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Tis'forundal
03:03
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TIS’FORUNDAL
Blood of Mountains
Accepts sacrifice
with insouciance
Coruscating vapors stir
to obscure its turgid power
Judgement by a blind hand
Without malice or mercy
Blood of the Mountain
Swallows all sound
Glinting crimson like fire
Stained with the sweat of iron
Cuts a visceral gash in the rock
Preparing to receive
Buries the worthy
Buries their worth
No cleansing stream
Cold womb of death
Steals the last breath
Swelling its banks
with countless souls
thus, Tis’forundal feeds
Never finding rest
Doomed to wander
All consumed by hunger
Raging out to the sea
Bloated with effluvium
Eager to disgorge and be clean
Tis’forundal screams on
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The Witness
03:58
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THE WITNESS
Bloodless, nameless, faceless, face this
Boundless, weightless, sleepless, witness
Run or stand, you will leave empty handed
All or some, you will leave with none
All begins with a breath and a word
Mark my breath and my word and prepare
Take these images and sleep
Let them sink deep
Like a ship becomes the sea
When it sinks
Lustful crimson creatures limned in pain
Break from fate - from every heavy chain
Buried under a red blanket
Turned to granite
Under the thrall of winter’s ire
Bitter soul with a merciless desire
Best in the end to just give in
again and again and again…
Run or stand, you will leave empty handed
All or some, you will leave with none
When the fog begins to clear
No one’s here
Just a whisper of your faith
and your fear
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Her Nacreous Eye
04:13
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HER NACREOUS EYE
Her shrouded head - skeletal, drawn
Above shoulders hunched with insult
She drifts in and out of realms
Scanning with a bitter regard
Her nacreous eye turns upon a barrow
Drawn by an aberrant sound
Amorous ramblings within
Belie madness long festering
Her refulgent eye pierces the barrow
To find a ghostly form
In rapt communion
With itself
Within the nomad spirit
Acrid, caustic envy
Unfurls until it fills her
And her eye turns gelid
Advancing on the barrow
The jealous shade reaches through
Moss, earth, rocks
And rotting wool
There is no power that will defend
Fate is indifferent or disgusted
She grasps the raving ghost
Tears it from its rapture
Eagerly anticipating misery
Briefly uniting in suffering
The frantic soul clings (to its remains)
But is quickly dispensed (to another plane)
Beneath her shroud
The spiteful wanderer preens
Her nacreous eye
Turns again to the barrow
And she slips inside
With a sloe smile
Her nacreous eye
Turns again to the barrow
And she slips inside
In a pathetic mimicry of joy
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Lividus Portland, Oregon
Formed in 2017 by vocalist Uta Plotkin (Witch Mountain) and bassist Connie Wang (At the Seams), Lividus is a metal band hard to define. Harsh and soaring vocals combine with unexpected rhythms and melodic riffs to form a unique brand of Portland metal. With Rob Shaffer on guitar (Dark Castle) and Pierce Williams on drums (Skeletal Remains), Lividus is a technical, unstoppable force. ... more
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