Anger floats dormant in the aching emptiness
The oceans drained, the cracked sand
There was never any hope for happiness here
The child within died long ago
How long have I wandered hollow?
How long has the joy been gone?
When did I wake? Did I even wake?
Horrific nightmares leading into unreal days
Crushed and preserved
By discipline
My only guide through the fog that obscures inside
Blood boiling just to stay alive
Focusing on anything just to still my mind
Hit the lights, can't believe my eyes
What is this I see? Visions of your face decaying
Corpses rotting on the floors, specters rapping at my window
This isn't real, this can't be real
Wake me
Wake me
Panicked with the lights on I lay alone in a cold sweat with my demons
Am I insane?
Am I losing my mind?
What is wrong with me?
Desperately searching for an answer
Or a way to subdue
The endless downward nightly spiraling
Hypnagogic hallucinations laced with guilt and solitude
Finally the glow of dawn arrives and I am safe
Delivering me from the horrors that kept me awake
Practically lifeless, dragging through another day
Fearing the silence looming just hours away
In my own reflection, you're just behind, beckoning
Is it a projection of what's inside, telling me,
Now's the time.
Do not forsake the sea
Or its serenity
Do not drown in your regret
Do not forget the things I made you know
Now go and leave the pain of the past behind
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
Californian quartet defining themselves as Sci-Fi black metal, maybe due to cosmic and interstellar topics, sounding like blackened death metal too ("The Maw"). It's a well-balanced melodic black metal album, with some fast-paced tracks and nice rhythmic transitions reminding me of Swiss band Celtic Frost (e.g. Terminal Odyssey). In other words not overly dominated by drum speed and also not sounding as extreme or as raw as some BM can be. sachavonkarl74
The metal’s band revelatory new record crosses genres and styles, effortlessly combining seemingly incompatible subgenres. Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 26, 2024