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The Crescent and The Cross

by Ceremonial Decay

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SIGN OF THE SWORD SIGN OF THE CROSS LORD OF BOTH MAN AND BEAST ORTHODOX BYZANTINE KING BEHIND THEODOSIAN WALLS SURROUNDED BY THE SEA THE LAST ROMAN THRONE BASTION OF OLD ROME THE TWO HEADED EAGLE DESPOT OF MOREA BY STEEL AND PROCLAMATION EMPEROR WITHOUT AN HEIR SURVIVED BY PLAGUE HORSEMAN LANCE & ARROW BY HARVEST AND BY FAMINE GREEK FIRE & GUN POWDER
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MISFORTUNE TO YOU CITY OF SEVEN HILLS A SCOURGE AT THE GATES SHADOW UPON THE CROSS THE FLIGHT OF CROWS OF CROWS 12th LETTER UPON RAMPARTS MAELSTROM OF BLACK BLACK SMOKE FINAL DESTROYERS OF ROME VIGILS IN THE WIND ANGELIC APPARITIONS PROPHETIC RUIN IS VAST APPROACHING FIRE IN THE MOONLIGHT PORTENTS TO THE APOCALYPSE OUR ARMS, OUR RAMPARTS, OUR SHIELDS CANTOR'S TO THY DOOM UNTO THY DOOM GENERATIONS HELD FAST ALL FEARS SOON LAY BARE WITHIN THIS OLDEN WOMB OMINOUS SIGNS AND ILL OMENS THE SKY DID RAIN TORMENT THY VIRGIN DID MEET THE EARTH THE MOON DID JOIN THE SUN THE CRESCENT DID CLAIM THE CRESCENT DID CLAIM THE DAWN
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Fortified by The Eagle By both Land and Sea By both Man and Beast Vigilant, yet wrought, by Siege wrought by siege Both Justinian Sword Horsemen's Lance Byzantium Towers This Christian Lamb Bombarded By Mortar Battlements Tested One Thousand Years Standing One Thousand Years Met Fortified by the eagle By both land and sea By both man and beast Broken not by Cannon nor by Sea or Fire But by a throng of soldiers And a gate ignored One thousand years standing One thousand years met One thousand years standing One thousand years met
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Conquest 03:59
Fire and Death Assailed Here are the Spoils of War Here the Crescent had Crowned 3 Days of Plunder Consumed by Fire For The Orthodox Did Burn The Fall of Byzantium By Rite of Conquest Gold from a Western God Suffering of his Women Chains for their Children The Earth for their Fathers The Sultan of Two Lands Cesar of the Roman's The Khan of Two Seas The Father of Conquest Fire and death assailed here are the spoils of war
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TO RISE FROM ASHES BUILD UPON THE OLD CHIME THE BELL TODAY TILL THE EARTH ANEW MORE SAILS TO THE WIND BRICKS TO THE MORTAR NAILS TO ITS TIMBER NEW CITY REBORN THE TIME OF THIRD ROME THE INHERITORS QUELL THE DARK AGES TIME OF RENAISSANCE OUT OF THE DARKNESS BECAME THE DAWNING OF THE MODERN WORLD

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On April 6 1453, the Ottoman Army, led by Sultan Mehmed II, began a 53-day siege on the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos led the Byzantine army in defense of the heavily fortified city. This defense would prove futile as the Ottomans pressed onto their final attack in the evening of May 26th. The city fell on May 29th when the wall was breached and the Byzantines were overwhelmed by Ottoman forces. The fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Roman Empire and is generally regarded as the end of The Middle Ages. This is the story of The Crescent and the Cross...

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released February 11, 2022

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Ceremonial Decay Los Angeles, California

With their mutual admiration for early 90s death metal, Ceremonial Decay was founded by Rhett Davis (Stygian Crown, Morgion) on drums, Erik Sneve (Witchaven) on guitar, Jordan Ruble (ex-Exhausted Prayer) on bass/vocals, and Joe Van Fossen (Noctuary) on vocals/guitar. Each bring their own collective experiences and influences together to pay homage to the original masters of death metal. ... more

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