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Contrapasso

by HERXHEIM

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Surrogate of Surrogates For every 1 there are 3 Frail eyes from Black Tower glean He sees his many His Flock of Mechanical Dreams Players of props Before Crimson Thread Hiding the demon Scheming the Dead For every one there are three Tacticians, Controllers, Divisors, Agitators, Delsionarians, Doom Sayers in threes Yet For every 6 there are 18 They are the rise, the fall, the rotten crops To veil the Demon For every one there are three They are the rise, the fall, the rotten crops To veil the Demon For every one there are three For every six there are eighteen Surrogate of Surrogates For every 1 there are 3 Remove one head but For every six there are eighteen Frail eyes from Black Tower glean He sees his many His Flock of Mechanical Dreams
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The Anointed 07:32
To Feet from forehead The casket oil brines Self appointed Self Anointed No Perfumes Only Slime “Too few Pyrrhics” he says “Too many lives” he sighs Self appointed Self Anointed No Perfumes Only Slime “Too few Pyrrhics” he says “Too many lives” he sighs The Quantum Vacuum Hungers for this vanity Entangled electrons Thrives for his insanity Alone Suspended Upside down in Air Transhumanist Ritual Even his Cyborgs despair The Quantum Vacuum Hungers for this vanity Entangled electrons Thrives for his insanity Alchemy revisions Await his impulsivity Dire Ends Thirst for his brevity “Too few Pyrrhics” he says “Too many lives” he sighs His plans burned within the blink of an eye Alone Suspended Upside down in Air Even his Cyborgs despair Self appointed Self Anointed No Perfumes Only Slime Even his Cyborgs despair “Too few Pyrrhics” he says “Too many lives” he sighs
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Enchanted No Eyes To See Enchanted No Mouth to Speak Their price for pleasure is servitude The obvious becomes invisible Yet consent continues Crisis becomes their lover Unabated, En masse, dark largesse They sin for a season And misery for the rest Enchanted No Eyes to See Enchanted No Mouth to speak Enchanted No Wiser the Fool Enchanted Brides of Doom Why Reap the Nihilism Why Eat the Chaff Fornicate truism Delight the senses Expunge the rest Frolic in Desolation And melt in misery for the rest Hand picked heroes Hard nosed Neros The Brides of doom They Sin for a season And melt in misery for the rest Enchanted No Eyes to See Enchanted No Mouth to speak Enchanted No Wiser the Fool Enchanted Brides of Doom
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Prophecy Fulfilled The Grand Delusion Falls from the sky The pollen of fear Inhaled deep inside Frenzy, Frantic, Fire alight Absurdities at their bedside Magnetic microwave conspiracy Vibrations rule their mind Victory of the Pyrrhic Only ashes left as comfort No one here to celebrate As the world is burnt asunder  Burning, Maiming, Destroying Mob promulgation stratified Raping, Crucifying, Exploding The Rope of arrows fossilize The many become one It becomes alive Prophecy Fulfilled The Grand Delusion Falls from the sky The pollen of fear Inhaled deep inside The many become one It becomes alive No one here to celebrate As the world is burnt asunder Mob promulgation stratified The Rope of arrows fossilize The many become one It becomes alive

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The solo project of Patrick Brown, HERXHEIM are back with a new EP titled "Contrapasso." Brown is certainly to be counted among the most important metal artists of the last decade thanks to the underground success of HOWLS OF EBB, with whom he released a handful of seminal albums that contributed to rewriting the canons of black and death metal.
Perhaps even more primitive, weird and intense than HOB, HERXHEIM are no different and in "Contrapasso" Brown writes some of his best compositions. The amalgam of brutal vocals and his killer guitar riffs unleash an almost tangible electricity, burning and destroying everything in its path. Only bass and drums offer monolithic resistance, usually engaged in exhausting and deadly mid-tempos that occasionally find space for devastating accelerations. The result is a monstrous, violent and bestial black-thrash EP, which recalls CELTIC FROST, early VOIVOD and ORDER FROM CHAOS, of which today HERXHEIM are undoubtedly the most credible and inspired heirs.

Tape edition out in April through Virvpi: www.virupi.com

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released April 5, 2024

All music by P. Brown
Written and recorded 2021-2023 at Under The Sine
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Cat. Nr. IVR238

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