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Erstwhile Befell

by Shadow In The Darkness Band

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John Stanton
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John Stanton Man this album is amazing, a tech death masterpiece. I’d say this album is on par with planetary duality for sure.
Mikey.
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Mikey. Ok, so where to start with this masterpiece. S I T D B's music is as brutal as it is technical. Please don't get me wrong, this doesn't fall into the 'technical for the sake of it' category. The music flows from one section to another with ease, confidence and great skill. The listener will sit for the album's entirety with their eyes as wide as their mouth, in complete astonishment. This is for people that already understand how limitless and beautiful Metal can be. 10 out of 10, Favorite track: Twenty One.
minusoneman2
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minusoneman2 Blasting Blackend Melodic sometimes Symphonic Prog Death Metal the brutal way! Imagine an evil version of Ne Obsivicaris and Ram-Zet, together hailing early Cynic on Acid.This is really Intense! If you’re into the first records by The Faceless you’ll take this into your collection with a big smile as well.
ddb
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ddb Tight guitars! Good solid death metal. Very good.
IDE
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IDE Technical Death Metal. No time to breathe. ★
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1.
Benign 03:28
A valorous joust, only to levy a jingoistic rampage Solid facade of your miserous architecture The thirteenth labour, destined for the valiant one, will be engraved upon my cenotaph: "Alcides", crafted by the correctional stone of the diligent goddess: It is of significant disregard to sedate disposition that you gifted me with the tunic of Nessus; It is of significant disregard to sedate disposition faintly inquisitive; thus unwitting! Upon the moonlit shadow, stood in distress Lapsing to tears; mourning latently to the lugubrious paean Every lament being crooned, lest you forsake our unity, would wake the need in me- to transcend the conceivable materials The thirteenth labour, destined for the valiant one A valorous joust, only to levy a jingoistic rampage Solid facade of your miserous architecture Hush!
2.
Notwithstanding, am I the well-to-do or the meager one? To take the law into my hand and lay vigilante siege; or bow before abject vassalage and marvelous vanity? Notwithstanding, am I the well-to-do? Whether of prudence or shrewdness, deterministically feasible is the deceitful wit instrumentalization A notion of natural rights transpires in cognition of the utmost principles A compelling argument to disintegrate the stale auto-pledge decree By any reckoning, Reason and the consequentials Unlikely to tolerate preposterous absolutism in theory and practice Notwithstanding, am I the well-to-do or the meager one? Shall vindicate; absurd monism undue - Proclaim against the vestigial words of adversity Shall vindicate; absurd monism undue - Proclaim against the vestigial words of adversity -Belay that incongruous sermon for... (polarization)! A notion of natural rights transpires in cognition of the utmost principles A compelling argument to disintegrate the stale auto-pledge decree By any reckoning, Reason and the consequentials Notwithstanding, am I the well-to-do or the meager one? To take the law into my hand and lay
3.
Rumors spread about a "Storyteller" The emancipator, the controller of the threads of fate The ever youthful, but old and aged "Consult him", they claimed, he 'll give you peace ' n ' aid" "You 've been waited to be seen" The rites to my walking in His blind eyes would mirror my fate Wrinkled face - he seemed villain Red garments, hands corroded Mastermind, his cane unawed The indomitable sorcerer, Yet acquainted to the most, as a non-insidious host The emancipator, the controller of the threads of fate The Aboriginal Storyteller Not another word could be detached from him My speech was deducted beforehand "The renown leader of the tribe" foresaw something in me, a charismatic disciple Then manipulated the eyes of my soul, guiding me through the ruins of the yet - to come The Aboriginal Storyteller "Beware the ides of March", "You 'll be the architect of your own destruction" "I surmise and foresee that your journey will not end well" Flames surrounding my people, my hometown collapsed, I am kneeling to control the sands. "What is written in the timeline, cannot be changed" The incantation of the necromancer - so I stirred for a moment" Although I 've seen the hanging gardens, slayed invisible foes of unmatched evil and ruled and served wisely my people, Μy life would be a waste? Not at all!
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Twenty One 04:28
Numerology plausibly hereby evicts the cassock of inception: Why, the prefix to secularism, albeit none of the worldly sort To show what a pass things have come to, "Thrice accursed yesterdays" are twenty one! The cassock of inception: Why, the prefix to secularism, albeit none of the worldly sort Fettered shall I cloister in minuteness, favour of incandescent will whitewash my fragrant flower-strewn porch "Was ever our tower of Babel built in nonchalant Providence; to mount heaven from earthwards or to establish a cosmic Eden?" Slanting rays of a still, dim fragment Preliminary retraction of causality -In absurdum aberration The evensong of twenty-one past numberless-fold Indissoluble self-abnegation due legend, yet formidable resourcefulness apropos of implicit superciliousness To do homage to the holy exhortation or desecrate another solemn commitment? That is! Either aggregate or subtract, alas! Verge on a jeering Twenty-One! "Crooked draughts misled the careworn chaps to my indecorous shanty, They could never suspect that I had been worn out on the twenty-first" Farewell...
6.
Strenuously compelled by the spiraling waves A contingent intergalactic deed Extraordinary luminosity emission spectra Exceeding exponentially the escape velocity Circumstellar disk clustering the coalescing novae It's the substantiation of a concurrent foreordination Beholding the extragalactic implementation Full mechanised,transsentient Hear my spine crackling on every step Flesh and Metal crafted together Hear the echoes through Crimson silence The trip became an Odyssey But where are the contemptuous creations? I kneel before the might of the golden desert Succumb to exhaustion, I hatch open Passing through the eternal nanophase I feel the Dioxide atmosphere unwelcoming my sojourn! I hear echos calling, I must obey to the fabrication! No birds, no sound placidly in rotundity Burning sunlight warms the spurious waters Red as the blood running through my veins Death aura fills the ice cold surface Asteroid eclipse passes through Phobos, The frozen satellite No birds, no sound placidly in rotundity Expiatory interstellar dash To witness the Starlight coming within Engulfing the earth, Hyperspace engines wipe out amino acids. Metal illuminating under bedrock. The universe's darkness, a lightning amidst stars!
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The Dynamics of Conjecture manifested the contempt of everything! You are the envoy that ever came from the House of the Void, Fused by the division of uncertain afoul! On Haematite bethroned thou prudently compensate Has the globalized Commonwealth ever witnessed such a considerable prospect? Obsequiously, but promptly of your service So considerable a prospect Lo! The charismatic oralist, exemplary aloof decorum, Scrupulously enjoining inquisitions circa undefined Lo! The charismatic oralist, exemplary aloof decorum, Scrupulously enjoining The mere incarnation of amorphism! Thou art shapeshift, you envy morality! You utter thousand speeches! Thy orders become edicta & mandata, In the Order of Diptera! Did they become intimately acquainted with your vague arrival? Would anyone trace the tort of your illusive, yet entrancing intellect? Engaged into this world, yet you linger within the Shadows! You fatherless, the One of Own, How come the disembodied transparent illustration be clad in such veneration? The Dynamics of Conjecture manifested the contempt of everything! Although I have seen too many winters, I clarify that you are NOT REAL!

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Track by track by Shadow In The Darkness:
Benign – Procedamus: A straight-up quick strike that comes with a prelude preface summarizing the whole project’s state.

Interdisciplinary Sectarianism – A virtuoso composition that set to be the ultimate tribute to the showcase deities. It involves multi-layered rhythm build-ups along with dissonant guitar & synth melodies that stand out garnished all over with a cut-through vocal performance. The underlying western philosophy premises of the lyrical context make a song that verbatim et literatim speaks for itself!

The Aboriginal Storyteller – Beware the ides of March: a song that puts up with a short lyrical story-line of fatally predetermined self-wreckage. Musically, a much-pretending-to-sound-mid-tempo piece unfolds with ease only to ascertain cutting edge melodies, stomping rhythmical parts and a thorough display of all-around vocal performance.

Aspalathus (Prelude) & Twenty-One – Through an acoustic rest following the overwhelming first song triad, one can only expect a relapse to the heavy vibes: thus it occurs! Twenty-One comprises the most melodic fugue of the album coping with unexpected tempo shifts and guitar melodies which immediately give way to straighter and single-themed tunes in a “back & forth” sensation.

The Deontology Of An Android – One that seeks the more exocosmic-themed “literature” of the genre has met one’s conditions for the prerequisites of an album of the sort. “The Deontology Of An Android” is an independent narrative of a futuristic projection to the enhanced human conscience problems. The music being involved implies dark and gloomy, albeit evocative vibes of relentless space trekking.

A Grand Parable – Over a biblical passage to the closing section of the album the final story is set: the problem of oppressive self-serving powers that be in contrast to the qualified authority of reasoned principles.

From Conversion To Fixation – The closing statement of the album starts with an imposing piano theme that gets down to aggressive parts of drum dexterity with toppings of melodic majesty. Intensive vocal parts add up to a strong chorus-like section amidst the memorable surrounding guitar melody.

Erstwhile Befell | Released May 19th, 2020 on Sliptrick Records

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Shadow In The Darkness Band Attica, Greece

Shadow In The Darkness are a quartet ensemble since 2009 that minister zealously the technical metal music arts.
In what it begets, they infuse melodic pliers with spicular (poly)rhythm acts all in a self-reflective outline of frugality
in which they dare their contemplators not to partake into a spiraling multiverse of displays.
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