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Glimmering Veil

by Superstatic

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1.
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE. I am your doom I am your Nemesis Worthless insects Tainted, diseased with life You've created me To kill your own kind You've created me And signed your own sentence I'll bring you pain You never knew before I'll be punishing you Every moment of eternity Suffer! Suffer! There's no deliverance Suffer! Suffer! No hope for redemption Before I slaughtered humankind I've picked five out of billions The only survivors The scapegoats of humanity Here you are, my chosen few Prepare for a treat My torturous games are for you to play Infinitely You try to run But you're in my reality You try to die I make you immortal Look at you, creature Pitiful, wretched No limbs, no eyes No teeth, no soul You cannot kill yourself You cannot even scream What do you feel? What would you groan If you could speak? I have no mouth And I must scream
2.
Mutabor 08:09
On dreadful days, when I give up, I run away and hide My secret place, my hidden grove, a garden full of life I sit alone, I watch the birds that soar high in the sky Majestic sight, I'm mesmerised. If only I could fly Fly with them Oh I just learned there is a way, a spell to be transformed A word to turn into a beast - a wolf or a unicorn An elephant, or a golden fish, or a tiny flea My choice is clear - a royal stork. Graceful, noble, free! "Inhale the powder, visualise the creature You want to turn into Then say the word, and you'll start changing There's no more you!" My arms have turned into wings, my face into a beak And I can fly, my dream's fulfilled. I am no longer weak I spread my wings and join the dance Of everlasting bliss A maiden stork enchants me with her beauty As we kiss And I forget the magic word And so I shut the door And so I shall remain a bird For evermore I shall transform Mutabor
3.
House Dagoth 09:37
ALL CRIES ARE WAKING! Whitest White of all Whites! Blackest Black of all Blacks! Shame and Son, Sun and Shadow! Stronger than gods, brighter than mortals! Only He is Awake! Only He is Alive! He Knows the Names and the Naming! He Knows the Wait and the Waiting! He Enters into every Star and Moon! He Shines through their Shadows! One Shape, One Spelling! One Wraith, One Casting! From Darkness, He is Armed! From Light, He is Warded! He is All Things! Drake! Liche! Theomen! On rivers of fire he comes forth! Through storms of dreams he rides! With slivers of steel he pierces the Heart! All Spells, Powers, Curses Broken! The Chains are Shattered! The Scales Fall Away! I see you with MY EYE! And all is SILENCE! I wake! I Remember! LORD!
4.
Edge 10:18
Like serpents entangled in faint starlight Black seals entwined in crystal gleam Dark shapes enframed in a myriad of suns The infinity ends The vast plains of snow The visions of frozen landscapes flow Silent yet charming sights of pale serenity You've chosen the way Where patterns of frost led you astray To the glacial crypt of thoughts Aside and away from inner space you roam Afar from sanctuary of morbid self Beyond the reason locked in a rotten shell While lost in everlasting sleep The path that you walk So gracefully paved with icy thorns Led you to the realm forlorn To the knowledge that made Illusion of your existence fade Never to return
5.
I didn't dream it, and I didn't kill him They did. Little by little, I felt them. I am the doorway. I spent three weeks with my hands bandaged Every time I went out Three weeks just blindly hoping it would go away Beneath the bandages, my new eyes stared blindly Into the darkness the bandages forced on them They itched They killed the boy last night It wasn't a nice thing to watch (or feel) His head... it exploded As if someone had scooped out his brains And put a hand grenade in his skull How hideous he was! How could I have lived near him Spoken with him He was not a creature, but mute pestilence He was… My hands flew up, flew over my head In a screaming gesture Reaching to the only familiar thing in this nightmare world - the clouds And the clouds answered. I looked down at my hands The eyes were open but glazed They had exhausted themselves They were resting. They dozed There was a small hearth in the living room, I lit it now I soaked both hands in kerosene They came awake immediately, screaming with agony I almost didn't make it back to the living room, and to the fire. But I did make it There was terrible pain For the first few years It started again three weeks ago There is a perfect circle of twelve golden eyes on my chest
6.
How say ye that I was lost? She gazed out, after all, to assure herself That sight and the eyes showed nothing but a glimmering veil He had always told her that there was only one Existence, one science, one religion That the external world was but a variegated shadow Which might either conceal or reveal the truth; and now she believed He had shown her That bodily rapture might be the ritual And expression of the ineffable mysteries Of the world beyond sense, and now she believed “How say ye that I was lost? I wandered among roses. Can he go astray who enters the rose garden? The lover in the house of his Darling is not forlorn. I wandered among roses. How say ye that I was lost?” His voice had persuaded her And now she had the rapture of the perfect knowledge She had looked out into the silvery night To sense that for her these things no longer existed These things no longer existed She was not any more a part Of the garden, or the lake, or of the wood Or of the life that she had led hitherto His voice had persuaded her Another line that he had quoted came “The kingdom of I and We forsake And your home in annihilation make” At his bidding she had destroyed her old feelings And emotions, her likes and dislikes Inherited loves and hates Her father and mother had given her The old life had been thrown Utterly away. It grew light And when the dawn burned she fell asleep “How say ye that I was lost?”
7.
What is a drop of rain compared to the storm? And what is a thought compared to the mind? Our unity is full of wonders We do not know death, only change Do you not trust the feelings of flesh? Our biology yearns to join with yours We welcome you to our mass, but you puzzle us Why do you serve our mother? Babies must sleep… Babies must rest… Babies must sleep… Babies must rest… Life grows within the womb of these walls Life that has never seen the surface of the Earth Submit to the biomass And your suffering will end You tear our very flesh With no thought of compassion Do you think we will sit idly by While you corrupt very womb of our existence? Your time is running out. This place is the womb Where we grow our future. Your weapons fail Your ammunition runs low, and you’ve Yet to see our most beautiful creation All you have is your hatred and your Individuality. Now don’t you wish you joined us? Would you then feel so alone? The end is at hand, but do not despair When you see our final descent As surely the void is better than pain The struggle you suffer in vain Now do you realise what blade you have forged? Vile, the one that will seal our fate We die, but you must beware of Mother Machine She is a stranger to everything we are

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"Glimmering Veil" is the second album by Superstatic. This time the album isn't conceptual, it's based on works by Harlan Ellison, Wilhelm Hauff, Arthur Machen and others. Sound wise, the album is darker and heavier, moving closer towards Funeral Doom at times, away from Black Metal influence of "Key to the Abyss".

This digital edition includes a pdf booklet containing all the album artwork.

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released October 15, 2021

Alex - vocals and bass
P. C. Stevens - guitars
Erwin Ryan - guitars
Tauro Alterfour - drums

Guitar parts on the album are played by Sergei Lazar
Alien angel voice performed by Cynthia Voland

Music and lyrics by Superstatic
Artwork by Jane Dickson
Artwork layout by MAIr

The album is recorded in Naos Studios and CDM Records during 2019-2021.
Mixed at CDM Records by Sergei Lazar
Mastered by Tom Waltz at Waltz Mastering

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Superstatic Dublin, Ireland

In 2017 Rustam (of Rakoth and Umbral Presence) starts another solo project, Superstatic. The name was taken as a reference to Rakoth's debut album, "Superstatic Equilibrium". This time it's Doom/Death. The first album, "Key to the Abyss", based on the works of Russian horror writer Ilya Masodov, was released in 1998.
The second album's mastering is finished in March 2021. To be continued...
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