Lyrics and vocals by César Moreira 

Music by Simon Langford 

Additional guitars on Parasite, Oblivion and Strive by Felipe Grüber 

Additional guitars on Existence by Wayne Dorman

Additional guitars on Paralysed by Alex Baillie

Additional guitars on Awaken and Umbra and Eloi Nicod

Additional bass on Strive by Lukas Kaminski

Mixed and mastered by Pete deBoer at World Famous Studios

stuck in this sinking sand i'm caught in its grip a ghost of the past i feel its pull to the abyss a frozen grasp a future so bleak in the hands of fate my choices i can't rethink but every time i try i'm pushed back down lost in the shadows with no one around the umbra whispers secrets tempting me with their hiss their touch is poison a curse i can't resist i wander through the darkness searching for the light hoping to break free from this endless night but every step i take i'm pulled back down into the depths where i'm forever bound i've given into the rhythm of life's deceit a fleeting wisp a shadow in the heat but still i reach for something that's pure a spark of hope a future that's obscure but every time i try i'm pushed back down lost in the shadows with no one around the umbra whispers secrets tempting me with their hiss their touch is poison a curse i can't resist i'm trapped in their web haunted by their strife enchanted by the promise of what may come in life the umbra whispers secrets tempting me with their hiss their touch is poison a curse i can't resist i'm trapped in their web haunted by their strife enchanted by the promise of what may come in life

the sky is turning black the earth is crumbling down apocalyptic fate in an endless cycle i'm bound oblivion is closing in dark clouds blot the sun judgment day is here there's nowhere left to run echoes of a forgotten reign gods have left leaving nothing but pain in the ruins of a once great land staring at all the depravity i stand verdant fields of sorrow where my heart doth linger eroding thoughts of humanity an endless bitter slumber in this torment i stand on the edge of the abyss a world of chaos and despair taunting me with every twist awaken from my slumber with a newfound strength within i'll wander through the ruins a master of my own sin i'll break the cycle's curse rise above the fray and in this endless struggle i'll pave my own way echoes of a forgotten reign gods have left leaving nothing but pain in the ruins of a once great land staring at all the depravity i stand verdant fields of sorrow where my heart doth linger eroding thoughts of humanity an endless bitter slumber in this torment i stand on the edge of the abyss a world of chaos and despair taunting me with every twist exhaustion takes its toll as i struggle to break free but in this nonconformity i find my true destiny

engulf the sky erode the cataclysmic existence of infinite exhaustiveness across the canvas of oblivion blacken sulphur clouds judgement descends in this violent day and age within this torment i lie as i stand on the edge of the precipice i look down at this world in his bleakness taunting and splintering misfortune endless spreading exhaustion through this nonconformity i find myself dying falling into the void awaken from slumber hidden beneath with a demonic retribution meander through the wrecked fields a homeless parasite corroborating null progress a horrid cycle a numb foreseeable passing strive as i stand on the edge of the precipice i look down at this world in his bleakness taunting and splintering misfortune endless spreading exhaustion through this nonconformity i find myself dying strive, strive, strive soreness sore vision sore heart sore spirit sore soul mentally deprived sore emptiness meaningless life meaningless existence worthless futile subsistence

to escape would be my only asylum dragged out of a faint yet blinding reality shackled and confined within this minuscule body of mine i will never forget the tearing that i suffer framed for torment framed for grotesquery framed for torment framed for grotesquery my eyes stare at the disbelieving reality i wonder why i act so beastly something i can’t control painful regret and a sharp sorrow are the entirety of my soul the gods of darkness i shall extol dismal drear catastrophic fear a bleak ember that grasps my existence an icy pale light piercing my eyes temporarily cessated in bitterness i plead for an end theres no reason to think about selfishness i am deprived of emotion i am wrecked my eyes stare at the disbelieving reality i wonder why i act so beastly something i can’t control painful regret and a sharp sorrow are the entirety of my soul the gods of darkness i shall extol wrecked tortured ruptured the pain never goes away captured fissured the pain never goes away slumbered slaughtered the pain never goes away

retaining no memory of any sovereignty the gods have all gone away in suffering i will stay decadence burdens the asphyxiating inertia threatening who can’t comprehend the madness in darkness i crawled i strived i was kept enthralled i strived to bathe in sickness i strived a howl for forgiveness i strived immense depravity weighs on the soul debilitating reality i’m impelled to extol smog clouds chocked the skies the wind brings menace’s dust as the dawns break the grief soars in darkness i crawled i strived i was kept enthralled i strived to bathe in sickness i strived a howl for forgiveness i strived such a creation serves no purpose other than exterminating every one of us  in an excruciating manner welcoming the foulest atrocity a lineage of unfathomable sorrow fall to your knees and welcome the lethargic embrace all will vanish into the encumber of struggle pain is ephemeral existence is eternal in darkness i crawled i strived i was kept enthralled i strived in darkness i crawled i strived i was kept enthralled i strived my whole life i’ve been misled

with every fleeting moment my psyche begins to crumble agony ceaseless never to be still eternity's weight crushes my spirit driving me deep into obscurity desperately searching for respite but no solace to be found this aberration brings me to ruin a tormented existence without refuge to seek a life of misery that will never end a curse of immortality that I cannot amend a prisoner of my own existence forever enchained to this mortal coil eternity's weight crushes my spirit driving me deep into obscurity desperately searching for respite but no solace to be found this aberration brings me to ruin a tormented existence without refuge to seek a life of misery that will never end a curse of immortality that I cannot amend the end draws near yet it never arrives a fate more terrible than death condemned to endure as time prevails trapped in a cycle of stertorous gasps hopelessly dying without conclusion inescapable suffering soul bleak as the world crumbles around me reduced to nothing my toil

staring with fatal glazing eyes to this kingdom of emptiness the gods sell when they give my soul is vastly laden with brief winds of burdened truth murmuring silence is it the whisper of the end this eternal shadow dense and persistent that i can't kindle this fever of despair consumes me i am slowly rotting slowly rotting men and time are one when god creates and reality is made but my existence seems timeless and endless settled in my sorrow i live vainly fulfilling my destiny my days are a veiled light my thoughts unfold tales of war and misery within my reality the only reality i perceive murmuring silence is it the whisper of the end this eternal shadow dense and persistent that i can't kindle this fever of despair consumes me i am slowly rotting slowly rotting settled in my sorrow i live vainly my days are a veiled light immortal heirs of death hear my prayers the fate reveres interminable oblivion