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Of Failing and Fading (2026)
Vermocracy
🇦🇹 Austria
«Текст песни» Burned by Promethean Flames
«Текст песни» Burned by Promethean Flames
Without honoring the abyss / with a single glance,
We set out to ascend / the highest of all thrones.
Only obstinate defiance / served us as a crown,
And nature / was to bow before us.
Unworthy of this blazing spirit,
Yet we crowned ourselves divine.
The spark that lit our glory
Now fuels the end of it all.
Monuments of arrogance / rose far into the sky.
We didn’t mind the darkened sun / as they burned with blinding light.
We built temples to our pride / to surpass even Olympus itself.
Our cities, raised on funeral pyres, / and we held torches in our hands.
We yearned for it / we begged for it.
We earned all / all that is coming.
We warmed our souls / we warmed our homes.
We burned it all down / burned by Promethean flames.
The veil that once had hidden / the light from us,
We tore it apart / unaware that we sealed our doom.
Unworthy of this blazing spirit,
Yet we crowned ourselves divine.
The spark that lit our glory
Now fuels the end of it all.
We yearned for it / we begged for it.
We earned all / all that is coming.
We warmed our souls / we warmed our homes.
We burned it all down / burned by Promethean flames.
We yearned for it / we begged for it.
We earned all / all that is coming.
We warmed our souls / we warmed our homes.
We burned it all down / burned by Promethean flames.
And we, eternally dying, / chained to our future in ashes.
«Текст песни» I Hate
«Текст песни» I Hate
The sky / grows dark
The sun / turns black
A rushing sound / a trembling
Nothing withstands / nothing endures.
And a sudden storm / ignites the embers
Of long-forgotten battles / everything ablaze.
Above the ruins of myself / all memories in ashes.
All my reticence / etched away.
Through crimson eyes / I see the world in wrath.
As I dance wildly to the tune / of my own fury.
Before I perish / I will rip you apart.
For there is nothing left / nothing but pure hate.
The pain / grows fast.
The rage / covers up my suffering.
All that once was / lies far behind.
All my dreams / I’ll wash away with blood.
Above the ruins of myself / all memories in ashes.
All my reticence / etched away.
I HATE
I HATE
I HATE
I HATE
All words drowned out / by brutish roaring
That tears all silence / from my mind.
No peace is left / nothing to ease the weight.
A madness / that I will never tame.
The sky / grows dark.
The sun / turns black.
«Текст песни» A Sermon to the Sheep
«Текст песни» A Sermon to the Sheep
O world (O world) / you are a heap of ruins
Yet we see nothing / blind and self-deceiving
But it was us / who shattered you
Believing it was for the best / though we knew better
And we despise the knowledge / our stern companion
As we worship the lie
For anything is easier to bear
Than our own conscience
We stand beneath the pulpits / we kneel before the thrones
We listen to the speeches of the brutes and turn them into law
We lay responsibility / in the hands of the irresponsible
The roars of ignorance / music to our ears
The grunt of stupidity / is our order
We raise the most unworthy / to overrated gods
And follow them like sheep / into the fires they ignite
We stand beneath the pulpits / we kneel before the thrones
We listen to the speeches of the brutes and turn them into law
We place our own survival / in the hands of the reckless
And we despise the wisdom / our grave admonisher
As we worship / the deceit
For it is the easy path / that we all follow
O world (O world) / what will be left of you?
Hardly a triumph / shall be our legacy
For foolishness / is our philosophy
And our religion / greed
We stand beneath the pulpits / we kneel before the thrones
We listen to the speeches of the brutes and turn them into law
We place our heritage / in the hands of the unrestrained
«Текст песни» The Path
«Текст песни» The Path
A stretch / too long to comprehend
A path / too stony to be trodden
And yet, this is my way / the one that I must take
For ages I have wandered / and ages lie before me
Towards a summit / hidden from my sight
The only thing I still can see:
the path beneath my feet
I’ve cast off my burdens / left the heavy rock behind
Let it roll where it may / others shall care for it
And yet, this is my way / the one that I must take
For ages I have wandered / and ages lie before me
Towards a summit / hidden from my sight
The only thing that still remains:
the path beneath my wounded feet
I have shed my garment
Nothing shall weigh me down
On my journey toward the sun
What care I for the chilling fog?
Stone blades beneath my naked soles / cut deep into my flesh
And dust and earth / cling heavy to my body
Yet I break through every wall / I overcome each obstacle
And all at once I see: / the path I’ve followed for so long
leads ever downward
«Текст песни» Force Fed Perception
«Текст песни» Force Fed Perception
My eyes deceive me / all images intangible
While I am washed away / by this sensory flood
Cathedrals / of lies
Forbidden structures / rising beyond reality
Dancing patterns / moving shapes
Forced to follow / their obscenity
My memories / loathsome chimeras
Mere ghostly shadows / that shy away from the truth
All time is lost / past and future blur
Within a world / that knows no boundaries anymore
Galleries of deception
Atrocious, yet impossible to resist
In a wild, unbridled fury
I swallow raw illusions
A cascade of falsehood / a maelstrom of narratives
Artificial truth / delusive intoxication
Desire for paltriness
Lust for triviality
No place to cure my weariness
No fulfilment – no destination
All my senses caught / by a web of pure attraction
My attention bound / by the siren’s song
Speeding up / in the grip of imagination
Ever faster / ever further
Galleries of deception
Atrocious, yet impossible to resist
In a wild, unbridled fury
I swallow raw illusions
«Текст песни» Useful Moribund
«Текст песни» Useful Moribund
Wide-open eyes / stare at stone-cold walls
Heavy breathing / hearts are pounding
And yet, no sound / fear paralyzes
Silent panic is the fence / that makes all struggle vain
No sound from parched throats / no word, no cry
Awaiting the next feeding
Fed to survive / surviving for the higher cause
And dying for the greater gain
And so they do / as they are told
A given path / into the pitiless machine
And so they yield / to the fate imposed
And misery / becomes their wage
Still I stand
Still I breathe
And so they march / where they are told
A final track / into the butcher’s halls
And so they march / no hesitation
With steadfast stride / into their slaughterer’s hands
Still I bleed
Still I die
And we suffer / that we may serve
And we perish / to feed the strong
And though within us / wrath takes root
And dreams and thoughts / that cry out loud
Yet still we march / as we are told
Yet still we bleed
Yet still we die
Still we die
«Текст песни» About Ephemerality
«Текст песни» About Ephemerality
Nothing is ever still / the world knows no pause
Reality is a flux
A raging river / through the void of eternity
You seek your hold in vain
For time drives everything forward
Relentlessly
And there you crouch / desperate,
Trying to halt the wheels
To keep the fragments / from scattering
But constancy is an illusion / born from the longing for a yesterday
That never was
And all the past is nothing / but projection
Of your fears and wishes / cast from the Now
And there you hide away / ridden by fears,
Trying to stop the motion,
To keep the fragments / from drifting away
But you, trembling in your shelter,
Will break from your cocoon
And rise / unfold your wings like rays of sunlight
In the blazing glow of an ever-burning world
And merge / with the flames
Of existence
Would you carve yourself in stone? / Immortalize your being as art?
You will not succeed
For before your work is done / you are already gone
Memories fade / drifting through the whirlpools of the years
Clouds of smoke / in the winds of time
Sparks flying through the night / and burning out
Becoming embers / becoming ash
A phoenix for a moment / and then forgotten
Nothing remains / everything becomes
Nothing remains / everything becomes
«Текст песни» Shards of Abhorrence
«Текст песни» Shards of Abhorrence
Reality – shattered / The self – broken apart
A glance into the mirror / fractured
Each shard a new story / each gaze – a new demon
Thousand faces, thousand eyes / judged by a thousand observers
I, in a thousand ways / blurred and distorted
In light and in shadow / the phantoms appear and vanish again
Misshapen figures / that cannot be me
With a vacant stare
I try to find my face among these formless spirits
But to my horror / I recognize myself too often
I, in a thousand ways / twisted and torn apart
My innermost turned outward / yet the sight remains concealed
Obscure illusions / in a faint light
From different angles / and different distances
From the left and from the right / gigantic and small
Nothing is tangible / nothing explainable
Nothing / is clear
Nothing / can be defined
Nothing / is what I am
And yet / I am everything
Crooked reflections / in a broken glass
From so many different / perspectives
Into uncountable / dimensions
How can I recognize myself
When every glance at me reveals a new being
The one I was just yesterday already vanished in the shadow
Of who will come tomorrow
And even the memory of myself is nothing
But a pale shimmer
Each shard a new story / each gaze – a new demon
Thousand faces, thousand eyes / judged by a thousand observers
«Текст песни» Requiem
«Текст песни» Requiem
Instrumental
«Текст песни» Spirals
«Текст песни» Spirals
On top of civilization / reproduction is our curse
All beauty deluded
Redigested / beyond recognition
And every copy makes us fade some more
On top, every word’s been spoken
And every thought’s been thought
On top, every bound’s been broken
And every war’s been fought
Dreams and beliefs forsaken
Every song’s been played
Every chance for the news’s been taken
And every failure’s been made
Abiding at the dead end / unable to step back
Interwoven spirals / spinning in a plane
We keep afloat / cling to our instincts
Only fear of death / is causing us to stay
We’re used to vegetate / senseless
Forced to consume / this unworthy play
Evolution / a million years of fucking
Innovation / few thousand years of thought
Transformation / comes instantly by force
And all of them (are) depraved / into slogans to extend our misery
Interwoven spirals / spinning in a plane
The presence of a ceiling / makes us wish to fall
On top, every word’s been spoken
And every thought’s been thought
On top, every bound’s been broken
And every war’s been fought
Dreams and beliefs forsaken
Every song’s been played
Every chance for the news’s been taken
And every failure’s been made