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Of Clarity And Galactic Structures

by The Spirit

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TheEliteExtremophile
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TheEliteExtremophile This German band plays a variety of black metal which often feels like a more focused version of what Mare Cognitum plays. The riffs are interstellar and driving. More than one song gives the impression of traveling through a wormhole. The vocals are also surprisingly easy to understand; unclean vocals often barely even register as words to me.

Full review here: theeliteextremophile.com/2022/06/14/odds-ends-june-14-2022/
MetalJazzDnB
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MetalJazzDnB Tremendous album - I can’t get enough of it. On repeat! Favorite track: Celestial Fire.
mourner
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mourner They reduced the speed of their songs a little on this release to go and explore the depths more thoroughly. Very mature and sophisticated album that will grow on you with every repeated listening.
lord_byleth
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lord_byleth The Spirit still deliver high quality melodic black metal. Not hyper fast and brutal but well structured with nice leads. This band needs more recognition. Favorite track: Arcane Wanderer.
H.L.
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H.L. THE SPIRIT represent a very dry black metal style which reminds me at later Satyricon. The vocals are rough but almost understandable like spoken dark words and the songs are complex and not really focused on catchiness or atmosphere. Takes some repeats before it explodes. Check the cool "Celestial Fire". Favorite track: Celestial Fire.
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1.
I withdraw from this world and the tragedy of life Embrace the unknown I clear my mind and free my soul Floating away I withdraw from this world and your foolish beliefs Mysterious secrets Escape the circle of tyranny and reach the moment of clarity Standing at the edge, the wall of light And gaze into the abyss of nothingness The spherical dominion takes possession of me A vast ocean of gloom The dark starless sky An island adrift in the great nothing Peculiar sensation of emptiness Abandoned by the titans As the expanding continues Trivial our grasp of time A link in the cosmic flow Infinite galactic structures I behold the filaments so bright As my spirit and the universe collide Hauled towards the great attractor Insignificant the human factor I soar above the cosmic web Witness the expanse of the void The awareness, I am nothing
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I stared into the deepest black And lost myself to the unknown Returned into this broken shell Like million other souls alone Cycling thoughts the path into madness Everlasting, wrong and truly noxious I reached the climax of dejection Of desperation and desolation Invincible never, I died a thousand times Unable to understand the universal signs Visible nothing, I´m bleeding from within Realize my faith, I have never been The one never to be found The mind never to be trusted Our time is precious and limited But time is futile when the spirit decays Broken and lost I enter the room of illusion Miserable but confident towards the iron structure The belt tight around my neck, one last breath I lean forward and enter the eternal void
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When the rumble starts to rise Transgression Collapse of your world Elapse of reality When the present suddenly transferred to the past And the impossible exists here and now The emerging feeling to be lost No misjudgement only the inevitable tragedy Shocked and unprepared for this brutality The oppressors advantage fear and domination Logic is gone delusion rules Insanity Cloud the mind and undermine the will Terrified and dazed cloak yourself in silence Unable to scream against this mad ideology Revelation of the false and corrupt human nature Excess and greed the attributes of your kind History repeats and so will terror and repression The purest of innocence won´t save you from the claws of the order Death the only way out of this nightmare Servants of suppression slaves of ignorance A dark cloud of madness, impossible to obey the red protocol Locked from higher spheres of the human existence Desecration of power, embracing the manhunt
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Worshipped, praised and feared since the dawn of the human race Creation, the origin and carrier of demise The great conjunction, rise of darkness Proclamation of grief and doom Towering waves of fire Deep inside nuclear art Two collide and become one Stellar existence the cradle of life Born out of elements scattered by dying ancestors into the universe The cosmic cycle Journey into infinity Hail the celestial fire Mass ejections rising higher Spark the inner light Preserver from eternal night Honoured with blood of the weak The flint cuts through the mortal’s flesh Ritual extraction of life A savage human sacrifice The temple drowned in blood Hearts piled up for the stellar god Decapitation the shell goes down Endless repetition of insanity
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Leave the enslavement clockwork and enter a realm Where our mortal flesh and the human era mean nothing This chapter will come to an end The stream of aeons, the catalyst of live and death Neither your monuments nor your pathetic lords Not your bloodline, not the earth you walk is forever I pursue the destination of the universe Doomed to failure Become one with time and space I cross the rim of the heliosphere towards my final quest A passage to the endlessness Become one with the continuum Composition of silence Timbre of infinity As I float through the interstellar medium Trapped in the endless depths of my mind A star goes nova and emerges from the dark The inner relation transforms into a revelation of power The death of one the origin of another An endless mass of phenomena constantly pervades me Metaphysical voices challenge what I have become I surrender myself to the flawless solitude
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A relict from ancient times Child of solar nebula Formation of the constellation Visitors from darker worlds Arcane wanderer Drifting through the vastness Arcane wanderer Concealed in the dark Rise of gravitational force As the giant appears The protector, change of orbit Sealed our destiny A new path has opened Transition done, the titan unleashed Increase of velocity Onwards, the final journey Towards the inner circles A voyage done by others before Hidden from the eye Passing the god of war Blood is still shed And will continue till all life is gone Denied wisdom, deserved to die Disregarded the sky Discovery, far too late The inescapable encounter The final days, mass hysteria Downfall is here The blazing reaper rises in the northern sky Lacerates the five And opens a gate to spiritual darkness Rupture in the crust Release of hell fire The Anthropocene ends Life fades away
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Laniakea 05:07

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Two years after their sophomore “Cosmic Terror”, Germany’s THE SPIRIT once again delve into the vast nothingness of the universe, while capturing the fear of the unknown and humanity’s insignificance within our cosmos in their sound. On their upcoming third offering, “Of Clarity and Galactic Structures”, the duo, consisting of Matthias Trautes (vocals, guitars, bass) and Manuel Steitz (drums), hold on to their black/death metal roots yet take the progressive elements to a whole new level. Whilst the predecessor from 2019 already contained some prog elements, the brain twisting rhythm changes and virtuosic instrumental performance became an essential part of the band’s universe.

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released April 29, 2022

Once again recorded and mixed at the Woodshed Studio, Germany by V. Santura (with the drums being tracked at Iguana Studios by Christoph Brandes), THE SPIRIT’s lyrics usually mix a general misanthropic view on the world with cosmic metaphors and the call to see our often narrow-minded and egocentric existence in the larger context of our whole universe, where none of our daily struggles and vanities ever matter. To distance oneself from this attitude and see the bigger picture can often lead to new clarity, and this thought inspired the album title.

The cover artwork, painted by internationally renowned artist Eliran Kantor

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