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Phenomankind

by Cor Serpentii

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1.
Retrieval 04:23
Come - to be like me To become One - A soul divine You, a mortal one You just fell down into my claws A ritual was made By scriptures of old inspired Inconceivable dreams – a promise For those who believe Obey and feed me And I will allow you to join me In my temple of wonders To almost all men forbidden Now you belong to me! Ear, my whisper - See, my visions It’s something you already felt You're not ignorant from those secrets What the universe really is What's lying on the matter I knew you were the one To accept my power As we had already been one A spell parted us Then for aeons constrained Through unknown dimensions I dreamt and planned that day (That day I would find you) I’ve got you – right now I am now entire The perfect deity The nightmarish entity Ruler of all humans Feeding from hate and fear Hope and love in their dreams You are mine forever The gate to outer realms You’ll know from now on The horrors of confinement That body’s no longer yours But a door to the physical world
2.
Dead stone far away A kind of a little planet From which is emerging A scream of help Explorers We thought were lost For several decades Might be rescued once for all Those who received the close signal Must have ignored it will lead them to death Getting closer and closer As the signal grows up Without knowing where they are Trapped by their own curiosity In hope to understand What's left of pioneers The faith in great treasures Myths of science revealed The hunger to discover Attraction of the unknown As this close signal is like a bell Which tolls their death Please save my soul Don't let me die this way Come as fast as you can Take me away from here The spaceship has landed Nearby their goal – feel excited About what they'd find Only hard rock A collapsed and empty vessel Nothing remains – Stupefaction! They didn't observe the scene too long Before realizing they were wrong This couldn't be an SOS No one’s left among this mess
3.
Before you knew my existence I observed you, approached you Turning around – A beast of prey Learning your essence and thoughts A weak mind like yours Craving for love and gratitude Always creates the perfect trap Predation can sneak from any direction As a serpent I’m slithering Entity amongst human beings Searching for the soul That could release my Master This shiny one, wandering Tiny thing compared to the universe’s scale But still the key between worlds I’ve found this prodigious entity Oblivious to his own might I’ll use its power to reach my goal Je suis ce prédateur du silence Sans issue tu seras ma proie Insidieux – je serai ta voie To lead you to me, I’ll teach you, advise you Interfering in your psyche You’ll need me Becoming the core of your life Until the shadow of betrayal Covers this world Spellbound by the sound of my voice Reduced to a puppet of flesh Holding your consciousness in my hands Feeling your joy Your hope of finally becoming someone Without knowing it will soon get away De ton existence futile il ne subsistera rien Car ton âme déjà lui appartiendra
4.
Sand Storm 04:28
I feel grains hitting my skin Like those of sand Small stings contuse my naked body I’m in a silent desert Covering an entire city Desolation from the past Wind rises up And blows louder Here and there, tornados appear Ascending to the sky Deep clouds threaten to crush me Lightning bolts spread into them Rain falls loudly on me A rain made of sand That the furious storm propagates With a random violence I’m here and cannot move Going through this chaotic scene An expression of fury Far from reality The sand looks so real The wind seems so fast Clouds are darkening everything It might be impossible to be a painting! However the painter Has managed to represent A nature out of control Life under each brushstroke I’m trapped in this sand storm How can a man transfigure Such realistic feelings Into a painting? Like the suffering of existence passing on Erosion of soul, denial of self The impossibility of staying pure The throes of a dreadful yet certain degradation Metaphor of my downhearted path
5.
Theomachia 05:24
I am the Gods Slayer Playing a game of eradication You can’t live anymore I am the Great Destroyer Of your system of beliefs Seeking for pleasure Tormenting your soul Sadistic desire for antitheism Believer! Reduced to a pawn A simple bait to the real prey Gods are egos In need for devotees to come Receiving their dedication Like junkies and heroin By cunning or force So be it! All shall bow I created a universe Where I can brave those Who no longer deserve Crush them, pull’em down And become the god of gods Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos? A game with no other rules Than those I invent And when the god vanishes The faithful remains as an empty shell My victory, my reward Placing my own doctrine To make a new fanatic A servant dedicated To the king of Theomachia
6.
A dark world surrounding Can't see through without an eye The eye of the wise The spirit of the awaken Always been taken away by others Heard stories and tales from their mouth Experiencing life through filters Can living this way be more wrong? Things called feelings were faked Illusion of what they were supposed to be Reflections of what’s feeding them Giving the illusion to live There was an accident Being alone for so long An opportunity to think and act With no intervention or intrusion In this personal experience For the first time in a life Eyes were opened and used For they were considered dead Other senses discovered And fully experienced Like a new-born creature Or rather born again Truth appears behind the lies And shadows dispel When the light fully shines Now as an awaken entity Rising and standing Feeling invested of a mission The quest to free all those made sightless And destroy the ones from shadows
7.
This is where I am Whispering to myself Trying to attract good Gods’ inspiration Usual gestures, repeated a million times A deep dive in a comfortable routine My mind is an emotional catalyst And my hands shall now fly free But, as moments suddenly collapse around me My head is violently spinning Conscience is drifting away A metamorphosis is blasting From wrath to grief, suffocation is near From wrath to grief, suffocation is here Through the dark arts of ages My brushes form circles of frenzy Opening gates for shapeless creatures, entities Now rushing to replicate their frantic legacy My mind being a portal My body a useless, smocking shell I become emptiness and darkness Appearing in waves, wrath appealing, demons calling They will rip you open Suck your thoughts, curse your flesh On your forehead, they shall carve their names May you awake, or be lost for eternity
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I have evolved A superior entity That no one can defy I am superb, I am supreme! Uncommon imprisoned strenght No patience for achievement The key to perfection yet to be found Unsatisfied desire - my frustration explodes Then it comes And releases my power Transforming into the perfect being An everlasting entity But the state of divinity is a failure I decided otherwise I chose transgression of natural laws To me regression happened A mutation, an inversion To something imperfect Always endangered Confronting divine to impurity The way of questioning An act of survival To get strengthened Satisfying an ego by experiencing the atom As a perfect being I forgot A substance I believed futile To feed the void within my heart To escape the loneliness of my soul Coming back to inaccurate state To be able to feel again Confronting fear, erasing doubts An evolution that never ends Worthier than the hopes Of an impossible quest
9.
Phenomankind 04:12
Dreaming of visions that aren’t mine Perceiving sensations that can’t be felt Memory loss from this life Remembering scenes unknown One world progressively replacing another As an extension of the previous one Seeing connections between dimensions Like the meaning of all things revealed More than a hidden truth The real shapes of facts appeared Thinking previous knowledge futile Questioning as fear obscures reality Transmutation of body and mind An inversion of personalities Ekpyrosis of polarities Two pieces completing A puzzle of awareness Elevating the soul to another state The I is another one Melting into a vortex of infinity Beyond good and evil All values outdated Phenomena of evolution Redefining Mankind Phenomankind
10.
Ubik 05:30
Now that the dead satellite’s been conquered Muse of human arts for centuries Undreamt reality spinning in circles Psychic powers undivided to rule Inertials empowering the minds sanity Glenn Runciter and his half wife Slowly parasitized by a new half lifer Gathers the 11 saviors, liberators For what will be a one way mission The psychics throne is invariably shaped Unknown forms of unconsciousness Ubik can do anything Ubik, Alpha and Omega All hopes taken away with a blast If there is life for those, let’s split it in two Are those visions real, is time diluting? Ubik can do anything Holy cup for our survival Both the origin and the end Its real name is unknown - unspoken Almighty, it’s in us all The source of all knowledge and power Ubik is everywhere, in everyone

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released October 23, 2018

Nicolas B. - guitars
Benoît J. - bass
Frédéric G. - vocals

All music written and arranged by Cor Serpentii
Lyrics by Benoît J. & Nicolas B.
Drums composed by Jonathan J.
Vocals and bass arrangements by Frédéric G.

Recorded at Studio Henosis, Blue East Studio & Pelagic Studio
Mixed by Frédéric Gervais at Studio Henosis, Bois d'Arcy, France
Mastered by Frédéric Gervais at Studio Henosis, Bois d'Arcy, France
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Cover artwork by Pierre-Alain D. / 3mmi Design / www.3mmi.org

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Cor Serpentii France

Cor Serpentii was created on the ashes of death-metal act Insain after its split.
Debut album "Phenomankind" features a dense mix of sheer brutality and rich melodies.

Exploration is a cornerstone too, heard through the themes developed by Frédéric Gervais (Orakle) who puts his know-how into play as both a singer and producer of this new entity.
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