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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lyrics
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
supported by 4 fans who also own “The Horror of Your Throne”
This has been staple listening for me since I first got the CD in 2006. Raw but not to the extent that it is unlistenable, the riffs are heavy and memorable, with each song having it's own identity.
Wartooth's vocals are certainly a highlight of Bretwaldas' sound. Rough and gritty, in the best way, as he snarls out lyrics about Dark Ages warriors, heathenism and nature. If you can imagine if Lemmy was a Brummie and sang on an early Black Sabbath album then you're getting somewhere near the sound of this Midlands duo.
This album is class from beginning to end but if I was to have to choose highlights I'd go for album opener The Haunted Ride, Iron Skies (a song of two gloriously different halves) and Beneath the Eaves. The latter appeared on a CD with Zero Tolerance magazine way back and was the undisputed stand out track on there. Grimslath