domingo, 6 de febrero de 2022

WORMWOOD

 


Origen: Suecia, Estocolmo.

Formados: 2014

Estilo: Black melódico

Temática: Anticristianismo, cosmos, mitología nórdica y naturaleza.

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Miembros:

  • J.Engström Guitarra
  • Nine Voces
  • Oscar Tornborg Bajo
  • T.Rydsheim Guitarra
Discografía:

  • The Void: Stories from the Whispering Well EP 2015  
  • Ghostlands: Wounds from a Bleeding Earth CD 2017
  • Nattarvet CD 2019
  • Arkivet CD 2021
  • The Plague Tapes - Live Studio Preformance Recording Directo 2022
  • The Star CD 2024

ARKIVET (2021)
El tercer trabajo de los suecos se erige como epitafio de la destrucción del planeta a manos del ser humano, empleando para su cometido un black metal de corte melódico que muchas veces transita por terrenos alejados de la vertiente más extrema del género. En líneas generales el sustento y parte fundamental de la música se mantiene firme en cuanto a un sonido de guitarra áspera y cruda con inciso también de una batería potente, todo ello podríamos decir que de influencia clásica si por estas influencias entendemos el black escandinavo de los noventa. Sin embargo Wormwood viene dando muestras de ser capaces de conjugar diferentes influencias y estilos en su propuestas y entre estas influencias destacaría dos por encima de todas por la capacidad de llevar su sonido a otros terrenos. Por un lado tenemos un regusto folk y de música tradicional que se va colando sutilmente en todas las composiciones logrando que su música tenga tanto un carácter melódico, más trascendente y por que no cercano. Por otro lado tenemos mucha estructuras que recuerdan a sonido de rock clásico tanto en secciones de guitarra como en el fluir de las composiciones, con afilados riffs y secciones casi que progresivas, con nutridos cambios de ritmo. Las voces mantienen un tono también crudo y agresivo, pero saben sumergir al oyente también en secciones más íntimas y claras, cuando el ritmo se desacelera y la intensidad retrocede para sumergirnos en ambientes mucho más reflexivos. El tono general del álbum es de lograr una ambientación opresiva y de desolación perfectamente lograda tanto por el tono de la voces, demoledoras cuando la intensidad aumenta, como el las secciones más lentas en donde nos vemos sumidos en un pozo de desazón y tristeza. (8,3).



1. The Archive 07:09
  Our stories won't be written with ink and mirth
But carved in flesh and the soul of the earth
The whispers of the wind will cease to be
All we hear is the wailing of the oceans plea

If life by the miracle of death will rise again
When our monuments lay in ruins, we're the ones to blame
As the last rays of the dying daylight fade
Remember that our perseverance was in vain

The shrunken corpses of our loved ones are the heirlooms we leave for no one to witness
- Are we the creators of an avoidable end, or are we the parasites that are destined to fail?

A final wish to preserve our memories
One last breath, One last regret
And with this final message to the future we'll never see
A final wish to preserve our memories
Man deserves to die

Crack the ribcage of Gaia
Expose the rot which is us
We poisoned the well a millennia ago
And forced everyone to drink
Now let us drown
Breath in and forget
The fault that which is us
We are the ghosts of the past
Remembered by the few who last

Man deserves to die....
2. Overgrowth 05:17
The vines slither skywards, engulfing our tombs of glass A catholic woodland expanding over our prisons of rust And you could see the signs, why were we left behind We have now entered the age of nature's reign A hatework only death remains The grand overgrowth reclaiming what was hers An everlasting emptiness from mankind Pythogenesis made by human pride The last fading embers of our time Laydown the overstayed meaningless bodies On soil we venerated since the dawn of time Swallow this unworthy planet The age of nature's reign A verdant cataclysm sprouting out life The echoes roaring throughout the night Extinguish starlight does mean no new tomorrow A void is left from this quarry we called home The grand overgrowth reclaiming what was hers An everlasting emptiness from mankind Pythogenesis made by human pride The last fading embers of our time The grand overgrowth reclaiming what was hers An everlasting emptiness from mankind Pythogenesis made by human pride The last fading embers of our time   
3. End of Message 06:32
Once we were interwoven with flesh and birch Recreating hope by unearthing human dirt But stories passed on swift by the ones who saw Indifferent twinkles in the night skies maw A solitude so immense even my shadow died This vermin-like existence we praised for million nights Scavenging the last indignity on potter's fields Urging the end to come, eliminate, delete and uncreate Earth was our only vessel Our final message sent into the black unknown Earth was our only vessel Our final message like dust turned into stone Human presence is a lineage of disease Our abattoir became an open casket funeral Earth was our only vessel Our final message sent into the black unknown Earth was our only vessel Our final message like dust turned into stone From nothing we became My star didn't bring promise and faith Recreating doubt by celebrating the end My soul was crushed but I didn't die I was reborn, I was reborn from the ashes from before And from malignant soil, no evergreen shall grow But corruption from failed visionaries And from my ashes, no life will sprout But death in memory of the failure of humankind  
4. My Northern Heart 06:26
  I return to see the oak of my youth
To see the roots swallow her ossuary
The inlet, the strait and the pristine lake
My world in past, crestfallen days

The ever-swaying fields of perennial growth
Like walking across the rainbow bridge
A deep-rooted melancholy within ourselves
Yet I smile in reminiscence of that old song

Unchangeable zeal
Everlasting strife

My soul is formed
by the hands of gods
My heart is forged
in the heart of stars

My soul will shine
through every night
My beloved scar
My northern heart

As the midnight sun caresses my complexion
Njord's gentle breath leads the way
Through paths less known and beyond
Again I behold such immaculate sight

With every passing of the gift of seasons
Comes the lights from the ones who passed
Transfixed by their dance of death
Wherein remembrance dwell

Unchangeable zeal
Everlasting strife
My soul is formed
by the hands of gods
My heart is forged
in the heart of stars

My soul will shine
through every night
My beloved scar
My northern hea
5. Ensamheten 05:44
  Du bleka höga land av kristall
Ack dina frusna mörka vatten
Med ursinnig köld som min själ har tatt
Jag blöder mig genom natten

Under spirade stjärnbanér, jag är slukad av rymd
Du och jag bär en livstid av sorg som tyngd

Långa äro nätterna mina - jag vilar under döda träd
Blå tunga mörka drömmar, god natt du forna hem
Och du är sjuk, jag är tom
Ja, jag är tom, så jävla tom inuti

Mitt nedärvda vemod från folket bortom solen
Mitt vurm för min hembygd till den yttersta domen
Så min sista gärning i detta korta liv
Deras kroppa skall skändas, statsmaktens svin

Då slocknade hela svenska ätten, då slocknade hela människosläkten
En tystnad klädd i vindens sus, då slocknade världens sista strimma ljus

Så min sista gärning i detta liv, ett bokslut för vår becksvarta tid
Snart slocknar allt som någonsin fanns i förnekelsens blödande dekadans

Efter det absoluta förfallet
Ensamt och kallt ligger där landet
Längst upp på en nattsvart jord
Frostens hemvist i karga Nord

Må jag vittra i fosterjord
Som i en urna med stoftet och askan från oss
Vi var på höjden av våra levnadsår
VI står på branten med flammande dödsdekor
6. The Slow Drown 06:29
 A deafening silence
Shrieking without a mouth
A cry without help
The slow drown begins

As if forever drowning without dying
Gasping for air...
Back then a dreamland devoid of noise
But now a nightmare, a void of noise

The burden of life is pulling you down
The resource called life is finite
Twisting and turning and longing to die
Repetition of phrases decay of the mind
Decay of the mind

What was I, is now lost
A reflection of a stranger

It is gone - Wake up in your lonely husk
Back to the soma you despise
This empty defeat, so valiant
An elegy lost in time

Could I explain the beauty of nothingness?
I would sing my song till the end of time
But here I am in a prison without walls
Lead me beyond the sea of fog

Solace and bliss in a lifetime of pain
The autumn leaves starts to molder
Enter the domain of twilight
Monumental loneliness

Withering away, alone and forgotten
This house leveled by desolation
An unmarked grave doomed to obscurity
An elegy lost to timeless winds
7. The Gentle Touch of Humanity 09:07
  Through broken memories and mental draughts
Once a beautiful land made of blood and thoughts
I was taught to believe that Sirius was the way
But on my broken knees I was led astray

And then I saw the gentle touch of humanity

I stood in its glowing shadow
We are the architects of fate
In pure judgment and awe
We burn what we create

And then I saw the gentle touch of humanity
Destroying the future and raping the past
Just to feed our own insanity

Skywards pillars of ruins
Bleeding blind juries of fury
Main lined self-made virus
And then there was silence

A seething undeniable hatred and loss of words
The lines between life and death are blurred
With every new burst of life and convalescence
We have drained our collective souls of its essence

And from soil I came, in iron raised
In resistance, in redemption, non serviam
A pure supernova of life in constant toil
And now I am complete, leaving this mortal coil
  46:44  





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