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Saprophytic Divinations

by HELLEBORUS

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1.
Beneath Thy shadow bower Salix Where Hellebore and Hemlock shelters Let us gather, Let us gather Illicit flames, Herbs of Medea shall grant us provenance over the dead A thousand candles burning below the Celestial Grave A thousand candles burning in Thy holy name Calling all priestesses and whores of the Sabbath You shall know her love by the witches passage Let us embrace the dispirited morals of our solitary heart Her naked body shall flourish unto the Congress of the Dead Sacred poison, sapphire skin, embodied oracle muse of dead A thousand candles burning in sleep’s forever dream A thousand candles burning for The Others who scream Calling all Priestesses and Whores of the Sabbath You shall know her love A throat choked of blood and foam vomiting the bloody blossoms of Udumbara Thessalian tongues, writhing and screams A heralding call for the unfolding of blessings or bane Let us gather, let us gather
2.
Alraun Ghost 05:16
Blood drawn and flesh maimed Urtica Dioica Of crystalline barbs envenomed Growing from bones from which the dead lay Crawling of the thicket, I crown Thy shrine... Teeth, blood, bones, hair and flesh Sleep thorn in winters warmth On the right you beget the dawn On the left you beget the night Send your Lion to devour my heart From Ambrosian lips the spirit departs Deliver unto me your art of prophecy Through power of the cadaver Break the walls that guard us Belladonna’s seeds in the entrails of a King Divinating Datura fever dreams Blood drawn and flesh maimed Carlina Vulgaris Of crystalline barbs envenomed Growing from bones from which the dead lay Worship them by Earthen alter And behold The Alraun Ghost Mandragora madness, the new blood is sworn By the work of the dagger and sacred tongue Sleep thorn in winters warmth Nightshade and soot Black powders, macabre amulets Phosphorescent worms in a triangle of thorns I am beholden, I crown The Juniper Shrine Solanaceae germinating in the oil of sacred young Worship them by Earthen alter And behold The Alraun Ghost Mandragora madness, the new blood is sworn By the work of the dagger and sacred tongue
3.
Verum Fidei 03:08
4.
Come forth form your vestibule halls Into the last rays of the setting Sun Breathe Thy honor and favor in me Through blooming pillars of Laurel leaves To the night! I call thee, embrace my dying prayer Unto your arms of moss and bones Through The Devil’s Garden a spine of thorns I've longed for your blackened kiss… Pollinate my lungs with burning Rose hips Through trembling supplication upon my lips Consume me in roots and amethyst To the night! I call Thee, for every sun must set The Devil’s blossoms are yielding Towards the first fire sparked in void Source of sources, the seed of all beginnings Behold a Heliotrope in Thy black salvation Among Funerary Flowers and serpents coiled My blood is fodder upon your hungry soils Into Thy ground, my fall for Thee I decompose in Ceremonial black earth I am the oracle, blood of Adonis Hollowed are these bleeding lungs Strength and beauty stirred within these eldritch flowers laden upon your alter Succulent chrisms, wines and tobacco I turn my un-retreating gaze towards the liminal light I've become the changeling Roots, amethyst and the asps The flesh redefined in the ever growing Morchella Into the night! I call thee, for the Sun has died I am yours, O sweet Demiurge By you're blessings I shall inter your lifeless inner sanctum Against the blindness of men I am your phantom Lord and servant, shapes without form I summon to turn the The Devils Garden To seek her nature by his fired lantern Come forth form your vestibule halls Into the last rays of the setting Sun Breathe Thy honor and favor in me Through blooming pillars of Laurel leaves
5.
Throughout the whole of the Earth and the whole of I O boundless Daimon come unto me, I invoke Thee inside... I greet Thee by the drown Hawk and verdant soil I invoke Thee inside The Juniper Shrine Daylight is torn by the Helleborus Black Thorn Come forth in obscured silence Through the gateways prepared for Thee Tear the robe that cloaks the Celestial Hollows Daylight is torn by the Helleborus Black Thorn Move by night in total truth of my heart and ‘neath my force Where art thou Daimon, I adjure this union Be Thy companion who echoes of The Other Side I’m but a wanderer upon the path I adjure, embrace my heart He who comest of my design... Raised from the offerings of milk and attic honey The Hierophant's Lantern guides Thy path Bend upon, move, change and appear, beyond myself… May the fierce dogs of Hekate consume this bleeding neophyte’s heart Arise from the first fire sparked in void You who hold sovereignty over Aquelarre You who shines above the snows and is locked below the dark ice Who’ve walked on unquenched, clear crackling fire Yet we stand... in the night depraved Until Eokharnast stampede upon the summit of my soul Through whom my light and to whom her light travels I am he who will search the whole of the Earth to seek the Seven fates of heaven Shine forth in new flesh born of the 4 winds The hawk now cries in our rapture of unions as we cast the seed into the fields of night I invoke Thee inside... The Juniper Shrine
6.
The death posture takes us to the outer limits Nullification of the reflexes and senses Initiatory journey with a kiss to the Amethyst Our sign is a black flame within the flower of death Your works will be written in blood with a kiss to the Amethyst Our works are omen, the willing death lets me into a new conciseness We raise a golem in her honor and it is you whom I’ll consecrate The fat of the babe seethes within the wine of our Sabbath We dream now within the Body of the Witch Within my heart the horned serpent is coiled These poisons flow in my veins with a ravenous hunger Phainein! Phainein! Beneath the decaying observer A portal human gorged by wolves In the incoming current Phainein! Phainein! Servants to your vision Come now as you are in the incoming current We gaze upon Thy body with oleaginous eyelids beset by the work of the Unguentarrii Phainein! Phainein! Libation of our hearts shall efflux and incubate incoming seasons Phainein! Phainein! Come now as you are, shine forth in our libation of Seasons
7.
Nocte Amans 06:08
Hear me Chaldean priests Through an arch of barbs and thorns A proclamation locked in amber, betula aurum adornare Some call you Myrrh but I call you Flesh Eater Golden winged beauty who’s light is darkness Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans Ignis Amoris Et Fidei I call your name in number equal to the very Parcea Before the voluptuous night sky, beneficent effluxes of stars The Sword of Dardanos reclaimed with the heart of vicious Eros untamed Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans, Nocte Amans Ignis Amoris Et Fidei Pluck now the Winter Jewels Blessed of Promethean rain Illuminate this pregnant grave Boundless Fates, dear children of dark night Cast a ray of light into the Spring of Life I adjure Gods Head by great name Cronos Blessed be this exsanguination above Usnea crowned bones Crepuscular blood-seeds erupts and breathes On this Earth and beneath Billowing between the spectral far side Only her voice of falling snow Come now my child… Come with Aurorae Come with Her blood memory Ignis Amoris Et Fidei Nunc respirare Ignis Amoris Et Fidei In novum viventem Deum
8.
Unto The Last Gate Drowning, I call her name By flowers of faith and urtication 9 dreams will come in The House of Greensward Arcana I bleed this maelstrom under Hailstone’s whitest grains Escryed from blood, these scars are made in Thy name To her voiceless voice I'm am enslaved To know, To see, I breathe… I am incomplete Betwixt Panaceæ and Pantrauma hang me from the Rowan tree In sacred heart Hecate-Selene In naked splendor she gives balance to wild grounds We are married by gold mycelium Running through the marrow of our Mother's tomb And the mind of The Father In the out pour of phantasmagoric jugulation Thy pain is beauty in burning of blood, Myrrh and Storax Peacock blue emanations uprooting the flora of our fate in the liminal horizon of death I call Thee O night-bellower Come unto my sacrifices and take your fill of love Fecundated locus feed my dreams From paradise of funeral grounds she holds my Heavens and holds my Hells Soothsaying purple lambent flames Osseous augury prophecy proclaim To know, To see, I breathe for knowledge old and new From cenote catacombs I pray for flight over Blåkulla‘s Meadow Divide me for love's sake over Eden’s nude pastoral glow Cry for me sky before the unveiling of heaven's body By all I can give, urtication to rise the indwelling Nachtvolk seed germinating inside I bleed this maelstrom under Hailstone’s whitest grains A kiss to the Amethyst for oracular powers of the holy death From paradise of funeral grounds I call Thee As I pass unto The Last Gate
9.
Scintillating Witchfires now cast provoking Proserpine at long last Before spells cleaved and the suffumigation of seeds... Seeds spawned of strangulations The numina blooming from the blood of the dove Emerging, creeping forth from the gallows of my lover Saprophytic divinations shine from spectral side of gravity They pass unto me like opium in my heart, So let us morn! The Alraun, the Kolossoi dance in the tragedy of the mother Anathema, The fire, In potent Night Resound the crossroads with her shroud upon the hanged man's corpse Harmonic tones rings the devil’s cup of secret songs Death be! The muse and I it’s singer with voice, Her voice through me Death be! Foresee the keys set free The Stone Mnizurin Death be! In Faith, in Fire, devotion, the dagger and sacred tongue From Death’s Holy Silence! I pray to myself for myself - I pray you hear me ...To the witness I sacrifice myself to myself Receive me! My Troth, the glory, the resonance of my Becoming... Hypraxis Ignite Grant me! O’ Lord the will to see the summit beyond the Firmament of Heavens Night falls darkest within the meadow With my hands pressed firmly into the earth I make my own home be my gallows To rise the Labyrinthine Saprophytic Serpent

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"Saprophytic Divinations is a diverse record within its black metal framework. Through tempo changes, technicality, melody and the occasional symphonic passage, as well as significantly better production, Helleborus have vastly improved on every element of 2016’s The Carnal Sabbath."
• DECIBEL MAGAZINE
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"What HELLEBORUS channel most about their home state of Colorado is the brooding, haunted vibe of the wilderness. The Manitou Springs-based quartet, featuring former Uada drummer Brent Boutte, play dramatic, unabashedly eerie black metal with heavy yet organic-sounding doses of early melodic death metal and goth, adding an almost romantic quality to the band’s sonic diabolicisms. That old-world fairy-tale sense of malevolent spiritualism and poetic horror is thick in the Rockies, whose looming shapes and thick woods feel like sulking gods who would love nothing more than to watch you wander into their shadows and never be heard from again."
• KERRANG
www.kerrang.com/the-news/helleborus-ex-uada-feed-the-night-a-sacrifice-in-their-nsfw-new-video/?fbclid=IwAR2P-GY-OKu3j8QnZOIbUpHTBFNHJo8vB89mADYRhb83BIjinTMzZ5OD6lA

"Many of us often hope for unions of visual, musical, and lyrical artistry, the integration of sights, sounds, and words that manifests a cohesive vision, with each part elevating the others and making possible a more compelling holistic experience. Such achievements are less common than we might wish, but the Colorado band Helleborus have given us one through their new album Saprophytic Divinations..."
• NO CLEAN SINGING
www.nocleansinging.com/2019/11/05/an-ncs-premiere-helleborus-saprophytic-divinations/#more-168844

"The cult of vileness that is HELLEBORUS have an offering in the works, and it will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Saprophytic Divinations comes out December 6th via Redefining Darkness Records, and it’s got what I need – unrelenting blastbeats, epic breakdowns, addictive groove and vocals that sound like they’re being delivered from a slashed throat. Helleborus makes black metal for foraging and doing pagan sex rites to – they are heavily influenced by occult herbalism and sexual mysticism, and the title of their sophomore album references organisms that feed off of decaying organic matter."
• CVLT NATION
cvltnation.com/helleborus-alraun-ghost/

credits

released December 6, 2019

Jerred C. Houseman • Composer, Writer and Guitars
S. Wyatt Houseman • Lyrics, Voice and Esoteric Agenda
Brent Boutté • Drums
Ian Horneman • Bass guitar

Paintings and illustrations •
Stefan Todorovic (Atterigner) of Khaos Diktator Art

Additional Illustrations • Dennis Lee Hughes of Cythraul Art

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Shane Howard at Sawn & Quartered
Blåkulla's Meadow video by Guilherme Henriques
Devil’s Garden lyric video by Nestor Carrera
Juniper Shrine drum video shot and edited by Brent Boutté

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HELLEBORUS Manitou Springs, Colorado

Saprophytic a term given to fungus or plants whom grow or eat from decaying matter. The band explore the concept of prophecy or divine communications blooming from the macabre.

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