Letting your guard down and misanthropy simmer. Then betrayed by sycophants and interlopers, ones you knew you should have never trusted. Realising that at the end of the day you can only rely and depend on your small circle of trust, your tribe. Whatever your tribe (and how you construe that term: family, community, social scene) may be. Black metal is a tribe for all who want to carry the flame.
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*Letting your guard down and misanthropy simmer. Then betrayed by sycophants and interlopers, ones you knew you should have never trusted. Realising that at the end of the day you can only rely and depend on your small circle of trust, your tribe. Whatever your tribe may be. Black metal is a tribe for all who want to carry the flame*
A world besieged, structures of old eroding
A mirrored life, treading a path spiritually corrosive
To lose everything, to rewrite doomed and failed plans
To commune and rebuild and realise what it means to be a man
Scarred and scathed by trial, forced back into arms of kin
Only to return harder, stronger, wearing my true skin
Oldest lessons reinforced, intrinsic hatred never subsides
No trust, no empathy, no love for those outside my tribe
Return to tribe
It’s us versus them, this is seared into my mind
Crush those who threaten, fight to protect and defend my tribe
This is our nature, our primordial destiny
To return to what a man should really be
The sum of a thousand generations carving their mark
Continue the legacy, further tradition, return to tribe
A spiritually bereft culture, a corrupted sect
A cannibal failure, an ourbourous to reject
Instead we rise from these ruins and maintain
An ever-lasting, howling lupine reign
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from Kommodus,
released May 29, 2020
Backing vocals by Kastighater Inekstremis.
supported by 449 fans who also own “Return To Tribe”
Some of the best raw black metal I’ve heard in a while. So many infectious riffs it’s absurd. Easily my favorite release from lamp of Murmuur. HyperboreanFrost