The Wheel, by Slaegt

The Wheel

by Slaegt

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1.	Being Born (Is Going Blind)	lyrics
I never asked to be thrown Into this strange hole Cut away from the void Night fell as soon as I arrived Serenity was deprived Shackles were deployed I was at my best At the time When no one Were watching I could see Eternally But now I’m trapped Inside this maze I have to find a way To turn this night to day Let go of mortal rope Knowledge coming back to me Can crush the fallacy That all you need is hope I used to be blessed Devoid of a shell That slowly is rotting But blindness Came over me A massive effort Can bring me home I have always known That I don’t belong here Ordeals have shown I should reside far from here Inside the living night In the time before breathing I didn’t know I was leaving But now I must return! I have to crush this maze With a certain prestige So I can venture back And take my place beneath.
2.	Masician	lyrics
Running in shadows  These pearls from beyond  Inviting like gallows  Breeding in the darkness  My staff of pure fire  Is ruled by no bonds  Like deaths sacred pyre  Gleaming in the darkness Newborn patterns  Of ancient blood  Boil in the ether  Lanterns are rising  Out from the mud  Dance as they smother Infernal embellishments  Attached with great care  Vibrates like a revenant  Altering the frame   My robes are of potent tears  Created by wonders  My aim shall be very clear  Like a burning flame Notes like a spell  Drawn from the well  Pass through my flesh  Death into life  Six and then five With shapeshifting lightning  In storms that embrace  The waves I am mining  Are waiting in grace From eleven  Down to five  Death is born  Birth shall die No rest when my work is done  But essence is freed  When threads are of gnosis spun  Merging love and hate  Now time will do the rest  Work for this cause  My will shall manifest  And harvest from the source.
3.	Perfume and Steel	lyrics
Listen! Something is coming your way Explorers Of every dark part of the map Peasants! Now you shall know Why you crawl in the light And tremble As you hold on so tight No more todays As they tear through the night Madness purveyors Of perfume and steel Beware! They will come for your throat Four princes Sworn by elevenfold oath Seduction Achieved through destruction Their storm is caress Their fire breathless Struggle Is their goddess of love No more todays As they fly through the skies Madness purveyors Providers of perfume and steel Golden scars Cover their skin With pride in their hearts They erupt from within Forever restless Forever wild Nescient boors! Your sleep shall be over As they burst through your doors These iron-willed rovers These froth covered lovers Nocturnal emissions Brings fuel to their flames Inquisitive visions Shall make you exclaim With darkness bred In immortal rites On moonless nights With blazing, crazed eyes Like doves of war They pierce and incise Forever this night As they tear you apart Madness purveyors Providers of perfume and steel.
4.	Citrinitas	lyrics
I saw two horses Eat each other last night Their eyes spoke of battles And love for their mutual spite A violent princess In yellow appeared from afar And as she came closer She fuelled their perpetual war She beckoned the former The latter dissolved into sighs Like tears of Sophia Its hopes became chained in the skies One hundred and eleven flowers Gilded enigmas Placed upon my eyes Shall calmly Turn into dust Show me How to Kill my gods A rat forged in fires Made waves that tore through the earth The dragon lay sleeping Awaiting a reason to birth Silence was broken Thunder in hearts came alive Six scales of passion In five upheavals arrived And tore It all apart To make Enduring art One hundred and eleven flowers Gilded enigmas Placed upon my eyes Will surely Turn into dust Lay me down On withered leaves Place the crown In chambers of thieves Before the day Begins to break.
5.	V.W.A	lyrics
Out of nothing Comes the keys To the house of mysteries Out of silence Comes the cries That shall put an end to all lies Transformation Is the goal To turn every diamond to coal Endless hours Spent alone Has distilled my true will from the unknown In visions Will is born In actions New shapes take form To go through wonders To split the night in two Into action Dreams must go When all friends have turned into foes In true balance Chaos dwells Knowing that heaven is hell Dedication And nothing else Must be at the core of every cell Obscure powers Can be yours Once the birth of three eyes is endured In visions Will was born In actions New shapes took form To bleed in silence To learn to love with hate To see in darkness To kill to live To shape and build your fate Vision Will Action Can open all doors.
6.	Gauntlet of Lovers	lyrics
Into this passage Treading this path From flower to flower Beheading with wrath Young prayers uprooted In soil raped at night My will has polluted These beings of light With nothing held sacred Indulgence in sight Leaflets stripped naked Stained by my bite A gauntlet of lovers Was shaped by my deeds Defined by my memories Abused by my needs One after another They've taken my bait But I am the punished Thus is my fate For each sapling severed I'll take one more cut When forests are burning All gates will be shut What feels like a palace Is merely a jail By acts that look callous I'll end this betrayal And so I must go Through the thorns And the blows This gauntlet of lovers Seems without end But I shall endure it This is no lament.
7.	The Wheel	lyrics
Dead, slow sand Fall from above Red, right hands Tied in cuffs Essence bound in forgery Corona-crowned, mad ovaries Potential kings Are seized in here In forward thrust In cyclic rape Demiurge lust Obsessive drape Sad existence parallel With every toll on demon bells Insane embrace To crush dead space “Hear me now! I know That time is no prison I made a vow To prove That clocks have no rhythm In my cradle Before this mess I saw beyond it I learned to express The inner works Of all in this room” The wheel has no limits The wheel has no end We’re all trapped within it We have to transcend Its forceful enslavement Of fireborn souls Before our flames Are swallowed whole Ancient mist Blinding gloom An iron fist Forced through the womb Pleasantries are but a myth Once you sail upon this ship Obey or fall Within these walls “Hear me now! You know That life is no prison Make a vow And learn That death is no schism In your cradle Before this stress You knew the way To manifest The inner world Of lifes sacred tomb” The wheel has no limits The wheel has no end I’m trapped within it I have to transcend Its forceful enslavement Of all I hold dear And break Its grinding gears “Do you know What to do?  Can you tell What you need?  Have you learned To push through?  And run from graves” I despise All you are All these lies And the stars And so this tale Begins again.

about

“The Wheel” is the followup to Slægt’s critically acclaimed album “Domus Mysterium” from 2017. Songwriting began shortly after the recording sessions of “Domus Mysterium” (autumn 2016) and concluded not long before the band entered the studio in March 2018. Once again, Ballade Studios in Copenhagen were chosen as the place, where these new concoctions should be put to tape. The studio is still driven by Copenhagen based musician, producer and studio owner Lasse Ballade. Since the recording of “Domus Mysterium” the studio has grown in size and moved to a new, bigger and better locale in the same building, as where the previous version of Ballade Studios was situated.

All recording was handled by Ballade, with all main tracking and overdubs being finished within the space of 12 days. The idea to add strings to certain sections of songs made the band call upon Felix Havstad Ziska. A local musician, who handled cello, viola and violin on “Gauntlet of Lovers” and the title track.
Mixing and mastering were handled by Ballade in the same studio and concluded in the following months.

The seven songs on “The Wheel” were all put together and honed collectively by the band, with different members providing the main ideas and rough sketches. It was important for the band, to keep the essence of “Domus Mysterium” intact, but try to distil it and make the songs shorter, more potent, and full of bite.

Once again, all lyrics were handled by lead vocalist Oskar J. Frederiksen. The lyrics deal with topics such as: Coming into flesh, the union of music and magic, the ingredients of change and the limits of time. Some of them are more personal than general, and touch upon specific moments of transformation and fleshed out periods of unintentional (but self-inflicted) torment, as well as the growth, intent and essence of Slægt as a unit and creative brotherhood.

“The Wheel” is an album that showcases a band that has grown without forgetting, where it came from. A band that is hungrier than ever before, and who knows, that more is to come. A band that is called Slægt, who is way more concerned with personal expression and writing the best songs possible, than adhering to fashions and mundane attractions.

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released October 5, 2018

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Slaegt Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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Goddess

Mar 2022
Black Bombs

Apr 2019
The Wheel

Oct 2018
Domus Mysterium

May 2017
Beautiful and Damned

Nov 2015
Ildsvanger

Jan 2015

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