Shroud of Despondency/LanzerRath Split

by LanzerRath

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Pre-order of Shroud of Despondency/LanzerRath Split. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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releases May 10, 2024

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1.	*The Source of Multiversal Degradation (Single Preview) 05:26	lyrics	buy track
Adrift in the stars-synthesized essence Eternal despair-purposeful strife Conflict at the core-the center of time All life that springs forth-a vessel to begrime Make filthy and true Promise to make new All the seeds scattered across the omniverse will yield Crops of wounds never healed The force that causes all seeds to disperse revealed As sickness that can’t heal Intrusive energy Contravenes dignity-it violates Supplements stringency-the moral guide With malignity Sours the fruit of life with its partial design This catastrophic force, the source of decadence divine Created by the humans-of all their rot inside Now their poison is unconfined Let loose on all words Unconfined To break open all worlds The source of multiverses degradation and of all pain Pilgrimage of a sickness in the soul An illness that traverses space and time Atrophy of all wormholes Cut off from all cosmic worlds Excursion of all psyches in distress Collective discomfort now molds all time Maladies and worldly stress Create all new cosmic worlds Instantaneous universal cessation of a will to live, thrive, decide, and to love Be all, end all Be all, end all Quintessential death Be all, end all Vicious genesis It never heals
2.	*Celestial Venom
3.	**Nebular Collapse: The Dissolution of Order and Meaning (Single Preview) 06:06	lyrics	buy track
Do we only live because we don't want to die? What good even comes from living? The sun will live another 5 billion years It's essence spreading throughout space and time As my body wilts and decays, festering against infinite solar rays A tesseract amongst oblivion To become one with nothing, is one with something, useless, Void made null I gaze up at distant stars Wondering what could have been My sight stares down time Into ages lost anew Tendrils of your soul Drifting from every action, fades into the future Defining the past Coalesce into the present Beyond the scope of suffering Live my life as timeless being Burn and yearn for cosmic explosion To be freed from eternal erosion Let the heat drain away From life and its stain In our death you all shall go To the ancient cosmic home I want to feel One last thing if it was real Ancient forests, sentient life From a timescale peaked on fucking grains of sand Sharing my conceptual time Bringing suffering Counting these seconds of mine Insubstantial cries wrought with lies Ages of man Centuries of a malignant span Delving into ecstasy Upon your demise you'll realize Your life is but the death of man Inconsequential has proven your demise But gifting life falls to time Thought is death I'm numbed by a cosmic narcotic I don't feel anything at all I'm perpetually orbiting the solar void I'm drifting in the dark space I don't see any light or hope I'm trapped in a silent maze I don't hear any sound or note Galactic strife Feeding on despondent souls Your short lives Are not worth even a note In Moon's light Reflection of all that you know Rise from man Journey the cosmos alone A means to an ending of existence Beyond the bonds of mortality Outside the realm of time Unaffected by gravitous force I don't have a purpose or a goal I search to feel from the void I live trapped in time I'm numb to the joy of life Frozen arrows pierce your heart Wrath of ancients you impart Birthed by light in cosmic mold What life shows, in death's hold Oh holy one of light Shine down on blackest night From the darkness we arrive Calling ancients to our grave Razing fire we shall face In the ending of our days When you watch all depraved Nearly ancient harboring Do not survive Not even afterlife Can find no solace In solar fucking haze Blackness wields the strength Of this aggression In this night of totality Suffering where life springs Mounts through the veil of hope Bang your head On cosmic planes Father of time Shine out your life Wrought in the starscape Pulled to the void Yet your light shines on As your black grows inside But when you exist beyond dates of man Punished by the desolation of gravity's expanse Despair is the result And no one shall live The sun rose awakening the galaxy Ancient beyond our comprehension A mass of charged particles Awaiting it's ending I gaze up at dying stars Wondering what should have been My sight just a dream Into ages lost entombed From my radiance shine Lunar shimmer Unseen in a starless sky The nebula Folds into chaos Congealing mass Stretched beyond Supernova remnants

about

Behold this union of cosmic black metal! Shroud of Despondency and LanzerRath have teamed up to bring you three epics of nihilism and despair.

Tracks 1 and 2 were written and recorded by Shroud of Despondency*
Track 3 was written and recorded by LanzerRath**

NOTE- The preview versions presented in the pre-order are shortened single versions of the respective tracks. Each side of this split EP is twenty minutes, for a total split runtime of forty minutes.

credits

releases May 10, 2024

Shroud of Despondency-

Ron Blemberg - Nasty hero vocals
Rory Heikkila - All instruments, programming, smooth as silk vocals
Danny Washburn - Additional biker vocals
shroudofdespondency.bandcamp.com

LanzerRath-

I - Lyrics, Vocals
II - Music, Vocals, Production
III - Vocals
III I - Vocals
III II - Art, Design
III III – Vocals, Mellotron
III III I – Vocals

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LanzerRath Michigan

LanzerRath was formed in a drunken focus to create something truly unbound by musical "theory" and stale compositions, but rather spontaneity and energy . We believe passion and raw emotion are what drives black metal.