The Shrine of Deterioration, by ABOVE AURORA

The Shrine of Deterioration

by ABOVE AURORA

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Dave Aftandilian You just can't beat Polish black metal for pure vitriolic hate and desolation. Listening to this thick slab of self-imposed horror feels like staring into the murk, the ash stinging your eyes blind, hoping, ever hoping, for a glimmer in the darkness that never comes.

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1.	Blurred Luminosity 04:47	lyrics
Instrumental
2.	Virus 05:04	lyrics
Under disguise, hidden, elusive In a form of disease Bringing the manifest Of crooked spines and hollow skulls I am the virus caressing the blind Under the skin I separate the flesh Imposing delusions to the weak souls Infecting the whole rivers of blood Breaking each and every bone I am the virus I am the slow death I am the virus I am the cold death
3.	Barren Lore 05:25	lyrics
In this downward spiral The fall is the sole constant Clutching at a straw Rolling the boulder Ad nauseam aeternum Generations of architects Masons, carvers and leaders Precisely sculpting houses of cards As if the blindfold was worn The idle formation seems to persist How delightful it is to see The same blunders over again The frail arrangement wavers Upon this soil
4.	Celestial Monarch 07:28	lyrics
Imagined for millenia In the purest of vacuums Dwells the force of immense might The dense destroyer The light disruptor The king of blackness Eternally hungry, in perpetual trance The queen of mirk In cosmic spree A single glance in thy eyes So tempting, so treacherous Oh feeble me The one way journey calls me To enter your heart O mighty cockatrice of the world Absorb me, devour me Blinden me, enslave me Show me the new light That shines forever
5.	Precarious Foundations 05:37	lyrics
Void worshipers, preachers of none All gathered to build new structures The ones that are meant to decay From the very inception With doubts as the main foundations Avoiding all that’s permanent and stable As if black holes were the safe zones As if madness was the only method To rise the temple of pure confusion To praise the failure To glorify the chaos in all its splendor
6.	Splinters 08:00	lyrics
Deafening screech from grinding teeth Last resorts all drained Exceeding endurance Grasping for the ghosts Of what once was worth pursuing Delusional hope that gods Will deal the cards again Same slumbers repeat Eroding the ego Multitude of scenarios With congenial outcome Let the mountains collapse Let the oceans drain Let the stars align to start anew Deafening screech of raptured teeth The remnants of purpose The ruin of will Leftover ardor fractured into splinters

about

Second full-lenght album from Polish trance black metal purveyors Above Aurora. Six new compositions offering a hypnotic journey through various dimensions of pessimism. Trance, minimising the forms of expression and unfathomable coldness - these are the distinguishing features of the Above Aurora style.

The band, which hails from the Polish town of Poznań and currently resides in Reykjavik, Iceland, commented: "The Shrine of Deterioration" captures the current state of the band as mankind’s feeble condition continues to decline. Perhaps it is the essence of Above Aurora - our disappointment and resignation, loathing and self-reflections, sonically more complex than the previous releases, yet continuing the same form".

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released June 6, 2020

All music and lyrics by Above Aurora
Recorded at Left Hand Sounds
Mixed & mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio
Artwork & layout by Kontamination Design
Band photo by Henadz Shuliak

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Fiktionlust

Nov 2023
Huta Luna

Oct 2023
Seiðr

May 2023
Epoptia

Dec 2022

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