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Towards the Great White Nothing

by Voluptas

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YomaBarr Listening to this I saw a black, oily, rotund mass? body? beast? all covered in sharp crystals emitting dark light, and it was alive. What a weird album, in the best way. And ofc I'm completely sold on that dialogue of sax and throat (that's what you call black metal sax!). Plus intelligent lyrics (poetry?).
If this band won't fall into the trap of replacing weirdness with wankery they'll go places. Thanks Cypecore for the heads up :) Favorite track: Desert Twilight.
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Funeral Fog A blitz of absolute madness & ferocity. Beginning to end, this album will slam your face through many walls! You're my favorite fellow metalhead YomaBarr, so you're very welcome 🤘 Favorite track: Desert Twilight.
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hatbanger_ollie A lovely psychedelic trip of traditional black metal. Great use of unexpected instruments and jazzy distortion sounds. I love experimental bands that are not afraid to wander off the beaten track. Excellent follow-up to their EP. Favorite track: Desert Twilight.
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1.
I tried to dissect your dreams to confirm their dicisignal qualities And yet I strive for their ability to thrive on the verge of your glimmering eyes on the part of your soul that was not yet mine before it embodied your fear I tried to dissect your dreams …and left your skull open wide I can't defy the urge to rape and categorize every single cell of your body every single cell of your body May I offer you my crystalline key to remove the poison from your veins? May I cure you of my disease and relieve you of my pain? Because I strive for you to thrive on the verge of your glimmering eyes on the part of your soul that was not yet mine before it embodied me
2.
Thargelia 04:25
Oh! Father of Light! Thou shalt be used as long as we don't fill all the missing spaces Then we shall burn thy flesh to rejuvenate the original splendour of Thy pristine glory And we, the pharmakoi that used to gaze into the abyss of Thargelia's proximity shall grant Gestell's new divinity Oh! Father of Light! glorious Deus nihil bestow upon us the rule Let lesser gods have their way Let lesser gods have their way
3.
The choking dust of bridges torn and scourged The screaming code searing the skin and the eye Twining and slithering through the rites of the Demiurge, obscuring and dousing the Light, it ascends 'bove the waves and the fractals, the walls of the enclosing tomb – descending thus back to the womb And pyres consumed all the ashes as Sekhmet purred Under the sway of the coiling Sun her cheeks and temples burned In the midst of this turmoil of axes and hexes, syncopes – bubbling tar Yet the waters shall rise and devour the goat with the lamb and the sizzling scars
4.
My bodies adrift My thoughts afloat Setting off into the wide blue yonder towards the great white nothing Ice in fractal patterns the stars entwined echoes of cracks and shrieks oddly rhymed The book of nature is synchronized with my decline Signals well received, yet ignored the voices building a dissonant chord Atop mt. Erebus they are to be heard Disengaged from the source they can linger in veins Yet inside there is a calm place glowing cinderlike As my occipital lobe burns away
5.
Three times I waved my hand for silence, darkness and dust Standing on the pedestal in a desolate land unfinished in the city of pillars Like flapping of unfeathered wings Spitting the words unintelligible through the dense air of my aeon Yet vultures gathered and carved the signs into the living flesh of my headstone: "proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd— His glassy essence"

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released September 11, 2020

Recorded during 2019 in Dödsmord Studio

All music and lyrics by Voluptas

Jan: guitars
Martin: guitars
Michal: vocals
Petr: drums
Štěpán: bass

Ondrax: saxophone in Desert Twilight

Anders Axelsson: recording, mixing and mastering
Kristýna Vašíčková: artwork
Markét Bártová: band photography
Vašek Kokeš: graphic design

Dedicated to Vašek 'BlackDog' Zajíček

Released by MetalGate Records © 2020 MetalGate

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Voluptas Prague, Czech Republic

Voluptas are a Prague-based experimental black metal band, influenced by the Norwegian avant-garde of the 1990s and other eccentric rock genres. Their music occasionally incorporates various elements of psychedelia, (free) jazz and noise, and their studio records, as well as live shows, often feature a guest saxophonist. ... more

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