“THE HERETIC PSALM VII – THE CROWNLESS KING” - Question The Faith

QUESTION THE FAITH: THE HERETIC PSALMS

Question the Faith: The Heretic Psalms setting down the distortion and stepping into the candlelight. This is the quiet apocalypse — the faithless gospel told on acoustic strings.

Across ten psalms, the album follows The Heretic, a figure once radiant with belief who now wanders through the ruins of heaven searching for something real. The songs move from defiance to reflection: the halo shattered in “The Broken Halo,” the outcasts uniting in “The Choir of Wolves,” the divine judged in “Blood of the Innocent,” and the mortal crowned in “Crown of the Faithless.” Lust becomes liturgy in “The Flesh Cathedral,” despair becomes prayer in “The Hollow Cross,” and by “Amen in Reverse,” the heretic no longer screams for answers — he simply listens to the silence.

The recording itself is bare and human: acoustic guitars creaking, voices trembling, strings humming like candlelight.

This isn’t a war against heaven anymore.
It’s the sound of someone sitting in the ashes, whispering their last prayer and realizing the echo is beautiful enough.

Question the Faith isn’t about losing God —
it’s about finding yourself when He’s gone.

Question the Faith is the sound of someone daring to look heaven in the eye — and hearing nothing answer back.
Each psalm is a chapter in the heretic’s awakening, tracing the slow collapse of devotion into self-realization.
Across ten tracks, belief dies, humanity rises, and silence becomes sacred again.

Faith isn’t destroyed — it’s redefined.
The divine is no longer somewhere above; it’s in the trembling voice, the flawed note, the breath between words.

This isn’t atheism — it’s atonement through honesty.

1. INVOCATION OF THE HERETIC (Intro)
“Once we prayed to be saved… now we pray to be seen.”

This moment sets the tone: rebellion not through rage, but revelation.

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2. PSALM I: THE BROKEN HALO
The first break from heaven.
The voice cracks mid-line:

“I broke the halo just to feel alive / Bathed in the ashes of paradise.”

This is the moment belief turns to blood.

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3. PSALM II: THE CHOIR OF WOLVES

The faithful gather — but this time, as feral survivors.

“We are the choir of wolves, howling where angels fell!”

It’s the closest the album comes to triumph — rebellion as communion.

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4. PSALM III: BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT

“You pray to a god who watched them die.”

It’s accusation delivered as lamentation.

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5. PSALM IV: CROWN OF THE FAITHLESS

The heretic rises from the ashes.

“Crown of the faithless, made from fire and dust!”

For the first time, the music feels hopeful.
Humanity crowns itself in defiance — not as gods, but as survivors.

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6. PSALM V: THE FLESH CATHEDRAL

“Flesh cathedral — bleeding altar of me!”
Sin becomes sacred; pleasure becomes prayer.

It’s sensual, shameful, and transcendent — the body as holy ground.

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7. PSALM VI: THE HOLLOW CROSS

Pain returns like gravity.

“Hollow cross, hollow heart / Rusted faith that tore me apart.”

The heretic now carries the cost of freedom, realizing liberation and loneliness weigh the same.

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8. PSALM VII: THE CROWNLESS KING

“Crownless king — I reign in pain!”
Triumph stripped of glory — victory without worship.
It’s the human spirit standing amid ashes, unbowed and unnamed.

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9. PSALM VIII: AMEN IN REVERSE

The final reckoning.

“Amen in reverse — no light, no word / Every prayer I spoke was never heard.”

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10. BENEDICTION OF THE FAITHLESS (Outro)

“We were never saved. We were never damned. We were only human… and that was enough.”

The sermon ends where it began — quiet, broken, and utterly human.



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