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Severance

by Returning

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Derek
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Derek Such an amazing album, these folks really know how to make such emotive, creative, and spiritual music. This is a must listen to anyone who likes atmospheric black metal and doom, as this crosses over into both. The ambient bits are such an excellent touch to build the atmosphere. Their description of playing this live is perfect, and something I yearn to witness one day! Much love❤️ Favorite track: Path of Ashes.
Antifascist Black Metal Network
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Antifascist Black Metal Network "Spreads out in four sprawling long tracks of atmospheric, but also quite often fast and aggressive black metal which is combined with many breaks of mourning, post-rockish guitars, dark ambient drones and field recordings, or ritualistic tribal rhythms. The vocals complement the atmosphere well with anguished and sometimes distorted screams. The whole recording sounds very analogue and live, which complements the band's live and ritual oriented approach, as themselves state." shorturl.at/ctKNZ
Jono Schneider
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Jono Schneider Full of all that is anguished, raging, deserted, ruined. The guitars rip like barbed wire. Brutal. Lovely.
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Torrents of lifeless abandon  Bodies streaked with fear and ash What was once a distant dream  Lost in endless throes of ruin Old gods awaken, in fervor  And drink deep from, our wells of poison  in raging flood, and cleansing flame What was once buried, erupts again  Demons denied, become inexorable! In hope, we follow the warmth of flame Our grief, our burden  our will to remain Within wildfire,  we walk, towards truth In hope, we follow,  the path of ashes Ancient visions of primordial flame path of ashes  We are stillness after fire We are buried under stone We are the apex of ruin And through ruin we will return An ending  ever near A call To return
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Old ones! Speak through me Guide my feet along the true path I will not live forever an orphan In these cursed lands When the last elder lies slain; Lost children, hands smeared sanguine Will wander landscapes of suffering Piercing clouds of forgetting I remember  Ancients dead and living Your life is my own Our voices align  in numinous song  The river flows free, Lost wisdom returns Old ones! Give me strength  My spirit nourished by your life  My body given for yours The circle is honored The dance is endless
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Cages of artifice depthless black mirrors Cannot contain me There is a blue crystal fire That burns brightly in me Sickening delusions  endlessly reflected Will no longer draw me from the path For I have seen                              And I believe (.......Wipe the dust from your eyes You’ve seen too much The bright light of sickly gods Self inflicted spirit sickness You have the pieces Look within You have the pieces Look within..........) That the the gods walk still            In the furthest woods Where the truth of all things Is laid bare From the river of silence I will draw forth song From broken shards of meaning I will be whole

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Severance is a fire burning bright against the black void of dissociation and hopelessness so ubiquitous to the plague-times.

This recording is a transmutation; of helpless rage into embodied prayer. A mirror for our personal journeys of resistance to eco-cide and other colonial toxicities. A reflection of our physical and spiritual location within the landscapes of the Salish Sea: an homage to the rivers, forests, and mountains which nourish us, and give us the strength to carry on in the face of ecological unraveling.

Created to be performed as live ritual, in wild and unorthodox locales, unmediated and untamed.

Available on cassette February 17th at realmandritual.bandcamp.com

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released February 3, 2023

All compositions, recording, and mixing by Thuja and Heron.
Mastered by Matthew Williams at Sub Odin Studios.

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Returning Olympia, Washington

Synthesizing currents of black metal, dark ambient, experimental theater, and butoh dance, Returning is a nexus of extreme art in reverence of the living Earth and its cycles.

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