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A Senseless Procession

by Vale

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bmurator US Atmospheric Black Metal / Post-Rock. I am late here - too much fantastic music & not enough time... :) A one man, V., project, as Yoma says this is not really metal in many places but it is still very emotional & emotive music on many levels. I find the entire album a gem & I keep coming back to it! Highly recommended!!!
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fbrc_clrt Effortlessly patrols the rainbow between dark folk and black metal
Sprigs is a pure gem, musically and lyrically Favorite track: Sprigs.
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DeathSeeker Release is brilliant. A stunning 40 min that will take you on a journey as you let your mind go.
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YomaBarr I wouldn't call this metal anymore, not even post-. But this is like nightly rain in April. And it's mid April and it's raining outside and everything's gone green.
Thanks for the lyrics.
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Dave Aftandilian Promises to be a powerful soundtrack for the blackening of Spring, with beautifully poetic lyrics.
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1.
Parturition 10:35
Where does the love of a mother begin If not at the start? When mother nature planted stars, A sea of light to help us dream at night. And when does her mourning start, When she sees us tearing down our kin And tearing out her gardens? Was the birth worth the heartache? Made in the image of God, tainted by the devil. It's like we're all he's touched. For nature's children are blameless, Are they not more like God? I come from the shadow of death. I bear witness to monuments of ire. Where does the love of a mother end? Where is it that she dreams backwards? Toil, wither, beg. Burn beneath the sun. Born that man May be a god. Mother is in pain. Earth whimpers softly. A child cries To leave this world. A sea of light To help us dream at night. Suns burning out To feed our lustful plague. Mother is in pain. Earth whimpers softly. A child cries To leave this world. A sea of light To help us dream at night. Sons burning out To feed our helpless line of descent.
2.
Monadic 13:35
I'm tired of blaming A margin of error On outcomes predestined, Of faults that are collective. An orchard was sewn, Irrigated in segregation. I'm tired of living Like the cause is not of the heart. We receive the blessing of selfishness: From the forked tongue, To the clean hands, To the soured lips, To the nakedness of age. I've built a dam around me To stop my empathy From spilling down to nowhere, Like those who came before. Each day it cracks a hairline, Gets resealed like a fault line. I've molded this seclusion Like I'm better off alone. Coerced into silence Because we're tired of screaming To a gull that will one day Just turn and fly south. Our flock is not dying, They're just losing interest. So I just stop speaking And build up this dam. At the end of days We'll forget our friends. There is nothing like Sweet eternal life.
3.
Sprigs 02:53
The way that two rivers run: They serpentine in and out of me. And in the center there's a bank Where the dead live, so gleefully, Embracing all of life's failings And the beauty that is letting go. Sending off sprigs, watching them float.
4.
Carnation 05:43
Like a carnation in acid Failing to give up it's life. Contorted and rotting from inside, My blood runs bright pink in your light. Veil of a dim pulsing lustre Submerging my face in a dithering cascade. My heart is not well and it's soaking up tar Just to hope that you'll discard it gently. Am I spent? Is there no pigment left to color you? Pale like motherhood. Will I refind what once helped to mend you? Is it lost?
5.
Mother 08:40
I've wanted to feel for so long, I forgot what it was like To have it hit like tidal waves. Thoughts that don't let me sleep Pummel the walls of my skull, Wear me down ‘til I'm nothing. I've been thinking too much again. I've been dreaming too much again. How can I love if I don't love myself? How can I be loved? How could I ever be loved? Yet I'm loved.

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Written and recorded from Spring 2021 to Fall 2022.

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released April 14, 2023

Instruments, vocals, and mix by V.
Mastering by Jordan Howells.
Cover art by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme.

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