"Burn - let the son lay down now, let his brilliance rest
Revel in incandescence, let the left hand path prevail
Under the bright black sky, Venus calls out to her kin
Resolute, shine, transcendent form
Voracious, sky, rebellious soul
Marching onward under heaven, marching onward without mercy
To the cross, to eternal stain
Driving inward, flesh caves under manmade power, faultless metals
Piercing and tearing at the flesh of divinity
A god wilts at the crimson hands of posterity
The lord covers his eyes as man lays down
Burn in the light of the dark, feel the warm embrace of rapture
Behold the end of days, witness the true archangel
Now return to this plane
To fall to abyss, reaching away from the light
Renouncing all that was to be
A fleeting, callous, wretched life singing its song of dissonance to me
Lucid and grim it was conveyed
On my knees I beg and pray unto the inverted light
Reaching out to touch the sky, reaching out with inward eyes
Reaching for the heaven scar, reaching for the evening star"
Heaviest thing I’ve heard all year along with Altarage. Okay I’ve been listening to this record for the past two weeks and it just gets better and better. Dissonant grooves galore Jacob Ballance
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74
What a BEAST of an album. When it comes to blending black metal and mathcore, these guys and Hoplites are the clear leaders of the pack. This album is sheer annihilation of everything in it's path. Pure chaos and destruction. And it is beautiful. Ryan