A tribute from Terrestrium to The Black Cross, born from deep respect and artistic kinship. Led by Lyssa—sister to Lilith of The Black Cross—the band reimagines each song as a sincere offering, preserving the original spirit while casting it through their own shadowed lens. A dedication of voice, craft, and admiration.

The Seraphim Lie

When The Stars Collapse

Two Sisters

Ashes In The Rain

Angels Bleed Too

Call From The Grave

Obsidian Ledger III:XV — “Check’n X, the Mark Revealed”

The Seers foretold the Tenth Mark, etched not on stone but on the spirit—
a sigil that exposes every truth we try to bury.
When the X appears, the hidden fractures of the soul gleam like exposed wire.

“Name your burden,” the Recordkeeper whispers,
for the Check’n X is no punishment—
only a mirror sharpened to cut.

And so the prophecy stands:
what is marked must be faced,
and what is faced may finally be unbound.

Check'n X

Astral Codex II:VII — “Nebulus Collision, the Meeting of Fates”

The Codex speaks of two wandering nebulae fated to drift alone—
until the day their shadows touched and the heavens shuddered.
Their collision was not destruction, but awakening:
a fusion of forgotten stars and newborn fire.

“Where paths converge, destinies ignite,” the Starkeepers declare,
for no force is greater than two truths meeting at last.

Thus the sky remembers the moment when silence split open,
and creation learned to breathe again.

Nebulus Collision

Ethereal Charter IV:III — “Let Me Live, the Plea Unbound”

The Charter recounts a voice risen from the edge of oblivion—
a whisper demanding space where none was granted.
“Life is not given,” the Ancients wrote,
“it is claimed by those who dare to stand in the ruins.”
Thus the plea became a vow,
and the vow became a spark that refused to die.

Let Me Live

Veil Archive IX:XI — “Faceless Entities, the Watchers Unnamed”

The Archive tells of beings without form or memory,
observing existence from behind an unblinking veil.
No eyes. No voices. Only presence.
“Fear not the monsters you can see,” warns the scribe,
“but the ones that mirror you without reflection.”
For in their silence, every truth trembles.

Faceless Entities

WELCOME TO TERRESTRIUM
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The Codex of Terrestrium
“When the world still wept in silence and the sun was but an unspoken dream, four arose from the marrow of creation — their names carved in the bones of dusk. Thus began the song that would never end.” — Fragment from The Pale Canticles

I. Bryce, The Chordborne (Guitar)
In the elder tongues, it is written that Bryce was not born, but summoned — drawn from the lament of dying stars and the resonance of fractured light. His hands, branded with the sigils of resonance, were shaped by celestial architects to awaken the sleeping heart of the world. When he plays, cathedrals crumble and angels remember their fall. The sound he conjures is not mere melody, but the architecture of sorrow itself.
His instrument, Orrison, is said to be strung with the veins of fallen seraphs — a relic of sound and suffering. Through it he channels the ache of eternity, crafting harmonies that wound and heal in the same breath. The scriptures call him The Keeper of the Unfinished Dawn, for his chords forever chase the first light that never came.

II. Selestia, The Vein of the Earth (Bass)
Before the first word was sung, there pulsed her breath beneath the soil. Selestia — the one whose heartbeat forged the rhythm of tides, whose silence tethered the cosmos. Her bass murmurs with the voice of forgotten oceans; it moves like tectonic memory, as though the planet itself plays through her hands.
It is said her strings were woven from the tendons of leviathans that swam in the void before time took shape. To hear her play is to feel the weight of gravity mourn. She is not performer, but pulse — the unseen spine of the divine. The ancients named her The Nocturnal Axis, for she keeps the world in orbit through the low hum of her being.
When her tone fills the air, the moon bows, and shadows learn to breathe again.

III. Michael, The Pulse of Ruin (Drums)
From the ashes of the first war between silence and sound rose Michael — the drummer whose rhythm measures both birth and collapse. His drums were forged from the ribs of titans; his sticks carved from the roots of the World Tree that once held the sky aloft.
Each strike of his hand is prophecy — each silence, a tomb. Through his rhythm, the dead remember their names, and mountains whisper of their first breath. He keeps time not for mortals, but for gods long buried in dust.
The old hymns call him The Oracle of Ashen Time, for he alone commands the cadence of destruction and renewal. When he plays, the heavens shudder — not in fear, but recognition. For even the cosmos must answer his pulse.

IV. Lyssa, The Voice of the Void (Vocals)
Before the dawn’s first light, before silence had a name, she sang. Her voice was the first wound upon eternity — a note so pure it made the heavens bleed. Lilith’s sister, Lyssa is the serpent-song, the voice that seduced the void into awakening. She was born of moonlight drowned in ink, her breath heavy with divine rebellion.
Her words are not lyrics, but incantations. Each syllable summons memories older than time — the cries of creation, the sob of dying stars. Her voice can fracture glass or mend a grieving soul; it is the sound of mourning and resurrection entwined.
She is known by many names: The Echo Unbound, The Voice of the Void, She Who Sings Beyond Death. Legends say her heart lies buried beneath the ocean’s black crown, and the tides rise each night to echo her lament. To hear her sing is to remember the sorrow of light itself.

V. The Covenant of the Four
Thus were they bound — Bryce the Chordborne, Selestia the Vein of the Earth, Michael the Pulse of Ruin, and Lyssa the Voice of the Void.
In that sound — vast, mournful, eternal — the world remembers itself.
“They do not play for us, but for the silence that bore us. In their songs, we hear the end of all things — and the beginning again.” — The Final Verse of the Codex of Terrestrium

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