Show Notes: Per Aspera Ad Inferi

Unholy
Is the lust in your eyes
"Blasphemous"
Would not suffice

Based on this line and some evidence later, I believe this song is one half sung by the Church and Clergy trying to convince either the populace as a whole or one person in particular to either remain faithful to God or defect to Satan.

These first four lines to me reek of narcissim and disapproval. Although sung in a rather way on the album, I think this particular set of lines and the next are said by the Church of God.

Assuming in this world God has ruled with an Iron Fist for long enough, sex and anything indecent must be considered unholy or an abomination in his eyes. Thus the reference to the basic human need such as lust being frowned upon as unholy.

Perverted
Your wishes and dreams
Tanning in lucifer's beams

Hammering the point home to this particular listener, the Church are adamant that if their desires are followed it will end with them under the gaze of Satan instead of the supposed watchful and merciful eyes of god.

Per aspera ad inferi
Per aspera ad inferi
Per aspera ad inferi
Per aspera ad inferi

All your dreams will come true
All your dreams will come true

This I believe is where the clergy has stepped into the song.

The title of the track and Chorus mean “Through Hardships to Hell”, a play on “Per aspera ad astra”, through hardship to the stars which itself is a phrase originating from “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” (there is no easy way from the earth to the stars).

Taking this all into account it's easy to say this is the clergys way of trying to literally “aim” the world in the right direction, to hell rather than the stars.

Having had enough of the Church attempting to disuade the particular subject of this song, they tell them that through hardships (worship, what have you) that their dreams can be achieved and will come true. But not through the stars, through hell.

Oh Satan
Devour us all
Hear our desperate call

This I believe is actually the subject of the song singing rather than either the clergy or church.

With a simple call out to Satan and the usage of “us all”, it seems that the subject has chosen their side.