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None Above Death

by Kaoskraft

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1.
Behold! The moonlight shines in a sheer cold Beneath the crooked trees So bright... And then emerging from darkness It comes... A sillouhete of the dark enshrouded in rags With a coffin on its back The bringer of death! Release the path that leads to the grave Every soul will perish Be none above death, the almighty one Come black salvation To live is to die Open the doors of hades Walk this path to the infernal depths And sleep for eternity Unbound! The chains of death, The 13th arcana The reaper glares in the distance For the time has arrived He opens wide his coffin and yells "Come, sons of the man" This night one more soul will be fetched to death! Fetched to death! Countless nights have passed... On this hollow forest It lives within us, and we die within it Our mortal coil Our living ordeal Death is not a hunter unknown to its prey One is aware it lies in wait It lies in wait!
2.
Bonded by blood, By the Covenant of the Wolf Watchers of the curse of Manus, we sought to destroy the mighty abyssal force, and to seal the catacombs of carthus. Thou hast walked the abyss, henceforth your legacy rests upon us Hail to the oath, Hail to Farron Hail to the glorious death of Manus. Life weakens dark, dark weakens flame, dark and flame are fading. Thus, the abyss expands... This curse shall rest upon thee. I will slay you, victim of the cinder, to block you from the false oath I will slay you. For I have learned the fallacy of the flame, and the truth of the oath I will slay you. I'm thirsty, I'm suffering from this fallacy, from the wolves oath, from this curse. ...I will slay you. My devotion to this oath, this fallacy, this darkness, this dead end... And so I loved the fallacy, to block you from the truth of the flame This fallacy tells "i will slay you".
3.
A day of penance on a bleak morning This day is sighting Medusa, The Quicksand of Dust, And the cold bite of Berenice As a monument of failure buried underneath A new era of Frost, empty and beautiful. This kingdom once frozen - We are Boreal prey A day of penance on a bleak morning An everlasting season When It's cold, and when It's dark, A Journey to the End As a moment of realising it lies underneath A new era of Frost, empty and beautiful. This kingdom once frozen - We are Boreal prey This throne will be forsaken and thrown to the depths forever, A once frozen kingdom of worms and leeches. A day of penance on a bleak morning Hear the cold winds of nowhere The tombs of the ancients frozen It's all underneath As a cold stream of siberia, It pumps through your veins Bloodstained snow, Frozen futile beings This kingdom once frozen - We are Boreal prey
4.
Between the dream and reality Lies a place for the human will Between mind and matter Lies your inner self Call my name and release thy rage I am thou, Thou art I! Vow to me, thou who perform all sacrilegious acts Vow to me, thou who pacts with blasphemies Show the strength of thy will to ascertain all on thine own Thou'll be chained to hell itself
5.
Your tale was left unwritten Shrouded in amnesia Falling down to the depths forever Mankind was fated to perish, to vanish in the mist of Despair. I, Thanatos Son of Nyx, Kin of Hypnos, Lord of Loss I shall grant you a sweet death Order of Thanatos. Eternal rest for all, the end of the quest All men know this from birth The Strong, The Weak The Rich, The Poor, The Brave, The Coward, The True, and The False
6.
Holy Blood 03:13
Sic filli scite tibi vi sacramentum Di vises mi miserete aeterna Beatus sanctus, Maledictus fiat morte, E sanguine opulento Erit premium sanguine sanctum Festiva praestabere sanguine sanctum Remain wary of the frailty of men their wills are weak, and their minds are young, were it not for fear death would go unlamented this path we walk is uncertain A transfusion with the ancient blood The echoes of the great old ones Grant us the eyes to see beyond the lake of mud Hidden from sight Dido tus "Timere Sanguine Sanctum". By the gods, fear the blood!
7.
XIII 01:37
(Instrumental)
8.
One is born from a spruce of Oak Between the withered old trees Songs of distress you sang to me Until you faded in the mist The cold caresses your pale skin where the time runs slow, and the winds blow cold The pain I feel is growing here And giving in like autumn leaves Like autumn leaves we fall And crush against the winter soil So we can't get to see the spring bloom... There are only dead trees.

about

"The answer to life is death, since death is life. Time deliver us all to the same fate"

The theme of the album on its majority is memento mori, and the fear of dying, but when one thinks about death, it inherently thinks about life. For that reason I took some inspiration from videogames I currently enjoy, such as bloodborne, dark souls and the SMT/Persona series.

The cover artwork represents the figure of death on an empty, shadowed forest, enlightened by the moonlight. Despite his human form, It's a representation of Thanatos, the bringer of death, according to greek mythology, but since we are mortal beings I thought it was appropriate to resemble more to us. The coffins on its back, the moon and the chains are a way to resemble its design from the videogame Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3.

After some experimentation on the Lvcis Absrntia EP, I decided to take a symphonic/atmospheric approach, adding acoustic sections and strings. For those fans of classic black metal, and atmospheric/symphonic black metal.

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released September 30, 2021

Cover Artwork by Ana Gómez
Logo by Funeral Towers Arts

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