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In Absence

by Minarchist

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Richard Busbea
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Richard Busbea Definitely for fans of Black Crown Initiate. It has a very similar groove, dissonant chords, and mix of soft/heavy. However, this band definitely doesn't sound like a BCI ripoff/copy cat. Solid progressive death metal with really good lyrics/concept to boot! Favorite track: The Threat of a Terrible Storm.
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yourmetalfriend A well balanced and technical album with excellent production, which makes this record sound immense and powerful. I especially love that they experiment with alternating cleans and guttural growls, while also layering them in the same lyric.

Definitely for fans of Alustrium and Black Crown Initiate, for obvious reasons. Favorite track: In Absence of Air.
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Spear Some sweet tech/prog death. Full review at www.toiletovhell.com/tech-death-thursday-minarchist/ Favorite track: In Absence of Fear.
Damon Armstrong
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Damon Armstrong sounds huge, instrumentation is fun as hell, good death metal for the second half of 2016! Favorite track: The Threat of a Terrible Storm.
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1.
Light Light and air Intertwine Create life Fear and despair Snuff out hope And tighten the noose around your gasping throat So much time wasted Begging in vain A life led in constant searching Now ends in the cold and the rain The air grows thinner Gasping desperately The flame grows dimmer Until in darkness I no longer see Look to the skies above With your questions and your prayers Look up above And find only despair Look to the skies above And find only broken hope Find bitter cold And an absence of air   Hollow Empty words Lying tongues were spoken Promises broken Gone Without a trace Without any answer Like the air below the waves and above in the heavens Once the air would carry me In a distant dream Now it abandons me I spread my wings and crash into the sea Once the sun shone hope and love And the sky above Once the night held mystery Now it brings only pain and fear to me Look to the skies above With your questions and your prayers Look up above And find only despair Look to the skies above And find only broken hope Find bitter cold And an absence of air Now I beg the stars to fall The waves to cease The mountains to crumble Now I feel only despair Feel only the cold In absence of air
2.
Vines Vines growing higher Extending towards the sun Like fingers desperately grasping, Reaching for a hand from above I beg you now Pull me from this darkness I'm reaching towards you I'm reaching for your light The darkness swells around me The windows overgrown The vines constricting me Blot out the only light I've ever known The roses beautiful, The red of light divine The vines and thorns around them Trapping me deep inside Crumble Flicker Draw back Draw back from the light of love Infatuated with the dark, I hide out from the light Perpetuate my suffering, I bite the hand that feeds Destroy all that you love, until there's nothing left Consumed in roses and thorns, I waste away
3.
On the looming horizon Thunder is deafening The sky is blackening Man is blankly staring Silent, remaining In the face of the gathering storm Foul the fumes of decay have grown The sun begins to die The danger is yet unknown Soon, we will surely learn But we are too far gone So now must our paradise burn We wonder why We marvel at our suicide We stand alone But we die as one Death, it seems, will be The sentence we receive There will be no end There will be no reprieve We wonder why (God, why?) We’ve begged to suffer (To drown) The storm it grows (We can’t hold on) Rot and decay (decay) Waste what putrid breath remains Begging to change your fate A fate that we have sewn Now we all will pay, broken and alone Burn, in a torturous blaze May your blackened flesh Mask your dying shame Break under the weight of guilt The knife we forged ourselves Driven in to the hilt We wonder why We marvel at our suicide We stand alone But we die as one
4.
Rain Rain sickness down on me The furious wind leaves me blind, eternally The storm emerges from my own soul The air, it grows so cold My heart is left to decay My mind leaves me all alone Oh, how hollow Oh, the numbness gives way to pain The pain As I begin to crumble The burden of emptiness The mind a void of weakness, distress The shell of what used to be Where once stood flesh and bone Now a tomb made of stone Oh, such sorrow Oh, the emptiness sets in again Ablaze, I ascend to the heavens To burn down the sky A new flame is born Fill the void with light The stone within me crumbles The flesh once again revealed The still-bleeding wounds within me Begin to heal The sky is fire And all is light The sky is fire And I am alive Burn
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Abandon 06:05
Give me peace Give me the love, I need it so Don't turn away Give me closure before you go Tell me the answers Because I just can't find my way Please give me a reason, give me a purpose, Please come and save me from this hell that you've made for me But alas, you've left me to burn All alone And you're still unapologetic As I cling to what's left of my heart Do you remember The dream we shared so long ago Or have you forgotten All that we could never me Or maybe you never knew Maybe you never saw me like I saw you So I'm letting go now And now, the time has come To reclaim my soul And I'll begin healing And you'll be forgiven Leave me behind, Make me believe your love is a lie
6.
I submit myself to darkness With the promise of catching a glimpse Of the wonder, the immaculate beauty Of the face which haunts my dreams I succumb to the addiction Thirsting for the sickness she brings The desire, the unbearable longing Of her blood coursing through my veins In this reality I'm am shattered Here in the light I grow weak Alone in darkness only then am I alive Alone with her in the sweet embrace of sleep I fight my way to dreaming Reality now feels empty and cold Below the waves of my mind I escape into her embrace so sweet The sea it drags me deeper But I gave up fighting long ago I feel no pain, I feel no fear Just an overwhelming ecstasy In this reality I am shattered Here in the light I grow weak Alone in darkness only then am I alive Alone with her in the sweet embrace of sleep I long for darkness In slumber I escape from it all I hide my face from reality The ecstasy of dreams so sweet Suffocating under the waves, I'm dying slow Buried inside a dream I'm sinking low Ever deeper, my lungs burning now dragged below Cut of from reality, just let me go, free me from this pain Surface from beneath the waves To forge a new reality Where daylight and dreams align Where our paths and hands intertwine
7.
Feel the cold Burn through your bones Whispers of love and sin In the day Dreams all fade Fears of old setting in The air is thin Cold is the wind Cold is your absence here Cold is your absence here In your absence I live in fear I survive Broken but alive Ever healing still Hope remains Running through my veins My soul goes on In this place Of vine and thorn I will be reborn Cold is your absence here But now without you I feel no fear Eradicate Every memory Snuff out the flames, I’m free Erase Every single trace Of that fear that held me fast Cold is your absence here In your absence I live in fear You That abandoned me Watch your power fade Torn Torn apart by the thorns But now I am reborn Now I’ve watched the stars as they fell to the earth The waves have ceased; the oceans have dried The mountains no longer reach up toward the sky But I feel no despair as my world is shattered I feel no cold Just a calming peace and an absence of fear

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Debut album from Philadelphia, PA-based musician Connor McNamee. Also features members of Alustrium and Black Crown Initiate. Available 5/27/16!

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released May 27, 2016

Connor McNamee- Lead/rhythm guitar, clean vocals, songwriting, lyrics
Nick Shaw (Black Crown Initiate) - Bass guitar, engineering
Jerry Martin (Alustrium) - Harsh vocals

Also featuring:
Andy Thomas (Black Crown Initiate) - guest guitar solo on "Our Rose Garden"
Ethan McKenna- guest guitar solo on "The Ecstasy of Dreams"
Ceia Schweitzer- lyrics for "Our Rose Garden" inspired by poem of the same name

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