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Desolate Tides

by Putrescine / Kosmogyr

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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
2.
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
3.
Eyes on the inside Swimming endlessly Lost in fluid Seeing the unknown Numbing the brain Communing with great ones Blood ministration to elevate Humanity 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
4.
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
5.
Hunting the buried Glimpsed in snatches through these tatters Cloaked adversary Rinse these bloodied hands of their guilt Tear down the gallows That cherish the best of us Vigil eternal Linger here in this purpose Memorialize this ungodly testimony Push through to the reaches Cleanse this vile mire from within Sift through the grains To unbury the root Toll the bell Beat them down I’m the last sound they’ll hear Unearthing Preserving Pierce the veneer Torn in shambles Keep the muted Here in silence Burn the facade Down to the ground Trapped in this pit To stop them all None can follow this path we’ve taken I’ll never rest until they leave us Pierce the veneer Torn in shambles Keep the muted Here in silence Burn the facade Down to the ground Trapped in this pit To stop them all Cast off the dread cerement Corrode and condemn to rot Pale hollow Lead, follow One reverie Blood morrow Ring silence Cold vibrance Crush atrophy Sing violence
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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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CASSETTES AVAILABLE FROM TRIDROID RECORDS: tridroid.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-tides

Stream "Desolate Tides" at Invisible Oranges here: www.invisibleoranges.com/kosmogyr-putrescine/

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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, major or minor, 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.

- Langdon Hickman

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released September 23, 2022

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Artwork: Misha Mono www.instagram.com/mono_means_doom/
Text layout: Kaine Lyu www.behance.net/kainelv

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

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Contemporary black metal made collaboratively by two people in Shanghai and Prague.

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