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EPOCH LYRICS
"At The Mountains Of Madness" (2006 Demo)
1. Part 1:The Mountains of Madness Pt.1
2. The Eternal Champion
3. Out of the Silent Planet
4. The Dunwhich Horror
5. Berashith
6. Interlude
7. Part 2: The Revenge of Shub Niggerath
8. The Tower of Babalon
9. Saturn 3
10. Why Can't Somebody Love Me?
11. Outro
12. TMOM Pt.2: The Frozen Catacombs of Insanity
1. Part 1:The Mountains of Madness Pt.1
THE MOUNAINS OF MADNESS Pt.1
Waiting for countless aeons. / Buried beneath the Abominable Plateau of Leng. / Those ancient of days. / Transcendental travelers. / They came to the earth, predating mankinds ways. / Nephelem / Lemurians / Ancient Ones / Elder Gods. / Chiseled avenues. / To the black inner world. / Whose existence, we had not known before. / But we were, now so eager to traverse. / Into the ruined city of the pyramids. / As we approach. / These frozen catacombs. / Insanity knaws at our minds. Nephelem / Lemurians / Elder Gods/ Enochians. / Waiting till the time is right. / Transcendental union with the Overlords. / Of man’s childhood’s end / Contact with the invisible masters. / Nephelem / Lemurians / Ancient Gods / Enochians. / As we approach. / The life beyond these frozen walls, ecstasy explodes in our minds / As we approach the face of the invisible / Ecstasy / Union.
COMMENT-Loosely based on the story by HP Lovecraft, whose works are not so fictional as supposed. According to ancient Chinese texts, in what now is Tibet, around 9000bce short slender men with large heads and spindly bodies “came from the clouds.” They were at first shunned, then massacred by “men riding swift horses.” Many escaped though with their leader “Lam”. Aleister Crowey was able to make contact with Lam in the 1900’s. He drew a picture of him circa 1915ev. In the 1940’s following the death of Crowley, and the first atomic explosions sightings of UFO’s increased dramatically, and their presence became known to mankind at large. Inhabitants, when encountered were described, and have entered common mythology, as the “Grey” aliens, whose appearance are similar as that of Lam as drawn by Crowley. The painting is now in the care of Mr.Kenneth Grant of London, England. Beings similar to Lam can be contacted through the dangerous technology of Enochian Magick. We humans can be simply described as being part animal, and part alien. We evolved, as did most life on the planet, as part of an experiment, if one could call it that, by beings outside of the earth’s sphere. Note the story in the Torah: (The ancient Hebrew text that forms the first 5 books of the Christian Bible) Book of Genesis, concerning the angels interbreeding with the “daughters of man”.
2. The Eternal Champion
THE ETERNAL CHAMPION:
Black seas to ancient lands. / We have come to cleanse the earth./ One race shall rise, it shall be fucking mine. / We shall raise the halls of the Eldren, we shall tear their fucking souls asunder. / Erase transplace the unholy. / The citadels shall run with their blood / I am Champion Eternal, I am Champion Eternal. / I am fucking cursed / For I have begun to see. / Conquest. / Humanity’s scythe. / The crows blacken the sky. / Sweeping. / Cleansing. / I feel such lust to war. War. / Knowledge is mine. / I have learned to fly through space. / Seeing the truth. / Man’s but a beast. / I am Champion Eternal, I am Champion Eternal, I am Champion Eternal, I am Champion Eternal. / I am fucking cursed. / For I have begun to see….
COMMENT: Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Moorcock, the Champion awakes in a world where he is hero, leading the Homo-sapiens armies to utterly destroy the Eldren, a rival species of human. Genocide as perceived racial self defence, until he rises above the herd instinct realising their actions to be base, bestial, animal like, and devoid of the higher intellect that should be present, and is found to be present in the more evolved enemy race of the Eldren. Analogies can easily be drawn to this world of ours. Every human, is trapped on their own karmic Wheel of Fortune. On a fixed axis, turning, but going nowhere until they learn to evolve and awaken the higher intellectual and spiritual facilities, ever-present but untapped. The forces of evolution will mercilessly dispatch forever any species whom fail, however the human is bound by the same forces to reincarnate again, and again, facing the same trials, until he learns to defeat them, enabling him to move on to the next level.
3. Out of the Silent Planet
OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET:
Out of the silent planet. / I am hurled through space. / Toward the fourth planet, humanity’s disgrace. Deep space, the void, deep space, devoid / Is this the true nature of the universe, of emptiness, of nothingness? / Planetary oasis entrapping all consciousness. / (Such things should not be seen, such things such not be known, I’m a drug fiend in the twilight zone.) / Upon this fourth planet / Malacandrian canals. Vast chasms of purple forests before my eyes. / Into the interior. / With fear, with trepidation. / I meet the ones whose bodies are of the void, and whose minds are but radiation. / They show me wonders of a universe of colour, of expansion. / I step back in awe at the things that I saw, and such things I cannot mention. / Back to my planet. / Where the Gods are silent. / Back to my fucking doom. / To live out my days in pain.
COMMENT: This song is wholly based on the CS.Lewis novel of the same name. The hero Ranson is transported to Mars (Malicandria) from the earth, there to save the inhabitants; three intelligent species, from the corruption of two of his fellow earthmen; villans also newly arrived. Although Lewis was a Christian, the cosmology of his sci-fi trilogy with it’s planetary “Archons” and “Eiloden” (spirits) corresponds neatly with Pagan notions of the Gods, and Gnostic ideas of Daemons. On earth the Eiloden are bound in silence by our planets Archon, the Lord of this world, equated in Lewis’ analogy as Satan/ Lucifer/ The Devil. Thus it is called “The Silent Planet”. This got me meditating on the fact that we humans are alone, the only intelligent species known. We have no others with whom to compare reality, we are trapped alone on a spaceship of rock. Contact with another sentient species would upset the applecart of most of our established religions and sciences despite the fact that belief in non-human intelligences is mandatory for most of the former. (This was written before I became aware of the multitudes of spiritual intelligences that inhabit the world and beyond-We are, not alone after all- However this fact is not known to the race at large, perhaps increasingly so with the proliferation of materialistic philosophies and outlooks?)
4. The Dunwhich Horror
THE DUNWHICH HORROR:
Eldritch and abominable. / The Dunwhich Horror. / Who dares to fuck with the Black Book? / Go on, take a look! / Chant the spell, make the astral connection. / To the Horror….
Nightside forces consume the mind. / Transcendental entities, can be so unkind. / Conjuring back into existence. / That which evolution merely buried. / IA KANPA. / IA GE HE RAZULUKI / Ego-sum-Choronzon.
COMMENT: Vaguely inspired by H.P.Lovecraft’s short story about a hideous monstrosity brought to earth from another dimension using the forbidden Black-Magick of the Necronomicon; the book of dead names. The book describes extremely ancient life-forms who inhabited the earth millions of years before mankind arose, and were banished by the Elder Gods, as a failed experiment. Legend states that these beings seek readmission to the earth and the destruction of mankind.
The Necronomicon was thought to be a mere literary invention of Lovecraft; an atheistic materialist who didn’t believe in Magick and such things. Much of the inspiration behind his Cthulu Mythos was directly influenced by strange re-occurring dreams which plagued him. He became, unbeknownst to himself, a channeller of information from the 11th Dimension where forces assmass seeking breakthrough into our world. The Necronomicon itself was found to really exist in differing forms surfacing many years after his death. One summer evening I led a ritual utilising Magick directly from a version of the Necronomicon. A vital mistake was made in the formula, and I as the person responsible ended up paying for it; there following a month of extreme bad luck and nasty chaos. The curse was lifted with the advent of another full moon 28 days later. There’s a moral there somewhere no doubt. Copies of the Necronomicon can be readily obtained by those who dare, it’s even published online. Scholars originate the actual book to the Sumerlands; ancient Sumeria, which later became Mesopotamia, and then Iraq, written around 4000b.c.e. Others to New York in the 1970’s! Whichever, the Magick of the Necronomicon is real!
5. Berashith
BERASHITH:
Procul, O procul este profani. / Balasti, Ompheda. / In the name of the mighty and terrible one, I have proclaimed that I have banished the shells unto their habitations! / I invoke thee, Bornless One. / A stain, a stain, in the silence. / A stain, a stain, in the silence. / Belial. / Astaroth. / Forneus. / Valfour. / Beleth / Zephor / Ashmodee.
(Thee I invoke the Bornless One, Thee that didst create the Earth & the Heavens, Thee that didst create the Night & the Day, Thee that didst create the darkness and the light, Thou art Asar-Un-Nefer Whom no man hath seen at any time, Thou art Ia-Besz, Thou art Ia-Apophrasz, Thou hast distinguisd between the just and the unjust, etc..)
A voice, a voice, in the silence./ The voice of Tahuti. / A word against the sons of night. /
I proclaim that I have banished the shells unto their habitations!
COMMENT: The name means “in the beginning” in Hebrew, the first word in the Torah. The Ritual of the Enterer; an exorcism banishing the malign influence of the shattered spheres of the Nightside, or inverted manifestation of the Cabalistic Tree of Life. Then follows parts of the ritual invocation of the “Bornless One”, the preliminary invocation of the “Goetia” - The Lesser Key of Solomon, a mediaeval mucky book, of so-called black magick concerned with the summoning and employment of demons, some of whom are named in this track, randomly plucked from the Grimoire because they fitted! One hopes they owe me a favour in return, however bandying such names about usually gives them licence to make a nuisance of themselves.
6. Interlude
7. Part 2: The Revenge of Shub Niggerath
THE REVENGE OF SHUB NIGGERATH:
Black Goat. / Exalted upon the Earth in Lust. / Sacrifice. / In The Horned God we put our trust. / Energy. / Fills me as I walk these fields at night. / IAO Pan. / Give me power. / Give me second sight. / Fornicating. / He is the seed upon the Black Earth. / The Revenge of Shub Niggerath. / The return of the fucking Black Goat. / Black Goat Lucifer. / Pan. / Black Goat. / Lucifer. / Pan. / Satan Thou eye Thou Lust. / Cry aloud, cry aloud / Whirl the wheel, whirl the wheel. / Full moon. / Exalted above the land at night. / Power calls. / Into the fields and trees I go outside. / He is there. / I can sense him feel his presence. / Can you feel the power? / Can you feel the madness? / Moonlit forest brings me gladness. / Can you feel the ecstasy? / Can you feel the rapture? / Can you know what it is like. / To become more than human? / The Revenge of Shub Niggerath. / The return of the fucking Black Goat. / The Revenge of Shub Niggerath. / The return of the fucking Black Goat./ Do you know the netherworld? / You thought it was just fantasy. / I have tasted other worlds. / In my frenzy of ecstasy. / Can you feel the ecstasy? / Can you feel the power? / Do you know what it is like to become more than human? / We have assumed animal forms. / In the astral we hunt. / Lycanthropes / Power from the Black Lord. /Atavistic resurgence.(bits from last few verses repeated)
COMMENT: Not too many winters ago I became plagued, as the result of an intense series of Occult operations by misty shapes when outdoors. The climax of this operation resulted in the appearance of a black whirling misty shape, around 20 foot tall at the top of a deserted hill in the dead of night, I became temperately crazed and literally bloodthirsty, I had encountered the archetype of Pan, Baphomet, Shiatan, The Goat of Mendes, Cuernos, Herne the Hunter, The Forest Lord, or as he was known to the locals; The Divil! I was granted the vision that he was the spiritual force behind all life on earth, the sperm of earthly creation fertilising the womb of the earth.(This event is also mentioned in the lyrics of Earth Magick Pt.2-It took place at a point on top of a hill where I discovered two ley-lines crossing.) I underwent the transformation known as Lycanthropy, (so called Were-wolfism) probably catalysed by the full moon. We share most of our DNA with most animals, in fact all life on earth has DNA in common, this DNA being Pan’s. This probably contributing to the Christian Devil being known as “The Lord of this World.” Sometimes it is possible to tap into the unused “junk” DNA and go back down the tree of evolution attaining animalistic powers. This type of Magical power is very primal, and thus difficult to utilise and control. Possession by Pan can result in insanity or worse. The Goat is an animal especially sacred to Pan. Shub-Niggerath; meaning Black Goat with a thousand young, his incarnation in the Necronomicon. The crazed worshippers in the cults of Pan in ancient Greece would fuck goats, and eat raw meat, amongst other unsavoury passtimes. They lived in wild parts of the land, dense forests, mountains etc.. and probably didn’t wash very often.
8. The Tower of Babalon
THE TOWER OF BABALON:
Down, by the shores of Ness. / The Prophet made a mess. / Goats blood on the carpet again! / The housekeeper must clean up the stain. / Erect a tower toward the sky. / Erect a tower to let the Gods know why. / Babalon,Babalon Bal Bin Abaft. / Babalon,Babalon Bal Bin Abaft. / Across the ocean in the basilisk abode. / The Prophet crucified a toad. Nailed him to a cross and stabbed him in the heart. / Aeon of Osiris thou must depart. / Erect a tower toward the sky. Erect a tower to let the Gods know why. / Babalon,Babalon Bal Bin Abaft. / Babalon,Babalon sweet woman of whoredom. / Back to the shores of Ness. / 93 years have passed. / Two Disciples of the Prophet stand on the shore. / With rocks from the river they erect a tower./ Thou dost this with thy will? / Shall we do this despite thy will! / Babalon / The eater of dung, the afflicted. / Babalon / The vigil in the Chapel of Abominations. / Now a white ash shall be prepared by Hermes the Invisible./ Babalon. / Slay thyself in the fervor of thine abandonment. / Babalon. / Let the baby be the prey of dogs and vultures. / Babalon. / Drown thyself in the cup of her fornications. / Babalon…
COMMENT-In the summer of 2001e.v. a cairn was erected on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland on the Western Shore, facing Boleskine House, were a famous magician; one who would eventually become a prophet of the Gods, attempted and failed the notorious Abramelon working in the early 1900’s. The phallic shaped cairn was dedicated to the Goddess Babalon, the Great Whore unto whom all must be surrendered at the point of death, or before one becomes a Master of the Temple. All you are, and were, has to be annihilated utterly. Holding onto any part of your ego construct results in entrapment in the spiritual void of the Abyss. Parts of the lyrics are taken from the Thelemic Holy Book “Liber Cheth- Vel Vallum Abiegni”(aka "Liber 156") The numeration of the word Babalon is 156. The book begins with the description: "This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast"
9. Saturn 3
10. Why Can't Somebody Love Me?
WHY CAN'T SOMEBODY LOVE ME?
Music&Lyrics Copyright belonging to The Edgar Broughton Band.
This is a cover of thier 1969 classic from thier debut album "Wasa-Wasa".Anyone who is into the discordant madness of Captain Beefheart would do well to check out this album,or the equally insane follow-up "Sing Brother Sing"
The Edgar Broughton Band have a dedicated cult following,one of the pioneering bands playing "psych-rock" the band steadily refused to comprimise themselves artistically in order to try and become more commercial.Their lyrics evoked drug freak-outs, demonic invocations, politics, Belial, human meat hanging on hooks,trips inside the mind of child killers and other nutters, as well as prophesising the arival of the Bush/Blair Neo-Conservative, double-speak forktounged spin with the "Superchip" album.
2005 saw the triumphant return of The Edgar Broughton Band with the original 3 piece of Edgar, brother Stve on drums,Art Grant on Bass, along with their original 2nd guitarist,and Edgar's son on keys.They always kept it in the family,their manager back in the day was none other than old Mother Broughton herself!
The Edgar Broughton Band provided the soundtrack to a prolonged Irish LSD freak-out session in the 1990's (Hello Neal!)where the boundries of reality were pushed back further than they ought to have been pushed back,leading to a series of strange events still unfolding as we speak today.
OUT DEMONS OUT!
OUT DEMONS OUT!
OUT DEMONS OUT!
thanks Edgar.....93/93.
11. Outro
12. TMOM Pt.2: The Frozen Catacombs of Insanity
THE FROZEN CATACOMBS OF INSANITY: (The Mountains of Madness Pt.2)
So this is it. / I asked, and the answer was given unto me. / I have discovered, the ways and means. / To contact angels, and demons. / They have guided, mankind since the beginning. / Utilisation of the method of science, for the aim of religion. / The key of all occult science, they are the origin, of all the Gods ever worshipped by man. / Transcentdental entities, space dwellers. / Some instruct. / Some do thy bidding. / Some lead thee astray. / Some seek to destroy. / Others are concerned with the evolution of mankind. / Transcend, Transcend....
This is the second concluding part of “The Mountains of Madness”. Based on the realisation that we are surrounded by spiritual life forms of every imaginable shade, from simple elementals and caeco deamons, to Gods and powerful angels. Our neighbouring planets in the Solar system are thus populated, myriads of lifeforms inhabit the hells of Neptune and the mansions of the moon. Some of these spirits take a great deal to do with human life. Gods and Angels helping and teaching unseen in the world of men, demons serving the will of those fit to command them, places of nature abounding with local fairies, babbling idiotic spirits causing chaos around those who are stupid enough to give them a foothold. Even many sceptical persons with minimal sixth sense development can be shown the manifestation of spirits in their densest form when they can be photographed. All matter is alive; a co-product of its astral counterpart, wave particle duality proves the intelligence of matter. The Universe is a lot bigger and stranger than you have been conditioned to believe. “Behold the splendour of it all and adore”. The key to the Revelation is to be found in the further exploration into the system of Enochian Magick by mankind. Here the angels are only too happy to reveal the blueprints of the creation of “The Great Architect” to those worthy. Anyone who has ever seen the "Hellraiser" film series will be suprised to know that it is, like the works of Lovecraft a lot closer to reality than you think! The puzzle box in Hellraiser has it's real-life counterparts in the complex Enochian diagrams given to John Dee and Edward Kelly by the angels in the 1500's. Names of Angels and Demons can be drawn from these squares if you have the correct keys and methods to decipher the puzzles, and if you do utilising the calls delivered by the same angels in the correct sequence you will probably conjour them up. The angels and the demons are one in the same, the latter are formed by a reversal of the formulas of the angelic names. Don't try this at home, according to Crowley and many others, even beginners will get results by utilising the Enochian calls! Wheras the likes of Goetic Demons are usually quite freindly chaps on the whole, Angels so-called have a well established reputation for being very bad tempered nasty pieces of work when summoned in a frivolous fashion, I learned the hard way. As did a well known rock musician in the 1970's who ended up dead after attempting to put Enochian Keys to music, as did rocket scientist Jack Parsons in the early 1950's blowing himself up after accidently dropping a bucket full of an unstable explosive compound. In a series of perhaps ill concieved Enochian workings Parsons and his sidekick, a certain con-artist by the name of L.Ron.Hubbard, managed to conjour up the Goddess Babalon. A short Book, known as "The Book of Babalon" was dictated to Parsons by the Goddess, this tract supposedly forming the fourth Chapter of "The Book of the Law";a phophetic Holy Book dictated to Crowley by the angel Aiwass in Egypt in 1904. The Goddess Babalon fortells her phrophet being "consumed by fire." Parson's got a crater on the Moon named in his honour, such was his impotance as a scientist in the development of space travel. Meanwhile the untrustworthy cad Hubbard decided to form his own money making religion; a crock of shit that was anti-christened "Scientology" using secrets he had plundered from the Magickal systems of the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Astrum Argentum, both of which he had involvement with, claiming at a later date that he infiltrated the Order(s) on behalf of US Naval Intelligence.
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