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The Tower

by Nero Order

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1.
Whoa! There rides Geburah From the right arm of man He scribes five! As the surgeon of the skies, grinds he all Limitless, volcanic sire of war He brings fire! The blade cancer invites Completion renewed in strife All is slaved to Fear Fear is one with Justice: The scourge of God Fortress crumbling, upheaving light What’s been denied is stirred… Locusts come and hum the song of knowing Receive the swarm and find divine insight Wellspring exhausted, cups now dry Stagnant waters putrefy Thus ferment and so transform In great torment change is born VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM (Visit the interior parts of the earth: by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone) He hath come and set alight in katabolic sacrifice! VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM (Visit the interior parts of the earth: by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone) IGNI NATURA RENOVATUR INTEGRA (All of nature is restored by fire) Every value overturned The universe is rendered… We are beyond apology. The time now has come to make things right. Inner shadow, wishes consummate We all are invoking our end As failure crashes upon our heads We imbibe the blood of success And so it has been, and so it is written, and so it is done
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Welcome the spear for the sake of love Light penetrates; this wound lets darkness celebrate An invocation to upheaval at faults The ruin is divine as all boundaries dissolve Bind! If thine eye be single then the whole body shall be filled with light So surrounding shadows rise… As ascensions are traced with blood The hordes resound, believing the light is warm But the cold was kind and the Sun is growing In blinding truth ignite the sphere The eye of God opens and the walls all come crashing down Welcome our fall and the rising tides Love the adversary dissolve and thrive! As oceans dry the buried depths shall be brought to light Recognize the cycles of no again All worlds end In perfection we are as none… Particles strike! In blinding truth ignite the sphere The eye of God opens and the walls all come crashing down Amidst the rubble, the wretched feeding Then from the darkness, a light comes streaming From the mouth of the morning a song is keening And in their wounds is offered a meaning
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Biting off the wicked tongue Mute libation to a conquering sun There beyond the lowest low, so it is above In flame ascends the all-devouring dove The Great Beast comes down And it is good! You cannot damn God For where is he not? For thine is the kingdom And the power and the glory forever Oh how the night shines with light of dead stars Yet we are blind to their igniting… The first stone was cast and united with its mark And thus it was without sin Let us not forget that it is the other That forms the division that permits existence Lift up a rock and there I am In every pillar and it’s crumbling Welcoming the churning divide A higher Order to arrive Why hide? All is revealed in due time You may call it unity But God is fuck, whatever way you ride The earth below us opens wide As we're engulfed by howling light But its okay we’ve did all right… Frantically grasping for pieces of a falling sky Oh child, there's no need to cry, it's quite right Something's Great Eye is smiling down with a fiery, purifying love Return to one; thy will be done For thine is the kingdom! Now we're really going to shine - brighter than a million suns! From the fire, the fire of our True Will Mountains are gonna move, the seas are gonna part for us And we're washed over as the miracle arrives And all our prayers are answered We're delivered from the evil of our own minds As we wish upon every falling star Yet you understand it not Screaming for God? Fools! His face has never been more clear Open your eyes and finally comprehend what it is you have invoked Here is Justice: Today, his name is Fear Here is your Rapture! Where is God not? Oh, how the night shines with light of dead stars Yet we are blind to their igniting until now Why hide? All is now revealed - now is our time We tried and now in flame we're one Thine will be done! You may call it unity God is fuck and now we ride Called onwards to our reward Some pray, some claw at air as if to carve their mark After it all disintegrates something remains like some divine scar
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Leveling 17:36
Looking back with sight beyond time An aeon changes at the rest of the celestial I Destroyer lifts a heavy lid It’s sure felt like a while A great exhalation and a parting smile Where all paths converge and fade to an aether of blood Procession unto the final stage Gaze at the face of all we’ve loved The tower’s coming down… We come in reveling Great day of leveling Our symptoms are all the same These Cities of the Plain Now walk against the ash of all we’ve sown With embers of the old, the new way shone Within the burning hall of shattered thrones The fallen shall not rise Still something builds a home So marks an end to all that we have known The dead past quickly fades The gates crash closed And the walls crumble as we greet our foes The jaws open; flames enclose our world No words spoken Figures broken Pouring from the opened skies Surmise reason “Because” stops breathing Witness at the melting of our lives Lay waste! Receive: God Mind False belief falls away Open: Great Eye Lightning enlighten the soul And so unfolds The augurs’ prognostication… Now great birds paint our horizon black and red And in a swoop devour nations While on the microcosmic plane So too do old structures fall Ride forth on splintering wheels How our world reels as its engine stops Our answers came for us today They’re all we dreamed Though not as we hoped And so it goes sometimes And so it goes away Babylon, Babylon Upon the Beast she rides It is one, as we fall down The future is bright! All fall down like children, tumble like statues, fall like great Rome Rise, rise, rise like monuments, like crucifixions, like ascending Gods Torrent crash forward, clearing the way, breaking old forms Current rush onward, love under will igniting our blood The drawing storm clouds look like war The struggle’s over There’s nothing left worth fighting for And likely, there never was Now in unity: Cessation Here as flames rise and owls descend Songs all once sang no one sings again But laid in the tarot and cast in the runes For a new aeon there comes a new tune The stars are revealed and fall from the sky The pyre we’ve lit devours the night The decree is given, great Order arise In glory crowned we meet our demise Walls to the heavens we built with our hands Rendered to the void, they forever stand Striking the shell, that vast enemy In ruins of self, at last we are free! And now the rites of old are black End of a universe; last vision – look back To an evaporating road of marrowless bones As one eye opened the other closed

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San Francisco avant-metal alchemists Nero Order fuse elephantine rhythms with expansive, tragic melodies and moody, severe vocals - effectively concocting a sound that is simultaneously abrasive and consonant, dynamic and cacophonous; academic in scope and violent in delivery.

Though formed in early 2006, Nero Order has willfully chosen to stay silent and hidden, largely avoiding public appearances while focusing on crafting their Great Work: the upcoming full-length album The Tower. Consisting of four meticulously composed movements, The Tower is an exercise in duality, both aurally and aesthetically. Sonically dense, ambitiously constructed, and intensely executed, the songs that comprise The Tower are stylistically without par in the current rock landscape - though the gravity of mid-late period Neurosis, the frenetic energy of Junkyard-era Birthday Party, the minor melodic sense of Metallica’s Master of Puppets, the staggering volume and intensity of early Swans, the grandiosity of Pink Floyd’s Meddle, and the riff-obsession of Black Sabbath are all summoned therein.

Recorded live to tape and mixed in less than one full week with no digital manipulation of the signal, The Tower is an accurate representation of the band laid bare.

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released July 6, 2010

Butler - Drums; Harper - Guitar; Hoyt - Bass; Lindo - Vocals

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