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lyrics
I've seen beauty blossom, and permeate brightly through this sphere
Only to putrefy and cover the earth with its ashes
I've felt the hopeless despair of the finite
And the crushing weight of doubt
I turn inwards, with heavy lidded Ajna
A blurred and filthy lens
And with the purging of ego, I'm overcome with ecstasy
And enveloped in blinding light
Without decay, beauty becomes banality
There is only one eternal strand
Fluctuating
The surging mass of desultory life
Moved by spurious forces through channels of stone
Is more frightening to me than the embrace of death
But without that fear, there can be no strength
So I reject the hungry arms of death again
Only through suffering can we know true joy
Only through blindness can we behold true light.
I detach from the nimbus of occlusion
And tear through Maya with merciless attrition
The curse of the enlightened is that they're blind to their own elevation
Unable to perceive it through grimed lenses.
We will always be despised by the spiritually impoverished
Just as the immured detest the few beyond the bounds of their prison
supported by 55 fans who also own “Ophidian Henosis - III”
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
supported by 43 fans who also own “Ophidian Henosis - III”
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74
supported by 40 fans who also own “Ophidian Henosis - III”
La traversée du désert n'aura pas duré quarante jours mais quatre longues années...
Avec Панихида, Батюшка renaît enfin de ses cendres et, bien que désormais seul (ou plus exactement entouré de deux chanteurs), Христофор accomplit un miracle. Il s'inscrit dans la continuité de Литоургиiа avec un black metal orthodoxe qui nous convie ici à une cérémonie dédiée aux morts. Sa vision est englobante : les mélodies, la gravité et le silence font toucher le paradis ; l'agressivité est luciférienne. Jordan Vauvert
The Belgian band explore heavy psych, tribal rhythms, free-jazz freakouts, meditative drone and the vast, shadowy spaces in between. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 22, 2020