Ghuughra
Malignant and brooding. Gutvoid give a strong impression of being a 'fast band playing slow songs.' The tracks on offer here all have tremendous atmosphere and building tension without losing my interest the way so many bands in the Doom/Sludge genre trend to do. Serial killer music for maladjusted people. I dig it.
Favorite track: Entranced By A Frozen Dawn.
mourner
Wonderfully ominous, dark, brooding and exceptionally heavy. This sound and their way to write songs is highly effective. Consider me infected with the Gutvoid virus.
Favorite track: Pilgrimage To The Necropolis Ruins.
We scrawled into the earth
Those ancient rites
Symbols and diagrams
Learned from forbidden texts
Lines of chalk and ash
Surround our covenant
And on the wall in blood
Constellations from beyond
They came dripping from the stars
Madness within form
A conjuration from beyond
Astral bestiary
In darkness we begin
By candlelight we read
A rising choir of voices
Bent on summoning
As we recite in tongues
A light begins to shine
Appearing from above
Misshapen gods arrive
They came dripping from the stars
Madness within form
A conjuration from beyond
Astral bestiary
They came dripping from the stars
Breaking from the void
Drawn into our world
Enslave humanity
In awe we stare
At what comes before us
A glimpse of the abyss
Of that which should not be
Continuing the rites
Not faltering in our cause
The swirling mass of beings
Distorting the mind
Tyrants of insanity
Rulers of old
We offer ourselves to you
The first sacrifice of this realm
Take us, your Eucharist
May we feed your will
Let us merge
Into your formlessness
What worlds I have come to know
What realities I have seen!
Things that lurk beyond the mind
Have revealed themselves to me
Years of studying those tomes
Where apocryphal rites inscribed
I learned of certain spells
Of a power unearthed to me
I travelled outside our limits
Explored planets divine
Heard the choirs that primed all movement
On other worlds watched eons pass by
Where to draw the line
When truth lay in madness
What would hold you back
When standing at the precipice,
Entranced by a frozen dawn
Withering husk
Useless shell
Why remain
Tethered to this realm?
I have given myself
Received this change
Touched the void
Answered the call
I move beyond
Transposed in form
Become anew
Embrace my dawn
D. Bonofiglio - rhythm and bass guitars
B. Dean - vocals, rhythm and lead guitars
All music written by D. Bonofiglio and B. Dean
Guitars and leads recorded at Mount Wexler Studio
Guitars and bass recorded at Den of Deng Studio
Vocals recorded with Graham Wright at The Loft
Mixed and mastered by B. Dean at Mount Wexler Studio
Cover art by CarsonDrewIt
Logo by Malorium Designs
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This is the most personally appealing piece of music I have run into in a long time - from the beautiful lyrics and art and the crushing, non pretentious gorgeous heavy music. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, crushing - are there are other words? Gorgeous, exquisite.... sock4never