I am your shrine
I am your womb
You rest inside of me
My flesh shall be your tomb
Your words decay
To foulest rain
A shroud of mildewed lies enwrapping your remains
Your body draped
Next to mine
Exposed to all unless they've chosen to be blind
You caused my sweat
To drop as blood
Soiling this meager ground of desecrated mud
Your mind depraved
You've crucified yourself upon my barren grave
I am your shrine
I am your womb
You rest inside of me
My flesh shall be your tomb
My fingers tenderly
Caress your face
I shall preserve my hatred until the end of days
I am your shrine
I am your womb
You rest inside of me
My flesh shall be your tomb
I've conceived you
I've destroyed you
You were stillborn
Inside of me
I am your shrine
I am your womb
You rest inside of me
My flesh shall be your tomb
My fingers tenderly
Caress your face
I shall preserve my hatred until the end of days
- Triptykon (2010)
From the ashes of the legendary metal band Celtic Frost comes Tom Gabriel Warrior with Triptykon. As this new band sounds very different from Celtic Frost and does not have much history, we can dispense with that and get right into the content.
Musically this is perhaps one of the darkest songs I have ever heard. The slow, plodding sound at the beginning, coupled with Warrior's low voice, is ominous to say the least. It almost dares the listener to keep going into the song. When the heavy part kicks in, you feel the full rage of the lyrics.
In the album liner notes Warrior talks about a poem he wrote in 2008 that described how he felt over the dissolution of Celtic Frost. The lyrics are direct from the poem, so ostensibly this song seems to be about laying his past to rest and harboring quite the grudge how it came to pass.
Interestingly, that's what I took from this song the first time I heard it. Laying to rest something one loves, especially when an event out of one's control is the cause of the demise, is never an easy thing. The darkness comes from a lack of closure over those events and twists the mind to where we feel not only the dead love, but also the hatred felt toward the source of misery.
I personally love this song, but I don't know if Mardi will even like it. Let's see what she has to say.
Musically I have to say I liked the song. I certainly would not go anywhere near saying I love it but it has a good sound. One can certainly sense the darkness from the music alone.
ReplyDeleteLyrically, it was hard to listen to. Let me clarify, not hard to understand but hard to hear the message, hard in the sense of feeling pain. I listened twice, the first time not listening or looking at the words but hearing the music. The second time I really listened to the lyrics. One can pick out the resentment easily. The gentle pain if there is such a thing. It's never easy to let something go especially when it's always been so close. One can hear in this song the tender care that is there yet the bitter anger at the rift.
Not on my top ten list but certainly better than others.