ANIMA MORTUUM

NOTE: Not to be confused with secular band Animus Mortis, also from Chile.

 

 

BAND NAME: Anima Mortuum

GENRE: Unblack Metal with Punk Influences

STATUS: Split up

LOCATION: Chile (Arica)

Years active:

2002 - 2003 Anima di Morte

2013 - ???? Anima Mortuum

2018 - 12 December 2022, Anima Mortuum

Originally a solo project. Sergio joined somewhere around 2020.

Lineup:

Zvi Tacussis - All instruments, Vocals
Sergio Rivera - Lead Guitars, Keyboards

Links:
Bandcamp
Facebook
Shirts @ ChristianBandShirts
Spotify

CDBaby

Unofficial links:
Unblack Metal Wallpapers

Discography:

The Return (album)

2013, Shattered Chain Records, format unknown

28 July, 2018, Independent, Bandcamp

Session musicians:

Armath Sargon - Keyboards (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8)

1) The Forsaking 4:12

2) Raise the Flag 3:09

3) Massacre 4:14

4) Depths of Misery 5:24

5) Satan's Spell 4:39

6) In Your Great Compassion 4:41

7) Rotten Soul 3:45

8) Predators from Darkness 4:27

9) Wings of Grace 2:27

10) Get Out 3:33

Goat Destruction (album)

20 January, 2019, Independent, Bandcamp

8 February, 2019, Christian Metal Underground Records, CD

8 February, 2019, Christian Metal Underground Records, Bandcamp

1) Goat Destruction (Intro) 

1:54, instrumental

2) United in Resistance

4:47

3) Soul Sacrifice

5:32

4) Cryptic Rotten Curse

3:27

5) Legions of Hellish Torture
4:58

6) Defeated (Interlude) 

1:20, instrumental

7) A Drink from the Chalice
5:14

8) Blasphemous in the Satanic Rite

4:48

9) Into the Day of the Armageddon

4:30, lyrics:

We raise a flame
In sacrifice
For our almighty God
In an inner sacred rite
Eternal life
For the conclave
Awaits for us
In His greatness
Eternal King
Merciful Lord
Awaits for us
In His immortal kingdom

Into the day
Of the armageddon
Into the Eve of the last days
We are marching to the altar
Laying our souls in worship
Nothing can break our faith

Raising spirits
In a unanimous flame

Preparing the cauldron
For the old way of life
Raising spirits
In a unanimous flame

Into the day
Of the armageddon
Of the armageddon

Eternal life
For the conclave
Awaits for us
In His greatness
Eternal King
Merciful Lord
Awaits for us
In His immortal kingdom

Into the day
Of the armageddon
Into the Eve of the last days
We are marching to the altar
Laying our souls in worship
Nothing can break our faith

Breaking the veil in the Spirit
We are witness of the war
Blackened sun is upon us
Moonlight set as blood
Into complete world's destruction
We are marching to our God

Despite the fall of the stars
We are into eternal life

 

Southern Voices from Heaven - Compilation Vol. 1 (December, 2018, Subterránea Records)
Format: CD

??) Anima Mortuum - Into the Day of the Armageddon 4:30, see above for lyrics

Morbid Temple (demo, 8 September, 2019, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

1) Into the... 00:46

2) Morbid Temple 5:24

3) Black Shapes of Doom 4:48

4) Desolated Night 5:38

Demo Nº2 (single/demo, 29 December, 2019, Independent)

Format: Digital / Bandcamp

Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

1) Demo Nº2 5:52, instrumental

Pandemic Session (split, 4 October, 2020, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)

Also stream on YouTube (OFFICIAL)

Split between Diamoth and Anima Mortuum. On Diamoth's page, the Diamoth logo is on top. On Anima Mortuum's page, the artwork is rotated 180º and that logo is on top instead.

"The artwork shows Doktor Schnabel von Rom (by Paul Fürst, 1656), those who were recognized for being community doctors, and despite not having specialized training, were the only ones to assist the population in Black Death times (doctors with specialized training only cared for the elite). The image is a way to remember the importance of communitarianism ethics in public health, assisting the needy, the most vulnerable, responding to the common good and not only to a few ones. According to Suma Qamaña, "without the well-being of all, the well-being of oneself doesn't exist, oneself cannot live well if others live badly" (a view very congruent with Christianity). A recognition of the health professionals of today, that we have been present, on the ground and without resting, to face the needs of the population in pandemic times."

1) Anima Mortuum - Into the Day of the Armageddon
4:44, lyrics:
We raise a flame
In sacrifice
For our almighty God
In an inner sacred rite
Eternal life
For the conclave
Awaits for us
In His greatness
Eternal King
Merciful Lord
Awaits for us
In His immortal kingdom

Into the day
Of the armageddon
Into the Eve of the last days
We are marching to the altar
Laying our souls in worship
Nothing can break our faith

Raising spirits
In a unanimous flame

Preparing the cauldron
For the old way of life
Raising spirits
In a unanimous flame

Into the day
Of the armageddon
Of the armageddon

Eternal life
For the conclave
Awaits for us
In His greatness
Eternal King
Merciful Lord
Awaits for us
In His immortal kingdom

Into the day
Of the armageddon
Into the Eve of the last days
We are marching to the altar
Laying our souls in worship
Nothing can break our faith

Breaking the veil in the Spirit
We are witness of the war
Blackened sun is upon us
Moonlight set as blood
Into complete world's destruction
We are marching to our God

Despite the fall of the stars
We are into eternal life

2) Anima Mortuum - Legions of Hellish Torture
5:00, lyrics unknown

3) Anima Mortuum - Soul Sacrifice
5:45, lyrics unknown

4) Anima Mortuum - Stigmata in a Scarlet Letter
4:55, lyrics:
Everything is falling in the shadows
From a cross carved in rotten wood
The saints cross the border of perversion
Wounding the soul, wounding the hope

Unable to rest
Unable to speak
Unable to escape and recover what is his
What was stolen from his heart

Stigmata!

Silence pulverizes what remains of faith
A black tumor grows in the deep of soul
Feded by memories of pain
Wearing the scarlet letter

In a maze of trauma and terror
Without eyes, without words
In a maze of secret lies
The true darkness among the priests
Living hell, dying in pieces
Helpless among the hungry beasts

Now, almost dead he's praying if there is a God
While he covers his scarlet mark written with blood
Disguise indolence in a guilty love
Twisting the truth, diverting him out the path

The Throne (promo, 2021, Headlight Productions)
Format: CD

I don't know much about this. I found it on Discogs. Does anyone have more info?

Same tracklist as below!

 

 

The Throne (album)

15 May, 2021, Headlight Productions, Bandcamp and CD-R
15 May, 2021, Independent, Bandcamp

Description:
"The lyrical content, the main theme, explore different areas of life related to thrones, as a symbol of authority. In that sense, history has shown us that at times that symbol has been used to imposes subjugation through abuse of power, domination, violence and oppression. As a society we have yielded the throne of our lives to wrong ideals, idols or tendencies, we have let anyone take that place, however, we can wake up and clean our temple, removing the impostors of the throne. This album represents that, our freedom, because the throne is no longer dark, and we can give the way for a true King to take its place."

1) Under the Moonlight
1:26, instrumental

2) Recursive Tyranny
6:32, lyrics:
Hidden in a high peak away from horror below
To the parade of demons in their ecstasy of lust
This feast of terror and gore is hidden in a paradox
Our nation decided to ignore it, embracing their doom

Looking down the embers burning the souls

Fire falls from heaven to earth
Burning the last vestiges of life
Bringing the last breath of hope
The path split in two

Look around and see your world
Consumed by the greed of many fools
Look around and see how rulers live
In a recursive tyranny

Synchronized mutual slavery
No one is free in the pit of lamentations

A chain reaction of power abuse
The tyrants are subdued by someone else

A domain controlled by another domain
A vicious circle of slavery and governance
Those who can see it have freedom itself
The rest lives in their inner darkness

Tyrant!! Your domain is rotten by your own doom!!
Pestilence is coming
Looking a place to host
Paradise denied
While is eating all the lies

Great prince of misery
The slaves acclaims
To still eating wasted dreams
No time ahead
Legions come to parade
No more chances
Fire burns the flesh and bones

Look around and see your world
Consumed by greed of many fools
Now resistance is a true rebellion against the...
Bunch of psychos
Against the pressure of trends
Against the absence of God
Against the recursive tyranny

3) Graveyard Dust
5:53, lyrics:
I am in the middle of the graveyard
Among wandering souls
Walking under the faint moonlight
I am the only one who is awake?

Once we learn the truth
We'll never return to the idle grave
I spit the rotten ground
Looking at the great parade of pain

Nothing can stop before the flame of a living word
Sharper than any sword

Penetrates even to dividing spirit and the soul
Inflamed to see the darkest of the heart
The deepest of the soul
The sacred and the obscure

Great mystery
I bleed smiling on the tombs of dreams

I took my heart
Burning my soul
I knelt down to Him
Even though I was dead

I woke up from eternal sleep
Droving the crows away
Throwing all the scum
I will never come back to muck

Nothing can stop before the flame of a living word
Sharper than any sword

Cleaning my boots from the dust of the dead
I spit that ground with pride
I walk in peace towards a new path
Without looking back, cuz' I know they are dead

4) My Skull
4:24, lyrics:
In this moment I reject the limits of community
They brings morbidity in their vision of sanctity

All right, you get more impulse
To cast your fears on my skull
All right, you spit all on the air
The hate, the violence from your words

Let's see that ravishing perfection
According the norms of your limited reality

More they talk less I care, all the success they preach
And the threats against all the emerging dissenters
We are called to reach the poor, the suffer, the oppressed
But the hate they stand for, enlarge dissension

All right, you get more impulse
To be the pillar of virtue

All right, you get more impulse
To cast your fears on my skull
All right, you spit all on the air
The hate, the violence from your words
Now you get more impulse
To be the self-proclaimed pillar of virtue

5) Embrace the Dead (Part 1)
5:10, lyrics:
Once, I was dead enslaved to pain
Until His word came into my heart
He came walking between the skulls
He raised in grace, embracing the dead

Cold was my heart, embracing the void
Dark into my eyes, was hard to know
The contour dissolves, everything fells
Our time is near, how it will end?

I feel my time has come in a ravishing renew
He let His kingdom come, here with us

In a perfect time
Breaking the roots of anguish
Recovering my soul
Leaving the dungeon of spirits
With a perfect love

Now I know how your heart speaks
Always knocking the darkest fields
Holding my heart, now I can rest
In pieces I was, now complete I am
I let the fire burn the past
I let the fire clean my soul

6) Falling into Abjection
6:18, lyrics:
Many times you were warned
About the risk under your shadows
And the resistance to listen and know
Buried your perfect image
Buried your perfect soul

Tenacious downfall

Now the time is broken
While the pieces are scattered on the ground
Wordless in an entirely destroyed place
In a continuum of slavery and pain

It's so repulsive to see such a rueful image
I remember you in your glory days and now so abject

So abject and lost in misery

You can enjoy the product of your obstinacy
Licking the floor of the ones you chose to adore

Many times you were warned
That God is not the one that many churches preach
And this life is just a sketch of something else
Without resistance to listen and know
You could live a perfect love

In the Eternal Throne with all of us

7) Claws of Doom
4:49, lyrics:
When the night possesses the beasts
They are coming for our souls, for our screams

The ritual sets the candles and blood, but…
It's different from how they told us
Demons and beasts dance upon deceased
And the claws of doom awaits

In hell!
An everlasting pain!

Darkness around, immaterial world
From the other side, dimension of soul
Death is a passway to everlasting
To heaven or doomed in hell's fire

Rejecting light, blinded by pride
The claws of doom will tear apart
In hell, the inner darkest pain
Heaven denied and lights down

Into the pit!
Of desperate souls
Is hell!
An eternal oblivion!

Darkness around, immaterial world
From the other side, dimension of soul
Death is a passway to everlasting
To heaven or doomed in hell's fire

8) Ephemeral Existence
5:44, lyrics:
The experiences of living
The becoming of opposite roles, life is ephemeral
Everything is banality, vanity itself
From dust we come and to dust we go

A light in darkness showed me a new path
A new way to resist
In a horrible, rotten and doomed world
A new way of living, in dialectic thoughts

We are thrown into the world in anguish
Creator and Father, architect of life
And he aware us from the dream of the eternal fall

My soul is filled with new senses
The opposite is now complete
Integration of two poles
I can see through the obscure
The light stayed by my side

This inner experience
The renew of my whole Self, with certainty is all I know
Now the old path shows a new perspective
My sight, the travel of this life, is all I am

The opposite is now complete
Integration of two poles
I can see through the obscure
The light stayed by my side

9) The Throne Is No Longer Dark
5:18, lyrics:
And the fool play in the dark with raw
Sitting on his corner
Filling the body with the grimness and bleakness
Like a foolish puppet

A heart deadly and rotten
Full of angry
Beneath the lonely moonlight
The perfect irony

Denying the way of light
Closing all doors
Of the mind, to the truth
Rejecting salvation

Into the misery

Living in darkness
And crying why everything is so black
Staying in abjection
Eating from his own trash
Sitting with his pseudo-glory
Putting a crown over his grandiosity
Is vanity!
A fantasy… Of a solemn lie pursued in dreams

The throne is no longer dark
In a human sacrifice the veil split in two, all was revealed
The darkness of this world dissipated, the seals opened
Now we can see a throne without darkness, without murk
Now we can see a truth without seals

10) Embrace the Dead (Part 2)
1:51, lyrics:
Dead was my path, lost in torment
Now I live by His mercy and grace
Dead was my spirit in full of darkness
Until He came embracing the dead

Under the Sign of the Moon (EP)

3 January, 2022, Independent, Bandcamp
3 January, 2022, Headlight Productions, Bandcamp

Songs that didn't make it onto the "The Throne" album.
The artwork for this is actually a detail from that album's artwork.

1) Posmodern Vision
5:29, lyrics:
Life itself has lost appeal
In a combination of paradigms
Interpellate God, the great safeguard
For a postmodern vision

In a blink in science
Faith is weakens
In thousand thoughts

At the paradox of realms
Seduced and obsessed
At their halftime paradise
Poorly gratified

Self-convicted that life can be encoded
Within books of their imperious knowledge
Behind a colonialist narrative
I see it in your conceited sensitivity

Wises bluffed by his own self
From an optic at the human's border
Space-time of deity cannot be reduced
To the mensuration of cognizable life

A description of what they see
It's a piece of their quantified soul
Beliefs turned into demonstrations
Is still a war between ink and paper

A construction of new reality
That born under the other truth
And sells with pure fallacy
To convince a merchant audience

That needs faith sustained in science
Making up their quantified soul

2) Stigmata in a Scarlet Letter
5:03, lyrics:
Living in an everlasting impasse of terror
Captivity within the silent torment
The darkest dream…

Everything is falling in the shadows
From a cross carved in rotten wood
The saints cross the border of perversion
Wounding the soul, wounding the hope

Unable to rest
Unable to speak
Unable to escape and recover what is his
What was stolen from his heart

Stigmata!

Silence pulverizes what remains of faith
A black tumor grows in the deep of soul
Feded by memories of pain
Wearing the scarlet letter

In a maze of trauma and terror
Without eyes, without words
In a maze of secret lies
The true darkness among priests
Living hell, dying in pieces
Helpless among the hungry beasts

Now, almost dead he's praying if there is a God
While he covers his scarlet mark written with blood
Disguise indolence in a guilty love
Twisting the truth, diverting him out the path

3) Infección Doctrinal (Autem Gnosis cover)
5:48, lyrics:
Puercos inmundos que corrompen las conciencias
De los idiotas que rechazan la verdad
Sus mentes frías y lenguas podridas
Que con doctrinas falsas traen destrucción

¡Juicio! Quema las almas de los que no creerán la verdad
¡Bestia! Criatura asquerosa, con sólo una frase de Dios caerás
¡Muerte! En las iglesias que han profanado el nombre de Dios
¡Sangre! De los bastardos predestinados a condenación

¡Cerdos! Del vaticano, violan pequeños, ocultan pecados
¡Sucios! En su codicia los que predican la prosperidad
¡Caigan! Los traidores que distorsionan las leyes de Dios
¡Sufran! Hijos del Diablo, guían sus pasos a la perdición
Juicio! Quema las almas de los que no creerán la verdad
Bestia! criatura asquerosa, con sólo una frase de Dios caerás
Muerte! en las iglesias que han profanado el nombre de Dios
Sangre! de los bastardos predestinados a condenación.
¡Cerdos! ¡Sucios! ¡Caigan! ¡Sufran!

4) Mine Heart Doth Beseech Thee (O Master) (Beheadoth-Horde cover)
2:57, lyrics:
Infernal blackened shadows surround me
Cold winds freeze my pale flesh
Demons search for a dwelling place
Behold I am who they seek
Darkness envelopes
Evil attacks
Night falls as voices call
From deep within nocturnal forest
In the distance they beckon me
Yet I feel their cold breath near
Darkness envelopes
Evil attacks
The Master, summoned
Belial is banished
I beckon the Almighty God
My hand outstretched to Him
He rescues me from my fate
A fate surely worse than death
Behold, I owe my life to Him
Shall I ever be alone
Never
The Eternal One shall never abandon me
Nor will I ever be forsaken
For He doth shield and protect me
In the shadow of His Wing
For darkness enveloped
Evil attacked
Belial's hordes
The Master conquered

 

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IncompletePage

1) What format was the Shattered Chain version of "The Return" version released on? 2) Missing lyrics. 3) More info about this promo version of "The Throne"? I assume the music is the same? When was it released, exactly?

 Miscellaneous stuff:

Left: Early/draft artwork for "Goat Destruction", original res [here].
Right: Early/draft artwork for "Pandemic Session".

Early / draft artwork for "The Return"