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Dark Solstice

by SYMBEL

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    Five track cassette OMM5CASS SYMBEL - DARK SOLSTICE EP Hand numbered, limited 25. Old stock blue and ferric tapes. Five different tracks from different times with different production. The last Symbel release. Thanks.

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1.
Deep in the snarls of root and bog With no bearing or way to know home when you’re lost, it’s you you’ll find and the horror of your throne Distant green haze offers no direction light only extant as homogenous ooze alone in the forest a cliche of madness slave to the rise and the fall of the moon When will the prince become a king? or maybe an old man cursing the passing of time? Ha ha ha ha! All of us circling prowling the trees grey eyes of ash laughing at me A thousand seeds, a thousand hairs and eyes cast their silent gaze upon the stranger silver streaks of hazel whip at flesh in rage I shout you think of me as nothing! Creatures big and small flee from me the hunter scented beast - the enemy a hooded figure glows and halts beneath the spectral trees he slowly turns, and who do I see? Far in the depths of root and bog With no bearing or way to know home when you’re lost, it’s you you’ll find surrender to your throne! Then I was prince Now I am King Beware the old man… This is my time Mountains of ash watch me rise!
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Slow is the step of the land Way out in the folds of the earth Rolling and twisting in the fall Quickly to rise up once again....
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Interlude II 01:12
4.
Crystal towers that wax and wane through the hissing wind and rain burning flashes jump the lines charging fury breaks the sky Rusted, grey or blackened forms paternal they stoop above fingers offering the breeze wires to tense and then release Every man in every house fed with power they could not dream of Bolted steel all rutted, posted, stamped by nation formed creatures over town and dale they creep turning, twisting, starting over field and fountain idyll of better times watching o’er the mountain L2, L5, breaking forms from metal grids every culture has its numbers coded in its infastructure coded in electric slumber.... Conquering the land, mapping every shore boundaries are claimed by the steel armed sect beautiful they are, like only ugly creatures who stick around long enough can one day be.
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Coming through the molten night those whispers at the gate at graven tree I ‘wait the call its shadows cast so long Only dark will see us now in our sleep we burn like fire peeled back layers of broken time crushed skins with such desire Only dark will see us now in this sleep we watch the fire burning almost everything leaving just this stubborn flower Above it all I feel no thing a calmness and an ennui yet beating still consumes in me t’is the purest synchronicity Only dark will see us now here I cannot stop the fire Only dark can see us now no one will ever stop this fire Morning so blue, uncloaks my world.... Calling through the molten night I heard you at the gate we could have burned all before our power so old and long…

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More eccentric lo-fi English crust black pagan lounge-metal from SYMBEL. Real drums, horrible reverb, filthy guitars, wrongly extended chords, demented lyrics and themes ( or so we are told ) and insolent gruff blackened punk vocals.

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released December 21, 2023

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SYMBEL Birmingham, UK

Formed in 2001 to release pagan crust black metal.

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