Kairos (2023), by LadyAxe

Kairos (2023)

by LadyAxe

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1.	Kuru 04:19	lyrics	buy track
Look at what you hold inside you Do you feel the fire there? Chewing at your mind like a disease Blackened indoctrination Feeding your rotten thoughts Forcing it inside your brain To work its deeds Kuru! CHORUS: Eat the mind but mind the teeth Cut the sickness free Break the skull but eat the truth Dead men cannot see Can you feel the body tremble? Have you got the kuru in you? Never eat the brain of rotten ideology CHORUS
2.	Vae Victis 04:49	lyrics	buy track
Order of the battle underneath the sky Armies of the strong stand among the slain Cowering in terror, begging for reprieve My sword upon the scale makes it all in vain Pleading for mercy, futile in its need Forever following; never lead CHORUS Hail, victor’s right Cry Vae Victis to the weak Hail, victor’s right Cry Vae Victis to the meek Kneel before the conqueror Pray for lacking gain Woe to you, the fallen Weakness, your bane CHORUS
3.	Black Bones of Set 04:47	lyrics	buy track
All you sons of Egypt under Amun-Ra Walk the ancient rites of Alexandria Look beyond the world, bathe in Duat Take heed of hidden darkness seeking out your Ka In the darkest tomb of the blackest god Lies the hidden truth of lore Sarcophagus of lies keeping treachery Bones of Set lie beyond the door Don’t trust your eyes Bones do not lie In the sands of time Even gods will die
4.	Curse Tablet (Voces Mysticae) 05:30	lyrics	buy track
Locked around your hair Binding you inside this spell I will make you see Gods and demons heed my words Chiseled on the tablet I invoke darkest amnesty CHORUS I know I will harness the fire inside you I know you will fall at my feet My curse, the only time I’ll hold you My curse, a language you don’t know Mystic voices call to you Speaking to your soul to come to me Nevermind your will Hell I’ll eat for you Curse tablet written secret words Only gods instill CHORUS I know something you don’t know (x4) CHORUS
5.	Agōgē 04:34	lyrics	buy track
Catch the Spartan sun, wield the spear Only powerful and cunning will survive Burning muscle, burning fear Play with death so you can feel alive CHORUS There is nothing but your goal There is nothing that you can’t overcome Find the Spartan in you, let your power flow Pain and agony is nothing to the will Only discipline is law Feel the sting of your potency take hold Let your energy be raw CHORUS Never let them take your vigor Never let them take your right Harness all of your aggression It is time to fight your fight CHORUS
6.	Snake Oil 04:42	lyrics	buy track
Venom in a bottle Vial of iniquity Essence of the snake You drink willingly Across the desert plain Feeding all the lies Drink the serpent’s poison As the wise man dies Blasphemous elixir Here to heal and care Selling all the snake oil Heretics beware Venom in a bottle Vial of iniquity Essence of the snake You drink willingly
7.	The Tenth Muse (Milena's Song) 05:23	lyrics	buy track
As I see you, I will form you By your face, my pencil is my heart As I feel you, I’ll create you In the sky I’ll paint you as my art By my power, I invoke you On my canvas you will come to being As the tenth muse, unrequited Use my skill in secret honouring So I draw you, I implore you I am tenth, for muse of art I am I am near you, always present Though my flesh is from a foreign land I’m the tenth muse, undetected For my art lives only in your grace You’re mine own muse, for I love you And my mirth, I find it in your face Do you see me? Do you feel me? As I haunt the poetry you write Muse of music, not a fair one At your feet, my pencil is your might
8.	Widdershins 04:58	lyrics	buy track
Shackled as a hostage of the faith Mother Lilith guard over the burning Widdershins we curse them Widdershins we cast to make them pay Sword of Moses feeds hypocrisy Impotent, the beckon at the wall Misbegotten heroes Widdershins, we cast by Lilith’s way (Speech) Broken bowls in spiral script Not false, nor folly These are the mystical tongues of the old gods I will not lie below Countering, we mean to undo you Flying overhead when you’re asleep Widdershins we bind your tongue Widdershins we travel from the Deep
9.	Will of the Worker 06:20	lyrics	buy track
(Speech) You say it cannot harm you because you do not believe Yet, what you do believe is folly in the eyes of the one who seeks to cross you Your beliefs are wrought from your mother’s lies Your beliefs are born from your father’s arrogance It is not your will that decides the spell It is in the will of the worker I walk at night time, three upon the clock And bring I left hand works Where the ravens rap and knock I’ll call your name; you’ll do my will You have no power here Against my spittle skill By the laws of all that dwell around us Bound are you to its force Wicked or benevolent, the will is with the witch Let the dark within you run its course Pazuzu, hear me Pazuzu rush Pazuzu Hatra Pazuzu Ush
10.	Head of Perseus 05:17	lyrics	buy track
A common coward who needs the gods A golden boy in name and name alone A son of power, but not his own Adept at stalking, his ego to bemoan But in the cave I do perceive you The head of Perseus my prize There’s no assistance to relieve you There’s only parchment filled with lies Prey of Medusa, the killer queen Your godly gifts are as impotent as you Your only hardness comes from her gaze There is no mirror shield to rescue you Wrath of Athena won’t hold her The Gorgon is very alive Holding the head of her hunter Medusa still kills with her eyes Gorgon eyes eat your soul Perseus cried, paid his toll Tales reversed, heads will roll Medusa’s leer, black as coal

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released November 5, 2021

Solos by Anushka Draven (Dunkelheit)

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LadyAxe Ballina, Ireland

Axe was the first female heavy metal artist in South Africa, back in 1992-3.

Now the Metal Matriarch is a solo artist that composes and plays everything herself, making home recordings where she lives in the Irish countryside. ... more