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The Blessed Sleep

by Ara

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Rise above them Rise, take your throne Rise above them Rise and take your throne Remember the blood inside your veins Dismember all those who meet your gaze Cut them down and receive your blood-gift By birthright without equal; issue your cruel decrees My reflection speaks to me Whispering psalms to poison my mind Soon enough the world will know my cruelty Clench my iron fist on the throat of this world For this task, I was born Quench your bloodthirst Give what's deserved Deranged commands Come from within Vile greed... Let free my subconscious Cold psychotic My rise, I have earned it Savage beatings For those who oppose me I breathe deeply Take in the foul stenches Of the dead and defeated High priest, god king Call me your lord, reigning always Downward, I gaze silently I deserve everything I see Rid myself of my empathy Fulfilling my dark destiny Rising up and conquering Now the world is mine.
2.
Revival of grave-borne tyrants, returning to dethrone reason Unmaking all that once was, beneath black skies the ungods rise Horrific apocryphal prophesy reveals dark truths hiding from light no more Shared fate of all flesh-bound mortals is everlasting unlife The bloodstained sands of time drain down through the doomsday hourglass The age of man has passed A world consumed by death and dread None will survive Famine and strife Messianic unchrists bring death to life Eyes all seeing, mind all knowing Reign of madness; demon fascists Impaled faithful Putrid stenches; befouled planet Black dawn breaks on unhallowed eyes Bearing eternal witness to the failure of righteousness A new age of torment begins There is no escape Endless discordant cries of sorrow resound over carnage strewn wastelands Arch-kings make their unholy ascent to thrones of bone and sinew.
3.
Speaking in ancient tongues, the blind whisper the truth Craving that which cannot be obtained: waking life forevermore Solemn pleading for the great cessation stifled by the gaze of the unclosing eyewall A misbegotten nonentity Rising from the grave eternally Souls of the fallen will not be free No, they must rise again Undeath calling Conscripted post-mortem only to die again Serve your deity Immortal defiance Vulgar beings built from eternity all share the same longing: only sleep Severing ancient tongues, blind immortals enslaved Craving that which cannot be obtained: waking life forevermore Eternals draw their last breath But no sleep will come unto them Their graves disturbed and desecrated Bleed, they bleed; denied repentance Behind their eyes a tortured soul burns Bow down to the creator of this curse He who feeds on prayers for the end Awake remains of those who have died breathe anew; undead servitude Behold; a monument A hideous pylon commemorates vacant grave-sites I will escape this necromancy; I will not heed his vile decree The final resting place of suffering; my soul will die here with me Unlike all the eternals before me I will achieve the blessed sleep I close my eyes but will not dream Do no shed tears, no do not weep Fulfill my wish, let my life cease.
4.
Bring forth all your sadness unto me I will swallow your insanity Take my hand for I am hope's defeat Forged from despair; a new entity Take me with you to the grave I drink your tears for sustenance Now see true misery There is no more reason to continue the lies you have been told I will destroy all false pretenses; in truth you will find strength Use your clear eyes; rid yourself of your hope Believe life is cruelty The end draws near... Salvation never was a possibility Meaningless prayers whispered to deaf skies A hymn to this world where all the righteous sigh Unflinching, I gaze upon rivers of congealed hopes and dreams all crushed and rotting This hellscape is the natural order of this world seen clearly This gift I give to you Consecrate my worldview Peer out through my black eyes Despise the illusion Oh, the rapture denied, all faith dies Epistemological contagion; disease of reason inside you I, despair personified.
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My mind awakens, I discard my flesh No further use for my physical form In endless darkness I drift all alone I will sail this void Blight upon those who imprison me Inter-dimensional hypocrisy Victim of hubris that lies beneath Abandon my shell, my frailty Corruption permeates the lies called law and faith A singularity, nothingness is my home Gathering my strength to exert my will Without my eyes I can see Without my flesh I can feel In my undeath I will reign Blight upon you... And now I will inflict all of my anguish upon you all For aeons banished, now you will fall And now I will infect All of creation; poisoned, diseased Putrefaction of all that breathes My mind finally rests control from entropy Die, everyone die now.

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In a time when current death metal acts can be broken down into two common styles which both share a need for innovation and identity, Milwaukee band Ara presents its debut EP The Blessed Sleep to give the genre the shot of artistic savagery it needs. Rather than littering their compositions with flurries of notes that champion an alienating complexity over songwriting craft and still not falling victim to the tongue in cheek homage riffing that makes up the old school revival, Ara delivers five songs that bear no compromise to the current sounds that pass for extreme and instead carves an identity for itself where few debut releases dare to tread. Comprised of members of progressive instrumental band Concentric and sludge band Northless, Ara weaves layers of melody into its songs without sacrificing the brutality of each one, and balances tunefulness and discordance with ease. Dynamically versatile and still youthfully rabid, Ara successfully merges a technical approach with catchy arrangements to present a record that both initially devastates the listener and still lingers in the head long after it’s over- a technique lost among many who attempt the style currently. In a mere 21 minutes, Ara makes clear they are hungry to approach the mantle of death metal’s elite, and with The Blessed Sleep, the band is well on its way.

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released December 26, 2012

Adam Bujny - Vocals
Jerry Hauppa - Guitars
James Becker - Bass/Vocals
Erik Stenglein - Drums

Recorded and Mixed by Ara and Shane Hochstetler at Howl Street Recordings
Mastered by Trevor Sadler at Mastermind Productions

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Ara Milwaukee, Wisconsin

4 piece death metal band from Milwaukee, WI, featuring members of Northless and Concentric.

Lineup:
James Becker-bass
Adam Bujny-vocals
Jerry Hauppa-guitar
Erik Stenglein- drums

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