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Mournful Embrace of Aeons

by Mysteriarch

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R Loved this band when I was younger, and I still go back to listen to them; it’s up there as the best USBM. In this album they aren’t larping as Emperor, they really have their own style. I wish they would come out with a new release someday. Favorite track: Solace Beneath the Shroud.
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Rum & Perique I stumbled across this album a few years ago when I was on the search for something new and fresh in Metal. This album really stuck out among a number of others from different bands. Mysteriarch really captured the dark, symphonic elements that sound... I would say intense. I would strongly recommend any fan of Symphonic Black Metal to listen to this band. Favorite track: Crossing the Primordial Threshold.
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9RnK7 My favorite symphonic black metal band, hands down. Very proud to say these guys are from my state. The mix of harshness and beauty they manage to create is fantastic
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In the shadows of our existence Ancient mysteries shrouded in secrecy We embark on this journey To cross the primordial threshold Rising toward the spheres unknown We venture through the starlit expanse Once ordained within the spheres Of the celestial vortex Now conceived through astral fire On this forsaken voyage... beyond Encircled by the radiance of night Engulfed within a pellucid orb From the fires of impurity The forging of our legacy Our time has come To usurp the throne Now I know what lies beyond Through destiny's gates We'll be left to dwell In the abandoned planes of infinity Ensnared by the shackles of time Life's trammels shall be our curse Into the fathomless depths we fall
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I walk a path enshrouded by night's shadow Into the labyrinth of darkness unhallowed As now the chambers of light fall before me I bear the crest of eternal glory The thorns of chaos entwine As en emblem of death When the sun sets in disgust You will take your last breath Gaze into the looking glass Of the ultimate deception Cryptic secrets are veiled within The dark void of consciousness Unleash the forbidden powers From within the dormant mind Trespass beyond the seal Of the silent watcher's shrine Invert the sigil bound as three Draw your sword against the trinity We raise the crown of infinite night To herald the dawn of heaven's blight
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By mortals' hands the devil was crowned In the nets of Belial dark powers bound Scourge of heaven, thy nemesis Hoisting the powers to which God submits The lie that echoes in your tomb of worship Is the festering shadow Which bleeds through the surface As a mystic spell seared in eternity A broken cosmic reel bound in infinity An ocean of tears could not awaken Your thorn-crowned nameless desperation Silence the breath of humanity Rise from the ashes of ignominy Poison the current of divinity The serpent lurks among you effortlessly Finding our salvation in the garden of iniquity A glorious return to what was meant to be As we stand above you in the fading light Drinking from the chalice To intake the unholy might Lord of night, grant us thy mystic powers Enrapture us in darkness God's pathetic religions We will not follow
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As the night consumes the final dawn Nebulous secrets call beyond the fog My heart encased in stone Yet sorrow dwells within Thorns adorn my throne Enshrined by immortal sin I rise again to fall into darkness I rise again as the astrum argentum The consecration of fleshly demise Watching empires fall beneath blackened skies Chastised in blood as his sheep now repent Rejoicing in their false God's impotence In the darkness I stand now immortal Engulfed in sin, I reign eternal Sequestered in the silent resonance Within the ashes of life's incense Hell's fires rise to engulf heaven Leaving no trace that it exists No peace is found in the haunted sanctuary Lost in a world of imaginary fears Cursed with the burden of a loathsome perception Under the spell of blackened delirium Sow the wind and reap the maelstrom Drown the voice of reason Lost to shame and dead to honor Dispraised in blank despondency
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Artifacts of the great cycle Destruction of the world-age doctrine Thrust into a blackened void The effacement of all consciousness Entrapped within dimensional thoughts Forbidden tortures eternally wrought Through the portals of forsaken flesh Where the spirit and psyche digress Mesmerized by the infernal flames As we await the blood-drenched aeon Execrate the false theistic lie Through this doctrine of retribution From the crypts of inhumanity Where our wager of sin is absolution Servants of darkness Patrons of blasphemy Our prodigious wisdom Shall bring forth sovereignty The end of ages We now foresee As Armageddon Beholds our destiny Praise humanity's fall Life's hourglass expired A tenebrous epoch Approaches indubious Following the path Towards extinction As this existence Becomes a retrospection
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Birthed into this futile Abject desolation Disparity's indulgence Sin humanitas In the shades below An altar of flesh defiled Vituperation Of man and of God Innocence condemned and sacrificed By my hand, unholy domination Fates decreed with savage expedience Beget ends of a terrible nature Who is condemned? Who is redeemed? Behold the commencement Of ghastly tortures I shalt thrust a dagger Into the collective mind Without purpose or reason Except of chaos and blood In the tunnels of broken mind and soul A creation without center or boundary Life is lost in this all-consuming passion Is the world my soul or my soul the world? Falling deep into an endless void Visions of horror manifest As darkened forces invade your soul Now possessed you shall beckon their will I consecrate the arrival Of the one you disfavor The legions of light shall perish And darkness will consume all
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Eternal night Nocturne of beauty Inviolate darkness Unyielding, undefiled A universal Living cosmos Transcending all Inchoate perception The quintessential essence of all creation Reaps the glorious blessing of extinction Recite the mystic, secret incantation To exorcise thy dissonant enthrallment Beyond all limits, beyond all time We shall bring forth all to purpose Sempiternal, abstruse mysteries Forever veiled, preternatural From the ashes of our pride By virtue of our wonder For those with eyes to seek the wisdom All is revealed Dark mistress, dark lover Worshipful oblivion The substance of transcendence Dark specter, dark altar Pulsating presence in elusive silence Chaos is order and all is nothing Now brought forth To pervade this acquiescence Order is chaos and nothing is all This despotic wisdom The meaning of existence
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American symphonic black metal act, Mysteriarch, return with their sophomore release of intricate and epic darkness. Mournful Embrace of Aeons narrates the demise of humanity, the failure of religion and the freedom of the spirit through a framework of sweeping grandeur. In the end, truth is realized outside of an earthly and physical prison.

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released January 26, 2012

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jamie King at The Basement Studio in Winston-Salem, NC, (USA). Additional editing by Byron Price at Backroad Studios in Concord, NC (USA).

Logo and cover art by Vivien Ruffet.

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Symphonic Black Metal band from Charlotte, NC. Formed in 2002.

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