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Carrion

by No Longer Human

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1.
November nights, blackened I met you there, at the bridge by the highway I was going to jump But it was something about the passing lights Of those automobiles It was your presence I closed my heart, but opened up my veins. November nights, blackened I was traveling alone And you wouldn’t leave my mind I wanted to breathe you in And dispel you But you are a cancer And I think that it's too late Because we exist Symbiotically. November nights, blackened I know from this pain burning within my chest That I never once knew love I closed my heart, so you could open yours But you never did. I know that I am a virus Still, maybe we can meet again At the bridge by the highway At the bridge in Montréal. But I’d rather die alone.
2.
Scars from razors long since rusted and discarded Like we have discarded our used up flesh The ashes of our holocaust billow up From the furnaces below This is the hell that we have wrought Flower petals scattered like track marks Symbolic of the hours we've lost And all the people passing in the streets Give off the same despondency Their faces contort like the surface of water I cannot look them in the eyes Or maybe it's the passing minutes The feeling of blood flowing through my veins And the broken glass on my skin And your dead gaze And their fucking lies The trees slump down in the distance Expressing foul rancor Exuding their disdain for the earth The pine needles pierce my skin The euphoria that I felt when I looked into your eyes, Is a pallid reflection of the cicatrices on our arms. It's sadomasochism.
3.
Pluviôse, irrité contre la ville entière, De son urne à grands flots verse un froid ténébreux Aux pâles habitants du voisin cimetière Et la mortalité sur les faubourgs brumeux. Mon chat sur le carreau cherchant une litière Agite sans repos son corps maigre et galeux ; L'âme d'un vieux poète erre dans la gouttière Avec la triste voix d'un fantôme frileux. Le bourdon se lamente, et la bûche enfumée Accompagne en fausset la pendule enrhumée, Cependant qu'en un jeu plein de sales parfums, Héritage fatal d'une vieille hydropique, Le beau valet de coeur et la dame de pique Causent sinistrement de leurs amours défunts.
4.
Tears unnumbered glimmer within Endless sorrow Dying dreams suspended motionless Withering within The suffocating black Drown among The daughters of the firmament Bleed from the Earth’s degenerate heart Within the silence of our hopes Lies naught The incense that paints the heavens Dances languorously A grey deluge Which draws upon weakness An apparition That sips at the dredges of our fear Drown among The daughters of the firmament Bleed from the Earth’s degenerate heart Throttle the infant before the eyes of God Your dreams will perish in the fires of the Dawn All flames will falter before the rising sun You will kneel in reverence Before the Altar of Dawn.
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When the dust of the world settles Within our ragged lungs When the worms begin to wither In the hollows of our skulls When our eyes become weary By the dusk’s murky light When the mind is drunk and listless From decadence and city nights A dismal revelation of the coming dawn Light cresting over the horizon Oh, how the warmth sickens me Germinating all that is vile within my core Flowers of evil, consume my flesh Bathed in the light of the new dawn; I, the carrion Apocalyptic visions cloud my sight No light has reached me Your light will never reach me For I have bled Upon the Altar of Dawn For I have shed blood Upon the Altar of Dawn

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Carrion is decadent and self indulgent. It explores themes of dissociation, flagellation, and apathy. It is a snapshot of ennui through the lens of an otherwise ordinary life.

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released March 3, 2023

This album and the poems therein were composed and performed by Herr Pestilenz.

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Recorded and mixed by Chris Rowan at Skaldic Studios, with additional recording by Herr Pestilenz.

Mastered by Alex Snape at Nomadic Arts Studios.

"Wounded Hand of Peace" Logo designed by Ioan "Eofor" Tetlow.

Photography by Luke McCart.

The lyrics of track 3, "Spleen (Pluviôse, irrité...)" are from the poem "Spleen", by Charles Baudelaire.

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