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Relics of Mourning

by Varanak

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I arise with the sun, aching with pain. Muddling through each day, isolation my only friend. As the sun cusps its arch, the icy winds blow As my hope withers in the cold. The amaranth dies neath the frozen soil And burst up a bouquet of aconites and marigolds! In this year I set for improvement, I'll succumb to the same vices again! My memories sting like the hornets at dawn and fill my body with poison! I'll ignore the pain, pump alcohol into my veins until I'm numb with the poison! Sometimes I feel the warmth of impossible joy of a reality created in my mind! Where I breathe happiness and my life is filled with joy! Where all my misery is gone! But this reality is broken at the break of dawn And I arise to the same turmoil and pain!
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Beckoned by eyes in the night, to gaze upon the shadows & walk with the souls forgotten by time. Up through the trees of mystery! Through the night of death! Crossing the oceans of failure. March the deceased relics of existence! The silence and isolation grow more deafening. I see only one solution through this gale. As the walls grow closer, the choir of pain crashendos. I see that I, depraved by solitude, must join the relics immemorial. All feelings rotting from my heart. My feet feel helpless to carry this burden anymore. As I am crushed by a Great Persecutor. I buckle underneath the growing expectation to revert! As the clouds break open, reveal dizzying emanations. I’m reduced to nothing in their majesty. The Heavenly winds that guide the souls to salvation & steer me towards eternal bliss. Before me, the Parapet collapses, the Illusion in Ruin. ...And I saw before me the Bringer of the End gazing upon me. With eyes so cold, a daggered stare, marred with ice and loneliness. He proclaimed, unveiled my fate: “You shall live forever! An eternity to gaze upon the suffering. Immortality to watch loved ones die and never enjoy the love promised!”
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Evergreen 12:10
I cross this dead wilderness To find the answer to why my shadow only appears in the dark The torrid landscapes guide me blind To the final color I will see in my crumbling shitstorm called life Across these plains of a life I once led I walk closer to the kingdom of my death Anger and hate turn to joy at the sight Within the horizon, shines the light of evergreen Burning fire in the night I take the flame, burn the bridges, to a past I long to forget Embers of hate smolder Toiling in the Mountains of Madness and love, that drive me towards these cliffs of life ending heights. This life I knew It is no more My blood is cold My veins are stone All of my time Carelessly wasted On a meaningless life A worthless existence I lie in wonder Will this cold last forever? Will the Evergreen thrive, Now that my life has ended? Open the gate to the life I once led I want to return from the kingdom of my death Joy and love turn to grief at the sight The Evergreen withers in the absence of life
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“A cascade of emotions, a shower of flowers above a coffin of which every note of the album is a nail” (Grind On The Road)

“Varanak upsets our souls and sucks us in a slow and heavy whirlwind of nagging depreciation. A formidable odyssey towards darkness” (Soil Chronicles)

“Melancholy and atmosphere abound in the five long songs that together makes for a great immersion in sadness” (Brothers in RAW)

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“Relics of Mourning” is the debut release by Blackened Doom project VARANAK.

A monstrously heavy and bitterly melancholic achievement originally self released digitally in November 2020, which we are now excited to release in double CD 8 panels digisleeve, with two bonus tracks.

“Relics of Mourning” is a terrifyingly dark and ominous release, skillfully combining the heaviness of Funeral Doom with the rawness and feel of Depressive Black Metal.

Thematically approaching depression and sadness but with a palpable gothic imagery and symbolism, the opus is a profoundly meditative and introspective glimpse into the caducity of life and the persistence of pain and suffering therein.

“The amaranth dies ‘neath the frozen soil - And burst up a bouquet of aconites and marigolds”

FFO: Thou, Forgotten Tomb, early Katatonia

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released February 5, 2021

CREDITS

Rz: Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Keyboards
Owen Pomykacz: Drums (1-3)
Brandon Essig: Drums (4-5)
Jeff Dileo: Organ (4-5)
Mixed and Mastered by Steve Foster
Original Artwork by Amy Lynn Fallat
Art Direction and Layout: Evokaos (Brucia Records)

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