Through dirt and rocks, through thickening mud, I carried you through sinking swamps,
your body dragged behind me like a thousand metal chains.
I threw you in a shallow hole and tried to gain back some control
by looking you right in the face
but it was never there at all.
The sand was clotting in your lungs while I was covering my tracks
I walked away from where you lie but I could still smell the decay
It followed me into my bed, into my mouth, into my head
It was so heavy, all this weight, it doesn't ever go away.
Gravity is trying to swallow me whole,
The burden of knowing puts cracks in my bones.
I don't know your name, I just know how you reek
I just know how you scream and I know where you sleep.
The sand was clotting in your lungs while I was covering my tracks
I walked away from where you lie but I could still smell the decay
It followed me into my bed, into my mouth, into my head
It was so heavy, all this weight, it doesn't ever go away...
A truly stellar death/doom album with heavy doses of black metal. Tracks like Isolation, Child of Light, and Broken Hymns deliver the sorrowful and icy tone of this album, elevated by the stirring cello compositions of Raphael Weinroth-Browne. The album delivers a deeply satisfying crescendo in Becoming Intangible before stirring the soul once again with Epilogue. Matt Richardson
Joseph Hawker subverts the musical and sociopolitical status quo with a black metal triptych that's as incendiary as it is impressionistic. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2022
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74