Zealotry - Heralding the Black Apostle lyrics

Through the ash-choked skies it pierces From the vast unknown it arrives Dreadful to the ma**es, still it beckons The Black Apostle – colossus from beyond the stars Berthed in the depths of blight; bathed in phantasmal, unearthly aura radiating through the walls of sleep Unnatural compulsion, galvanized by suffering mystified by the whispers in their dreams We hear the warnings: “To cast sight upon it is to be enthralled, to make contact with it is to be consumed.” Conscious thought overridden in its presence Captivated by the glorious oddity Telepathic surge the disciples converge on the blighted earth convocation without language Entranced… Called forth… in recondite pilgrimage Through the wastes they tread the apostle their beacon . blinded by the toxic air guided by the second sight Battered by the searing sun, the stinging wind, the bitter dust six-score they gather as moths to a coruscating light trepidation cast aside, they form a reverent circle temporal dilation, perceptions distorting Two-by-two approach, commune and merge with the alien singularity, double helix contorting Two by two transmute and emerge with dissident biology, the sixth extinction thwarting Nanomechanical infusion Intramolecular surgery Reshape the organism, transcend limitations Discard vestigial DNA Reconfigure the vital organs Introduce new biocatalysts Rebuild the flesh, reclaim survival On this nightmare that was once called “Earth”