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Back to the Black Marsh

by Vielikan

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Ippocalyptica
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Ippocalyptica It is rare to hear something so refreshing, so ambitious, and so painstakingly well-crafted that comparisons to foundational listening experiences come to mind. I am speaking here of Deathspell Omega’s Fas, Ulcerate’s Everything is Fire, and Rebirth of Nefast’s Tabernaculum. I am not saying that Back to the Black Marsh sounds anything like these albums, nor is it really on the same level - but I will be damned if this is not some spellbinding, cathartic, beautiful, and unique work! Favorite track: The final confrontation with the Soul Harvester in the heart of the Black Marsh.
Patrycja
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Patrycja Perfect atmospheric, progressive and blackened album.
Very emotional, severe and profound. Painful and majestic lyrics with despair and suffering medium. Favorite track: God(s), Love and Life.
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I have danced with the void I have lain with the darkness I have nothing else to avoid I have everything in access 2 0 1 6 the secret numbers for the travel 2 0 1 6 the numbers of the sacred memory As I’ve eaten all stars I’ve embodied the sacred rune shape I have cleanse all the scars And I’m ready to finally escape Entering the portal for the ethereal travel and run and never come back again until I eat the soul harvester’s heart There’s something strange about this portal I cannot sense any evil form As I’ve lain with the darkness My soul is getting consumed by its virtue Here it is again Drifting into the soil Forming up the drain Bringing back the spoil Embracing again the darkness Murdering again the harmless Kissing again the adulteress Loving again the false abbess 2 0 1 6 the secret numbers for the travel 2 0 1 6 the numbers of the sacred memory 2 0 1 6 Death, Loss and utmost deception I’m slowly becoming an ocean of tears Black is the color of my soul as it fight all my fears Inside the portal the journey took all my years As I grew stronger the travel brought me all my fears I’ve danced with the void... I’ve lain with the darkness...
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I see the fragment of soul afraid of the darkness As I watch the struggle I plant all my seeds Flaying the mind to recover the complete form You have to kill yourself to be reborn once again By embracing the darkness (to receive the divine gift) Embrace the darkness Know yourself and all your flaws Feel the pain when it's here Accept your shadow before all lights Become the danger of yourself Become the power of all your weaknesses Become the Life of all your tragedies Become the owner of the Black Marsh Become the eater of all the torments Become the fear of all your tears Become the silent dragon to be untouched Become the danger of the wilderness
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One event. And if you’re gifted you won’t forget how the moon betrayed you. You will open your eyes in darkness, in a black day. You will see that everything you believed to love is gone by death then lies, then betrayal. Ornaments of illusion will follow. You will accomplish a spiritual apocalypse mastering the fact that every life form is alone in its own universe, perceiving truth about connections between primals. There are only profit, no compassion, no empathy; Only to serve a Holy One : The Self. Primals will keep trading emotions, establishing the new market of false joy, false sorrow. Using tools as primal love, hate and conflicts to build bridges for new connections, mostly carnal connections. Only to serve another Holy One : The Flesh. In this black day you will feel your inner death. You will be surrounded by new primals for the only purpose to avoid reality. You might live your whole life inside this lie. Comfortable lie. But this black day...when no one will be there for you to shut your eyes from what is really happening in this corrupted world, you will let them wide open, thousands of blood tears will flow to make you rise from your ashes by choosing to avoid all primals leaving your soul to the Black Marsh for eternity and keep your heart true to what you are, avoiding all form of disgusting lies, knowing your purpose of living, if there is any. Avoiding all primals and any form of connection in this grounded life. My purpose of living is to spread darkness until the final triumph.
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You consumed every drop of my energy and made me wander in the Black Marsh I went in its heart, I saw everything I had to see for the future coming Now, I embrace the stillness of mind which you would never get even at the price of another astral blood Now, I embrace ethereal peace therefore I forgive and forget you For you are weakness As I am power Since our birth you have blighted us with lies until I have become a universe of lies Your betrayal was my denial, your weakness was my disbelief Stars of despair breached my eyes into your black, cursed soul And then your face has started to be erased from what I built My lights made me believe in divine love from the sky To love a deceiving icon by feeding my world and creations which you proudly destroyed You poisoned my inner self with illusive hope You consumed every drop of my energy and made me wander in the Black Marsh I went in its heart, I saw everything I had to see for the future coming Now, I embrace the stillness of mind which you would never get even at the price of another astral blood Now, I embrace ethereal peace therefore I forgive and forget you For you are weakness As I am power Your preachers and cultists are vowing upon your lies Your salvation lies in death, return to your neutral form as a dying sun Your world was a vile earthly myth, free yourself Your beauty was and still is a putrid pile of disgusting flesh to be put on fire You made me dive deeper in your darkness You made me enter in the realm of death You made me smell it, It crept into my skin You killed the boundless faith I had on you You completely consumed my soul, there was nothing else You consumed every drop of my energy and made me wander in the Black Marsh I went in its heart, I saw everything I had to see for the future coming Now, I embrace the stillness of mind which you would never get even at the price of another astral blood Now, I embrace ethereal peace therefore I forgive and forget you For you are weakness As I am power
5.
You are the cheater so don't victimize You're the deceiver so don't victimize You murdered our sacred symbole of truth Investing on me all your cursed lies to soothe From my garden I gave you all flower You abused of my energy every single hour Yet I brought and will keep bring power For the cost of my looks, which are now deeply sour 'United we stand, divided we fall' These are your own words when you flayed my mind, And when misery came you left us behind 'United we stand, divided we fall' All your promises are now disgraced And yet you accused me that you are defaced Summoning the knowledge of pain for tomorrow Embracing the darkness to fight all your sorrow The black marsh is getting weak against my own dimness The void I feel as you show me your grimness Look at me with your deceiving eyes As I curse your wicked desire until it dies As I erase your face to reach the skies Have to see the virtue that arises 'United we stand, divided we fall' These are your own words when you flayed my mind, And when misery came you left us behind 'United we stand, divided we fall' All your promises are now disgraced And yet you accused me that you are defaced
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Blind fight against all terror from all nightmares Ignoring the suffering and working on false perseverance Cumulating all frustration in and out by inspiring corruption The first act has passed, It is the fall I am the Black Ocean My hands are full of dirt as my essence is defiled I am the Black Ocean My chant is doom as my wisdom is concealed Absolute rejection during the fall The second act has passed, embracing the darkness Inside the dark, the evil manifest hell Desolation as the apocalyptic sorrow takes shape Nothingness, the emotional void is born anew The third act has passed, it is the awakening of the divine I am the Black Ocean My hands are full of dirt as my essence is defiled I am the Black Ocean My chant is doom as my wisdom is concealed I will whisper to your soul the blackest torment from my essence to transcend the emotion You have to dive deeper in the abyss There is a rapture in the darkness There is a caress from its vastness A vertiginous fall from heaven to hell An ethereal travel to the Black Marsh From the Black Marsh to absorb its power To become your own god, and decide your avatar I am the Black Ocean My hands are full of dirt as my essence is defiled I am the Black Ocean My chant is doom as my wisdom is concealed I am the Black Ocean I embraced the darkness to reach the sacred light

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Art is to console those who are broken by life. I didn't say that. Van Gogh did.
This album is a fragment of my soul I brought back from the Black Marsh. Knowing that you're listening to it makes me feel alive. Thanks.

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released March 22, 2019

Everything: Fyodor Kovalevsky

Some lead part in 'Ethereal Travel' written and recorded by Saber Dhifet.

Astral thanks to my wise father Lamjed, my beloved siblings Kais and Alyssa. Ismael Turki, Saber Dhifet, Samy Ralph Jerbi, Mohamed Habib Sayah, Dan Sanaren and Camilia Ben Massouadi for helping me during the creation process with moral, material and human support.

Cosmic mentions to Seif Keshrid for letting me recording my vocals at his studio. Stellar thanks to Kippo and Muhanned from Blech Hes for letting me recording my vocals at their place.

In loving memory of Ludmila Kovalevskaya.

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Vielikan Tunis, Tunisia

Progressive death metal act merging the philosophy of the shadow with folklore from the eastern europe and north africa.

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