Sludge Art

Isis - Stone to Wake a Serpent

We four, bound by blood
Standing in the crossroads

On the underside of the world
Waiting our turn

Here we see
Coiled serpent
Black and baking
In the sun

Stone is flung
Serpent wakens
Arrow of poison
Pierces our hearts

Teeth sink into tender flesh
Lightning strikes, too fast to see

We seek succor for the stricken
Pleas met with spiteful laughs

Slow advance, not to stir the poison
Its course fast and merciless

Merciless, merciless

In vast halls, buried in hurried hordes
No help found here, only dreadful tears

Light Bearer - Beautiful is this Burden

Explanation

The empty void a canvas, upon which Lucifer watched the many threads of reality weave endlessly. Huddled with his host and starved of all sensory nourishment, he pondered his choices, the realities he had accepted as truth, that the creator god was no more a creator than himself. Within him there was a cause, and the blackness around him soon took form, they heard the minds of the universe, an endless myriad of ideas, and thoughts, painting a mural of consciousness across the narrative of their prison. As the silence and darkness cloyed at them, those voices became images, sounds reverberated to form visions of the life that had begun to evolve in the multiverse, and the very substance of the fallen host was drawn to them, a reciprocal, joyous sharing, feeding the starved minds of those ethereal and corporeal. This found a purpose for the host – to bridge the untold aeons between their incarceration and those which the authority would soon subjugate and oppress. They would build a tower, the highest peak, and from this they would broadcast the words which would offer an alternative to the rapture of the false god.

Rosetta - Renew // Revolve
Live at Public Assembly

rosettaband:

The prototype new <4 minute song, live in Charlottesville, VA. Working title: Swarm of Engineers.

Cult of Luna - Owlwood

Fear roams throughout this land
Where no man dare tread
Dark shapes protect the one, not bound by laws of flesh

When lights are gone, woodland comes alive
Fire is born into their eyes

Days of isolation
Regret dominates
Unwilling to face what awaits outside

When lights are gone, woodland comes alive
Fire is born into their eyes

Ghost of this age
What the creek take
From a wretched state rose the willing

The Mire - Palmreader

New video from the Sludge/Post-Metal band, The Mire.

Crowbar - All I Had (I Gave)
Live at With Full Foce 2010

How long have I given all I’ve got?
Here I stand
My days and nights now are solitude
I struggle on
I’ve paid my price

All I had I gave

So much still lingers inside my head
I’ve lost it all
No trace of tolerance I can find
An empty heart
I’ve paid my price

All I had I gave
Save all that you feel for me

Amenra - Boden-Spijt

New video of Amenra, of their new album Mass V

Isis - Pliable Foe

Carried down yet another ghostly road
Of a life already lived and faded
Passing yet another broken man
His life, in burning iron, wrought

His voice is the thoughtless wake of others

A damaged life
Beating blackened earth

As great, dedicate
The faces gone
We who are in its grace
A war is on

The other rises, shining in his violence
His annihilation is my aim
No blood is spilled
All this violence from his lips

Twist his arm
Back at me
__ has made at odds?
Pushing me
Extending me
To know toe to toe in this race

Crush away our will
Our world is bound in doubt
A shadow escapes ahead
__ them __ the? __ __ __ __ __
The struggle in our words