light of fate
They collapse at the sight of unmatched power
Prostrate themselves within their steel coats
A heart of iniquity cured by love
A force synonymous with creation
The harbingers of destruction disintegrated
10. Withering Of Winter / Seeds Of Spring 10:17
Neglected by his own
Forgotten bastard son
In a darkened room enclosed
No place to escape
Memories frozen in the apathetic flow of time
A fateful meeting could restore his love
Or plunge him back into despair
The lights of creation hindered by a deadly consummation
Disease suppurates, leaving her encumbered
The joy of life becomes a threat of death
A dangerous birth which ought to cease
Will they take its life?
The time has come, the pendulum swings
Life and death sway their terminal dance
At the time of birth, her eyes slip shut
The life to the child is now lost from her soul
Snowing on the tattered ground
Withered leaves fall around
My love has died and so has my will
Could not stand to see the child
The one that took her life
The boy runs far away
Neglecting as he was neglected
With all love comes sorrow
What today nurtures dies tomorrow
Years have past, but the regret still remaisn
The boy reunites with his child
An aloof disposition infiltrated by the light of love
But as they grow, the sickness does as well
Another bond broken by the cruel certainty of death
Debilitating fever
She becomes bedridden
Life's curtain call
Does not spare the innocent
She takes her last steps
The boy walks beside
Falls into the snow
Leaves bury her memory
The boy's last bond taken
He falls into the snow
Succumbing to its death
Love does not exist
The lights surrounding him
Uncover the past
Painful memories
Of things that do not last
The miraculous light's power
Grants his wish for his deeds
Throughout his hardships
His faith in love has been restored
Light turns the tide of time
The One restores all that have died
The faith he had kept inside
Manifests in new life
He has granted resurrection
To those with the faith
God is love, and Love is shown
To all that bear their cross
