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Darkend
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Current | |
Valentz | Drums, Vocals (choirs) (2006-present) |
Member(bands): Demiurgon, Imbolc, Shadowfost, Hatred, Amassado | |
Antarktica | Keyboards, Grand piano, Orchestrations (2006-2015, 2016-present) |
Member(bands): Coldsphere, Nightbreeder & The Wintermoon Orchestra, Hollow Haze | |
Animæ | Vocals, Samples (2008-present) |
Member(bands): Artifact | |
Ashes | Guitars (rhythm) (2009-present) |
Member(bands): Demiurgon, Fearbringer (live), Hatred | |
Nothingness | Guitars (lead) (2011-present) |
Vinterskog | Bass (2016-present) |
Member(bands): Aran Angmar, Bloodshot Dawn, Mørkevind, Rise of the Scolopendra, Synodik, Barbekütioner, Electrocution (live), Gallery of Senses | |
Past | |
Q’thulu | Bass (2006-2009) |
Imajes | Guitars (lead) (2006-2011) |
Member(bands): Imbolc, When Love Finishes | |
Raziel | Guitars (rhythm) (2006-2009) |
Specter | Bass (2009-2016) |
# | Discography | Type | Year | |
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1 | Damned Woman and a Carcass | Demo | 2007 | Show album |
2 | Assassine | Full-length | 2010 | Show album |
3 | Grand Guignol - Book I | Full-length | 2012 | Show album |
4 | The Canticle of Shadows | Full-length | 2016 | Show album |
5 | Spiritual Resonance | Full-length | 2019 | Show album |
Damned Woman and a Carcass
Album versions
Release date | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Description |
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June 2007 | Necrotorture Agency | N.A. 04-01 | CD | |
2008 | Deadsun Records | DSR012 | CD |
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Band members | |
Riccardo "Valentz" Valenti | Drums, Percussion |
Jorè "Imajes" Storchi | Guitars (lead) |
Simone "Antarktica" Giorgini | Keyboards |
Simone "Q’thulu" Rebucci | Bass |
Andrea "Raziel" De Pietri | Guitars (rhythm) |
Guest/Session | |
Malachia | Vocals |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Andrea Morselli | Recording, Mixing, Editing (Track 1) |
Francesco Zacchi | Mixing, Mastering |
Alessio "Jack" Iotti | Artwork |
Q’thulu | Artwork |
Cry | Logo |
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1. | Asking for Perfidious Poison (Intro) | 02:48 | instrumental |
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2. | Vampire | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
You who, like the stab of a knife, Entered my plaintive heart; You who, strong as a herd Of demons, came, ardent and adorned, To make your bed and your domain Of my humiliated mind — Infamous bitch to whom I’m bound Like the convict to his chain, Like the stubborn gambler to the game, Like the drunkard to his wine, Like the maggots to the corpse, — Accurst, accurst be you! I begged the swift poniard To gain for me my liberty, I asked perfidious poison To give aid to my cowardice. Alas! both poison and the knife Contemptuously said to me: "You do not deserve to be freed From your accursed slavery, Fool! — if from her domination Our efforts could deliver you, Your kisses would resuscitate The cadaver of your vampire!" |
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3. | Sed Non Satiata | 03:23 | Show lyrics |
Dusky as tropic nights, O bizarre deity, Redolent of havana, musk and cordovan, What obeah man or Faust of the Caribbean, Wrought you, child-witch of night, with flanks of ebony? Better than opium or Constanta. Wine or Nuits, Your nectar mouth where Love swoons in a slow pavane, When my desires set forth, a serried caravan, Your eyes are the twin wells where I can slake ennui. From out these wide black eyes which are your spirit’s vent, Heap fires less fierce upon me. O impenitent, I am no tireless Styx to gird you nine times nine, I am no lustful Fury to exhaust your lust, To break your vigor or to make you bite the dust Or in your bed’s hell turn into a Proserpine. |
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4. | Destruction | 05:37 | Show lyrics |
The Demon is always moving about at my side; He floats about me like an impalpable air; I swallow him, I feel him burn my lungs And fill them with an eternal, sinful desire. Sometimes, knowing my deep love for Art, he assumes The form of a most seductive woman, And, with pretexts specious and hypocritical, Accustoms my lips to infamous philtres. He leads me thus, far from the sight of God, Panting and broken with fatigue, into the midst Of the plains of Ennui, endless and deserted, And thrusts before my eyes full of bewilderment, Dirty filthy garments and open, gaping wounds, And all the bloody instruments of Destruction! |
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5. | Damned Women | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
Lying on the sand like ruminating cattle, They turn their eyes toward the horizon of the sea, And their clasped hands and their feet which seek the other’s Know both sweet languor and shudders of pain. Some, whose hearts grew amorous from long confessions, In the depth of the woods, among the babbling brooks, Spell out the love of their timid adolescence By carving the green wood of young saplings; Others, like sisters, walk gravely and with slow steps Among the high rocks peopled with apparitions, Where Saint Anthony saw the naked, purple breasts Of his temptations rise up like lava; There are some who by the light of crumbling resin In the silent void of the old pagan caverns Call out for help from their screaming fevers to you O Bacchus, who lull to sleep the ancient remorse! And others, whose breasts love the feel of scapulars, Who, concealing a whip under their long habits, Mingle, in the dark woods and solitary nights, The froth of pleasure with tears of torment. O virgins, O demons, O monsters, O martyrs, Great spirits, contemptuous of reality, Seekers of the infinite, pious and satyric, Sometimes full of cries, sometimes full of tears, You whom my spirit has followed into your hell, Poor sisters, I love you as much as I pity you, For your gloomy sorrows, your unsatisfied thirsts, And the urns of love with which your great hearts are filled! |
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6. | A Carcass | 05:43 | Show lyrics |
My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. The sun shone down upon that putrescence, As if to roast it to a turn, And to give back a hundredfold to great Nature The elements she had combined; And the sky was watching that superb cadaver Blossom like a flower. So frightful was the stench that you believed You’d faint away upon the grass. The blow-flies were buzzing round that putrid belly, From which came forth black battalions Of maggots, which oozed out like a heavy liquid All along those living tatters. All this was descending and rising like a wave, Or poured out with a crackling sound; One would have said the body, swollen with a vague breath, Lived by multiplication. And this world gave forth singular music, Like running water or the wind, Or the grain that winnowers with a rhythmic motion Shake in their winnowing baskets. The forms disappeared and were no more than a dream, A sketch that slowly falls Upon the forgotten canvas, that the artist Completes from memory alone. Crouched behind the boulders, an anxious dog Watched us with angry eye, Waiting for the moment to take back from the carcass The morsel he had left. — And yet you will be like this corruption, Like this horrible infection, Star of my eyes, sunlight of my being, You, my angel and my passion! Yes! thus will you be, queen of the Graces, After the last sacraments, When you go beneath grass and luxuriant flowers, To molder among the bones of the dead. Then, O my beauty! say to the worms who will Devour you with kisses, That I have kept the form and the divine essence Of my decomposed love! |
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7. | De Profundis Clamavi | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Have pity, my one love and sole delight! Down to a dark abyss my heart has sounded, A mournful world, by grey horizons bounded, Where blasphemy and horror swim by night. For half the year a heatless sun gives light, The other half the night obscures the earth. The arctic regions never knew such dearth. No woods, nor streams, nor creatures meet the sight. No horror in the world could match in dread The cruelty of that dire sun of frost, And that huge night like primal chaos spread. I envy creatures of the vilest kind That they in stupid slumber can be lost — So slowly does the skein of time unwind! |
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8. | Obsession | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Great woods, you frighten me like cathedrals; You roar like the organ; and in our cursed hearts, Rooms of endless mourning where old death-rattles sound, Respond the echoes of your De profundis. I hate you, Ocean! your bounding and your tumult, My mind finds them within itself; that bitter laugh Of the vanquished man, full of sobs and insults, I hear it in the immense laughter of the sea. How I would like you, Night! without those stars Whose light speaks a language I know! For I seek emptiness, darkness, and nudity! But the darkness is itself a canvas Upon which live, springing from my eyes by thousands, Beings with understanding looks, who have vanished. |
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9. | Terrible Pleasures and Frightful Sweetness (Interlude) | 02:06 | instrumental |
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10. | The Two Good Sisters | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
Debauchery and Death are pleasant twins, And lavish with their charms, a buxom pair! Under the rags that clothe their virgin skins, Their wombs, though still in labour, never bear. For the curst poet, foe to married rest, The friend of hell, and courtier on half-pay — Brothels and tombs reserve for such a guest A bed on which repentance never lay. Both tomb and bed, in blasphemy so fecund Each other’s hospitality to second, Prepare grim treats, and hatch atrocious things. Debauch, when will you bury me? When, Death, Mingle your Cypress in the selfsame wreath With the infected Myrtles that she brings? |
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11. | The Dancing Serpent | 06:35 | Show lyrics |
How I love to watch, dear indolent creature, The skin of your so Beautiful body glisten, like some Quivering material! On your deep coiffure Bitter scented, Scented, restless sea, With the blue and brown waves, Like a ship waking To the wind of morning, My dreamy soul prepares For skies far away. Your eyes, where nothing is revealed Of sweet or sour, Are two cold gems whose gold Is mixed with iron. Seeing your harmonious walk, Abandoned beauty, One would say a snake was dancing At the end of a stick. Under the weight of your sloth Your infant head Is balanced with the indolence Of a young elephant, And your body bends and stretches Like a delicate ship Pitching from side to side and sinking Its spars in the water. Like a wave swelled by the melting Of a groaning glacier, When your saliva rises To the edges of your teeth, I feel I drink some Bohemian wine, Bitter, victor, A liquid sky that scatters Stars in my heart! |
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12. | Love Will Tears Us Apart (Joy Division cover) | 03:55 | Show lyrics |
When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low And the resentment rides high But emotions wont grow And were changing our ways, Taking different roads Then love, love will tear us apart again Why is the bedroom so cold Turned away on your side? Is my timing that flawed, Our respect run so dry? Yet theres still this appeal That weve kept through our lives Love, love will tear us apart again Do you cry out in your sleep All my failings expose? Get a taste in my mouth As desperation takes hold Is it something so good Just cant function no more? When love, love will tear us apart again |
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Assassine
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Band members | |
Valentz | Drums |
Imajes | Guitars (lead) |
Antarktica | Grand piano, Orchestrations |
Animæ | Vocals |
Specter | Bass |
Ashes | Guitars (rhythm) |
Guest/Session | |
Valenza Elena | Prayer (Track 1) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Nick Savio | Engineering, Mixing |
Imajes | Recording, Art direction, Songwriting |
Plamen Kolev | Cover art |
Raziel | Recording |
Andrea Morselli | Engineering |
Demonrat | Photography |
Antarktica | Art direction, Songwriting |
Animæ | Art direction, Lyrics |
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1. | Tenebrae I: Spirit in Darkness | 02:35 | instrumental |
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2. | Mater Terribilis | 08:53 | Show lyrics |
MATER TERRIBILIS (Catherine Hayes: France, 1675) A black crystal sphere magically reflects images of cruelty Witchcraft obsession made up to comfort women dressed with shadows Shrewd like a demon to capture their lost tormented souls Looking for a venomous solution to dissolve a dusty cold love Damsels and lovers are spellbound by the words of the clairvoyant Secret identities perennially eager to arrive to milady’s bolster She wields their minds behold with impure eyes Enslaved without torment but ready to obey to her counsels Slavery for golden possession, kindled the carnage inception Mystical rituals celebrate by a priest, sacrificing children to the beast A goblet of blood amid hands raised up toward the sky Hundred children were killed, bloodbath for filling desire Beneath the mournful name of god the bishop fell into a pit.... of flesh Venus, your pale skin is prey of demons Graves overflowing corpses, sexual abomination, madness it’s not only for the ancestors Altars built up to praise the almighty, mounted with skulls, bones and deadly eyes "Father I summon thy furious gaze upon the mortals You master this misery, we devote ourselves to the flames of hell Grant us your blackest wisdom so that we can bring your dominion Recall demons’ legion from the pit with no return...... no return " A black crystal sphere magically reflects images of cruelty Witchcraft obsession made up to comfort women dressed with shadows Shrewd like a demon to capture their lost tormented souls Looking for a venomous solution to dissolve a dusty cold love Secret sons born from adultery Gutted for been melting into potions Forbidden spells, forbidden dreams Embody the name of “Majesty” Slavery for golden possession, kindled the carnage inception Mystical rituals celebrate by a priest, sacrificing children to the beast Venus, your pale skin is prey of demons Graves overflowing corpses, sexual abomination, madness it’s not only for the ancestors Altars built up to praise the almighty, mounted with skulls, bones and deadly eyes Dragged unto a monumental stake Burning sparks are flying upwards Hear the screams from the tongue of evil A spirit purified by fire. (Music by Imajes/Antarktica) (Lyrics by Valentz) |
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3. | A Bizarre Alchemical Practice | 07:31 | Show lyrics |
A BIZARRE ALCHEMIC PRACTICE - Leonarda Cianciulli: Italy, 1939 - Thirteen sperm-seeds of sweet carnal passion were brutally erased Strangled and dissolved into my own womb Mother! you damned dream-witch of the night How can that rotten cadaver still whispers to me Unceasing omens of death? “And suddenly a shining scalpel Was built with terror and despair” Unceasing omens of death Will slowly show me the way Paralysing omens of death Slowly show me the way Un vacuo silenzio s’ innalza tra i fumi Tessendo elogi a tristi paure E bianche sculture incarnanti il dolore Di riti, peccati ed anime fatue Che nere le fiamme ribollono atroci In bui pertugi macchiati di morte Lavando precoce dal sangue l’odore Di corpi straziati, in cera mutati A dark Grand Guignol ceremony will dry all the tears of those years With sweet human food well served And candles of flesh will soon burn the air Spreading the stench of redemption Of your dead souls “I was told to raise the heat Up to seven hundred sixty degrees centigrade For that is the right temperature Required for melting bones Oh, how simply and bizarre too Can be this domestic alchemic practice” Un vacuo silenzio s’innalza tra i fumi Tessendo elogi a tristi paure E bianche sculture incarnanti il dolore Di riti, peccati ed anime fatue Che nere le fiamme ribollono atroci In bui pertugi macchiati di morte Lavando precoce dal sangue l’odore Di corpi straziati, in cera mutati (Music by Imajes/Antarktica) (Lyrics by Animæ) |
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4. | Poisoned Lips of Lust | 07:06 | Show lyrics |
POISONED LIPS OF LUST - Marie de Brindvilliers: France, 1665 - Pale mistress lost in grinnin’ shadows of pain A mist breeds sensual perversion The spirit desire to chase away morality A flame burns in brilliant eyes The embrace of death craves her love Kissing with lips sweetly blushed A dark shadow of jealousy Orders fidelity for eternity Oh father, you must die, I’m not your servant You confined my love and sold my soul The poison is boiling to melt your heart Blessed in this holy, corrupted kingdom Sweet revenge for my carnal passions Sublime pleasure for this art ...I was so young when I was raped... A feeble scream echoes from a distant convent Sparkles light up candles of pleasure Incestuous path toward a sinful treason The chant of cunt resounds everywhere The embrace of death craves her love Kissing with lips sweetly blushed A dark shadow of jealousy Orders fidelity for eternity Oh my beloved, now I feel so tired I must destroy the chains that bind us As others you’ll perish to free my desire A boundless spirit in this witheless My soul is painting host of embraces Submerged and covered with a seminal dress The embrace of death craves her love Kissing with lips sweetly blushed A dark shadow of jealousy Orders fidelity for eternity Lethal confessions into the garments of god A trap of destiny, cruel with blind eyes Crawling dumb toward an eternal life The pale white pall covers a sinuous body Reflexes of solar light are mirroring on the blade Black hair, blood and delusion wait on the strow A wish of death symbolize the end of the princess Wings of white angels burn into the fire of envy Relic of charm and dedication to the flesh They fell under her spell in flesh. (Music by Imajes) (Lyrics by Valentz) |
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5. | Bounded, Sisters by Solitude | 05:33 | Show lyrics |
BOUNDED, SISTERS BY SOLITUDE - Pauline Parker & Juliet Hulme: New Zeland, 1954 - Pauline and Juliet: We, the nocturnal fogs of Eden We still remember ages ago When childish caresses warms our dimension Lost in dreams Weird sisters bounded by solitude With eyes open wide we witnessed The fall of reality Silently imploring... To the ground! To the ground! To the ground until the worms will feast with her blood A choir of lesbian angels was delivered from the sky Covering with ashes the shadow of the whore! To death! To death! To death to finally erase her presence from the world We, the slaying angels, were cast down from the sky A stone against her head and Mommy was no more! Pauline: Among the unaware souls of the Lord I hide my horrible secret Juliet: Behind novels and tales of fictional murders Tremble hands and eyes sick to the pain Pauline and Juliet: Once cursed and doomed in any language The Whole Crowd: Murderers! Meurtières! Mörderinnen! ASSASSINE! Pauline and Juliet: To the ground! To the ground! To the ground until the worms will feast with her blood A choir of lesbian angels was delivered from the sky Covering with ashes the shadow of the whore! To death! To death! To death to finally erase her presence from the world We, the slaying angels, were cast down from the sky A stone against her head and Mommy was no more! We, the nocturnal foes of heaven We still remember ages ago When with eyes open wide we witnessed The fall of reality Violently giving her death! Cast away never to meet again my carnal alter ego Pauline: Juliet, where are you now? Juliet: Pauline, where are you now? (Music by Imajes) (Lyrics by Animæ) |
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6. | Tenebrae II: For Those Who Died | 02:53 | instrumental |
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7. | Two Faced Beast | 07:31 | Show lyrics |
TWO FACED BEAST (Denise Labbè: France, 1954) Part I: Denise, Jacques and the dying Spirit An angel without wings trampled by his desires Blinded by deception of an endless and painful love Bitter tears run down her cheeks so pale, turning to red The inner deepest agony corrodes heartbeats ...bringing to madness A silent scream of the dying spirit Baptized form the cradle to the grave Life, swept away! Her image reflected by a ripple mirror And the hands whose praised a gift of god Left her heart… to drown! The last tempting wish, holding the hands of her mother Into the metal-tub, full of water and pain They went to clean her doll, dirty and worn out But only one comes back, because the infant ... is dead She cries for her inconceivable deeds Detecting reality through his dismal heart Is this the essence of love? Masochistic passion on the white skin of her pure body A shiny knife, it cuts, leaving scars and livids to fulfill a mental depraved satisfaction Obsessed by dominion of unaware women’s souls Subdued by the obsession of losing him Aborting, without tragedy, in the name of deep passion Disowned, cast away and insulted An empty shell lost in solitude Is this the promise of pain? Masochistic passion on the white skin of her pure body A shiny knife, it cuts, leaving scars and livids to fulfill a mental depraved satisfaction Love will show me the worst face of the beast Part II: The voice of Christine Back to the humid womb once again… A womb made of bitter water and cold iron walls It must b my prison… A prison for the unborn who once dreamed of life But here is so dark, so cold, so old Could eternity be just a humble grave? All I still feel is the deep, intense pain The pain of birth and then to come back here again Again… Again… Again… No more light as my tears melt with water My lungs filled once more with heavy liquid For me life was just a sweet dream As for you death will be… (Music by Imajes/Antarktica) (Lyrics by Animæ/Valentz) |
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8. | Her Majesty Ogress | 06:49 | Show lyrics |
HER MAJESTY OGRESS - Jeanne Weber: France, 1908 - Behind this cold walls still I struggle Here, in my torn heart As I watch at the spiders creeping the stones I hope that this burden will disappear Remembering horrible acts Laissez moi protéger Le secret qui envelope L’âme des mes maines… Or horrible dreams? Que l’architecture de la doux mort aux profound spasmes commence! Ulcère de cette enfantin beauté J’orchestre la danse avec ton corp désarticulée, une paradisiaque decadence! Mine is this sublime art of strangulation A warm exercise of moribund pressure My love and my hands all around your throat For your cold embrace only I’ll warm I, her majesty Ogress Her majesty Death Ulcère de cette enfantin beauté Mutilation de ton coeur Vide yeux pleurent sang Sur le visage tuméfié So I will keep the secret of your stolen breath Clutching, still clutching, with severe fingers, clutching! And with an empty stare I guide your steps In the dark land of the untimely death For it’s like to recreate peace of mind For it’s like to recreate the silence of the uterine asphyxia For it’s like to recreate inside, the lost passion for a deformed body For it’s like to recreate the love, the pain, eternally united… What have I done? Sweet innocent children… Time heals… nothing! Please give me again an illusion of sanity Cause it is gone too far If my world was nothing more than this I’ll better kill myself With my own hands Laissez moi protéger Le secret de ton soufflle Dans la mort unie avec le mien… In death, united with me… Mine is this sublime art of strangulation A warm exercise of moribund pressure My shame and my hands all around my throat For my cold embrace nobody will warm I, her majesty Ogress Her majesty Death Ma gorge déchiré Avec cettes ongles d’Orchesse Une victime immolée Dans la crypte du suicide. (Music by Imajes/Antarktica) (Lyrics by Animæ) |
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9. | The Thorns, the Pain, the Horror | 05:00 | Show lyrics |
THE THORNS, THE PAIN, THE HORROR (Lizzie Borden: United States, 1892) As fascinating thorns The hate grows inside her heart Silently shaping Those constant pain and sense of solitude Transforming her rigid soul And maniacally picture A bleak paint of horror A serenade of murders Celebrated by the blade The thorns, the pain, the horror She feeds inside The thorns, the pain, the horror She wields her torment For the world is full of sins And they will last forever! She took an ax And laughing she believed That she will strike down with hate! The house was engraved In an absolute silence Finally only her mother inside Her and the ax Laughing, screaming, violently hitting Reducing her face to mush Forty whacks and when she saw what she had done She went downstairs and gave her father forty-one! The terrible voice of death itself Filled those rooms The strong stink of blood Her figure stands expressionless Silk is burning… A morbid archetype of slaughter To cage the mind Beyond the human sin’s perception Her emotions were petrified Cast away to raise The cult of the Gorgon with bloodstained hands! The thorns, the pain, the horror She spread outside The thorns, the pain, the horror She wields her torment For the world is full of sins And they will last forever! She took an ax And laughing’ she done it She struck down with hate! (Music by Antarktica/ Imajes) (Lyrics by Animæ) |
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10. | Perinde ac Cadaver | 09:44 | Show lyrics |
PERINDE AC CADAVER - Elga Gurroci: Italy, 1928 - Alone I lay here in my own cold cell silently praying for you, God Down on my bleeding knees I call at you to speak me again Still horrified by the lapse of obedience that taint this Gothic structure Monastery infected by bitches hidden by the black saint veil Lost deep into the divine gloom, where my eyes can penetrate A sharp voice escapes the stones and calls upon me Tremble as leaves! You livid nuns, for all of your words are lies At the shade of the cliff God will guide my holy acts The Jesuit’s blood’s in my veins My soul’s in your hand And as a dead body I will proudly obey In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum Perinde ac cadaver! Perinde ac cadaver! Nighttime procession on the way among the rocks Among the trees, on the way to the cliff Sister, confess your sins to me Below this moonless night, at the top of the stone If his holy son was sadly sacrificed Don’t you think that even you can die? As she fall screaming to the ground Thy will is done Thy will is done In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum Perinde ac cadaver! Perinde ac cadaver! Observe and rejoice! My only and righteous God For with such dignity I act as you command Ashes to ashes and torment to the flesh Will save all their souls from the tortures of hell Collera, divina risorgi Assurgi a tuo manto Il voto spezzato di mille sorelle Nel nome della croce Or depongo l’anime vostre Alla destra del padre E luride carni getto alle rocce E livide carni getto alle rocce Sacred ground of bloody rocks Dark End, immaculate For every nun that dies A shroud so white shall be prepared Hosanna in excelsis Hosanna in excelsis The holy code of Jesuits Representing love on earth Amen! To the masses Thy will always be done Hosanna in excelsis Hosanna in excelsis deo Lost deep into the divine gloom, where my eyes can penetrate A vivid vision escapes the stones and unveils itself to me In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum Mortuis, domine, lux perpetua luceat Dies irae, dies irae Dead by moonlight, sacrifice My face in a pool of blood Gravid stares of grace divine Soon I’ll reach you God Hosanna in excelsis Hosanna in excelsis As a dead body I must obey Holy father, holy son I’ll be your holy corpse How mysterious the ways of the Lord can be The next shroud prepared… will be for me! (Music by Antarktica) (Lyrics by Animæ) |
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11. | Tenebrae III: Darkness in Spirit | 01:51 | instrumental |
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Grand Guignol - Book I
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Band members | |
Valentz | Drums |
Antarktica | Keyboards |
Animæ | Vocals |
Specter | Bass |
Nothingness | Guitars (lead) |
Ashes | Guitars (rhythm) |
Guest/Session | |
Nick Savio | Guitars (acoustic) (track 7) |
Fearbringer | Vocals (clean) (tracks 2, 3, 10) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Nick Savio | Engineering, Mixing |
Animæ | Art direction, Artwork, Lyrics, Songwriting |
Antarktica | Songwriting |
Imajes | Songwriting |
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1. | Descent/Ascent (II Movement) | 02:12 | instrumental |
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2. | Æinsoph: Flashforward to Obscurity | 06:42 | Show lyrics |
With the proud shining chant of a flesh wide-open wound (Un)Holy Spirit burns upon our thoughts In exultation, memories fade as we rejoice Tumbledown walls an’ a pinnacle doomed Bloodstained stones exhaling breaths of gloom Oppression casted a shadows on a mystic grandeur Fading away as we rejoice! ...as we rejoice! In praise of glory Awareness lies in a liquid vacuum This gift of wonder This maze of agonizing light In praise of hazes Stillness lies in a shadowed fire A flame of pity A flame of rapture and of pain! Gloria Patri et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in principio Et in sæcula sæculorum Gloria Patri et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in principio Et in sæcula sæculorum And pride is a twilight sun burnin’ inside, It leads every manor to its former splendour… Come down! There in the heart of your inner dark wood Come and be! The solemn incarnation of primeval souls Come down! A new world built by your command There, were wisdom lies well caged In praise of glory Awareness lies in a liquid vacuum Three unknown faces arose Called by omnipotence! And the seared witches’ souls meet an ancient moan And a burial ground spells magic from beyond And awareness lies in liquid vacuum In this vale, in this maze! Crooked is the way that leads to heavens A sinister lane paved with thousands corpses! ...a sinister lane paved with thousands corpses... Hear the harsh mocking chant of a grim-faced god When oblivion shift its forms to sand To matter, to grains again, cycling! Where wisdom lies well caged to be subjugated Darkness, you lead me were lied... Angels, oh tell me heavens’ secrets Of love, blind death... Infliction, it nails me unknown... Darkness, you lead me were lied... Angels, oh tell me heavens’ secrets Of love, blind death... Infliction, it nails me unknown faces Gloria Patri et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in principio Et in sæcula sæculorum Gloria Patri et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in principio Et in sæcula sæculorum |
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3. | Doom: And Then Death Scythed | 08:15 | Show lyrics |
And now, whit eyes open wide I pray for the crumbling of your soul! You, man... you’re impurity dressed with purity You, god... brown lamb in wolf skin Ill-natured... contaminated alchemy Shame, shame... weak human beings You, god... inoculate abortion You, man... putrid fleshy strain Long knives... tools of eradication Death, death... bless their soul with pain A secret countdown set To your preordinated apocalypse Tic-toc... Tic-toc... Tic-toc... Angels of no mercy armed with sharp obscurity Give hurt and final rest In name of tragedy, in praise of tragedy Shades of night, now free us From this scorn, from this scorn! Oh wasted and skeletal beast Pale horse, cast your scythe down! Oh reaper ancient and wise Cold death, cast your scythe down! Oh seeds of spirit divine Essence, cast your scythe down! Oh, reaper ancient and wise... You, god... you’re inoculate abortion You, man... putrid fleshy strain Wood cross... a tool of eradication Death, death... bless his soul with pain You, man... still cadavers in the dark You, god... have hundreds souls to reap Bloodbath... it shapes a new life Doom, fire... last sight in eternal sleep And I looked, and behold a pale horse And his name that sat on him was Death, And Hell followed with him.... And power was given unto them Over the fourth part of the earth Oh wasted and skeletal beast Oh reaper ancient and wise... Father! Father! Father omniscient Slay! Slay! And grant peace on earth! Father! Father! Father omniscient Slay! Slay! With razorblade hate! Saline statues with terror in their eyes A-slug crumbling down, while the last Gomorrah’s burning Hail the glory, the beauty of bereavement Now it’s sealed forever with a graven sword The unseen world of Hades is rising And mortal nature will put on immortality The final bloodstain for a mosaic made of nightmares Is a new beginning... And when the lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the fourth living creature scream: “Come!” And I looked, and behold a pale horse And his name that sat on him was Death, And Legion and Yaveh were united as one... And great power was given unto them Over the fourth part of the earth To kill with sword, and with hunger And with death, and with the beast of the earth For his name was Death And Hell followed with him And Hell followed with him And Hell followed with him And Hell followed with him This is Zero hour... |
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4. | Spiritism: The Transmigration Passage | 07:39 | Show lyrics |
Ring the bell! Wrapped in black ruins Lost among grey, solemn tombs Storming and witching my cadaveric sleep For all of the sudden The abyss spreads its fangs And the pale light is soon devoured! Whisper to me of your dead Necropolis... Oh putrefaction adorn me again Obscene and magnificent in all its forms Wrapped a vapor Once born of fog and virtue Infesting and blessing these Stigmata plagues A failing shade embracing My shadow long denied Ancient and feared: thundering Golgotha Silently breed and then sing to me Of the thorns, the pain and its horrors... once again Soul! Fire! Nails and Darkness! Soul! Fire! Nails and Darkness! Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; In memoria aeterna erit iustus Ab auditione mala non timebit. Absolve Domine animas Omnium fidelium defunctorum Ob omno vinculo delictorum Et gratia tua illis succurente Mereantur evadere iudicium ultionis, Et lucis aeternae beatitudine perfrui Tuba mirum spargens sonum Per sepulchra regionum, Coget omnes ante thronum. Wrapped in black ruins Lost among grey, solemn tombs Storming and witching my cadaveric sleep And there stood the abyss With is mouth open wide Devouring, relentless, devouring! Whisper to me, of your dead Necropolis Obscene... And sleep... and sleep! While you became your own tomb! Soul! Fire! Nails and Darkness! Soul! Fire! Nails and Darkness! A thousand psalms of penitence To wash away this rust from your nails But I know too well the nature of man To ignore that often the offended forgive While the offender never do it Behold! Highest spirits, behold! So much has been told about the first stone But what about the last? And he, who will be able to throw it? Behold! Highest spirits, behold! So much has been told about the first stone! |
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5. | Bereavement: A Multitude in Martyrized Flesh | 07:40 | Show lyrics |
Se-woo, ha-nah e-too-hee pagh-ri Han-noo dim-mi, d’dia-tee-qeh kha-tha Forgive me not Father Cause I never blasphemed in opposition to your word But it’s only against the human’s blind laws That I proudly… Sin Crucify! Crucify! With the rusty nails of mortals You bury divine flesh down below And yet this place still whispers ceremonial litanies A transcendental plague A river of incense cross a forgotten soil It flows into the vast, sad oceans that you mourn And nothing is observed and assumed down there If not the first commandment of the soul Do Sin! Do Sin! This dusk lies beneath a fractured mirror of sins The moon and the sun will then emerge from the earth To sanctify the one who blaspheme Do Sin! And it snows deep down again Bright stars falling fast in a spiral of Sin And the sky became a vault And what human’s vileness has set as a weak limit Was crossed with a wearing, horrible idea of pain Shining incarnation, a desolate death In wise and gentle solitude compliance turns to dust Resounding in the echoes of stillness A new creator feeds its limbs Ed egli ascese da abissi di carni martirizzate Tuonando con voce solenne l’avvento d’un nuovo dominio S’ergan bastioni che oscurino il cielo Torri dorate al cospetto del vuoto E da grigi manieri e ancor più buie valli Della rinunzia temuta e agognata Null’altro provenga se non il rimpianto Un gemer sommesso di giorni perduti Il grido obliato del mesto suicida Il grido, la fine, il vuoto, l’abisso! Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani? Tetelestai, Eloi! All is said and done, Father! A new temple of flesh built once again With this bread of misery and pain Not by mercy, not by pity... but power And cheek... Insects and maggots Scum of the earth This scorn will be Your Calvary mile! Crucified! Crucified! With the rusty nails of moral You buried divine flesh down below But still this place whispers ceremonial litanies A future plague… A river of incense cross a forgotten soil It flows into the vast, sad oceans that you mourn Where a lost evocation gives you Halos of flies and thorns! Do Sin! Do Sin! This dusk lies beneath a fractured mirror of sins The moon and the sun will then emerge from the earth To sanctify the one who blaspheme Do Sin! And it snows deep down again Bright stars falling fast in a spiral of Sin In martyrized flesh... |
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6. | Grief: Along Our Divine Pathway | 06:23 | Show lyrics |
Twilight hides itself Beneath the waves Of a bright impending darkness Oblivious of every life, Of every hasty death Beholder of our nothingness Ten thousand holy spirits Melted in a liquid structure Ever changing shape and brightness Ten thousand demons A blasphemy from heaven Sneering through clouds and glowing dimness And then silence swathed all And then silence swathed all… What we inherit from the past Your shade upon the soul Opening wounds A dreary light of humid mist Taking breaths away And yet you still here Along our divine pathway... crawling! A dreary mist of humid light Opening wounds... And yet you still here... Deceitful theatre of corridors A shadowplay! Where we are and we are not With sins of flesh Laid upon a wooden cross To cheat the symmetry divine But when the wounded one Gains the aureole of night A plague will be unleashed upon me: A dumb progeny So that its shame Cannot be told Repudiating earth, the sky, the seas And the whispers beneath everything Building rules and ruined temples And soon the third eye was... no more What we inherit from the past Your shade upon the soul Opening wounds A dreary light of humid mist Taking breaths away You, the labyrinth, you still here Along our divine pathway... bleeding! What we inherit from the past Your shade upon the soul Opening wounds A dreary mist of humid light Taking breaths away Still opening wounds! Am I there with you? |
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7. | Bleakness: Of Secrecy, Haste and Shattered Crystals | 05:49 | Show lyrics |
This is a proud march towards the arcane life-force to come Through occult secrecy and haste Through shattered crystals without a face Since damnation wears the wings of lost remembrances For the long gone suffering lies beneath the deepest of seas And nothing else there Then would be granted to you No more! But to embrace The light of truth The bitter guilt of abandonment Lost ancient ruins, an invoked gale of crimson sand The dryness of eons past burns your mouth For every mourned departure Breeds some pain And a sad rancorous ghost Hence, you, horrible shadow The trail is cast For you to walk the arc of space and time In the idea of virtue In the idea of sin Lies my domination over all men! From the rope end dangles a traitor On the cross lies a saint What discern a miracle from profound abomination When they’re both thrown away in the jaws of oblivion? What is left to humanity? When the spirit go astray What is left to free will? When all shades are gray The path of the chosen few is paved with innocence And with anger, wrath and fury! Beware of you, Pharisees! Your mask of righteousness hides a secret inner world Of ungodly thoughts and feelings! You were full of wickedness You were like whitewashed tombs Beautiful on the outside But full of dead men’s bones Like sand they are... In the idea of virtue In the idea of sin Lies my domination In the idea of virtue In the idea of sin Lies my domination over all men! |
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8. | Pest: Fierce Massive Slaying Grandeur | 06:59 | Show lyrics |
So we carved inside high nothingness Melting it with a paradox of opposites So we feed the blue chasm of oblivion And drawn there new life from obscurity So we carved inside high fullness Binding it with an archetype of heresy So we drank from the fountain of time And mould there the essence of theology For the great abstraction of silence For the high flatness of man It sharpened deep wide this blade And it won’t hide forgiveness For the holy priesthood of silence For the highest reason of pain Sharpened deep wide this blade And it won’t hide forgiveness This is the advent of the flames that lie within This is a loyal declaration of sin Dona eis, rex tremendae maiestatis, morte æterna In die illa iræ, coeli movendi sunt et terra War is a cowardice of the soul! Peace is a cowardice of the soul! Inner storm… deflagrate! These wounds wide open And that light of humid mist I will vomit upon you… I will vomit upon you all! So we spread outside high, pure instinct Clashing it with a weak rationality So we crossed the seas of hell’s fire And then unveiled the true iniquity So we damned the (un)nature of man Walking down the path of divinities So we drank from the fountain of being And drown there the shroud of humanity For the great abstraction of silence For the high flatness of man It sharpened deep wide this blade And it won’t hide forgiveness For the holy priesthood of silence For the highest reason of pain Sharpened deep wide this blade Breeding again… The fierce massive slaying grandeur The fierce massive slaying grandeur [THE OBSCURE FLASHFORWARD POINTS HERE] Your war is a cowardice of the soul! Your peace is a cowardice of the soul! Get away from me, beast of the earth! Be one with me, beast of the earth! Son of the light, son of the dark Every time they die within you! For the great inner sea is raging again And who shall be able to stand? To stand! Dona eis, rex tremendae maiestatis, morte æterna Dona eis, rex tremendae maiestatis, morte æterna |
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9. | Decrepitude: One Last Laugh Beside Your Agonies | 09:01 | Show lyrics |
Father, Take away this cup from me If you can Thy will be done, not mine Thy will be done, not mine Death, I forced your cup to these mouth With iron hands My will is done, not their To destroy and create new bitter life Oh how often tenderness can be Nothing more than a cruel stained mirror Beyond which it carefully hides The coldest form of detachment Atrocity lies right there, beside your agonies Atrocity laughs beside your agonies And then you serenely contemplate These mountains of mercy Slowly slough off in mountains of corpses Climbing one or another With the seed of sin So well disguised with robes of repentance Mother, Speak to me from heavenly skies If you can Your will was done, not mine Your will was done, not mine And life, Hear my words, these will be my last: Soon you will love me As a dead is loved Love me as a dead is loved Cast away your pain-stained shroud For in the whisper of loss I choose to be And I desperately wrap my spirit away From these cruel laws of mortality For how often a smiling face can be Nothing more than a cruel stained mirror Beyond which it carefully hides The most evil form of horror Atrocity lies right there, beside your agonies Atrocity laughs beside your agonies Continuously you mould its winding shape Continuously it laughs beside your pain With clothes made of sins Of sins and good intentions With clothes made of anger Of anger and candid pardon Of martyrs and righteous torturers Of death, of stench and serene lives Of pity, of shame and distant coldness Of fire, of water! Of love, burnt offerings and terror Of charity, blood and sadism and horror Of hate in form of weakness Of bread, of knives in the back! Staring at you on this fathomless night Finding correlation only to find myself Wandering… Wandering… Of loss Innocence buried away Trapped inside To never come back again Nevermore! I wish you’ll never grown Life, love, life, Do you really think I need you? Do you really think I need you? And I was forced to commit sin, do sin, do sin But what is sin? When prospective falls apart When prospective falls apart… It’s wonderful from here, you know…? My clothes are made of anger Of anger and candid pardon My clothes are made of martyrs Of martyrs and righteous torturers My clothes are made of death Of stench and serene life My clothes are made of nothing Of nothing, because… I am buried away Trapped somewhere To never come back again Nevermore, nevermore! I wish you’ll never grown Life, love, life, Do you really think I need you? Do you really think I need you? |
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10. | Dawn: Black Sun Rises | 11:36 | Show lyrics |
And now that everything is swathed by silence A new magic will be created to inhale The arcane lost voice And the formless wisdom Of what is dead and forgotten Decrepitude is the seed of resurrection Through which a new cosmos will be melted Leave mortality, erase the supreme fault Rapture and wonder are born Fluid spheres of atoms, chaos DNA Bodies dissolve in formless entities Alchemy divine breeds spirit-worlds Concentric involution of souls Programming and calculating Indoctrination through a lucid dismay Reason evokes spirit, spirit evokes flesh A final artefact, complete! A parallel beginning, a light of the black Enchants the oscillating circle Mutation in a self-desired apocalypse Sacred trinity revealed again To the deep core I invoked all the spiders All the pains and a crown of thorns... Black Twelve-rayed sun Rises! Black Twelve-rayed sun Rises! It dawns! To the deep core I invoked all the spiders All the pains and a crown of thorns... And after all the impure light A black sun… It dawns! Buried away After 3 day and 3 thousand years He shines again… Flebile lucentezza immemore Del terrore in eterno custodito Tra spirali di tempesta Riemerge la memoria Arcaica legione strisciante Tra le negate cripte del tempo From far away it shines… From distant skies Of blackened light you dredge Divine exhumed crystals Shattered and endless Vanished and rose again Nebbiose profondità remote, Tra cunicoli e catacombe S’erge il baratro Dell’umana pazzia Stracci di pioggia, lembi di vento Adornan il Dio rifiutato Che funesto volteggia Su rovine sepolte; Preghiere proibite ed urla spettrali Tra ombre di valli senza nome Nascoste e obliate On the starless dimension of the obstructed soul Fleshy pendulums eternally oscillate Between the sanctity of sin, the impiety of purity Not knowing the secret of stillness Not knowing they’re only moving through mirrors Decrepitude, it sown resurrection Through which the cosmos has been melted Without mortality, without the supreme fault Rapture and wonder here grown Fluid spheres of atoms, chaos DNA Bodies dissolved in formless entities Alchemy divine in this spirit-worlds Concentric involution of souls A great uproar, a shrieking lament A desert shaken by the abyss Austere on the pinnacle of emptiness The eternal mantle spreads out On the pinnacle of emptiness The eternal mantle spreads out Black Twelve-rayed sun Rises! Black Twelve-rayed sun Rises! Black Twelve-rayed sun Rises! Black Twelve-rayed sun… It dawns! I wear the nails of Jesus And all the universe’s wonders... Yet I am murder and rape And premature putrefaction I walk with coldness and lie In the horrible thunder of insects… Deep down inside… Deep down inside… |
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The Canticle of Shadows
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April 25th, 2016 | Non Serviam Records | NSR 014 | CD | Limited edition, Digipak |
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April 25th, 2016 | Non Serviam Records | NSR 014-1 | CD | Limited edition |
April 25th, 2016 | Non Serviam Records | Digital | Bandcamp |
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Ashes | Guitars |
Valentz | Drums, Vocals (choirs) |
Animæ | Vocals, Samples, Lyrics |
Specter | Bass |
Nothingness | Guitars, Keyboards (track 7) |
Antarktica | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Matteo Valentini | Saxophone |
Edmond Mountwho | Medium |
Niklas Kvarforth | Vocals (track 5) |
Attila Csihar | Vocals (tracks 2, 6) |
Sakis Tolis | Vocals (track 7) |
Labes C. Necrothytus | Vocals (track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Elga Gurroci | Photography |
Luca Cocconi | Mixing, Mastering |
Simone Sighinolfi | Mixing, Mastering |
Antarktica | Songwriting |
Nothingness | Songwriting |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction, Songwriting |
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1. | Clavicula Salomonis | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
My will is done. Here I abjure ye, you still ones! Thus hear me wide, you who sleep in these tombs A pound for your souls A cold sludgy void swallowed your souls This poor sepulchre Osseous cenotaphs forbidden to tell the names of their dead! Breathe again! And breathe again! a whisper of sorrow in garments of joy And thus the white path we are walking in, skirted by dead flowers, a burial recess Lead us to the gravestone! It leads us to the gravestone! How many of you live crawling on bleeding knees? Digging the soil to welcome the devourer worms, Swapping the sky and the stars with that incessant choir of “I am, I know, I have!” No! Wrapped in a cemeterial breeze and with scars open wide I embrace death and pain with a serene grin And like a clock marching backwards My life’ll spawn higher life as the years multiply! Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Can you sense that sound? Of ghosts, banshees and unnamed streams The wisdom of chaos: the womb and the grave And who’s the dead now He who dwells among phantoms Or the king of mortal emptiness? For I am made of untamed Fire, Everburning, high, bright, high! Do Sin! And believe Do Sin! And believe Cathedral walls born on fleshy columns Hide an altar of ghouls on the stairs through the void! Open, now open! These coffins of parchments and dusty remains Here I proclaim myself Shaman of the Chasm! Seer and Dreamer and Warlock and Witch! And Life in Death and Death in Life! V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Visita Interiora Terrae V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Et scientiam pentacula sine caudarias Majestatem suppliciter depræcor Corporis et Animæ salute Salomoni Nox perpetua revelasti Et imploro misericordiam tuam Qui Abraham Primum in fidelem servum elegisti Cum semen sicut cæli multiplicasti… Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Dei Luna, Saturnus, Mortem et Scorpionem! Morte! Morte! Morte! Morte! |
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2. | Of the Defunct | 08:44 | Show lyrics |
Here, I can still feel this dreary pain Here, a malady serum fills every vein Sad birthgiver of endings That petrified body with 16 bleeding mouths Is it still me? Is it still me? All senses pierced by anguish and woe From the inside, from the outside From grieving shades crying at me “Where have you gone?” “Where are you now?” In the warm fumes spread by my own dead mutilated flesh It is there that I am now! In that moment in time, when my soul was torn apart It is there that I am now! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more pain and death! Death! Here time is rotten and still Here’s just reiteration and death! And here… here there’s no flame to cast a shadow of me Now, in this maze of poignant perdition, that shadow is me And with every step it takes, in anger and fear abhorrent It leads you to the funeral, to the grave, to the interment To the interment! To the interment! To the interment! Burn the past to ashes, bury the past with scorn Where trees have taken vows of silence And leaves are stillborn Under that misty, humid cemetery soil In velvet and in ebony, in silent caducity Lead the grand hearse, carve an earthly womb To entomb this aberration Crippled and refused Within deep layers of nightly profane dirt A secret is withheld, in darkness it’s withheld! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more fear and death! Death! Here’s just reiteration and death… And here, blades and worms still opening wounds fattening the conquering beast Do you think that I am made for resting in peace? This place... this place is terrible. |
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3. | A Precipice Towards Abyssal Caves (Inmost Chasm, I) | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Fire, thou art the Key Your Flames I am and my veins you are And Pain, thou wast the Gate The first step down leading through narrow clefts Profound, descent; From sheer drops to ravines unknown A torchlit passage to the regions of the Soul Walked with hunger and Pride Revived Mountain, with coldness at my side Revived Drape of the Night, with obscurity and stars inside Revived Subversive Nazarene Extracting nails from scarred flesh divine Hammering them deep down Right to your hearts, mothers of mankind Emptiness and vacuity And treason and lie These are the names in which you hide This is the vacuum you carry with pride Your privileges are broken in here A precipice towards abyssal caves Baptized in whirling streams of ever-flowing strength Waters and vapors to guide me through My path is self-chosen My hurt is self-chosen My curse is self- chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Embalming crimson mist with seething shades as wings Pillars and dead eyes from far beyond My loss is self-chosen My grief is self-chosen My soar is self-chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Cold scarring Sun, shine on! For I roamed the barren lands of the Elsewhere in eons unknown to men And from its dense darkness I brought back everlasting Flames With the power to enlighten you Or to incinerate you. |
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4. | Il velo delle ombre | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Stille di carni oscurano i cieli Ricami nel buio tra nebbie accecanti E tombe d’incanti, di vermi e miasmi Piangon a gran voce il mantra del Vuoto: “Che voi, cogliete preghiere soltanto per cumuli decrepiti” Ritual #3 – Orationem E allora Saturno divora i tuoi figli D’un grembo lunare malfermo e tremante Tra stracci di fango e lembi d’orrore Portando alla Luce di il Drappo Silente I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! Deum eum patrem cantate, Deorum deum supplicate. Cum tonas, Luceri! Prae te tremunt quot ibi te di Audierunt tonare Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! |
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5. | A Passage Through Abysmal Caverns (Inmost Chasm, II) | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Ashes through ashes, scattering dust of red agonies ashen My wounds are opened now! My gates are opened now! From towers ablaze I erect and exalt my black throne, there above you all Broken and broken! Your knowledge is broken, your hidings are broken! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! Which whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! My limbs are the branches of nature itself with a touch of perdition, bathed in sorrow Here I became Death, and Death is the seed from which I grow… HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-HAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Further on, further on, above and beneath, through the storm, further on! My gates are opened now! My wounds are opened now! Here I return to dig up from the clay all the nails, all the teeth, all the bones buried down All in one, one in all, as dawn clinches dusk: all in one, one in all HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA Near these cenotaphs austere and deformed Named as mourning and pain Whisper my names… Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Here I call to thee! Here I bathe in thee! As I traverse this spectral vale Bounded by night-spells An enshrouding mist Engulfed by the wind By the wind of the seas A glimpse of purity Like roots to branches And by 7 steps of Winter I am whole again Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! There in your mortal world I cannot be reached For I dwell among the undead For I dwell among the ghosts of dreams Closer than usual to the heart of Creation And yet so far away… Every drop of blood and every forlorn tear Returns to my very essence Through the beads of this crimson fog Surrounding me, inhaling me! Surrounding me, inhaling me! HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI LI-SHERVA ROO-KHAA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-TAHAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman rise with the Sun! Shaman rise with the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! |
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6. | Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
Saturn, lavish all your pain upon me For I am ready to bear it! Thy progeny’s weak, empty and torn And I’m a Black Moon, devourer of all. Gather a funerary crown of nails and locusts For the still carrion of humankind So Wormwood, fall once again Like a torch upon the earth! While blessed by the shadows, by a wisdom of old I slip through your blood to spit my cancer in you! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn In Fire, by Air, in Water, by Earth And thus I speak to you, insects: As you have always obeyed not only in my presence But so much more in my absence: Work out your own salvation now, with fear and trembling! For being yourselves so empty, I just spoke empty answers to your empty prayers... And for whatever prayer may come from you, I will answer according to the Emptiness of man: May my claws be the deepest knives in your chests! Bewitching this vacuity I reject you, I reject you! With Fire, by Air, with Water, by Earth Swallowed is the light and upset is the worm The moon rises black and Saturn it lies reversed And through infinity I witness These long dreamed, forbidden caves The Citadel of the Underworld With its creepy green lights Exhalations from the path of the defunct My blood burns and flickers Morningstar, there is a reason for the fog that embraces me Bright Morningstar, there’s always a reason for the silence that’s upon me! My eyes… my eyes are an Abyss and my tongue is a Sword Through which everything was meant and felt: Forgive me not! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Inside out. Inside out. |
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7. | Congressus cum Dæmone | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
I swear that my grudge will never cease to haunt you Deep in that palace of filth and larvae where now you dwell, And there, right on your burial cursed ground I’ll erect my cathedrals, with pillars of nightshade, of fire and mist! Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Out, livid headless lustmord, out! Hidden in these rotten shrouds Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Hidden in these rotten shrouds Out, treacherous radiance, out, out! You are not allowed to roam this halls: Your presence is forbidden here, leave! Your claws have withered here. As a dreadful tremor shake this walls, things cease to move (leave!) And all seems quiet in the dark, ‘til your breath appears. There is a storm of words carved deep on my very flesh A deafening silence spoken in letters, five stones of doom And a burden descended like a perennial dusk: Sometimes tragedy is engraved right there on the inside Since birth, tragedy is engraved right here on the inside Look at the suffocating dirt, what scars you more? your halo of worms or my bleak crown of thorns? Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! |
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8. | Inno alla stagione dell’inverno (Fearbringer cover) | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
Invincibile e divin lo scorrere del tempo rinnego ogni Dio per te eccellente Musa il Sole che da qui rigenera le forze approva che io sia il tuo servitore Insegnami a pregarti come si addice al tuo nome Tu che ti schieri con l’esercito valoroso Tu che congeli il meccanismo dell’esistenza il desio di te è al pari di un fuoco che si ritrae davanti a tal grandezza il desio di te p al pari di un fuoco che il suo ardire incatena innanzi a te Che il tuo respir rinforzi la mia coscienza E sia della mia spada la protezione Placa così il turbine dell’incertezza Concedi che il mio sangue scorra gelido Conduco a te,l’istinto degli antichi diviso tra saggezza e coraggio la forza e ciascuna delle mie ferite imposte da la fedeltà all’esistenza Avverto la tua silenziosa presenza trascnedere da cielo, fuoco e terra,pensata immutabile e immortale nei giochi degli Dei Rinunzio ad un feretro di umane forme tradito dall’incedere dei sensi invoco la tua spada di coerenza sicchè la materia possa fondersi in te |
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Spiritual Resonance
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September 13th, 2019 | Dark Essence Records | KAR177CD | CD | Limited edition |
September 13th, 2019 | Dark Essence Records | KAR177LP | 12" vinyl | Gatefold, Limited edition |
September 13th, 2019 | Karisma Records | Digital | Bandcamp |
Members | |
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Band members | |
Animæ | Vocals |
Valentz | Drums |
Antarktica | Grand piano, Orchestrations, Soundscapes, Songwriting |
Ashes | Guitars |
Nothingness | Guitars |
Vinterskog | Bass, Cura, Bağlama, Mandolin |
Guest/Session | |
Lindy-Fay Hella | Vocals (track 3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Antarktica | Hammond (track 1 & track 3) |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Three Ghouls Buried at Golgotha | 07:34 | Show lyrics |
Corpse of care Warmly Enshrouded in a dank drape of trust Abandoned and frail, so dyed and obscure, Livid haggard with wounds of orship antique, Swallow the thorns while I move back the stone Cold corpse of mercy, death-cold corpse of mercy Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With eyes buried deep Unheard and unseen Corpse of forgiveness Unheard and unseen Six cries the eyes and three bleed the poisoned mouths Then spiders in numbers, they mantle the night With a luminescent web of unearthly disease While rhymes of thick sorrow entangle the stars Desecrating the wet rocks Lurking and waiting Megiddian darkness Lurking and whirling Great, so great! Great is the roar The ossarium burnt gates down the cruciform ground Where one and triune I dwell Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! Ghoul... ghoul... ghoul of contempt Teeth after teeth in the breastbone of heed Through a fractured skull dressed in wrath penitent Devour recollections, ghoul of resent Devour recollections and devour innocence Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With ragged putrid flesh Ether and dirt Ghoul of indifference Ether and dirt Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Bury me. Through ashen soil and mashed bones Bury me. To breathe Once again there, where these trees stand dead Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Serenity, what a word such tormented Maligned and deformed The beauty that sharp cracks down Even if for one last time Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! What’s dead Shall live again. |
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2. | Scorpio Astraea High Coronation | 05:15 | Show lyrics |
For the blade that lies buried in my flesh, And all of the scars in between! For the shattered mirror of innocence, Opening crevices through the abyss beneath! For the tearing wound That froze every vein with a desperate cry! And the fire swollen eyes, trembling and yet so brave In the presence of Death. High on the pinnacle of loss I vow that I’ll always be hungry High on the cliffs of grief I swear, I’ll always be true As above, through rain and burning suns So below, in pain and scorching joy! I’m the Wayward Son of forests and mountains I’m the Waking Child of the occult Inmost Chasm With the blood of a slayer running through vena cava The wolf, the scorpo, the snake here they grow and we Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! So drink this death and disease! Virgin of the nightsky Drink deep this death and disease! Carrion of all beasts of the earth To embrace regret And feast with the flesh of famine Scorpio Astraea coronation Scorpio Astraea high coronation Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! |
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3. | With Everburning Sulphur Unconsumed | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
Threnody! Transcendent woe Through nine tongues of water And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! As the mists grow thicker and thicker By scarred wounds chanting In spiteful dominance Threnody! Pouring deep The salt of Ghosts ‘to the wounds of humanity Libera me, domine! A prayer within the shadows The voice of a lone star It whispers the office of the dead As sung by the choir of the damned. Libera me, domine! And a curse to bind them all Outside the flaming breath Of this corporeal gate With the wise doctrine of shades Ister-el-dor der-i-enne Ister-al-or-darne zi dee Ister-el-dor syvy e flammar Ister al-or-estyr er Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Threnody! In silence I remember Through nine tongues of fire And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! To the first and the last So that this burnt flesh Can shine again and again Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Through a field not far enough, the eyelids dissect the body of a young creature. He moves with instinctive movements, like in a dance for two, but out of time. I wish you the least possible clarity, I wish you to always dance out of time without realizing the steps, nor the rhythm. A beautiful wind stirs drapes of grass and hair. May only this touch you, child. Libera me, domine! Libera me, domine! |
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4. | Vessel Underneath | 07:49 | Show lyrics |
A subtle veil descended upon the cave of judgment, Pale shrunken limbs corroded every pillar With a broken neck and so sharp bones! Oh, release! The God with maggot skin The burning light of the furnace, With scorched dead hands, release, release! Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Then fervour breeds a titan worm, dissolver and creator, To slyly wander through imperial starry caves, Breathing myriads of fates! And myriads of wonders, Bewildering all mortal beliefs! Bewildering all mortal beings! The paralytic one grabs the universe once again. Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Light. Radiant Light. A mirror shattered to ashes. Pregnant moribund soil, And crumbling waters. The Architect of ruins Begins to place his crafting stones. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Bow the world to will! The world will bow to my will! Bow time to will! Time will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Bow space to will! Space will bow to my will! Bow the body to will! The body will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Sohar Sohar Sohar Cause it’s not by control that we bend events, But by gathering the future in the shroud of consciousness. |
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5. | Hereafter, Somewhere | 08:12 | Show lyrics |
Thus I command to the Ocean below, Set your waters free and raise your waves to the night sky outside Receive, what lies behind the stare, receive... Believe, create and receive, receive! Hej-darr! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! River of eyes, flows deeper and deeper River of mouths Presence and convergence, still and flowing There I am flowing Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Smoke to pillars, waking dream Fog to vast halls A throne of crafting faith There I am flowing Thus I command to the realm of the Flames, Open wide the furnace! Burn the past and burn every future Then breathe, the ashes of creation, breathe Create, breathe and believe, believe! Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! |
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6. | The Seven Spectres Haunting Gethsemane | 06:49 | Show lyrics |
All this Love. When I’m scarred, drained and gone I’m still me When I’m scarred, drained and gone I am still me All this flesh Escapes my fingertips I am these trees And we are me Gethsemane Gethsemane All those tears All these dreams Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal The world is gone But you and me remain The world can be gone But you and me remain Gethsemane Gethsemane All this love Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal |
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41:27 |
Damned Woman and a Carcass
Members | |
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Band members | |
Riccardo "Valentz" Valenti | Drums, Percussion |
Jorè "Imajes" Storchi | Guitars (lead) |
Simone "Antarktica" Giorgini | Keyboards |
Simone "Q’thulu" Rebucci | Bass |
Andrea "Raziel" De Pietri | Guitars (rhythm) |
Guest/Session | |
Malachia | Vocals |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Andrea Morselli | Recording, Mixing, Editing (Track 1) |
Francesco Zacchi | Mixing, Mastering |
Alessio "Jack" Iotti | Artwork |
Q’thulu | Artwork |
Cry | Logo |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Asking for Perfidious Poison (Intro) | 02:48 | instrumental |
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2. | Vampire | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
You who, like the stab of a knife, Entered my plaintive heart; You who, strong as a herd Of demons, came, ardent and adorned, To make your bed and your domain Of my humiliated mind — Infamous bitch to whom I’m bound Like the convict to his chain, Like the stubborn gambler to the game, Like the drunkard to his wine, Like the maggots to the corpse, — Accurst, accurst be you! I begged the swift poniard To gain for me my liberty, I asked perfidious poison To give aid to my cowardice. Alas! both poison and the knife Contemptuously said to me: "You do not deserve to be freed From your accursed slavery, Fool! — if from her domination Our efforts could deliver you, Your kisses would resuscitate The cadaver of your vampire!" |
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3. | Sed Non Satiata | 03:23 | Show lyrics |
Dusky as tropic nights, O bizarre deity, Redolent of havana, musk and cordovan, What obeah man or Faust of the Caribbean, Wrought you, child-witch of night, with flanks of ebony? Better than opium or Constanta. Wine or Nuits, Your nectar mouth where Love swoons in a slow pavane, When my desires set forth, a serried caravan, Your eyes are the twin wells where I can slake ennui. From out these wide black eyes which are your spirit’s vent, Heap fires less fierce upon me. O impenitent, I am no tireless Styx to gird you nine times nine, I am no lustful Fury to exhaust your lust, To break your vigor or to make you bite the dust Or in your bed’s hell turn into a Proserpine. |
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4. | Destruction | 05:37 | Show lyrics |
The Demon is always moving about at my side; He floats about me like an impalpable air; I swallow him, I feel him burn my lungs And fill them with an eternal, sinful desire. Sometimes, knowing my deep love for Art, he assumes The form of a most seductive woman, And, with pretexts specious and hypocritical, Accustoms my lips to infamous philtres. He leads me thus, far from the sight of God, Panting and broken with fatigue, into the midst Of the plains of Ennui, endless and deserted, And thrusts before my eyes full of bewilderment, Dirty filthy garments and open, gaping wounds, And all the bloody instruments of Destruction! |
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5. | Damned Women | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
Lying on the sand like ruminating cattle, They turn their eyes toward the horizon of the sea, And their clasped hands and their feet which seek the other’s Know both sweet languor and shudders of pain. Some, whose hearts grew amorous from long confessions, In the depth of the woods, among the babbling brooks, Spell out the love of their timid adolescence By carving the green wood of young saplings; Others, like sisters, walk gravely and with slow steps Among the high rocks peopled with apparitions, Where Saint Anthony saw the naked, purple breasts Of his temptations rise up like lava; There are some who by the light of crumbling resin In the silent void of the old pagan caverns Call out for help from their screaming fevers to you O Bacchus, who lull to sleep the ancient remorse! And others, whose breasts love the feel of scapulars, Who, concealing a whip under their long habits, Mingle, in the dark woods and solitary nights, The froth of pleasure with tears of torment. O virgins, O demons, O monsters, O martyrs, Great spirits, contemptuous of reality, Seekers of the infinite, pious and satyric, Sometimes full of cries, sometimes full of tears, You whom my spirit has followed into your hell, Poor sisters, I love you as much as I pity you, For your gloomy sorrows, your unsatisfied thirsts, And the urns of love with which your great hearts are filled! |
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6. | A Carcass | 05:43 | Show lyrics |
My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. The sun shone down upon that putrescence, As if to roast it to a turn, And to give back a hundredfold to great Nature The elements she had combined; And the sky was watching that superb cadaver Blossom like a flower. So frightful was the stench that you believed You’d faint away upon the grass. The blow-flies were buzzing round that putrid belly, From which came forth black battalions Of maggots, which oozed out like a heavy liquid All along those living tatters. All this was descending and rising like a wave, Or poured out with a crackling sound; One would have said the body, swollen with a vague breath, Lived by multiplication. And this world gave forth singular music, Like running water or the wind, Or the grain that winnowers with a rhythmic motion Shake in their winnowing baskets. The forms disappeared and were no more than a dream, A sketch that slowly falls Upon the forgotten canvas, that the artist Completes from memory alone. Crouched behind the boulders, an anxious dog Watched us with angry eye, Waiting for the moment to take back from the carcass The morsel he had left. — And yet you will be like this corruption, Like this horrible infection, Star of my eyes, sunlight of my being, You, my angel and my passion! Yes! thus will you be, queen of the Graces, After the last sacraments, When you go beneath grass and luxuriant flowers, To molder among the bones of the dead. Then, O my beauty! say to the worms who will Devour you with kisses, That I have kept the form and the divine essence Of my decomposed love! |
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7. | De Profundis Clamavi | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Have pity, my one love and sole delight! Down to a dark abyss my heart has sounded, A mournful world, by grey horizons bounded, Where blasphemy and horror swim by night. For half the year a heatless sun gives light, The other half the night obscures the earth. The arctic regions never knew such dearth. No woods, nor streams, nor creatures meet the sight. No horror in the world could match in dread The cruelty of that dire sun of frost, And that huge night like primal chaos spread. I envy creatures of the vilest kind That they in stupid slumber can be lost — So slowly does the skein of time unwind! |
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8. | Obsession | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Great woods, you frighten me like cathedrals; You roar like the organ; and in our cursed hearts, Rooms of endless mourning where old death-rattles sound, Respond the echoes of your De profundis. I hate you, Ocean! your bounding and your tumult, My mind finds them within itself; that bitter laugh Of the vanquished man, full of sobs and insults, I hear it in the immense laughter of the sea. How I would like you, Night! without those stars Whose light speaks a language I know! For I seek emptiness, darkness, and nudity! But the darkness is itself a canvas Upon which live, springing from my eyes by thousands, Beings with understanding looks, who have vanished. |
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9. | Terrible Pleasures and Frightful Sweetness (Interlude) | 02:06 | instrumental |
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10. | The Two Good Sisters | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
Debauchery and Death are pleasant twins, And lavish with their charms, a buxom pair! Under the rags that clothe their virgin skins, Their wombs, though still in labour, never bear. For the curst poet, foe to married rest, The friend of hell, and courtier on half-pay — Brothels and tombs reserve for such a guest A bed on which repentance never lay. Both tomb and bed, in blasphemy so fecund Each other’s hospitality to second, Prepare grim treats, and hatch atrocious things. Debauch, when will you bury me? When, Death, Mingle your Cypress in the selfsame wreath With the infected Myrtles that she brings? |
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11. | The Dancing Serpent | 06:35 | Show lyrics |
How I love to watch, dear indolent creature, The skin of your so Beautiful body glisten, like some Quivering material! On your deep coiffure Bitter scented, Scented, restless sea, With the blue and brown waves, Like a ship waking To the wind of morning, My dreamy soul prepares For skies far away. Your eyes, where nothing is revealed Of sweet or sour, Are two cold gems whose gold Is mixed with iron. Seeing your harmonious walk, Abandoned beauty, One would say a snake was dancing At the end of a stick. Under the weight of your sloth Your infant head Is balanced with the indolence Of a young elephant, And your body bends and stretches Like a delicate ship Pitching from side to side and sinking Its spars in the water. Like a wave swelled by the melting Of a groaning glacier, When your saliva rises To the edges of your teeth, I feel I drink some Bohemian wine, Bitter, victor, A liquid sky that scatters Stars in my heart! |
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12. | Love Will Tears Us Apart (Joy Division cover) | 03:55 | Show lyrics |
When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low And the resentment rides high But emotions wont grow And were changing our ways, Taking different roads Then love, love will tear us apart again Why is the bedroom so cold Turned away on your side? Is my timing that flawed, Our respect run so dry? Yet theres still this appeal That weve kept through our lives Love, love will tear us apart again Do you cry out in your sleep All my failings expose? Get a taste in my mouth As desperation takes hold Is it something so good Just cant function no more? When love, love will tear us apart again |
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55:40 |
Damned Woman and a Carcass
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Riccardo "Valentz" Valenti | Drums, Percussion |
Jorè "Imajes" Storchi | Guitars (lead) |
Simone "Antarktica" Giorgini | Keyboards |
Simone "Q’thulu" Rebucci | Bass |
Andrea "Raziel" De Pietri | Guitars (rhythm) |
Guest/Session | |
Malachia | Vocals |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Alessio "Jack" Iotti | Artwork |
Q’thulu | Artwork |
Cry | Logo |
Andrea Morselli | Recording, Mixing, Editing (Track 1) |
Francesco Zacchi | Mixing, Mastering |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Asking for Perfidious Poison (Intro) | 02:48 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
2. | Vampire | 04:22 | Show lyrics |
You who, like the stab of a knife, Entered my plaintive heart; You who, strong as a herd Of demons, came, ardent and adorned, To make your bed and your domain Of my humiliated mind — Infamous bitch to whom I’m bound Like the convict to his chain, Like the stubborn gambler to the game, Like the drunkard to his wine, Like the maggots to the corpse, — Accurst, accurst be you! I begged the swift poniard To gain for me my liberty, I asked perfidious poison To give aid to my cowardice. Alas! both poison and the knife Contemptuously said to me: "You do not deserve to be freed From your accursed slavery, Fool! — if from her domination Our efforts could deliver you, Your kisses would resuscitate The cadaver of your vampire!" |
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3. | Sed Non Satiata | 03:23 | Show lyrics |
Dusky as tropic nights, O bizarre deity, Redolent of havana, musk and cordovan, What obeah man or Faust of the Caribbean, Wrought you, child-witch of night, with flanks of ebony? Better than opium or Constanta. Wine or Nuits, Your nectar mouth where Love swoons in a slow pavane, When my desires set forth, a serried caravan, Your eyes are the twin wells where I can slake ennui. From out these wide black eyes which are your spirit’s vent, Heap fires less fierce upon me. O impenitent, I am no tireless Styx to gird you nine times nine, I am no lustful Fury to exhaust your lust, To break your vigor or to make you bite the dust Or in your bed’s hell turn into a Proserpine. |
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4. | Destruction | 05:37 | Show lyrics |
The Demon is always moving about at my side; He floats about me like an impalpable air; I swallow him, I feel him burn my lungs And fill them with an eternal, sinful desire. Sometimes, knowing my deep love for Art, he assumes The form of a most seductive woman, And, with pretexts specious and hypocritical, Accustoms my lips to infamous philtres. He leads me thus, far from the sight of God, Panting and broken with fatigue, into the midst Of the plains of Ennui, endless and deserted, And thrusts before my eyes full of bewilderment, Dirty filthy garments and open, gaping wounds, And all the bloody instruments of Destruction! |
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5. | Damned Women | 05:25 | Show lyrics |
Lying on the sand like ruminating cattle, They turn their eyes toward the horizon of the sea, And their clasped hands and their feet which seek the other’s Know both sweet languor and shudders of pain. Some, whose hearts grew amorous from long confessions, In the depth of the woods, among the babbling brooks, Spell out the love of their timid adolescence By carving the green wood of young saplings; Others, like sisters, walk gravely and with slow steps Among the high rocks peopled with apparitions, Where Saint Anthony saw the naked, purple breasts Of his temptations rise up like lava; There are some who by the light of crumbling resin In the silent void of the old pagan caverns Call out for help from their screaming fevers to you O Bacchus, who lull to sleep the ancient remorse! And others, whose breasts love the feel of scapulars, Who, concealing a whip under their long habits, Mingle, in the dark woods and solitary nights, The froth of pleasure with tears of torment. O virgins, O demons, O monsters, O martyrs, Great spirits, contemptuous of reality, Seekers of the infinite, pious and satyric, Sometimes full of cries, sometimes full of tears, You whom my spirit has followed into your hell, Poor sisters, I love you as much as I pity you, For your gloomy sorrows, your unsatisfied thirsts, And the urns of love with which your great hearts are filled! |
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6. | A Carcass | 05:43 | Show lyrics |
My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases. The sun shone down upon that putrescence, As if to roast it to a turn, And to give back a hundredfold to great Nature The elements she had combined; And the sky was watching that superb cadaver Blossom like a flower. So frightful was the stench that you believed You’d faint away upon the grass. The blow-flies were buzzing round that putrid belly, From which came forth black battalions Of maggots, which oozed out like a heavy liquid All along those living tatters. All this was descending and rising like a wave, Or poured out with a crackling sound; One would have said the body, swollen with a vague breath, Lived by multiplication. And this world gave forth singular music, Like running water or the wind, Or the grain that winnowers with a rhythmic motion Shake in their winnowing baskets. The forms disappeared and were no more than a dream, A sketch that slowly falls Upon the forgotten canvas, that the artist Completes from memory alone. Crouched behind the boulders, an anxious dog Watched us with angry eye, Waiting for the moment to take back from the carcass The morsel he had left. — And yet you will be like this corruption, Like this horrible infection, Star of my eyes, sunlight of my being, You, my angel and my passion! Yes! thus will you be, queen of the Graces, After the last sacraments, When you go beneath grass and luxuriant flowers, To molder among the bones of the dead. Then, O my beauty! say to the worms who will Devour you with kisses, That I have kept the form and the divine essence Of my decomposed love! |
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7. | De Profundis Clamavi | 05:51 | Show lyrics |
Have pity, my one love and sole delight! Down to a dark abyss my heart has sounded, A mournful world, by grey horizons bounded, Where blasphemy and horror swim by night. For half the year a heatless sun gives light, The other half the night obscures the earth. The arctic regions never knew such dearth. No woods, nor streams, nor creatures meet the sight. No horror in the world could match in dread The cruelty of that dire sun of frost, And that huge night like primal chaos spread. I envy creatures of the vilest kind That they in stupid slumber can be lost — So slowly does the skein of time unwind! |
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8. | Obsession | 05:04 | Show lyrics |
Great woods, you frighten me like cathedrals; You roar like the organ; and in our cursed hearts, Rooms of endless mourning where old death-rattles sound, Respond the echoes of your De profundis. I hate you, Ocean! your bounding and your tumult, My mind finds them within itself; that bitter laugh Of the vanquished man, full of sobs and insults, I hear it in the immense laughter of the sea. How I would like you, Night! without those stars Whose light speaks a language I know! For I seek emptiness, darkness, and nudity! But the darkness is itself a canvas Upon which live, springing from my eyes by thousands, Beings with understanding looks, who have vanished. |
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9. | Terrible Pleasures and Frightful Sweetness (Interlude) | 02:06 | instrumental |
(loading lyrics...) | |||
10. | The Two Good Sisters | 04:51 | Show lyrics |
Debauchery and Death are pleasant twins, And lavish with their charms, a buxom pair! Under the rags that clothe their virgin skins, Their wombs, though still in labour, never bear. For the curst poet, foe to married rest, The friend of hell, and courtier on half-pay — Brothels and tombs reserve for such a guest A bed on which repentance never lay. Both tomb and bed, in blasphemy so fecund Each other’s hospitality to second, Prepare grim treats, and hatch atrocious things. Debauch, when will you bury me? When, Death, Mingle your Cypress in the selfsame wreath With the infected Myrtles that she brings? |
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11. | The Dancing Serpent | 06:35 | Show lyrics |
How I love to watch, dear indolent creature, The skin of your so Beautiful body glisten, like some Quivering material! On your deep coiffure Bitter scented, Scented, restless sea, With the blue and brown waves, Like a ship waking To the wind of morning, My dreamy soul prepares For skies far away. Your eyes, where nothing is revealed Of sweet or sour, Are two cold gems whose gold Is mixed with iron. Seeing your harmonious walk, Abandoned beauty, One would say a snake was dancing At the end of a stick. Under the weight of your sloth Your infant head Is balanced with the indolence Of a young elephant, And your body bends and stretches Like a delicate ship Pitching from side to side and sinking Its spars in the water. Like a wave swelled by the melting Of a groaning glacier, When your saliva rises To the edges of your teeth, I feel I drink some Bohemian wine, Bitter, victor, A liquid sky that scatters Stars in my heart! |
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12. | Love Will Tears Us Apart (Joy Division cover) | 03:55 | Show lyrics |
When the routine bites hard And ambitions are low And the resentment rides high But emotions wont grow And were changing our ways, Taking different roads Then love, love will tear us apart again Why is the bedroom so cold Turned away on your side? Is my timing that flawed, Our respect run so dry? Yet theres still this appeal That weve kept through our lives Love, love will tear us apart again Do you cry out in your sleep All my failings expose? Get a taste in my mouth As desperation takes hold Is it something so good Just cant function no more? When love, love will tear us apart again |
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55:40 |
The Canticle of Shadows
Members | |
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Band members | |
Ashes | Guitars |
Valentz | Drums, Vocals (choirs) |
Animæ | Vocals, Samples, Lyrics |
Specter | Bass |
Nothingness | Guitars, Keyboards (track 7) |
Antarktica | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Matteo Valentini | Saxophone |
Edmond Mountwho | Medium |
Niklas Kvarforth | Vocals (track 5) |
Attila Csihar | Vocals (tracks 2, 6) |
Sakis Tolis | Vocals (track 7) |
Labes C. Necrothytus | Vocals (track 4) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Elga Gurroci | Photography |
Luca Cocconi | Mixing, Mastering |
Simone Sighinolfi | Mixing, Mastering |
Antarktica | Songwriting |
Nothingness | Songwriting |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction, Songwriting |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Clavicula Salomonis | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
My will is done. Here I abjure ye, you still ones! Thus hear me wide, you who sleep in these tombs A pound for your souls A cold sludgy void swallowed your souls This poor sepulchre Osseous cenotaphs forbidden to tell the names of their dead! Breathe again! And breathe again! a whisper of sorrow in garments of joy And thus the white path we are walking in, skirted by dead flowers, a burial recess Lead us to the gravestone! It leads us to the gravestone! How many of you live crawling on bleeding knees? Digging the soil to welcome the devourer worms, Swapping the sky and the stars with that incessant choir of “I am, I know, I have!” No! Wrapped in a cemeterial breeze and with scars open wide I embrace death and pain with a serene grin And like a clock marching backwards My life’ll spawn higher life as the years multiply! Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Can you sense that sound? Of ghosts, banshees and unnamed streams The wisdom of chaos: the womb and the grave And who’s the dead now He who dwells among phantoms Or the king of mortal emptiness? For I am made of untamed Fire, Everburning, high, bright, high! Do Sin! And believe Do Sin! And believe Cathedral walls born on fleshy columns Hide an altar of ghouls on the stairs through the void! Open, now open! These coffins of parchments and dusty remains Here I proclaim myself Shaman of the Chasm! Seer and Dreamer and Warlock and Witch! And Life in Death and Death in Life! V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Visita Interiora Terrae V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Et scientiam pentacula sine caudarias Majestatem suppliciter depræcor Corporis et Animæ salute Salomoni Nox perpetua revelasti Et imploro misericordiam tuam Qui Abraham Primum in fidelem servum elegisti Cum semen sicut cæli multiplicasti… Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Dei Luna, Saturnus, Mortem et Scorpionem! Morte! Morte! Morte! Morte! |
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2. | Of the Defunct | 08:44 | Show lyrics |
Here, I can still feel this dreary pain Here, a malady serum fills every vein Sad birthgiver of endings That petrified body with 16 bleeding mouths Is it still me? Is it still me? All senses pierced by anguish and woe From the inside, from the outside From grieving shades crying at me “Where have you gone?” “Where are you now?” In the warm fumes spread by my own dead mutilated flesh It is there that I am now! In that moment in time, when my soul was torn apart It is there that I am now! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more pain and death! Death! Here time is rotten and still Here’s just reiteration and death! And here… here there’s no flame to cast a shadow of me Now, in this maze of poignant perdition, that shadow is me And with every step it takes, in anger and fear abhorrent It leads you to the funeral, to the grave, to the interment To the interment! To the interment! To the interment! Burn the past to ashes, bury the past with scorn Where trees have taken vows of silence And leaves are stillborn Under that misty, humid cemetery soil In velvet and in ebony, in silent caducity Lead the grand hearse, carve an earthly womb To entomb this aberration Crippled and refused Within deep layers of nightly profane dirt A secret is withheld, in darkness it’s withheld! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more fear and death! Death! Here’s just reiteration and death… And here, blades and worms still opening wounds fattening the conquering beast Do you think that I am made for resting in peace? This place... this place is terrible. |
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3. | A Precipice Towards Abyssal Caves (Inmost Chasm, I) | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Fire, thou art the Key Your Flames I am and my veins you are And Pain, thou wast the Gate The first step down leading through narrow clefts Profound, descent; From sheer drops to ravines unknown A torchlit passage to the regions of the Soul Walked with hunger and Pride Revived Mountain, with coldness at my side Revived Drape of the Night, with obscurity and stars inside Revived Subversive Nazarene Extracting nails from scarred flesh divine Hammering them deep down Right to your hearts, mothers of mankind Emptiness and vacuity And treason and lie These are the names in which you hide This is the vacuum you carry with pride Your privileges are broken in here A precipice towards abyssal caves Baptized in whirling streams of ever-flowing strength Waters and vapors to guide me through My path is self-chosen My hurt is self-chosen My curse is self- chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Embalming crimson mist with seething shades as wings Pillars and dead eyes from far beyond My loss is self-chosen My grief is self-chosen My soar is self-chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Cold scarring Sun, shine on! For I roamed the barren lands of the Elsewhere in eons unknown to men And from its dense darkness I brought back everlasting Flames With the power to enlighten you Or to incinerate you. |
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4. | Il velo delle ombre | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Stille di carni oscurano i cieli Ricami nel buio tra nebbie accecanti E tombe d’incanti, di vermi e miasmi Piangon a gran voce il mantra del Vuoto: “Che voi, cogliete preghiere soltanto per cumuli decrepiti” Ritual #3 – Orationem E allora Saturno divora i tuoi figli D’un grembo lunare malfermo e tremante Tra stracci di fango e lembi d’orrore Portando alla Luce di il Drappo Silente I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! Deum eum patrem cantate, Deorum deum supplicate. Cum tonas, Luceri! Prae te tremunt quot ibi te di Audierunt tonare Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! |
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5. | A Passage Through Abysmal Caverns (Inmost Chasm, II) | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Ashes through ashes, scattering dust of red agonies ashen My wounds are opened now! My gates are opened now! From towers ablaze I erect and exalt my black throne, there above you all Broken and broken! Your knowledge is broken, your hidings are broken! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! Which whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! My limbs are the branches of nature itself with a touch of perdition, bathed in sorrow Here I became Death, and Death is the seed from which I grow… HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-HAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Further on, further on, above and beneath, through the storm, further on! My gates are opened now! My wounds are opened now! Here I return to dig up from the clay all the nails, all the teeth, all the bones buried down All in one, one in all, as dawn clinches dusk: all in one, one in all HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA Near these cenotaphs austere and deformed Named as mourning and pain Whisper my names… Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Here I call to thee! Here I bathe in thee! As I traverse this spectral vale Bounded by night-spells An enshrouding mist Engulfed by the wind By the wind of the seas A glimpse of purity Like roots to branches And by 7 steps of Winter I am whole again Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! There in your mortal world I cannot be reached For I dwell among the undead For I dwell among the ghosts of dreams Closer than usual to the heart of Creation And yet so far away… Every drop of blood and every forlorn tear Returns to my very essence Through the beads of this crimson fog Surrounding me, inhaling me! Surrounding me, inhaling me! HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI LI-SHERVA ROO-KHAA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-TAHAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman rise with the Sun! Shaman rise with the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! |
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6. | Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
Saturn, lavish all your pain upon me For I am ready to bear it! Thy progeny’s weak, empty and torn And I’m a Black Moon, devourer of all. Gather a funerary crown of nails and locusts For the still carrion of humankind So Wormwood, fall once again Like a torch upon the earth! While blessed by the shadows, by a wisdom of old I slip through your blood to spit my cancer in you! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn In Fire, by Air, in Water, by Earth And thus I speak to you, insects: As you have always obeyed not only in my presence But so much more in my absence: Work out your own salvation now, with fear and trembling! For being yourselves so empty, I just spoke empty answers to your empty prayers... And for whatever prayer may come from you, I will answer according to the Emptiness of man: May my claws be the deepest knives in your chests! Bewitching this vacuity I reject you, I reject you! With Fire, by Air, with Water, by Earth Swallowed is the light and upset is the worm The moon rises black and Saturn it lies reversed And through infinity I witness These long dreamed, forbidden caves The Citadel of the Underworld With its creepy green lights Exhalations from the path of the defunct My blood burns and flickers Morningstar, there is a reason for the fog that embraces me Bright Morningstar, there’s always a reason for the silence that’s upon me! My eyes… my eyes are an Abyss and my tongue is a Sword Through which everything was meant and felt: Forgive me not! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Inside out. Inside out. |
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7. | Congressus cum Dæmone | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
I swear that my grudge will never cease to haunt you Deep in that palace of filth and larvae where now you dwell, And there, right on your burial cursed ground I’ll erect my cathedrals, with pillars of nightshade, of fire and mist! Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Out, livid headless lustmord, out! Hidden in these rotten shrouds Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Hidden in these rotten shrouds Out, treacherous radiance, out, out! You are not allowed to roam this halls: Your presence is forbidden here, leave! Your claws have withered here. As a dreadful tremor shake this walls, things cease to move (leave!) And all seems quiet in the dark, ‘til your breath appears. There is a storm of words carved deep on my very flesh A deafening silence spoken in letters, five stones of doom And a burden descended like a perennial dusk: Sometimes tragedy is engraved right there on the inside Since birth, tragedy is engraved right here on the inside Look at the suffocating dirt, what scars you more? your halo of worms or my bleak crown of thorns? Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! |
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8. | Inno alla stagione dell’inverno (Fearbringer cover) | 10:17 | Show lyrics |
Invincibile e divin lo scorrere del tempo rinnego ogni Dio per te eccellente Musa il Sole che da qui rigenera le forze approva che io sia il tuo servitore Insegnami a pregarti come si addice al tuo nome Tu che ti schieri con l’esercito valoroso Tu che congeli il meccanismo dell’esistenza il desio di te è al pari di un fuoco che si ritrae davanti a tal grandezza il desio di te p al pari di un fuoco che il suo ardire incatena innanzi a te Che il tuo respir rinforzi la mia coscienza E sia della mia spada la protezione Placa così il turbine dell’incertezza Concedi che il mio sangue scorra gelido Conduco a te,l’istinto degli antichi diviso tra saggezza e coraggio la forza e ciascuna delle mie ferite imposte da la fedeltà all’esistenza Avverto la tua silenziosa presenza trascnedere da cielo, fuoco e terra,pensata immutabile e immortale nei giochi degli Dei Rinunzio ad un feretro di umane forme tradito dall’incedere dei sensi invoco la tua spada di coerenza sicchè la materia possa fondersi in te |
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58:54 |
The Canticle of Shadows
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Valentz | Drums, Vocals (choirs) |
Animæ | Vocals, Samples, Lyrics |
Specter | Bass |
Nothingness | Guitars, Keyboards (track 7) |
Antarktica | Keyboards |
Ashes | Guitars |
Guest/Session | |
Sakis Tolis | Vocals (track 7) |
Labes C. Necrothytus | Vocals (track 4) |
Niklas Kvarforth | Vocals (track 5) |
Attila Csihar | Vocals (tracks 2, 6) |
Matteo Valentini | Saxophone |
Edmond Mountwho | Medium |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Luca Cocconi | Mixing, Mastering |
Simone Sighinolfi | Mixing, Mastering |
Antarktica | Songwriting |
Elga Gurroci | Photography |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction, Songwriting |
Nothingness | Songwriting |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Clavicula Salomonis | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
My will is done. Here I abjure ye, you still ones! Thus hear me wide, you who sleep in these tombs A pound for your souls A cold sludgy void swallowed your souls This poor sepulchre Osseous cenotaphs forbidden to tell the names of their dead! Breathe again! And breathe again! a whisper of sorrow in garments of joy And thus the white path we are walking in, skirted by dead flowers, a burial recess Lead us to the gravestone! It leads us to the gravestone! How many of you live crawling on bleeding knees? Digging the soil to welcome the devourer worms, Swapping the sky and the stars with that incessant choir of “I am, I know, I have!” No! Wrapped in a cemeterial breeze and with scars open wide I embrace death and pain with a serene grin And like a clock marching backwards My life’ll spawn higher life as the years multiply! Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Can you sense that sound? Of ghosts, banshees and unnamed streams The wisdom of chaos: the womb and the grave And who’s the dead now He who dwells among phantoms Or the king of mortal emptiness? For I am made of untamed Fire, Everburning, high, bright, high! Do Sin! And believe Do Sin! And believe Cathedral walls born on fleshy columns Hide an altar of ghouls on the stairs through the void! Open, now open! These coffins of parchments and dusty remains Here I proclaim myself Shaman of the Chasm! Seer and Dreamer and Warlock and Witch! And Life in Death and Death in Life! V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Visita Interiora Terrae V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Et scientiam pentacula sine caudarias Majestatem suppliciter depræcor Corporis et Animæ salute Salomoni Nox perpetua revelasti Et imploro misericordiam tuam Qui Abraham Primum in fidelem servum elegisti Cum semen sicut cæli multiplicasti… Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Dei Luna, Saturnus, Mortem et Scorpionem! Morte! Morte! Morte! Morte! |
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2. | Of the Defunct | 08:44 | Show lyrics |
Here, I can still feel this dreary pain Here, a malady serum fills every vein Sad birthgiver of endings That petrified body with 16 bleeding mouths Is it still me? Is it still me? All senses pierced by anguish and woe From the inside, from the outside From grieving shades crying at me “Where have you gone?” “Where are you now?” In the warm fumes spread by my own dead mutilated flesh It is there that I am now! In that moment in time, when my soul was torn apart It is there that I am now! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more pain and death! Death! Here time is rotten and still Here’s just reiteration and death! And here… here there’s no flame to cast a shadow of me Now, in this maze of poignant perdition, that shadow is me And with every step it takes, in anger and fear abhorrent It leads you to the funeral, to the grave, to the interment To the interment! To the interment! To the interment! Burn the past to ashes, bury the past with scorn Where trees have taken vows of silence And leaves are stillborn Under that misty, humid cemetery soil In velvet and in ebony, in silent caducity Lead the grand hearse, carve an earthly womb To entomb this aberration Crippled and refused Within deep layers of nightly profane dirt A secret is withheld, in darkness it’s withheld! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more fear and death! Death! Here’s just reiteration and death… And here, blades and worms still opening wounds fattening the conquering beast Do you think that I am made for resting in peace? This place... this place is terrible. |
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3. | A Precipice Towards Abyssal Caves (Inmost Chasm, I) | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Fire, thou art the Key Your Flames I am and my veins you are And Pain, thou wast the Gate The first step down leading through narrow clefts Profound, descent; From sheer drops to ravines unknown A torchlit passage to the regions of the Soul Walked with hunger and Pride Revived Mountain, with coldness at my side Revived Drape of the Night, with obscurity and stars inside Revived Subversive Nazarene Extracting nails from scarred flesh divine Hammering them deep down Right to your hearts, mothers of mankind Emptiness and vacuity And treason and lie These are the names in which you hide This is the vacuum you carry with pride Your privileges are broken in here A precipice towards abyssal caves Baptized in whirling streams of ever-flowing strength Waters and vapors to guide me through My path is self-chosen My hurt is self-chosen My curse is self- chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Embalming crimson mist with seething shades as wings Pillars and dead eyes from far beyond My loss is self-chosen My grief is self-chosen My soar is self-chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Cold scarring Sun, shine on! For I roamed the barren lands of the Elsewhere in eons unknown to men And from its dense darkness I brought back everlasting Flames With the power to enlighten you Or to incinerate you. |
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4. | Il velo delle ombre | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Stille di carni oscurano i cieli Ricami nel buio tra nebbie accecanti E tombe d’incanti, di vermi e miasmi Piangon a gran voce il mantra del Vuoto: “Che voi, cogliete preghiere soltanto per cumuli decrepiti” Ritual #3 – Orationem E allora Saturno divora i tuoi figli D’un grembo lunare malfermo e tremante Tra stracci di fango e lembi d’orrore Portando alla Luce di il Drappo Silente I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! Deum eum patrem cantate, Deorum deum supplicate. Cum tonas, Luceri! Prae te tremunt quot ibi te di Audierunt tonare Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! |
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5. | A Passage Through Abysmal Caverns (Inmost Chasm, II) | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Ashes through ashes, scattering dust of red agonies ashen My wounds are opened now! My gates are opened now! From towers ablaze I erect and exalt my black throne, there above you all Broken and broken! Your knowledge is broken, your hidings are broken! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! Which whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! My limbs are the branches of nature itself with a touch of perdition, bathed in sorrow Here I became Death, and Death is the seed from which I grow… HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-HAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Further on, further on, above and beneath, through the storm, further on! My gates are opened now! My wounds are opened now! Here I return to dig up from the clay all the nails, all the teeth, all the bones buried down All in one, one in all, as dawn clinches dusk: all in one, one in all HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA Near these cenotaphs austere and deformed Named as mourning and pain Whisper my names… Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Here I call to thee! Here I bathe in thee! As I traverse this spectral vale Bounded by night-spells An enshrouding mist Engulfed by the wind By the wind of the seas A glimpse of purity Like roots to branches And by 7 steps of Winter I am whole again Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! There in your mortal world I cannot be reached For I dwell among the undead For I dwell among the ghosts of dreams Closer than usual to the heart of Creation And yet so far away… Every drop of blood and every forlorn tear Returns to my very essence Through the beads of this crimson fog Surrounding me, inhaling me! Surrounding me, inhaling me! HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI LI-SHERVA ROO-KHAA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-TAHAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman rise with the Sun! Shaman rise with the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! |
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6. | Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
Saturn, lavish all your pain upon me For I am ready to bear it! Thy progeny’s weak, empty and torn And I’m a Black Moon, devourer of all. Gather a funerary crown of nails and locusts For the still carrion of humankind So Wormwood, fall once again Like a torch upon the earth! While blessed by the shadows, by a wisdom of old I slip through your blood to spit my cancer in you! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn In Fire, by Air, in Water, by Earth And thus I speak to you, insects: As you have always obeyed not only in my presence But so much more in my absence: Work out your own salvation now, with fear and trembling! For being yourselves so empty, I just spoke empty answers to your empty prayers... And for whatever prayer may come from you, I will answer according to the Emptiness of man: May my claws be the deepest knives in your chests! Bewitching this vacuity I reject you, I reject you! With Fire, by Air, with Water, by Earth Swallowed is the light and upset is the worm The moon rises black and Saturn it lies reversed And through infinity I witness These long dreamed, forbidden caves The Citadel of the Underworld With its creepy green lights Exhalations from the path of the defunct My blood burns and flickers Morningstar, there is a reason for the fog that embraces me Bright Morningstar, there’s always a reason for the silence that’s upon me! My eyes… my eyes are an Abyss and my tongue is a Sword Through which everything was meant and felt: Forgive me not! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Inside out. Inside out. |
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7. | Congressus cum Dæmone | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
I swear that my grudge will never cease to haunt you Deep in that palace of filth and larvae where now you dwell, And there, right on your burial cursed ground I’ll erect my cathedrals, with pillars of nightshade, of fire and mist! Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Out, livid headless lustmord, out! Hidden in these rotten shrouds Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Hidden in these rotten shrouds Out, treacherous radiance, out, out! You are not allowed to roam this halls: Your presence is forbidden here, leave! Your claws have withered here. As a dreadful tremor shake this walls, things cease to move (leave!) And all seems quiet in the dark, ‘til your breath appears. There is a storm of words carved deep on my very flesh A deafening silence spoken in letters, five stones of doom And a burden descended like a perennial dusk: Sometimes tragedy is engraved right there on the inside Since birth, tragedy is engraved right here on the inside Look at the suffocating dirt, what scars you more? your halo of worms or my bleak crown of thorns? Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! |
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48:37 |
The Canticle of Shadows
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Valentz | Drums, Vocals (choirs) |
Animæ | Vocals, Samples, Lyrics |
Specter | Bass |
Nothingness | Guitars, Keyboards (track 7) |
Ashes | Guitars |
Antarktica | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Sakis Tolis | Vocals (track 7) |
Labes C. Necrothytus | Vocals (track 4) |
Niklas Kvarforth | Vocals (track 5) |
Attila Csihar | Vocals (tracks 2, 6) |
Matteo Valentini | Saxophone |
Edmond Mountwho | Medium |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Luca Cocconi | Mixing, Mastering |
Simone Sighinolfi | Mixing, Mastering |
Antarktica | Songwriting |
Nothingness | Songwriting |
Elga Gurroci | Photography |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction, Songwriting |
Tracks | |||
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1. | Clavicula Salomonis | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
My will is done. Here I abjure ye, you still ones! Thus hear me wide, you who sleep in these tombs A pound for your souls A cold sludgy void swallowed your souls This poor sepulchre Osseous cenotaphs forbidden to tell the names of their dead! Breathe again! And breathe again! a whisper of sorrow in garments of joy And thus the white path we are walking in, skirted by dead flowers, a burial recess Lead us to the gravestone! It leads us to the gravestone! How many of you live crawling on bleeding knees? Digging the soil to welcome the devourer worms, Swapping the sky and the stars with that incessant choir of “I am, I know, I have!” No! Wrapped in a cemeterial breeze and with scars open wide I embrace death and pain with a serene grin And like a clock marching backwards My life’ll spawn higher life as the years multiply! Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Can you sense that sound? Of ghosts, banshees and unnamed streams The wisdom of chaos: the womb and the grave And who’s the dead now He who dwells among phantoms Or the king of mortal emptiness? For I am made of untamed Fire, Everburning, high, bright, high! Do Sin! And believe Do Sin! And believe Cathedral walls born on fleshy columns Hide an altar of ghouls on the stairs through the void! Open, now open! These coffins of parchments and dusty remains Here I proclaim myself Shaman of the Chasm! Seer and Dreamer and Warlock and Witch! And Life in Death and Death in Life! V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Visita Interiora Terrae V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Et scientiam pentacula sine caudarias Majestatem suppliciter depræcor Corporis et Animæ salute Salomoni Nox perpetua revelasti Et imploro misericordiam tuam Qui Abraham Primum in fidelem servum elegisti Cum semen sicut cæli multiplicasti… Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Dei Luna, Saturnus, Mortem et Scorpionem! Morte! Morte! Morte! Morte! |
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2. | Of the Defunct | 08:44 | Show lyrics |
Here, I can still feel this dreary pain Here, a malady serum fills every vein Sad birthgiver of endings That petrified body with 16 bleeding mouths Is it still me? Is it still me? All senses pierced by anguish and woe From the inside, from the outside From grieving shades crying at me “Where have you gone?” “Where are you now?” In the warm fumes spread by my own dead mutilated flesh It is there that I am now! In that moment in time, when my soul was torn apart It is there that I am now! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more pain and death! Death! Here time is rotten and still Here’s just reiteration and death! And here… here there’s no flame to cast a shadow of me Now, in this maze of poignant perdition, that shadow is me And with every step it takes, in anger and fear abhorrent It leads you to the funeral, to the grave, to the interment To the interment! To the interment! To the interment! Burn the past to ashes, bury the past with scorn Where trees have taken vows of silence And leaves are stillborn Under that misty, humid cemetery soil In velvet and in ebony, in silent caducity Lead the grand hearse, carve an earthly womb To entomb this aberration Crippled and refused Within deep layers of nightly profane dirt A secret is withheld, in darkness it’s withheld! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more fear and death! Death! Here’s just reiteration and death… And here, blades and worms still opening wounds fattening the conquering beast Do you think that I am made for resting in peace? This place... this place is terrible. |
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3. | A Precipice Towards Abyssal Caves (Inmost Chasm, I) | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Fire, thou art the Key Your Flames I am and my veins you are And Pain, thou wast the Gate The first step down leading through narrow clefts Profound, descent; From sheer drops to ravines unknown A torchlit passage to the regions of the Soul Walked with hunger and Pride Revived Mountain, with coldness at my side Revived Drape of the Night, with obscurity and stars inside Revived Subversive Nazarene Extracting nails from scarred flesh divine Hammering them deep down Right to your hearts, mothers of mankind Emptiness and vacuity And treason and lie These are the names in which you hide This is the vacuum you carry with pride Your privileges are broken in here A precipice towards abyssal caves Baptized in whirling streams of ever-flowing strength Waters and vapors to guide me through My path is self-chosen My hurt is self-chosen My curse is self- chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Embalming crimson mist with seething shades as wings Pillars and dead eyes from far beyond My loss is self-chosen My grief is self-chosen My soar is self-chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Cold scarring Sun, shine on! For I roamed the barren lands of the Elsewhere in eons unknown to men And from its dense darkness I brought back everlasting Flames With the power to enlighten you Or to incinerate you. |
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4. | Il velo delle ombre | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Stille di carni oscurano i cieli Ricami nel buio tra nebbie accecanti E tombe d’incanti, di vermi e miasmi Piangon a gran voce il mantra del Vuoto: “Che voi, cogliete preghiere soltanto per cumuli decrepiti” Ritual #3 – Orationem E allora Saturno divora i tuoi figli D’un grembo lunare malfermo e tremante Tra stracci di fango e lembi d’orrore Portando alla Luce di il Drappo Silente I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! Deum eum patrem cantate, Deorum deum supplicate. Cum tonas, Luceri! Prae te tremunt quot ibi te di Audierunt tonare Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! |
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5. | A Passage Through Abysmal Caverns (Inmost Chasm, II) | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Ashes through ashes, scattering dust of red agonies ashen My wounds are opened now! My gates are opened now! From towers ablaze I erect and exalt my black throne, there above you all Broken and broken! Your knowledge is broken, your hidings are broken! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! Which whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! My limbs are the branches of nature itself with a touch of perdition, bathed in sorrow Here I became Death, and Death is the seed from which I grow… HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-HAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Further on, further on, above and beneath, through the storm, further on! My gates are opened now! My wounds are opened now! Here I return to dig up from the clay all the nails, all the teeth, all the bones buried down All in one, one in all, as dawn clinches dusk: all in one, one in all HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA Near these cenotaphs austere and deformed Named as mourning and pain Whisper my names… Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Here I call to thee! Here I bathe in thee! As I traverse this spectral vale Bounded by night-spells An enshrouding mist Engulfed by the wind By the wind of the seas A glimpse of purity Like roots to branches And by 7 steps of Winter I am whole again Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! There in your mortal world I cannot be reached For I dwell among the undead For I dwell among the ghosts of dreams Closer than usual to the heart of Creation And yet so far away… Every drop of blood and every forlorn tear Returns to my very essence Through the beads of this crimson fog Surrounding me, inhaling me! Surrounding me, inhaling me! HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI LI-SHERVA ROO-KHAA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-TAHAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman rise with the Sun! Shaman rise with the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! |
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6. | Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
Saturn, lavish all your pain upon me For I am ready to bear it! Thy progeny’s weak, empty and torn And I’m a Black Moon, devourer of all. Gather a funerary crown of nails and locusts For the still carrion of humankind So Wormwood, fall once again Like a torch upon the earth! While blessed by the shadows, by a wisdom of old I slip through your blood to spit my cancer in you! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn In Fire, by Air, in Water, by Earth And thus I speak to you, insects: As you have always obeyed not only in my presence But so much more in my absence: Work out your own salvation now, with fear and trembling! For being yourselves so empty, I just spoke empty answers to your empty prayers... And for whatever prayer may come from you, I will answer according to the Emptiness of man: May my claws be the deepest knives in your chests! Bewitching this vacuity I reject you, I reject you! With Fire, by Air, with Water, by Earth Swallowed is the light and upset is the worm The moon rises black and Saturn it lies reversed And through infinity I witness These long dreamed, forbidden caves The Citadel of the Underworld With its creepy green lights Exhalations from the path of the defunct My blood burns and flickers Morningstar, there is a reason for the fog that embraces me Bright Morningstar, there’s always a reason for the silence that’s upon me! My eyes… my eyes are an Abyss and my tongue is a Sword Through which everything was meant and felt: Forgive me not! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Inside out. Inside out. |
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7. | Congressus cum Dæmone | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
I swear that my grudge will never cease to haunt you Deep in that palace of filth and larvae where now you dwell, And there, right on your burial cursed ground I’ll erect my cathedrals, with pillars of nightshade, of fire and mist! Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Out, livid headless lustmord, out! Hidden in these rotten shrouds Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Hidden in these rotten shrouds Out, treacherous radiance, out, out! You are not allowed to roam this halls: Your presence is forbidden here, leave! Your claws have withered here. As a dreadful tremor shake this walls, things cease to move (leave!) And all seems quiet in the dark, ‘til your breath appears. There is a storm of words carved deep on my very flesh A deafening silence spoken in letters, five stones of doom And a burden descended like a perennial dusk: Sometimes tragedy is engraved right there on the inside Since birth, tragedy is engraved right here on the inside Look at the suffocating dirt, what scars you more? your halo of worms or my bleak crown of thorns? Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! |
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48:37 |
The Canticle of Shadows
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Valentz | Drums, Vocals (choirs) |
Animæ | Vocals, Samples, Lyrics |
Specter | Bass |
Nothingness | Guitars, Keyboards (track 7) |
Ashes | Guitars |
Antarktica | Keyboards |
Guest/Session | |
Sakis Tolis | Vocals (track 7) |
Labes C. Necrothytus | Vocals (track 4) |
Niklas Kvarforth | Vocals (track 5) |
Attila Csihar | Vocals (tracks 2, 6) |
Matteo Valentini | Saxophone |
Edmond Mountwho | Medium |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Luca Cocconi | Mixing, Mastering |
Simone Sighinolfi | Mixing, Mastering |
Antarktica | Songwriting |
Elga Gurroci | Photography |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction, Songwriting |
Nothingness | Songwriting |
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1. | Clavicula Salomonis | 07:19 | Show lyrics |
My will is done. Here I abjure ye, you still ones! Thus hear me wide, you who sleep in these tombs A pound for your souls A cold sludgy void swallowed your souls This poor sepulchre Osseous cenotaphs forbidden to tell the names of their dead! Breathe again! And breathe again! a whisper of sorrow in garments of joy And thus the white path we are walking in, skirted by dead flowers, a burial recess Lead us to the gravestone! It leads us to the gravestone! How many of you live crawling on bleeding knees? Digging the soil to welcome the devourer worms, Swapping the sky and the stars with that incessant choir of “I am, I know, I have!” No! Wrapped in a cemeterial breeze and with scars open wide I embrace death and pain with a serene grin And like a clock marching backwards My life’ll spawn higher life as the years multiply! Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Can you sense that sound? Of ghosts, banshees and unnamed streams The wisdom of chaos: the womb and the grave And who’s the dead now He who dwells among phantoms Or the king of mortal emptiness? For I am made of untamed Fire, Everburning, high, bright, high! Do Sin! And believe Do Sin! And believe Cathedral walls born on fleshy columns Hide an altar of ghouls on the stairs through the void! Open, now open! These coffins of parchments and dusty remains Here I proclaim myself Shaman of the Chasm! Seer and Dreamer and Warlock and Witch! And Life in Death and Death in Life! V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Visita Interiora Terrae V.I.T.R.I.O.L. Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Et scientiam pentacula sine caudarias Majestatem suppliciter depræcor Corporis et Animæ salute Salomoni Nox perpetua revelasti Et imploro misericordiam tuam Qui Abraham Primum in fidelem servum elegisti Cum semen sicut cæli multiplicasti… Nomen sanctum tuam quod est: Hye, asser, ephe! In nomine Delicti et Spiritui Sancto: Hye, asser, ephe! Dei Luna et Saturnus, Yha! Clavicula Salomonis Mortem, Saturnus, Clavicula Salomonis Dei Luna, Saturnus, Mortem et Scorpionem! Morte! Morte! Morte! Morte! |
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2. | Of the Defunct | 08:44 | Show lyrics |
Here, I can still feel this dreary pain Here, a malady serum fills every vein Sad birthgiver of endings That petrified body with 16 bleeding mouths Is it still me? Is it still me? All senses pierced by anguish and woe From the inside, from the outside From grieving shades crying at me “Where have you gone?” “Where are you now?” In the warm fumes spread by my own dead mutilated flesh It is there that I am now! In that moment in time, when my soul was torn apart It is there that I am now! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more pain and death! Death! Here time is rotten and still Here’s just reiteration and death! And here… here there’s no flame to cast a shadow of me Now, in this maze of poignant perdition, that shadow is me And with every step it takes, in anger and fear abhorrent It leads you to the funeral, to the grave, to the interment To the interment! To the interment! To the interment! Burn the past to ashes, bury the past with scorn Where trees have taken vows of silence And leaves are stillborn Under that misty, humid cemetery soil In velvet and in ebony, in silent caducity Lead the grand hearse, carve an earthly womb To entomb this aberration Crippled and refused Within deep layers of nightly profane dirt A secret is withheld, in darkness it’s withheld! Death! Here sorrow has eyes and wings And it brings more fear and death! Death! Here’s just reiteration and death… And here, blades and worms still opening wounds fattening the conquering beast Do you think that I am made for resting in peace? This place... this place is terrible. |
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3. | A Precipice Towards Abyssal Caves (Inmost Chasm, I) | 06:05 | Show lyrics |
Fire, thou art the Key Your Flames I am and my veins you are And Pain, thou wast the Gate The first step down leading through narrow clefts Profound, descent; From sheer drops to ravines unknown A torchlit passage to the regions of the Soul Walked with hunger and Pride Revived Mountain, with coldness at my side Revived Drape of the Night, with obscurity and stars inside Revived Subversive Nazarene Extracting nails from scarred flesh divine Hammering them deep down Right to your hearts, mothers of mankind Emptiness and vacuity And treason and lie These are the names in which you hide This is the vacuum you carry with pride Your privileges are broken in here A precipice towards abyssal caves Baptized in whirling streams of ever-flowing strength Waters and vapors to guide me through My path is self-chosen My hurt is self-chosen My curse is self- chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Embalming crimson mist with seething shades as wings Pillars and dead eyes from far beyond My loss is self-chosen My grief is self-chosen My soar is self-chosen Witchcraft Sun, rain on me! Cold scarring Sun, shine on! For I roamed the barren lands of the Elsewhere in eons unknown to men And from its dense darkness I brought back everlasting Flames With the power to enlighten you Or to incinerate you. |
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4. | Il velo delle ombre | 04:47 | Show lyrics |
Stille di carni oscurano i cieli Ricami nel buio tra nebbie accecanti E tombe d’incanti, di vermi e miasmi Piangon a gran voce il mantra del Vuoto: “Che voi, cogliete preghiere soltanto per cumuli decrepiti” Ritual #3 – Orationem E allora Saturno divora i tuoi figli D’un grembo lunare malfermo e tremante Tra stracci di fango e lembi d’orrore Portando alla Luce di il Drappo Silente I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! Deum eum patrem cantate, Deorum deum supplicate. Cum tonas, Luceri! Prae te tremunt quot ibi te di Audierunt tonare Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper Peccatimi meum coram me est semper I will shine again and I’ll make you all pay! I will shine again, to make you all pay! |
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5. | A Passage Through Abysmal Caverns (Inmost Chasm, II) | 08:51 | Show lyrics |
Ashes through ashes, scattering dust of red agonies ashen My wounds are opened now! My gates are opened now! From towers ablaze I erect and exalt my black throne, there above you all Broken and broken! Your knowledge is broken, your hidings are broken! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! Which whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Whisper my names: Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Your treasures, your abundance are now mutated into frozen lava and plague! My limbs are the branches of nature itself with a touch of perdition, bathed in sorrow Here I became Death, and Death is the seed from which I grow… HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-HAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! Further on, further on, above and beneath, through the storm, further on! My gates are opened now! My wounds are opened now! Here I return to dig up from the clay all the nails, all the teeth, all the bones buried down All in one, one in all, as dawn clinches dusk: all in one, one in all HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI ROO-KHAA LI-SHERVA Near these cenotaphs austere and deformed Named as mourning and pain Whisper my names… Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Here I call to thee! Here I bathe in thee! As I traverse this spectral vale Bounded by night-spells An enshrouding mist Engulfed by the wind By the wind of the seas A glimpse of purity Like roots to branches And by 7 steps of Winter I am whole again Comet Doom! Comet Fire! Comet Doom! Comet Fire! There in your mortal world I cannot be reached For I dwell among the undead For I dwell among the ghosts of dreams Closer than usual to the heart of Creation And yet so far away… Every drop of blood and every forlorn tear Returns to my very essence Through the beads of this crimson fog Surrounding me, inhaling me! Surrounding me, inhaling me! HYSHEA M’SHEE-HU REKDA’DN KAA DAHUA-JI LI-SHERVA ROO-KHAA SHIMMETH, O’RORAB-TAHAN! SHIMMETH, HO D’KHIL-TAHAN! My witching essence embodies the Funeral March for all your empty lives! Shaman rise with the Sun! Shaman rise with the Dark! Shaman chant for the Sun! Shaman chant for the Dark! |
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6. | Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn | 06:13 | Show lyrics |
Saturn, lavish all your pain upon me For I am ready to bear it! Thy progeny’s weak, empty and torn And I’m a Black Moon, devourer of all. Gather a funerary crown of nails and locusts For the still carrion of humankind So Wormwood, fall once again Like a torch upon the earth! While blessed by the shadows, by a wisdom of old I slip through your blood to spit my cancer in you! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn In Fire, by Air, in Water, by Earth And thus I speak to you, insects: As you have always obeyed not only in my presence But so much more in my absence: Work out your own salvation now, with fear and trembling! For being yourselves so empty, I just spoke empty answers to your empty prayers... And for whatever prayer may come from you, I will answer according to the Emptiness of man: May my claws be the deepest knives in your chests! Bewitching this vacuity I reject you, I reject you! With Fire, by Air, with Water, by Earth Swallowed is the light and upset is the worm The moon rises black and Saturn it lies reversed And through infinity I witness These long dreamed, forbidden caves The Citadel of the Underworld With its creepy green lights Exhalations from the path of the defunct My blood burns and flickers Morningstar, there is a reason for the fog that embraces me Bright Morningstar, there’s always a reason for the silence that’s upon me! My eyes… my eyes are an Abyss and my tongue is a Sword Through which everything was meant and felt: Forgive me not! Sealed in Black Moon and Saturn All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! All weakness and fears are devoured with the sun! Inside out. Inside out. |
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7. | Congressus cum Dæmone | 06:38 | Show lyrics |
I swear that my grudge will never cease to haunt you Deep in that palace of filth and larvae where now you dwell, And there, right on your burial cursed ground I’ll erect my cathedrals, with pillars of nightshade, of fire and mist! Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Out, livid headless lustmord, out! Hidden in these rotten shrouds Ahash, nakh, ahash, nakh Hidden in these rotten shrouds Out, treacherous radiance, out, out! You are not allowed to roam this halls: Your presence is forbidden here, leave! Your claws have withered here. As a dreadful tremor shake this walls, things cease to move (leave!) And all seems quiet in the dark, ‘til your breath appears. There is a storm of words carved deep on my very flesh A deafening silence spoken in letters, five stones of doom And a burden descended like a perennial dusk: Sometimes tragedy is engraved right there on the inside Since birth, tragedy is engraved right here on the inside Look at the suffocating dirt, what scars you more? your halo of worms or my bleak crown of thorns? Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! Who is the dead now! |
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48:37 |
Spiritual Resonance
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Animæ | Vocals |
Valentz | Drums |
Antarktica | Grand piano, Orchestrations, Soundscapes, Songwriting |
Ashes | Guitars |
Nothingness | Guitars |
Vinterskog | Bass, Cura, Bağlama, Mandolin |
Guest/Session | |
Lindy-Fay Hella | Vocals (track 3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Antarktica | Hammond (track 1 & track 3) |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction |
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1. | The Three Ghouls Buried at Golgotha | 07:34 | Show lyrics |
Corpse of care Warmly Enshrouded in a dank drape of trust Abandoned and frail, so dyed and obscure, Livid haggard with wounds of orship antique, Swallow the thorns while I move back the stone Cold corpse of mercy, death-cold corpse of mercy Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With eyes buried deep Unheard and unseen Corpse of forgiveness Unheard and unseen Six cries the eyes and three bleed the poisoned mouths Then spiders in numbers, they mantle the night With a luminescent web of unearthly disease While rhymes of thick sorrow entangle the stars Desecrating the wet rocks Lurking and waiting Megiddian darkness Lurking and whirling Great, so great! Great is the roar The ossarium burnt gates down the cruciform ground Where one and triune I dwell Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! Ghoul... ghoul... ghoul of contempt Teeth after teeth in the breastbone of heed Through a fractured skull dressed in wrath penitent Devour recollections, ghoul of resent Devour recollections and devour innocence Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With ragged putrid flesh Ether and dirt Ghoul of indifference Ether and dirt Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Bury me. Through ashen soil and mashed bones Bury me. To breathe Once again there, where these trees stand dead Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Serenity, what a word such tormented Maligned and deformed The beauty that sharp cracks down Even if for one last time Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! What’s dead Shall live again. |
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2. | Scorpio Astraea High Coronation | 05:15 | Show lyrics |
For the blade that lies buried in my flesh, And all of the scars in between! For the shattered mirror of innocence, Opening crevices through the abyss beneath! For the tearing wound That froze every vein with a desperate cry! And the fire swollen eyes, trembling and yet so brave In the presence of Death. High on the pinnacle of loss I vow that I’ll always be hungry High on the cliffs of grief I swear, I’ll always be true As above, through rain and burning suns So below, in pain and scorching joy! I’m the Wayward Son of forests and mountains I’m the Waking Child of the occult Inmost Chasm With the blood of a slayer running through vena cava The wolf, the scorpo, the snake here they grow and we Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! So drink this death and disease! Virgin of the nightsky Drink deep this death and disease! Carrion of all beasts of the earth To embrace regret And feast with the flesh of famine Scorpio Astraea coronation Scorpio Astraea high coronation Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! |
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3. | With Everburning Sulphur Unconsumed | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
Threnody! Transcendent woe Through nine tongues of water And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! As the mists grow thicker and thicker By scarred wounds chanting In spiteful dominance Threnody! Pouring deep The salt of Ghosts ‘to the wounds of humanity Libera me, domine! A prayer within the shadows The voice of a lone star It whispers the office of the dead As sung by the choir of the damned. Libera me, domine! And a curse to bind them all Outside the flaming breath Of this corporeal gate With the wise doctrine of shades Ister-el-dor der-i-enne Ister-al-or-darne zi dee Ister-el-dor syvy e flammar Ister al-or-estyr er Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Threnody! In silence I remember Through nine tongues of fire And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! To the first and the last So that this burnt flesh Can shine again and again Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Through a field not far enough, the eyelids dissect the body of a young creature. He moves with instinctive movements, like in a dance for two, but out of time. I wish you the least possible clarity, I wish you to always dance out of time without realizing the steps, nor the rhythm. A beautiful wind stirs drapes of grass and hair. May only this touch you, child. Libera me, domine! Libera me, domine! |
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4. | Vessel Underneath | 07:49 | Show lyrics |
A subtle veil descended upon the cave of judgment, Pale shrunken limbs corroded every pillar With a broken neck and so sharp bones! Oh, release! The God with maggot skin The burning light of the furnace, With scorched dead hands, release, release! Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Then fervour breeds a titan worm, dissolver and creator, To slyly wander through imperial starry caves, Breathing myriads of fates! And myriads of wonders, Bewildering all mortal beliefs! Bewildering all mortal beings! The paralytic one grabs the universe once again. Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Light. Radiant Light. A mirror shattered to ashes. Pregnant moribund soil, And crumbling waters. The Architect of ruins Begins to place his crafting stones. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Bow the world to will! The world will bow to my will! Bow time to will! Time will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Bow space to will! Space will bow to my will! Bow the body to will! The body will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Sohar Sohar Sohar Cause it’s not by control that we bend events, But by gathering the future in the shroud of consciousness. |
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5. | Hereafter, Somewhere | 08:12 | Show lyrics |
Thus I command to the Ocean below, Set your waters free and raise your waves to the night sky outside Receive, what lies behind the stare, receive... Believe, create and receive, receive! Hej-darr! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! River of eyes, flows deeper and deeper River of mouths Presence and convergence, still and flowing There I am flowing Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Smoke to pillars, waking dream Fog to vast halls A throne of crafting faith There I am flowing Thus I command to the realm of the Flames, Open wide the furnace! Burn the past and burn every future Then breathe, the ashes of creation, breathe Create, breathe and believe, believe! Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! |
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6. | The Seven Spectres Haunting Gethsemane | 06:49 | Show lyrics |
All this Love. When I’m scarred, drained and gone I’m still me When I’m scarred, drained and gone I am still me All this flesh Escapes my fingertips I am these trees And we are me Gethsemane Gethsemane All those tears All these dreams Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal The world is gone But you and me remain The world can be gone But you and me remain Gethsemane Gethsemane All this love Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal |
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41:27 |
Spiritual Resonance
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Animæ | Vocals |
Valentz | Drums |
Antarktica | Grand piano, Orchestrations, Soundscapes, Songwriting |
Ashes | Guitars |
Nothingness | Guitars |
Vinterskog | Bass, Cura, Bağlama, Mandolin |
Guest/Session | |
Lindy-Fay Hella | Vocals (track 3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction |
Antarktica | Hammond (track 1 & track 3) |
Tracks | |||
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Side A | |||
1. | The Three Ghouls Buried at Golgotha | 07:34 | Show lyrics |
Corpse of care Warmly Enshrouded in a dank drape of trust Abandoned and frail, so dyed and obscure, Livid haggard with wounds of orship antique, Swallow the thorns while I move back the stone Cold corpse of mercy, death-cold corpse of mercy Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With eyes buried deep Unheard and unseen Corpse of forgiveness Unheard and unseen Six cries the eyes and three bleed the poisoned mouths Then spiders in numbers, they mantle the night With a luminescent web of unearthly disease While rhymes of thick sorrow entangle the stars Desecrating the wet rocks Lurking and waiting Megiddian darkness Lurking and whirling Great, so great! Great is the roar The ossarium burnt gates down the cruciform ground Where one and triune I dwell Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! Ghoul... ghoul... ghoul of contempt Teeth after teeth in the breastbone of heed Through a fractured skull dressed in wrath penitent Devour recollections, ghoul of resent Devour recollections and devour innocence Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With ragged putrid flesh Ether and dirt Ghoul of indifference Ether and dirt Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Bury me. Through ashen soil and mashed bones Bury me. To breathe Once again there, where these trees stand dead Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Serenity, what a word such tormented Maligned and deformed The beauty that sharp cracks down Even if for one last time Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! What’s dead Shall live again. |
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2. | Scorpio Astraea High Coronation | 05:15 | Show lyrics |
For the blade that lies buried in my flesh, And all of the scars in between! For the shattered mirror of innocence, Opening crevices through the abyss beneath! For the tearing wound That froze every vein with a desperate cry! And the fire swollen eyes, trembling and yet so brave In the presence of Death. High on the pinnacle of loss I vow that I’ll always be hungry High on the cliffs of grief I swear, I’ll always be true As above, through rain and burning suns So below, in pain and scorching joy! I’m the Wayward Son of forests and mountains I’m the Waking Child of the occult Inmost Chasm With the blood of a slayer running through vena cava The wolf, the scorpo, the snake here they grow and we Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! So drink this death and disease! Virgin of the nightsky Drink deep this death and disease! Carrion of all beasts of the earth To embrace regret And feast with the flesh of famine Scorpio Astraea coronation Scorpio Astraea high coronation Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! |
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3. | With Everburning Sulphur Unconsumed | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
Threnody! Transcendent woe Through nine tongues of water And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! As the mists grow thicker and thicker By scarred wounds chanting In spiteful dominance Threnody! Pouring deep The salt of Ghosts ‘to the wounds of humanity Libera me, domine! A prayer within the shadows The voice of a lone star It whispers the office of the dead As sung by the choir of the damned. Libera me, domine! And a curse to bind them all Outside the flaming breath Of this corporeal gate With the wise doctrine of shades Ister-el-dor der-i-enne Ister-al-or-darne zi dee Ister-el-dor syvy e flammar Ister al-or-estyr er Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Threnody! In silence I remember Through nine tongues of fire And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! To the first and the last So that this burnt flesh Can shine again and again Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Through a field not far enough, the eyelids dissect the body of a young creature. He moves with instinctive movements, like in a dance for two, but out of time. I wish you the least possible clarity, I wish you to always dance out of time without realizing the steps, nor the rhythm. A beautiful wind stirs drapes of grass and hair. May only this touch you, child. Libera me, domine! Libera me, domine! |
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Side B | |||
4. | Vessel Underneath | 07:49 | Show lyrics |
A subtle veil descended upon the cave of judgment, Pale shrunken limbs corroded every pillar With a broken neck and so sharp bones! Oh, release! The God with maggot skin The burning light of the furnace, With scorched dead hands, release, release! Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Then fervour breeds a titan worm, dissolver and creator, To slyly wander through imperial starry caves, Breathing myriads of fates! And myriads of wonders, Bewildering all mortal beliefs! Bewildering all mortal beings! The paralytic one grabs the universe once again. Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Light. Radiant Light. A mirror shattered to ashes. Pregnant moribund soil, And crumbling waters. The Architect of ruins Begins to place his crafting stones. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Bow the world to will! The world will bow to my will! Bow time to will! Time will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Bow space to will! Space will bow to my will! Bow the body to will! The body will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Sohar Sohar Sohar Cause it’s not by control that we bend events, But by gathering the future in the shroud of consciousness. |
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5. | Hereafter, Somewhere | 08:12 | Show lyrics |
Thus I command to the Ocean below, Set your waters free and raise your waves to the night sky outside Receive, what lies behind the stare, receive... Believe, create and receive, receive! Hej-darr! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! River of eyes, flows deeper and deeper River of mouths Presence and convergence, still and flowing There I am flowing Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Smoke to pillars, waking dream Fog to vast halls A throne of crafting faith There I am flowing Thus I command to the realm of the Flames, Open wide the furnace! Burn the past and burn every future Then breathe, the ashes of creation, breathe Create, breathe and believe, believe! Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! |
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6. | The Seven Spectres Haunting Gethsemane | 06:49 | Show lyrics |
All this Love. When I’m scarred, drained and gone I’m still me When I’m scarred, drained and gone I am still me All this flesh Escapes my fingertips I am these trees And we are me Gethsemane Gethsemane All those tears All these dreams Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal The world is gone But you and me remain The world can be gone But you and me remain Gethsemane Gethsemane All this love Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal |
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41:27 |
Spiritual Resonance
Members | |
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Original line-up | |
Band members | |
Animæ | Vocals |
Valentz | Drums |
Antarktica | Grand piano, Orchestrations, Soundscapes, Songwriting |
Ashes | Guitars |
Nothingness | Guitars |
Vinterskog | Bass, Cura, Bağlama, Mandolin |
Guest/Session | |
Lindy-Fay Hella | Vocals (track 3) |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Animæ | Artwork, Art direction |
Antarktica | Hammond (track 1 & track 3) |
Tracks | |||
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1. | The Three Ghouls Buried at Golgotha | 07:34 | Show lyrics |
Corpse of care Warmly Enshrouded in a dank drape of trust Abandoned and frail, so dyed and obscure, Livid haggard with wounds of orship antique, Swallow the thorns while I move back the stone Cold corpse of mercy, death-cold corpse of mercy Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With eyes buried deep Unheard and unseen Corpse of forgiveness Unheard and unseen Six cries the eyes and three bleed the poisoned mouths Then spiders in numbers, they mantle the night With a luminescent web of unearthly disease While rhymes of thick sorrow entangle the stars Desecrating the wet rocks Lurking and waiting Megiddian darkness Lurking and whirling Great, so great! Great is the roar The ossarium burnt gates down the cruciform ground Where one and triune I dwell Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! Ghoul... ghoul... ghoul of contempt Teeth after teeth in the breastbone of heed Through a fractured skull dressed in wrath penitent Devour recollections, ghoul of resent Devour recollections and devour innocence Undone. Unspoken. Untouched and unloved From a slack sea of rot and through veins of betrayal With ragged putrid flesh Ether and dirt Ghoul of indifference Ether and dirt Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Bury me. Through ashen soil and mashed bones Bury me. To breathe Once again there, where these trees stand dead Hallowed ground and sacred sand Bury me. Serenity, what a word such tormented Maligned and deformed The beauty that sharp cracks down Even if for one last time Our charnel’s the Fire Our charnel’s the Lighting Bolt Hark to the Temple Below! Hark to the Temple Below! What’s dead Shall live again. |
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2. | Scorpio Astraea High Coronation | 05:15 | Show lyrics |
For the blade that lies buried in my flesh, And all of the scars in between! For the shattered mirror of innocence, Opening crevices through the abyss beneath! For the tearing wound That froze every vein with a desperate cry! And the fire swollen eyes, trembling and yet so brave In the presence of Death. High on the pinnacle of loss I vow that I’ll always be hungry High on the cliffs of grief I swear, I’ll always be true As above, through rain and burning suns So below, in pain and scorching joy! I’m the Wayward Son of forests and mountains I’m the Waking Child of the occult Inmost Chasm With the blood of a slayer running through vena cava The wolf, the scorpo, the snake here they grow and we Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! So drink this death and disease! Virgin of the nightsky Drink deep this death and disease! Carrion of all beasts of the earth To embrace regret And feast with the flesh of famine Scorpio Astraea coronation Scorpio Astraea high coronation Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant to the storm Chant, chant, chant to the flaming void Chant, chant, chant, awake, abandon! |
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3. | With Everburning Sulphur Unconsumed | 05:48 | Show lyrics |
Threnody! Transcendent woe Through nine tongues of water And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! As the mists grow thicker and thicker By scarred wounds chanting In spiteful dominance Threnody! Pouring deep The salt of Ghosts ‘to the wounds of humanity Libera me, domine! A prayer within the shadows The voice of a lone star It whispers the office of the dead As sung by the choir of the damned. Libera me, domine! And a curse to bind them all Outside the flaming breath Of this corporeal gate With the wise doctrine of shades Ister-el-dor der-i-enne Ister-al-or-darne zi dee Ister-el-dor syvy e flammar Ister al-or-estyr er Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Threnody! In silence I remember Through nine tongues of fire And ever-burning sulphur Threnody! To the first and the last So that this burnt flesh Can shine again and again Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / al-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Ister al-or-estyr er Hah-ser-ka tee / il-ter al-ter Ister al-or-estyr er Dai fhar go-drennha Through a field not far enough, the eyelids dissect the body of a young creature. He moves with instinctive movements, like in a dance for two, but out of time. I wish you the least possible clarity, I wish you to always dance out of time without realizing the steps, nor the rhythm. A beautiful wind stirs drapes of grass and hair. May only this touch you, child. Libera me, domine! Libera me, domine! |
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4. | Vessel Underneath | 07:49 | Show lyrics |
A subtle veil descended upon the cave of judgment, Pale shrunken limbs corroded every pillar With a broken neck and so sharp bones! Oh, release! The God with maggot skin The burning light of the furnace, With scorched dead hands, release, release! Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Then fervour breeds a titan worm, dissolver and creator, To slyly wander through imperial starry caves, Breathing myriads of fates! And myriads of wonders, Bewildering all mortal beliefs! Bewildering all mortal beings! The paralytic one grabs the universe once again. Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hera sereth heret shveh Hera sereth hekete Hekete shimeth hekete sohar Light. Radiant Light. A mirror shattered to ashes. Pregnant moribund soil, And crumbling waters. The Architect of ruins Begins to place his crafting stones. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Forget every word, forget each one of their meaning. Bow the world to will! The world will bow to my will! Bow time to will! Time will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Bow space to will! Space will bow to my will! Bow the body to will! The body will bow to my will! Hekete Shimeth Hekete Sohar Sohar Sohar Sohar Cause it’s not by control that we bend events, But by gathering the future in the shroud of consciousness. |
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5. | Hereafter, Somewhere | 08:12 | Show lyrics |
Thus I command to the Ocean below, Set your waters free and raise your waves to the night sky outside Receive, what lies behind the stare, receive... Believe, create and receive, receive! Hej-darr! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! River of eyes, flows deeper and deeper River of mouths Presence and convergence, still and flowing There I am flowing Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Smoke to pillars, waking dream Fog to vast halls A throne of crafting faith There I am flowing Thus I command to the realm of the Flames, Open wide the furnace! Burn the past and burn every future Then breathe, the ashes of creation, breathe Create, breathe and believe, believe! Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Spiritual resonance Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! Sheima, hidhaj-iz-midgar hysha! |
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6. | The Seven Spectres Haunting Gethsemane | 06:49 | Show lyrics |
All this Love. When I’m scarred, drained and gone I’m still me When I’m scarred, drained and gone I am still me All this flesh Escapes my fingertips I am these trees And we are me Gethsemane Gethsemane All those tears All these dreams Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal The world is gone But you and me remain The world can be gone But you and me remain Gethsemane Gethsemane All this love Gethsemane Gethsemane Ey-li En svahrti mal |
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41:27 |
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