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Pyres of Lamentation (2016)

by LITANY

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Our second full length cd released by Eat Metal Records on December 16, 2016.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Pyres of Lamentation (2016) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Niobe 09:15
She boasted about her seeds o’ fairness That filled the bottle of her life’s pride and consciousness Seven sons and seven daughters her doughty heritage Blessed under a royal veil covering all her needs She decreed: “I am bonifate! Much more blessed as Leto is! Tantalus daughter hail! I am divine!” Her delirium forced Leto to incite Apollo And Artemis to rage and vengeable wrath “Shine on and kill, with all your might Die is her children dew, mourning tears her price Make her see all ‘em dead, doom her to wail Therewithal un-ended pain to jar upon her life” Artemis slew the females and Apollo chas’d the males Upon the Mount Kynthus they all tasted his arrows’ nails Ismenos the first-born fell lifeless with an arrow from above Eft-soon time came for a’ to be at death’s door (And then they finally died) Niobe now’s bairnless, rich-less with an umbrageous heart Nothin’ can ease her pain, she’s been torn a-part Her arrogance and stoutness against god’s omnipotence Alas! Lo and behold! Her voiceless woe Crimson procession baited her eyes Dead slain bodies all around, ghastly doom her price She wept for days, (a fin) was turned into a stone That sheds tears on and on upon the Mont Sipylon Crimson parade baited her eyes Dead slain bodies all around, grisly doom her price She wept for days, (a fin) was turned into a stone That sheds tears on and on upon the Mont Sipylon Niobe
2.
Firewaters 05:52
I pain me for I am sinner I’m cast into the nether realm An’ with one gesture I my soul shrew To wander along the flammeous stream Me must suffer the judges’ sentence Me must call upon my victims So that I’ll receive forgiveness And to acquire mercy Flum o’ fire Seethes with ooze and water Its torrents clipped m’ in My torment might come t’ an end Acc I caun’t bee reless’d Mi boone nile bee ‘hyerd Wo! I’ll b’ erryd vor ‘on yeer mo On-till obteine merci Plutonian peccables moan in a din of scathe-fire Their orison feed the river with pain Abysmal echoes escry fo’ remission In Phlefeton In Phlegeton Fire waters But I can’t be released My boon won’t be heard Woe! I’ll be wand’ring for one year mo’ Until obtain mercy
3.
The trench of youngling Through unseen eyes Young stout lads are treading In furnace they flood T’ absterse their soul So purity t’ obsign A new life chapter A-nothir chaptre Horns that spill blood Upon painted walls Not but an occult token Young athels dance Solemn romance Ceremony o’er speechless woe The rites of passage The rites of passage The rites of doom A generation calls upon you Amaranthine earth restores the message Anguishous Zephyrus inclines his visage Benign nature that knows no mercy Unspeakable doom shall rush upon, so let it be Doom! The rites of passage The rites of passage The rites of doom A generation calls upon you
4.
Psykhe 05:40
Ador’d bi hir bwety piereles Object o’ dep admiracioun Drouthy eghne apon hir Yearnin’ uor hir domynacioun Her countenance exalted Great fame procreation Her virtues of great disport Arousing citizens’ procession Bot godes Aphrodite Cou’dna ese hir yrritasioun Che shan’t shar’ hir magti glore Che shan’t brwk vague adoracioun Eros the voluptuous Shall perform his mother service She wove the very tale She spoke of wishes veng’ful (Meanwhile) Psykhe weeps for her lonesomeness Loathes her beauty (while) the world belauds She’ll be renounced on a lofty Mount-rock She shall betroth “Death” him-self (Meanwhile) Psykhe weeps for her lonesomeness Abhors her beauty (while) the world belauds She’ll be renounced on a lofty Mount-rock She shall betroth “Death” him-self The ceremony of a joyous bridal Tailed ‘way into a torch-lit exequy Th’ attended crowd felt the wretchedness Of this living lich, now a lachrymose princess
5.
Abjuration 06:18
O thow, wha swynkest vor monkynne’s weal Tel me prithee whaut brac the seal And howe bi hit thou belaudest theself Sobeit thi folc still laden thie wyth pelf Have thou heard about the sky secret gates? Are still ajar? Or else, for aye they’ll be lost And earthly creatures somewhither shall betake In dusk-angels’ hall, belike, in their ache For why hir contemplacioun o’ futurity rillth Lento a’ noght amaign, sobeit hir Lege wenth Th’t terraqueous wyndys ‘nd eiris schal ablaw alee Uorr the dorc abloom burkth the gladsom glee Alack! If thou foreshowest thy mankind’s doom Alack! If thou betakest in gatherin’ gloom For twinging sha’ long for thy loyalty’s sake Like fowls in their cage who canna escape And the Dawn in woe From Earth shall go In rathe space deep For sempiternal sleep “Farwel!” Spake to me “Nyltow lyst hwat thou’lst se Folwe me in mi dei fliht And abscind fr’m Hym, mi soote deliht” Thou! Loyal servant of th’ auriferous day Thou spreadest thy wings to steer thyself astray Thyself away Wherefore snowy Fate with frozen and thinly dispersed eyes Uncoils the clew of nascent lives with wiles crooked Wicked sleight
6.
Hobbling o’er the dark clad lands of sorrow Great hero whilom, now’s a ribald without morrow To th’ other side fell I, calcined down whence I thought Alas! Ere ‘twas glory, but Moirae nailed me to abide Boreas raises my soul to rise up to the liege Sol Unto death to fly, wond’red toward Lethe to fall Banished, exiled unto water flitting to and fro Plashless unfold my wings, and let ‘em slowly die Tis renewed, but gave me a far well O, a soulless (living) body, what tales to tell? My mournful mind’s storming my thought To whom I pay, to whom I ought Olympians did rejoice, boast did lament Thy craft was defied, mans’ life was dispended Th’ earth reflects an old man’s guilt Thrall of thy deed, not what had he wished Ay! Quoth I “what pride thou beholdst?” Eft soon my spirit thine empty hands shall hold Notion’s on life though a victor o’er thee Free folk, full energy’s what I do see Or in Olympus, or on earth and sea I will rule in a world of worlds Gracious sovereign, to time’s Telos (My) Season of sapience
7.
The Curse 04:36
We honour your name With flesh and blood Our souls are ready For you my lord Divine damnation Idol of wrath For him who consumes The human heart Keeper, enlightener, bless us all Father, saviour of our cursed souls Watcher, redeemer, wanderer, Lycaeus is your name Wolf eyes like dark lights Ten years of sin Flesh quest and bloodlust Haunted in me Betray my own kind Creep among the beasts Dark woods to dwell in Dark lie my dreams Keeper, enlightener, bless us all Father, saviour of our cursed souls Watcher, redeemer, wanderer, Lycaeus is your name On the darkest nights I’m lurking at your trail I can smell and savour the air of your breath But if I choose not to feast on human flesh Maybe god will grant me “Life of Man” again Liar, deceiver, cursed us all Ungracious, abhorrent, tempter of our souls Merciless, wicked, slanderer, Lycaeus was your name
8.
Thou engendered science to attain the highest goal Thus to reach godhood Thou usest it for our own bliss? Thou usest it for thine own bliss? Palladian man thou parted virtue from gnosis Ill form of sapiences Shambolic doings and self-interest Fiercely adverse to righteousness Thou dost not care, deception advances e’er longer the more All for humanity Malengine, false notion and ill-sageness Sapience turned to doubleness Thou dost heed not if thou disfigurest cognizance Mathesis misprision Thou used it for thine own thrift Thou used it for thine own thrift Lo! The lowest form of evil subtlety Thou shouldest believe it, treachery and deceit Lo! The lowest form of evil stratagem Of soul malicious, fraud and deceit Mathesis seditious, fallacy on loft
9.
Furies 06:21
Come forth ye night-born sisters Sable-clad queens o’ genitals blood Doom laden maidens, mind freebooters Snaky-haired virgins, venomous flood Hearken to our boon, to our rite incline Rein your ire back and cease your wrath Doom laden maidens, bereavers of minds Inhabitants of Erebos emerge Hear our prayer and solemn request Appease your ire and cease from wrath Ghostly figures quick as the mind Swift and unseen one of a kind Tartarian daughters mutely approach The rite to rejoice not to encroach Off they flew the stygian furies Just as an arrow shaped to jow The Dike’s eye to brusque scoundrels Whose deeds sprinkle out of th’ unjust flow Abominable and black, dwellers of dark Dance to the melody in solemn mode Sagacious, grave and sad, though joyous and blithe Erynies in a merry procession Amaranthine, sharp as the mind Aerial, one of a kind Daughters of Nyx quietly approach The rite to add grace not to encroach Mightily called Eumenides
10.
Infinite 01:02
11.
Spaces 07:43
Kinesis eternal, dance harmonious Circular flot’ring gives birth to sirenic cries Celestial bodies fast by the sun give low tunes While the distant spheres deliver high sounds All blended – Harmony Th’ entire Heavens A musical scale ‘nd a number Music’s soul-catharsis And soul’s the meddling of opposites Soniferous stars one with us Their immense sound in our ears from birth Enormous sound in our ears from birth Sound and silence, indistinguishable Spaces Kinesis eterne, dance harmonious Music’s present a-spacing of the spheres The matter of stars, remind us who we are The symphony o’ Cosmos, polyphony Psalms universal on our senses and emotions Shall aid our souls to (re)gain tis dignity and tru(e) estate

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released December 16, 2016

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LITANY Athens, Greece

Litany crew is:

PANAYIOTIS DRIVAS: GUITAR
ALEX TSANTILAS: GUITAR
NICK VARSAMIS: VOCALS
GEORGE KOUMPAROULIS: BASS
JIM EKONOMOU: DRUMS

Done so far:

•(October 2011): Promo containing 3 songs.
•(May 2008): debut full-length album from E.M.R entitled “Aphesis: The Sapience of Dying”
•(2004): a 7 inch single containing two songs
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