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The VIIth Coming is the seventh full-length album by British doom metal band Cathedral. It was released in 2002.
A cathedral (French: cathédrale from Latin: cathedra, "seat" from the Greek kathedra (καθέδρα), seat, bench, from kata "down" + hedra seat, base, chair) is a Christian church which contains the seat of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. The counterpart term for such a church in German is Dom from Latin domus ecclesiae or domus episcopalis; also Italian Duomo, Dutch Domkerk and cognates in many other European languages. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox, and some Lutheran and Methodist churches. Church buildings embodying the functions of a cathedral first appear in Italy, Gaul, Spain and North Africa in the 4th century, but cathedrals did not become universal within the Western Catholic Church until the 12th century, by which time they had developed architectural forms, institutional structures and legal identities distinct from parish churches, monastic churches and episcopal residences.
Phoenix rising originally describes the heraldic position of the image of a phoenix: its head upturned (to its right) with wings raised for flight. The term can also refer to:
No gods, no masters is an anarchist and labour slogan. Its English origin comes from a pamphlet handed out by the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike. The phrase is derived from the French slogan "Ni dieu ni maître!" (literally 'Neither God nor master') coined by the socialist Louis Auguste Blanqui in 1880, when he published a journal by that name.
The French phrase appears twice in Friedrich Nietzsche's 1886 work Beyond Good and Evil. It appears first in Section 22, in a critique of the notion that nature dictates a morality of equality before the law. It appears again in section 202 where he identifies it with the anarchists and as indicative of their "herd" mentality, which he is criticizing.
In 1914, Margaret Sanger launched The Woman Rebel, an eight-page monthly newsletter which promoted contraception using the slogan "No Gods, No Masters". Sanger insisted that every woman was the mistress of her own body.
"Women without superstition: No gods – No Masters!" by Annie Laurie Gaylor is a collection of writings by women freethinkers during the 19th and 20th century.
Cathedral - Phoenix Rising from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" Altar of the sun god, We melt before your flames. Children of darkness Bound in human chains Hellfire kindles the hatred in our hearts All love has frozen from you, we are torn apart To the sun we are blind As we watch our world die From the ashes of demise Our burning phoenix shall arise Soldiers of fortune fighting unto death Condemned in armour sold for their last breath Upright citizens to decadence enslaved Peak of pleasure waiting in your graves To the sun we are blind As we watch our world die From the ashes of demise Our burning phoenix shall arise As our dreams turn into burning ash We crystalise in flames, then fly To the sun we are blind As we watch our world die From the ashes o...
Genre: Heavy Metal Subgenre: Doom Metal 0:00 Phoenix Rising 3:52 Resisting The Ghost 6:29 Skull Flower 12:13 Aphrodite Winter 17:17 The Empty Mirror 25:55 Nocturnal Fist 29:15 Iconoclast 34:34 Black Robed Avenger 41:20 Congregation of Sorcerer's 45:59 Halo of Fire
Cathedral - Skullflower from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" She plants a seed in my head Opium narcosis hypnotic dread I feel her death growing in me Like a cancer, yet I crave the disease Mesmeried by her strange power Beauty and death in union She blossoms in the 13th hour Skullflower Hollow skull emotionless grin Arcane tunnels sucking me in Black vortex in her eyes Reminds me of a love that died Lady death evolves from a flower Growing upon my own tomb Into her groung i'm sinking lower Skullflower All copyrights are property of their respective owners, fan tribute only.
Cathedral - Aphrodite Winter from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" Frozen land mesmerised by her arcane mystery Goddess of the underworld cold queen of lost beauty Gazed upon earth's battleground At mankind's misery With her saddness came love's death As the violence slowly siezed Her weeping tears of darkness crytallised the earth As warmth turned colder, her grief chilled away all mirth Frosted armies paused in war now wearing beards of snow Perishing forever, forevermore, her bite numbs to the bone Housed in icy caves, men of peace rest in these times of woe Shaking in glass, glass coffins, waiting for the sun to glow She cast her spell on earth and all emotion died Her languid heart dulled the skies with love's demise She crystallised the earth with water from her...
Cathedral - Nocturnal Fist from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" Riding this blackened life, this odyssey Searching for the keys that set you free From emptiness, futility, mountain of strength you can be Stop hiding in the void, come ride with me In the darkest hour, wear your crown of stars Pain and funeral power strengthens your black heart Reading through the lines that square you in Believing in yourself, your only sin A routine life of sheep in line, stand out child, You will shine In darkness you alone can be divine In your darkest hour you are made of stars Pain and funeral power strengthens your black heart Black odyssey, a search to be free Look for the keys, come ride with me See through the lies with funereal insight Then you will shine in darkness div...
Cathedral - Iconoclast from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" Guardians of darkness set my spirit free From this land of madness, give me something to believe Your system and religion control me like a disease Strength and determination Almost let you bleed They'll let you bleed No gods, no masters, no authority Only yourself Divine disciples control your destiny, Believe in yourself Baptism of fire into society Crucified and brainwashed, told just what to believe Drowned in holy water to cleanse impurity Guilty for existing, your mind will never be free You'll never be free No gods, no masters, no authority Only yourself Divine disciples control your destiny, Believe in yourself You're strong without god, everyone is a star There is no authority but yourself...
Cathedral - Black Robed Avenger from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" Black robed avenger Rides upon a white horse through my mind In search of love he finds A spectral planet lost in space and time He dreams of paradise Suspended animation greets his eyes Across barren deserts, a universal wilderness he seeks Palaces crumbled Skeletons remain of fallen kings Bleak storms and hurricanes He braved to discover loves atomic grave He found salvation Within a void of loneliness and pride The land of selfish man A frozen world in winter's hands A weary traveller Stares into the heart of human kind Souls of planet earth Entombed inside a giant ball of ice All copyrights are property of their respective owners, fan tribute only.
From the album "The VIIth Coming" (2002) Lyrics: Born in the casket of society's decay On your knees to be rewarded with strife Grim opsesion in search of afterlife Unification of the magical ones Congregation in far off skies Conformist slaves,trapped in earth's cage Grave acceptance of plastic lies In the church of your brains demise Unification of the magical ones Congregation in far off skies Bone-made chariot,carry this lost soul Past the stars beyond lampblack skies To where the sorcerrers of life we'll find Unification of the magical ones Congregation in far off skies
Cathedral - Halo Of Fire from the 2002 album "The VIIth Coming" Land of suffering beneath a rotting sky Witches are burning, black flags fly Smouldering pyre of evil empire Infernal darkness, ghost of mankind Enemies of god-skulls stacked high Sinners, non-believers, liars must die Crucifiction of Satan's children On the holy one's day of retribution Yeah, oh yeah, the end of the world draws near Yeah, oh yeah, good and bad controlled by fear They're cleansing the world of sin Ridding the world of evil By sinister and evil means-black god of destruction is king Halo of fire-burning funeral pyre Behold the fiery earth appears broken Locusts swarm out from the pit now open Abaddon awakens to eternal nothingness Halo of fire crowning his darkness. All copyrights ...
Land of suffering beneath a rotting sky
Witches are burning,black flags fly
Smouldering pyre of evil empire
Infernal darkness,ghost of mankind
Enemies of god-skulls stacked high
Sinners,non-believers,liars must die
Crucifiction of satan's children
On the holy one's day of retribution
Yeah,oh yeah,the end of the world draws near
Yeah,oh yeah,good and bad controlled by fear
They're clensing the world of sin
Ridding the world of evil
By sinister and evil means-black god of destruction is king
Halo of fire-burning funeral pyre
Behold the fiery earth appears broken
Locusts swarm out from the pit now open
Abadon awakens to eternal nothingness
Halo of fire crowning his darkness.