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Graves Above

It towers among the clouds
One of the fourteen legends
For long time it has haunted your mind and dreams
The attempt at the way through the spur

Yet no one has returned
A colossus of millenary rocks
A glacier with a pulseless heart
Baptized in everlasting wintertime
Abode of the ancient gods and the dead
You won’t hear the singing of birds
But the sound of iron that cracks the ice
And the loud noise of wind will stun you
To tear you off the mountainside

Graves Above
Six feet under the starry vault
Graves above the clouds
And the mortals down below
In a coffin with the worms

Impossible may not be forever
But there’s no certainty when you climb through the arms of fate
You won’t have breath enough to sing a song
Not even one final verse
Not even your final words

Graves above
Six feet under the starry vault
Graves above the clouds for those who sleep
On the shoulder of the giant with the gods

Lethargy relieves the frostbites pain
Now blood is freezing in my veins
Through the tears the route is clear
In the slumber of my awakening

Now, at the end, I know where I belong
Now, at the end, I own my fate in my hand
And my grave above
Six feet under the starry vault

“Just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss
It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars
It has the nakedness of the world before the first man
Or of the cindered planet after the last”
Fosco Maraini, Secret Tibet

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from Beneath the Swaying Fronds of Elysian Fields, released April 27, 2020

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Nero or the Fall of Rome Verona, Italy

Featuring members of Riul Doamnei, NERO OR THE FALL OF ROME is an epic/doom/black metal act with an old school attitude and influences of bands such as Darkthrone, Bathory and Candlemass. "Beneath the Swaying Fronds of Elysian Fields" marks the band's debut with 8 tracks soaked in tragic and epic atmospheres constantly moving between menacing black metal and doomish shades. ... more

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