Earth Made Flesh

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"The pact of bones and blackness, the voice declaimed to him. The collection of shadows... shadows binding bones... skeletons becoming shadows. And he came to understand other things: the land stripped of flesh... the reeking earth ripped clean and rising into the great blackness. This reverberant discourse had made him its student, imparting theories and practice: bones pummeled into purity... parts turned into brilliant particles... the shadows seeded with the voice of skulls... the many voices within eternal blackness... the tenebrous harmony."
-Thomas Ligotti

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released December 31, 2017

Nuurag-Vaarn [M.Ö.]: Guitars, vocals, keyboards, alto saxophone, alto recorder, melodica, percussions, drum programming, bass programming, composition, lyrics, production, mixing, mastering and artwork (original painting by Hieronymus Bosch).

Released on Spotify and elsewhere by Inverse Records.

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Track Name: Break the Seal
Hard is it on earth
With mighty whoredom
Axe-time, sword-time
Shields are sundered
Wind-time, wolf-time
'ere the world falls

Nor ever shall men
Each other spare
In fear quake all
Who on Hel-roads are

Yggdrasil shakes
And shiver on high
The ancient limbs
And the giant is loose

Bale and hatred
I bring to the gods
And their mead
With venom I mix

A place prepare for me
A feast I fain wouldst see
The mountains burst
Earth burned with fire

Break the seal

(Adapted from the Poetic Edda)
Track Name: The Greater Festival of Masks
Time again, exhaustion of the flesh
Engorge the body, the streets run red
Their horrible dancing, dauntless gaze
Alluring rouse, join in, embrace

Coming of age, you'll finally see
The true meaning of the festivities
Revere the role bestowed by the mask
Complete each ritual occult task

Later follow us to the eldritch lair
See the ancestral ones, pale and fair
Beyond the earth, unending vastness
Scintillating ever-flowing darkness

At midnight will it be revealed
Who or what you've always been
Finally suited to metamorphose
Fortify the mind as body contorts

Old features swapping with the mask
The new appearance, grotesque and grand
Shed the flesh, grow up into a man
Thus the greater festival began

(Inspired by Thomas Ligotti)
Track Name: Saturnalia
Saturnalia
The last feast of Harlequin
Maggots by starlight...
Track Name: Abomination
The colored pictures painted by life
I see them only by gloomy twilights
Like distorted shadows, cloudy and cold
Hardly born, already defeated by death
And since the mask fell from everything
I see only death, disgrace and plagues

Mankind's heroless tragedy
A bad play, staged on graves and corpses
This terrible dream-view disgusts me
But a higher force wants me to stay
A comedian who speaks his role
Full of desperation and boredom

Obscenely teeming mass
Corruption of life and death
Gyrating human mess
An abomination

(Partly adapted from Georg Trakl)
Track Name: Primordial Waters / The Well of Urth
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Track Name: The One as Chaos and Egg
The one
As chaos
And egg

I wot that I hung
On the wind-tossed tree
All of nights nine
Wounded by the spear

Bespoken myself to myself
Upon that tree
Of which none telleth
From what roots it doth rise

Neither horn they upheld
Nor handed me bread
I looked below me
Aloud I cried

Healing
Wailing
Transforming
Devouring

Sacrifice
Transcending
Dreaming itself
And all

The one
As chaos
And egg...

(Partly adapted from the Poetic Edda)

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