Orphan
from Bathed In Ash by Patrons of The Rotting Gate
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A lamb to be weaned from the altar, calmly led by the authors of soulless words.
Shepherding them from a serene ancestral bed; gilded and radiant, a monolith of elation.
Engulfed in saccharine rain, spewing sentences circular that orbit the temples, a golden halo.
Purge the eyes of what he saw.
Through his breaking fingers veil;
Twin pillars of white, wrapped in two snakes
A creaking staircase to the soil.
A mirage? The burning sword? And the gloried shield that shelters the flock?
The afterimage of light rots; The beating heart, our second-hand breath dissolving in the sun.
To be one orphan, just one in the pile of decomposing figures.
Not an extension of one, no trace of shared divinity; a void of worth.
Shepherding them from a serene ancestral bed; gilded and radiant, a monolith of elation.
Engulfed in saccharine rain, spewing sentences circular that orbit the temples, a golden halo.
Purge the eyes of what he saw.
Through his breaking fingers veil;
Twin pillars of white, wrapped in two snakes
A creaking staircase to the soil.
A mirage? The burning sword? And the gloried shield that shelters the flock?
The afterimage of light rots; The beating heart, our second-hand breath dissolving in the sun.
To be one orphan, just one in the pile of decomposing figures.
Not an extension of one, no trace of shared divinity; a void of worth.
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from Bathed In Ash,
released May 9, 2020
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Patrons of The Rotting Gate Belfast, UK
Progressive Black/Death Metal from Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Influences include: Orgone, Latitudes, Deathspell Omega, Gorguts, Mirrorthrone, Meshuggah, Asmodee, Ulcerate, Spawn of Possession, Unholy Matrimony, Baring Teeth, Altar of Plagues, Pyrrhon, Dodecahedron, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Portal
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