Black metal and extreme metal in general are all about urgency... If theres a musician in a room with instruments and another musician (or not) then the music can and probably should happen, although not always as when extreme inebriation is involved haha. But it's all just about living in the moment FOR the moment, because you never know when you will have another chance to make the music that is in your head exactly as your are hearing or "feeling" it. It's  kinda a hippy approach, but I really do appreciate the sincerity of first takes, first mixes and the like.. Although most of the time they don't yield the best possible results, they can be useful as a tool for better understanding your motives as a song writer. 

Laceration

Satanic bloodgate

The sarcophagic warning

An uncontrollable spasm

Of hate in offering

My body avulsed

The marks for witchery

Are as flames of dementia

On a scorched horizon

Mourning light over

An unearthed tomb

The grave satisfaction

Of knowing the dead

Are still alive

Lung shattered breath

The cold is pestilent

Arousing a primal fear

To lacerate

Collapse of Eden
Falling to awareness
Penchant for utter darkness
Serpent sky unfolding

Eternal equinox
War angel
Raining fire
Crushed savior
Demented idol

Perspectives on malice
Grand mass of the maligned

Battle in the Ruins

Secret benediction
Under gods watchful eye
The pain of becoming
Stoned black
By the bludgeoning

Vanquishing light
Hideous sequence
Observing dark
Revealing itself perverted

Profane absolution
A pact of dominance
Forced evolution
Prepared for attack

Crematory ejaculation
Summarily executed
At dawn

Inversion Mask

Infernal fire of the ages
Mutation in its final stage
Savage woods surrounding
Untamed the forest unknown

Heretic benighted
A seige at night
Gold breathes beneath the moon
Rotten ore from the past

Languish in the bane
Of perpetual agony
Descend the endless crag
To caress the viper

Music For Devil Worship

Okay, some back story: In May of this year I moved out of my apartment to a warehouse/studio space in West Midtown called Two High Studios. I did this with the sole intention of recording an album with my amps at full volume (how they sound best). I ate canned or dry food out of a cooler, showered at the gym and pissed in a filthy "communal" bathroom that rarely had toilet paper. I wasn't the only person living there at the time, but I am proud to say that when I left I had something to show for it. A fine example of raw one man black metal, "Music For Devil Worship" is the first Thoth Mammatus album. Inspired by the works of Aleister Crowely, Anton Lavey and a recent near death experience, this music is quintessentially infernal.

https://thothmammatus.bandcamp.com/releases

Sinister Green

Warpaint running down my cheek
Cries of agony
Days turn to weeks
Hands cold
Lips numb
World ruin
Life crime
No respite
Permanent frown
Deviant bribe
Crown of thorns
Passed to another
Sinister green
Cleric smiles