BAPTISM

Origen : Finlandia, Tampere

Formados : 1998

Estilo : Black

Temática : Satanismo, anticristianismo, odio y muerte

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Miembros : 

Lord Sargofagian Todos los instrumentos, Voces

Discografía :

Satanic Rituals Demo 1998

Sons of Ruin & Terror Demo 2000  

The Beherial Midnight CD 2002

Primitive Finland Split 2003  

Baptism / Uncreation's Dawn Split 2004  

Black Ceremony EP 2004  

Wisdom & Hate EP 2004

Morbid Wings of Sathanas CD 2005

Evil Mysteries EP 2006

Grim Arts of Melancholy CD 2008

Chalice of Death EP 2010

As the Darkness Enters CD 2012
Gloria Tibi Satana Recopilatorio 2015
V: The Devil's Fire CD 2016

AS THE DARKNESS ENTERS (2012)

Este As the Darkness Enters, supone el cuarto trabajo de banda finesa, trabajo oscuro que desprende una halo místico  Oscuridad y melancolía creados a base de unos teclados y melodías muy trabajados en una obra en donde sobresales los cambios de ritmo de la batería y el gusto por los pasajes evocadores, junto con una guitarra por momentos próxima a registros más accesibles y la voz de Lord Sargofagian que dota al conjunto de la personalidad necesaria .Quizá el grupo no reciba el mismo reconocimiento que otras bandas afines, pero el fan de Baptism sabe lo que se va a encontrar en sus disco y una vez más nos saldrá defraudado. (8)

1. Introduction 01:49  

2. Bringer of Misery 05:06

Altar of SerpentNine candles are burning, between every other

Glimmer of incense

and morbid odor of human skull

true darkness surrounding us

Only love is sacred

let hate be eternal

the pure odor of fornication and flesh

Loneliness, temple inside my head

Human soul, knowledge and the ruler

Hell is present, past and that which is yet to come

Future, despair and waiting, with me

There are no other in this room

and footprints already lost in dust

Perfect peace and nostalgy ruling

Tired of life and unclean

(I pacify my mind and close my eyes)

And we will see His glory again

O' Satan, the source of my power

Thy Oneness is a flame unyielding

Immortal Prince of the Depths

Praised be thy name

And that, my power

3. Chalice of Death 05:42

Deep green sea opens, raging to the horizonGround breaths forth desperate air

And from amidst the fire not seen

by all, boasts out the voice

From the darkness I cry for you (Lord Satan)

I see a Fragile constellation,

from beyond this universe

A breath of death to my inner hell

My light as by the will of its creator (Lucifer)

A spark from the forge within Earth's core

If that breath could set free

If I could leave everything

and travel beyond realities

I would rise to my lips the Chalice of Death

and drink without the smallest hesitation

Clear pleasure, lascivious strength

Fervent, wavelike power

Sinä kuoleman malja ja sisäinen tuli

Sinä vapahdus ja kadotus kaikessa läsnä

Sinusta me olemme tehdyt ja sinuun hajoamme

Sinä iänkaikkinen ja ikuinen

4. The Prayer 08:18

All is made with human handsYet no laughter heard

But cracks on broken idols are smiling

When fire out-poured

Darkness became light

When you can't see Samael you're him

These words are silence, like all else

My Master, why hast thou remembered me

Kneeling at my altar of everything

Three gates below grant paradise by breaking it

Behold through me, for you are the Eye

Serpents crawl from older dusks

Soon hunting on altars of flesh

Knowing you I will become that prey

Which grows only stronger by its perpetual death

And when I will stand on the ashes

I Will see

I Will see the face of God

The edge of horizon who splits the night

Hearing the blessing

Of discordant choir

From the depths I call for you O' Lord

From the forms and names I reach for You

You are the blood and you are the nerves

You are the hands that unite in Prayer

"All of it consumed, fools gold turned to blessing

The wounds upon my palms, pierced by no shallow words

Still time to wake up, no time to look back, though"

No more waiting

Indulge on blood-baked bread

It's everything

From fertile ashes

Behind the stars

Of darkness

Of Master

For my time

I have taken

                                                            5. Esoteric Spheres 06:28

No path, no one to witness my return

Through the darkness I flew

Questions turned to answers

Answers turned to awe

Despair, thou made me strong

Horrible yet beautiful, this unearthly domain

Made by no human hand

Seen by none but the chosen

For only few can understand this form of holiness

The lonely, the burning ones

When walls crumble - when floor gives away

Outside the cosmos - is still breathing

Beyond flesh and blood - more profane than those

Mysteries of Satan - unfolding in tranquil vision

Which i never left

Utter loneliness breeds lucid insanity

Fragments of man at your feet

The trail is took within, there is no other way

You must reach beyond dreams

Find something other to arrive

  

6. Sieluni Temppeli 06:13

Kuin tyynen lammen pinta

Avautuu musta kirkkaus yläpuolellani

Alapuolellani läpäisee sydämeni

Huuleni eivät liiku, kun kuiskaan kaikkein pyhimmän nimen

Kuolema

Temppelin valkea suonikas marmori

Tanssissa kohti Häntä

Hän hymyilee

Jumalani Saatana

Hänen lempeät kätensä

kavoillani kuin varjot

Huudan tyhjyyteen sanattomasti, henkeä vetämättä, ikuisesti

jokainen päivä sirpale täydellisyyden mosaiikkia

Hiljaisuus itse Hänen äänensä

ja kaikki on hiljaisuutta sille joka sen kuulee

Antikristus kukkien kruunu ohimoillaan

Hymyilee liekkien keskeltä

Tervehtien uutta aamuruskoa

Terve, isäni Lucifer, ihmisen mestari

Ylistetty on sinun nimesi ikuisuuteen

7. Spell of Penitence 04:54 

  Silent night, black as the Abyss

Stars have fled this evening of Northland

Human blood spilled in rivers

From hearts rejoicing their destiny

Behind is the Baptism of black fire

before is Life and Death, joined in eternity

Silent night, patterned by cold lights from above

As bowels of clouds are torn open

Revealed the shining treasures of space

Distant gemstones and the moonlike blazing Moon

Under these our hearts weep again, again

To open to the sacred mysteries of Satan

Fratres, agnoscamus peccata nostra

Ut apti simus ad sacra mysteria celebranda

I have let the light tempt me

I have sought happiness before reality

I have thought there's something else but me

I forgot Thy Grace is in everything

"Now, the heart of night is cut open, from darkness the visions of madness are spilled, filled with beauty, full of life"

Knowledge older than man is revealed

By dedication, by the spells, and the grace of Satan

Black embrace of night is opening all around me

8. Casus in Tenebris 07:48

Under the highest powers, this is how it is meant

And this is how it's always been, Fuck the World

Sparkling like fire is that

Funeral procession in my mind

I am living that darkest time

Collapsing everything behind

From the stars and forests I find myself

Closer to myself

I'd like to sink, but only As The Darkness Enters

Death is a holy communion before dawn of a new age

From darkness I receive my power, I feel so close now

Like a breath on my hair or touching my skin

as a stranger in this world

Red as blood and black as chaos is this touch

That I've adored just to see the truth

On the wings of burning chaos, riding the Apocalypse

Let chaos come, I remain standing, I keep it in my embrace

Casus In Tenebris, potestas umbrae et mortis

So beautiful is that nightwing along which we ride

The path of our ancestors

Along the life forgotten, as the ruins of burning world

Give rhythm to this procession

I am darkness who fell, light disappearing

Let destruction and harmony rise, from between life and death

  46:18