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THE EVIL THAT BALANCES THE UNIVERSE

by Spiritus Mundi

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As your dying body convulses Violently on the blood soaked asphalt Is it everything you ever feared A high beyond what you’ve ever sought As horror seeps from your mouth Mortality brings its brutal kiss Places it upon your soon to be corpse As your cries for help become useless I will teach you a lesson in hell Pain beyond what you have ever felt Everything you were ever afraid of Every torment of Judas’s pelts The vortex is spinning again To sweep me in its murderous rage Overruling rationality As I cave in the rest of your face Unknowingly digging your own grave When you dared to cross my fucking path As you pick your teeth up from the ground Your priceless look reflects my wrath I will teach you a lesson in hell Pain beyond what you have ever felt Everything you were ever afraid of Every torment of Judas’s pelts Lying there with your skull split open You were dead before you began to fall You are now just a memory One that will never be recalled In this pain I hope I’ve taught you well Because it is only the beginning Your hell you will inherently face Now that time won’t another breath bring I will teach you a lesson in hell Pain beyond what you have ever felt Everything you were ever afraid of Every torment of Judas’s pelts
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Enter into my world of dominance and submission My pleasure is only to become your violation The brutality of your torture still cannot suffice As I violently rape your every orifice In my eyes you will see your death revelations As I gain belief in the loss of all your convictions Time is augmented but life will not wait for you Reflections of madness, this nightmare is true The rising level of pain, another increment of fear The methodically timed extraction of your tears Screaming out for your god to save you from my hate But I will become your god as I decide your fate I watch through apathetic eyes as you die another death Your slow death of a thousand cuts surrenders your innocence My indifference to your pain cannot be denied The more you die is the more that I come alive I will leave you hanging by an inch of your life With your blood I create my masterpiece with each slice Another soft caress against your skin with the razor’s edge And before you feel the cut you see the red How I regret that I think your time is coming soon The more blood that is on me is the less that is in you It’ll hurt more than you know to say our sad farewell And with one final incision I send you to Hell
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As we lie ourselves down Upon the bed of eternal pain I can only kill you so many times Before I go insane So count your deaths Just count your deaths Count your deaths Just count your deaths Am I to witness this shame alone Your scars sorrow gave to you Are you the only relief I find Every time I rip inside your womb So release me Just release me Release me Just release me Are we Hell’s forgotten children God’s forsaken and abandoned ones Our love exists in suffering Our truth in the confines of lust You are my agony I am the lover of your regression When it comes time for us to repent I hope to fuck you regret this sin The last words that you spoke to me Felt like being kicked in the teeth But you know I’m a sucker for pain So now who’ll share the contempt I breed I just want to goddamn know Who will be there to watch me fail To see the sickness eat me alive When the darkness comes and the light fades From this madness I don’t know What kind of peace you expect to find I only know when I look in your soul I love to see the hurt in your eyes From this anger that we hold So dearly in our broken hearts I will help you to count your deaths When the void comes and fear departs Are we Hell’s forgotten children God’s forsaken and abandoned ones Our love exists in suffering Our truth in the confines of lust You are my agony I am the lover of your regression When it comes time for us to repent I hope to fuck you regret this sin
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A hidden disposition Preaching not hate but love Yet the message is clear You’ve picked up the scent of blood A primitive desire An innate need to hate A struggle to be the alpha And unleash the killer instinct Dominance through aggression The ultimate brutality Fear overwhelms the violence When murder becomes reality So don’t turn your back on me I’ll stab you when you look away Don’t ever stare me in the eye I’ll sure as hell kill you I’m raising Cain I’m raising Cain My insanity has never been so insane So kill thy brother without regard I’m raising Cain I’m raising Cain Humanity never before so inhumane Dissent in paradise from the start In cold blood I’ll take you down A lifetime of hate is coming around The greatest thing to ever learn Is to hate and hate in return There's dissent in paradise Because paradise is a lie This Earth is a manmade Hell Only blood can purify High velocity blood splatter Cleanses the mind and the soul So kill thy brother without regard Let your vengeance take control The golden rule broken and crushed In the wake of a deviant path Of free will the choice is made To lie upon all, your wrath I’m raising Cain I’m raising Cain A longing to be king of the mountain So kill thy brother without regard I’m raising Cain I’m raising Cain ‘Till the last beat of my heart this contempt will reign Dissent in paradise from the start I will bring down wrath upon you all I’m raising Cain I’m raising Cain My insanity has never been so insane So kill thy brother without regard I’m raising Cain I’m raising Cain Humanity never before so inhumane Dissent in paradise from the start Dissent in paradise from the start
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Para Bellum 05:23
The madman’s got his finger on the trigger And the other one points at the world Created not in the image of God He was not forged by the hand of the lord God did not make fools and cowards Who hide behind prestiges uniforms And by their sins we shall know them all When from the seeds of hate, wrath is born Enter, the arena of the world Global audience anticipates the massacre All eyes upon the Holy Land Waiting for what’s already begun, slaughter The past is shrouded in lies That secures a future that deceives When the ones who win the war Always rewrite history Religion and politics Never meant to go hand in hand Repeat the sins of history Never learning from the past Eat the young for prosperity Call it the progression of man Impose their views while killing your own To control all is their devious plan The madman’s got his hand on the button And he’s waiting for a wartime reunion Waiting for the riders of Apocalypse And the end that could not come too soon Fighting fire with fire as flames get higher Until the Heavens have thrown down all their spears Return the Earth back to the Beginning And no angels will even shed tears Religion and politics Never meant to go hand in hand Repeat the sins of history Never learning from the past Eat the young for prosperity Call it the progression of man Impose their views while killing your own To control all is their devious plan Nuclear fires vaporize the atmosphere Mushroom clouds silhouette the horizon Fallout rains from the scorched skies Forever winter in this atomic garden
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My whole life drowns in a violent sea From the dark forces I could not foresee Every time I escape anger’s embrace It pulls me deeper under oceans of hate Sympathy means nothing to me now Pure contempt has corrupted me somehow I want to know how easily you bleed I want to let the wrath within me feed I cannot contain the hatred That lies just beneath my skin I cannot restrain the anger That burns deep inside my mind I cannot suppress the rage When malice is all I find I cannot oppress the truth Of my violent design Emotionless I stand before you Every inch of me wants to kill you With each passing breath your end grows nearer Your dignity will soon falter I swear Absolute violation of your so called pride Nothing left of your soul that you can hide I’ve surpassed the boiling point of my rage Stepped out onto brutality’s murderous stage I cannot contain the hatred That lies just beneath my skin I cannot restrain the anger That burns deep inside my mind I cannot suppress the rage When malice is all I find I cannot oppress the truth Of my violent design I’m the one to set my vengeance free As you face your own mortality Your ignorance justifies my hate So grasp onto the blood soaked hands of fate If you listen closely you may hear it The sound of your throat as it’s being slit As you look to me in sheer disbelief Is it fear in your eyes or just relief I cannot contain the hatred That lies just beneath my skin I cannot restrain the anger That burns deep inside my mind I cannot suppress the rage When malice is all I find I cannot oppress the truth Of my violent design
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I breathe out pain so you can breathe it in This is where rationality ends and fear begins I’m so close can you feel my breath upon your neck The anticipation grows with every step Violent thoughts of what is about to take place Arouse sexual feelings exceeded only by rage I can taste the lust on the tip of my tongue It’s more potent than the scent of your cunt Sleeping dogs of the past now stir Waiting to unleash their vengeance Opening the hatred inside me When the face of wrath shows his presence Think of the worst pain you have ever known I will multiply it by a thousand fold Bite the bullet this will hurt more than your pride Agony’s just another word for your useless life You will feel all the pain that has ever been You will find a new home in Hell for your sin Your soon to be lost life will become death’s stain And if I had the chance I’d fucking kill you again Sleeping dogs of the past now stir Waiting to unleash their vengeance Opening the hatred inside me When the face of wrath shows his presence Watching you fucking die is my incentive to live What a shame to know the world will not grieve Your death gives me peace something I can’t regret I smile as you become another statistic I can’t believe how much you come alive In your final defiant act of death So beautiful you look writhing in pain As you grasp violently for your last breath Sleeping dogs of the past now stir Waiting to unleash their vengeance Opening the hatred inside me When the face of wrath shows his presence
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The essence of evil that lives in man Can kill your brother with a murderous hand Love’s opposing factor is indifference My hate acknowledged when your last breath is spent Welcome your most desirable of fears Blood will cleanse when born from vengeful tears Giving true meaning to contention Bones of enemies won with violent conviction Innate in us all, instinctive evolution To kill another of God’s children Reproachful disdain turns to contemptuous wrath When bitter scorn and violence is at hand Battling a war of our own making No fear, just hate, rage, and instinct Anger ruled by lust, the lust of aggression A prayer for your death is my one confession Hate at first sight is evident in these eyes The lack of empathy gives new insight Perverse fantasies bound by repression Beneath the surface of this burning aggression We shall all suffer for our father’s sins The fate of being the sons of wicked men Sacred temples of flesh and bone Desecrated altars when savagery is shown Chaotic storms rage in minds corrupted by hate You’ll find evil has a familiar face Can’t oppress the hate can’t contain the rage The soul lies bleeding in wrath’s destructive wake Hate at first sight is evident in these eyes The lack of empathy gives new insight Perverse fantasies bound by repression Beneath the surface of this burning aggression
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So insignificant Your miniscule existence So fucking futile Your lies don’t make sense You close the door on me Well I got news for you It was already closed When I fucking slammed it on you You know you need me That is what you said But I fucking need you Like I need a hole in the head But still I’m drawn to this hate I’m drawn to this sickness I’m drawn to this rancid pain ‘Cause when I torture you it’s bliss Feel my warm breath upon your neck You slip into the madness Taste the salt from your bitter tears Muted cries break the silence God is not here, God is not here No one can save you from my hate Insanity belongs to me Pure pleasure derived from your absolute pain And still you come back for more More of this hell, more of this hell You know you should stay away Because next time it could kill But you love this emptiness In me, love this cold numbness Addicted, you need one more fix One more taste of my ruthlessness Anger’s grasp upon your frail throat You slip into the darkness Cries of fear fall upon deaf ears Witness the rape of innocence Madness is mine, madness is mine The sum of all things insane I told you it could be this time Pure pleasure derived from your absolute pain
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Unseen Enemy 05:19
As the world spins around again Like the gyre losing control Disrupting the delicate balance Of a future that will not hold We will all succumb to the threat Of our race going extinct If by false martyrs of hate Sentinels of peace are glory sent The enemy, the enemy unseen A brutal reality is no longer a dream The world in the balance, the pendulum swings Infiltration, death to the infidels Jihad brings The enemy, the enemy unseen Awake in the nightmare the mad have foreseen Horror is heard in their dying screams Yet for more murder the world now pleads The ICBM’s shed their skins In the prophet’s clairvoyant dreams Behold in crystal visions Sickening and maddening scenes Exoneration is blurred By imperious leaders Behind a monolithic government Plans for a new world order Sleeper cells hiding in plain sight In the midst of a nation’s heart Unseen is the enemy When terror is the enemy Another threat lies in wait Until asleep is the giant But the giant will never rest Again with both of its eyes shut The enemy, the enemy unseen A brutal reality is no longer a dream The world in the balance, the pendulum swings Infiltration, death to the infidels Jihad brings The enemy, the enemy unseen Awake in the nightmare the mad have foreseen Horror is heard in their dying screams Yet for more murder the world now pleads As the world spins around again Like the gyre losing control Disrupting the delicate balance Of a future that will not hold
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Electric eyes of big brother Watch killings of one another Swaying nations on puppet strings As the symphony of death starts to sing Infrastructures of hate and murder Built by the architects of war They play God with technology As the masses bow before the powers that be We wage war over finite scraps of land While vengeance lies in wait to take it all away Hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow Blown from the Earth like ashes of yesterday The most destructive of all forces Religious passion joined with government Oppress the masses in blind obedience To conform to an abominable tyrant And the bones of truth are picked clean By men like vultures gone insane Only to reveal the face Of the wizard behind the curtain And the lies that are cut so clean Are in different light now seen Only to reveal the face Of the wizard behind the curtain Brain dead atrophied minds of fools The products of fornication Running in their vicious circles Weaving their stagnant delusions Ever watchful in its silence Omnipresent hidden surveillance It disfigures our lady freedom As she revels in impotence And the bones of truth are picked clean By men like vultures gone insane Only to reveal the face Of the wizard behind the curtain And the lies that are cut so clean Are in different light now seen Only to reveal the face Of the wizard behind the curtain
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Praying for the winds of Black Death To bring rapture upon the Earth To summon annihilation And deliver us from life’s curse Waiting for darkness to cast down Eternal suffering and pain With its ominous hand of hate Spreading pure disease and plague Riding on the winds of Black Death The horsemen are now drawn from Hell When in the human heart anger starts to boil Man’s hunger for hate cannot be quelled Riding on the wings of dark fate A dormant evil has now awoken From our own sins we meet our undoing Our soul has been sold, there’s nothing left to sell Death’s shadow now falls upon man And without discrimination Eliminating existence When to Hell we all will succumb For it is evil that balances The universe by God’s own wrath Just like Sodom and Gomorra Fell to their knees in a blood bath Riding on the winds of Black Death Our future is lost with the die that was cast The vision is now crystal clear Revelations have come to past Riding on the wings of dark fate War and Famine and Hell and Death No one hears our screams of anguish and pain As the Earth takes its final breath Biding their time while planting fear Into the hearts of all nations Whose people stab each other’s back While the core rots from the inside Catastrophic waves of terror Unrelenting in their horror Will pull all faith in man under The seas of vengeance and murder Riding on the winds of Black Death The soft lullaby of our epitaph is now sung Dreams of peace never to be realized When the redemption we waited for did not come Riding on the wings of dark fate Apocalypse reveals our impending curse Fires and devastation consume the lands And imminent plagues rule the Earth Praying for the winds of Black Death To bring rapture upon the Earth
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This is the system of evil That controls the whole of the world The masses pray for lasting peace As they wage yet another war Ideology, their agenda Hidden behind lies and deception Spill some more blood on another’s shores With no logical reason Bury the bones of the deceased Return them back to the Earth Great things they’ll build upon their graves Just look at the towers they have made To protect freedom from hostile enemy The one true purpose of government It is treason to question their authority And to refute their truths, anti-patriotic Giving up freedom in the name of freedom For a war that is opposed to war Once it is gone it’s so hard to take back And maybe it will be gone forevermore God bless America The almighty land of freedom They have in democracy found A way to enslave their fellow man Indoctrination of every soul ‘Till the square peg fits the round hole They sell their patriotic slogans But the true nature of their agenda is control Giving up freedom in the name of freedom For a war that is opposed to war Once it is gone it’s so hard to take back And maybe it will be gone forevermore When from the herd a sheep strays Upon it they’ll send the wolves to prey On broken knees you will learn to crawl Before the elite you are sure to fall The sheep become their own guard dogs Casting out those who do not fall in line Opposing not humanity’s oppression For to question freedom is a crime A brainwashing machine With a sick ideology Propaganda used to blind you To make you slaves that think you’re free This fraudulent system of lies Was built to control and pacify With a slight of hand dictatorship Their quest to conquer and divide ‘America, the great whore Opens herself to anyone Impregnated by sin She gives birth to the dying dream This once great nation Built by visions of the elite Now witnesses their freedom Where it lies bleeding in the streets Everything worth fighting for Everything worth dying for With a passive hand is given To the morally impure And as with all great societies Egypt, Rome, and the great bear before It is only a matter of time Before this nation falls’ ‘Standing on the broken backs Of history’s giants Building towers to the skies With the bones of genius A blinded nation could not see The writing so clearly on the wall Nostradamus prophesied That the twins would surely fall A double shot across the bow Awakened the sleeping giant Martyrs of a different god Or agents for a desert tyrant Evil born from eastern lands Sent by the winds to kill them all Revenge in the name of freedom Was to be the clarion call’ Little men cast long shadows When the sun is setting low Ruthless greed governs a heartless nation Without the remnants of a soul Suffering on a new level Never before known to you When tolerance is murder And ignorance the status quo In the last stage of rapid growth All things will soon come to past When the future’s held in corrupt palms Of your leaders bloodstained hands The time for war is upon you now No longer a madman’s dream When religious doctrines Always divide humanity See how the mighty have fallen See how the mighty have fallen See your freedom lying in ruin And how this nation bleeds in sin Standing amidst the fire This nation is burning all around Open the floodgates of hate The release of terror abound From the wounds of betrayal you bleed to death They’ll only use a bandage but you need a tourniquet Hope is wiped out by spasms of war When tyrannous acts justify reprisal Shocked senseless you watch your nation As she dies screaming in horror America comes to a screeching halt A great mistake, freedom’s failure Mothers lie their children down On the funeral pyres of their fathers The stain of your sins erased from The face of the Earth forevermore
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about

“The Evil That Balances the Universe,” Spiritus Mundi’s third release, is about a 2 year effort resulting in 1 great CD! It is a labor of love, as are all Mundi projects, and reflects it in the final product. From out of the gate it is a hard hitting assault on the listener.

The opening track, “The Gauntlet of Fears” pummels the ears with the near verbal abuse that only a 6’5” German can deliver, as he shouts the first stanza: “As your dying body convulses / Violently on the blood soaked asphalt / Is it everything you ever feared / A high beyond what you’ve ever sought”. The chorus features some phenomenal drumming from Miller, as he explodes upon his kit with the fierceness of a Slayer like drum fill extended throughout the entire section, somehow managing to effortlessly keep the listener in the groove of the song! Further into the Gauntlet we are kicked in the head by the sound of Wopshall shredding his guitar up with a wah solo in a somewhat sadistic and methodical way.

Once the listener has endured the “Gauntlet” he is quickly thrown into a wicked world of dominance and submission known as “Death of a Thousand Cuts”. With an almost swing like rhythm to the song, it can nearly induce a trance like state as one delves deeper into the lyrics, full of madness and darkness. It deals with the darker side of the human condition, as the title suggests, yet offers a poetic feeling to the lyrics, which are sang with aggressive passion but remain audible to the ears.

After surviving “A Thousand Cuts”, it is time to indulge into the narcissistic madness of “The Regression”, a sick and twisted tale of contention and lust. It features a sing along chorus, and killer change in the middle of the song eased into by the previous breakdown transition. A great track to listen to if you have been failed by love and are angry about it!

In the midst of the angry backdrop of the CD, we find “The Weighing of Souls” the first of four thought provoking instrumentals spread throughout the CD, poking through the veil like treasured beams of light in a forest of darkness.

With the slow fade of multiple acoustic guitars and keys, the listener finds his way back to the full on Metal with the stabbing intro to “Dissent in Paradise”, a song influenced by Man’s hatred for his fellow Man. “Dissent” also features a half time section rich in melodic guitar harmonies making it one of the more memorable tracks from the disc.

Next up is “Para Bellum”, a great track about how war begets war. The guitar solo is approximately a minute long and compliments the various changes of the solo section. Miller plays some very unique beats on this one.

"Violent by Design" and "The Face of Wrath" are next to explode from the speakers! Both of which sport some of the most brutal lyrics on the CD. The vocals sound like the Devil on a bad morning before his first cup of coffee! Angry, relentless, and well written lyrics snap sharply from Mikey’s tongue like a severe lashing from a whip.

Leading you back away from the heaviness again, is “Forests of the Suicides”. The second short instrumental, composed of all acoustic guitars and accompanied by some light keys, offers another brief moment of peace from the chaos of a CD that hardly lets up.

The slow fadeout of “Forests” is abruptly followed by the pounding intro riff of “Hate at First Sight”. Another song based on the contention that Man feels as he looks another man in the eyes…. and murders him.

“Of Agony and Lust”, following the punchy outro of “Hate”, offers even more punch from an almost AC/DC – Judas Priest – like beginning to the song. It is the second and only other track on the disc which could almost be mistaken for a love song, although it is more related to the love’s sinister cousin, lust. It also holds a nice, unexpected piece of clean guitars near the middle. Layered with alternating solos panned from left to right, it moves flawlessly into a new riff accented harshly by the return of Mikey’s shouts into the microphone.

After “Third Secret of Fatima”, another quick instrumental, the CD takes a turn into its remaining epic ending songs. First in line is “Unseen Enemy”, taking on the controversial topic of Terrorism. It boasts a great chorus and a just as awesome clean part before the solo. Featuring some heavy FX on the vocals and guitars, it creates an ambient and memorable moment before plunging headlong back into the Metal.

This brings us to “The Wizard behind the Curtain”. Besides the chorus and massive outro to “Wizard”, it is by far the softest of the songs, yet somehow stands as one of the most powerful! It is a ballad without the intent to be a ballad. The outro just plain ROCKS!

With its epic beginning and ominous lyrics, “The Winds of Black Death” shines through as a solid chunk of molten Metal! After a blistering guitar solo, Miller plays some outstanding drum fills which are complimented by the huge sound of a gong falling on the downbeat of another of Wopshall’s mega-riffs.

Clocking in at 11:28, “How the Mighty Have Fallen” is a musical journey into the declining state of America and its freedoms which are being slowly stolen from her in the name of Freedom! “Mighty”, with its many musical twists and turns, rounds out the album nicely before just one last instrumental: “Spear of Longinus”. Officially closing the CD, “Longinus” completes the metal madness by fading into oblivion, wrapping up precisely 78:00 minutes of pure, unadulterated Metal!


I - THE GAUNTLET OF FEARS
II - DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS
III - THE REGRESSION
IV - THE WEIGHING OF SOULS - instrumental
V - DISSENT IN PARADISE
VI - PARA BELLUM
VII - VIOLENT BY DESIGN
VIII - THE FACE OF WRATH
IX - FORESTS OF THE SUICIDES - instrumental
X - HATE AT FIRST SIGHT
XI - OF AGONY AND LUST
XII - THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA - instrumental
XIII - UNSEEN ENEMY
XIV - THE WIZARD BEHIND THE CURTAIN
XV - THE WINDS OF BLACK DEATH
XVI - HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
XVII - SPEAR OF LONGINUS - instrumental


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released May 21, 2011

All Lyrics & Music Written by Michael Wopshall

Guitars, Bass, & Keys - Michael Wopshall
Vocals - Mikey Wenzel
Drums - Mike Miller

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SPIRITUS MUNDI is an all original, aggressive, passionate, lyrically driven, internet based, virtual metal band formed from a host of talents from the USA to Germany. While standing on the shoulders of countless Metal giants of the past, Spiritus Mundi has managed to create a very unique sound of its own and remained true to its musical vision. ... more

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