Far beyond the sky
Between the black horizon
A gentle gust of wind
Lifts the hidden veil
This is the beginning
Of the afterlife for me
The winds beckon me home
Home among the trees
Her voice trails in the air
As the doors close
The forgotten wooden gate
And trails leading home
As we travel through
The endless sea
The red water flows in
Trickling from the trees
The blood of ancients
Flows within our veins
Those once lost
Will now remain
Ghosts follow us home
To the end of the Earth
The voices remain
The silence unearthed
Whispers follow close
Hiding beneath the roots
Behind our every step
Waiting for the truth
A frigid breeze
Surrounds the valley
The hidden mist
Stands before me
In the rain, pain be released
An agonizing truth buries me
Another home, beneath the grave
There is no hope that we can save
We are cursed
With a deadly disease
Struggling to see
The hatred we bring
Profits over lives
And nothing else
Your forgiveness
Is a worthless shell
We cannot go on
The way we have
Struggling to live
Just to pay it back
Thrown into the fire
Of greed and shame
The ones in charge
Have no plans to change
They gladly will kill
Thousands or more
Just for the scent
Of profits offshore
No responsibility
No actions to claim
This fucking shit
Will drive me insane
When will we see
The damage of this
They don’t care for us
They don’t give a shit
The truth will come out
And the sun will rise
These bastards up top
Will meet their demise
Life eclipsed
Dispersed to winds
Strewn ‘cross soils
consumed by entropy
energies transmuted
accretion of wounds
layering upon thine name
like dusts of darker breathless time
Bemoan the deeper truth
languished this poisonous feeling
a grief-like trenchant qualia
swarming an indiscernible rot within
This pattern of nostalgia is clouded
yet pleasurably ossifying in effect
Fall… to lunacy
spirits-soaked-soul haunted to the bone
by this grave I’m digging… every day
Memoir to the author
what seeding weakness beget this forgery
rapaciously dour in spiteful rage
a history circled as prey by the lofty hands of rivals
Passions destitute, reflections empty
Cursed | Haunted | Baneful -
(but this) putrefaction unto thy petty one
Illness overtakes me
(insofar) as thou art truly sick
Purity of your conviction
notwithstanding annihilation
And yet, this onslaught of word
suffocates with perpetuity
Draped in woe
Laid to rest - never forgive.
Oft-returning
In madness or melancholy
In madness or melancholy
To be my own ghost
A ghost, born of darkness, shrouding where the starlight once beat her brow.
Persistent gales mystify her like jolts of wondrous pain, not unlike ancient wounds.
A sight never before held through crystalline eyes: embers of noumenal source soar on whirlwinds of thought
to the hungry sound of a thunderous reckoning.
This pulsation, felt organ deep, produces a grand anxiety. ..Valatriska.
She tightens her grip, already death-like, around a wisp of hair.
The swathes of ceremonial garb, near tatters, desperately cling to her body like children in the season of dearth… Valatriska
The machines of death grind their gears.
Oiled in blood. Howling sounds of engines and metal on bone.
She recalls the famine and lips pursed for her Mother’s milk - Left in want.
Breasts producing nothing but a silken emptiness tinged with the beauty of malevolent creation.
She raises the tuft to inhale the scent.
Archon...tearful, aching...
Pleased… Valatriska
about
Split from Wisconsin bands Ramihrdus and Luminous Veil -
a sorrowful and ominous shroud of post-black metal.
credits
released May 29, 2020
All tracks written, composed, and produced by Ramihrdus and Luminous Veil
supported by 6 fans who also own “Two Solaced The Soils”
This album not only has predictably excellent moments of beautiful despair and melancholia , but the moments of visceral sharpness and aggression are a welcome surprise. Compositions that keep you guessing, Top tier production. All good everything. Doom on. Som Bhattacharyya
This wild 35-track all-metal benefit album features Mare Cognitum, Panopticon, and more reinventing songs by Tori Amos & others. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2020