A great hail of fire,
limbs torn apart,
Now sown together,
to create a morbid art.
A sculpture of flesh,
with wounds drawn upon
A dark, bleeding heart,
faces now toward the sun.
The lord of the river awakes;
Now, light decays.
I bring death of desire,
I turn bone to dust.
My name yet arcane,
Upon the tongue of man is lost.
I transcend the flesh,
I transcend the stars,
To seek from your pain,
And conjure all the meaning lost.
I gnaw upon the past,
I shun the present times.
I seek to destroy,
The days ahead and yet to come.
They carve upon my chest,
A script from times of old.
It reads: "We attempt
To end the day and cease the dawn."
Lead to the pyre,
Changes and fire,
Sand upon the sea.
Death of desire,
Elevate higher,
Sworn in ecstasy.
Lord of the river,
Sings a fever,
Cleansing of the flesh.
Evaporation,
Of recession,
Towards the burning end.
From the clash of the heart,
Is born a spark.
And of the spark,
Is born my art.
The bark is peeled,
The wound now healed.
Slowly now,
Blessed are the dead.
Slowly now,
Fortunate the sick.
Slowly now,
I implant the dread,
Slowly now,
I achieve my end.
"Cripple me - blind my eyes.
Take me high - above the skies.
Cripple me - grant me zest.
Hold me high - above the rest."
I bring death of desire,
I turn bone to dust.
My name yet arcane,
Upon the tongue of man is lost.
I transcend the flesh,
I transcend the stars,
To seek from your pain,
And conjure all the meaning lost.
I gnaw upon the past,
I shun the present times.
I seek to destroy,
The days ahead and yet to come.
They carve upon my chest,
A script from times of old.
It reads: "We attempt
To end the day and cease the dawn."
credits
from Conciliation,
released June 30, 2021
Narek Avedyan - lyrics
supported by 8 fans who also own “A Great Hail Of Fire”
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