Digital Booklet - Meliora

PRODUCED BY KLAS ÅHLUND MIXED BY ANDY WALLACE p & c 2015 Seven Four Entertainment, LLC and Concord Music Group, Inc. d/b/a Loma Vista Recordings. 100 N. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Ghost B.C.

SPIRIT

FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT

THROW YOURSELF INTO THE VESSEL OF POSSIBILITIES YOUR GREEN MUSE THE APPARATUS FOR SOUL MOBILITY A GATEWAY TO SECRECY

YOU HAVE THE POWER YOU WEAR THE CROWN FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT IT IS A LONG WAY DOWN

SPIRIT ABSINTHE SPIRIT ABSINTHE SEVEN SEALS DEVILISH CREATURES TRUMPETS THE END OF TIME CLOVEN HOOVES ANTI SAINT WORMWOOD CATAPULTING YOUR MIND INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH SPIRIT ABSINTHE SPIRIT ABSINTHE THERE IS NO RETURN FROM THIS EXCURSION OF POSSIBILITIES YOU ARE AT THE SEVENTH GATE SPIRIT ABSINTHE SPIRIT ABSINTHE “LET NONE OF THIS EARTH INHERIT THIS VISION OF MY SPIRIT” - Edgar Allan Poe

YOU WIELD THE SCEPTER YOU WEAR THE GOWN FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT IT IS A LONG WAY DOWN IN YOUR EMPIRE THEY STARE IN FROWN FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT IT IS A LONG WAY DOWN YOU ARE CAST OUT FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE GROUND BLACKENED FEATHERS FALLING DOWN YOU ARE CAST OUT FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE GROUND BLACKENED FEATHERS FALLING DOWN YOU WILL WEAR YOUR INDEPENDENCE LIKE A CROWN CRUCIGER GLOBUS YOU STAND YOUR GROUND THE ORB DISFIGURED WHAT IS FLAT LOOKS ROUND FROM THE PINNACLE TO THE PIT IT IS A LONG WAY DOWN YOU ARE CAST OUT FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE GROUND BLACKENED FEATHERS FALLING DOWN YOU ARE CAST OUT FROM THE HEAVENS TO THE GROUND BLACKENED FEATHERS FALLING DOWN YOU WILL WEAR YOUR INDEPENDENCE LIKE A CROWN

CIRICE

HE IS

I FEEL YOUR PRESENCE AMONGST US YOU CAN NOT HIDE IN THE DARKNESS CAN YOU HEAR THE RUMBLE? CAN YOU HEAR THE RUMBLE THAT IS CALLING?

WE ARE STANDING HERE BY THE ABYSS AND THE WORLD IS IN FLAMES TWO STAR-CROSSED LOVERS REACHING OUT TO THE BEAST WITH MANY NAMES

I KNOW YOUR SOUL IS NOT TAINTED EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD SO CAN YOU HEAR THE RUMBLE? CAN YOU HEAR THE RUMBLE THAT IS CALLING?

HE IS HE IS THE SHINING AND THE LIGHT WITHOUT WHOM I CAN NOT SEE AND HE IS INSURRECTION HE IS SPITE HE IS THE FORCE THAT MADE ME BE HE IS NOSTRO DISPATER NOSTR’ALMA MATER HE IS

I I I I

CAN CAN CAN CAN

FEEL THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING IN YOUR HEART SEE THROUGH THE SCARS INSIDE YOU FEEL THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING IN YOUR HEART SEE THROUGH THE SCARS INSIDE YOU

A CANDLE CASTING A FAINT GLOW YOU AND I SEE EYE TO EYE CAN YOU HEAR THE THUNDER? CAN YOU HEAR THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING? NOW THERE IS NOTHING BETWEEN US FROM NOW OUR MERGE IS ETERNAL CAN’T YOU SEE THAT YOU ARE LOST? CAN’T YOU SEE THAT YOU ARE LOST WITHOUT ME? I I I I

CAN CAN CAN CAN

FEEL THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING IN YOUR HEART SEE THROUGH THE SCARS INSIDE YOU FEEL THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING IN YOUR HEART SEE THROUGH THE SCARS INSIDE YOU

CAN’T YOU SEE THAT YOU ARE LOST WITHOUT ME? I I I I

CAN CAN CAN CAN

FEEL THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING IN YOUR HEART SEE THROUGH THE SCARS INSIDE YOU FEEL THE THUNDER THAT IS BREAKING IN YOUR HEART SEE THROUGH THE SCARS INSIDE YOU

WE ARE HIDING HERE INSIDE A DREAM AND ALL OUR DOUBTS ARE NOW DESTROYED THE GUIDANCE OF THE MORNING STAR WILL LEAD THE WAY INTO THE VOID

HE IS HE IS THE SHINING AND THE LIGHT WITHOUT WHOM I CAN NOT SEE AND HE IS INSURRECTION HE IS SPITE HE IS THE FORCE THAT MADE ME BE HE IS HE IS THE SHINING AND THE LIGHT WITHOUT WHOM I CAN NOT SEE AND HE IS THE DISOBEDIENCE THAT HOLDS US TOGETHER HE IS NOSTRO DISPATER NOSTR’ALMA MATER AND WE ARE FALLING OVER THE PRECIPICE

MUMMY DUST

MAJESTY

I WAS CARRIED ON A WOLF’S BACK HERE TO CORRUPT HUMANITY I WILL PUMMEL IT WITH OPULENCE WITH CORPULENCE AND GREED IN GOD YOU TRUST

A HIGHER POWER UNDER GROUND FROM SERAPH SKIES AND NOW TO CHAOS BOUND HE IS SITTING SACRED AND PROFOUND IN MIDST OF SINNERS LICKING UP TO KISS HIS CROWN

MY MUMMY DUST MY MUMMY DUST YOUR CAVALIER OF CRAPULENCE TO THIS FEAST OF RAPACITY I WILL BURY YOU IN TREASURES JUST TO FEED YOUR INCAPACITY IN GOD YOU TRUST

PATHETIC HUMANS IN DESPAIR DEFACED, DEFLOWERED, NOW TO DEATH DEVOUT A FALLEN ANGEL IN HIS GLARE IN MIDST OF SINNERS KNEELING DOWN BEFORE HIS CLOUT

MY MUMMY DUST MY MUMMY DUST

OLD ONE MASTER ALL BEAUTY LIES WITHIN OLD ONE MASTER ALL BEAUTY LIES WITHIN YOU

YOU ARE THE POSSESSÉE OF AVARICE I AM THE RULER OF THE EARTH I WILL SMOTHER YOU IN RICHES UNTIL YOU CHOKE ON SORDID MIRTH

THIS OASIS IS A POISONED WELL OF ROTTING CARCASSES THAT CLOG THE DEEP A PRINCE IN EXILE HERE IN HELL IN MIDST OF SINNERS FLOCKING UP LIKE SOULLESS SHEEP

YOU ARE SUMMONED IN CUPIDITY PURULENCE AND LUST I AM THE MAGNET FOR STUPIDITY DIVINE YOU FEEL MY THRUST IN GOD YOU TRUST

OLD ONE MASTER ALL BEAUTY LIES WITHIN OLD ONE MASTER ALL BEAUTY LIES WITHIN YOU

MY MUMMY DUST MY MUMMY DUST (The Collective Sings) IN GOD WE TRUST

OLD ONE MASTER ALL BEAUTY LIES WITHIN SATAN MASTER ALL BEAUTY LIES WITHIN... ...YOUR INFERNAL MAJESTY

ABSOLUTION

DEUS IN ABSENTIA

EVER SINCE YOU WERE BORN YOU HAVE BEEN DYING EVERY DAY A LITTLE MORE YOU HAVE BEEN DYING DYING TO REACH THE SETTING SUN

IN THIS YOUR TIME OF NEED YOU ARE TURNING TO THE LIGHT YOU HADE JUST BEGUN TO EXPLORE THE DARK IN THE URBAN NIGHT

AS A CHILD WITH YOUR MIND ON THE HORIZON OVER CORPSES TO THE PRIZE YOU KEPT YOUR EYES ON TRYING TO BE THE CHOSEN ONE ALL THOSE THINGS THAT YOU DESIRE YOU WILL FIND HERE IN THE FIRE PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND REACH FOR THE SKY CRY FOR ABSOLUTION YOU WILL BE DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND YOU WILL CRY CRY FOR ABSOLUTION EVEN NOW WHEN YOU ARE HERE YOU ARE MOVING HYSTERICALLY SEEKING OUT WHAT NEEDS IMPROVING YOU ARE STILL ASKING FOR THE SUN ALL THOSE THINGS THAT YOU DESIRE YOU WILL FIND HERE IN THE FIRE PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND REACH FOR THE SKY CRY FOR ABSOLUTION YOU WILL BE DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND YOU WILL CRY CRY FOR ABSOLUTION

THE WORLD IS ON FIRE AND YOU ARE HERE TO STAY AND BURN WITH ME OUR FUNERAL PYRE AND WE ARE HERE TO REVEL FOREVERMORE YOU ARE SO GOD DAMN FRAIL FAILING FOR A CHANGE YOU WANTED TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THE WORLD BUT YOU WILL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE NO ONE EVER TOLD YOU WHY... THE WORLD IS ON FIRE AND YOU ARE HERE TO STAY AND BURN WITH ME A FUNERAL PYRE AND WE ARE HERE TO REVEL FOREVER THE WORLD IS ON FIRE AND WE ARE TIED AS ONE ETERNALLY OUR FUNERAL PYRE AND WE ARE HERE TO REVEL FOREVERMORE DEUS DEUS

ALL OF YOUR IMAGINATIONS ARE NOW RUNNING DOWN YOUR FACE OH, YOU ARE LOOKING GOOD BAREBACK IN DISGRACE YOU ARE DOING FINE WORSHIPPING YOUR LORD STANDING IN HIS GRACE AND STILL YOU CAN NOT UNDERSTAND WHY... THE WORLD IS ON FIRE AND YOU ARE HERE TO STAY AND BURN WITH ME A FUNERAL PYRE AND WE ARE HERE TO REVEL FOREVER THE WORLD IS ON FIRE AND WE ARE TIED AS ONE ETERNALLY OUR FUNERAL PYRE AND WE ARE HERE TO REVEL FOREVERMORE DEUS DEUS DEUS..?

ALL SELECTIONS ARE PERFORMED BY

PAPA EMERITUS III AND

A GROUP OF NAMELESS GHOULS _

PRODUCED

BY KLAS ÅHLUND _

ENGINEERED

BY GREG GORDON AND ADAM KASPER _

RECORDED

AT EASTWEST STUDIOS (HOLLYWOOD, CA), RMV STUDIOS (STOCKHOLM, SE), THE VILLAGE STUDIOS (LOS ANGELES, CA) AND AMERAYCAN STUDIOS (NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA) _

MIXED

BY ANDY WALLACE AT SOUNDTRACK STUDIOS (NEW YORK, NY) _

MASTERED

BY BRIAN LUCEY AT MAGIC GARDEN MASTERING (LOS ANGELES, CA) _

SLEEVE ARTWORK

BY BP. NECROPOLITUS CRACOVIENSIS ZBIGNIEW BIELAK II _

PHOTOGRAPHY

BY MIKAEL ERIKSSON / INFERNAL DEATH _

A&R COORDINATION

(INTERNATIONAL) : TOM WHALLEY AND RYAN WHALLEY FOR LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS (BEVERLY HILLS, CA) (SCANDINAVIA) : NICHOLAS JOHANSSON FOR POLYDOR MUSIC (STOCKHOLM, SE) _

MANAGEMENT

RICK SALES AND KRISTEN MULDERIG FOR THE R.S.E. GROUP (LOS ANGELES, CA) _

BOOKING

(INTERNATIONAL) : JOHN JACKSON FOR K2 AGENCY (LONDON, UK) (NORTH AMERICA) : NICK STORCH FOR A.G.I. (NEW YORK, NY)