Passage to the End

by Gravelust

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Jason Gilbert I don't know if most fans of extreme metal are similar to me in the way that this style of music can get oppressive where most albums in this spectrum don't have immediate replay value. For me, most of these albums can be exhausting by the end. Don't misunderstand, this is the very reason I dig this stuff. But every now & then comes an album that somehow gets STUCK in my head and I can't stop listening to it. These are rare gems and THIS is one of them. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

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1.	Tenets of Blade and Bone 05:50	lyrics	buy track
Rejoice! In decay Your bothers have fallen amidst the fray Steadfast behind The Veil Reckoning hour , the time has come to prevail! ENTER THE REALM OF THE BEASTLY BRIGADE WITH TOOTH AND CLAW, YOUR FATE HAS BEEN MADE EPIPHANY, YOUR REALITY WITHERS WITH STEEL IN HAND THE TIME TO ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK! I’ll show you a way in which wolves led astray can reform their strength from the blade Damage and strife, you were born in the night, culmination of true destiny Kicking and screaming, we all go down leaving behind what we feared once before Stand now and fight, in this darkest of nights, when the wolves are now here at your door Hunger for more keeps you going, DECAY, in the night you can see through the black Days, months, and years they go by like a page with knives that still stand in your back Ride on through the night, feast on tears, pain, and plight, for this may be your last attack Gravelust decay, moonlight on crimson blades, defiant you now lead the pack ATTACK! An ode to the fallen Those who have touched the black flame Never to be forgotten But never to rise again From forth these lungs a canticle An ode to all who are brave For all your worth this ghostly hymn, united by the Black Flame
2.	Admonished Decay and the Somnolent Swain 05:36	lyrics	buy track
How have I come so far? Yet gained no ground Seek the luminous planes of unreach Unreal epoch of tragedy Concealing sanguine decay, each hour ablaze in the light of dismay Status detached like a bolt from a latch Cryptic visions of the night and that day Traverse the realm of sickness with fervor Inch by inch your line getting shorter Boots stuck in the mud Lungs filling with blood Still, your face to the wind Your rivals again shall see you grin Rising now quicker, Steel flash, not a quiver Let them all feel your blade! Repeats Rising From the depths, an endless charade Vow To depart this coiled state Yearning For an end, a fate that is not Dying, egress to your final state Repeats
3.	Vanished in the Grey 05:17	lyrics	buy track
Ashen destroyers of light Earthen flock disabled by fright Iron clad we arise A warrior’s cry Molten lathes in the night Glistening steel by my side (ARISE) Behold the ghastly final sight THE ARRIVAL, DESTROYERS OF THE LIGHT! Messengers come from a far To deliver a global scar Total cleanse of this ancient rock To restore the order before the flock Amidst an ocean of discord and black Unhesitant, asteroidal attack Duty beheld from the cosmic order Ripping light to reveal final sight Ashen warriors of the night Earthen flock disabled by plight Iron destroyers we arise (DEMISE) THE ARRIVAL, DESTROYERS OF THE NIGHT! Harkening a graven path Torn between the future and past Silent beneath the stars Reaching further, it slips through your grasp Amidst an ocean of discord and black Putrid torment, as you plan your attack Crimson dreams, ghastly lucid screams Cast away, vanished in the Grey
4.	Gravelust 07:02	lyrics	buy track
I’ve come so far from The Abyss 6 years gone by, from release from the pit Nocturnal strength my journey goes on After light fades away, I become Gravelust burning strong, yet dim Black flame calls to me from within Upon the altar, ceremonial sin Forever, my sentence of atrament Gravelust decay Turn to dust, led astray From the stars, we dirt to dirt Enigmatic Death Thirst Searching for a realm Of divination within this hell From the stars we turn to dust ENSHROUD ME WITH GRAVELUST But is there more? Is this not the end? Must I go on with darkness, my old friend? Day by day, try to see what is not Within this skin, I continue, continue to rot Dying mind, mortal blood Cosmic doom, spiritual rust Entombed until the end Gravelust, my only friend
5.	Black Flame Precept 05:49	lyrics	buy track
I’ll show you the light with the tip of a knife Hiding inside From the truth of the strife From inception doomed, first light of the darkness of day Thrust onto this soil, not long before you decay Innocence, fleeting glimpse of what was once thought Ensnared by the cosmos, mortal coil you begin to rot BLACK FLAME PRECEPT, RIPPING STEEL, BONE, AND FIRE ASOMATOUS SMOLDERING, UNDYING PRIMAL DESIRE RIPPING STONE, ENGRAVED, THE BLACK FLAME ENSHROUDS CIMMERIAN BREATH, BRINGER OF DEATH, THE TENETS OF BLADE AND BONE Not long before incipient epiphany A slow drip of asomatous black oil Paints a visage of your imminent demise Intrepid aptitude for perpetual suffering Realm of madness, indentured atrophy Divine illumination, endless stagnation The Black Flame calls with divination! From inception doomed, first light of the darkness of day Thrust onto this soil, not long before you decay BLACK FLAME PRECEPT, RIPPING STEEL, BONE, AND FIRE ASOMATOUS BLACK OIL, UNDYING PRIMAL DESIRE RIPPING STONE ENGRAVED ALONE, THE BLACK FLAME ENSHROUDS CIMMERIAN BREATH, BRINGER OF DEATH, THE TENETS OF BLADE AND BONE
6.	Howling in Conflagration 05:16	lyrics	buy track
Malignant legions of black descend with the wall at our back Onwards, cryptwards, decay - Battle cry atramentous this day Solvent disintegrate, permeated shroud they desecrate Fire, ice, wind in my eyes Onwards, grave by my side Unaware, death’s stare Reckoning, the sun shall not rise It seems the grip has been lost Of soul and mind, a holocaust Clandestine rip, like the crack of a whip Forward into permanence Tombs of swirling, chaotic, decay Engaged sentient, ids of dismay - deathless, breathless Crippling grasp, of a fate in dismay Ritual attrition, ruminations consume Compelled to eradicate soothsayers of doom Nocturnal destruction, damaged steel now stained with rust Execrate this cursed soil, molten lathed destroyers unjust I walk in fire, that which most will never know Baptized in flame each day until I go below Ritual of time and space, a notch upon this rock Augur enshrouded by this cursed mortal flock
7.	Abhorrents from Beyond the Reach 05:44	lyrics	buy track
Fallen down on the earth From sentient stars, upheaval of the dirt Ripping through dark soil Harken the arrival of the coils! Emerge mystic, abhorrent exiles To summon what was never seen before, a visage of empires Inducting leaders, leaders of the hordes Mankind’s arrival Extra solar origin from inception To place rule through the veil Cultivating from beyond the reach To nurture life within the Grey Deep So this shall be an indentured reality Harvesting our essential oils Stare beyond the veil and see The fingers of misfortune Poachers of dimensional obtrusion An empire built from decay Subliminal echoes of echelons past Eternal reckoning from underneath The Grey Reach inside Burning eyes What was once, and what will be Burning eyes liquefy Within the axis of The Grey Reach Reach inside Unchained eye What was once and what will be Burning eyes liquefy Within the axis of The Grey Reach
8.	Infinite Waves of Illness Within the Numinous Chantry of Ruin 05:47	lyrics	buy track
I Am I near my destination? (Perchance at last) A waning husk, I have been, on this path to muteness Be-kept my aim: unwavering (Inertia stillborn) Torment of pleasure to pulverize stone: oblivion I exalt... From the realms: ominous I extol: calamitous! (To régimes) II Each day fills with aghast: this is now fate Inside rescinding walls, one soul may not last Infinite waves: chantry of ruin Illness incarnate: the perdition to raze Each night scathes with smelting imposture! III Am I sightless in this plighting bind? A scorning devotee of my own design This cannot be – No! I have seen flames turn to ashes (Pollen) Tear irp bone from red bone! II: Refrain IV Scathing... I exalt! Trouncing... I revere! To the perch: pathetic! I re-spurn: prophetic! To régimes of decay! V: Chorus Now, the molten lead is hardening steel Upon the flesh: huff in the dread Numinous chantry of ruin The disease disperses! Now, the limitless bodies lie faint Above the loss: snort in the pong Numinous chantry of ruin Hecatombs flourishing! Now, the infinite waves of illness Magnetize: lick off the birth Numinous chantry of ruin Celebrate immolation!

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released February 11, 2022

Dan Klein - Drums, guitar, bass, vocals
RIchard Olsen - Lead guitar, solos
Ed Escamilla - guest vocal on 'Tenets of Blade and Bone'
Proscriptor McGovern - Vocals on 'Infinite Waves of Illness Within the Numinous Chantry of Ruin'

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Dan Klein at Iron Hand Audio in Chicago, IL

Cover art by Adam Burke

Logo by Sang Ho Moon

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