THE HOLY FLESH

Origen: U.K.

Formados: 2019

Estilo: Black metal, post rock

Temática: Ocultismo

Enlaces: Bandcamp y facebook

Miembros:?

Discografía:

• Emissary and Vessel CD 2020
• The Holy Flesh / Merger Remnant Split 2022
• Herald and Adversary CD 2023

EMISSARY AND VESSEL (2020)

Carta de presentación en forma de álbum completo para esta enigmática one man band? inglesa que nos ofrece ocho temas. Hay que reconocer que la primera impresión al comenzer el álbum es un tanto desconcertante, pues el ritmo se mantinne en un tono constante y parece que los temas no acaban de arrancar, sin embargo al poco comienzas a apreciar el reguero de buenos riffs solapadas en capas que acompañan a la composiciones y las voces acaban por atraerte hacia el lado oscuro y enfermeizo. Si que es cierto, que no estamos ante un álbum rápido ni directo, la agresividad se encuentra encerrada en un segundo plano, pero hay que reconocer el enerme trabajo realizado para trasladarnos hacia terrenos ocultistas, la música funciona como un mantra y esa primera impresión de intimismo y melódia, esconde mucha frialdad y acaba por funionar como una obra ritualista. No podemos pasar por alto que las inlfuencias del rock ocultista de grandes desarrollos e influencias post también juega un papel importante en el conjunto de este álbum qye aun siendo black, se sustenta en estas influencias de sonidos más clásicos y viene a regenerar de una forma diferente el vacío de nuevas bandas son un enfoque tan logrado del ocultismo. (7,7)

Caligari Records

1. Emissary I 03:56

  On his head the mark of life in death

For those who have eyes to see

For those who find without looking

The offspring of chaos

Fallen from the tree of the unborn

Spreading the black seed

Of final victory

Oh, holy flesh

From your ashes We shall nourish our breed

And through the purifying fire of Nigredo

We shall forever gaze into the deep

On our head the mark of death in life

For those who seek the light of obumbration

For the keepers of the flame

2. Emissary II 06:43

There’s no conscience but I The vulgar sun shining at its adverse zenith Proceeding from the centre Of your parasitic realm’s involution Burning from the ruins of your crumbling empire Never setting Eternally radiating There’s no truth but I The black light collapsing Into the ultimate singularity Incarnating the triumph of flesh Over the corpses of your failures Crushing the nine gates Perpetually devouring There’s no god but I BOTH EYES OPEN! Blood spills from the calix’ paten The mouth opens Schichirion, Necheshirion The night opens…  

3. Emissary III 03:50

This world must be read backwards

With infernal insanity

And the profanity of self aspiration

Nothing left to chance

What once was shall lead the way

For the past is the key

And the body is the path

To what should have been

This world you know must be set ablaze

To guide the journey to the nightside of awareness

And the dark substrate of existence

Nothing left to chance

Our will shall lead the way

For the past is the key

And the body is the path

To what should have been

4. Emissary IV 04:34

Here a new real is born and another dies

An agonising shadow consumed at last

Hear the shallow breath of this arid sphere

Standing at the centre of an empty horizon

Spinning against time and dictatorship of judgement

Here a new era is dawning

Built on the bleached bones of the purified

Giving way to the total putrfaction of the soul consuming itself

Leaving only the unspoiled remains of an ageless lucid dream

Here the survivors will join the unborn

Feasting in unending joy

Spinning the weel of beginningless time

All in one

One in all

5. Vessel I 06:31

She hums beyond the lies of doubt She sings with lascivious hunger Blood flowing like volcanic lava To break the cycle of life To wipe the slate clean Rebirth! Heed her call Seek her out and dissolve back to the darkness you breed In her redness, time and will defy In her ecstasy, universes imploding back to nought She hums beyond the flame pulling us inward She sings in serpentine fluctuations To reconcile past and future To pierce the cosmic billows Universes imploding back to naught! 

6. Vessel II 07:26

  And now chaos will be your robe

Its splendour will be your essence

May the night open its jaws

And annihilate your enemies

May the gardens of insanity spread open

And lead your path to the truth therein

Wanderers from the light

Dwellers in the abyss

Forget your birth names

And take on the innocence of the flesh in full

And may you eradicate all lies

And may you lurk in the unknown

And may you face the draught of the spirit

While you become the ultimate void

7. Vessel III 03:10

  “The night is your shroud, dark goddess, the eye is your womb.

We enter through the gate and become one with your being.

Full is emptiness, silence speaks and darkness is light.

The Star shines in the sea and waves follow in the steps of the Dragon.”

8. Vessel IV 05:56

From tomb to womb

In rapid successions

The common man is no more

Layer by layer, all gone

Submit to the new light

The eternal sculptor of the form

Beyond the margins of the passing time

We can now see thought the earthly limitations

The clouds of Nigredo

And the absurdities of the matter

It takes sacrifice to win the eternity

From womb to tomb

No escaping

Submit, forget, incinerate the ego

To acquire a treasure and call it your own

  42:06

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