Khomodo - Crimson Scale

Debut single from Blackened Kaiju Metal band Khomodo

In the light of the sun
Under jeweled wings crimson with blood

Blades of black
Wreak through the hills
Stolen mountain bones spread an empire's will

From up above
Violent retribution
For sins of the past
feeding crimes of the future

Oppressive scales
bring calamitous gales
demanding sacrifices so fiends can prevail

So begins the ravaging of the East
Sun-Keeper, beheld to the whims of a false priest
With a knell, with a furious cry, the warden of the sky's
Scalding beams ignite apostasy

A lament written in bleached bones,
obsidian blades and the cracking of stones
Acrid counterpoints to the subjugants' cries
Melodious anguish feeds the priest-king's rise

On and on, unto the setting sun
A sanguine horde of filth raiding souls for Mictlan
Holy subjugation of an undeserved fervor
Weaves expansionist lies to justify mass murder

Relent, the living beg on shattered bent knees
Relent, their lungs plead with a rasped wheeze
Forsaken by the light
The grieving bind their souls on dreams of deicide

Tialtiazkeh ipan in teopixkeztli
Ticuazkeh in okichpilliuh in tonatiuh
Ticalketzkeh celtichantli ika momitin
Momiceceyotl zokipachoaz toxochihuan
Tocencallihuan ihtotiaskeh pacca ipan inohtlatokaliztliuh Mictlancopa

Will the sky freeze when your heart stops
Will the light cease when your heart stops
Will our hands steal too much of the sun
Without eyes to impede our machinations

The keeper of the sun will be slain
Crimson rain to unease the insane
Show the fiends the depth of our pain
When Cozcatlan burns and their flayed priests hang

Scarred hearts unburdened by dogma
Clear-seeing through infliction of trauma
Behind jaded eyes they finally see
Not a warden of the sky but a demon of grief

And on and on, unto the setting sun
A sanguine horde of filth raiding souls for Mictlan