Get all 36 Pacific Threnodies releases available on Bandcamp and save 75%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Nameless Love, We Deserve To Die, Nemorensis / Monvment, Exaltation, Fleecian Winter Majesty, Eternal Hours, The Arch Holder, Sunstrider, and 28 more.
1. |
Condemned
14:45
|
|||
|
We all are, to a man, to this condemn'd:
To fall to shame, all dignity bereft
Slavering curs, our teeth baréd to rend
What awe remain'd among us unto death
I sought to walk in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and winsome starry skies
But callous calumnies douséd the light
Plunging to blackness all I could espy
They say that in the soul of judgement's eye
Resides the greater portion of sin
But more among us quicken to despise
Without casting our gaze to scry within
Thus I am driven swiftly to my end
As all the bloodied earth cries for revenge
|
||||
2. |
Consigned
13:49
|
|||
|
At dawn’s approach I lift my eyes in dread
Of consciousness, I shy, to no avail
The sickness that had nightly lain abed
Arises, all my senses to assail
For some, the sun illuminates the eaves
And promises the joys of a new day
Yet inky black is all that I can see
I shut my eyes and simply drift away
Yet e’en when in these reveries I swoon
Withdrawal fails in banishing the ache
And so I linger in this murky tomb
And soak in tepid agony awake
As such, I must consign my life to pain
And quell these fruitless wrestlings in vain
|
||||
3. |
Martyred
13:20
|
|||
|
It seems that oft I hang my head in shame
Of some transgression I had hoped to shed
The inkling that twas I who was to blame
Pours through my inmost soul unholy dread
From time to time I feel almost just
In naming the deceiver’s cruelest slight
And, chargeless, I can leave them in the dust
Of time and space hidden away from sight
But just when I am feeling almost free
A rotten tongue betrays my darker fears
It is then that I long to cease to be
And burn within this mask of frigid tears
And so it is as long as I draw breath:
A martyr to myself, and to my death.
|
||||
4. |
Maligned
09:37
|
|||
|
To this fate I found myself resigned:
To live in fear of losing all I love
In this body forever malign’d
No sufficient virtues can be proved
I suspect my worthiness lies in despair
And in this agony I’ll be redeemed
Familiar this fierce heat that I now bear
Yet of these pangs I cannot be relieved
And so I wrack my mind in constant harm
And so upon myself I inflict pain
To expunge my aching conscience and disarm
The waggings of those vile tongues insane
Though as a constant flagellant I wend
It seems to me the shame will never end
|
||||
Pacific Threnodies California
Dark Paeans from the Central Coast of California
Pacific Threnodies recommends:
Epic shamanic battle-metal arising from the West Coast
go to album
The Lady In The Lake
by Nemorensis
An associated project: victorious ritual ambient black metal
go to album
An associated project: gothic death industrial
go to albumIf you like Condemned, you may also like:
supported by 8 fans who also own “Condemned”
I love this album and could return to it daily. Evoking Earthsea so effortlessly is a gift.
go to album
supported by 7 fans who also own “Condemned”
The fire pops under the winter sky, the guitar strums making me want to fly.
go to album
Worldless
by The Sun’s Journey Through The Night
featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 4, 2023
go to album
