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The Hooks Within Her Flesh / The Hyena

by Valley of Snakes

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David Fischer Not reducing Mark Poida to his past work, but this EP is everything I wanted Aversions Crown to sound like after Xenocide and more. This man is one of my favourite vocalists, so finding out that he returned was delightful.
Both tracks are massive in multiple ways: each is running over five minutes, the lyrics are telling dark stories, the vocal performance is diverse and brutal plus the whole instrumental section, including the ambience, is sheer wizardry thanks to David Freeland. What a trip! Favorite track: The Hyena.
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Removing the hooks within her flesh She mutters under her breath I end all life and start again Damnation comes within a flash Removing life on earth She laughs as the humans beg for death Punish them With a painful death Children are not spared Everything comes to its end Now the earth Will find peace again Blood flows through the rivers Smiling as she drinks from it Every human Has aided with their breath So frail and weak Pitiful creatures bathing in their stench Finding pleasure In the screams of man They sing for hope not knowing nothing will come of it A new cycle has begun, The extinction event, Eradication of love Life on earth will pay with a price of blood Dethroned from the arrogance they sit above They burn, suffer and hurt Yearning in the streets when death has returned One by one they have come to learn The place they call home will slowly burn On their bellies they now climb Into hell, the mouth, the shrine The demons thrive Take their time to bleed the mind Pounds of flesh, stacks of bone Pile up in creation of a throne Human beings will never know The agony they felt could've been so slow, though Extinction comes alas Nothing is spared, Nothing makes it past The last day on earth is approaching fast Everything has suffered Nothing left to stand Enduring the pain she let it all grow Now hatred is the only thing she knows A chance at life, they tortured it so slow She starts again with a new hope On their bellies they now climb Into hell, the mouth, the shrine The demons thrive Take their time to bleed the mind A rancid blight, The human design never been so ripe They cause endless suffering unto all kinds She scorches them alive as they tear out their eyes They cry, suffer and die Removal of life because there comes a time When a species itself is about to expire Cleansing the herd Purified in the fire Suffering is all they've caused Stemming from internal flaws Hand in hand they walk with death Crawl into hell, They starts again She screams this pain is haunting me I try run but I'm never free I see world it tears at me I know of hate, I know of greed These parasites, they run, they crawl, they hide She vomits death, it's powerless to fight She looks the filth straight into their eyes Watch them burn in blistering light She hears them scream She hears them all cry She smells their flesh Melting in the fire One by one they abandon the light Accepting death They vanish at night Purified These hooks removed in time Cleansed of parasites Condemned to die Now released To find a place of peace The end of suffering The end of humanity
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The Hyena 05:15
Always following this trail of blood I leave behind Can't out run it's mind, when it smells this pain I hide I am tortured by the fragile look inside its eyes Memories of a life distorted by the sands of time I a mere servant of pain Developed by the agony hunted by fate Stalked by it's all consuming embrace It know's how I bleed and fiends for the taste It's a box that I shall never escape Four walls, floor and roof, become my grave I love how it hurts when I feel the pain Punishment slowly burns away all of the shame A vision of time Branded into my mind Creeping up my spine as I turn away from the blissful light The hyena awaits me Thirsting for blood with a heart that is empty Feasting off flesh when it's done consuming Buries the bones and finds it all amusing This poison seeping through my veins Some call it blood, I call it pain, foot in the grave, awaiting the day This hyena will never cease hunting me Knowing my name, scenting my hate, familiar in taste, I become prey It stalks me on my path always letting me know I'm within it's grasp Howling hymns of the past Death soon follows with time in its hands It awaits to feed Circling me Instinctively I am undone It smiles through it's teeth Waiting for me to accept what I see Blood fills my lungs I drown in mud It gnaws at my flesh Tears me to death Savours my breath My past has caught up to me I await it so pleasantly The irony is deafening Take me from the earth and replace me with a better being I am devoured by filth Regression of thought and acceptance of guilt The hyena tears at the body I've built Empty inside now my blood has been spilt I am devoured by filth Regression of thought and acceptance of guilt Blood calls for blood I know this is real I pay the price when my fate is sealed Death whispers to me beneath disturbed ground I feel it's judgement as I slowly drown With the gnashing of teeth I remove my crown I accept what has come A moment so profound The soul entwined with the memories of a past life It takes me at night Accepting my penance I willingly die As time is taken from me I can see beyond the sky I have seen this all before Still I choose to wonder why Why was I born of hatred? Why was I tainted light? Why can't I feel sorrow? Why can't I even cry? I become nothing Just another memory Vanishing in the mystery of everything Leave behind only misery Now I stand at the gates of eternity I am devoured by filth Regression of thought and acceptance of guilt The hyena tears at the body I've built Empty inside now my blood has been spilt I am devoured by filth Regression of thought and acceptance of guilt Blood calls for blood I know this is real I pay the price when my fate is sealed Pulverised into the utter nothingness Emptiness will follow me knowing all that I seek I pay the price as the hyena slowly feeds Tearing me apart thrown into a new reality Eurgh I welcome its savagery Eurgh Its presence so menacing Eurgh It's always so welcoming Eurgh It begins devouring

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released December 11, 2020

Vocals & Lyrics - Mark Poida
Music & Production - David Freeland
Mix & Master - Lance Prenc
Artwork - Logan Gray

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Valley of Snakes Melbourne, Australia

The minds of David Freeland (LUNE, Valiance) and Mark Poida (ex-Aversions Crown, I, Valiance) join forces amid quarantine to form Valley of Snakes. Pushing themselves to new creative heights and showcasing unrelenting brutality interweaved with expansive soundscapes. ... more

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