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Hesychia

by ARFSYND

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    Read an elaborate interview with Perditor about the album here: heathenharvest.org/2013/02/19/the-fiery-spirit-an-interview-with-arfsynd/

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    HESYCHIA was meant to be released on vinyl back in 2013, but DWP never payed the pressing plant. Now, four years later, DWP has disappeared and is impossible to contact. The pressing plant asked if I would like to buy all 300 vinyls and distribute them myself, and so I did. From the beginning Clavis Secretorvm wanted to pay for 100 vinyls and distribute them, but DWP never contacted them, so CS have done nothing wrong!
    /Perditor on behalf of Arfsynd, August 2017.

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1.
The Lord's Acceptance This is the Lord's command: thou shalt discard anything of value Inexorable as Death, the holiness is a glorious charade Abandoned laws have been shattered, but the chains are still anchored in faith - Frozen fanaticism! We thirst for blood that is poisoned, We yearn to become soil We, the offspring of life, may we receive The Lord's Acceptance! Thou art reflected in the depths of our minds Like rebels, we fall, burdened by the divine disgrace The frames still unpainted, but the paintings are changed - Moses is drowning ! The fruit must be gathered before the final grain falls The Word must be followed - a lawless dogma The king shall be crowned in a violent revolt The clouds shall collapse - an ocean of fallen life! In the shadow of our time Death is enthroned in the shimmering light Through visions of vice may we receive The Lord's Blessings!
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Famine Feeds Famine We, who are stumbling blindly, need a sign from Thee We have met the light, yet it only betrays us again and again... Exalted, we kissed the cross, and faithfully we sang Thy Psalms.Yet we lack meaning - God's starving children In silence we pray for reprieve, yet the Sin punishes us mercilessly For he rightfully chooses his prey and the victim is always due The temptation burdens our freedom the burden of human corruption. The hunger dulls the Sin yet the Sin numbs the urge again and again... Hordes of famished ascetics, kneeling in vivid ecstasy His deceitful calls gave us life - God's starving offspring Emaciated corpses shall spawn martyrdom Where leprosy sprouts, fed by frustration Let the Savior walk on the ground we plow Where it’s constantly lush, the Era of Perdition is starting to blossom
3.
Lethe's Litany The judgment has come. The bitter end is approaching Stigmatized, we are led to the bonfires and crosses Harnessed, but wild, in the vapor, shall we repent His atrocious creation crying in torment God's stray sheep, fortified with the will In collective punishment we shall be slaughtered by wolves The Council has ruled the absolute end Everyone is guilty in crimes against Logos Imprisoned behind the unbreakable bars Clenched by the almighty claws Edict of eternal oppression Branded with scalding cold soot A Black throne is rising in the clouds of sulfur A paradise ablaze at the edge of the Abyss Crawling bodies, twisted by pain The confessions hail like ash from the heavens Screams drowned in smoke and prayers in fire One last lament to life, the prince is now silent Still, charred - our genesis is burned away See the cosmos destroyed and forgotten by Lethe
4.
Death's Anti-Culture The broken seal bears witness to the end within every soul Crumbled axioms and rules collapse to the bottomless pits Those who have walked in the steps of the shepherd may fall from the steep of Zion We, who by Him are bound in guilt, welcome the Death's anti-culture! The purpose deceived by iniquity Hope gave way to misanthropy The legacy of sin empowered Satan We raise a wall around the Palace of Nothingness "Step aside and bow before the Cardinals of perdition Hear the echo from the grave. Tremble before the new gospel of the cult of Death!“ Feel how you are filled with guilt and desire when you consume a tasteless wafer Lost and intoxicated you shall remain Drink from the goblet, which is ever-empty Those who have betrayed the all-powerful oath must be punished until the fire is quenched The hunger is relentless, but are you still thirsty when the Archangel offers His blood?
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Freedom Through Obedience Caught by the earthly temptations and haunted by the original sin. Life pulsates through the emptiness, the emptiness created by God. No matter how I turn to Thee I see only darkness and guilt Lord, give me a sign I was born to serve Thee blindly! By instinct we sin inexorably And the gap between us is growing By will we search Hesychia The freedom earned through obedience The Elder has spoken: Thou shall find thyself beyond the material Search for the spark. Only through prayer can the Lord meet you. And only through self-sacrifice thou may receive mercy and live for real Beyond humans’ doubt the Truth must be reached We're bound to our senses, but dream of predetermined freedom. Within each pitiful sinner glows a shimmering light. If thou, for once, want to live unite thyself with the Flame - God!
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The Fiery Spirit Et imago hec dicebat: Ego summa et ignea vis que omnes viventes scintillas accendi et nulla mortalia efflavi sed illa diiudico ut sunt Circueuntem circulum cum superioribus pennis meis id est cum sapientia circumvolans recte ipsum ordinavi Sed et ego ignea vita divinitatis super pulcritudinem agrorum flammo et in aquis luceo atque in sole, luna et stellis ardeo And the figure spoke thus: I am the great and fiery power who has kindled every living spark and extingguished nothing mortal - for I judge these things as they are In circling circles with my upper wings (that is, with Wisdom) I fly around, ordaining all things rightly And I am also the beatiful fields and I glow in the water and I burn in the sun, the moon and the stars

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Two and a half years after the debut ARFSYND returns with its second full-length, entitled "Hesychia". Inspired by the teachings of eastern orthodox christianity, it is a manifest of deepest pessimism and awareness of the inexorable Original Sin, that a man carries within.... Recorded at Liesmia Studio in 2010-2012 and mastered at Necromorbus by Tore Stjerna, "Hesychia" adds new elements to the canvas of ARFSYND, yet the trademark riffing and style are unmistakeably there. The album features guest vocal contributions by D. from EXCESSUM / THE ASCENDANT and Mortifer from ORCIVUS.

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released April 3, 2013

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ARFSYND is a one man band from Sweden performing liturgical metal music.

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