The sun grows stronger as I grow weaker
The snow melts beneath my dying body
Every shimmer of hope or strength
Bombarded, ended
Alone with my dreams and memories
To depart in the barren white cold
Defeated by the winter
Crushed beneath hunger
Extinguished by thirst
The life I lived
I gracefully relinquish my will to live
So I sink into the snow
My eyes close
My mind drifts into blackness
The weight of me is leaving this living body
A barren construction dragged far beyond the touch of gentle light and soothing caress
And I awake into another world
Emerging through a portal of summer leaves
Where the sun smiles upon my beautiful children
Illuminating ablaze, a lover's blooming eyes
The sun sets behind cerulean hills
Giving birth to the moon's rise
As the water flows gently beneath our clasped hands
We live and we die by the moon's pale light
Shining us on through the faded eyes of lifeless time
Burning light emerges in the white sky
Ripping my mind back to the surface
Squinting in the rays of the sun
To find myself still pinned against the bleak terrain
Certain now that here I will die
I raise a withered hand to block the light
Frozen breath chokes inside
Casts a broken shadow
My body is drained empty
My blood it has run dry
The storm and what it has taken from me
Forsaken life left behind
The sun shines brightly, peeling back the snow
Revealing the grey beneath
Drops begin to fall gently on my eyelids
And the clouds begin to form
Allowing the rain to finally pour
The storm and what it has taken from me
Forsaken life left behind
Candlelit smiles live on in others' eyes
But they burned out in mine
The wind that brings the cold
Rustles the curtains in my mind
Ending the thirst
Become nothing
Falling asleep in the morning rain
The project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Marz Rieste explores dark fantasy themes through menacing, doomy black metal.
Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 9, 2024
The Toronto death metallers expand their ferocious cosmos yet again with elements of prog, post-rock, and even jazz. Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 25, 2023