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DontAskMeWhy
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DontAskMeWhy Loved the energy on this one, the change of tempo never makes it dull...Metal done right...sure just the start of a brilliant future for this band
Max Svalgard
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Max Svalgard This album is an instant classic. The songwriting is impeccable and as the album weaves from section to section it fearlessly merges styles in ways you never would have predicted. This album has moments that feel like bold experimentation, but this band is clearly at a point where they can pull off everything they dare to do masterfully. Holy fuck is this album good. Favorite track: Blank Sun.
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boogaboom I gotta be honest, 2020 really has been a shit year. But this album, top 3 experiences that made me FEEL FUCKING GOOD TO BE ALIVE this year. This album is pure adrenaline shot into your veins. Also the guys who made it are awesome people and I'm so fucking proud of them. Can't wait this fucking pandemic ends so I'll be able to see them live. God do I fucking love music. Thank you so much Release The Blackness for making me feel so enthusiastic about music and about life. Favorite track: Blank Sun.
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Oscarflip There were some pretty memorable progressive death metal releases in 2020 including but not limited to; Dessiderium’s “Shadowburn”, Alustrium’s “Insurmountable”, and Luna’s call’s “Void”... and Release the Blackness’s debut full length “Tragedy” ranks right up there as one of the best of the year. Tons of intricate technical riffs, beautiful progressive passages, and even some breakdowns scattered here and there make this album a must listen for a wide spectrum of fans in the death metal genre. Favorite track: Samsara.
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1.
Trenodia 01:40
(Instrumental)
2.
Upon this soil I search for any meaning Tracing the path of redemption Just to watch it fade So many times in so many lives I saw the cycle complete itself Just to feel you fade away again Eternally we’re part of this Ancestral inheritance Ancestral inheritance The hourglass we’re in will never stop its stream The past you fear is now your home The past you fear is now your home The past you fear Your past is now home Buried alive By the oppressing forces all around me Residing in every step I dare to take I am forced to relive every mistake I once did This fate I can’t change Is the envoy of my defeat Wrapped and consumed by this torment The seasons wither with me Left with nothing but madness I’m locked in a pattern I faced over and over all the pain and anger Just to sink once again in despair If there was an immense moment Something that gave a sense to all of this I’d choose to live in it, in the core of this Ancestral inheritance Ancestral inheritance The hourglass we’re in Will never stop its stream The past you fear is now your home The past you fear is now your home
3.
All you have left is wrapped in tragedy Beyond the final sky is where you’ll find me Where voids gather I will be born Layers of clouds have swallowed us Ingesting dreams we stopped chasing Numbness spreads like a cancer, A plague in the streets Dethroned, we all hail the downfall Shallow eyes deceived Confused and frightened Watch the children as they’re killed by ignorance And every fictional belief will feel just like a knife All you have left is wrapped in tragedy Beyond the final sky is where you’ll find me Where voids gather I will be born again Dry as the ocean is the bleak heart of men A toxic void that hails the downfall Our words won’t break any silence For they’re only fluent in violence Can’t you feel the noose around your neck? Callous fools defy us Dancing to the sound of a foreseeable collapse All you have left is tragedy Soaked in this sea of clouds Beyond the final sky is where you’ll find me Where voids gather I’ll be born again
4.
Apparitions defined reality Countless crossroads lurking in me Feeding from the black hole in my chest Apathy became one with grieve But now this anger flows It knows and tells me that I exist - As the howl of the wind I exist - As the eclipsing moon upon me I exist - As cold snow and flesh As long as I comprehend silence And bear the weight of time No word will ever deceive the fire No man nor God Can you hear The cry of an exhausted soul That sinks in its own complexity? That knows no relief Bound to its nature A slave to the core of its lies Read all the scars you can find on my skin And taste my blood Do it until you realize that my heart and soul Were forged into oblivion and raised by darkness For I have loved, craved, suffered, idealized I exist - As the howl of the wind I exist - As the eclipsing moon upon me I exist - As cold snow and flesh As long as I comprehend silence And bear the weight of time No word will ever deceive the fire No man nor God Will ever blind these eyes Cause I will live and die As cold snow and flesh
5.
Blank Sun 04:55
We are far enough And distance leads to fear We’ve said enough And words won’t disappear Within this sanctuary I’ve seen The ruins of my last shelter To those eyes I pledged my end Forgiving one last time You taught me hope And I gave you the power to destroy me So you could teach me hatred And now the voices inside me rejoice Through the cold wings of winter they scatter They speak empty words Unknown yet unbearable I can’t tell the last time I breathed Pain is inexhaustible people get exhausted tho You were the moon and I a blank sun Starving for your light You were the moon and I a blank sun Collapsing in the dark Disillusion devours the ashes Of a past doomed to misery Let me break free from the void I’m trapped in I was searching for a star to guide this violent soul I looked inside myself Debris of dreams consumed my sight The silence of the fall Is the eclipse of my world
6.
I am the master of those who fear time Of those who run through seasons waiting to die Lend me stories I will use to deny All of your efforts, your aberrations Lend me the truth of a living God That never existed in your eyes Shades of light piercing fragile souls Dreadful silence you know so well I am the sin of liberation I free your spirit igniting the material Spawning from the coldest depths of mind Blackened thoughts have made you crave deliverance Deconstructed minds expire The searing flames of incompleteness Through hideous paths you walked alone Now take my hand and pledge to me Deconstructed minds expire The searing flames of incompleteness You came hear blinded You lost your world You'll leave enlightened by emptiness
7.
(Instrumental)
8.
Samsara 09:21
Why am I still here? After these horrors I am still undone How can this be real? Am I supposed to swim or drown in this Ocean? All of my efforts reflect the fate Of those who simply cannot turn the page All of my efforts choke in dismay Dying bearers of countless drops of pain The black flame of despair arises Consuming everything in sight This land of ashes thrives on suffering The vultures know my name They read it in my blood and memories Vessels of damnation confine me once again But they won’t bound me here Trapped in this endless pain Those days of grace died as quick as they came They made me hope than left me broken Awakened by the vision of my past glory A new dawn betrays my dreams I lost myself into that fallacious light It nullified me, but yet I want it back Grieve no more For all the things you achieved are gone Lost in the void This never ending lust for solace Will carve death on my bones Rip my skin apart Crush every piece you can find Of this being I am, a farse till the end Oh please, end my suffering Break my skull in half And fill it with the hope That lost in this hell this life I still bear Will be the last The vultures know my name They read it in my blood and memories Vessels of damnation confine me once again But they won’t bound me here Trapped in this endless pain
9.
Starving God satisfy my hunger Drag me out of the true weakness of men The will to be confined Reprieved from the claws Of the thousand eyed beast Called possibility You praise the beauty of the flower on the precipice For you stop at the edge of that cliff Your fearful hand will never step out into the sky Witness this whole universe These scars and thirst of mine I am the thorn that tames the dusk The unbound, The bloom of solitude Hope is a cancer that slowly kills the mind A sweet addiction that leads to failure I am the thorn that tames the dusk I am the unbound, the bloom of solitude I am the thorn that drinks the heavens I am the betrayed, the bleeding monolith I dwell in loneliness for I had trust in life Now looking back into the abyss I realized Time will not heal what has died Time will never heal This will never heal Even alone Through blackened skies I will fly
10.
(Instrumental)

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'Tragedy' is the first full length album of the Italian Progressive Death Metal band Release The Blackness, out on the 6th of December via Cult Of Parthenope.

The main theme behind "Tragedy" is the variety of ways in which men perceive and face tragic events throughout their life. Whenever we live a dark time we are forced into a cycle of sorrow that can lock us forever or make us stronger and better human beings. Some might negate the events living by memories and illusions, others may be swallowed by apathy and become numb to feelings, but in the end these are all steps we have to go through before being able to break the cycle. The songs in the album target various possible reactions to tragic events mixed with personal experiences, thus creating an intimate and raw narration.

Tragedy is a massive sounding record, full of fast technical riffing wrapped in layers of harmonies, ambience and orchestrations. The tracklist makes the album a journey through the experience of sorrow, using reoccurring musical themes to recreate the repeating and ever-evolving cycles addressed in the lyrics. The most noticeable influences come from bands like Gojira, Beyond Creation, Fit For an Autopsy, Rivers of Nihil, Opeth and many more, including classical music and traditional oriental music.

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released December 6, 2020

"Tragedy" was recorded by Rocco Minichiello and Aldo Colleoni at Blackness Sound Studio in Grottaminarda, Italy, while mixing and mastering were handled by Seb Di Martino at SDM Recording Studio in Gragnano, Italy.
Cover Artwork by Alfredo "Mojo" Raimondi.

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Release The Blackness Avellino, Italy

Release The Blackness is an Italian Progressive Death Metal band, formed in 2015 in Avellino.

The band has published the EP 'Antares' in 2017 and its first full length 'Tragedy' in 2020, after signing with the UK based label 'Cult of Parthenope'.

The band has played with many international artists such as Harakiri For The Sky, Necrodeath, Genus Ordinis Dei and many more.
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