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Child Of Sorcery

by Swan Messiah

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Yawning Lake 07:16
Yawning Lake *verse 1* Blackening light it comes Piercing gaze Incandescent destroyer Soul ablaze Sickening trail it leaves In its wake Temples fall asunder  To primordial lakes *bridge 1* Numinous vessels conquer  Our pointless graven plight The ashen ones they birth New spires from the night *chorus* Yawning lake becomes, becomes, becomes Yawning lake becomes fire (x2) *spoken* The old ones recite their spells Against the devouring sun Commandeth unto thee fire The war doth hast begun The holy men repenteth Divine but two of three Forgetting all the yawning ones They left 'neath burning trees *add* Yawning pestilence upon my somnolence Awaken to sheets of fire The stairwell folds upon itself Escape eludes desire *chorus* Yawning lake becomes, becomes, becomes Yawning lake becomes fire (x2) The horrid scintillation Of rags and sin and hair Primal desperation Escape the ashen lair The brazen fish they sing the tune Of duelling halves of one They watch tempest roar above Whilst safe in shard filled lakes
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Horned rats float overhead in my, Dream life. Scripture of fear it rolls, Black dice. Numbers of death become... A decade of black Eternal miasma The shards of my ego unfold Worn as expresison A season for years Life stunted in nigredo An armour of shadow Occult and yet seen I offer my shards to the clouds Like moths to the slaughter The students of lead Forever entrenched in its shroud Marsupial demons Fly by their thousands To feast on my dreams in the west The cordyceps' reasons To telegraph visions Of downfallen kings in distress Distress Lay down to rest A blistering cold Inertia evolved A harrowing light in the east The wheel it turns back Before that of black A luminous prophesied feast I drink of its marrow Becoming its host Sethurian, light-seeking fiend Fungified tentacles Burrow still deeper Their path is reflected in dreams Mycelial heathens Transmogrify tissue To harvest my soul with their spell They signal ascention And raise me on high Light beckons, tolling its bell
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Tied up with sinew In burrowed ground Fungal chrysalis ego burial ground Compelled to rise up Through layered earth Awakening soil of light's rebirth The parasitic sacrament of The parasitic sacrament of ego death Legions of harrowing claws steal our breath The sacramental offering of... Chrysalis burning Our borrowed cross Luciferous spores soar across the void Like dead man's fingers Clutching the light Spiralling visions of ammonite The parasitic sacrament of The parasitic sacrament of ego death Legions of harrowing claws steal our breath The sacramental offering of... I become light, I become... I become light, I become... I become light, I become death
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Redeemer 04:58
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Collective Entheogenic high Revelatory Awakening eye Mycorrhizal cradle Foliated Archways of earthen arms Enraptured in sentient Spires of Baal Transference of thought We share Cloaked in benevolent Branches I'm aligned Wending their lumbering Passage through mind Shadowy presence through Timeless tesseracts Conversing in verse Unspoken and abstract Winds we trade Eyes we share Eternal pushmepullyou pray for rain Winds we trade Eyes we share Cloaked in benevolent Branches I'm aligned Wending their lumbering Passage through mind Winds we trade Eyes we share Mind is lone One is prayer
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Transmutate the low ground for the highSupplicate the ground to deify - shards above self Bending force of will to raise the vesselRarest forms of apparitions bleed - bleed out The strange illumination of the wraithBeams they pierce the crust of lower faith - lower faith Traverse the eminence of vital fleshA sacramental feast of autumn's gifts We dine upon the marrow of the kingPrepare the ground for winter's worshipping The fingers rise while toes root in the groundA visionary fool thus drowned Striking down the bleedersThe strangulating fingersThe thread it disappears beyond the bones Their fingernails splitThe wraith it thus commitsThe thorns of torture thread beneath the skin Striking down the bleedersThe strangulating fingersThe thread it disappears beyond the bones Their fingernails splitThe wraith it thus commitsThe thorns of torture thread beneath the skin My skin it melts and falls from every limbTo cook upon the coals my shadow lurking twinThe stench and smoke to raise my shadow upTo verdant hills beyond the mystic veil
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The Surge 09:03
Fold in on yourself Your fractured and feathered limbs diverge Old ones whisper on The tektonic towers That emerge Spheres of egregores We feed and arrange their form to consume A thousand entities will Scale the heights of Calvary For the view And I saw The surge Of storms Only the sky and earth call And I know The forms Only the sky and earth remain Fear of shadow realms The black sun of Gethsemane Marches on Lies thrice woven will Avail you of the land you rest upon Light is overthrown In pursuit of the guiding blackness of beyond Valley overgrown with Cascading arms of demons for your eyes Peeling skin of shadow fingers Burning flesh of decades lived alone The sun calls in its debt All the others turn away And chase their earthen prize The sacrificial angels of sky

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Imperiled, doomed and blackened folk and friends, I hope you're travelling well through this harrowing period of disease & dystopia.

I wish to share with you what I've been busy working on, a lock-down album of sorts, a broadly blackened affair, pulling in myriad influences across the gamut of heavy music realms.

I seem to be drifting slowly away from recent black metal leanings (although they're still apparent), and spiralling back not just to my doom roots, but further beyond into my seminal stoner and grunge period of songwriting way back in the 90s!

Learned folk of the dark arts have likened the ensuing tracks to all manner of influences. "A semi-country version of Neurosis" is probably the most colourful, but common references also include Type-O-Negative, Devin Townsend, doom-infused Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Panzerfaust era Darkthrone and My Dying Bride.

Salqiu's founder Nuno Lourenco states that "(Swan Messiah) has just released one of the finest albums of the year, in my opinion. From Neurosis to Black Metal, with deviations to doom, gothic, progressive and everything in between, the result is nevertheless tight and brutal. A great ride! There are details on it that honestly blew my mind, like some keys and the way instruments interact. The Type O Negative vibe on the title track is outrageously delicious."

Webzine Doom-Heart writes; "From Melbourne, Australia, here you have astounding experimental progressive blackened sludge doom / drone / post-metal one-man band Swan Messiah, project of extremely gifted vocalist, composer & musician Matthew McKenzie, with his brand new incredible full-length "Child Of Sorcery".

It's been a thoroughly cathartic and refreshing journey of self exploration and creative freedom, simply following the flow of ideas instead of imposing any forced heaviness on what are at times surprisingly catchy (yet murky) melodies.

Go well and thanks for reading - I hope you enjoy the album.

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released November 22, 2020

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Swan Messiah Melbourne, Australia

Swan Messiah emerged from the elysian depths of Port Philip Bay in the winter of 2010.
Wielding antipodean styled doom and dystopian drones, taking respectful cues from its misanthropic metal ancestry and dark folk traditions, Swan Messiah spent the ensuing winters conjuring its layered sound to wash upon the shore on which it currently rests. ... more

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