Oblivion

Shore(s)

"The Architect of Flesh" - This track reveals the full extent of Crowe’s curse. Through the Codex Umbralis, his body becomes more than a vessel—it is remade as a living temple for the entity. Each scar, each wound, each murder was not random but part of a grand design: the construction of a gateway through flesh itself. The lyrics shift between Crowe’s horrified awareness and the entity’s triumphant proclamation, with Abberline beginning to realize that his partner’s body has been transformed into the ritual’s foundation. The tragedy deepens: Crowe is no longer simply possessed, but restructured, his humanity overwritten into architecture for something that wants to step fully into the world.

[Intro]
[CROWE]
Through time's deep cracks, the syllables creep,
Older than stars, in shadows they sleep.
Tongues forged in ash, etched deep in stone,
I form their shapes—but not alone.

[Verse 1]
[CROWE]
My veins they ink the script unseen,
My skin’s the parchment where gods convene.
Dreams carve diagrams in red,
Ancient glyphs where blood has bled.

I thought the words could give me sight,
Instead they claimed my shape outright.
The marrow twists, the tendons bind,
A temple raised from flesh and mind.

[Pre-Chorus]
[CROWE]
I thought I searched, but I was found,
A vessel forged, a soul now bound.
The Codex spoke, the lines were sown—
It carved a frame that’s not my own.

[Chorus]
[CROWE]
The architect of flesh claims and binds,
My blood the blueprint, my bones the lines.
The architect of flesh, design complete,
Through me it builds what can’t be beat.

[ENTITY]
Flesh is mine… design complete…

[Post-Chorus]
[CROWE]
Carved in marrow… etched in breath…
Life remade… through living death.

[Verse 2]
[CROWE]
Its script carved deep in bone and vein,
An edifice built through sacred pain.
My heart tolls like a chapel’s bell,
My skull the doorway, my ribs the shell.

It spoke in tongues my lips betrayed,
Each vow a stone the temple laid.
I was the seeker, now I’m clay—
Shaped by hands that won’t decay.

[Pre-Chorus]
[CROWE]
I thought I searched, but I was found,
A vessel forged, a soul now bound.
The Codex claimed, the patterns pressed—
It made my body manifest.

[Chorus (Variation)]
[CROWE]
The architect of flesh, no will, no choice,
My frame the altar, my throat its voice.
The architect of flesh, design fulfilled,
The door now opens, the blood is spilled.

[ENTITY]
Blood is spilled! Flesh is mine!

[Bridge]
[ABBERLINE] “What curse is this?”
[ENTITY] (Your partner’s skin)

[ABBERLINE] “He bleeds, he breaks—”
[ENTITY] (He builds, he makes.)

[ABBERLINE] “This path consumes!”
[ENTITY] (Through him I bloom!)

[ABBERLINE] “His soul, undone—”
[ENTITY] (The work begun!)

[Breakdown
[ENTITY]
Not man, not god—but what survives,
A temple built from living lives.
No silence left, no voice, no rest—
Only the Codex, carved in flesh.

[Final Chorus]
[CROWE]
The architect of flesh—I can’t resist,
Each breath a stone, each wound its fist.
The architect of flesh—design aligned,
Through me it builds, through me confined.

[ENTITY]
Through you confined… design aligned!

[Extended Outro]
[CROWE]
These hands were mine… (no longer mine…)
This breath was mine… (lost to design…)
This life was mine… (crossed the line…)
The temple stands… and I’m confined.

[ENTITY]
“Zorath’nim… Mor’thak keleth…”

Heartbeat slows, silence.


The Architect of Flesh

Find your mind crime
Fear not tomorrow’s story

Strive to untwine
Fear not tomorrow’s story

Waste no more fucking time
Fear not tomorrow’s story

Find your mind crime

Wait
No more time
For your time
No more time
For your time

Find your mind crime
Fear not tomorrow’s story
Waste no more of your fucking time

Come and stake your claim instead
Of hiding in there
Behold your darkest self
Seek your freedom
My friend

Wait
No more time
For your time
No more time
For your time

Find your mind crime
Fear not tomorrow’s story
Waste no more of your fucking time

Music and Lyrics by: John Dunlop 
© 2025. 



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Mind Crime

Metal/Death Metal/Metalcore/Industrial-Tinged Metal.

Website: https://hauntshademusic.nl

You can find lyric videos to all my music on my official YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@Hauntshade

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Lyrics written by me.
Music created with the help of AI.

Society Without Humanity

LOOP4EVER pt1

The city breathes in neon gasps and diesel fumes...
I'm a ghost in its machine, a beat-down prophet in the concrete cathedral.
And in the refraction of a million raindrops on a taxi window... I see her.
A silhouette sketched on the fog, a whisper tangled in the subway's roar.
My Mirage.

Just a flicker in the corner of my eye!
A face in the crowd that I memorize!
A promise that the static world denies!

I'VE BEEN CHASING A PHANTOM! A SHADOW ON THE WALL!
A ECHO IN THE CANYON, JUST WAITING FOR MY CALL!
YOU'RE A VISION, A RELIGION, THAT'S CRUMBLING AS I CLIMB!
THIS BROKEN IMAGE IS ALL I CAN EVER FIND!

Him: Saw you on the platform, 2 AM, the A-train's scream.
You were a sonnet written in the steam.
Her: "Hey, you look lost. Need a light? A name? A clue?"
Him: "I'm looking for... a feeling. Someone I thought I knew."
Her: "Your eyes are searching, man, but your soul's not home."
Him: "Your voice... it's wrong. The frequency, the tone.
I had your lexicon, your cadence memorized in my bones!
But your words are just flat stones you're throwing, no poetry, no fire!"
Her: "I'm just a girl. You're projecting your entire
Requiem onto a stranger. That's a lonely kind of danger."
The syntax of her smile was all wrong, a foreign language on a familiar tongue

Just a flicker that I tried to make real!
A wound I'm desperate to feel!
A fiction that I'm destined to seal!

I'VE BEEN CHASING A PHANTOM! A SHADOW ON THE WALL!
A ECHO IN THE CANYON, JUST WAITING FOR MY CALL!
YOU'RE A VISION, A RELIGION, THAT'S CRUMBLING AS I CLIMB!
THIS BROKEN IMAGE IS ALL I CAN EVER FIND!

All this time... burning maps to a kingdom that wasn't there.
Chasing a reflection in a sea of empty stares.
And she was... the quiet harbor... while I was lost at sea.
The steady rhythm... to my frantic, broken melody.

AND NOW I SEE! THE GHOST WAS IN MY HEAD!
AND THE REAL WOMAN... THE ONE WHO SPOKE MY SOUL INSTEAD...
WAS THE ONE POURING COFFEE, MENDING THE SEAMS...
A REAL, BREATHING MIRACLE, LOST IN MY DAMNED DREAMS!

AND NOW SHE'S GONE! WITH A MAN WHO SEES HER FACE!
NOT SOME HOLOGRAM! NOT SOME GHOST IN SPACE!
HE TOOK HER HAND! AND I JUST WATCHED THEM FADE...
WITH THE SPECTER OF MY MIRAGE, A DEBT THAT CAN'T BE PAID!

The mad ones... the ones who are mad to live... we burn out our eyes staring at suns we invented.
And the real moon... the one that guides the tides...
We never even saw it shine.
Just a phantom...
...just a phantom.

Chasing Phantoms

a track I did awhile ago that has been kept under wraps hope y'all metal heads enjoy! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Dreams of No Meaning

Hard Rock/ Metal track for when your done with the one that hurt you most.

Forget My Name

Had this song for a bit and was like i want to remix it so i did, then i was like EXTEND IT so I did, and here we are. 
(Art is from this artstation https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4brZR2)

[Verse]
Fists like thunder
Demons torn asunder
Blood pools steaming black

Rocket fire screams
Shattered skulls and dreams
All fade to the attack

[Prechorus]
What is mercy
What is peace
Nothing left but release

[Chorus]
Rip and tear until it’s done
Hell won’t hide
Nowhere to run
Slayer’s wrath
It’s just begun
Rip and tear
Rip and tear

[Verse 2]
Super shotgun roar
Flesh explodes
Gore
A symphony of death

Chainsaw grinding bone
Hell’s afraid
Alone
No time for one last breath

Rip 'n Tear



Why can't I be happy,

Diagnosed Borderline at 15   

Now 38,

Molested youth,

Sexual used like toy ,

Discarded creating wounds,

at 19 self destruction,

Now I'm burnt out,

just a old religion forgotten 

Like I always knew I was,

No matter how much I cry,

I never find release,

Will I ever be ok,

My emotions are like a gun shot to the souls,

Force feeding my glass covered in motor oil,

But never experiencing death ,

Emotionally injecting me with bleach, 

Just to have convolution,

My tears are dry,

Expressionless,

Drugs only go so far to cover the damage,

That no one would protect me,

I drink myself to sleep or until I can't see,

Trying to die,

But knowing I will aways awake the next day,

I started cutting my wrists 

But now I over indulge and write,

Numbing my soul from others and the world

No one wants to know me anyway 

But I can't accept I'll never be ok,

I watch my world burn,

While I drink wine in silence, 

Trap borderline and confused,

Out of control but I look normal,

I can't relate,

My emotions are to strong,

I'm so numb to everything but I am a fire storm in the mind,

Distorted intrusive thought are like,

Being stabbed millions of times,

Feeling every infection for a life time in seconds,

Downloaded a saved

During the day and night,

Knowing know one feels the same,

Or can,

Never meeting anyone because I don't know how,

Isolated learning all I can,

I only got one life not like I'm coming back,

But I try to kill everything everyday with no questions or care for anyone,

Worshiping death but god makes me unable to die when I want,

Forcing me to suffer until my life is over and done,

Borderline 2

The hurt. the pain. the suffering. the eternal heartache. Memories of fractured souls. Death Beyond Reason brings another meaning to death. Embrace the suffering. Witness yourself relating to this pain. 

P.S. this is a project I've been working on for months an months an months. An this goes out to anybody in the world on earth. You wanna learn the songs an play them please do. I would love to collab an have others to help me start this dream band.

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

