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The Unknown Wants You Dead!

by Space God Ritual

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MeeuwSkreeuw Striking that golden line between evoking dreadful imagery, and cheeky fun with a wink. The scholars keep changing their approach with every track, it just won't grow stale.
Perhaps the brandy was a bit too strong, eh? Favorite track: The Mansion In The Mist.
Ofer Mashiach
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Ofer Mashiach Imagine Virgin Steele going doom and you'll pretty much get the idea. Favorite track: The Mansion In The Mist.
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FDJ (Desert Psychlist) NOBODY does Hammer Horror style doom better than Space God Ritual
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Full review here …. stonerking1.blogspot.com/2019/06/space-god-ritual-unknown-wants-you-dead.html Favorite track: Miskatonic 1927.
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Obstacle of Affliction Venture into the Lovecraftian universe conjured by Space God Ritual if you dare. But if you do be prepared to meet unabashed classic metal fun. Revel in the uniquely awesome vocals and classy guitar. Favorite track: Cultes Des Ghoules.
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Tales of the eldritch you have heard Journeys from the void and endless oceans you have traveled The Tentagram you have waylaid But to what end? You think you have escaped But your descent into madness has only just begun Tonight we have stories from beyond the veil of good and evil Titular, malevolent horizons from which your already broken mind will never recover Of mists incarnate with baleful beings Book who’s promises kept bring only suffering Of things in the shadows which titter and creep We invite you, if you dare, to take and eldritch ride through horrors dark and obscene But know this, your doom is sealed and the die cast For you may wish to know the unknown but it is the unknown that wants you dead.
2.
You learned late in the game Nobody get their own Many tried and now they’re gone Money only gets you so far And now you’ve endeavored You who are do clever To have your will obeyed It is you who’ll become the slave Let there be no illusions The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! You searched for the answers You studied the enchanters Your ideals never changed Your above their pedestrian ways And now you have the black arts in mind You new life is defined All insects shall bow To you and your new power The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! The unknown wants you dead! Some men learn Some men die Some heed the laws Scribed by time Others they flaunt Their so called power But in the end In the shadow of evil they’ll cower The unknown wants you dead! And so the years come and go The seeds of evil are sown And now the reaping draws near The cosmos fills you with fear Then the stars begin falling The dread is appalling Your power means nothing to them The unknown wants you dead! It wants you dead!
3.
Open the door To imagination There you will find No fabrication All that you see Are proof of my travels Across the dimensions Here my story unravel Step into my curio Enter if you dare Confound your mind with mystery Leave your earthly cares Can you feel it all around you? Antiquity in the air What you hold their Is a relic most vile From a clandestine cult From the pacific isles It made its way To innsmouth town Where in the ruins It was found Now I must say That i see doubt Within your eye Please cross the threshold You’ll see i tell no lies For countless years I have traveled untold trails Come and see A glimpse Of what's behind the veil Step into my curio Enter if you dare Confound your mind with mystery Leave your earthly cares Can you feel it all around you? Antiquity in the air High on that shelf Sits a book of occult wealth From countless years ago What lies within its bindings? No one knows From the lands of dunes it came It drives it's reader insane Many its owners are dead This book of the mad Alhazred Step into my curio Enter if you dare Confound your mind with mystery Leave your earthly cares Can you feel it all around you? Antiquity in the air
4.
In the dark Deep underground There is a silence There is no sound But that of dripping The stones are weeping The walls they groan Something is coming from the unknown Nature is frightened In this chamber That few men know There sits a chantry Of blood stained stone This tabernacle Of cruel intent Around we gather We faithful light this profane brazier The sky is rending We have prayed our frightful hymns to our tyrant gods We faithful have intoned the spell to our tyrant gods Our tyrant gods have heard our song resound the ritual gong They have heard our canticle come our tyrant god Come our tyrant gods Come our tyrant gods Take your place! The time is now! The gate in the sky! Gaping wide! Take your place! Amongst the stars!
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On his deathbed My father gave me the book Keep it hidden upon its pages never look He died one day and his warning I forsook The binding creaked as if to scream Read of my pages never pass away For years I studied The esoteric rites Those words and phrases That i would speak in time I never thought On the words my father spoke Then one October night They heard my screams of fright Cultes Des Ghoules Let your voice be heard Unspeakable Are your words Cultes Des Ghoules Let your voice be heard Unspeakable Are your words Now in this padded cell Memories are all I have I dwell upon the thing The evil that drove me made How long can I repeat that Awful moment in time Let me out of this place Curiosity my only crime Within the sigil In the tower room I read the pages And i felt the horror loom The floorboards shifted It was something breaking through A rotten spectre From beyond the tomb It stared at me With rotten sunken eyes It spoke these words to me Damn my foolish pride “You have called to me and i'll bestow the gift: everlasting life if that is what you wish!” “No! This isn't what I asked! LEAVE ME BE!” “Please” Cultes Des Ghoules Let your voice be heard Unspeakable Are your words Cultes Des Ghoules Let your voice be heard Unspeakable are your words “And so i watch From the window Of my cell the Time slip by Forever to rot Never to die.”
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Through the alleys of decay he came And looked me in the eye A rotten toothed grin he gave He said "I never lie But you resemble the folk who dwell Within these crumbling walls Zadok Allen this is my name And I have much to tell" Much to tell Much to tell Much to tell Much to tell Much to tell Oh oh Oh oh He took me to his wretched home I started trembling “I may be old but I tell the truth!” These words he said to me “I was just a boy when they came This place lost its mind And I can tell by your haunting eyes That you belong to them!” Belong to them Belong to them Belong to them Belong to them Belong to them Oh oh Oh oh He told a tale so frightful The look he gave so spiteful I stared in disbelief at what he told me Finally he turned upon me And with a blade he stuck me He stared down coldly as my life poured from me So this is how I die! From the light I fell away My blood it burned inside The sea it called “Come to my tides my one and only child!” Now in the depths of the deep I abide The sleeper he calls Shed no tears for eternal I dwell A child in Dagon's realm Dagon’s realm Dagon’s realm Dagon’s realm Dagon’s realm Dagon’s realm Oh oh Oh oh
8.
Welcome to our rotten town Festered and moldering this home of mine Outsiders ain't welcome in these streets of grime In the trash filled gutters or the alleys of slime So listen well to the stories you hear About devils reef and the goings on there Or end up tied down 'pon an altar of stone And fed to our father in the ocean below We’ll stalk you down rain sodden streets Behind you our shadows will crawl and creep Until you are mad or in our grasp How long do you think you will last? Your clothes are soaked to your shivering flesh You gave everything now you face your death You are surrounded and there's no escape Now surrender to inevitable fate You may think yourself free But you’ve crawled to your grave To my malformed mind Your a troublesome knave So stay far away Or go into the ground But never step foot into Innsmouth Town! Don’t go into Innsmouth town!
9.
He discovered A method To divide the curtain Between the dimensions He had waited A lifetime For this moment To enter another world Mind dilating Capitulating Metamorphing Now he was Just another fiend On a distant planet Where a dim sun shines Through a hazy sky Now he was just Another fiend On the distant planet Of Yuggoth Misshapen by hubris He curses his own life Others they circle Around him His misshapen form He dashes back Through the fissure Mind dilating Capitulating Metamorphing Yet he was just another fiend On the distant planet Where a dim sun shines Through a hazy sky Now he was just another fiend “And so he he ventured out into that new and terrible world, where ice rose up in insurmountable spires and fell away in gulfs of stygian blackness. This place, completly hostile to human existence yet his transformation had allowed him life, for what comfort that gave him. It was then he heard their terrible clickings and groanings and was suddenly surrounded by a tumbling mass of horrifying inhumanity! The fissure he thought, I must close the fissure!” He could not close The portal Out poured the vile He fled bleeting madly In madness he led The procession An otherworld infection Across the face of the earth And now is our doom Our doom
10.
It was a dark rain sodden night Draped in the evil of eons I was called to the aid Of a miserable child The séance began in a storm As the chanting intoned I felt a presence untangling A wicked form began swirling Now I dwell in mansion in the mist Now I dwell in the mansion in the mist In my mind the visions they burned I was taken to horrible vistas I broke the circle And my eyes rolled back in my head They were in a malaise We tried to find our way out Menace descends And the mist it infected Now I dwell in the mansion in the mist Now I dwell in the mansion in the mist “Now silence child or you shall surely be discovered And you'll be not but sustenance for their grim gods I shall return, on this I promise!” One by one the family and servants Fell the prey to a vaporous doom Their eyes glowed malignant and red And they stalked me wanting me dead I had no choice submerged in my fears My hands were covered in their blood and their tears I dropped the axe and left their bodies to rot Oh god I cried in my final hour make this nightmare stop! The end is nigh! I knew this thing wished its freedom I returned to the child The host had withered and died But the beast was inside I called the thing from within And stood there shaking The demon possessed me inside So from the window I committed suicide! Now I dwell in the mansion in the mist Now I dwell in the mansion in the mist Now I dwell in the mansion in the mist
11.
So cold Where have I gone? What is This horrid shape? Who stares From this cosmic lair? I must wake From this nightmare! And you shall see What's meant to be Take me away To the Golden City I traverse Astral plains To hear your secrets And ancient voice Now tell me the Nature of Time and space In this place And you shall see What's meant to be Take me away To the Golden City Human insects Your journey has just begun Only now you start Your cosmic ascension With the turn of the key You'll find yourself In the strangest of places Now come with me And you shall see What's meant to be Take me away To the Golden City Oh pray tell Lord of dread Can I unlock This power within Yes I can feel The heel of time Upon my heart Upon my mind And I have seen What will be Send me away From this Golden City And I have seen What will be Send me away From this Golden City

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"They have a lot of cool ideas presented in a package that had to been hard to execute. The results speak for themselves..but in a creepy multi voice that might eat your soul."
-Metal Temple

"The Unknown Wants You Dead! never outstays its welcome and gleefully takes you on a trip through the depths of R'lyeh with all the pomp and circumstance of an old Hammer movie."
-The Metal Crypt

"...buried and distorted in psychedelic elements, they set off in a sort of proto-doom, combining the atmospheric legacy of the horror films of the 60s and 70s with the horror stories of the master."
-Femforgacs

"This is literary horror transformed by the magic of music into a powerful medium of expression that engages both mind and emotions."
-Doomed And Stoned

"You can almost see mustaches being villainously twirled and capes being furled and unfurled as the band tell their lurid tales of the macabre beneath swathes of cleverly arranged heavy traditional and proto-ic doom."
-Desert Psychlist

"The songwriting carries the weird tales well, the production has never been tighter, and the musicians have never sounded this confident."
-The Indy Metal Vault

From the street one may hear the muffled chanting of our congregation from within the crumbling structure that is Olaff's Antiquities. Many avoid our humble abode, those who enter of their own free will are often never the same again. Do you dare cross the threshold and suffer the tales we tell? Yes? Good! You will hear across eleven hymns, tragic yarns of science and magic, of hubris and horror, of man and monster! Along with this music of madness you may also come across our tome of terrors, a book brimming with hideous secrets and the most profane of incantations! Come inside, let us regale you!

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released June 21, 2019

The Owl- Oration and Chants
Yohan Sebastian Glamour- Orchestrations and Invocations
Alexander Olaff- Annotations and Incanatations

The Low Man- Solo on Ancient Hymns To Tyrant Gods

Recorded, mixed and mastered at The Book House

Album art by Dhomth

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Space God Ritual Portland, Oregon

In the deepest sub-basement of Olaff's Antiquities, The Curator gathers his faithful to spread his obscure and otherworldly message. Down they go, deep into the earth's forgotten caverns of stygian splendor, where tyrant gods await! It is there, under the ancient forest of stalactites, that the auditory horrors of Space God Ritual take their shape and are birthed into an unsuspecting world! ... more

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