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In Brightness Shadows Loom

by Lichborne

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flightoficarus (Metal Trenches) Bitter, lo-fi, and intensely wicked; In Brightness Shadows Loom is what happens when Americans hunker down in a windowless basement for years subsisting on nothing but a steady diet of 2nd wave classics.
- MetalTrenches.com Favorite track: Incipit Ignis Interius.
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chayoth Great work my friend!!! Kepp the good work!!! Favorite track: Dreamwalker.
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1.
Watch as flames dance to the devil's trance Such grace, beauty divine Tempting, enticing the free mind Emission of light so bright it no longer blinds all sight Warmth embracing, plight evading By compulsion I open my eyes I open my eyes... Eagles fall forth from the sky God's denied lay bound with twine Ripping flesh from bone they cry Liberated from the hive Burn Fly Purge Thrive Burning at the stake I laugh As we progress from the past Violence, murder, mayhem, death Tools of old to extract abscess As our shell fades away Flesh of man, cage decayed With wisdom no longer enslaved We bear the gift, Promethean flame
2.
Underneath this fallacy Lies a structure of conceit So self absorbed Complacent with ignorance Close-minded to the fact of reality Void of reason, void of shame This light they claim to see Blinds them relentlessly Destroy their pillar They spit in the face of truth Choosing to live with their minds confined Closing their ears, closing their eyes Turning away from all evidence Turning their backs on human kind This is an act of war deserving death This light they claim to see Blinds them relentlessly Underneath this fallacy Lies a structure of conceit Their lies built upon mere assumption These falsities dating centuries Supported by a pillar of arrogance With the truth comes its fall
3.
My eyes bleed as I stare for the heavens My eyes bleed as its lies pierce my eyes I have lived my life attempting to fly towards the sky all in vain My efforts wasted on the promises of a dead star The sky, it shines The sky, it cries The universe weeps for the death of its child Yet the cosmos brightens as that child is slain Watch the fires take the sky Filling canvas with blood It shines, it blinds It cries, It lies The essence of innocence lay scattered across the sky With red coalesced into the form of man Lay eyes upon the sea, witness the rising tide Feel the air pull within as rebirth sets us free
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Shadows Loom 04:27
The shadows loom across my path The shadows loom, embracing the earth Spreading forth from the depths Cloaking the world from view Drifting timelessly I pass unknown Phasing through the void of misanthropy Filled with hatred for this foul breed Seclusion, Isolation Living as one with the world Under the light of his horns Under the lights of his horns Glaring from the shadows of the sun Emanating with an inner peace Rejecting the blight of beasts Seclusion, Isolation Living as one with the world Under the light of his horns The shadows loom across my path The shadows loom, embracing the earth Spreading forth from the depths Cloaking the world from view Drifting timelessly I pass unknown
5.
Dreamwalker 08:24
The tides lie still yet fray Azure engulfing with waves of emerald calm Devoured by renewal Washed away by its purifying venom Behold! Dreamwalker! Haunting presence granting all desire Hypnotizing, sowing your seed Coercing dance of death, spread thy wings Within your grasp, winds beneath my feet How could my fall, my demise create such peace? Of my mind... And of my soul? I want no more. Let this vortex spin out of control While the path winds down unto a halt I have found myself where I belong - Death fills my dreams It haunts my sleep Every step I take It kills a part of me I can't speak I can't even think Please, make it stop Please...end it all. Grabbing death's hand I am led to my end This is all I've asked for Freed from my chains, my life unrestrained I may take my leave It's such a shame that life's final gleam Was not enough to spur me I praise thy name, Dreamwalker Take my hand so that I may die So that I can rest, forever...
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Awoken deep from within an alluring dream Liberating light in which I see Pale figures suffocating me If I could describe this pain trapped inside Violent visions raging wild within my mind My pain, my release An end to this is all I seek Yet this cadence inside of me Witholding all that I desire, sleep My tormentor, my imprisoner From within that which beats To the heavens And above the sky I am full of yearning Should I not die? With every second And minutes past I beg for freedom To take my last... Yet my heart keeps beating And my blood keeps flowing Submerging the paths Of my own mind Drowning poison That seeps from thought Coursing my veins It's just a matter of time My own shadow overwhelms me
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Voices call to me from the deep For which I cannot sleep Tempting every moment to be my last So that I may find peace Feel the cold caress of death Embracing my mind and my flesh At last, I can rest At last, I can dream With my dying breath The gusts of wind begin to fade The storm slowly halts Within my head Swirling tempest of thought Oh how I thought you'd rot Yet you thrive and feast upon my mental state Thunderous parasite Just as my days seemed bright Shrouded doubt led by fading light The waves crash at last Submerged, what life I had left So drift unto the sea And let my pain be With my dying breath The gusts of wind begin to fade The storm slowly halts Within my head

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Desolate bible belt expanses. Darkened mires and Cyprus swampland. Abandoned factories, smashed glass and boarded doorways. An overgrown railroad track disappears into bleak landscape.

This is the world of Lichborne.

On “In Brightness Shadows Loom” the South Carolina natives present a bleak existence with the crushing sound of individual defeat. The seven song release combines depressive black metal with bursts of death laden howls creating a hypnotic work of agonizing breadth. “In Brightness Shadows Loom” is a battle between the individual and the darkened landscape enveloping them, the foreboding blackness that clings to the bones and threatens to pull us down.

“In Brightness Shadows Loom” is the first-full length from Lichborne, coming a year and a half after their debut self-titled EP. The album will be released on cassette through Realm and Ritual on October 19th in a limited print run of twenty-five copies.

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released October 4, 2018

Hunter Adams - Vocals/Guitars
Dan Smith - Bass
Wesley Nolan - Guitars
Austin Bratton - Drums

Recording, mixing, mastering by Dan Smith.

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