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Welcome to Gévaudan's second full length album: Umbra. This is epic, progressive and highly emotive doom.
Through a single concept, Umbra explores depression through the eyes of eldritch horror, culminating in an unrelenting shadow that’s imparted on its sufferer.
As you may have come to expect from Gévaudan, this album gives you monolithic riffs, soaring and tortured vocals, melodic instrumental interjections and lyrical guitar solos. Umbra, however, evolved from the depths. The battle of light stalked by darkness is reflected throughout the concept - the lyrical story, musical tonal shifts and cover artwork all combine in a completely immersive thematic journey.
Umbra delivers 43 minutes of expressive and dynamic doom - from the opening bar to the last, closing note.
Please sit back, lower the lights and crank up the volume to indulge in this epic musical journey.
lyrics
I'm waiting in the dawn light, clawing, tongue like dirt
Bleeding wounds that unwind, nails worn through
Screaming, wordless prayer
Euphoria, distressed bough
Evoke now the monolith, sepulchral pyre beneath the earth
Veins of glass, skin of sand
A glance upon madness, to extort the flesh ever changing
Am I me?' I muse, through the fetid hollow
Leaves of tar, toxic sap, constricting bark
Limb of torment, drag me down, beneath the shadow
And I slumber, in His embrace
He cradles me to death
And I slumber, in His faith
He caresses, within my flesh
And I slumber, in His embrace
And I slumber, in His faith
He calls my name, deathless sin, in the moonlight
Uttering madness, please forgive me, endless nightmare
Peel my bones, shifting grass, fractal worship
Ageless god, nameless one, always within me
Fixate the blind, upon the egress, lidless eyes, a starless void
A new psychosis, fresh neurosis, an aberration of my mind
At once to subjugate myself, ties that bind through bloodless skies
Myriad eyes, peer through my sleeve, a tide of skin, ever shifting, sedulous
A monolith of sin, obsidian form engulfing him, feed me blind, feed me bitter truth of mind
A blanket of stars, to keep me warm under the sun, collective delusion, intrusion, illusion
Revealing his name, enthralling, sublime, I see too much beyond the pale, grand cold void, with rotted fang
Death grey flesh, birthed in ashen wastes, a tide of bone, ever screaming, lachrymose
I'm waiting in the dawn light
Screaming, euphoria
Sightless woodland
Breathless blood
Scraping at the dirt, I am building my home
Loose foundations, I am building my throne
Growing inside, resident fear of mine
Lightless eyes, reflecting through mirrors
Lingering soul of mine, incense of blood in the skies
Ever waiting god, empty heart within
The clutches of heavens eye, my teacher, my soul, my pride
I worship and adore, come not here, no more
Shrouded mist, befall the hill
Cascading down to me
Bleeding skies of crimson eyes
Entombed, a veil of thee
Standing at my hearth, I am showered with gold
Strong foundations, I am king, I am known
Growing inside, fearless soul of mine
Brightest eyes, reflecting through mirrors
Lingering call of blight, a whisper of insight divine
Ever waiting god, calling me to back to him
The presence in the moon, my teacher, my heart, my guide
I fear and abhor, come back to me, my love
credits
from
Umbra,
released October 13, 2023
Produced, mixed and mastered by Mike Exeter.
Recorded at Gospel Oak Studio.
Album artwork by Erskine Designs.
All music written arranged and composed by Gévaudan.
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