De Profundis, by Arcanegoat

De Profundis

by Arcanegoat

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1.	All Souls Day 08:12	lyrics	buy track
The little men, little women, sad companions Today they scatter flowers blue and red On their crypts, which light up shyly They act like poor dolls before death. Oh! how they appear full of fear and humility Like shadows standing behind black bushes In the autumn wind the weeping of the unborn complains Also one sees lights lose their way The sighs of lovers breathe in the branches And there the mother with the child rots The round dance of the living seems unreal And fantastically scattered in the evening wind Their life is so confused, full of dim plagues God take pity on the women's hell and agony And these hopeless lamentations of death The lonely ones walk silently in the hall of stars
2.	Evening Song 07:36	lyrics	buy track
In the evening, when we go on dark paths Our pale figures appear before us If we thirst We drink the white water of the pond The sweetness of our sad childhood Deceased, we rest under the elder bushes Watch the gray gulls Spring's clouds rise over the sinister city That silences the monks' nobler times When I took your narrow hands You quietly opened round eyes This is long ago Yet when the dark harmony visits my soul You appear white in the friend's autumnal landscape Do you understand me Do you understand me Do you understand me Do you know why I do it for you Just leave me alone leave me alone
3.	The Young Maid 05:58	lyrics	buy track
Often at the well when it dawns One sees her standing spellbound Scooping water when it dawns Buckets go up and down In the beeches jackdaws flutter And she resembles a shadow Her yellow hair flutters And rats scream in the yard And enticed by decay She lowers her inflamed eyelids Parched grass in decay Bends down to her feet Silently she works in the chamber And the yard lies long desolate In the elder trees by the chamber A blackbird flutes pitifully Silverly her image in the mirror Looks at her strangely in the twilight-glow And dusks sickly in the mirror And she shudders before its purity Dreamlike a farm boy sings in the dark And she stares shaken with pain Redness trickles through the dark Suddenly at the gate the south wind shakes Nightly over the bare meadow She totters in feverish dreams A morose wind whines in the meadow And the moon listens from the trees Soon all around the stars pale And exhausted from complaints Her waxen cheeks pale Putrefaction is scented from the earth Sadly the reeds rustle by the pond And cowering she freezes Far away a cock crows. Above the pond Morning shivers hard and grey In the smithy clangs the hammer And she scurries past the gate In red glow the farm boy swings the hammer And deathlike she looks over there As in dream she's struck by his laughter And she tumbles into the smithy Shyly cringing before his laughter Like the hammer hard and coarse And falls dazed to the earth Lankily sprawled out on the bed She wakes filled with sweet tremblings And she sees her soiled bed Hidden by a golden light Mignonettes there at the window And the bluish brightness of sky Sometimes the wind carries to the window A bell's hesitant to toll Shadows glide over the pillow Noon strikes slowly And she breathes heavily on the pillow And her mouth is like a wound In the evening bloody linens float Clouds over silent forests Sparrows fuss in the fields Dreamlike in the brown hamlet A sound of dance and fiddles echoes And she lies completely white in darkness
4.	Dream of Evil 04:13	lyrics	buy track
Fading away of a gong's brown-golden sounds A lover awakens in black rooms The cheek near flames that flicker in the window In the river sails, masts, and ropes flash A monk, a pregnant woman there in the crowd Guitars strum, red smocks gleam Chestnuts shrivel sultry in golden shine The churches' sad pageantry towers black The spirit of evil watches from pale masks A square dusks gruesome and somber In the evening whispers stir on the islands Lepers read confused signs from the flight Of birds, perhaps decay during the night In the park siblings meet trembling
5.	De Profundis 08:51	lyrics	buy track
It is a stubble field, in which a black rain falls It's a brown tree, that stands alone there It's a hissing wind, that circles empty huts How sad this evening Past the hamlet The soft orphan still gathers sparse ears of corn Her eyes graze round and golden in the dusk And her womb awaits the heavenly bridegroom On the way home Shepherds found the sweet body Putrefied in the thorn bush I am a shadow far from sinister villages I drank God's silence From the fountain in the grove Upon my forehead cold metal steps Spiders seek my heart It is a light that extinguishes in my mouth At night I found myself on a heath Covered with rubbish and the dust of stars In the hazel bush Crystal angels sounded once more
6.	Winter Twilight 06:45	lyrics	buy track
Black skies of metal In the evening hunger-mad crows Blow crosswise in red storms Over parks sorrowful and sallow In the clouds a beam freezes to death And before Satan's curses Those spin within the circle and go Down sevenfold in number In putrefaction sweet and stale Their beaks mow noiselessly Houses threaten from mute nearnesses Brightness in the theater hall Churches, bridges, and hospitals Stand gruesome in the twilight Blood-stained linens billow Sails upon the canal (There's some lyrics Tribute to Black Sabbath) Alright Now!Won't you listen When I first met you, didn't realize I can't forget you or your surprise You introduced me to my mind And left me watching you and your kind, oh yeah baby I love you,yeah you know it My life was empty, forever on a down Until you took me, showed me around My life is free now, my life is clear I love you sweet leaf though you can't hear, oh yeah baby Satan's coming 'round the bend people running 'cause they're scared
7.	In a Deserted Room 04:57	lyrics	buy track
Window, colorful flowerbeds An organ plays herein Shadows dance on wallpapers Fantastically a mad succession Ablaze the bushes wave And a swarm of gnats sways Far away scythes mow in the acre And an ancient water sings Whose breath comes to caress me Swallows draw insane signs Quietly there in the boundlessness The golden woodland out flowing Flames flicker in the flowerbeds Woozily the mad succession ecstacizes On the yellowish wallpapers Someone looks in through the door Incense smells sweet and like a pear And glass and chest dusk Slowly the hot forehead Bends down toward white stars
8.	Reaching Evening, Touching Night 04:29	lyrics	buy track
The breath of the unmoved. An animal face Grows stiff in blueness, its holiness Enormous is the silence in stone The mask of a nocturnal bird. The soft triad Fades into one sound. Elai! your countenance Bends speechless over bluish waters Oh! you still mirrors of truth On the ivory temple of the lonely one The reflection of fallen angels appears Oh! the red evening hours Glimmering by the open window Vine leaves sway woozily curled in the blue Inside specters of fear nestle Dust dances in the stench of the gutters Rattling the wind knocks at the panes A herd of wild horses Thunderbolts drive garish clouds Loudly the pond-mirror bursts Gulls cry near the window frames A fiery horseman gallops from the hill And smashes to flames in the firs The sick screech in the hospital Bluish the night's plumage whirs Glistening all at once rain Roars down upon the roofs
9.	Here Comes Winter... 04:38		buy track

about

The debut by the austere and esoteric one-man band Arcanegoat, De Profundis, is the first ever doom-metal/traditional heavy-metal piece ever released in the mainland of China.
The lyrics are mainly extracts from the Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914). In the album, the solid and massive sound marches along with the delicate and smooth transition, which creates an incredible idyllic sight. One would be enchanted with a twofold hallucination of human society-nature world, which tastes of a smoldered bitterness in the mouth.
Consisting of 9 tracks plus one bonus track, the debut is released with a limited 500 copies. We hope the album would bring an hunky-dory listening experience to guys who love doom-metal and traditional heavy-metal.