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The Droste Observer

by Devils Reef

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1.
Araneous 04:21
Black legs crawling behind the clock Never an instance without them In silence it whispered of decay and showed me how to cure the pain I cannot escape it’s foul stench Cannot run from the chaos inside It’s leash tightens on my throat, pulling me under waves of liquid lead Return to the place where lust and greed made an angel bleed I must feed my desire or all that’s inside me will unwind Arachnoid body climbing inside my dreams Awake to unblinking eyes buried in me I choke on truths, unspoken I can’t withstand the pressure A moment of weakness Eternal asphyxiation (Solo - Abernethy) What’re you out of your mind? Coming back here, again and again They know what you’ve done They will hear the heartbeat that drones beneath our feet But I will never be free of the spider who shadows me Return to the place where lust and greed made an angel bleed out I must feed my desire or all that’s inside me will unwind
2.
We trust the gift of sight as truth and always we believe that what we see is reality Beyond mortal vision lies the truth to our addiction Controlling all that we desire Peer into the absolute to see reality destitute The primal source of the wicked Evil lurks outside the edges beyond my perception The cosmic eye feigned as my conception Impossible optical illusion Into the mirror I am repeated infinitely And I am placed into the abyss Infeasible mental delusion This eye is not my own In reflections it dwells It’s gaze guides me to wicked sins Returns to me in swells (Solo - Allen) The voice is not my own In refractions it dwells This voice guides me to the ending Returns to me in swells (Solo - Pugh) (Solo - Allen) I trust the gift of sight as truth and always I believe that what I see is reality Beyond mortal vision lies the truth to my addiction Controlling all that I desire Into the mirror I am the Droste observer And I am placed into the abyss
3.
I’ve seen my futures and I’ve witnessed the rapture Observed turmoil Mirror of realms Tortured by foresight Led by fear Pulled further into the lie Fantasy or foul verity The iris waits bathed in seething blaze Contaminating truths of the mind’s eye Cursed dimension Thy eye, unblinking terror It’s gaze brings me to my knees Thy eye, unblinking mirror I must obey or death I’ll replay I’ve seen the orb watching intently Twisting fiction for his collection Tempted ecstasy Allures me Pulls me closer into the eye Shifting paradigm Collapsing all that lies in me My eyes are drowning in Droste’s pit The unending waves of liquid lead Trapped in his gaze I throw myself into the sea Waters of cruelty Chasm incendiary Under the lens I dance upon the waves Inside the eye Inside his lie I suffer, I burn in treacherous depths Die by his wrath or succumb to the storm in the iris Fucking eye wreathed in flame Dragging me into its maze Thy eye, unblinking terror I am the prey to which he will slay There must be another way
4.
My sight has gone black as liquid lead drains from my head I’ve viewed all of the pathways but now thy eye eats my mind Its mouth has opened up to inhale all things at last Gluttony has led me to where nothing comes back Becoming one with the legion of paradigms Merging with the source Restoring the timeline Returning the design to the divine author Betrayal I’ve weaved through it’s maze I’ve become enslaved Crushed by the jaws I crave I submit to the weight of fantasy’s foul plague It’s mouth has opened up to vomit all things at last Indulgence has led me where everything turns black My foresight has gone as liquid lead drains from my mind I’ve viewed all the beginnings but now my eyes feed on time Submit to the mirror split Crushed by his jaws Just fucking drown me (Solo - Abernethy) Reset the rift Merge me with the source Betray me I see the edge of time where all tales twist together once again Each paradigm is wrapped in their own web of torment And together we have all been betrayed At the vertex of all, certainties are unwoven and reality is begun anew The spider spiraling off into the void once again And always the wretched eye, driveling lustfully at the truths and untruths born at each turn, at each branch Plunging us all deep into the waves of the iris To see the possibilities that lie beyond every turn, filling our lungs with liquid lead and watching as we drown The spider need not lead us astray, as we all return to the source eventually, and we will never be without fallacy, never without malice and greed
5.
Killers, zealots, and drug addicts Suicidal rituals rage on in the moonlight Some speak of divine ascension and spaces outside of time’s orbit End the screams of the chaotic Dampen our minds from the truth Kaleidoscopes bleeding plasma Dripping parallels into circles Auditory hallucinations Alternate interpretations Aberration of allegory Seduction by purgatory Predatory stalking Craving our incantations Pulling us within divine vibrations Severing the mind’s eye and revealing all that I’ve been Trapped in endless twisting fiction, spinning webs of torment into spheres of cyclical awakening (Solo - Allen) Timeline shifts Universe now adrift Sinking in Forcing me off the cliff (Solo - Abernethy) End the screams of the erotic Open our minds to the void Constellations breathing gamma Weaving parallels into circles Dripping worlds into the realms of the mind The waves will swallow all that was ever mine Weaving the parallels of infinite time End the wails of clones from alternate paradigms Void divine
6.
Fixated on the empty gaze Eyes full of galaxies I see something now but the rest is smoke and mirrors The universe balances on my psyche Perception is a constant burden pulling me under waves of liquid lead I need the fix that will blind me from another ending Allowing the cycle to return, to reveal what’s been unseen Blurring the difference between life and death Hallucination, fantasies are all I see Unable to resist tempted ecstasy I give in to chaos to see where it leads (Solo - Allen) In turbulence I can see Existence an illusion And time is a reoccurring dream I watch as reality crashes around me It has always been the truth but only now I see Death has already come for me With truth, panic crushes through me And I grasp the memory of when life was real (Solo - Abernethy) (Solo - Stinar) Blurring the difference between life and death Hallucination, fantasies are all that bleed Unable to resist tempted ecstasy Always give in to see where it leads
7.
Trapped in dreams forbidden Endless falling, drowning, crying Succumb to their begging Hellish frenzy Pleasure from unworldly sources Guided by chimeras voices Slave to this feeling Burning my insides without it Longing for the vital fluids Drowning in their blood Wails of sirens pleading Pushing for their lust to be drained Granting their desires, not mine My world is their benefaction Yielding them their greatest passion I am unresisted Feeding into my addiction Craving all that lies inside them Cursed siphon Pain Pleasure Born of blood Stalking in the midnight glow Blood moon Sadistic bellwether Angel’s call from the bordello Flock of prey One to fall victim Approach without prompting terror Alluring without error Masking my lustful gaze Withholding craze Grasping her neck Forcing forward Lashing out Screams of horror Twisting the blade in her Spilling fervor I have been drawn to the act of execution Spilling blood to free my soul from torment The silence brings me ever nearer Her vacant eyes force me to orgasm Lust Torment Born of blood Death is all that's left My only vice Killing, fulfillment, coming to the last of her breaths Fuck, the moment has gone I’ve killed again Fleeting, climaxing, returning to the demons’ grip Mental banishment Consciousness Fractal planes Drowning in droste’s pit Trapped inside the mirrored split Pain Pleasure Torn apart Lust Torment Born of blood
8.
Did chaos ever look me in the eye or did the mirror show me what I wanted to see The veil of reality is so thin Who could really know the truth? So I made what I wanted of it This eye may be vile, but the mirror has doomed the collective paradigm We’ve been betrayed and together we will succumb to the storm in the iris I now see the edge where time becomes mine How I crave abstract reality Sinking in swells of viscous misery The affliction of restraint Illusion of ill mind All consuming apathy The righteous blood Twisting the tale that corrupted all time I spun webs of torment Forcing my wrath to emerge from the depths of my mind Return her to god himself Ceasing to resist my despair Drowning I have followed the fallacy of his faith Deceived I’m entangled with my mistakes Now fate’s forlorn The only way out is with my own hand (Solo - Abernethy) This eye may be vile, but the mirror has betrayed us We’ve been deceived and together we believed the lie Oh great eye you have shown me the path The veil over the mirror falls and now I see Hands drip crimson with the spoils of pleasure The master and it's puppet finally free Did chaos ever look me in the eye or did it always dwell deep within With life after life felled by my trembling hands I drown in the sea of my sin The eye was mine but in the fear we were blind As the final victims fate draws near These hands rip through my chest as I lay me to rest The eye once wide is finally sealed

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released December 8, 2023

Vocals: Logan Abernethy, Brady Allen
Guitars: Brady Allen, Logan Abernethy
Bass: Brady Allen, Logan Abernethy
Drums: Luka Stinar

Produced by Devil's Reef
Mixed and Mastered by Kile Odell at East Iris Studios
Recorded (Guitar) by Devil's Reef
Recorded (Bass and Vocals) by Kile Odell
Recorded (Drums) by Jamie King
Lyrics by Brady Allen
Lyrics (Track 8) David Bruno

Guest Solo (Track 2) by Malcolm Pugh
Guest Vocals (Track 8) by David Bruno

Logo by Alex Tartsus
Art by Mark Erskine

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