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As Spoken

by Knoll

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raudurhekla
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raudurhekla I feel crushed to the floor. Early AOTY contender, and some of the most unique grind I've ever listened to. Refined and twisted, this is the kind of experimental metal music that chooses sonic aggression as a mean of expressing emotion. I love it. Favorite track: Portrait.
Sugammadex
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Sugammadex Hark Triton, Hark! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime. To choke ye, engorging your organs til ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more. Only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now.
Darknight
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Darknight Knoll just get better and better with each release and As Spoken just creates the ante for more chaotic blackened grind destined to destroy limbs. Excellent follow on from their previous work. Favorite track: Shall It Be.
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1.
As Spoken 05:23
Allusion therein Curtains of mystics Eluding marking Ensnared in language O' unfated sigh yearning outwithe Orn belighted form imparting decree Voices birthed in avowal Their foul locution sown in awe Bemuddled spew speech wrung unrelinquished Figures form in the veil Birthed in avowal Morpheme bleeding As Spoken Unto err within breath Avital profusion uniplicate Heirloom bestown Whisperings incandesce in a void Their answers unfold Err As Spoken What is said is known
2.
Offering 02:19
Silhouettes arched awaiting judgment Seldom gestures steep in gloom Unto the viewing, a scintillant geist of vision Low herald summoning empirical astray Dread thrown at the arch Exequy of infinite manor Many before thine, How they follow Many before thine, How they falter Sieve the lesser Enter the tear Scorn cast below As once thine oath
3.
Vexing pitch seeps athwart mortar Chambers obscured from the stulm Wash ablating kilter Flooding of unjoy Stewing mettle in thy hearth Rapt with blight Woe unto firths illightened, fraught in marrow Of a lush weeping fount Passages convoke crenitic sanctum Unewered essence knotting each thirst
4.
Elating negative inwith allwhere Vanishing wards, aweigh with light Obvolute medium in the mind Unfraught with mercies thus imbibed Vaulted impulse availed Alacritous power bequeathen Heap of electrons extend the self Awry within doing, embalming will Utterest keeping Harking abodement Respite, revile, relight Awry, order emblazoned Of the other Utterest keeping Credenced by deed
5.
Mereward 05:21
A guarding eye stares the spire Foregone mist upon the steps, Acquainted and enciphered, Oldened with murmuring shards Within haunted ornature, a vex of evocation Images bidding in liminals writhe myth of themselves Profound augmentation inne wandering Mere wards inspiral beyond sighting Stairwells respire as your own Stain blindness on the eye Within corridors, in mirrors Old presence foreseen
6.
Our many thrawn hands bind the unknot In brume aghast with augury, An unhended bringing its fabric outvie Indwelt in speaking, begat in mirthless grail A ringing spectral, a way for malign Sprawling hylarchic wrength Atraments spill from sills Their signs - equivocal Befound asylum awaits where minds ruin Vile ligature conjured Bring sickness upon us
7.
Unto Viewing 02:32
Relique lain behind the drape A wrothe mask smearing memory Gnawing at fragments of joy Scried through seekings denied Vanishment beckons from partings of mantle Entrance spells a kindred chamber Swarming cloaks of orphrey guide elsewhere Viewing alight, of hidden interior Apparitions bow Be as their brood Ask cometh the hour Whom heeds such rite? Thyrse, your altar Grieving, your jewel Become their matriarch
8.
Portrait 05:27
Viewing under behest A fume yawns in the being Amidst an eveish theatre Statures intumesce their mold Unbidden and dithering Longing to be fathomed Abloom with spores A horrible abstraction Let forth in prepense Immuring all reverie From which is illogical, From whence it came, A spiral raining down Of innumerable, unlimnable thread Pendulous ideosphere bound Morphing figment in the cadre, Siphoning the witness To regard, to relent, as to minish here saith For time will begrave moil And will shall bleed upon itself When wrath forsakes us, There is but woe
9.
Utterance 03:13
Amidmost vetust moor Dirigent sprigs prelect song Falderal to some unbeknownst The tune of most What heralds the keeper have spoken wroth Drooping oaken lecture, the lowest mutter As arbiters to be fabled they are The sprig spoketh the quoth Vatic spew of angular mast Prescient orator underpinning Belonged to the firth Unhoused in the attic Borne to the auricle Of those seeking
10.
Matter hast bored an oath through the vitrage of a door Through faults of entry, preying for manner to espy At the outer A particle suffered with message Sorrowing at leavings of splinter Beseeched, knocking the door Wood warping cacophony stabbing the lock Key writhing under lower convention On a ring of many keys Black stares through the peephole Bother their meeting Give under question
11.
Shall It Be 03:50
Architects prospect Sculpture as scripture Whirring aura alieve As spoken, shall it be Heretics revile Armature of meaning Ill notion believed As spoken, shall it be Towers of filigree pierce the wretched air Adorned in reverence with heirling blood An opus Steeples wilting as they foregather Wrought from arrant communion Structures enlace But wills proceed the grail Endless toil Inhuman goal

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"Akin to the unveiling of relics carved from an oaken slab, lesser so to that which artisan may conjure from nothing, Knoll seeks the most subtractive of efforts in its offerings. The method is unpinnable, yet is as such: something must be wrought from something else. Its materials predate their misuse; its result contradicts their lessening. A distillation of ingredients leaving but the brittle corpses of what was once unwarped by a wicked sieve - a wholly negative artifact as its response. And yet, they are familiar, as if these bringings have not been made, but rather freed. It is, then, the utmost purpose as sculptors, to be the conduits of an inhuman goal. That of an infinite testament, unmarred by the collection of dust, & outwardly dedicated to this prospect of impermeable meaning. It is not to say that the arbiter of such works is to be maligned, & especially not to put forth fronts in order to appear so, but that its output must be willed to suffer within these confines, lest it is worthless.
There exists here an affinity for the old & macabre, as well as for profuse literature & its ornaments, however not rooted in lust for their obvious and sometimes shallow aesthetic uses. Instead, as constituent references to a heightened period of artistic value, & emphasis on a deathly, morose world of creations that one may choose to see exclusively. Our namesake, an archaic term, arises from the funeral custom of a mourning bell rung in the leavings of death. It is within this moniker that we put ourselves in leanings of things ended, endings, & that which must, shall, & will end. Bygone matters of antiquity & those to be antiquated are preserved within the formless ghost of music unto time immemorial. We bring this ideal to you in its first manifestation, As Spoken - a lecture of dilapidated language & its propensity to become riddled with sickness when kept."

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released January 26, 2024

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