SWORDS OF DIS - Sea Of Storms

Taken from the album "Melencolia" by SWORDS OF DIS
(I, Voidhanger Records 2023)
A5-Digipack CD / Digital release date: November 24th, 2023
2LP Gatefold release date: February 2024
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LYRICS
I hear you calling under the ocean of storms
This hourglass won’t wait for you
Life stricken away, stained glass shivers light across a dying shadow of me
How many times can I call on you to guide me
Your soul devouring my soul, can’t breathe, can’t escape, let it be
Hate turns vermillion and I don’t want to return
Fly through the night with me these thoughts escape you
Glide motionlessly, feel me take you through Death’s embrace
I stand upon this sea of storms, encircled by darkness
Low you have brought me to the blazing sun of an undying light
Here you stand before me as all within are with you
Will this continue endlessly for I am not me but a shadow within this Light
O source of silence, who’s clandestine cup lay before me
Inscribed with the sacred and seditious In the place of no return
Where you have carved a seat of wisdom and opened the temple door
To stay with you forever, forever as one
SWORDS OF DIS
Alice Corvinus - lead vocals, chants, aggressive vocals and backing vocals
Richard Corvinus - rhythm and lead guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, drums and percussions, orchestral arrangements, chants and additional aggressive vocals
All music and lyrics composed and arranged by Swords Of Dis. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Corvin Studios between 2021 - 2023.
Art by David Glomba.
Poised between majestic early 90s black metal and English doom, SWORDS OF DIS return to the scene with "Melencolia," an album in which the duo from Albion has concentrated not only all their compositional skill and vocal mastery, but an entire cultural imaginary that intertwines mythology, religion, symbolism, magic, and spiritual research through bitter reflections on human nature.
"This album is an act of devotion to Our Lady of the Naked Flame, who is both light and divine darkness conjoined, the Morningstar, the embodiment of the primeval chaos, strength, order and justice of the cosmos, the unbridled beauty of femininity and power of women," explains Alice Corvinus, SWORDS OF DIS' singer. "We seek to burn a fire on the darkness that has and still is pervading in this world," adds multi-instrumentalist Richard Corvinus. "We do not speak of the beautiful, divine Darkness but the one that is crafted by Man’s own hands through cruelty and brutality. This work is a plea to the Goddess of Eternal Holy Fire to wash the Earth clean of this vacuous scourge."
The amazing album cover by David Glomba is the direct follow on to Albrecht Durer’s "Melencolia I" and depicts the events that proceed the original engraving. Melancholy is now akin to Lucifer enshrined, asking for guidance through ritual and worship from the Chalice of Eternal Fire.
Musically, all this translates into dense, sophisticated and layered songs that in their majestic progression seek the light in the midst of darkness. EMPEROR's epic-symphonic nocturnal melodies driven by female vocals that have nothing to envy of those of the occult-rockers THE DEVIL'S BLOOD clash against the gothic-romantic bastions of bands like PARADISE LOST, for a compelling listening experience that is as immersive as profound.
"We are the Swords Of Dis," Richard Corvinus concludes, "the weapon, the vessel to question, to rebel. To be the ones that do not just accept what is being told to them, not to swallow the bitter bread."

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