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Fathom
01:06
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2. |
Stalwart
06:08
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Brave when we all fight with words
What is this conviction worth?
Confronted with violence aimed at me and mine
Would I speak up or back down when lives are on the line?
Would I still be stalwart when the survivors aren't mine?
Cost of regret
The price of shame
May you live on
Forget my name
Tread not in my footsteps
May no one sing my tale
When all is said and done
My kin can have their chance to be brave
May no one sing my tale
My kin can have their chance to be brave
Would I still be stalwart
When the survivors aren't mine?
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3. |
Bulwark
04:44
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Fragile relationship exposed
Alliance quietly foreclosed
Antebellum rhetoric transposed
Protectorate orders - borders closed
Friendships evaporate
Contingency plans laid to waste
Aware of guilt, a bulwark is raised
On that hill, prepared to die for pride
for pride
Tribal belief
Bulwark besieged
Tribal belief
Bulwark besieged
People caged like beasts
Walled safety internecine
Withstand the test of time
Atrocities unseen
Atrocities unseen
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4. |
Bahramdipitous
04:17
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Suppression of progress
Everything be as it was
According to the lie
Truth was the first to fall
All drawled alt-truths instead of facts
Settled in false dignity
Iniquity justified
Forsook integrity
Loyalty to force
Oblivious to reason
Let malice run its course
Science unemployed
Stupid and annoyed
Enough to have a pulse
Nulltiple results
Forsook integrity
Loyalty to force
Oblivious to reason
Let malice run its course
Science unemployed
- Bahramdipitous
Stupid and annoyed
- Bahramdipitous
Enough to have a pulse
- Bahramdipitous
Nulltiple results
- Bahramdipitous
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5. |
Damocles
06:11
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No one holds the straw that breaks the horse's back.
No one sees the weight that breaks the horse's hair.
Nobody hears yet must await the sword's attack.
One day it strikes. For heaven's sake proceed with care.
To fear the sky
Nobody hears yet must await the sword's attack.
One day it strikes. Never rest. Always aware.
To fear the sky
Damocles
Once cruelty and malice are employed by one who reigns,
one cannot then rule justly as vengeance now ordains.
Damocles
To fear the sky
Damocles
To fear the sky
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6. |
Skirmish
04:06
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Information warfare
Reasoning drowned out
Arguments are enemies
The instrument is doubt
Faced with uncertainty
The demagogue does thrive
Free speech is weaponized
To stir up the hive
You cannot run
You cannot hide
The fight is on
You stand alone unless you pick a side
Skirmish
Those blamed are not me; pretend not to hear
Skirmish
Those hunted are not me; do not intervene
Enraged
Engaged
When next in line are me and mine, I cannot abide
The fight is on. We stand as one as I have picked a side
Engaged
Enraged
Skirmish
Those killed are not me; resolve not to fear
Skirmish
When next in line are me and mine
Aid will be brought to bear
Aid will be brought to bear
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7. |
Journey
05:38
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8. |
Headwind
05:13
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In spring we're born as falling raindrops
We fall upon newborn leaves
From leaves we fall into a river
that carries us into the sea
As seas we merge in an ocean
and gradually disappear
And when we're gone and long forgotten
we wash up on the shores
Where do we go at the end of the road?
Where is our home at the end of the road?
What have I done at the end of the road?
Who have I become at the end of the road?
Where do we go at the end of the road?
Where is our home at the end of the road?
What have I done at the end of the road?
Who have I become at the end of the road?
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9. |
Settle
03:16
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Opaque Mass Utrecht, Netherlands
Originally founded in the 90s as a metal band in Oosterhout with its roots in death metal of that
time.
Currently operating as a solo project by Jasper Bogers in Utrecht, Netherlands.
The love for 90s death metal has not faltered, as can be heard on the first album, Bulwark.
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Opaque Mass recommends:
Spectral Lore inspired me to embrace working as a solo artist. Gnosis takes its time to envelop you. Let the songs unfold into multiple layers of death metal melodies that wash over you.
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Every album Bolt Thrower ever put out was a sure buy, but this is one of the albums that laid the foundation of what I think death metal is about - sturdy, steady, aggressive, confronting, captivating
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The Karelian Isthmus / Privilege of Evil
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Where Amorphis' Tales from the Thousand Lakes taught me how much room there can be for melody in death metal, it was their The Karelian Isthmus album that showed me how unpolished that beauty can be.
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