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Dancing in blue moonlight
Reaching into abyssal cosmos
Speaking words of great ones
Guiding bloodthirst degeneration
Corrupting the accursed
The guiding moonlight
Steeped in blood and beasts
Have you seen the light?
A binding thread that leads
A righteous path of bloodshed
A tragedy
Shameful hunter
Well and truly gone
Sleep now in peace
In darkest night
In nothingness
Together all along
The accursed light
Dancing in blue moonlight
Reaching into abyssal cosmos
Speaking words of great ones
Guiding bloodthirst degeneration
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Descendent of vileblood
Kin of the undead queen
Bearer of curse of blood
For evermore
Seeking knowledge
Of great ones
Parasites
A woeful curse
A corpse should be left
Very well alone
Secrets beckon sweetly
I know very well
The only cure
An honest death
Liberation from
Your curiosity
Solo: Trevor Van Hook
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Eyes on the inside
Swimming endlessly
Lost in fluid
Seeing the unknown
Numbing the brain
Communing with great ones
Blood ministration to elevate
Humanity
Solo: Zac Sanders
Engorged cranium
Swelling with fluid
Research through suffering
Medicine through becoming
Grotesque abomination
The distant sound
The sticky sound
How it approaches
Kill me please just kill me
Kill me please just kill me
I’m guilty I know
I won’t do it again
I won’t do it again
I won’t do it again
The damp darkness
It frightens me
And what rises from its depths
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Washed up on a barren shore
Embraced from endless depths
Fragile body now fallow
A gift bestowed, legacy enshrined
In blessings bountiful so entwined
Then descended the seekers
Pillaging the parasitic cyst
Sacred symbiosis
Frail heads cracked and mined
Dissected in foul derangement
My cherished hamlet
Rent by transgressions obscene
We tremble in adulation for the child
Coalesced into a vengeance pristine
Slough off the course
Storied ascension
Cast in a dream, the frenzied
The ravagers
Ravenous, remorseless
Come and know your god
Rise
Stolen child
Sing desolate tides
Fly
Pray to the ocean
A call from the skies
Rise
Stolen child
Sing desolate tides
Fly
Call to the ocean
A gift from the skies
Rise
Broken child
A final reprise
Cry
Call to your mother
A kiss from the skies
Remember your promise
Our dying wish
Save us, sweet mother
Bind the fiends
Of blade and fire
Sleep here with us
Until the child wakes
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Amorphous moan now coalesced
In covert extraction
Phantasmic shifts of umbral fume
Sacred coagulate
Heedless unearthing
Heal these brittle bones
Their fragile bodies
Viscous communion
Beckoning this light
In salvation we rectify
Fortitude in blight
Beacon in the night
Stirring restless in the wake
These aberrant shells
Immolate to obfuscate
Auspice immutable
O ardent brother mine
To you I’ll soon return
Remedy in reverie
Shield us in certitude
Beckoning this light
In salvation we rectify
Fortitude in blight
Beacon in the night
Steadfast brother
Slumbering in chains
Hallowed mentor
Decrepit, betrayed
Corrupted apostle
By moonlight reclaimed
My penance eternal
A beast wreathed in flame
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Kosmogyr FFO: Møl, Violet Cold, Oathbreaker, Hans Zimmer
Putrescine FFO: Morbid Angel, Undeath, The Chasm, Gorguts
Purchase digital tracks directly from the bands:
kosmogyr.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-tides
reek-of-putrescine.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-tides
This split is, like all split LPs before it, a tale of dialectics.
PUTRESCINE leans heavily on death metal’s progressive roots as exemplified by Morbid Angel and The Chasm. Like those groups, Putrescine balances a sense of keening melody, low-end chromaticism, and a touch of the weirding fringe of the genre, closer to Voivod than standard tech-wizardry. Each of their releases is a further refinement of their acumen, and this material is no exception.
Their three songs found here showcase an emotionally seamless blend of their outer-weirdness prog elements and meat-and-potatoes death metal riffing, integrating the shock of those exploratory prog passages into the death metal that surrounds them. They represent a group that views every release as a defining statement, regardless of length or format — extremely refreshing in a rockist solo LP-oriented world.
KOSMOGYR blends the post-rock and post-hardcore driven world of contemporary black metal a la Møl, Oathbreaker, and Violet Cold with the cinematic music of Hans Zimmer and grace notes of death metal as well. For Kosmogyr, this new material represents not a perpetual refinement but a return — it’s their first release since before the pandemic.
Initially formed in Shanghai between two friends in the city’s extreme metal and punk scene, Kosmogyr has since developed into a fully international project, with both members now living in different continents. Their music is intuitive and emotionally driven, with a natural progressive sheen.
The progressive component of Kosmogyr twists in their music’s songwriting and development, while the heightened post-hardcore elements give motion and energy. Imagine if Mono teamed up with Undeath, or if Coheed and Cambria developed a surprising interest in contemporary extreme metal, and you’ll have an idea of what you can expect from Kosmogyr’s three songs on this collaboration.
On Desolate Tides, the presence of these two bands together is born of both friendship and musical communication. The change in Kosmogyr’s vocal approach arcs their material closer to the death metal of Putrescine, while Putrescine's more emotionally coherent songwriting tilts toward the taut sense of emotional logic underpinning Kosmogyr's melodic and harmonic choices.
This collaboration is clearly thought out but not overthought, emotionally sound without being histrionic or forced. Neither group took the easy way out for this split LP — these are not cast-off songs yet to find a home, but which together form a truly cohesive whole.
Digital pre-orders available at:
kosmogyr.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-tides
reek-of-putrescine.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-tides
Kosmogyr
Xander Cheng: guitars, bass
Ivan Belcic: vocals, drum programming, lyrics
Songs written and recorded by Kosmogyr
Mixed and mastered by Xander Cheng
Album cover
Artwork: Misha Mono
Text layout: Kaine Lyu
released September 23, 2022
Putrescine
Marie McAuliffe: guitars and vocals, drum programming, orchestrations
Trevor Van Hook: guitars and vocals
Zac Sanders: bass and lead guitars, orchestrations
Produced by Zac Sanders — Dying Empire Productions
Mixed and mastered by Erol Ulug at Bright Lights Studio
Kosmogyr:
Xander Cheng: guitars, bass
Ivan Belcic: vocals, drum programming, lyrics
Songs written and recorded by Kosmogyr
Mixed and mastered by Xander Cheng
Artwork: Misha Mono
Text layout: Kaine Lyu
Cassette layout: Melissa C. Kelly