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Dream of Ascension

by Tooth and Claw

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1.
Echo of an aeon The falconer’s desperate call A plea for atonement Lost in a dream In every age, the end has been upon us Like the sun’s blank and soulless gaze It sears through you in this new Pax Romana This precious gift from which we crave escape But what comes next? Exalt or renounce your spoiling flesh You know what comes next It must be something better than this test Nihilistic violence Endless claims to the throne All that’s real is power Fevered dreams of ascension Calling! Echo of an aeon gone unheard Destined to rise above the Earth To reap the dream of a world that’s true Ordained to rise above the filth Entitled to the tyrant’s due Ascension!
2.
Days like nails are hammered in Human filth crawls beneath your skin This is life, this is love Eternal circles that we’re spinning in Are you prepared to “suffer with”? That’s the lot that you’re going to get Born upon a crucifix Time is nails, lest we forget “To the stars” There is a price for what you wish Down in flames – The fated flight of wings of wax Those who disregard The wisdom of the past: You will be judged You will be judged All shall kneel before Generations who surpass You will be judged You will be judged – Judged if not forgot! Are you prepared to “suffer with”? ‘Cause that’s the best that you’re going to get Now, go with grace to your crucifix And bear love’s nails as you transcend
3.
An endless quest for fulfillment For deathless peace The future whispers to you of permanence Your throne atop the peak From there you’ll gleam in attainment A legacy riddled with fear, Shadows encroaching The sun, indifferent, Recedes Like stone that can’t be moved (unmoved) Like the past that will not change (unchanged) Yet suffering renews (Suffering renews) Like consciousness yields pain A wearied pursuit of the infinite In mortal chains Wretched fiends of orgiastic absolution from The burden of a name Fifteen minutes, Thirteen seconds Fleeting decades in the sun Fame and love fade like empires Conquerors, Chosen ones Too are crushed beneath that stone None exempt from time’s desire Rejoice as it all Expires “All the tragedies which we can imagine in the end return to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time” – Simone Weil
4.
Beneath the skin – layers infinite Invite them in Seventy times seven Behind the lens – caverns without end Won’t you come in? Seventy times seven Oh my dearest, breathe in peace Next to me, let me believe In who you are And who you’ll be I feel I know you Next to me A mask is shed Seething fangs now bared You drive them in like nails Straight through my hands Exhume true fear My pain cloaked beneath my bliss Through it descend to a realm Beyond forgiveness Now you’ll bear witness to What you’ve summoned forth My form Uncanny Rising from the toxic sludge Face torn Disfigured No cheek left to turn He’ll break you from within And watch you fucking burn (like you deserve) Beneath the skin – layers infinite Called to forgive Seventy times seven Behind the lens – caverns without end I won’t forgive Seventy times seven I won’t forgive I won’t forget We shed our skin Won’t you come in?
5.
Awaken now Fair stolen child To the cold uncaring kiss of night The world you’ve known That warm veil of smiles Will not serve you in these passage rites See them – withered By time and gravity Haggard figures Plagued by senility Hear them – weeping So restless in their sleep All are shrieking Of death’s anxiety Their voices call you to the service of sleep Their vices catch you in the webs they weave The form of Mother clings Embraces tempt you to never leave But Father pulls you through – Through the night, unto sacred light These bonds must break Through the cold uncaring night The world you’ve known That veil of lies Will not serve you in these passage rites You can’t go home again You can’t go home You can’t go home again Now your life begins
6.
Arrival 02:32
Shadow screams Locked inside A darker you that’s been denied Shadow screams With primal eyes Bears witness as you’re victimized When I arrive I erupt from within A surge of power Indifferent to sin When I arrive Their eyes will reflect The majesty That You command Reality shifting The rapture of vengeance A storm of teeth gnashing For all their trespasses They will be repaid And nothing will ever be the same When I arrive I bring you the gift Their civil lies now Reduced to mist Unleash and release Unleash and release Show them your face, You righteous demon Rejoice in pain as You inflict it Through silent years, suppressed, unintegrated Now We become One Behold the arrival of The Mad God Shadow screams Locked inside A madness borne of civil lies Reality shifting The rapture of vengeance A storm of teeth gnashing For all their trespasses They will be repaid
7.
Torn in Half 02:23
In the name of Desire Go forth into Each abyss that beckons Like a siren Like illusion Mirages in a person The god-shaped womb A forlorn tomb The grail you seek is empty Just like you Echoes grasping At lost and wandering halves Aura of ancestral past Instinct guiding Toward a frayed horizon Where all weary souls can rest In the name of Desire Go forth, meet your doom To the sirens In delusion Mirages that subsume The god-shaped hole The cursed poles The peace you seek is fleeting Just like that Torn in half At your birth, forced Into searing light Then you were torn in half Then, through time, Through each loss and divorce Then too you were torn in half Unto the end – lost and wandering halves Unto within – warring, wounded halves
8.
I must Assert, ascend I must Conquer and possess (yes, yes!) Spiritual lust Demonic fire of life A molten core – deep within Yearning for Oblivion Absolve – forget yourself Absolve – and become something else Absolve – forget this realm Absolve – beget a world anew It’s always darkest before the dawn The dawn that brings no light Clawing and piercing through your mind Indulge the body, escape time Puppet Plaything So assured of better worlds And in the end, when your light is spent A devil’s laughter can be heard You can want what you will But you cannot will what you want This world can never be enough For us I must assert, I must ascend I must conquer and possess Assert! Ascend! As if unbound by the flesh (yes, yes, yes!) Spiritual lust Demonic fire of life A molten core – deep within Yearning for Oblivion
9.
Ravage 01:42
Warring halves within Fragments of a god Voices that betray The nature of the law You know you can’t hide From what you are Stunted, vile creature Ill-adapted to the Earth Precious sickness rampant A plague of consciousness Ravage to the end Ravaged to the end

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released May 21, 2021

Guitars, bass, keys, and synth performed by Scott Crouse

Vocals performed by Daniel Austin

Drums performed by Cameron Joplin



Lyrics by Daniel Austin



Guitars, bass, keys, and synth recorded by Scott Crouse



Vocals on “Dream of Ascension”, “Time’s Desire”, “Seventy Times Seven”, “Kiss of Night”, and “Arrival” recorded by Alan Burcham at ABR (Memphis, TN)



Vocals on “Your Crucifixion”, “Torn in Half”, “Spiritual Lust”, and “Ravage” recorded by Allan Davis for Nerve Audio (Houston, TX)



Drums recorded by Jeremy White at White Noise Studios (Winston Salem, NC)



Mixed and mastered by Scott Crouse



Cover artwork by Jeremy Hush (jeremyhush.com)

Band photo by Reid Haithcock (reidhaithcock.com)

Layout by Daniel Austin

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Formed during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders of Spring 2020, Tooth and Claw features Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis), Daniel Austin (Die Young), James Chang (Undying, Catharsis, Sect), and Cameron Joplin (Magnitude) exploring new realms of aggression. ... more

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