Astral Lore, by ASTRAL LORE

Astral Lore

by ASTRAL LORE

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1.	The earth takes its shadows from the sun sinking lower 19:58	lyrics
"The arrow of the hunter Aiming to the light of the fathers An astral apocalypse A hole in the center of the universe The earth taking it’s shadows From the downfall of the stars Universal penumbra The great irradiance Let there be light Where lifeforms dwells Let there be stars In the vast cosmic emptiness Luminous radiation Blessing with it’s warmth Orbiting bodies Around the divinity In time of total eclipse Over a dead system A ghastly remembrance Of incandescence Centuries of despise For the devouring savior Heliocentric adoration To the greater star Feel the warmth Of the arrow from the sun On an endless fight With the immortal serpent Heliocentric adoration As the sun is sinking Below the horizon The mind of the fidels Unveil to chaos The cult of the sun Hiding in the shadows A whole system crumbles Empty eyes to grey skies The cult of the sun Has been failed By the glowing all-knowing God that has abandoned us Oh, cult of the sun An abandoned earth Left in ashes and suffering Damned wandering souls In eternal penance Empty shells On a ravaged dead world Gazing at the cosmos Waiting for the return Looking at all the stars but one The deceased divinity An overwhelming absence Turning to the shade of a memory Drowning in the light Reminiscent fragments The downfall of a star Below the ground, unto the earth Calling To arms Against The vastness of space Fire scorching the horizon Praying to a dissent god Forcing the astral force To a radiant black sky Meaningless incantations To a deaf ring of fire Sacrifice and sanctify The figure of ignition Our crown of thorns Spilling blood to the eye Feeling the scorching pain Of the loss Oh, beloved sun ! Oh, vanished deity ! Take the blood of our sons Blessed be thy aura ! Oh, merciless sun ! Oh, absent figure ! We kneel before thy Supremacy Oh, eternal sun Oh, hidden and almighty Our flesh belong to thee Irradiance will set us free Mutilating to the bone In the hope of a return Reduced to piles of frost and ashes In the longest of nights The earth takes it’s shadow From the sun sinking lower The earth takes it’s shadow From the sun sinking lower Witnesses to the downfall of a star Unaware of the doom to come Insects on a cosmic scale Particles among infinity The earth takes it’s shadows From the sun sinking lower The earth takes it’s shadows From the sun sinking lower This is the end Deaf to our prayers This is the final stand Before the longest night The sun is gone Rapture of the star Everlasting isolation From the vast creation The sun is gone Forever gone Our sun is gone We are alone"
2.	As a pillar of fog by day and as of fire by night 14:56	lyrics
"A haunted village Crawling mist and putrid stench Inhabited by the fools The grotesque and deformed The reign of a cult To the outer dimensions Blood on the walls Unholy rituals Invocation Of the highest pillar Curse of the unborn Demiurge of the void As the darkness devour the sun Rise a blood red aura Descending from the stars Cursed bridge to a thousand eyes The pillar of blapshemous fog Set ablaze in the darknest night Blessing illumination The mark of an unholy sign The pillar of blapshemous fog Set ablaze in the darknest night The pillar of blapshemous fog Set ablaze in the darknest night Fidels circling the altar Empty eyes open in nothingness Sacrifice of flesh and blood To the greater cataclysm The pillar of toxic mist Reflecting the rays of light Turning to a scorching tower Irradiating the deepest night Advancing toward their doom The funeral procession Under the whirling threatening clouds Change the color of this world This is a funeral march Step by step advancing forward Into the downward abyss The storm down below Pillar of fog Drowning in daylight Pillar of fire Scorching the darkest night Wanderers in the ruins Crawling through the dust The remains of An ancient world Deepest delusion Of a wicked invocation Malevolent Storm of despair Heralds of the end The weight of a condemnation The incandescent march To an obscure veil A mass sacrifice Of obedient followers Hierophants of death Sealing the faith of thousands"
3.	Wandering down the path towards the light 16:37	lyrics
"Buried deep Downward a coffin of rocks and ashes Searching for the light Illumination down above Crackling skin And adamant bones Feral golem In isolation The earth as a coffin Watching a sky of solid rocks A hollow infinity In the darkest caves Forlorn ray of light The only guide To ever see the stars Above the mineral ocean Forgotten creatures Stone eaters An ancient realm Doomed to a fractal curse Once were gods Before castaway Dwellers in the burning core Of a melting planet Arising below the ground Ruler under the surface Merging organs of solid rock Irrational ravager gaze Doomed eaters of stone Herald of the last season The fracture of the earth Back to the primordial The fracture of the earth Back to the primordial Now follow the light Descending to the center Of a melting decaying body Cursed to implosion The reshaping of continents Exploding in blinding lights A new extinction Reset of the surface On this ground sarcophagus Buried pariahs to mankind Locked under the mantle Wanderers downward History is rewritten Locked down under centuries Answers lying beneath The glowing path Chosen ones made of stone Eternal wanderers Following the path to the light Deeper and deeper The reshaping of continents Exploding in blinding lights A new extinction Reset of the surface On this ground sarcophagus Buried pariahs to mankind Locked under the mantle Wanderers downward Trapped within the centuries Erratic lost souls In a realm of stone Forgotten but never gone A radiant beacon Last hope of a race Rejected devoid of flesh Abandoned messiahs Rejected devoid of flesh Abandoned messiahs Rejected devoid of flesh Abandoned messiahs We are Wandering down the path toward the light In the hope of a new Horizon Forever we’ll be Wandering down the path toward the light Forever we will Suffer Altered state of evolution Standing above the proving ground Feeling the wind and the rain Drowning the tears of despair Unmovable against the tide Of the endless passing of time Looking in the eye of the storm Of desecration Forever we’ll be Wandering down the path toward the light Forever we will Suffer Forever we’ll be Wandering down the path toward the light Forever we will Suffer Forever we will Suffer The reshaping of continents Exploding in blinding lights A new extinction Reset of the surface On this ground sarcophagus Buried pariahs to mankind Locked under the mantle Wanderers downward Forever Wandering down this path Toward the brightest light"

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"... there are blasts and frenzy, there are winding motifs that remind me of Morningrise-era Opeth, and there are even little medievalist flourishes. This is a record that is progressive more by arrangement than funny time signatures or crazy virtuosic solos. The keys on here are particularly tasty; a lot of black metal bands are, to be frank, bad with keyboards, selecting chintzy patches and mixing them in a way that either drowns out the guitars (sacrilege!) or just kind of whine in the background. Here, they gel with the strings and vocals, thickening but not overpowering the sound."

- consequence.net

"...it has to be said straightforwardly that a strong misanthropy and just a very large amount of sorrowful, aura of hopelessness beats from 'Astral Lore’. It’s just that this is given not in a typical and boring way, but in a fashion that captures the listener’s attention. The riffs are largely tremolo and chord playing, and melodies ringing out on open strings in a staccato technique. From the sounds oozes uneasiness, graven horror. The credit for this goes not only to the riffs and song construction, but also to the sound. It’s heavy, sultry, and despite the rawness the guitars present, it’s definitely professional (of course, it hasn’t been over-sweetened). And then there are the vocals… Here also lies a huge asset for building atmosphere in ASTRAL LORE’s music. Full of emotion, like a skilled juggler they shift in tonality depending on the need of a particular part of the song."

- wrotakrypty.com

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released February 9, 2024

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