Die multinationalen Death Metaller DARKENED bestehend aus dem neuen Drummer Perra Karlsson, Sänger Gord Olson (Ye Goat-Herd Gods / Demisery), den beiden Gitarristen Linus Nirbrant (A Canorous Quintet / This Ending) und Hempa Brynolfsson (Excruciate / Ordo Infernus) sowie dem Bassisten Tobias Cristiansson (Grave / ex-Dismember) kündigen für den 21. Juli die EP „Lord of Sickess and Bile“ an und präsentieren daraus den Song `Archaic Wounds´.
Die Band erklärt:
«…And so the tank rolls on with DARKENED’s new two-song EP, Lord of Sickness and Bile. Featuring two exclusive songs and an 11-minute runtime, Lord of Sickness and Bile gets the job done with startling, throttling efficiency. Both songs carry forward the evolutionary steps made last year – spaciousness and suffocation in equal measure, a seamless integration of haunting melody, an utterly dense onslaught of sound either way – and again does everything sound HUGE, even when racing forward with palpitating propulsion. Drums were recorded and engineered by Pontus Ekwall at Studio Cave, and Gord Olson handled the mixing & mastering: more DIY this time, but an utterly massive result given the EP’s brevity. Capped by characteristic artwork by Juanjo Castellano, Lord of Sickness and Bile is another gem in the DARKENED discography!»
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Lyrics:
A heartless cutter of flesh, a prodigy of pain
He the father of unending lies
A plot to steal your breath again
And for his effort, no one knows
Just who he’ll take away
The crying, the bleeding, the ones who cannot take
The prospect of tomorrow, a future they can’t escape
And once again they’re led into the cage to wait
Archaic wounds leave us wanting
Another life, another calling
Archaic wounds never healing
Forgotten dreams, forever bleeding
Bleeding out
Who will be the first to realize the end is here
And who will be the first to drown themselves out of pure fear
Or will you stay and place the noose around your neck?
Repeating, defeating, a haunting anxiety
Brooding and concluding, a death cult society
Who is the one who grinds our souls into the dirt?
Archaic wounds leave us wanting
Another life, another calling
Archaic wounds never healing
Forgotten dreams, forever bleeding
Bleeding out
The lying, and the stealing, the ones who took away
The prospect of tomorrow, a future we can’t escape
And once again we’re led into the cage to wait
Archaic wounds leave us wanting
Another life, another calling
Archaic wounds never healing
Forgotten dreams, forever bleeding
Bleeding out