CRESTFALLEN RELEASE NEW TRACK: "LAKE OF TEN THOUSAND FLAMES"

 

PRESS RELEASE:

Lake of Ten Thousand Flames

by Crestfallen

Crestfallen says:

"Christianity's complicity in violence as an exclusive monotheistic religion is widely prevalent in the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. Whether as a singular “God” against the “others" or as a totality and the only “true God", Christianity abhors, reviles, rejects and ejects whatever it defines as outside its compass.

In my youngest years I went to Catholic school, and as a left-handed child I was beaten and chastised daily by the nuns who "taught" us the evils of the left-hand path. Any "faith" that would condone the beating and rejection of a child for their unchosen hand dominance, gender identity or sexual preference is one to be greatly feared and abandoned.

The Christian faith is inherently violent and hedges itsell upon rigid terms to control through punishment, fear and damnation. This composition is dedicated to demonstrating the violence veiled in beauty of Christianity, and the true hidden brutalities of the faith and its writings."

Lyrics:

"Behold, I will bring a great plague

On your people, on your children

On your wives, and all your possessions

Severe sickness and disease

Hour by hour, day by day

Week by week, year by year

Bathed in fire

For I will walk contrary to you in fury

And I myself will discipline you sevenfold

You shall eat the flesh of your sons

And the flesh of your daughters

Yes you shall eat the flesh of your sons

And the flesh of your daughters

And burn

I will put an end to the arrogance

Of the haughty

And their infants will be dashed to pieces

Before their eyes

Their houses will be looted

And their wives violated

And if ye will not for all of this

Hearken unto me

But walk contrary unto me

Then I will walk contrary

Unto you also in fury

And I, even I will chastise you

Seven times for your sins

But as for the cowardly

As for the faithless and detestable

Their portion will be in

The lake that burns with fire and with sulfur

Which is the second death

They shall fall by the sword

Their little ones dashed in pieces

And their pregnant ripped open

Yes, they shall fall by the sword

Their little ones dashed in pieces

And their pregnant ripped open"

*Lyrics near verbatim to passages from the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. 

released December 24, 2023

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