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Sacrifice - A Final Paroxysm

from Self by Terzij de Horde

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Sacrifice – A Final Paroxysm

What resolve remains to me
When nothing survives and nothing suffices
When doubt has broken all horizons

But to extend will
Beyond will’s capacity

To cast off
The corpse of lies

Through sacrifice, to hidden grounds
My means to probe the self
Are careful, violent, final

Long shuttered life
Now shudders and trembles
With boundless, groundless desire
For plethora, openness, disorder

This is the antithesis of ritual
Put an end to sin, if sin there is
To expiation, if expiation there is

Reeling toward onrushing crisis
Toward willed annihilation
No vain flight on wax wings
But a leap to end all faith

Through sacrifice, to gateless gates
My means to probe the self
Are careful, violent, final

The creature, the traveller, is torn apart
Opened, turned outward toward death
Its thinking deranged and outraged
Its seamless garment rent

A corpse of lies
Cast off

Opened, turned outward toward death
Deranged and outraged
The seamless garment rent

A final paroxysm,
The birth of sight

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from Self, released October 19, 2015

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Terzij de Horde Utrecht, Netherlands

Terzij de Horde combine an amalgam of progressive black and doom metal with a rawness reminiscent of extreme hardcore or chaotic screamo.

Terzij de Horde is Dutch for “athwart the horde”. It is a line from the poem “Einde” (ending) by legendary Dutch poet Hendrik Marsman. Marsman is an inspiration to the band, as are many other authors and philosophers in the same dark vitalistic vein.
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