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Domus Mysterium

by Slaegt

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Helhest
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Helhest The way that Slægt hit me when I first listened to "Beautiful and Damned" was totally unexpected, and I felt exactly the same about this album. The level of songwriting is some stakes higher now and the way that the solos, the arpeggios and the chords happily marry with each other results in an outstanding proof of quality. Slægt own their sound and are not afraid to explore it, within certain boundaries. The songs Domus Mysterium and The Tower are but examples of excelling at heaviness.
James Aldridge
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James Aldridge The best metal album of 2017. A rollercoaster of heaviness that twists and turns in unexpected ways and it is curiously uplifting.
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In wounds of lost children In ashes of love Rubedo emanates In chambers above A sense of fulfillment Potent despair Possessed by dead longing I will take my share Unaware of what might be lost Gazing out of time Into orbs, sublime I smell blood Bleeding endlessly Cut by cut I will look into Her eyes Without fear or any pride Down I’ll go… As conquerors wither As death carries on A language forgotten Will rise from beyond And fluids of iron begin to define The birth of a wisdom That carries the sign Of my crime And the lies once told To my infant ear Yet, I was never there I smell blood As I fade away Cut by cut I will look into Her eyes And Her violent heart in the dark Into night… In blighted devotion In burning divides A hunger of oceans Will swallow the tides Inside my veins Making wings out of chains.
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Oh, to be turned into a canvas That the Self can paint upon And to be loved to death by fire And fevers that strangle the sun Oh, I have seen my virginal image In visions imposed through will And I have bludgeoned that inert baby And poisoned all that lay still ”I hold the keys to the portals of 10 Where open wounds meet their end Yet, I am no leader, parent nor friend Until you become me I am Egovore” Oh, to be placed upon an altar At the fervent core of the soul And to give in to impulsive desires And still be in total control Oh, I will howl with the zest of a bastard To conceive the rise of my fall And though my voice will be buried in ruins Through the ages you’ll hear my call ”I will bring death to the child in your heart That is my purpose, such is my art Yes, you will languish and be torn apart Let go and adore me I am Egovore” Drown in scalding soil Ascend in constant toil Ride the emptiness Kings fall at my behest Savage lovers I behold Open wide, but still untold Underneath a hungry glare Lies a cherub, unaware And as this petal is plucked And as the essence is sucked I’ll wield this unearthed blade.
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As I focused all my attention towards my inner darkness, to meet it, get to know it and fall in love with it, a pulsating beacon of cold love and warm hate greeted me with the joy of recognition and seduced me to keep staring into the flame at the center of its body, and once the silence turned to light I found myself eye to eye with the eye of the Devil.
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Further down through the night On a carriage of phantoms Beyond the trappings of light At depths none can fathom A castle drenched in shadows Before the lamp of the Eye Where the grudge in the marrow Will reach its peak as it dies Rise up in the Tower Climb high as they cower Ascend into glory With passionate fury The throes of the spirit Will carry the strain From dead womb To living tomb Further up through the structure With a burden of grand fire Into a selfmade rapture That none will desire An act of mad liberation Inside the lamp of the Eye That like a pure revelation Is neither a truth or a lie Fall down from the Tower Plunge deep as they cower And dive into glory With passionate fury The crown of the spirit Is worshipped through pain From dead womb To living tomb I’ll worship the Tower I’ll maim and devour The sadness and glory Of passionate fury.
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Ye vermin of stars! Defiling my wars In ecstasy I will come for thee I will desecrate What is left for me Ye fathers Ye sons Why should you Sit on my throne? And reap What I have sown? I will haunt your hunt I will cut you down You are too gaunt To wear this crown That shines in the dark Remember These slurs! This wasted time It all blurs The gravity of your crime In reverie I will murder thee I will place a veil Upon your mystery These myths These tales Just another step on my journey Just another nail in your coffin I have embellished my tilth Far away from your filth I have begun at the end I have transgressed with intent Remember I am the mare in the night The water in your eyes Will never put out the fire in mine.
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Thrust into blindness Cut off from the bleeding light Deceived by false "darkness" Into obeying and doing what's "right" I long for the furnace The soothing pyre of truth That drips through the surface And spits at the "splendour" of youth Anointed by eleven horns Invoked by a house That has no walls Long did I linger Inside this sentient jail But clues were deciphered Black blood was poured through the veil Venom now ripens The fruits of the tree on my grave And the malignant hallucination Shall know I'm no longer a slave Caressed by a morning star Evoked by the ones That won't build halls This timeless bastion Has called me home I'll heed their arson In secrets roam Across the threshold Towards the door I'll raze my blindfold Become one with the core Praise the madness The plundering heart That sings of ashes And worlds torn apart Empty Fulfilling Not many Are willing To enter These chambers And utter The answers Domus Mysterium Welcome home.

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released May 5, 2017

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Heavy metal with a blackened spirit from Copenhagen, Denmark since 2011.

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