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Caliginous
09:36
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Caliginous
A parasite, a fiend
It infiltrates my soul
How am I to fight off this plague?
Or should I let it die with me?
Scold or falter
Descend with time
While hearts wither
Descend into the void
Surroundings become unknown
Across this river of blood
Death is all I see
A sudden grasp of air
Induced by dread
“Oh how I knew I should’ve left
And oh how I tried
I felt drawn to it, attached
But not in a way anyone could possibly imagine
Like something pulled me towards the descent
The void, of nothingness. Like a spiral downwards...”
I felt the cold hands of death
Grab my throat
And stare straight through me
I saw the devil himself
His eyes deceived me
They will destroy me
And take from me, my innocence
And eventually my soul
Caliginous
A parasite, a fiend
It infiltrates my soul
How am I to fight off this plague?
Or should I let it die with me?
Scold or falter
Descend with time
While hearts wither
Descend into the void
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Hollow
09:58
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Scorn fed
To the ones who watch me suffer
Sheltered grief on my behalf
In this nightmare I die alone
Will the refuge hold?
Do the glimpses of gloom remain
Or is it just me?
Descending again
Shadows they form
Closer I am to wither
I am here again
Crying a river inside
But mirrors will hold my faith
Silent nights
Bring silent tears
Please leave me
Here to die...
I’ll find my way out of this hell
Even if it means to let this fiend
Die with me
Scorn fed
To the ones who watch me suffer
Sheltered grief on my behalf
In this nightmare I die alone
Will the refuge hold?
Do the glimpses of gloom remain
Or is it just me?
Descending again
Shadows they form
Closer I am to wither
I am here again
Crying a river inside
But mirrors will hold my faith
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Nothing But A Dream
07:34
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Here I am
Waiting here for you
Is it cold where you are?
The winter’s frost coats my sorrow
How could I know
Where to find you?
And how would I know
What you’d say?
I’ll close my eyes
And I’ll tell you what I see
You’ve been here all along
So tearfully you are staring at me
How could I know
Where to find you?
And how would I know
What you’d say?
As the years past
This feeling of hurt grows stronger
And the more I know
You will never come back
The more I lose myself
Scars inside my heart
Closer I am to you
These scars will fade
Into the night
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Plague of Silence
08:19
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As sanity slips through my fingertips
The sense of dread emerges
Into my cracked tattered body
Aimlessly I walk
Like a torn and helpless soul
No meaning, no explanation
No motive, no drive
I know I’ll die along
With these demons
Embedded in my head
But not knowing when they’ll
Take my last breath
It plagues this silence
I walk with nothing to show
I feel the guilt rising
I walk with nothing to show
I walk away
No meaning,
No explanation
No motive,
No drive
I know I’ll die along with these demons embedded in my head
But not knowing when they’ll
Take my last breath
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Broken Mirrors
05:27
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What I've lost
All the books, I've closed
Oh, it burns inside
What I've left behind
What I am and who I've become
Is beyond salvation
And will anyone be there...
To see my spiral downwards
These broken mirrors
They have failed me
Each breath stains my lungs
What ineffectual waste I've turned into..
What I've lost
All the books, I've closed
Oh, it burns inside
What I've left behind
What I am and who I've become
Is beyond salvation
And will anyone be there...
To see my spiral downwards
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When Hearts Wither Gympie, Australia
When Hearts Wither Is an atmospheric doom metal band based in Australia and US.
Orchestration, lyrics and vocals
performed and written by Andrew Derksen.
Guitars and music production performed and done by Matt Waldrop.
FFO: Clouds, Swallow the Sun, Amederia, Aeonian Sorrow, Katatonia, Woods of Ypres, Saturnus etc.
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Perfectly represents the feelings of deep sadness. It is an experience listening to this album as it drags you along this journey to find peace and acceptance.
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Beautiful, brutal, well-composed, use of instruments and vocals creates an amazing landscape of melodic doom. I cannot pick a favorite song.
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It's very atmospheric, with a lot of feeling, and that old school vibe, like one of my favorite albums "Always" from "The Gathering".
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Well this is officially, by far the most beautiful album I've ever heard in doom metal. The drumming work is so original and innovative, especially in doom metal. The woodwinds and the violins are such a nice touch. The growls are so haunting. I love their transitions to the heavy instrumentation with the growls to the soft, melancholic clean passages. The clean voices are amazing and the melodies chosen in the voices are quite different and added a whole new emotion to the songs
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Vicious funeral doom from Portugal, “Ossadas” hammers away like a rain of comets, fiery & relentless.
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A blackened doom concept record about the very real problem of amphibian extinction, “Croak” is a punishing, essential listen.
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