Languishing in the illusion
Mirage of graven gold
A banquet for the meek
Famine to the bold
Reduced to ruminants, stricken
A spiritual malaise
Heads bowed in reverence
Beneath a gleaming blade
Blind, with bound hands they are led through the maze
Eternally mindful of the keepers of the cage
Like a lurching ship in a perilous storm
Staying the course with dismay
Deception and aspersion
By vipers in the rule
Doctrines, institutions
Reining in the fools
Insidious locution
An idiom uncloaked
The inmates, disaffected
Seek refuge in revolt
The threads that bound so taut, so tight
Severed twain that dreadful night
Structures fall by nimble fire
The strident masses rise
All points converge upon collapse
Attempted absconding by those who oppressed
Vanished like rabbits into the brush
The oration of ammo from firing squads
Upheaval unleashed, night of fire in the garden
Woe, for the hand has risen against the oculus
Women and children wailing in somber timbres
While temerity of men fills the streets with carrion
Those who cry for return are greeted with death or lashings
Taken for those who wore their fetters as finery
Coldly, in the end, man cannot escape his madness
As all forge ahead through ordeals of the labyrinth
supported by 32 fans who also own “Vortex of Horror”
Mikolaj is a real multi-talent in bass as well as guitar as well as vocals and "Darkside" Maciej's drumming is a well-calibrated 100th-of-seconds-clockwork. Not for nothing is Mgla considered as a standard for a lot of other blacker-than-black metal bands. I hope to see this band live once..... grote_smurf
supported by 27 fans who also own “Vortex of Horror”
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
supported by 22 fans who also own “Vortex of Horror”
Very late to the party, but for several years I've found melodic black metal all too similar and all albums sounding like Dissection, etc... HOWEVER, not only I am back into it but UADA is still a layer of complexity above the main baseline and this is an old album worth having, that's a basic milestone in UADA's discography and I felt it needed to be part of my BC collection. sachavonkarl74
supported by 22 fans who also own “Vortex of Horror”
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74