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A Portrait Of Sacrificial Scars

by Deadspace

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Доберман Сатз
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Доберман Сатз Powerful and full of atmosphere. Great album. The shrieks are painful, but well executed.
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pissballfartking23 The opening track is powerful and dynamic. Then the second track comes in & the ones following. You get that melancholy & you really feel it. With those songs, you experience the power like the intro, but they will always pull you back to the emotional side. The album finishes with a track holding both power and melancholy, all fading into foggy nothingness. Similar to how you would imagine it feels to experience death.

This album is the essence of life & it's nothing like I have heard before. Favorite track: Beg For Death In Absurdum.
H.L.
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H.L. I missed this beautifuk masterpiece for almost two years and I am happy that I finally closed this gap. It took me only until the second track "Beg for Death in Absurdum" to do it. Such soulful and grand black metal is rare but always a confirmation why black metal can be the most intensive, magical and emotional music style out there. Although the mentioned track is outstanding, the rest of the epic album is also extremely strong without any weak moments. Favorite track: Beg For Death In Absurdum.
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1.
Finale 08:02
Something that I could never hold This calling, the essence of my sorrow The undertow The misery of I and all The fading life I knew Death: I had forgotten Break my bones and watch me shiver Endurance is the only path Each moment squandered In light of sickest mourning With empty hearts and pockets full of stifled hope A proclamation to suffer A proclamation to suffer alone The great fireball Is hidden in final eclipse The serpents constrict us now And we serve in horror Die Menscheit wurde zur Geisel der Hoffnungslosigkeit Der Niedergang der Tugend Das Zerbröckeln von Idealen in einer Welt, die Ihrer Herrlichkeit beraubt ist., Ist Beharrlichkeit der einzige Weg Break my bones and watch me shiver Endurance is the only path End my longing Erase all signs of life Break my bones and watch me shiver Endurance is the only path
2.
A touch too violent I lay bittersweet Reaching upwards, outwards for death To grasp what kills me Etch it into shedding flesh This is no place for comfort This is no place for human life I beg for death in absurdum Torturing my fragile mind Swallow glass And I breathe my last silent breath Swallow hope Remember me through callous stone Drowning in the sickest tears Clouds strangle dreams, repress hope
3.
Instrumental
4.
That violent morning froze my heart And cruel memories were vanquished Like silver snow dissolved in sorrow This tranquillity becomes all I know Bury me alive and I’ll return again They only want to see me die And I have died a thousand times And endured agony they could only dream Toxic blood-work forced through my veins I am clawing and writhing in mortal pains Take my hand in silent oath These quaking nightmares haunt us both Nichts ist unisono Nichts ist einer Rettung wert, wenn nicht der Eigenwille existiert Und so wandere ich hinfort in die Wüstenei In die Wildnis Dress me in my burial shroud As I parade through the streets A portrait of sacrificial scars For we have risen to the stars
5.
It calls me in the night A calling to the dark Or a fear of the end All hear my final words A pilgrimage, to find myself in blackened caves To reminisce in ancient graves, like whispers in the wind I open my eyes to nightfall Every day I failed to hold Take me into your black fold And pull me into dusk Grind me into dust Stab me in the heart and set my soul alight Stab me in the heart and set my soul alight The ocean drags the cursed moon Below the drowning tide I swallowed. The cursed moon I follow, Enveloped by light. We dance naked in the moonlight Around hollowed, cracked skulls The sombre song of the silver nightbird The only tune that sings The world swallowed in nightfire And ecstasy to mourn
6.
I breathe fire that warms your squeezing heart Sharpened steel slides through my torso Chains pull taught, choking life Sucking poisoned air While the only sunlight cuts my rind Slowly inside I rot and quiver While you smile, driving needles through my mind Never before have I kissed the swollen hand Broken from all the beatings I’d endured I am a slave to you, not by choice but in calling Screaming inside for distant reprieve Excuse me as I exit my hopeless body Through flesh-wounds deeper than I once thought Abandon life that I once wrought
7.
Fatigue 04:41
The wind blows through my hollow skull Like knives penetrating breaking wounds The scorching of the bastard sun A golden glow upon my olden scales And now I know That I am not alone I am never alone The empty sketches of the past I strike a match and set it alight For I have moved on at last When winter comes To wash the pain away I’ll strike a match and set it all ablaze
8.
Nimble bodies intertwined in courtship Serpents await at the gates With open jaws and mangled fangs I can see the glowing, yellow eyes in the dark A shrill hissing, deep in my minds eye Should persuade me of retreat But I must go the crooked mile to cut my teeth To find myself at the river mouth This impenetrable heart of darkness A savage, hollow, empty dream Where babies are drowned before their mothers, Restrained by umbilical nooses The father’s seed is dying fast Every mortal being, alone in the wild With aching arms and swollen hearts Fighting a losing battle Who will be the better man? A muscular primitive beast An abstract distortion of virtue A complete abortion of value

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released March 2, 2020

Recorded at Oblivion Studios
Drums engineered at Sumo Sound Studios by Fraser Cringle
Orchestrated, mixed and mastered by Dèhà
Cover artwork by S Caedes
Guest vocals on track 5 by Tim Yatras

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