MOON IN THE SCORPIO (1996)
Sinceramente creo que ninguna banda da black sinfónico jamás ha estado a la altura de poder ofrecer un álbum debut como este, incluso Limbonic Art deberían de considerar este álbum como la obra más inspirada de su trayectoria. "Moon in the Scorpio" tiene sus detractores, y son muchos, y motivos tampoco les falta, sobre todo si intentas comentar esta álbum como una obra de black metal, ya que prácticamente las guitarras ocupan un segundo plano en todas las composiciones, con una producción que acaba por enterrarlas entre capas de sintetizadores, y sobre todo por la música, alejada del todo que casi cualquier elemento metal para centrarse en las partes sinfónicas y épicas, incluso el hecho de contar con una bacteria programada le resta credibilidad entro los adeptos del género, sin embargo hoy en día es un hecho bastante corriente. Sin embargo "Moon in the Scorpio" hay que entenderlo y apreciarlo como un referente dentro del black sinfónico y una obra que pese a quien pese acabo por tener bastante importancia en el establecimiento y eclosión de la escena. Pero sin lugar a dudas dos elementos sobresalientes en este trabajo son las voces por una parte, muy bien trabajadas, en un segundo plano la mayoría de la veces y limitándose a gruñidos y gritos desgarrados que se intercalan con otras limpias y corales, tendiendo a un plano melancólico que se acrecienta en la ambientación, aspecto que seguramente todo el mundo coincidirá en es soberbio, místico, oscuro, frío y vacuo, trabajado una y mil veces a base de sintetizadores y teclados increíbles. (8,4).
1. Beneath the Burial Surface 13:42
The sky is darkening, soon the night befall
Righteously angels are weeping for my soul
All childhood dreams are soon to be lost
All innocence to be shattered
I am the fallen, from grace
Water from a thousand tears floats in streams
The feeling from a thousand years flow over me
As I once again return to the cemetery gate
I hear the dismal call from the hollow grave
My face is a river
See my eyes as they drown in black
My sacred doom and nemesis
Beneath the burial surface
To the final act of the immortal sin
I am lead by funeral winds
The life I leave to exchange with death
As the charlatan breeds with a dragons breath
Crossing the path to the world below
In a deathlike silence I chamber my soul
Ancient black, silent gloom
Cathedral bells are calling doom
In velvet dreams I am touched by sin
As night arrives in its purple shades
I drift across the shallow graves
The soul is streaming in the wind
Dark is the blessing that I am in
As darkness falls and the cold silence reigns
The nocturnal void shall become my faith
I'll transcend unto where shadows dance
A gentle kiss and like a bird I'll fly
Into the spheres of demise
Desireously in dark romance
2. Moon in the Scorpio 08:22
A mirror blank ocean above me decoy
Superior forces that heal or destroy
Take me astray into the moonlight above
Through twilight eyes as a specter shadow
It is a time of great light
And a great darkness
Can't you feel the present
Of its phenomenon
In an atmosphere supreme
Forces dwells in dormancy
The essence of its spirit is evil
As a curse upon thy name
Midnight is the shepherd of mysterious powers
And moving shadows in the corner of the eye
Moon's blazing intuition
Contains what death require
Cleanse the doors of perseption
See things appear in its true art
The cold hands of divinity
Will tear thy soul apart
Behold the sky above
when the moon is in the scorpio
A cold bleak light
3. Through Gleams of Death 07:58
The truth is hidden
In the cold dark water
In the drowning of procedure
The flesh gets slaughtered
Stripped from mortality
Into gleams of death
Torn from reality
Into terminal death
Death is eternal art
For whom that coldness reigns in heart
Stars of damnation
Blaze in my sight
I view the constellation
Beyond the dazzling light
From the dark aspects of life
And through gleams of death I'll rise
drift in departure
Into a new dimension
The black voyage
Into mega therion
The unseen passage
Into oblivion
Unconscious secrets
Consealed by time and space
No return or regrets
Descent through shallow haze
4. Overture: Nocturne 01:19
A grim darkened spirit / In a world of woe / Imprisoned evil beauty / From the cold depths below
5. In Mourning Mystique 14:41
[Overture: Nocturne]
Darkness
I seek the silence that you bring
Grant me thy sacred gifts
Bestow my soul thy offerings
I kneel in front of thy altar black
Let the ancient forces of nature rule
Take my blood as the sacrifice
A symbolic faithful bond of truth
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you
Tonight I enter into obscure dreams
In darkness shelter, I am unseen
With the esoteric gifts I possess
I bring damnation by enforcing death
In the beginning of the storm
Till come forth
An arrival into a twilight reverb
As just a shadow of the former self
Sorrow is my name
My true essence is pain
Hear the mourning of the mendacious
From the empty halls and shafts
Of false blinding light
Prepare the last sacrifice (on the altar)
In the temple of decay
Please spare me from the final agony of shame
I am evil from the moment of conception
6. Beyond the Candles Burning 07:08
I am a dark star rising on the raveous bleaky sky
A black diamond slunning so deep within the night
Maliciously I dwell in a bluish shaded beam
With a stonecold heart into the core of my being
Beyond the candles burning, beyond all minds eye
A vast emperic enigma awaits me as I die
In a graceful dance obscene, in a ring of fire
I obtain my majesty as flames caressing higher
Release my spirit, unleash my soul
From the darkest dungeon, oblivion call
In the phallic halls of ancient forlorn
A cold sanctuary in doom is born
Past, present and future are all the same
While the cosmic wheel is turning
But deaden dwells the eternal flame
Beyond the candles burning
7. Darkzone Martyrium 06:21
Dominus Spiritus Sathanas, Dominus Virtus
Dominus Spiritus Virtus Sathanas
Cruel are the eyes of the tyrant
And his heart is abounded to pain
In pleasures of agony and torture
As he begs to bleed in vain
I perish in my own desireI burn within lusting hate
Destructively the minds inspire
The soul to terminate
I ride the ancient overture
As life is torn astrayI glance the illusive spectrum
And all high that fades away
Black energies in the twilight space
Comes shieving through the shallow haze
Into darkness so impure divine
A bloodshed emotion to evil wine
Darkzone martyrium, endless vast mystrium
Give to me the blessing, when I meet my destiny
Ruin is all there is to feel, and the cold reality of steel
Life slips through your fingers
59:31
The is going to be available as gatefold, including a six sided (eight pages (Gatefold + Inlay)), sticked in inlay and a 12'' vinyl.
Tracklist:
Side A:
01. Wintergang (5:28)
02. Der Blätter Abschiedslied (5:56)
03. Northern Shore (Throndt Cover) (5:51)
Side B:
04. Lumi (5:16)
05. TBA (9:10)
Playtime: ~ 31min
