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Forml​ø​se Stjerner

by TONGUES

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Gojira Blume
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Gojira Blume first track is fucking perfection! Favorite track: Elder Fire.
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progdolphin Forml​ø​se Stjerner evokes the sound of whipping winds, crashing waves, the spray of an angry ocean—the smell of fear and engulfment. But calls of black, death, and doom a cinematic, a post-genre attitude, ever-shifting vocal assault, and psychedelic guitar twang unify each extended form number. Existential, esoteric, and eerily atmospheric, Formløse Stjerner delivers a package that demands open ears, open lyrics sheets, and an open mind to shine. Drift into greatness with Tongues. Favorite track: Mouth Of The Deep.
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Herman This is the best humanity has to offer. Favorite track: Awake In The Macrochasm.
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Killercroc Few, if any, Black Metal albums will be able to top Formløse Stjerner in 2023. Many bands try to sound atmospheric, crushing, desperate and bitter, but, like most great art, Formløse Stjerner does not try, it simply is.
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1.
Elder Fire 07:33
At the end of the world Where the spirit gnaws the bone Ashes strewn across the last bastion The fire has grown old Winter has beset us The embers flies wearily against the sky An impending wall of crushing cold The moon cries no more for her visionaries The mystics of grief The sun no longer cherishes his children of light The prophets of radiant knowledge Solitary moans emanates from the ruins Of once prould strongholds The shield is shattered and the spear is broken Dreams of the past triumphs Armour-clad, marching through the marshes At dawn the sun hazily spears the mist Through blood and labour And greeted by moon and trumpet as clear as The morning dew From the towers gleaming in stars of the eve So let us sit in our rags by the last embers Its final light sets afire our dreams And visions possess us with sorrow The last light has flickered out Come now, lay down beside me In the now cold halls of our forebears And surrender to the grip of darkness And (eternal) winter
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You parched mouth of sky Rolled up like a scroll, you offer no solace Apathetic, watching unbroken chains of woe The silent machinery of horror Grinding away endlessly on these plains Upon this field I will set the first stone A monument to the first defiance Cursed skin, endlessly trudging Through mud and dead stars alike Ascending through storm clouds On the stairs of uncreation Fist and sword raised in spite, ablaze in purest hate I tighten the grip on the throat of these stars Suffocating the lustrous evil eyes Of the falsely exalted Now all lie dead by my hand Hurled out into the cold void I sheathe my wrath and drift into silent slumber Dreaming of verses featureless Strange whispers emanates from the ruins A low hum of malignant breath, Out of the darkness a dark song arise A word of dominion beckons creation Promulgation of vile matter once again Cast down to the pits of existence Awake in the ossuary and over yonder Screeching in disharmony The wheel turns…
3.
The awning is breached The dance of light across the sky has frozen Death masks gloating and dripping from above Every drop a gateway of shadows Into what is not From the mouth of the deep The strange calm beckons A silent world void of dissent Cold air fills black lungs The jaw of uncreation opens And vapour rises as the old world soul diminish A false breath, a pulse in the cold Absorbing the marrow of stars The mightiest tower of the gods fall now Curse the word itself Let silence again fall upon these waters Curse the word itself Let silence ring out upon these waters Still and dreaming Be still now Be still
4.
Uddrevet fra munde frådende Udformet til væren fra fordærvelsen Ånder uden øjne til at se harver jorden Nye skygger skabes, kastet ind i de forarmede himle Fyldt med stjerner uden form Osende gab i den fænomenologiske jord Tænder knejsende mod de forpestede skyer Forbandelser ruller ind fra alle kardinale hjørner De tager form i nye rædsler og lagdes i den gispende jord Fyldt med stjerner uden form Fængslet i denne verden med lyset berøvet Lænker i tusmørkets favn, solen stedt til hvile Skyerne fortættes og forsamles nu, En sidste stille aftensang for denne verden, jeg drømmer ej mere; Blot om stjerner uden form ------------------------------- English translation:    "Formless Stars" Cast forth from mouths frothing Fashioned into being from decay Sightless spirits harrow the field Forming new shadows, cast into destitute heavens Filled with formless stars Fuming, gaping gorges of phenomenological earth Teeth reaching towards clouds ridden with plague Curses rolling in from all cardinal points Coming into new horrors, laid into the gasping earth Filled with formless stars Imprisoned in this world bereft of light Chains in the hands of twilight, the sun inhumed Clouds are congregating now, A last silent vesper for this world, I dream no more; But of formless stars

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"Formløse Stjerner" (in English, Formless Stars) is the second full-length by TONGUES, the worthy successor of an album, "Hreilia", which placed the Danish band on the map of the most esoteric and occult underground metal. If possible, the band manages to further perfect its style that embraces black, death and doom metal in equal measure, and which finds its perfect realization in the 15+ minutes of the monumental title track. To precede it, 3 long songs which, thanks to thundering riffs and enveloping guitar solos, channel not only all the fury of which TONGUES are capable, but also certain depressive drifts which spread melancholy over their dark melodies.

The overarching theme of the album is the revelation of negative knowledge and wisdom, and the bitterness that comes with that. "This world is transient and illusory, but we are somehow chained to it because of our physicality" drummer/lyricist Christian Qvortrup explains. "The formless stars in the album title and on the cover painting are used as symbols of our ideals and dreams. They are a glimpse into a realm we wish to reach out, but as years go by they become murky, hard to grasp, and they almost mock us and our aspirations."
In other words, "Formløse Stjerner" is about disillusionment and loss of connection with our spiritual sphere, but evidently this is not about TONGUES, who once again deliver a handful of songs that are more inspiring and moving than ever.

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released July 28, 2023

A. Lovmand - Vocals
T. Lovmand - Guitar, bass & keys
C. Qvortrup - Drums & lyrics

Additional guitars by E. Nyboe
Bass on "Elder Fire" and "Mouth of the Deep" by Nohr
Recorded at Bunkerlyd and Family Farm Studios in 2019-2020
Mixed and mastered by Family Farm Studios 2021-2022

Cover painting by NN Art
Art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli
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Cat. Nr. IVR210

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