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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Final Seizure Of The Light-Being, The Great Plague Imperium (2010), Old Europa Death Chants (2010), Harvest / Nest (2016), A Lake Of Ghosts (2017), Black Cloud Of Becoming (2011), Offer Thy Flesh To The Worms (2011), Beast Of Riddles, Monster Of Light (2012), and 7 more.
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This Bitter Earth
08:16
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And there is no comfort
on this bitter Earth
No spiritual redemption
No undiscovered source
of goodwill
or moral
For the world is hollow
and the sky is empty
The gods of my youth
are gone
The virtues
The hopes
all gone
And I hung the mask of gods
upon my purity
as I festered
in loathing
And as snake-smudge
blurred the distance of ghosts
the dying dawn
thirsted for sun
And I stood there trembling
with old filthy hands
gazing into the abyss
O how it pushed me deeper
Downwards
Onwards
Crushing the bitter riddle
of life
Now,
crawling like a lizard
into the truth of others
the mask of gods descend
from the purest concept of a refuge
to the utter shit-stained mud
I wander through
every waking hour
of my existence
And there is no comfort
And this bitter Earth
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2. |
I Surrender To The Soil
10:04
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Within my flesh walls
there is an aching
A faceless demon mocking me
I am a weak structure
A feeble receiver of visions
They have all dispersed
into the void
And though nothing remains
of my pride
And dusk has claimed my judgement
I shiver in moonlight
and greet the death of everything
I yield to the sun
however bleak and dying
The rigid body of stars
collapsing into my embrace
I surrender to the soil …
And life flicker out
from the eyes of the sky
and two hundred million clouds sing
with old broken voices
Songs from the dawn of creation
I see the icy hand of Death
shivering with grace
Touched by beauty
and moving calmly
towards me
I surrender to the soil …
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3. |
Hymn
04:50
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I see the clouds rejoice
in the coming of hail
I see the sun rising
tired and pale
I see a grand horizon
beyond the sorrow-vast sea
I see madness in the sky
I see horses running free
I hear a sigh from the hill
I hear the meadows weep
I hear the echo of birdsong
whilst the forest is asleep
And I see you in the rain
smiling like on the first day of spring
I see a sky growing darker
Your beauty rests in everything
Don’t let this moment pass …
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I am a ghost
A shadow of my pride
An echo of my hatred
Dust in the grinding wheels of time
Fog in the eyes of bliss
Nothing in the faces of eternity
And I greet this apathy
in a sleepless house
where suns come to die
and space unfolds
restlessly
And did I fall
then I fell forever
Through a world departed
and a civilization divided
Through the clouds
hanging over my head
Heavy as lead
and black as tar
Pissing blood
in my face
and laughing
like and old man
Through the grey hollow sphere
that makes the veil of this empty world
And bitterness shall touch me
and lay its famished hands upon me
Craving the last dark moments
of my waking hours
And shame shall embrace me
in a tender caress
I saw it dance towards me
when I took my first step
through the dust
of time’s grinding wheels
And here I stand crippled
for another second
for another minute
for another hour
for another day
for another week
for another month
for another year
for another goddamn infinity
of longing for a peace of mind
that never comes
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SOL Denmark
Dark ambient & doom metal band from Denmark with neofolk influences and avant-garde tendencies.
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