DROWNING THE LIGHT

FROM THE ABYSS (2015)

Nueva entrega en la prolífica carrera de la banda que como principal novedad con anteriores obras intenta abandonar un tanto el tono depresivo para adentrarse en terrenos más épicos y medievales, pero sin perder un ápice de crudeza y oscuridad. "From the Abyss" es un álbum extenso, más de una hora de duración, que permite a Azgorh adentrarse en terrenos más progresivos en su música e ir evolucionando los temas de forma distinta. Las guitarras afiladas y crudas siguen estando presentes, así como las voces gélidas y rasgadas como marca personal de la banda, pero la inclusión de unos sutiles teclados, presentes en mayor o menor medida en casi todos los temas, logran dotar a la música de una mayor épica y enfoque medieval, sin lugar a dudas en clara referencia a bandas como Satyricon en sus inicios, aunque el tono depresivo que siempre a caracterizado a Drowning the Light no se a perdido del todo. Estamos ante un álbum extenso, que muestra a una banda en proceso de cierta evolución, un álbum que merece ser apreciado como un todo y que en cuanto a sonido se adentra en el sonido medieval y crudo del black escnadinavo de comienzos de los noventa. (8,1).

Dark adversary productions

1. From Old Mountains to Lost Seas 02:41  instrumental

2. Drink the Blood of the Sun (Varcolaci Awakens) 04:18   

As a thread is spun in the darkness by a forgotten witch

a bridge between planes and a portal through the cosmos unfolds!

In the skin of a wolf

On the wings of a ghost

Drain the essence of the moon

Drink the blood of the sun

As the heavenly bodies drip from the crimson thirst

and through the severed astral veil the Varcolaci returns!

Light a red candle before they close

Inhale the jasmine smoke

Let it all melt away and take flight, to their dismay

Absorb the feeling of pride inside, before leaving your earthly side

Whether in the form of a beautiful flowing phantom

or a ghastly wraith

Open your wolvish maw and drain the world of it's cursed soul!

3. Below the Horizon He Stalks 05:38

Injecting venom into the stream where the well thinking pigs drink As a serpent coiled around its prey Filling the blood stream with deathly toxin Tightening, restricting as the veins blacken Yet entranced by Apeps eyes To swallow the river of life and to bring chaos and strife Just below the horizon he stalks Waiting at dusk his whispers forked Then come dawn to strike the sun again Encircling the world in an eternal flame And in the end, our destiny like scales to be shed As the tail is released and we fall towards oblivion The light dies as worlds collide enraptured by the forbidden As the tale is told the strong crawl out from the darkest hole The serpent once again locks its jaws regeneration to behold. 

4. From the Abyss 06:48

A swirling tempest above

tearing asunder the clouds

The fabric of existence

torn and ripped yet immortal

As i stood at the edge of time

I watched a world in decline

Creating light through Lucifers eye

and to escape from deaths reaping scythe

And from the abyss we emerge

Heavy hearted and yearning

For that dawn that will never come

We are the nocturnal children, nights unholy sons

A new uprising of dark power

For we have tasted the end

But a Promethean flame

is lit in the heart and mind

To embrace the new tide.

5. Secrets of the Darkest Spells 04:43

A starry endless night of grief

An eternal sea of mindless sheep

A void in life one can't deny

Longing for the heavens to cry

A spirit corroded and corrupted

Not bound to your morals and codes

Sleepless nights studying the dark arts

To forge a path in hate and death

To know the secrets of the darkest spells

To master the knowledge of the ancient ones

To embrace the curse of endless nights

To spit in the face of god

and to set the heavens ablaze

Turning their light to ashes

The only phoenix from these ruins - death!

A now reborn world free and unfettered

A once lost beauty returns and flourishes

Religious heads on pikes

Their fall will not be mourned.

6. Cursed Voyage 06:22

  Through the morning fog

leaving the port behind

A cursed voyage sets sail

Across the seven seas she goes

towards the unknown

Through mist and tidal fury

A watery tomb enthroned

Those on deck

yearn for promised shores

In gallows below

Exhausted to the core

And from the rocks a melody mocks as they hear the sirens call

Luring sailors to their deaths are these angelic whores

The captain screams as the harpies gleam proud of their devilish work

A dozen men, drowned and submerged, and then a dozen more

Escaping one peril only leads to another

and soon they became one with the fog

Lost, forgotten,and cursed for eternity.

7. Apparitions in the Distant Woodlands 01:06  instrumental

8. Rise! Under Satans Mighty Horns 05:38

  And from a ruined kingdom we RISE!

As disciples of the shadows - we rise

Storming the gates of religious filth - their demise

Like an epidemic of utter darkness - we rise

Being swept away by holocaust winds - their holy lies

And through darkness we find enlightenment

Like an epidemic of utter darkness - we rise

Being swept away in black smoke - their holy lies

A plague of blackness

In desert sands

filth of the land

and nailed to the cross

The king of lies

whom we despise

his end is not a loss

For its never to late

to change our fate

and rise above the rest

For on this hour

this empires ours

to pass our final test

In the darkest night

we see true light

Under Satans mighty horns

the power of our plight.

9. The Return of Medieval Sorrow 06:01

  In a crumbled city

of forgotten dreams and lost hope

Overgrown ruins

gilded in shadow and cloaked

This decaying glory

A once prosperous land

To the dead hearted

They were never my clan

The return of medieval sorrow

Fortify your own soul

Know the power of the flesh

Expand your deepest thoughts

and drown the weakness

We bleed our own path - unto glory

We cut the ley lines of the new millennium

Fill them from your veins

and let the sanguine

feed the earth

It is now ours! And they will lament!

The return of medieval sorrow.

10. Despoiler of the World We Know 03:55

I am the spear in the side of christ

I am all you fear and spite

The flame that ignites your feeble church

The crushing defeat that you makes you hurt

I am the black smoke in the air

I am death and despair

The immortal spirit of the past

The one who makes you the last

Heresy! Bringer of the old cold

Heresy! Despoiler of the world we know.

11. Sic Itur ad Astra 05:42

Cloaked in the shadows of the dead and robed in the skin of damnation Black sun and black moon The power of will, the power of flesh Ordo ater anguis Luceat lux vestra Sine metu Sic itur ad astra Lux ex tenebris Mors omnibus The standard bearer of plague and lust The illuminated eye opens Luciferi Lux Mea Est Sic itur ad astra

12. The Inverted Ascension 08:55

The absolute absence of light

is not to be found above but below.

In a world hidden from our sight

beneath the calm surface of the sea.

With awe does man look upward

to the myriad of stars in the sky.

While he trembles in silent fear

of the horrors lurking under his feet.

Maelstroms in the bottomless depths

echo with murmurs of the Ancient Ones.

From deep down they call your name

tempting you to join them in their realm.

Be baptized with the primordial waters

let them wash off the stench of humanity.

Ascend deeper, and rise farther down,

until the darkness and you become One.

13. Sinking into the Void 03:20  instrumental

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