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The Inquisitionist

by Gourmand

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Robert Riley
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Robert Riley Its slightly heavier than Taylor Swift but not too heavy like that metal group Nickleback. Favorite track: Philosophic Purgatory.
Len van der Wolf
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Len van der Wolf Such a great way to start this new year! Favorite track: The Tempter.
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The Tempter 03:55
This is becoming a pessimists domain Where The days drag and the night's never end Swarms of claws crawl from the books Their fingers tempting me into a pit in which I can’t return There must be more Behind each door lies infinite paths I make a choice Nihilist illusion to be surpassed For 40 days And 40 nights I wonder I am lost, seduced by the tempter Swarms of claws are crawling from the books Their fingers are tempting me There must be more Behind each door lies infinite paths I make a choice Nihilist illusion to be surpassed For 40 days And 40 nights I wonder I am lost Seduced by the tempter The gravity of these thoughts Could crush mountains into dust For better or worse I accept this cure It is a part of me Stuck in purgatory
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Purgatory From Eden until the end Our knowledge is limited To be human, controlled or illusion? Reading endlessly and digging manically Philosophic purgatory Trying to complete our story Philosophic purgatory Asking questions with no answers In the abyss sinking faster Gripping to reality as its fabrics are escaping Weaving through our hands like sand To be man is to be stuck in Purgatory... …(From Eden) until the end Our knowledge is limited To be human Controlled or illusion? Reading endlessly and digging maniacally Philosophic purgatory From eden to the end Our knowledge limited To a story that writes and then re-writes itself Floating endlessly in Seas of greater questions Continually we write and re-write ourselves Trying to complete our story Philosophic purgatory Asking questions with no answers In the abyss sinking faster Gripping to reality as its fabrics are escaping Weaving through our hands like sand To be man is to be stuck in purgatory
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Scrupulous 03:23
Scrupulous Running to earth's end There’s no solution The candle flickers So does my sanity Scrupulosity controlling every single part of me I have not control over my world Spiraling into the void I am lost inside of my own mind The candle flickers, so does my sanity Scrupulous These inquisitions are scratching my mind Running to earth's end There’s no solution The candle flickers So does my sanity Scrupulosity controlling every single part of me I have no control over my world Spiraling into the void, I am lost The candle flickers, so does my sanity Running to earth's end There’s no solution The candle flickers So does my sanity
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Engorge and fill your mind You have no choice But to consume everything Engorge Gorging on information But it is never filling I would do anything For the thoughts to soothe me Engorge. indulge With no control Giving up everything My own mind and body Intemperance in my thoughts The hunger is never ending Consume, dwindle Into nothing Engorge In the end when the evil had consumed everything they had, and his grave disease needed ever more food, (he) began to tear at his limbs and gnaw them with his teeth, and the unhappy man fed, little by little, on his own body Gorging on information Engorge and fill your mind You have no choice But to consume everything **Ovid, Metamorphosis
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Acolyte of rationality, light the flame Commence a sober reality Elevated, amongst our brothers For are dictators, re-writing our masterpiece This pathological uncertainty And endless soul searching Seems to have ended in ecstasy Though the moment may be fleeting Keep the candle burning Acolyte, light the flame Constellations dance Taking form at my command Through the eyes of a god I see Past the linear reality Acolyte, light the flame This pathological uncertainty And endless soul searching Seems to have ended in ecstasy Though the moment may be fleeting Keep the candle burning
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Intellectual Incest There is no wrong without opposition A senseless fight for the power position Complete lack of communication Competing viewpoints crushed and lost The pendulum swings And the gavel thrusts Intellectual Incest If morality binds - it blinds too It will conquer and divide you An echo chamber where no ideas die Regurgitating our own lies Extremist teams exist on each side Take the middle path Intellectual Incest Safely secured in an un punctured nest Contained by your false absolutes In a never changing world view Intellectual Incest
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Ego deconstruction occurs The self expands, right and left blur What are we without our brothers? Blood of our blood, sons of the son Alone we will plunder Finally, illusions surpassed In groups we are unstoppable Unified mass, ultra social Multiple selection formed us Abide the hive switch or perish Humans of hivish tendencies The same color blood, we all bleed Each of us sons of our mothers Despite all differences One in our existence Entwined by humanness Finally, illusions surpassed In groups we are unstoppable Unified mass, ultra social The Survival of the fittest Multiplied by 7 billion Do not disobey the pack In blood it's written, the human pact Leave behind our arrogance Embrace our common intellect Evolved as a single unit Progress or vanish like an insect
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Now I arise, resurrected in knowledge The candles engulfs, I respond to my calling Stretching the greater questions Black and white start to bleed Into the grey that lies in between Now I’m alive. conquerer of inquisitions The candle engulfs, I respond to my calling Stretching the greater questions Black and white, they start to bleed Into the grey that lies in between Greater Questions The most beautiful medleys Embrace and soothe me Caress me, seduce me In this epiphany The greater questions become clear to me
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I. Emerge 02:03
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II. Emanate 06:53
At the peak of understanding Staring into everything Resting in a single moment Where the flame burns eternally In the pursuit of our purpose We search for something more Evolved from our makeup, emerged from our core The answers lie in everything with a will to survive Inherent in it’s nature with no explanation why Engorge... For forty days and forty nights I wonder… I light the flame

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"The Inquisitionist" is a conceptual metal album that follows the narrative of a protagonist in search of personal fulfillment, meaning, and ethical soundness. Exploring topics such as existentialism, nihilism, gluttony, obsession, moral truth, and religious scrupulosity, "The Inquisitionist" combines traditional death metal elements as well as classical instruments and melodic interludes to explore our common humanity and the attempt to synchronize ourselves to the ever changing world around us.

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released January 1, 2017

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Gourmand Kansas City, Missouri

Progressive Death Metal from KCMO

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