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Thanatos

by ÔROS KAÙ

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liltito
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liltito Witness and behold The Second Ritual Favorite track: Bios-Phos-Metis.
Matten
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Matten For me personally, it's no contest. At this point, Voidhanger is easily the label of the year.
For those not familiar, here we have a masterful vortex of trippy and esoteric death and black metal. I've been waiting for another full album since hearing the debut. It was totally worth the wait, and to top it off, a follow-up is already confirmed? Awesome. Favorite track: Baal.
Matthew Johnson
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Matthew Johnson Just as strange as you’d expect, given that this is a side project from the founder of black metal jazz improvisational collective Neptunian Maximalism. The way this starts out, you could loosely describe this as a more complicated, dissonant take on war metal or blackened death, but there are weird opera/noise sections, subterranean twanging parts, swampy gurgling, excursions into noise rock, and probably half a dozen other weird explorations I’ve forgotten to mention.
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1.
Nephtys 06:24
From the secrets ov stones To the virtues ov herbs Ô Lord Bathin Transport myself to your chthonian world Naked muscles knight Constrictor of fake summoners Ruler of thirty Legions ov demons Please, listen to my spell Show me your real form Nephtys, cold Seth’s consort Powerful Egyptian goddess Ov chaos and darkness Focuses your energy On teaching mankind The ancient secrets ov the gods Secrets of using herbs and stones Teach me the secrets ov astral projection Which allows people To transport their own astral forms To different locations in the world … From the secrets ov stones To the virtues ov herbs Ô goddess Nebthet Transport myself to your chthonian place Great daughter of Geb and Nout Snake tail ov Apophis Invoked by uranium and lead Howling bird, sound your funeral moaning Show me your real form Nebthet, cold Seth’s consort Powerful Egyptian goddess Who makes Heliopolis shine
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Hark! Hark Triton, HARK! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise From the depths full-foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam To smother this young mouth with pungent slime To choke ye, engorging your organs Til' ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine And can scream no more Only when he, crowned in cockle shells With slitherin' tentacle tail And steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, His coral-tine trident Screeches banshee-like in the tempest And plunges right through yer gullet! Bursting ye … A bulging bladder no more, But a blasted bloody film now And nothing for the harpies And the souls of dead sailors To peck and claw And feed upon, only to be lapped up And swallowed by the infinite waters Of the Dread Emperor himself, Forgotten to any man, to any time, Forgotten to any god or devil, Forgotten even to the sea, For any stuff for part of Leslie, Even any scantling of your soul is Leslie no more, But is now itself the sea!
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Baal 06:50
King ov legions of demons Head ov the infernal powers Master ov another thinking Lord ov hidden rituals Baal, Ô my Lord, Show me the way by this magic spell Bring your putrefied army To destroy the cult ov despotic god By a thunderstorm ov black fire In a swirl ov wild waters Make a legion ov gods reign On this Earth, you are the Sun, The torch that blazes in the cave The North Star ov the Anarchists You teach the real democracy Rebel from masters and banish imposters … Let the passage be free Unto the crawling chaos Open unto me the way Across angled time and curved space … You can bring light and fertilise the ground You're the first ov ancestral You're prosperity We must worship your name We have to care ov your coat We have to shine your horns We ear and love your blare We kneel before your strength … Let the passage be free Unto the crawling chaos Open unto me the way Across angled time and curved space You are the sun, like an infinity ov another stars in the sky
4.
Marbas 05:56
Maybe it was you Who carved the first stone At this time you drew A new way for great apes that we are Ô Marbas Old teacher of mechanicals Father ov technicals Who gives power of shapeshifters By the science ov technological, By your power to cause death or life Wisdom ov mathematical Help us to find who we are … Now we know we are not We know we don’t know anything That curses the politics who would forget that Ô Marbas The fierce lion In hands ov the human Your gift is dangerous Summoners, improve and beautified your mind Learn Arts and Philosophy To touch this stone ov ages Who cut three million years ov life
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I call upon Serqet, scorpio goddess Who holds the breath and delivers the death. Black scorpionic mud ov the Nameless Arcana Prima Materia, Kemit ov life Undefeated traveler ov the Aeons. Hark Scorpio! I call you now! (as you once permitted me) By your cheliceral kiss, inebriate us with atrabile. Let your serpent dance to rush into your cave, Cryptic architecture ov alchemic rebirth. (al-kimiya) … By your fatal sickle, reduce us to a state ov mush, Let our bodies mingle with the fertile mud, That soil on which Taurus once thrived. … By the power of Mars, cause your red magic To transmute sensual soil into consciousness rubi. Let the red death flow into the new calyx. Teach us that old bottles are not for the new wine. You are at once both the quiet and the confusion ov the heart, The soaring eagle and the creeping serpent. … Ô Serqet When I come, may your chelicerae be wide open, May your poisoned sword be raised high Like the victorious golden key to the secrets of renewal, May your right claw bury itself in the dissolute silt, May your left claw rebel, embrace the moon and swallow the skies Which lays down its foams of coagulating cold light Because I come to thank. Ô Scorpio, spread your venom through our veins.
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Micama! Goho Pe-IAD! Zodir com-selahe azodien biabe os-lon-dohe. Norezodacahisa otahila Gigipahe; vaunid-el-cahisa ta-pu-ime qo-mos-pelehe telocahe; qui-i-inu toltoregi cahisa i cahisaji em ozodien; dasata beregida od torezodul! Ili e-Ol balazodareji, od aala tahilanu-os netaabe: daluga vaomesareji elonusa cape-mi-ali varoesa cala homila; cocasabe fafenu izodizodope, od miinoagi de ginetaabe: vaunu na-na-e-el: panupire malapireji caosaji. Pilada noanu vaunalahe balata od-vaoan. … Do-o-i-ape mada: goholore, gohus, amiranu! Micama! Yehusozod ca-ca-com, od do-o-a-inu noari micaolazoda a-ai-om. Casarameji gohia: Zodacare! Vaunigilaji! Od im-ua-mar pugo pelapeli Ananael Qo-a-an.
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After the revealing debut of "Imperii Templum Aries" and the "Theosulphuros" split album with PRECARIA, ÔROS KAÙ returns with "Thanatos", the first chapter of a visionary diptych which will soon be followed by the twin work "Hypnos".
The project of CZLT (NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM), ÔROS KAÙ use death metal and black metal to explore new spiritual territories through references to Goetia, Greek-Egyptian Hermeticism, Astrology, Magic and Austin Osman Spare's writings, among the other things.
Wrapped in a splendid painting by Daniele Valeriani, "Thanatos" is a reflection on death, archetype of chaos, destruction and transformation as represented in ancient cultures. A stage of purification and enlightenment through pain and loss. Once again, references to demons such as Baal and Marbas are mere pretexts, allegories that symbolize artistic freedom in perennial opposition to the dominant culture.

Musically, ÔROS KAÙ rings granite black/death guitar riffs above a powerful rhythmic base in continuous crescendo or often marching on deadly doom metal-tinged mid-tempos. The melodies are epic, but that certain mystical-esoteric flavor that has always characterized the Belgian artist's music never fails, underlined by a complex vocal performance in which death metal growls, black metal screams and Tibetan chants converge.

What ÔROS KAÙ offers is an absolutely unique, hypnotic and intoxicating melting pot of cultures, musical and thematic contents; a true study in the sacredness of sound and voice and the power they convey, under the guise of a brutal metal album. The magmatic pulsation of the music and the jumble of vocals induce a state of trance, heightened by the diabolical invocations of the lyrics. The psychedelic vertigo reaches its peak in the colossal "Dawn Of The Red Scorpio" and in the exhausting "Bios-Phos-Metis", 15 minutes of drone doom metal which push the listener into the arms of "Hypnos". The journey has just begun.

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released September 22, 2023

ÔROS KAÙ is CZLT: all instruments and vocals.

Written, produced, mixed and mastered by ÔROS KAÙ. "Let Neptune Strike Ye Dead" adapted from "The Lighthouse" by Robert Eggers, 2019.

Cover painting by Daniele Valeriani. Layout by CZLT.
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Cat. Nr. IVR205

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