My fingers draw in the glacial air
the mighty plagueprayer's sigil.
This village must be purifed,
Here men are no longer in mankind.
They are far from humanity.
Here men slay the weaks,
here men rape children.
My brotherhood and I,
are the watcher in the night.
As I am a king's mercenary,
As I am a plagueprayer,
I have to restor the order.
Buboes and furuncles,
Germs will proliferate,
Disease will spread its tentacles,
No one can escape.
Suffer will be your last bride.
Death is awaiting you.
This was truly a revelation. I was getting started with funeral doom, working on something with my headphones on... Then came Déluge... my jaw actually dropped, I stopped what I was doing and, wide-eyed, just listened to the track, baffled and amazed. After the album was over (I never do this), I went to lay down with my headphones to enjoy it over again.
I rarely heard (and felt) this much power and emotion in an album. Until I find something better, this is my landmark for peak funeral doom. fluo
The Avantgarde Music vinyl edition brought this to my attention; I'm a bit late, but wow.
Lots of genres are spanned here and yet it remains really cohesive. Epic, ghastly, slightly ambient. No need to be a hardcore Tolkien fan or anything either – just dig in and enjoy. Alice M.