Sprawling across the vault of heaven
An embrace of amorphous clay
The child thrashes in the formless cradle, offspring of time and dust
Pangs of the birth which is to come herald the source of life
Thrusting infinite pressure
Mass infinite fragments
Dense solar clusters
Energy creates beginning
Unbearable crushing tension
In turbulent discord
Bleeding out the newborn
And reforming the flesh
The heat of this withdrawal becomes the beating heart
A host to feed on the gushing wounds
And thus, the flesh is complete, relieved by the placid storm
Calmed by the forlorn embrace of its dwindling home
Rising to rear its young in the warmth of its light
From the birth, an exhalation, the first breath of a star
Breathe
In your
Life
And
Illuminate
Yourself
Stellar winds
Blow
Until your life
Ends
Arise
Son of Sol
Nigh is your dawn
As the night is cold
Within the sea
A writhing mass
Source of knowledge
Forged in dust
A chain of sinew
Stretching forth
Children of flesh, children of blood, and time
Awake your dormant minds and claim your rightful heir
But through
This
A loss
To the self
And the false
Sense of light
A dark
Perverse
Mind
Forgetting the past
To devour the marrow of all
A cancer of thought
Breeds death
The sons of light
Stricken and worn
A cannibalistic being
Failure of eternity
Have you not foreseen the cost of this corruption?
In it, Ouroboros is complete.
Devour thyself. Devour thyself
If you wish that your end
Gift thyself to the sanguine sphere
Some of the best cosmic black metal I've heard. Mare Cognitum continues to prove themselves to be masters of crafting a vast, celstial soundscape, and the Lovecraft-esque atmosphere present throughout Aureole's half definitely made me want to check out the rest of their discography. honeycombguy
After listening to Ysyry Mollvün, listening to Downfall of Nur was urgent and turned out to be one of the best decisions I have made in quite some time: Umbras de Barbagia is simply magisterial; the atmosphere can hardly be compared to anything else. There is a deep, palpable connection to nature imbueing each very fibre of this record. The amalgamation of black metal and folk elements is done with a high intuition for detail and class, resulting in a highly immersive experience. Wonderful. David Fischer
It took me far longer than I care to admit to "get" Mare Cognitum. But here we are, all the way at the beginning, where it all started; and what a masterpiece it is. "Ambient" black metal is seriously underselling this album. It is raw, it is brutal, it will not hesitate to eat you alive; and yet it is musical, it is emotional, and it will shelter you with its wings. I often turn to metal when in times of rage, but Mare Cognitum has shown that rage can still be contained and reasoned with. Faith
definetely one of my favourite bm projects lately, love the synth elements. makes you remember how amazing, but terrifying, space really is :) scumdrug