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THE ARROWS OF OUR WAYS

by Izthmi

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RATMAN
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RATMAN I'm not into black metal.
But i dig this.
Fantastic lyrics, an interesting cover, real good musicians.
Their music rather proves that the band has a certain talent for songwriting - but without ever being fenced in by traditional, "classic" forms.
outstanding Favorite track: USELESS IS THE SONG OF MAN, FROM THROATS CALLOUSED BY NAME.
nisindu
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nisindu A good reminder for us that black metal can be as soulful as any other genre... Favorite track: TO TRAIPSE ALONE....
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Doomsterfire2049 I bought the digital album just to review it. A buddie at work had a couple copies of the vinyl and gave me one to check out, and I can't stop listening to this fucking thing! it's as beautiful as it is crushing. it's black metal and it's definitely from up here in the PNW but it lives in its own space somehow. nothing quite like it out there right now. this is an album that well be sticking with me for a long time. beyond good! just get it already! Favorite track: A SHOUT THAT BURSTS THROUGH THE SILENCE OF UNMEANING.
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1.
CHASM 02:59
2.
No peace in swallowing these years To traipse alone, the heart thronged sphere Time renders me A handle without a door A wrist without an arm Starkly bound and absent Lush is my health, Forever blooming over senile decay Yet ignominious is my vessel, A feast for transient eyes What they seek from me, they call a gift Yet they don't see my hole Further down I shall sift This gated isthmus in perpetuum My fears Seizing my fate Turning the world Unto me My fears Changing the walls Turning the world Unto Me
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I cast my faith, Beneath the veil For what is lost, Is locked away We can’t escape the teeth of seasons Much like the flowers chased from bloom. I’ve seen them pierce the vein of reason. I’ve watched them steal away from you. The path we often walk, A fickle one. With intention unclear, Our presence is numb. The thrum of this listless world, Palls the spires of our self-control. This blind naivety I blame sightless hands, For why I don’t understand I blame sightless hands, For why I don’t understand
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- 01:55
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As I awoke I watched life consume itself Again and again Useless is the song of man, From throats calloused by name. As we offer blood for land, And strip bare its flesh till naught remains. Will there be an understanding Strained from veins before the fall Or shall we trail behind tails of comets That’ve burned their way into the eyes of us all No fathers nor our mothers Can determine our fate The hope in which that we wish for Must be ours to create This weight Through which we all must walk This weight That which walks through me
6.
Our love A short fall Spilled from insurmountable heights I have been brought here Time and time again, To follow my longings call. A shout that bursts, Through the silence of unmeaning. To find you, Betwixt the waves I’m falling from you, In the midst of what we hold. No promise of will, Can save us from growing old. And we’ll sleep, Through this dream. To forsake, The foreseen. All of this has been decided, Long before you were born. Pass with care my patient lover, From this life you will be torn. I heard it from the birds, In the hours of crawling dawn. That what may be lost with the flesh, Finds its way to return. And we’ll stain our teeth, In the reds of the fleeting sun. An end in heat, My bones ache beneath your love.
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The stakes that lie before the grave Tie our hands behind, The flaking truths of man And as we watch our roots decay Sitting idly by, We fail to understand. How to fill the hole, And embrace the heart To shed the weight of autophagy. Yet with a one-dimensional wisdom We’d rebuke an infinite glory Shrouding the light that’s faired all time Below the shelter, And above the heights Of man’s guilded reach We find a world disconnected We’ve sown our seed in the spine of the earth In an attempt to forge our own lines Yet we’re treading past the point of return Forming the unseen void As the arrows of our ways sink beneath the skin, The blood of our victims we find akin. To ours to ours to our own Then the blood flows And we see ourselves for the first time Why does the blood have to flow? And stain the soul of the sum We must abstain from the instigation Before the air all life breathes Is gone To own The world Yet close The door We’ve sown our seed in the spine of the earth Now we must erase the bold lines In only peace may we return To a world so warm When love is the truth, it’s our light The glowing gateway to the divine

about

"As the arrows of our
ways sink beneath the
skin,
The blood of our
victims we find akin,
To ours to ours to our
own"

credits

released February 14, 2020

Jakob Keizer - Vocals, Modular Synths
Nolan Head - Drums
Autumn Day Schibret - Guitar & Bass
Brett Tomsett - Guitar & Bass

Produced by Izthmi and Matt Roach, April 2019

Engineered by Matt Roach and Jesse Dean at Rain City Recorders, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Mixed by Matt Roach

"Chasm" Recorded and Mixed by Erick Goin (EMG Audio)

Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Portland, Oregon.

Artwork by Vojtěch "Moonroot" Doubek
www.moonrootart.com

Logo by Carlos Agraz - The Art of Asty

Vinyl Mastered by Billy Anderson

Vinyl Production and Distro by James Kosharek (Bandageman Records), Ian Rittenberg (1922 Productions), and Daniele Brusaschetto

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