Like Ants and Snakes, by MORD'A'STIGMATA

Like Ants and Snakes

by MORD'A'STIGMATA

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Dmitry Nevozhay It's hard to describe, but this album is all about atmosphere and vibe. Somehow reminds me the early swiss Sadness and late belgian Emptiness, but most of all Beyond Dawn. Original polish dark post-metal full of melancholy Favorite track: Voluntarily Gone.

YomaBarr I have waited with buying it - hell, with hearing it - until I see them live which I just went and did.
Fuuuuuuck.
I'll put it this way: I walked in sober, I walked out high without drinking a drop, not to mention other things. A trip to another dimension.
Just more cowbell next time, please. Because the sax is godly ;)
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Who has mixed feelings about the direction they're heading in with this album, should see them live. And now I'll need Live at Roadburn too. Bandcamp Friday...
(21/1/23)

Darknight Like Ants and Snakes really shows how great this band are, they know how to push themselves and reinvent the killer black metal sound. The atmospheric sounds in every track is beauty in words, this band just love to take risks. Favorite track: Voluntarily Gone.

Robert C. Kozletsky I absolutely love when metal bands branch out and experiment with texture, emotion and tone. Mord'A'Stigmata, to me, is the Polish equivalent to Belgium's Emptiness. Vastly different from their past offerings, but Dreams Of Quiet Places kind of eluded to things heading in this direction. Favorite track: We Dance.

Dave Aftandilian I love the stripped down, vulnerable feel here, and how constantly inventive this band has been over the years. There is also something deeply mythic about this release, mapping a bleak, dark path that all of us will have to walk sooner or later.

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1.	Blood of the Angels 07:10	lyrics
BLOOD OF THE ANGELS The fall, a story that’s been told Wandering haywire in thirst of His glory With a fire in mind and a heart stone cold With mind on fire and a heart stone cold Wandering 'round a funeral pyre Closed down forever are the gates of gold In thirst of His glory I douse my mind with blood of the angels In thirst of His glory I warm my heart in the embers of burned temples In thirst of His glory I douse my heart with the ashes of paradise In thirst of His glory I calm my mind in the absence of light
2.	We Dance 05:36	lyrics
WE DANCE There is an empty space between faith and catatonic dream A blind spot on the map of our own private hearts No drug nor miracle could fill it Our Lord is gone Now, He is gone Faith drug miracle dream Our Lord is gone He's long gone now And we serve no one But unchained chaos And we dance, we dance in filth While the whole world is watching As we dance in pain Come and join us As we sing, we sing anthems of the fall For the world to hear An anthem rising from the filth A song of a horrid kind, besmeared with tears As we sing in pain Faith drug miracle dream Filth pain struggle dream
3.	Like Ants and Snakes 05:32	lyrics
LIKE ANTS AND SNAKES One thing you can learn from the stones Is to hold your breath a little longer until you find peace and tenderness In the company of the soil Another thing you can learn from the stones Is to keep your beloved close Like ants and snakes Others will come to you With the company of the soil Keep them far from the sun In moisture and mould On a pillow of moss On a bed of dirt Like ants and snakes
4.	I Am the Arm 06:00	lyrics
I AM THE ARM No dream is ever just a dream Nor is the dawn shelter like it seems I dip my flesh in a silver stream Cleanse the black night out from within The room felt darker than before In the absence of my very soul With (a) bitter aftertaste of life My tongue will bleed for evermore (With) an oak head crowned is my body A pitch black sight lays down before Two never-closing eyes My tongue will bleed for evermore I am the fire I am the arm
5.	Constant Sway 05:56	lyrics
CONSTANT SWAY Do you see me as a madman Do you see me as insane While I sway around in silence And you hear no music strain Would you dance around with me Would you throw your mind away After all we're stuck in motion Our course in constant sway
6.	Voluntarily Gone 09:48	lyrics
VOLUNTARILY GONE I am a nowhere man Carving beauty out of abyss Partly focused on the pain Partly praise the nearing end You are a nowhere girl Carrying stones of the past In a pocket meant for dreams I know for sure they won’t last Each stone pitched into the abyss Each burden that you have thrown Is a part of our future Dream that’s voluntarily gone Each particle of dust Each breath that felt like a thorn Is a piece of our love Dream that ‘s voluntarily gone

about

Mord’A’Stigmata returns with highly anticipated 6th studio album "Like Ants and Snakes".

Commenting about the album, the band has said: "Like Ants and Snakes" is a record of the changes that we have gone through as people and as a band during two years of an absence from touring and partial isolation. This period helped us to find the ways of expression that have been present in us for a long time, but only this slowdown in our pace of life allowed us to find these ways. It is a road of burnt bridges, burning your own barriers, endless internal struggle.”

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released November 4, 2022

Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments and production by Mord'A'Stigmata collective

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Prusiewicz Studio by Marcin Prusiewicz

Album cover and artwork by Derek R. Setzer (dereksetzer.com)
Layout by P. (Cursed Art)

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Oct 2023
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Dec 2022

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