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The Grim Muse

by In Twilight's Embrace

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    The Grim Muse’ contains the band’s most introspective material to date. Gone are the days of youthful enthusiasm, now replaced by a sense of otherness and cold distance towards the world. At the same time, the album finds In Twilight’s Embrace at the peak of ferocity and restlessness. Driven by bitterness, disillusion and doubt, ‘The Grim Muse’ is the defining work of In Twilight’s Embrace. The venture is about to begin. Let the grand breach expand.

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1.
We begin What we'll become
2.
Dystopian 03:20
I've been watching the buildings rise Vain like their creators So thick with vacuum they are Standing tall against the livid skies In the windowpanes so blank Shines a reflection of our inner grey Drugged and despondent, we are all heading towards The loss within the wastelands of ourselves Nauseatingly sterile Yet transparent just like looking glass We are Drugged and despondent Numb, inert We're reveling in our mere existence Slowly reaching the limits Of dullness beyond repair Nauseatingly sterile Yet transparent just like looking glass We remain We have witnessed the statues fall Collapse like their creators Giants of clay, walls of glass Laid to waste under pregnant skies In the stranglehold of progress We welcome our own demise
3.
As mankind piles up on this mortal coil Polluting every inch of air and soil I wield my song across the fields of plague Opening wide the gates of common grave A land of mockery and woe The most worthless and wretched of all The plain where blood mixes with shit With one gentle touch cleansed of all dirt The portent of unavoidable demise Which makes all ears bleed and blinds the eyes Will soon sound grim throughout all nations Heralding the day when all is reckoned I have a dream Of the world drenched in red So mark my words all those who dare to listen And anguish to all life wasted on the living I raise the cup to all those who stay strong And their will to rise above the pitiful swarm I have a dream Of the world drenched in red One day all hells will freeze as skies will bathe All life in streams of acid rain No kingdom will ever rise again and we will be reborn In the debris of the earth
4.
Leading through these endless plains My journey seems to have no end at all Baptized in hellfire flames I bear witness to my generations fall You pious cowards, you spineless whores Trampled under my feet is what you hail And most adore Spat out by the acausal winds Into the middle of this earthly brothel I follow the path of the adversary Free from the chains of its order An untamed wolf I remain And upon manking I declared a war Never from my savage ways will I refrain Nor bow down before the mundane laws I'll elevate myself from the deepest nadir And all the boundaries will I overcome Tear my way up to the highest peak Break into the firmament and shine Brighter than a thousand suns Unbound into eternity I march with solitude by my side When all around is drowned in the fathomless sleep I'm doomed to prowl amidst the coldest night An untamed wolf I remain And upon manking I declared a war Never from my savage ways will I refrain Nor bow down before the mundane laws Prowl
5.
Liepaja 03:05
Soil abandoned A land forlorn As if time has stood still And the whole world was gone Waves come crashing Lick the shores with chlorine kiss Ever-returning tide of blissful torment Leaves nothing but scars and wounds so deep Unhealed A silence so profound and mighty Rises over bridges once burnt Like towers that pierce the skies and move the stars, It sings a song so loud, yet still unheard A land forlorn Erased from all maps Left to wither and die alone
6.
Winter holds the world tight in its grip Pulse of raped nature flows unheard beneath the ice By the frozen lake we gather And raise our voices to the starless sky Moonshield's eclipsed by the silhouettes of black As in the shadows we are bathed Defilers, outcasts, the unwanted bastard sons Our revenge begins to take its shape Into the dark we wander With torches in hands, yet no god in our hearts Your curse is our blessing Servants to none In a land where waters freeze forever And no bird dare return Hear the words of our oath resound As all life rests buried in pale white snow Moonshield's eclipsed by the silhouettes of black As in the shadows we are bathed Defilers, outcasts, the unwanted bastard sons Our revenge begins to take its shape Vengeance takes its shape
7.
Chainclad 04:09
The holocaust angel Has spread its blackened wings again All over the land Where elegies are battlehymns Where tragedies and loss Spoil and corrupt our ego and pride As the whores give birth to the bastard sons On the altars of death Chainclad Born to pay our debts To whores with halos And heroes once bred Dogmas we all reject And just like a tumour Which cannot be healed It's sucking our marrows out Chaining our will forevermore Chainclad Born to pay our debts To whores with halos And heroes once bred Dogmas we all reject Since the day we were born This cancer has flown in our blood And since hour one We've been bound
8.
No 04:48
When there is no single thing to discover And no questions to ask The world unveils its most ugly truth Elusive and harsh at once Hidden in obscurity Yet bitter when it finally strikes The world unveils its most ugly truth Elusive and harsh at once We've been here for no reason since day one And we will be no more We are going nowhere Efforts that bring neither splendour Nor victorious taste in our mouths All the laurels around our necks Will wither in due time I have drank the oceans of disappointment dry
9.
Crossroads Crossroads after crossroads I pass Anchored nowhere Shedding no bitter tear for the world I leave behind In the glare of the embers still burning See the bonds dissolve As air becomes stale Colder I grow Our words die halfway Is it the world that has orphaned its child Or the son who abandoned the mother Parting ways with the world I once knew I abscond into the endless white With a tide reverse Oh, my grim muse, arrive Heart alight, scars align Let me bask in thy light Until the end of all time Let the grand breach expand Born from changes vast The grand breach expands Ever it grows A great divide No longer willing to be my brothers' keeper I sever all ties The blade cuts deeper and deeper Until the wounds have all bled dry With a tide reverse Oh, my grim muse, arrive Heart alight, scars align Let me bask in thy light Let the grand breach expand
10.
To gather strength from weakness And reach far beyond the stars To face each and every challenge When others refuse to try I will rise above the powerless Winged by the conviction that burns in my heart Standing tall in scornful triumph As this world erodes and heavens die Surpassing borders With no end in sight Through burning darkness Fading the city lights To the shores unseen I take my goal Beyond life, beyond fear, beyond death I gravitate to worlds unknown To corners so distant I travel all alone Breathless, yet without fear I’m leaning towards the unknown To gutters once thrown I ascend to the skies Spawned by the abyss The one of the unlight Born to rekindle the fire everburning
11.
The Becoming 07:15
I break my vows And shed my skin with no regrets No farewell And no psalm for the dead Don't exorcise my demons I'll keep them by my side I might be beautifully wrong Or terribly right Netherwards Away from the paradigm long lost We go Artist souls with butchers' hands No farewell And no psalm for the dead Netherwards Away from the paradigm long lost We go Artist souls with butchers' hands We go Watching our heroes fall The universal foundations tremble The sequence falls apart As no great narrative Was ever right The sequence falls apart As no great narrative Was ever right Faced with complete failure And frigid loneliness When no one else is there Into the mirrors of ours we stare World without end Seeking no redemption in the furthest beyond Finding no comfort in all crosses of the world The universal foundations tremble The sequence falls apart As no great narrative Was ever right Watching all heroes fall Left all alone We become What we began When everything around is shattered Lost in endless entropy We sail the raging sea Of thought

credits

released September 15, 2015

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Marcin Rybicki at Left Hand Sound between December 2014 and July 2015. Additional recordings by Per Stålberg at Welfare Sounds in Gothenburg, Sweden.
All music by In Twilight's Embrace. All lyrics by Cyprian Łakomy
Cover artwork by Robert A. von Ritter
Layout by Kontamination Design

Guest musicians:

Rambo (Bloodthirst) – vocals on 'A Wolf I Remain'
Paweł Bartulewicz (The Dead Goats) – vocals on 'The Fullmoon Strain'
Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates, Disfear) – vocals on 'No' and 'The Grim Muse'

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Channeling darkness through music since 2005.

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