Jurisprudence

by Ara

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Dan Curhan This is a surprisingly techy, but also surprisingly melodic mid-tempo blackened dissodeath offering. The connection between the rhythmically mindblowing vocals and the underlying, unobtrusive melodies is tight as all holy fuck. There's undeniable magic buried in this seething chaos.

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1.	Ashen 07:38	lyrics	buy track
I am your king, a living god to whom all the world will bow as I sit upon a pale white throne of spines I have conquered every last remaining civilization, the bounds of my kingdom know no horizon I despise peace, but now the wars I have waged have all been won I become restless for heavy lies the crown I send for my dark sages to scour the ancient texts There must be something I have overlooked; new knowledge to inspire this weary mind of mine I must find new victories in the absence of war Years pass by with no new discoveries made Losing my patience, I execute each sage Unsatisfied, I see that the athenaeum is burned to the ground If I cannot find new knowledge I will conjure it from the flames Into them I stare intently, but nothing is all I can see, when suddenly a wandering sorcerer comes bearing tribute Clutched inside his hand in an enchanted mirror; a gift that only I may receive Divine wisdom comes from reflection, he says to me as he holds it out I seize it I gaze deep into the mirror The blood drains out of my face Onlookers gasp in horror; my ashen expression embodies my despair Years pass by as I sit in paralysis My subjects cannot bear to look upon me The mirror at last slips from my grasp, falling to the ground where it shatters Smoking shards of glass lay at my feet Silence reigns in my abandoned keep My twisted expression, frozen on my face, is a monument to the knowledge I sought I found the final truth of all existence: absolute meaninglessness
2.	Mythos 04:27	lyrics	buy track
Strange is the twilight where the twin suns set and the black stars rise Stranger still: the fading light followed by the dead moon’s illuminated sky A faded memory of a city where the shadows lengthen: dim Carcosa, dim Carcosa I search for signs of the yellow king, clothed in tatters of the songs I must sing The cloudwaves break on the shores now lost Damned are those with whom my path has crossed Feast not upon us, oh king, not upon us! I will tear this pallid mask from my face Murmur truth to the statuesque faces of the dead magi in a trance from which the ghosts of this mysterious place cannot hide Blood rituals known to me from across the aeons be my guide Call your name to reopen the path to the only place I have ever called my home The satellite solstice commemorates another unshed tear Wraith, shear the fog with your mighty scythe and reveal unto me the passage forth to the place absent on any earthly map, where memories perish Now and forever I wish to reside on the plane of convoluted dreams Die, come and die with me you powerless priest Complete the circle while the twin suns’ dawn breaks on misty fields, revealing an enlightened path laid before me I have waited a lifetime to return to my disintegrated paradise Fractured visions of the final act, they all come flooding to my mind Tearing my sanity to shreds with their devastating insight Freed now of reason I can see them: the eldritch great ones in their glory Their impossible geometry beckons me forever
3.	Cytokine Storm 05:01	lyrics	buy track
I awaken to a world of blinding pain My eyes beneath wraps struggle to comprehend I have no memory of what has transpired My ears hear only the horrifying drone of machines In agony I try to breathe I can feel panic growing inside me I am broken, my vision now reduced to shadows I have become a tortured freak An amalgam of grafted skin stitched together; a disgusting pile of human parts In agony, I am broken, a tortured freak Let me die Hateful consciousness brings revelations of cellular war Microscopic macrophages begin to react They now engulf foreign bodies The experiment, as I am now called, appears to be a disaster All the injections and amputations have been undertaken in vain Raging infections pulse through septic limbs Under callous observation I progress toward grade 5: death Convulsing in pain Riddled with IV’s The immune response will bring death Killer cells converge: the perfect cytokine storm Invisible destruction A self-replicating chain reaction grows exponentially, attacking indiscriminately A feedback loop borne of this clinical crucible consumes itself with tenacious ferocity, delivering every cell into terminal eternity
4.	Etymologicide 08:13	lyrics	buy track
I am not born of this world; I will see to the extermination of this scourge A language from before time holds within itself an unspeakable curse The circle of masked sages, hiding among themselves the secret tongue of horror, must never be allowed to utter their twisted chants in the realm of mortals Oh no, not once more Black blood flows in the veins beneath my rune-scarred flesh as I look to the horizon Now begins my quest of evisceration I vow here and now to be the hand of judgment I will find and silence them all to the very last I push distraction out of my mind and mount my dark steed Wielding blades forged from enchanted steel Etched upon them the most sacred of spells: a hex to cause ankyloglossia I ride past frozen mountains, through plains, and over black swamps I am so far now from home, and I have never been more alone Beneath ragged breath I whisper their cursed names My soliloquy, spoken near inaudibly The haunting visage of the speakers’ gnarled forms animates itself behind the closed lids of my bloodshot eyes Deep inside my visions I see my reflection: it is a speaker’s face coldly staring me down Pouring rain awakens me How many days has it been since I began my journey? And will I ever succeed? Fear and doubt now infect me Did I ride quixotically? Suddenly the ground gives way and I hear forbidden chants Fate arrives! I alone can make the righteous excision Black leylines guide me into the sacred void I will bring forth the end of the eternal I press forth into the lair of my damned prey Stalagtites formed of blood drip from the ceiling A cavern lies before me, holding the key to the end of my journey I come bearing the gift of silence One by one I smite them as they stand motionless in fear Jaws torn open, tongues laid out: a most glorious glossectomy Blood drains from gaping maws Never again will these perverse syllables be spoken aloud Their tongues severed, just one is left It is my own; I tear it out Blood fills my mouth like a poisoned chalice of wine I drown silent
5.	Jurisprudence 04:07	lyrics	buy track
You will be judged by unseen authority You will appear before the court of silence You will answer for your criminality You will never know the nature of the charges brought against you These are the words of the faceless men who now accost me in my own home Law has no meaning here outside of being a force of pure domination I am subject to absurd rules by incomprehensible lawmakers, yet I know full well I cannot escape the downward swing of the gavel Left alone, I attempt to gather my thoughts Mounting fear quickens my pulse There must be a way out of this byzantine labyrinth of cruelty ending in ruthless punishment Venturing out under cover of darkness I seek my counsel I am told the process is designed to demoralize me into submission I can only delay, for in secret the fact of my guilt is assumed The trial date arrives swiftly, I have exhausted my appeals The courthouse looms large before me as I begin to climb the steps The faceless judge sits atop his lofty dais exuding contempt Meeting the eyeless gaze of the magistrate I begin my fulmination Standing tall I excoriate this farce masquerading as jurisprudence The court of silence erupts in shock as I unsheath my concealed blade It is my fate to carry out their sentence These are the words I have spoken as I prepare to end my own life I am subject to absurd rules by incomprehensible lawmakers, and knowing full well I cannot escape from the downward swing of the gavel I plunge the knife into my heart
6.	Excursus Praestinguo 01:35		buy track
7.	Abhortion 04:08	lyrics	buy track
Mankind is no more than the sum of all its parts lacking in any true purpose I feel disconnected from all those around me yet infected by their presence Blood, bone, flesh and organs; chemical reactions and electricity animate me If there is nothing more to what makes me human, what is this presence I feel inside me, growing with each passing day? I possess neither faith nor spirituality The human soul is an absurd concept to me, but I cannot deny that I have begun to sense an entity A mass of tissue comprising my humanity My discomfort grows as my organs are displaced I find myself clawing at my eyes until they begin to bleed, as though this horrible presence is just behind them The seed of pain it planted has blossomed into hellish agony My mind comes to an epiphany I prep my body for surgery Smearing my stomach with alcohol I jab a serrated knife into my midsection Blood pools around me as I strain against the resistance of my musculature I plunge my hand into the wound, searching for my antagonist Mankind is no more than the sum of all its parts lacking in any true purpose Blood, bone, flesh and organs all torn out frantically; in my effort to remove my gestating soul I will die Finally, I can feel its viscous exterior Grasped tightly in my fist, I crush it with all my strength The gory pile of viscera begins to pulsate as I draw my last breath Stillborn no longer, mitosis takes over and accelerates its growth rate Darkening my corpse in shadow: the embodiment of inhumanity This is my final gift to an insufferable world A nightmare creature that will engage in self-replication As it strides forward with my improvised surgical tools, it will now begin its new reign as the harvester of souls.
8.	Pounded into the Multiverse 06:35	lyrics	buy track
Never before have I seen a creature so befitting removal from its miserable existence All human forms disgust me, but this living offense is not something I am prepared to tolerate It is beyond gut wrenching to think that you and I are considered to be the exact same species I will pound you into the multiverse, which is itself composed entirely of a quantum superposition of non-denumerable infinitely increasing divergence I am the fundamental entity known heretofore as the observer A sentient being possessed of infinite minds hellbent on existential destruction The elimination of their decoherence has allowed them to coalesce inside me My neurons begin an irreversible cascading entanglement as all possible variations of myself become aware of each other My intellect expands exponentially while my beta-wave functions collapse into a singularity My eyes now penetrate reality; I experience infinity The theory of many minds held the key to unlock the secret of how to eliminate my enemy I focus every one of my myriad minds on the source of my revulsion I can now see that reality is not a single unfolding history I must be certain that your existence does not survive in another dimension, for I abhor it so Killing you is not enough to satisfy my bloodlust now magnified a thousandfold by my cerebral cortices amplifying each other across subatomic fields with relentless force I clench my fists in every conceivable reality With my victim bound in quantum strings the beating begins I will rain crushing blows upon you showing no mercy, breaking you into infinitesimal particulates which will forever be entangled with unending death There are many worlds, but in all of them you are dead

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released May 15, 2020

Recorded by Ara and Shane Hochstetler at Howl Street Recordings and Mixed/Mastered by William Smith.

Album cover painted by Eliran Kantor.

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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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