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Wave 3: Hymni Abyssi

by Eris Harlowe

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Did not I fell the creature in the sky? Did not I blaspheme beyond redemption? Nature has nothing to challenge my perception As I walk this world alone, as life's greatest exception; To have none of my own and reside in self-deception... When this world comes crashing down, When I hear your cries I'll still be around, Listening forever for the whisper of a sound; I'm addicted to affection, And so prone to your infection One day I will learn to control my predilection. Tell me what you want, rape me till it's broken Take what you need, let me bleed out into oceans. Addiction to destruction, prescription to affliction Temptations to elations, depictions of detest. Did not I fell the redbreast from the heights of the sky? Did not I curse your name? This is an eye for an eye. Tell me what you want Take what you need Tell me what you want, to fuck me till I'm broken, Tell me what you need; just twist my soul right open. Take me Rape me Fuck me Break me down
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I am lost inside This wasted time An endless loop of nothingness I cannot escape I'm lost. These months have taken their toll, taking the time of years Stargazing and perpetual waiting shun all hopes overcome by fears. 'Why?' is the question of human nature; 'Why not?' answers back the beautiful razor. The lack of reply makes me beg the walls, As my unanswered prayers echo through the halls.
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Hope I blame you Encircling and choking behind the mask of happiness. Love You played me too The source of eternities, unveiling all the secrets That we repress, That we possess That we confess Ever confining our hearts to less, but ... Why? (I asked you ... ) Why? Encirclement's end. Three strands of life, Love and two hearts, Are more efficient than any knife. For a cord of three strands Will tether my weight And forgive these barren lands So what do you say, entwined gateway? Shall we open the door and end this war? Why? I'm surrounded by foul things, creations of my mind I'm fucked up in the head, but I don't really mind. The orchestra of daggers play havoc in my soul Carving me a path into my heart, a hole.
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We've played this game before, silence. Hear my final funeral anthem Empty rooms tether me, degrading my defence. The patience of the chasm The second space Torn in furious rage Confined in this elaborate waste It's just too dark to see Beyond the tarnished debris Of this void I can't see the end, I can't comprehend. We've played this tune from our last breath, The anthem of the chasm; This discord overplayed till death, The hymns of the abyss When we join the requiem, We whisper to the chorus. Too afraid to stand up to them, We're too afraid to walk the exodus. We sing these chords from our last breaths, In the nearing dawn to appease the stars Brought to our knees, brought to our deaths In the drawing night falls this house of cards. We've played this tune from our last breath, The anthem of the chasm; This discord overplayed till death, The hymns of the abyss
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In the shadow of divinity, In the wake of our mistakes There lies a promise to fulfil And the road that each of us takes. One can only hope and One can only dare To say that they can cope And not fall into despair. One can never stay, Until these days arise, I hope these paths take me astray And sever these ties. In the shadow of my love, Lust casts a path too near. In the radiance of this casket, Lie the choices that led us here. Straying on the graves of dead gods, The shadow of divinity six foot deep; Tombstones laid with the reverence of fanatics, Carved from the bones of the heretics. In the shadow of my love, Lust casts a path too near. In the radiance of this casket, Lie the choices that led us here. Straying on the graves of dead gods, The shadow of divinity six foot deep; Tombstones laid with the reverence of fanatics, Carved from the bones of the heretics. Straying on the graves of dead gods, The shadow of divinity six foot deep; Tombstones laid with the reverence of fanatics, Carved from the bones of the heretics. In the shadow of divinity, In the wake of our mistakes There lies a promise to fulfil And the road that each of us takes. Straying on the graves of dead gods, The shadow of divinity six foot deep; Tombstones laid with the reverence of fanatics, Carved from the bones of the heretics.
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Intoxication and violation Losing myself in isolation Am I too far past salvation? I can't see an end to this; nothing to break this corrupted kiss. Which of life's lessons did I miss, that bound me to this endless abyss? I'm slipping away In the darkness Can't hear me pray Forever starless I'm falling astray A walking carcass With nothing to say To save us now There is nothing I can do, I can't keep myself away from you I need to (/sung) Drown myself in all I hate Just to keep myself level and straight I'm slipping away In the darkness Can't hear me pray Forever starless I'm falling astray A walking carcass With nothing to say To save us now
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The world passed by and as I watched It told itself a lie and began to cry I tear my skin new holes As the old scars grow too old Clearly one too many hours have gone and my soul is still unsold. The canvas, blank as it was Is painted now with cause The effect of which is soon to be seen as I bleed out into gauze Oh, the hurt is so good Oh, if only they knew I wanna let them know, I wanna let them see, I'll make them a show In the bathroom drenched in my bleed Maybe then they would see Maybe then they would understand me Proving my conviction with red rivers Carving my depiction into the mirrors Kill me Take me away from here Whether by blood or in silent darkness I will kill. The world passed by And as I watched I told myself a lie I began to cry Die.
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Life is getting smaller, caging my resolve It suffocates, alleviates the pain I feel inside Numbness calls again, a cry to devolve To shed this misery, this misbegotten pride. What I once had felt within became the spokesman of my vim, Tearing new seams in the cloth, drenched in the trough All the love inside my heart just tore it up into these parts, A puzzle for whoever next should take upon this harp I should only ask one thing, to be rid of this bittered ring And take from me my crown, that I might never be a king. So, breaking the stream Of this flood from my soul Taking my dream Making it the final toll There are no screams among the silent Devotion to a coronet that died undefiant. All the hate inside my heart just hastened my departure, No loves or sorrows spoken of, just a broken archer; Because I can't go on for much longer So, breaking the stream Of this flood from my soul Break the stream of blood from these holes, You see my scars, carven by your goals Leave me to this hurt, leave me to this pain, I can live alone without you, And by that I swear I shall have no shame. I have nothing more to say To your wretched face, for it's not yours I won't stand here while you Curse my name So when this river is broken, The lines upon my face will heal, Nothing more unspoken, To the truth I will appeal - Let this light shine on our faces, let us once shed our graces, All the hurt we feel inside won't clear these empty spaces My life won't be held in abeyance, now it's time to take a chance I'm leaving you for the road, taking the path that you forebode.
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The call of the void never voiced my name, And so I drowned myself in my own shame When I descended the spiral I had hope, That the loves of all the others would loosen the rope But it all seems to be just a waste of time As I tear myself apart with each new crime I'd say I'm lost now, but that's not true, I found myself a new hell to put myself through What I once had felt inside Has curled up in my heart and died Even if I tried again, I know I'd just find pain Fuck you, fuck your kind Fuck me, intertwined Your faithless rind So utterly blind I won't be denied, I'll march this world astride. I don't write this for the many who enslaved my kind. It's true that I'm damned and I'm doing time, This will be the end of me, and I'll see you when I'm there. I won't lie down and take this anymore. I won't be the bitch you like to call a whore. Wretched and abandoned left me to your advances But rest assured, my heart's endured enough of these trances. What I once had felt inside Has curled up in my heart and died Even if I tried again, I know I'd just find pain
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II: Devourer 03:47
I devour myself until There's nothing left but a shell Scatter the shell to the four winds, Scatter the remains into the seven seas Bitterness has made me little more than a mess, The sickness inside has become my deliverance Less and less of heart with the growing of interstice And upon that weight is set... The devourer It's in my heart, It's in my blood Washing me away in this voided flood It's in everyone The devil in our soul The truth we can't deny And some won't testify This doom within us all We know the final toll We can hear the call Of this darkest darkest hole Burning all the ledgers Cursing all the pledgers It won't save you now Recite your sacred vow Meet the maker fast Don't try to make life last As it all gets torn away We will stand ere judgement day. It's in our hearts, It's in our blood Washing us away in this blackened flood The devourer within us all tears us apart The devourer will consume this rotten life The devourer has come to burn this work of art The devourer is our eternal strife.
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I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way into eternal pain, I am the way to go among the lost. Justice caused my high architect to move, Divine omnipotence created me, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me there were no created things But those that last forever—as do I. Abandon all hope you who enter here. - Dante's Inferno
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Stare into the darkness of the endless abyss Watch the dark fires of redemption consume Stare and stand alone in the pitch black Know now my resolve above all you presume I am not this flesh I’m not what you see Don’t ever you dare To think you once knew me Confined to this elaborate waste I thought I’d always be this way But to think your taste would wear me down is another day my friend In another past life you’d know I’d care These presuppositions would’ve had me a slave But I learned my lessons and the ring is mine And you needn’t worry now I will be just fine When I look into the glass another reflects my gaze The horror, the fear, the anger and hate – The gateway to oblivion I reached too late I am the shadow walking through the graves Searching to no end for the life I crave Through all this anguish and hate I brave But I found there’s no one left to save I am no man And nor will I ever be, for I’m a lost nothing And if I ever ask for she – well I never was a king Oh when will this end? The time it takes is torture If I ever had a friend they would be death’s enforcer Chain me down and beat me down For I’ve no soul to break. Tear my gown and take my crown And weigh me in the lake. Let me float or let me sink Regardless I’m on the brink In my final moments What do you think I think? When I look into the glass another reflects my gaze The horror, the fear, the anger and hate – The gateway to oblivion I reached too late I am the shadow walking through the graves Searching to no end for the life I crave Through all this anguish and hate I brave But I found there’s no one left to save I am no man I will never be this flesh For I’m not what you see I will not conform To how you all see me Weigh me as a witch Burn me on your stake Put me in a ditch And say it’s a mistake As my memory haunts you down As you finally drown
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I knew it when you said nothing The absence in the air The steel-wrought heart within And the road lay all too bare The world is never kind enough To carve a straight path The dead only can trespass The straits of life When we walk alone We walk our trails true Never to atone For the things we never do. Lie, lie to yourselves That love is all you need The awareness of mortality is the only guarantee. When we walk alone, we truly concede. So fuck your rules Fuck your constructions Fuck your lives, go Fuck yourselves This is not an anarchist anthem This is not a call to arms This is just the knowledge That you have a choice And that I won’t be controlled. There is no value to our lives There is no value to our world Don’t you hide within your lies They will haunt you to the grave. I wish it were another way I’m sorry
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When I choked inside the ashen wilds The lights of heaven shone away When the first steps were taken to the barren plains The clouds surrendered the seas. Do you remember the towers That stood atop the world like mountains? They watched the waves come crashing down As the fires of hell tumbled down from the sky When the floors of the world fold and meet as one And the chorus of the angels sing in final harmony When the mists of far forests gather as a shadow When the cosmos is eclipsed by the wings of Cain. The stricken fibres' corded spines Bend and nestle like a lace of thorns Carve me a path to oblivion Through the hourglass the last light shines As a message to all, from here be borne. Letters from Eden, conversations from below Each footstep closer to the void I know Black, all black, the burning blades, In the lamplight ropes cast death's sly shades There Is No Life Beyond The Void The light of the world Eclipsed The saviours of man Occulted The love of my life Erased Carve me a path to oblivion, where I lay my last
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III: Further 05:46
One, two, three, four I will not be your little fucking martyr Bring it on, get it on Dominate the place Scathed and scarred My body bleeds for more The bubbling hate and heated moments Turn the fires up to the skies Screwing and enslaving like there is no god above Oh friendly now and fiendish now Oh little craven doll. My spine is crooked from lying alone Dripping from the skies The violence is mine The war within my lies The mindset of the swine The ragged haunted eyes Of the need, so divine My spine is crooked from lying alone When I die don’t remember me like this, Don’t dwell on my addiction to the order. I wish I counted the days and not the days I had left Stop the sirens, mute the cries Close the chapter and meet the skies, going Further Going on Going back Almost gone But what was that? Swan songs Eternal black Death’s won Through the crack I go. I found the meaning of life And it cut like a knife Further and further I bled Bleeding out I fled. We will all burn We will all burn We will all burn And as I stand I fall Further My spine is crooked from lying alone When I die don’t remember me like this, Don’t dwell on my addiction to the order. I wish I counted the days and not the days I had left Stop the sirens, mute the cries Close the chapter and meet the skies, going Further My spine is broken from holding all these lies When I die don’t remember me, Don’t dwell on my existence or my doings in life. I wish I counted the days and not the days I’d left behind Stop the sirens, mute the cries Close the chapter and meet the skies Going on to the end
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The chasm's jaw opens whole As the world falls to benighted dusks Do I tear this world around me apart? Or suffer in eternal silence? We all fall down, One by one Or in our thousands Death for all is come. The overshadowing lustful dark, Inescapably haunting life, Plagues me like an immortal mark Burned into my mind The footsteps we trace upon the earth become a trench, Embedded six foot deep, lined with pyres that can't be quenched.
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Rising from the very depths of nihilistic self-deprecation comes Eris Harlowe's debut full-length, a blend of the darkest genres of metal united by a uniquely hostile sound. Bleak and hateful, Hymni Abyssi flows through projections of force and aggression in a wall of sound to softer, more subtly eerie acoustic melodies, and into truly terrifying ambient offerings, and as a whole forms the soundtrack to a world of resentment. With influences from the likes Gnaw Their Tongues, Emperor, Suicide Silence and Nine Inch Nails, this tribute to the apocalypse of humanity is a force to be heard and to be feared.

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released November 3, 2015

Runtime: 100 minutes

All artwork designed, audio written, recorded, mastered and produced by Renny Hawnetyne, as Eris Harlowe. © 2015, all rights reserved, no unauthorized copying, hiring, publication or distribution permitted.

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Since its inception in 2011, Lancaster black metal project Eris Harlowe has released three EPs and a full-length album, taking influence from extreme metal heavyweights Gnaw Their Tongues, Thy Art Is Murder and Behemoth.

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