The Infant King

by Tandav

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1.	The Infant King 05:09	lyrics	buy track
Choking the world with presumptuous eloquence Bleeding the heart and the soul of integrity Leaps and bounds Every story a counterfeit Indebted to psychopaths to strengthen our economy Poison control media converging on the scene in real time Unmask the scheme Do you like what you see? What you hear, what you breath? It's drowning in bloated excrement Enticing, vehement Emerging contradictions spoken without a sound Prospect of wrath; stubbornly chiding, scoffing Fiend for the new reality star - reveling in languished dichotomy Pernicious one with ill intention Dredging through the swamp so carefully Molded and with careless hubris normalized Standing so tall with miniature stature Total control of your minds eye Memoirs of the infant king With plans to end things
2.	The Inevitable 04:31	lyrics	buy track
It drags it's tongue across the land A Savage beast quick to know it's place Above all man, a sight to see Scavenger of hopelessness Reptilian eyes break the sky Chewing marrow off the bone Disproportionate, remote and ever affluent Rupture the covenant Manipulation Constant stream infects the flow of society Embrace of lunacy Cloaked in poison, voices screaming from the TV screen Gnawing at your soul Worship the all mighty dollar tree Fixate on demons from the East Memories fading into the concrete Sulfuric acid bleeds from the sea Tectonic movement propelled by degrees No solvent, just more involvement Each day deny its existence Kids pay the price of incompetence Bent on sentient annihilation Dripping in self indulgence Smothered in persistence Devourer of time The opportunist Destroyer of life Nihilistic craze so engulfing Initiating planetary escape By and large convinced ourselves of better days Without stepping foot in the way of resistance Assuming some sort of being would save us from the ultimate disaster Please, the only guarantee Is self eradication So when you close your eyes at night and pray Remember to expect not a thing.
3.	Murder Death Rape 04:54	lyrics	buy track
How many of us must there be till the commonality of senses becomes contagious Abridged passage of knowledge, cornerstone of a growing concept To choose what facts are lies and what truths we hide Beliefs are all that's real Behind beguiled eyes recedes attentive minds The new standard A Fitting backdrop of this dystopian calamity Bones break easy, so do words The fabric of our species torn asunder as it makes us so sick A social pandemic Spreading disease, uncovering the strain that binds Lacerated unity drowns my will in fear. Crippled passenger confined in turbulence Mischievous joyride Are you the you you wanted to be or the you they wanted to see? A constant reminder of inferiority Strengthen the resolve The people know not what they want Corporate institutions decide the moral code For they seek not but for themselves Poor dissemination of information Rapid outbreak of violence Whispers of madness The sound is so clear Murder Death Rape It repeats in cycles
4.	Prevailing Illusion 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Beyond the point of no return Immortal danger is our curse Will it be the neighbor or the clerk The world is full of vantage points Parasites feeding on terror An overwhelming hunger for those who no longer wonder And never seem to overcome years of social engineering And so we see the constant growth, this ceaseless abhorrent behavior A culture enamored with violence The price for blood is never up for debate The flow ignites the revenue stream It's a corporate institution To live and die The game is rigged The players have yet to realize The officials are also spectators At a free event At their expense Prevailing the illusions Succeeding the intrusion So few awake to see the falsehood democracy involved in this collusion No debt ceiling We procreate several opportunities For tyrants to claim totality
5.	A Mother's Bane 05:03	lyrics	buy track
You gave up everything to help me grow and strive, unlike yourself You broke and married a broken man; who then broke his children A Foundation for a broken home Yet you still persisted to give all of yourself To win the war while losing preceding battles In god you trust while losing faith in your own gumption A prisoner to many deities Scrambling your thoughts In dreams misguided Clairvoyant A Mother knows best This is what I was made for Repeat in your mind to know that you’re not going blind How could you see this coming? This path of selflessness With Opened arms and a crucifix hanging from your sentiment Those tears you shed, a proxy for your hopelessness Fear extorting your distress Proceeds of his complexity Your son is broken The air is choking The only reason betrays your logic Smashed your face You keep on telling me that “he's your father” Facts don't change nor does this abuse I'm going back in time to erase the time line In which my untimely existence unfolded into reality Tragedy multiplied your family Now you're wondering will they save or will they simply drown In the mud you laid Detached and more or less devoid, emotionless Constantly seen as a fucking mess
6.	Amrita 03:30	lyrics	buy track
(Instrumental)
7.	Abhorrent Sight 04:56	lyrics	buy track
Leeched upon a broken world Exacerbating human consumption Entitled to destroy Draining the life Relentless endeavor Shameless gluttony Bereft of disease Seismic cacophony beckons the need to flee For us to be extinct As we begin the final push towards total damnation She keeps a watchful eye upon the structure This abhorrent sight has turned her wicked for a while Till the expulsion event we stood in defiance Now mother takes to the stage The womb embraced for it hurts to bring the end of all days and a millennium of evolution And as we burn remember And as we burn remember what we've done The only chance for us is to be one with the nothing Is to be one with the nothing that came before us. The last man's breath As the ember's light the way A scenic route of what once was
8.	Compliment Fixation 05:19	lyrics	buy track
We have gathered to say farewell as the ash turns to dust Lamenting society now long since passed Remembering miniscule indifferences that tore us away from civility In war we entrusted our security But never thought to entrust science Bastardized, inoperative Rendered by opinion Ideologies held sacred as the sanest truth Survived by memories of cosmic integrity A faint blue light pale in comparison to the splendor of might that is Saturn As the eons unfold, distance prevails As our image grows dimmer and deeper into the abyss Fragments of reality is what we've been and could ever have been Insignificant bodies of geometry, physics and biology Self importance not a remedy, but a virus As we conclude dominance via privilege And access to luxury On the backs of industry An addictive relationship Toxic to the core a poisonous reproduction Complement fixation As the embers fade to black nothing matters Nothing's left to forgive and to forget No one's guilted no one's left Devoured by complications Of our infant species Self imploding microorganisms Absent preservation, inclined stipulation Regents of pigs dance on the throne Tandemly feeding their bowls to us all Free for all And the price? What's at stake? Condemning the world.
9.	And The Things That Matter Not 05:56	lyrics	buy track
What a sight This marvel of a pebble stranded in deep space Given it's shine by the sun that it revolves around Adjoined by a lunar companion In sync with the cosmic rotation A natural occurrence would emerge Life after billions of years The giver, protector, nutritionist Mother of all we call creation Lover of all the worms that pick at her aged and cracked face Call it's name she will not answer Only provides so long as we abide By the laws of nature The unspoken rule merely understood by those who wish to survive Oh pale blue dot Apparition if you miss it Larger than that which one can comprehend Earth, Gaia, Home A place of many names and one of few thus far in the great expanse A place where once giants roamed the lands A place where the sentient learned violence and brought it's own defeat Within exists the many possibilities Endless avenues Choices to make To war or offer peace So plagued by Ill intentions Defiled contemplation There is none to be hero Turning to the stars for guidance The bonds between The knowledge of the strongest Link gave rise to culture From which came all the years of pain and anguish And the things that matter not

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released June 14, 2018

All songs written, recorded and produced by Tandav.
Guest writing collaboration by Justin Weiss on Murder Death Rape and Amrita

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Tandav New Jersey

Tandav (THAHN-duv) is an American extreme metal band, born in New Jersey. Fans of Lamb Of God, Revocation, The Faceless and Wretched will enjoy bathing in the band's marriage of unexpected melodies and brutal vocal stylings. Tandav released their debut EP "The Nascency" in January 2017 and their first full album "The Infant King" in June 2018.

Stay tuned.There is much more to come. ... more