This song was part of a demo the band sent to record companies. It was a tape recording of a band rehearsal, and had the bassist Stefan Guteklint on the record because Johan De Farfalla Hadn’t joined the band yet. It contains parts of the songs “Advent” and “In the Mist She was Standing”.
The deceased awake from beyond their sleep
Search for blood and mortal meat
Maggots crawl out from their eyes
Feel their pain, it's mournful cries
Pull your veins, tear out your heart
Consume the blood, feast on flesh
Torn apart, intestines scattered
Alimentary canal ripped and shattered
Pieces of your body eaten
Painful death as time stands still
Where your mind bursts in torture
Feel your soul be torn apart
Demons crawling through your system
Hell has risen, the gods of pain
Rip your skin, burn your bones
Internal organs torn and drained
Smell of flesh burnt to ashes
Cries of death from hell
Pain is all you revolve around
Where the souls of Satan's grounds
Rooms of eternal torture, reveal endurance of endless pain
Disintegrating mortals, bodies burn
There you feel the hellish torture
Hellish torment, brutal butchering
Demonic creatures revolve in torment...
Eternal Soul Torture was written by Mikael Åkerfeldt & Peter Lindgren.
Opeth released Eternal Soul Torture on Mon Jun 24 1996.