Mezopotamian Metal

Whispers from the Tower
Genies, Sorcerers and Mesopotamian Nights
A Summoning of Ifrit and Genii
Wardjinn
Rub the Lantern
Covering the Sun
Kurnugi's Reign
Oasis of Molten Gold
Dragon's Legacy
The Siege of Lachish

Ashmedi - Vocals / Lead & Rhytm Guitars, Synth. & Backing Vocals
Moloch - Lead & Rhytm Guitars, Middle Eastern Buzuq & Backing Vocals
Proscriptor - Drums & Percussion
Al' Hazred - Bass Guitars & Backing Vocals

Ashmedi wants to acknowledge the following beings:
Moloch, Proscriptor and Al'Hazred (blood wardjinns), Annemiek (goddes from the low lands), Antoinette, Eddie, Herve, Imad, Ed, Lord curse, Equitant, Saro and Charlotte Tidy (for your loyalty and dedication), Ali and Ellen.
And for inspiration:
Ashur, Nergal, Ereshkigal, Shamash, Enlil, Ishtar, Fate, The Delta Prophet, Aleister Crowley, The Utukku, Belial, M. The entity in and around me, Nostradamus, those from beyond the black Hole, The Seven Sages, The Serpent, the "real" Al' Azif, and the goat of Mendess.

Moloch Salutes:
My Melechesh Soul-brothers, Ashmedi, Al'Hazred and Proscriptor.
The Individuals: Sari, Dima, Bassem and Hind K. Saro "Lord Curse", Maya N., Maha N., Chloe D., Catherine A., Alain L., Laurent L., Hyacint S., Dana G., Ophelie D., Peter K., Charlotte T., Stephan & Rosen, Krikor O.
And for all forms of Inspiration: The serpent Tiamat, Dionysos, Ishtar, Ashurbanipal, Sennacherib, Nietzsche, Sade...for being symbols and beings, omnipresent in me.

Proscriptor thanks and greets:
Ashmedi, Moloch, Al'Hazred, Herve Herbaut, Chorlotte Tidy, Shaftiel, Equitant, Al Azif, Kenneth Grant, Aleister Crowley, Thoth, and especially Miss Cristal Clopton (I love the Taurian "Tiamatsu" in and about your sheer essence: you are perpetually my dazzling siren of the burning stratosphere!)

Al'Hazred Thanks:
Ashmedi, Moloch, and Proscriptor.
Greetings to: Lena, Leonid, Tania, Solomon, Grandmom, Misha, Jerry, Arnout and Roman.

Melechesh sends their Greetings to the following bands and labels:
ABSU (The Cythraul Allies, rulers of the western hemisphere), Lord, Leonid and Necrodaemon, Thornspawn, Ancient Rites, Occult, Black Witchery, Mutilation, Araphel, Ember, Perditor, Azazel, Mork and Malign (it has been a while man), Impiety, Toep & Putrefied, Unholy Death, Varathron, Stormgate, Enthroned, Houwitser, Pete & Nile, Salem, Asphyx (for the drum toms), Demonic Christ, Thanatos. Native North Records, Raven Music, Memburn Debile Propaganda, Displeased Records, Dies Irae Productions, Season of Mist Records, Invision Music and War is Iminent Productions/Unholy Cross Dist., lowLifeMedia and Victor S. (our Swedish Web Page Djinn).

Special thanks goes to these people who made this album possible:
Mr. Vriesema, Harry Weiring, Herve Herbaut and Osmose Productions.

Produced by Melechesh
Recorded during the months of February / March 2000 and mixed at Harrow studios - Losser, the Netherlands.
Engineered by Eric deBoer and Harry Weiring
Mixed by Eric deBoer, Harry Weiring and Ashmedi
Mastered by Kol Marshall and Proscriptor McGovern at Nomad Studios - Carrollton, Texas.
Executive Production: Osmose Productions
Band Photos by Wim van't Hoff
Front Cover and background designs for page 3 & 9 by Kris Verwimp
Logo by Szpajdel

MELECHESH official website: http://listen.to/melechesh
Contact MELECHESH at: MELECHESH@hotmail.com

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(intro)

(Music: Ashmedi, Moloch / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

The Fire is burning
The temple is standing high
Priests of the seven elders
Are conjuring his might
The sphinx flies in the mystic black sky
Ecstasy winds blow over the magickal plains
Terrestial power chain and magnetize
The lunar key of Nebo's lands
Celestial power chain and magnetize
The solar gate opened by Nergal's hands

The Order Of Mesopotamia will rise
The post wisdom treasure will finally be earned
Secrets unveiled in the most abstract ways
Genies, Sorcerers
Genies, Sorcerers and Mesopotamian tales

End of all days, watch the new way
The rites of infernal magick in this tale

The warlock, the witch and the wizard will bind
Triangling the last tower of might
Rites of Nazu the desert behold
Summoning the great entity of gold

The Genii is near
My search ends here
Lord of magicians
I journeyed the night
Forever in the night
The maze of the deep

Mesopotamian nights

End of all days, watch the new way
The rites of infernal magick in this tale

The Fire is burning the temple is standing high
The warlock, the witch, the wizard will burn
End of all days, watch the new way
The rites of infernal magick in this tale

Lead: Ashmedi

The warlock, the witch and the wizard will bind
Triangling the last tower of might
Rites of Nazu the desert behold
Summoning the great entity of gold

The Genii is near
My search ends here
Rites of magicians
I journeyed the night
Forever in the night
The maze of the deep
We walk and we walk
The plains of Uruk
In search of the Talisman
Beyond the realms of the suspended rock
We continue this tale...

(Music: Ashmedi / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

Into burning eyes
You stare hypnotically
You're Possessed by the Mesopotamian Genii

Cults of Chaos
Desert Sabbaths
Of witching minds
Summoning the Ifrit...Ah...

Give in to your desires, bring forth a being to (fulfill) you needs
From another timeless dimension
An entity of malefic breed.

Into red burning eyes
You stare hypnotically
You're mine forever, ever and ever...

Your shell is yours free!
It's nothing but ashes to me
Your soul is mine, mine, all mine!!

Into burning eyes you stare
You are mine FOREVER!!!

Give in to your desires
Bring forth a being to (fulfill) your needs
From another timeless dimension
An entity of malefic breed.

(Music: Ashmedi & Moloch / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

Spheres of Chaos, bring forth demise
I see destruction through my eyes
Behold the sphinx of Ashur rise
He brings Akkad's demise

Assyrian war Demon
Assyrian war Genii

A hail of demons attack from the sky
Black form figures with red eyes
Armed with scimitars forged in gold
Hear their howling and their cries

Assyrian war Demon
Assyrian war Genii
Assyrian war Demon
Assyrian battle skies

"I travelled all the worlds
I see it before my eyes
The land of all nine whores
New Babylon in the sky
This is the only way, to rule with fire
Wardjinn leaves the stone"

The creature is unleashed
Blowing the hot xul sands
Spreading his wings
Fire lightning from his hands
This mighty Djinn
A beast made before man
Macro-destruction realeased by his chants

His chants:
"Xul alla xul"
Shout
"Zi dingir alla xul"
His chants:
"Xul alla xul"
Infernal chants:
"Shamash maklu xul"

Whirling fire-winds sweep the battle fields
Oh, the beauty of their cries
Nineth Sphere of Chaos released from the mind
Macro-destruction, the wardjinn smiles

Assyrian war Demon
Assyrian war Genii
Assyrian war Demon
Assyrian battle skies.

(Music: Ashmedi / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

We walk this earth
Searching for the truth
We learned the human mind
To satisfy our wicked way

A silhouette of the beast
Stand before my eyes
His temptation sinks so deep
Deeper than the deepest mind

"Rub the lantern!
Rub it now!"
I see the earth is shaking
I see the smoke is rising

Walking through the mountain
Into an oblivious town
Seeing the tent of the peddler
That came from another dimension
We wore the sign of Utukku
The sign of the ancient curse
He bore the sign of Akrabu
The symbol of the scorpion-man

A silhouette of the beast
Stand before my eyes
Its temptation sinks so deep
To reach for the Lantern of Might

Through the centuries of hidden knowledge
I've learned the weakness of man
Feeding on their lusts
I return again, again and again
Higher form magick
To capture your soul
Hallucinate with sour fury
We create what man hate

"I tempt you"
Knowledge is like a looping tower
Inside a golden pillar
That contains the secrets of the Micro and Macrocosm

We create what man hate.

Lead: Ashmedi.

(Music: Ashmedi & Moloch / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

Order the wizard to cover the Sun
Raise the wand to conjure the one
Defining energy ecletic, electric
Establish the right of Sennacharib
Ruler of deserts, sea and the sky
Oracle of Dissidence
Forever intolerance
Master of pre-earthly dimension return
Exist in human morph to defeat this world
Sand king, gold strength unlike all what have been before
Obscured legend lines hiding the truth of eternal...existence
Purifier of the stars, has a fure burning in his mind
On the edge of the mountain side he enters the dark gate
To the timeless dimension where secrets are forever kept
Assyrian king of kings, his name lives on and on
Master of pre-earthly times
Inducer of the concept of...
All... silence.......

Enter the gate, guarded by the goat
Draw with blood his symbol on the stone
Beyond the cave was the temple under the dead sea
In the temple dwelled the syriac seed
Now the magick is free ...Arabian Sorcery x2

(Music: Ashmedi & Al' Hazred / Lyrics: Proscriptor)

At the Firtst gate... Ishtar is striped
Of the jewelled crown... Sitting on her head
At the third gate... Ishtar is robbed
Of the beads and gems... Surrounding her neck

Seven rituals Seven rites
Cursing Seven phases Seven nights
She waits for Ea She waits for release
She waits for ructions She waits for the tease

The dead shall arise and outnumber the living
Realm of Kurnugi will never be denied

Seven hexes Seven philters
Charming Seven curses Seven nights
For the crimson water for the water of time
For the sacrament for the proper rites

Remember ceremonial forms for her sister?
ERESHKIGAL! ERESHKIGAL!
Recall the spiteful guardian from the gates of Ganzir?
IAK SAKKAKH!! IAK SAKKAKH!!!

Lead: Ashmedi

At the fifth gate... Ishtar is husked
Of the grinding stones... Supporting her waist
At the seventh gate... Ishtar is raped
Of the last garment... Covering her body

Descent of Inanna
The underworld's complete
Ancient ones smashing bolts
Reviving the gates
The dead shall arise
and outnumber the living
Realm of Kurnugi
Will never be denied

An eye opens wide as Sultana arrives

(Music: Ashmedi / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

Rune of the Lion's Eye
Bring the salt cyclone
Lightning from the ground
The Oasis of Molten Gold

Rune of Lion's Beard
Open up the stone
Blasting thunder sound
Reveals oasis of gold

Assyrian hordes the forces of darkness
Marching on the twilight sand
Conqueror Nebuchadnezzar
Sworn to take all cosmic lands
Travelling, back and forth in time
Overwhelming all in their path
On alabaster it has been written
They arise from golden ash

Tunnel of Time
Come pilgrims of the beats
Kinetic powers
Bringers of the plague...BRINGERS OF THE PLAGUE!

Masses of Edimu...
Stomping on the ground
They are approaching with bloodshed on their minds
Legions of Shedu...
Marching on their side
Unseen evil powers superior minds

Sigh... Cry...
I'm the Master Of Backward Time
Reverse! ...hgiS
retsaM fO drawkcaB emiT

By Reverse Magick all will be concealed
Psych-alchemic mastery

(Music: Ashmedi / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

As I sit in a trance like state
Streams of uncensored consciousness appear
Flooded by images before me
The prophecy realized... soon to be

I am the watcher
I have power
I see the slightering Serpent
In the foretold Dark Age I see
The greatness of the Dragon's Legacy

Millenniums have passed since the oracle begun
The great legacy shall never be gone

Into the night
The Serpent appears
Vanquished light
Screaming draws near
Forbidden Art shall forever rule
The worlds of saltwater, earth and the skies

"Suspended alone"
My trance goes on and on
I am one with the dragon of the night
See the dark justice
See the serpent reign supreme
See the people burn alive.

-Eastern Chaos-

Lead: Moloch
Lead: Ashmedi

Beautiful fire burn and burn
Fulfill my desire and my yearn

Buzuq improvisation: Moloch

"Six thousand years of hibernated power
lost through the sands of time
races became and races were gone
three of those maintained the secret
one brought the silver crescent
one brought the winged flame
and one brought the Dragon's Legacy"

As sit in a trance like state
Forbidden knowledge becomes real
Flooded by images before me
Behold the ancient curse of the Dragon's Legacy

Can you hear the demon sounds?
The demons are dancing 'round and 'round

I have the power of the watcher the giver
I have crossed the two mighty rivers
The prophecy soon to be
Behold the ancient curse
Of the Dragon's Legacy

(Music: Ashmedi & Moloch / Lyrics: Ashmedi)

All will sigh when they realize we dwell in the land below
Keepers of Nergal's knowledge of Zingir behold

The siege of Lachish
Our demon spirits
The valley of Gehenna
We are heard so loud

From blood they are running now
Legions of our slay the enemy
They are going to die when the fall of the site begins
On the mountain side let it be, the slaughter of their deity
Life is blind life is death, the siege of Lachish will stop the slaves, so bow!!!

March of the wicked, the mighty breed
Winds of the fearless Nineveh will blow
Finding the realms of the mighty brethren
Waging the siege now the siege of blood

Lead: Ashmedi

The siege of Lachish
Our demon spirits
The valley of Gehenna
We are heard so loud

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