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Come Mourning Come

by Old Witch

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    OLD WITCH - "Come Mourning Come"
    Debut album of this fantastic band.
    Funeral dirge slow doom from USA.
    Incredible dense and thick doom metal masterpiece with
    hypnotizing funereal and grim atmosphere, with hints to
    Shape of Despair, Nortt.
    A monolithic release, full of mystery, packed with dense riffs and subtle atmospheres.
    Professionally manufactured tape limited to 100 copies.
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1.
FUNERAL RAIN 07:30
FUNERAL RAIN BURNS AND SEEDS THE ROTTING SOIL NO GREEN, NO BROWN SICK GREY, SICK GREY AND THE SICKLE MOON RISES OVER EMPTY DEAD FIELDS NO CRY BREAKS THE STILL MY WEDDING NIGHT MY PRETTY YOUNG BRIDE WHERE HAS YOUR PRETTY DRESS GONE? I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN WE DRIFT ALONE THROUGH WINTER'S SLEEP WE SINK BREAST FIRST INTO THE DEEP FUNERAL RAIN
2.
THIS RUIN THIS WASTE THESE TOO SHALL FALL AND TURN AGAIN TO WILDERNESS THESE WORDS REMAIN: UNKNOWABLE DARK WET ROOTS AND THE WOODS FAIL THEIR STRANGE ECHOS, IT'S COOL WATERS A DARK, SILENT, A STILL GLASSY MIRROR
3.
THERE ABOVE ANCIENT WOODS OLD GODS ROAM THE TWILIGHT OLD SPYRITS HAUNT THE THICKETS WHERE OUR BLOOD NOURISHED THE EARTH FORESTS FALL BLACK AND COWER AT THE WOLVES HOWL BREAKING COLD ACROSS THE FROST AND SNOW ALL THE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY SHIVER IN THEIR VAST DOME LOFTY BEYOND ALL HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS CURSE THE HUNTER'S CRY CURSE MERCILESS EYES NEVER VIRGIN PURE SPIRIT BORN IN ICE FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE STARS UNDER FOREST EVES O'ER MOUNTAINS AND DARK STREAMS THROUGH SLEEPING VILLAGES WHERE FOLK LIE IN DREAMS
4.
UNSPOKEN
5.
MOONSET COMES FORESTS WEEP AS FROST CREEPS HERE, A POWER TAKES HOLD LEADS ME THROUGH SOFT SLEEP INTO A DEEPER CHILL WHERE STRENGTH BURNS, WHERE WILL REIGNS FEAR IS WEAKNESS LOVE IS FEAR FATE WILL GUIDE US HOME I WILL ASCEND TO THE VAULTS OF THE SKY FEAR WILL BE MY GUIDE LOVE WILL BE MY BETRAYER SHE IS A SECRET GUARDED BY STONE HIDDEN IN DUSK WHERE WEAK MEN DARE NOT GO
6.
COME MOURNING COME SET YOUR WEARY EYES TO SLEEP COME WITH THE DAWN WITH YOUR LOVER'S VIGIL KEEP COME... LITTLE SPARROW IN YOUR TREE WILL YOU SING YOUR SONG FOR THE LIGHT? DAYS WILL COME WHEN YOU'LL BE GONE AND MEN WILL SAY "SUCH WERE THE TIMES IN THE LAND OF OUR BIRTH" COME MOURNING COME WITH YOUR LONG NIGHT'S DEMONS FLEE AND RETURN TO WILDERNESS COME TO ME THERE ABOVE ANCIENT WOODS OLD GODS ROAM THE TWILIGHT OLD SPYRITS HAUNT THE THICKETS AND MEN WILL SAY "SUCH WERE THE TIMES IN THE LAND OF OUR BIRTH, HERE WHERE OUR BLOOD NOURISHED THE EARTH THIS IS OUR PAST COME, MOURNING, COME"

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released May 8, 2013

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Old Witch

Stooping in a rotting throne of dead oak, casting black thoughts to the stars, burning cold over the glacial wilderness, she reaches withered hands to the cold, eternal night, vast above the deep winter forest. We have spilled our lives an offering to old gods, this brooding vast land. Come, the funeralboats unfurl cruel sails to the north wind, seeking haven beyond the pillars of death.... ... more

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