REIZIGER

NOTE: Not to be confused with another band named "Reiziger" from the Netherlands!

 

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BAND NAME: Reiziger

GENRE: Unblack Metal / ???
STATUS: Unknown

LOCATION: USA

Described as "unblack metal" on Discogs.

That's also where I got the country from.

Lineup unknown.

Discography:

Revelations Vol. 1: A Light in a Dark Place (compilation, 28 June, 2008, Sullen Records)

Format: CD-R, limited (???) copies

 

14) Reiziger - Mind and Reality 1:57

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LIKE DUST

 

BAND NAME: Like Dust
GENRE: Unblack Metal with Atmospheric Influences
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Canada

Lineup:
(one person, name unknown) - All instruments, Vocals

Links:
Bandcamp
Spotify
SoundCloud
Amazon
Deezer
Apple Music
iHeartRadio
Instagram

Discography:

What Is Now Only Whispered (EP, 1 May, 2020, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

1) Towards Nothing 7:24
2) Altar of Murk 4:44
3) A Reverence of Bones 5:51
4) Before We Are Ghosts 8:25

Fides et Ratio (EP, 19 October, 2020, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

 

1) Law of Fire
5:36, lyrics:
As the ties ever loosen, and the last frays strain
The edge of chaos reveals its endless dark
From perilous depths, a thirst for light
Again all ease, yielding to the absolute
The revelation of structure; the first pressure
The law from high,
like crushing weight that births the bright stone.

A new lamp is lit, burning with radiant fear.

A sweet command, bend to obey
What was before and ever will to be.

The phantom laws of flesh and earth pull night across the heart, and hush the whispered call to light. A blessed wind blows shifting sands aside, and unveils the stone beneath the subjective tide, and from the stone the pillars rise.

Above: this
Below: we
And ever was before, and ever will to be.

2) From Many Stones They See
7:35, lyrics:
Dead matter gives no law, no graveborn father guides
Put out the morning lamps - know the light before all

What hands are these that force the weight; that hold the scales and sword? That pierce the madness of infinity, and carve the darkness from the light? Who has cast form from eternity's well, and breathed into the aimless husk?

Only from the fullness of the host can the parasite subsist. Preeminence precedes privation, as a howling and vacuous "evil" is made a subject before glory. In the matrix of conscious minds, a warming sun for one will be a chilling shade for another, until that one knows it as a shadow cast of preeminent light.

See, from before and ever to be!

Behold, the glorious font that brings the rivers, the unchanging spring that ever abides. The omnipresent cause that holds existence, and wills the break of day, the act before the potency, the light before all.

By the will and reason, we are endowed to know. By pride we birth rejection, and turn our reverent gaze. From broken body or punished mind, the whispers will testify of a humbled spirit. The suffering shall be redemptive.

3) Behold, and Despair
7:05, lyrics:
In a quiet hour of reflection, the heart is found bursting with every wickedness and corruption the flesh might let it excise.

The mind defends the stains with every contortion needed to slip the fiery barbs of holy shame. Ever perverting freedom as permission to indulge, the organs swell disordered; the final cause is broken.

We are as slaves to our misery - how shall we be redeemed?

And every torch an idol if its contingency is forgotten; who so wrestles back the darkness only lit dimly by pride, scorned by failure, weeps and sighs. Despite the lonesome labor to wipe away the decay, the desperately depraved fact of mankind seethes ever forth in terrible revelation.

The agony of rebellion strains against the given law, at once compelled and denied. How heavy our burden to will the soaring order from the lawless flesh, and its flight, carry the heart to rest.

The maddening dissonance of failure to our internal dictum:
How shall we be redeemed?

4) To Swallow a Curse
6:15, lyrics:
In these overlapping spheres of exchange, the higher must descend to the lower; the lower must die to itself, though not destroyed - lifted in communion to a greater end, and imbued with greater being. The proud will know not transcendence, and defile their union in solitude.

How mysterious this cosmic atonement - who can know the totality of its mechanism? By perfection of obedience, to spill perfect blood, the punishment is stayed.

Fiercest evil swallowed,
Conquered in death.

The glorious arrival
The lifted viper
The exodus in flesh
Standing as though slain

Woe, woe to them in that day who stare still into that blank and pitiless gaze; who make their pact to deal life and death in kind: with resolute denial, unrepentant.

Put on the armor of light.
Be not afraid.

 

Crown the Radiant Dead (single, 11 January, 2021, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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1) Crown the Radiant Dead
12:52, lyrics:
The right order of the lower material is to express the higher principle, as microcosmic creation, fractal at every scale. As earth fails to express what heaven informs, the stable space splits and the border waters race to flood.

Incongruous poison, feeding the leprous decay. Head nor hand can stitch the wound, gaping ever wider. Numberless principalities groan a song of hunger, scented to the laceration.

They rise from the swirling ocean, the serpent tides, to pull the stone asunder, into the dark and deep. Ever downwards, where no breath can reach, my branches of failure, my mouth unable to speak.

Pull me from the water, breathe into me
Crown the mountain, drape the body.

We are the drifted wood, once stretched between the sky and soil, now spat from the sea, unstable and unknown. Gather our bodies of death, bind us to the radiant vine which reaches from zenith to nadir. For the time is short, and every torch is encompassed by darkness, thick with whispers of barbarous incantations. Lonesome souls and barren wombs lurch forth to spread despair.

Silently turning within the wheel, destruction and birth in infinite negation. Blinded in exile, stumbling, pointless inversion of all.

Northern bows take aim at their mired cities, the limbs straining and shuddering, strings pulled taut by the weight of their wickedness. Their tongues at the periphery, to taste what stands outside. Dancing and dreaming unceasingly, as the temple walls are collapsing.

Mending fundamental disfigurement, the ideal manifests and is destroyed, such that the uncreated principle is annulled. Not subject to the failures of the lower, the ideal is restored, and the immaterial seed is in turn usurped by the ideal. The narrow door is opened.

Come, o mighty one, set these broken bones, swallow all this sorrow. Fallen to obsidian death, and conquered the cursed sting. Risen with abiding souls gathered like dust anew.
Still my trembling hand, lift these weary eyes.
For the time is short, and I am encompassed by darkness.

 

 Vortex Ambigua (EP, 15 January, 2022, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

"BYMN" is written in the lower-right corner of the artwork. ???

1) Death Instinct
1:57, instrumental

2) Lash of Tail, Thrust of Horn
8:04, lyrics:
The river dragon winds swiftly through street and self;
A sickly tribe of tyrants gnawing each other’s flesh in ecstatic erosion.
They do not understand what they do.
Believed they could contain all in all without consequence. As every fringe unfurls and every stitch is loosed, their invocation spills out of mouth:

"Outside within, center to sides
Pillar to wheel, swallowed by tides"

Among us walk these paradoxes, their riddles like spears against our skin. Every backward step to relieve the pressure brings one more step they take. You will know them by the ever changing faces; the shifting tongues of contradiction. As they worship their wounds and cry out their desire to swallow the light which defines them.

This clandestine parasite once silent at the corner offerings, now sheds its cloak and lifts it dagger in deafening annunciation.

Come, all you weary and burdened by this world. Turn your aching march up this mountain, and look out, and see. Clutch the dirt in astonishment as the world's inversion reaches its peak, and the last great cycle begins.

In the final grand breath, disintegration - total change - takes its darkened throne. The victory bell rings without a listener, as man achieves the final progress: from a being to a corpse.

3) In the Shroud of the Earth
8:14, lyrics:
With burning urgency
We abandon the cities
Leaving these soulless structures
To the mass of the wicked
Workers of all that is monstrous
Weavers of policy and law
Vacuous and spiteful
Bathing in lechery

We who see the crumbling earth
Offer our suffocated warnings
Not as prophecy, but only a pattern unfolding
Swaying between earthly fear and holy assurance

And so we cast it off,
The urban grid of rootless cosmopolitans
We are called away to the edge, where vanity is burned off. We who feel the dissonant pulse; the stench of this malignant decay. Looking back only to grieve.
These looming gray pillars of faceless nodes - monotonous bones and ghostly sinew , built by the labor of the desperate
At every turn the vipers pour out from hiding, constricting every edifice.

Give me land and seed
And frost on earth and glass
Let me rise and fall by your lantern,
Breathing air from a veil of evergreens.
May my hours be simple and true,
And with them all my words
Let our courage abide
In the last stand of darkness

Know that this will get worse before it gets better. We will bear witness to those who, with sword to throat, will one last time profess their alliance to their executioner. Countless are they who never understood the warfare; who believed the serpent could be fed to satisfaction.

 

Acceleration (single, 28 March, 2022, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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1) Acceleration
7:25, lyrics:
No time or peace for silent death
No time for rites in solemn hours
Numberless widows with fevers of grief,
and the starvation winter looms long
Under the shadow of exile
their yoke longs to lock
Their words through our teeth,
and a doorway to our blood

The desolate wind's only companion is the
harrowing hiss of those lungs beneath
judgement stones, who will confess to the last
the name of the Victor

Every year another seal is broken,
and the devastation grips
We are heirs to the burden
of a godless procession
Every day a good man bears witness
to the reality of his enemies,
and he sighs in the revelation
that he is deeply hated

No one is coming to save us
No escape or retreat
Every bridge has crumbled,
and our coffins yawn louder

As ravens descend to feast on the flesh of kings,
they soar through the smoke of our torment
Hold tight to your beloved in the age of night
as the sword from His mouth swings its judgement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Similar to: [SECULAR] Deathspell Omega, Ondskapt, Ulcerate, Five the Hierophant, Ad Nauseam, Αχέροντας/Acherontas, Choir (Sgp), Nahasheol, Storming, [CHRISTIAN] Apodictia, Drottnar, (add more later)

SOLA SCRIPTURA

 

 BAND NAME: Sola Scriptura
GENRE: Progressive Unblack Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Germany

Lineup unknown.

Links:
Bandcamp
YouTube

Discography:

The Risen One / Overcome (single, 10 September, 2020, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

link expired

Also stream on YouTube (OFFICIAL)

 

Called "The Risen One" on Bandcamp, and "Overcome" on YouTube.

Original lyrics by Elevation Worship.

1) The Risen One

4:25, lyrics:

Now the darkness fades
Into new beginnings
As we lift our eyes to a hope beyond
All creation waits
With an expectation
To declare the reign of the Lord our God

We will not be moved
When the earth gives way
For the risen One has overcome
And for every fear
There's an empty grave
For the risen One has overcome

Now the silence breaks
In the name of Jesus
As the heavens cry, let the earth respond
All creation shouts
With a voice of triumph
To declare the reign of the Lord our God

We will not be moved
When the earth gives way
For the risen One has overcome
And for every fear
There's an empty grave
For the risen One has overcome

Now the darkness fades
Into new beginnings
As we lift our eyes to a hope beyond
All creation waits
With an expectation
To declare the reign of the Lord our God

He shall reign forever
Strongholds now surrender
For the Lord our God has overcome
Who can be against us?
Jesus our Defender
He is Lord and He has overcome

 

Now the darkness fades
Into new beginnings
As we lift our eyes to a hope beyond
All creation waits
With an expectation
To declare the reign of the Lord our God

 

We will not be moved
When the earth gives way
For the risen One has overcome
And for every fear
There's an empty grave
For the risen One has overcome

 

Now the silence breaks
In the name of Jesus
As the heavens cry, let the earth respond
All creation shouts
With a voice of triumph
To declare the reign of the Lord our God

We will not be moved
When the earth gives way
For the risen One has overcome
And for every fear
There's an empty grave
For the risen One has overcome

Let My People Go (single, 12 September, 2020, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

link expired

 

Also stream on YouTube (OFFICIAL)

 

Features samples from the movie "The Ten Commandments" (1956).

1) Let My People Go

5:21, lyrics:

"The slaves are mine. Their lives are mine. All that they own is mine. I do not know your god, nor will I let Israel go."

"Who are you to make their lives bitter in hard bondage? Man shall be ruled by law, not by the will of other men."

In the land of Egypt from their homes away
Laid in chains the children of Israel
The Lord told Moses to bring them hope
And thus he spoke to the Pharaoh
In the land of Egypt from their homes away
Laid in chains the children of Israel
The Lord told Moses to bring them hope
And thus he spoke to the Pharaoh

Let them go
Let them go
Let them go
Let them go
Let my people go

"It is not by your word nor by my hand that we are free, Pharaoh. The power of God has freed us."

Enough of your words. Take your people, your cattle, your god, and your pestilence. Take what spoils from Egypt you will, but go!"

When Moses let the people to set them free
He wandered the desert and parted the sea
As Pharaoh sent forces to stop his slaves
The Lord buried them beneath the waves
When Moses let the people to set them free
He wandered the desert and parted the sea
As Pharaoh sent forces to stop his slaves
The Lord buried them beneath the waves

Let them go
Let them go
Let them go
Let them go
Let my people go

The Lord summoned Moses for 40 nights
To record his Law for the Israelites
A Law to all his daughters and sons
To follow the Lord as the chosen ones
The Lord summoned Moses for 40 nights
To record his Law for the Israelites
A Law to all his daughters and sons
To follow the Lord as the chosen ones

In the land of Egypt from their homes away
Laid in chains the children of Israel
The Lord told Moses to bring them hope
And thus he spoke to the Pharaoh,
"LET THEM GO!"

Sign of the Time (single, 21 September, 2020, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

link expired

1) Sign of the Time

4:31, lyrics unknown

Overcome (album, 18 March, 2021, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

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All instrumental.

1) Signs of the Time 4:33
2) The Risen One 4:25
3) Babylon Shall Burn 3:51
4) Story of Elijah 6:48
5) Den of Thieves 3:34
6) Chariots of Fire 5:46
7) Let My People Go 5:21
8) The Third Day 6:49

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Why Hortor Got Blacklisted

In short, they got blacklisted for scamming / ripping off fans for over a decade.

Note: A person called "Azmaveth" is discussed here. This person should not be confused with the [Puerto Rican band "Azmaveth"], nor with [a guy in the secular scene] with the same name. All three are completely unrelated.

Being such big figures in the scene, I can see why many people were surprised by my choice to call out Hortor (and their label ExhortMetal / EM Label & Distro) and blacklist their bands. Originally I just had a note on Hortor's page warning about them not sending out merchandise. This was because despite myself being one of the people ripped off by them, I was advised by a couple friends to leave them on my lists of Christian bands. I knew from the beginning that was a ridiculous thing to do, but I figured people who were part of the scene (and Christian culture in general) knew more about how to handle these things than I did. As more and more examples piled up though, I decided to stop waiting around, listening to these people, and instead called out this serious injustice within our church. The people who are known to be involved in this are Azmaveth, Adunamy / Abril, and Varme / Fredy A. Please do not lump Hortor's many former band members, or other bands they played in, etc in with this scandal, unless UNDENIABLE PROOF comes out that others were involved.
Here's a list of all examples I know of where they scammed people.

1) EEE Recordings
Back when EEE released Christian music, they did a trade with ExhortMetal. EEE sent their shipment (over 30 CDs) but ExhortMetal never sent theirs. This happened all the way back in 2008. [Source]

2) Myself
In December 2015, I ordered a HB t-shirt (which I later learned was bootlegged) from Hortor's Facebook page. I talked to Azmaveth, yet was given Adunamy (Abril M.'s) PayPal address for payment. I never got the shirt. [Source 1] [Source 2] [Source 3] For some reason, I don't have screenshots of what happened after this, but Azmaveth later replied about "sending another shirt but it would take a long time". While the Mexican post office is notoriously slow, it would make no sense for them to send another shirt since they "already sent the first one". If people that used this tactic were legitimate, the responsibility would be on the buyer to show that they didn't receive the item. Of course this is impossible, since they never even gave me a tracking number...

3) NokturnalWolf
In an interview from 2015, ex-band member NokturnalWolf mentioned that Hortor took money from him. As far as I know, this was never repaid. [Source]

4) Derrick T.
January 2016. "They took my money and never sent my shirts. Now they are avoiding my inbox messages." [Source]

5) "americanpride"
This person's comment was what made me finally decide to take action on this whole situation. They commented shortly before I unlisted Hortor's page, "I wish I have read here before buying from them. I guess there gonna keep my money and not send my t shirts. There not real Christians the band h o r t o r". [Source] Later, in an email, they told me they never got a tracking number from Hortor, either, and similar to Derrick, Hortor started ignoring them, too.

6) David S.
"Really sad. I got scammed too. $70 for a box set and never saw a single CD yet alone the box." [Source 1] [Source 2]

7) Gergely K.
"has happened to me as well. when I sent a polite message asking for some clarification / update, got silence as a reply. thought it was a one-off but evidently not. sad." [Source 1] [Source 2]

8) Vision of God Records
"I'd ban them as well
They also bootleg bands stuff.
Freddy has me blocked on Facebook for calling him out on bootlegging our bands shirts." [Source]

9) Terry M.
"Yep. I ordered a Whitecross shirt 2 years ago and never got it. Had no idea about the bootlegging, though." [Source]

10) rockpirat.sos
"Zero Communication! I paid to this seller the money for CD,and after two months, the paypal refund me the money because it seller did not send anything!!" [Source 1] [Source 2]

11) Randall
"I read all this before, but when I saw Fredy Acosta from Hortor and Beeroth on Face Book in a video where he was advertising some CDs I wanted to get, I contacted him. Without going into all the details, I was willing to give him a chance, but when he wanted to sell me many CDs and I said I would just get one CD for now and the rest later, he suspiciously backed out and seemed like he was trying to scam me, and refused to sell me just one, and then started talking stupid crazy crap to me. Anyone else had any recent contact with him, please state it, as this was in January [2022] that I had contact with Fredy A."

As I find more examples (of which I'm sure there are...) I will add them here. And before anyone mentions it - yes! I am quite aware that some people have had positive experiences with Hortor, and in addition to the negative feedback on Discogs for example, there is also some positive. I don't know why Hortor blatantly scam some people, and not others... However, my job isn't to explain their weird behavior. My job is simply to call out these scam artists and make sure they stop using the church of the righteous, living God, to further their lies and greed!

DARK CASM

BAND NAME: Dark Casm
GENRE: Unblack Metal
STATUS: Changed name
(Active under new name, Behead Lucifer)
LOCATION: USA (Frederick/Baltimore, Maryland)

Formed in 2015 as Behead Lucifer.

Changed name to Dark Casm in June-September of 2020.
Changed back to their old name in August 2022.

Contact:

Lerooster6 [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Enoch777MW [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Lineup:
Ghost - Vocals, Lyrics
Lord Enochiam - All instruments, Drum programming

Links:
Bandcamp
YouTube

Discography:

Darkness. Reversed. Light. Twisted. (EP, June - 19 September, 2020, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

 

Also stream on YouTube (OFFICIAL)

Originally released under Behead Lucifer.

Technically the same "page" as the previous version, but repurposed with the new name and artwork.

1) Plague of the Prophets 6:50
2) Helel: Ruler of the World 6:31
3) Ascension to a Higher Realm 9:21

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SHAMASH

BAND NAME: Shamash

GENRE: Symphonic/Melodic Death/Black Metal

STATUS: Active

LOCATION: Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

 

Formed in 2020.
Although André currently does drums, the band is looking for a drummer to take over that instrument.

Contact:

shamash_band [AT] yahoo [DOT] com

Lineup:

André Chiang - Vocals, Drums

Alexaander J. Martin - Guitars
Darren Teh - Bass

Links:
Bandcamp (label)
Merch @ ChristianBandShirts
Facebook

Instagram
Spotify
Apple Music
Deezer
Tidal
Amazon
iHeartRadio

Shazam
SoundCloud

Official website (outdated)

Unofficial links:
Unblack Metal Wallpapers

Discography:

Suffering Servant (single, 11 September, 2020, Rottweiler Records)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Also stream on YouTube (OFFICIAL)

1) Suffering Servant 4:24, see below for lyrics

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Suffering Servant (EP, 13 November, 2020, Rottweiler Records)

Format: CD-R and Digital
Buy the CD-R (OFFICIAL)
Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, etc (OFFICIAL)

Guest appearances:
Steven Thang - Lead Guitars (tracks 4 and 5)

The left artwork is used on Bandcamp and on copies of the CD-R.
The right artwork is used on streaming services.

1) For Unto Us
3:34, lyrics:
Puer natus est nobis, Emmanuel
Puer natus est nobis, Yesus Kristus
Puer natus est nobis, Emmanuel
Puer natus est nobis, Yesus Kristus

For unto us He is born,
In a manger He lay forlorn,
His name shall be called mighty God,
Wonderful, counsellor, Prince of Peace

He was bruised for our iniquities,
Yet it pleaseth Him to be an offering

Puer natus est nobis, Emmanuel
Puer natus est nobis, Yesus Kristus
Puer natus est nobis, Emmanuel
Puer natus est nobis, Yesus Kristus

Puer natus est nobis, Emmanuel
Puer natus est nobis, Yesus Kristus
Puer natus est nobis, Emmanuel
Puer natus est nobis, Yesus Kristus

2) At the Throne
3:16, lyrics:
Benedicta tu in sede Dei
Sanctus aeternus
Benedicta tu in sede Dei
Sanctus aeternus

And behold, I saw both great and small, kneeling before His throne

Surrounded by the multitudes, the Eternal one doth weigh,
I saw all men both poor and king, on bended knees to Him they sing,
The scales of justice in His hands, His blazing eyes, His Nail pierced hands,
I saw them all to Him give praise, the holy one whom God hath raised,

Benedicta tu in sede Dei
Sanctus aeternus
Benedicta tu in sede Dei
Sanctus aeternus

We fall down, we bend our knees,
The God of mercy’s paid the price, to spare us all from our demise,
The temples veil's been torn apart, The Holy one now owns our hearts,
And unto Him who took our chains, our broken hopes and lonely pains,
To Him who gave us all His life, a poured out sacrifice…

Surrounded by the multitudes, the Eternal one doth weigh,
I saw all men both poor and king, on bended knees to Him they sing,
The scales of justice in His hands, His blazing eyes, His Nail pierced hands,
I saw them all to Him give praise, the holy one whom God hath raised,
I saw them all to Him give praise, the holy one whom God hath raised.

3) Spiritus Sanctus
3:12, lyrics:
Fire, fire falling from heaven,
Consuming our souls, consuming our hearts,
Fire, fire, baptism of fire,
With tongues of angels, with tongues of fire…

Spiritus sanctus, ruach ha-kodesh

I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you,
I will always be with you, forever I will stay…

Paracletus, the comforter, He will come to be with you,
Judea and Samaria, to the ends of all the earth,
Paracletus, with tongues of fire, you will speak in tongues of men across the great wide earth,
Paracletus, the comforter, He will come to be with you,
Judea and Samaria, to the ends of all the earth…

Spiritus sanctus, ruach ha-kodesh
Spiritus sanctus, ruach ha-kodesh
Spiritus sanctus, ruach ha-kodesh

4) Suffering Servant
4:24, lyrics:
Why? Why?
Why did someone have to die?
Why did someone have to pay a price I couldn't pay myself
So I could live? And why? Why?
Why did someone have to hurt?
Why did someone bear my shame when no one would
A sinful being so full of hurt

The suffering is real
The suffering is real
Through [His] suffering we heal
His suffering is real

Broken, striped and whipped
Scorned, abused and mocked
Saviour, the Son of Man
Messiah, anointed one
Healing through suffering
The servant through Him healing
The servant through Him healing
The servant through Him healing

Why? Why?
Why did someone have to die?
Why did someone have to pay a price I couldn't pay myself
So I could live? And why? Why?
Why did someone have to hurt?
Why did someone bear my shame when no one would
A sinful being so full of hurt

The suffering is real
The suffering is real
Through [His] suffering we heal
His suffering is real

5) The View Inside My Soul
5:16, lyrics:
You’re only angry coz you’re blind,
The words you spoke you can’t rescind,
You’re only angry coz you’re blind,
The words you spoke you can’t rescind.

Here I stand justified, ready to stand and strike
Words spoken to me cut, deeper down in my heart
Triggered I stand and fight, for what I feel is right
Heart burning through the night my heart burns justified
Raging my blood boils hot, for peace I felt was not
Vengeance for spoken words, so carelessly uttered
Sharper than a knife, the words the cut and cause strife
Flustered it struck my pride, in anger I will abide...

You're only angry 'cause you're blind
The words you spoke you can't rescind
You're only angry 'cause you're blind
The words you spoke you can't rescind

With words we give man praise, with words we set ablaze,
With careless speech we tear down men,
All hope brought to an end,
With words we give man praise, with words we set ablaze,
With careless speech we tear down men,
All hope brought to an end,

The tongue is a storm, a world of iniquity
Spoken in rage words strewn to a wind
Callous and toxic departing your lips
Cast at a junction you'll never get back
Why? Why? Would anyone speak?
Cause words are so powerful they really could kill,
Cause words are so powerful distorting my will
Cause words are so powerful distorting my will

The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...

The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...
The view in my soul...

You're only angry 'cause you're blind
The words you spoke you can't rescind
You're only angry 'cause you're blind
The words you spoke you can't rescind

Not by My Heart (single, 19 November, 2021, Rottweiler Records)
Format: Digital
Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, etc (OFFICIAL)

1) Not by My Heart
4:06, lyrics:
Hear me now
Hear me now

In my darkest nights
I will have no fear
With every circumstance
I know You're here with me
The weight of the world is holding me down
Will You come save me before I am drowned?
Seeking for truth it's in You I am found
No longer slave to the chains I was bound

I come to You
for I am weary
Will You give me rest?
I come to You
All of my sins
Lay them down at Your feet

Not by my heart
Not by my spirit
Not by my strength
But every word You speak
Not by my heart
Not by my mind
My heart is willing
But my flesh is weak

With every circumstance
I know You're here with me
In my darkest nights
I will have no fear

Hear me now
Hear me now

I come to You
for I am weary
Will You give me rest?
I come to You
All of my sins
Lay them down at Your feet

Not by my heart
Not by my spirit
Not by my strength
But every word You speak
Not by my heart
Not by my mind
My heart is willing
But my flesh is weak

I lift up my eyes to the Son
He keeps me from all harm
I lift up my hands to the skies
He sets me free!

Not by my heart
Not by my spirit
Not by my strength
But every word You speak
Not by my heart
Not by my mind
My heart is willing
But my flesh is weak

Done with Misery (single, 13 January, 2022, Rottweiler Records)
Format: Digital

Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, etc (OFFICIAL)

1) Done with Misery

4:08, lyrics unknown

The Missionary (single, 22 April, 2022, Rottweiler Records)
Format: Digital

Spotify, iTunes, etc (OFFICIAL)

Guest appearances:
Pathos - Unknown
Asaph - Unknown
Bryce Maopolski - Unknown

André says about the song, "This song commemorates the life of Steve Rowe, one of the pioneering voices of Christian Death Metal. It was done in a style heavily influenced by my favourite Mortification album, Scrolls of the Megiloth."

1) The Missionary
3:14, lyrics unknown

Vol. 1 (compilation, 9 June, 2022, Rottweiler Records)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

12) Shamash - Suffering Servant
4:24, see above for lyrics

(artwork
not
available)

Done with Misery (album, UPCOMING, Rottweiler Records)

Will contain some of the singles listed above. As of April 2022, the plan is to release the album in December. More info will be added as it becomes available!

??) The Missionary

??) Done with Misery

??) Not by My Heart

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1) Lyrics for "Done with Misery" and "The Missionary"? 2) What contributions did the guest musicians make on "The Missionary"?

Miscellaneous stuff:

Work-in-progress artwork for "Suffering Servant", the 1st draft being on the left; the middle images being for the 2nd draft; and the right picture being for the 3rd draft.

LURKING BENEATH THE SEA

BAND NAME: Lurking Beneath the Sea
GENRE: Experimental Black Metal, Noise
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: USA

Lineup:
Brandon "Solomon Kane" Fearn - All instruments, Vocals

Links:
Facebook (page)
Facebook (profile)
SoundCloud
YouTube

Discography:

Psychotic Manifesto (split, 9 August, 2019, Skull Hill Recordings)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

link expired

Split with Noisechrist.

 

This was also released as a limited-edition Noisechrist album, without the LBtS track. See [this page] for more info on that version.

7) Lurking Beneath the Sea - A Heroic Fire 2:10 (Bandcamp only!)

 

A Heroic Fire (single, 9 August, 2019, Skull Hill Recordings)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Note that at the very beginning of 2023, Skull Hill Recordings rebranded to Skull Hill Publishing. The URL now directs to that instead.

1) A Heroic Fire 2:09

Stoic (single, 4 October, 2019, Skull Hill Publishing)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Note that at the very beginning of 2023, Skull Hill Recordings rebranded to Skull Hill Publishing. The URL now directs to that instead.

1) Stoic 4:17

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CD VERSION

Eulogies (album, 24 December, 2019, Skull Hill Recordings)
Formats: CD-R, Vinyl, Bandcamp
CD-R link expired
vinyl link expired
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Note that at the very beginning of 2023, Skull Hill Recordings rebranded to Skull Hill Publishing. The URL now directs to that instead.

1) A Heroic Fire 2:09
2) Stoic 4:13
3) Confessions 6:18
4) Wish for One More Day 3:56
5) Drain in Heartshapes 1:38
6) A Shadow in the Light 5:12
7) Siren Song 2:21
8) Once Was Is No Longer 5:18

Threshold (single, 8 May, 2020, Skull Hill Recordings)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Note that at the very beginning of 2023, Skull Hill Recordings rebranded to Skull Hill Publishing. The URL now directs to that instead.

1) Threshold 3:19

A Cure Worse than the Disease (EP, 11 September, 2020, Skull Hill Recordings)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Note that at the very beginning of 2023, Skull Hill Recordings rebranded to Skull Hill Publishing. The URL now directs to that instead.

1) The Truth 1:03
2) Fanning the Flames 1:58
3) The Judiciary 2:54
4) Public Representatives 00:49
5) Grievous 2:33
6) The Second Coming 2:58
7) Live for One More Day 00:58

Every Passing Moment (album, 29 January, 2022, SneeuwStorm Produkties)
Formats: CD-R and Bandcamp
Buy the CD-R (OFFICIAL)
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Guest appearance:
Fear of Ghost - Drums (track 2)

1) Inception 1:46
2) A Breathing Pulse 4:26
3) Illuminating Fear 3:04
4) Foundations 3:20
5) Inception Engaged 4:46
6) Nemesis 2:25
7) Equilibrum 3:40
8) Porcelain Trust / Burden of Truth 5:18

100 Eyes (album, 3 May, 2022, Skull Hill Recordings)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Previously lost album. Recorded between August and October of 2015.

Note that at the very beginning of 2023, Skull Hill Recordings rebranded to Skull Hill Publishing. The URL now directs to that instead.

Also, I counted, and no, the number of eyes on the cover is not 100. It's either less (64) or greater than, depending which of the dots you count as "eyes".

1) Movement I 2:02
2) Movement II 2:04
3) Movement III 3:58
4) Movement IV 5:16
5) Movement V 3:14
6) Movement VI 00:32
7) Movement VII 2:59
8) Movement VIII 1:36
9) Movement IX 5:15

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HABAKKUK

BAND NAME: Habakkuk
GENRE: Technical Death/Black Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: New Zealand (Hamilton, Waikato)

Formed in 2017.

 

Contact:

mrpercival [AT] actrix [DOT] co [DOT] nz

Lineup:
Michael Percival - Vocals
(rest of lineup unclear?)

 Links:
Facebook
ReverbNation
SoundCloud
Spotify
Apple Music (contains unrelated artists)

Discography:

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Storms (single, 31 August, 2020, Lost by Design Records)

Format: Digital / iTunes / Amazon / Spotify

iTunes (OFFICIAL)

Amazon (OFFICIAL)

Spotify (OFFICIAL)

1) Suicide Is Not the Answer 4:18
2) Even Amidst Affliction 4:41

Wake Up (single, 28 October, 2021, Lost by Design Records)
Format: Digital
Spotify / Apple Music / etc (OFFICIAL)

1) Wake Up
10:27, lyrics:
Wake up!

Wake up are you living your life alongside God
Or are you just doing your own thing
Doing whatever you please
If you're just doing whatever you want
Don't expect to make it to heaven

Hear me all you unbelievers
If you don't have a real, intimate relationship with God
You will not be going to heaven you will go to hell
It is your choice whether you go to heaven or hell
Just because you don't believe in Hell
Doesn't make it not real!
Hell is a very real place
Created by God to condemn
Satan and his fallen angels
No evil on earth compares to one percent of Hell
But if you don't know God this is where you will spend eternity!

Wake Up! God has the authority to send you to hell
Why wouldn't he if you say:
"I don't want to serve you, I don't want to worship you,
I want nothing to do with you, I don't want to follow you,
I don't want to know you, I don't want to love you,
I don't want to go to church, I don't want to praise you,
I don't want to submit my life to you"
Why would God let you into Heaven?

I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who can kill the body and after that can do no more.
But I will show you whom you should fear:
Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell.
Yes, I tell you, fear him. "When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in a flame of fire,dealing out full and complete vengeance to those who do not seek to know God and to those who ignore and refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus [by choosing not to respond to Him]. These people will pay the penalty and endure the punishment of everlasting destruction, banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power"

God doesn't want you to go to Hell
He wants you to spend eternity with him
He loves you more than anything, more than any person on earth ever could
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son"

You fake Christians
You better wake up
Those of you who just go to church but don't have a genuine relationship with God
For it is possible to be a Christian in the eyes of your church, family and friends
And still go to hell
However if you are doing the will of God you will be saved

"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters, and all liars they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death"
Cowards are the first kind of people that Jesus says will go to hell
If you aren't sharing God with family, friends and work mates
Don't expect to make it to heaven

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
Wake up! Don't just walk past those who need your help
Help those who are in need if you are able.
For Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Then he will say to those on his left, "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me. They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me. Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.' "

Wake up! If you aren't going to heaven you will go to hell
Where the fires never quench, torment never ends
and the complete absence of God and everything that comes from him
Strength, peace, the ability to breathe will be absent in hell
Hell was created for Satan and his fallen angels to be condemned
You would not want to end up there, wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy
Hell is way worse than the worst evil on earth
Isis doesn't even come close to the evil in hell
Once you go to hell you don't come back

Wake up! As soon as you take your last breath you will stand before the judgement seat of Christ
You will be judged according to what have done
"And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire."
This is how it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous
and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth
But if you give your life entirely to God you will be saved
If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord"
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved"

Rev 21:8, Matt 25:40-46, Matt 7:21-23, Rom 6:23, 2 Thess 1:8-9, Rev 20:12-15, Rom 10:13, John 3:16-18, Matt 13:49-50, Luke 12:4-5, Rom 10:9

MISCELLANEOUS
Two demo versions of songs on ReverbNation:
- Don't Give Up 4:05
- Blinded by the Beast 4:25

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INFO:
1) Lyrics for the first EP. 2) The rest of the lineup.