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BAND NAME: Mercy
GENRE: Progressive Unblack Metal with Symphonic Influences
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Brazil (early), International (now)
The band has always been based primarily in Brazil, but for a time, Daniel lived in Ireland, and apparently Philippe is preparing to move to somewhere in Europe soon.
GENRE: Progressive Unblack Metal with Symphonic Influences
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Brazil (early), International (now)
The band has always been based primarily in Brazil, but for a time, Daniel lived in Ireland, and apparently Philippe is preparing to move to somewhere in Europe soon.
"Mercy was formed in 2003 or something. We dunno for shure when it has really been born."[1]
Went on hold at some point around 2008. Became active again in 2013. Apparently went on hold again, and became active again in 2021. The same interview states that not all band members are Christian.
Proverbs 16:6 is mentioned on one of their pages:
(EN) By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
(PT) Por intermédio da misericórdia e da verdade se faz expiação do pecado; e pelo temor do SENHOR, o ser humano evita todo o maligno.
Lineup:
Daniel Corpse - Vocals
Philippe Levidad / Lëvydad - Guitars (early), Guitars, Bass (additional), Keyboards, Drum programming (later)
Isaque Soares - Bass, Samples
Past members:
Philippe Levidad / Lëvydad - Guitars (early), Guitars, Bass (additional), Keyboards, Drum programming (later)
Isaque Soares - Bass, Samples
Past members:
Marcos Werneck - Guitars
Priscila Werneck - Cello, Keyboards
Priscila Werneck - Cello, Keyboards
Filipe - Drums
Links:
Official site @ archive.org (sdnet.com.br)
Official site @ archive.org (levidad.com)
Note, the streaming sites list unrelated things from other bands called "Mercy".
Discography:
... Thoughts (single, 7 July, 2004, Independent)
Format: Digital / PureVolume
Format: Digital / PureVolume
The mp3 for this song was also available on their old website on 20 July, 2004, though (ostensibly?) not as part of an official release. The song title is variously spelled as "Kingdom of Holiness" and "Kingdom of Holyness" on old websites.
1) Kingdom of Holiness 3:42, see below for lyrics
Extreme Collection Volume III (compilation, 2004, Extreme Records)
Format: CD-R
Format: CD-R
5) Mercy - Kingdom of Holiness 3:53, see below for lyrics
Underground Rot 2 - Metal Compilation (2005, Rotting Records)
Format: CD
These verses are mentioned in the layout:
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. (Romans 12:18-20, KJV)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:12-14, KJV)
Underground Rot 2 - Metal Compilation (2005, Rotting Records)
Format: CD
These verses are mentioned in the layout:
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. (Romans 12:18-20, KJV)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:12-14, KJV)
3) Mercy - Kingdom of Holiness 3:52, see below for lyrics
1) Beast from the Earth 3:07, see below for lyrics
Beast of the Sea (single, 6 June, 2013, Independent)
Format: Digital / YouTube
Format: Digital / YouTube
Stream (OFFICIAL)
1) Beast of the Sea 5:41, see below for lyrics
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The Seven Signs (album)
Left:
23 August, 2013, Independent, Bandcamp
29 October, 2013, Black Metal Underground (RIP-OFF LABEL), CD-R, 100 copies
Right:
1) The Seven Signs
1:14, instrumental
2) The Woman
3:53, lyrics:
The main figures of the Great Tribulation
Are described and this great sign
Introduces the first of the seven
Now a great sign appeared in heaven
A woman clothed with the sun
With the moon under her feet
On her head a garland of twelve stars
Then being with child Jesus
She bore a male Child
Who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron
She cried out in labor and
In pain to give birth of the child
3) The Dragon
2:54, lyrics:
And another sign appeared in heaven
Behold, a great, fiery red dragon
Having seven heads and ten horns
And seven diadems on his heads
His tail drew a third of the stars
Of heaven and threw them to the earth
And the dragon stood before
The woman who was ready to give birth
To devour her Child as soon as it was born
The attempt to devour her Child
Was initially fulfilled by Herod’s
Attempts to kill Jesus as a child
It was also fulfilled throughout Jesus’ life
As Satan attacked Him
4) The Child
3:34, lyrics:
She bore a male Child Jesus
Who was to rule all nations
With a rod of iron
And her Child was caught up
To God and His throne
However, when the child is born
It’s caught up to God's throne
While the woman flees into
The wilderness for 1,260 days
War breaks out into heaven
Between Michael and the Dragon
Identified as the Devil, Satan
After a great fight The Dragon
And his angels are cast out of heaven for good
Followed by praises of victory
For God's kingdom
The Dragon engages to persecute the Woman
But she is given aid to evade him
Her evasiveness enrages the Dragon
Prompting him to wage war
Against the rest of her offspring
Who keep the commandments of God
And have the testimony of Jesus Christ
5) The Beast with Seven Heads
3:02, lyrics:
Then I stood on the sand of the sea
And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea
Having seven heads and ten horns
And on his horns ten crowns
And on his heads a blasphemous name
Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard
His feet were like the feet of a bear
And his mouth like the mouth of a lion
The dragon gave him his power
His throne, and great authority
And I saw one of his heads
As if it had been mortally wounded
And his deadly wound was healed
And all the world marveled and followed the beast
And he was given a mouth
Speaking great things and blasphemies
And he was given authority
To continue for forty-two months
So they worshiped the dragon
Who gave authority to the beast
And they worshiped the beast, saying
Who is like the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?
6) Beast of the Sea
5:38, lyrics:
Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God
To blaspheme His name
His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven
It was granted to him
To make war with the saints
And to overcome them
And authority was given him
Over every tribe, tongue, and nation
All who dwell on the earth will worship him
Whose names have not been
Written in the Book of Life
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
If anyone has an ear, let him hear
He who leads into captivity
Shall go into captivity
He who kills with the sword
Must be killed with the sword
Here is the patience
And the faith of the saints
7) The Lamb and the 144.000
3:32, lyrics:
The Lamb stands on Mount Zion
With the one hundred and forty-four thousand
Having His Father’s name
Written on their foreheads
I. The proclamations of three angels
II. One like the Son of Man reaps the earth
III. A second angel reaps
The vine of the earth
And throws it into the great winepress
Of the wrath of God
VI. And blood came out of the winepress
Up to one thousand six hundred furlongs
V. The temple of the tabernacle, in heaven, is open
VI. Seven angels are given a golden bowl
From the Four Living Creatures
That contains the wrath of the God
8) Lord God Almighty
4:07, lyrics:
Great and marvelous are your deeds
Lord God Almighty
Just and true are your ways
King of the nations
Who will not fear you, Lord
And bring glory to your name
For you alone are holy
All nations will come
And worship before you
For your righteous acts
Have been revealed
After this I looked
And I saw in heaven the temple
That is, the tabernacle
And it was opened
9) Kingdom of Holiness
3:42, lyrics:
Open your eyes to see
The death, the sin around you
Look to the cross too, and see the blood
Scattered for me, for you
Sinners, the abominations of this world
The devil is already defeated
Hell is his place
The devil is already defeated
Hell is his place
Christ has won
He comes with His Kingdom of Grace
On His throne
The prophecy is fulfilled
Wrote in the Book of the Living Word
Salvation, Peace, Life, Rest
Light, Freedom
All for free in the Blood
All for free in Christ, the Lord
10) Path of Light
2:45, instrumental
11) Beast from the Earth
3:04, lyrics:
This second beast comes out of the earth
Other than having two horns like a lamb
And speaking like a dragon
His purpose is to promote
The authority of the first beast
With the ability to perform great signs
Even making fire
Come down out of heaven
Also called the false prophet
He speaks like a dragon
Commanding the people of the Earth
To make an image to the beast
It is declared that anyone
Who does not worship the beast
Or its image
Would be killed
The lamb-horned beast
The earth also causes all people
To receive the mark of the beast
In their right hand
Or in their forehead
The Beast from the sea also bears a name
His name corresponds to a numerical value
That of the number 666
1:14, instrumental
2) The Woman
3:53, lyrics:
The main figures of the Great Tribulation
Are described and this great sign
Introduces the first of the seven
Now a great sign appeared in heaven
A woman clothed with the sun
With the moon under her feet
On her head a garland of twelve stars
Then being with child Jesus
She bore a male Child
Who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron
She cried out in labor and
In pain to give birth of the child
3) The Dragon
2:54, lyrics:
And another sign appeared in heaven
Behold, a great, fiery red dragon
Having seven heads and ten horns
And seven diadems on his heads
His tail drew a third of the stars
Of heaven and threw them to the earth
And the dragon stood before
The woman who was ready to give birth
To devour her Child as soon as it was born
The attempt to devour her Child
Was initially fulfilled by Herod’s
Attempts to kill Jesus as a child
It was also fulfilled throughout Jesus’ life
As Satan attacked Him
4) The Child
3:34, lyrics:
She bore a male Child Jesus
Who was to rule all nations
With a rod of iron
And her Child was caught up
To God and His throne
However, when the child is born
It’s caught up to God's throne
While the woman flees into
The wilderness for 1,260 days
War breaks out into heaven
Between Michael and the Dragon
Identified as the Devil, Satan
After a great fight The Dragon
And his angels are cast out of heaven for good
Followed by praises of victory
For God's kingdom
The Dragon engages to persecute the Woman
But she is given aid to evade him
Her evasiveness enrages the Dragon
Prompting him to wage war
Against the rest of her offspring
Who keep the commandments of God
And have the testimony of Jesus Christ
5) The Beast with Seven Heads
3:02, lyrics:
Then I stood on the sand of the sea
And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea
Having seven heads and ten horns
And on his horns ten crowns
And on his heads a blasphemous name
Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard
His feet were like the feet of a bear
And his mouth like the mouth of a lion
The dragon gave him his power
His throne, and great authority
And I saw one of his heads
As if it had been mortally wounded
And his deadly wound was healed
And all the world marveled and followed the beast
And he was given a mouth
Speaking great things and blasphemies
And he was given authority
To continue for forty-two months
So they worshiped the dragon
Who gave authority to the beast
And they worshiped the beast, saying
Who is like the beast?
Who is able to make war with him?
6) Beast of the Sea
5:38, lyrics:
Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God
To blaspheme His name
His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven
It was granted to him
To make war with the saints
And to overcome them
And authority was given him
Over every tribe, tongue, and nation
All who dwell on the earth will worship him
Whose names have not been
Written in the Book of Life
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
If anyone has an ear, let him hear
He who leads into captivity
Shall go into captivity
He who kills with the sword
Must be killed with the sword
Here is the patience
And the faith of the saints
7) The Lamb and the 144.000
3:32, lyrics:
The Lamb stands on Mount Zion
With the one hundred and forty-four thousand
Having His Father’s name
Written on their foreheads
I. The proclamations of three angels
II. One like the Son of Man reaps the earth
III. A second angel reaps
The vine of the earth
And throws it into the great winepress
Of the wrath of God
VI. And blood came out of the winepress
Up to one thousand six hundred furlongs
V. The temple of the tabernacle, in heaven, is open
VI. Seven angels are given a golden bowl
From the Four Living Creatures
That contains the wrath of the God
8) Lord God Almighty
4:07, lyrics:
Great and marvelous are your deeds
Lord God Almighty
Just and true are your ways
King of the nations
Who will not fear you, Lord
And bring glory to your name
For you alone are holy
All nations will come
And worship before you
For your righteous acts
Have been revealed
After this I looked
And I saw in heaven the temple
That is, the tabernacle
And it was opened
9) Kingdom of Holiness
3:42, lyrics:
Open your eyes to see
The death, the sin around you
Look to the cross too, and see the blood
Scattered for me, for you
Sinners, the abominations of this world
The devil is already defeated
Hell is his place
The devil is already defeated
Hell is his place
Christ has won
He comes with His Kingdom of Grace
On His throne
The prophecy is fulfilled
Wrote in the Book of the Living Word
Salvation, Peace, Life, Rest
Light, Freedom
All for free in the Blood
All for free in Christ, the Lord
10) Path of Light
2:45, instrumental
11) Beast from the Earth
3:04, lyrics:
This second beast comes out of the earth
Other than having two horns like a lamb
And speaking like a dragon
His purpose is to promote
The authority of the first beast
With the ability to perform great signs
Even making fire
Come down out of heaven
Also called the false prophet
He speaks like a dragon
Commanding the people of the Earth
To make an image to the beast
It is declared that anyone
Who does not worship the beast
Or its image
Would be killed
The lamb-horned beast
The earth also causes all people
To receive the mark of the beast
In their right hand
Or in their forehead
The Beast from the sea also bears a name
His name corresponds to a numerical value
That of the number 666
Winter (single, 17 January, 2023, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
1) Winter 4:46, see below for lyrics
The Old Oak Tree (single, 25 January, 2023, Independent)
Format: Digital
Format: Digital
1) The Old Oak Tree 4:23, see below for lyrics
The Bittern (single, 21 February, 2023, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
1) The Bittern 3:56, see below for lyrics
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
1) The Bittern 3:56, see below for lyrics
The Powers That Be (album, 1 March, 2023, Independent)
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
Originally, the album was planned to have 9 total tracks. "The Devil Walks" was going to be track 5, and "Thunderstorm" was going to be track 6. Another one was apparently added somewhere in spots 1-4!
The lyrics are adapted from poems (Ellis Parker Butler, Walter C. Cassels, Richard Le Gallienne, etc).
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
Originally, the album was planned to have 9 total tracks. "The Devil Walks" was going to be track 5, and "Thunderstorm" was going to be track 6. Another one was apparently added somewhere in spots 1-4!
The lyrics are adapted from poems (Ellis Parker Butler, Walter C. Cassels, Richard Le Gallienne, etc).
1) At the Mercy of the Night
1:20
2) The Old Oak Tree
4:23, lyrics:
I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
You mighty one of all the trees
Within whose hollow trunk a man
Could find a shelter from the breeze
(I found a shelter from the breeze)
I see your knuckles hard and strong
But have no fear they'll come to blows
Your life is long, and mine is short
But which has known the greater woes
(I am the one with greater woes)
Thou has not seen no starved women here
Or man gone mad because ill-fed
Who stares at stones in city streets
Mistaking them for hunks of bread
Thou hast not felt the shivering backs
Of homeless children lying down
And sleeping in the cold, night air
Like doors and walls in London town
I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
You mighty one of all the trees
Within whose hollow trunk a man
Could find a shelter from the breeze
I see your knuckles hard and strong
But have no fear they'll come to blows
Your life is long, and mine is short
But which has known the greater woes
Knowing thou hast not known such shame
And only storms have come thy way
Methinks I could in comfort spend
My summer with thee, day by day
And in thy hollow rest at night
The stars turn over leaves of light
And through the open doorway see
The spirits and the powers that be
3) Winter
4:46, lyrics:
Winter, some call thee fair
Yeah! flatter thy cold face
With vain compare
Of all thy glittering ways
And magic snows
With summer and the rose
Thy phantom flowers
And fretted traceries
Of crystal breath
Thy frozen and fantastic art of death
With April as she showers
The violet on the leas
And bares her bosom
In the blossoming trees
And dances on her way
To go laugh with May
Winter that hath no bird
To sing thee, and no bloom
To deck thy brow
To me thou art an empty haunted room
Where once the music
Of the summer stirred
And all the dancers
Fallen on silence now
4) The Bittern
3:56, lyrics:
The reeds are idly waving o'er the marshy ground
The ragged herbage rots on many a mound
And desolate pools and marshes deadly lie around
There is no life nor motion, save the winds that fly
With the close-muffled clouds in silence through the sky
There is no sound to stir it, save the Bittern's cry
Bittern, sitting sadly on the fluted edges
Of pillars once the prop and pride of palace ledges
Now smeared with damp decay and sunk in slimy sedges
Shatter'd and sunken, with the sculptured architrave
Peering above the surface of the sluggish wave
Like a gaunt limb thrust fleshless from a shallow grave
The Bittern sitteth sadly on the time-worn stone
Upon life's moldering relics, fearfully alone
Searing the silence ofttimes with his solemn tone
The Bittern--monarch of the sad and dreary place
Mocking the pride and pageant of a ruin'd race
Whose very name is forgotten, whose deeds left no trace
Pleasant songs of peace, the lute, the lover's sigh
The statesman's eloquence
The warrior's battle-cry
Echo from the heedless sky
The hours fleet fast unnoted, and the time is nigh
When even he on featherless wings, he shall soar on high
5) Immortality
4:55, lyrics:
I bowed my head in anguish sore
When Life made Death his bride
Soul, we are lost forever more!
Unto my soul I cried
Nay, waste in wailing not thy breath
My soul replied to me
The child of Life and Death
Behold! Behold! Immortality!
Hypocrisy will serve as well
Oh, it will serve us well
Persecution and promotion
Do equally advance devotion
So round white stones will serve, they say
As well as eggs to make hens lay
In a church furnish'd with gable
The penitents' dresses are sealskin and sable
An altar with gargoyle and groin
The odour of sanctity is eau-de-Cologne
Could Lucifer, flying from Hades
Gaze down on this crowd with panniers and paints
He’d say, looking at the lords and the ladies
Oh, where is All-Sinners, if this is All-Saints?
How shall the living be comforted for the dead
When they are gone, nothing's left behind
But a vague music of the words they said
Be patient to the end, and you shall sleep
Pillowed on heartsease, you will not have to weep
6) The Devil Walks
4:42, lyrics:
From his brimstone bed at break of day
(A walking the Devil is gone)
To look at his little farm of the World
(And see how his stock went on)
Over the hill and over the dale
(And he went over the plain)
Backward and forward he swish'd his tail
(As a gentleman swishes a cane)
Thou hast confessions to listen
And many big bells to christen
How then was the Devil drest?
(Oh, he was in [his] Sunday's best)
His coat was red and his breeches were blue
(There was a hole where his tail came through)
Thou hast great pardons to sell
But only for those who pay well
Thou hast altars [and] dolls to dress
A few beads and bones to bless
Too holy seemed the night for sleep
And yet, I must have slept, it seems
For, suddenly, I woke to hear
A strange voice singing, shrill and clear
Down in a gully black and deep
That cleft the beetling crag in twain
It seemed the very voice of dreams
That drive hag-ridden souls in fear
Nay, Father, I boast, that this is my post
She answered; and thou wilt allow
The great Harlot
Who is clothed in scarlet
Can very well spare me now
7) Thunderstorm
4:21, lyrics:
The wind begun to rock the grass
With threatening tunes and low
He flung a menace at the earth
A menace at the sky
The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road
The wagons quickened on the streets
The thunder hurried slow
The lightning showed a yellow beak
And then a livid claw
The birds put up the bars to nests
The cattle fled to barns
There came one drop of giant rain
And then, as if the hands…
There will be thunder then. Remember me
Say, she asked for storms
The entire world will turn the color of crimson stone
And your heart, as then, will turn to fire
Restless and hot two children lay
Plagued with uneasy dreams
Each wandered lonely through false day
A twilight torn with screams
Now high aloft above the town
The thick clouds gather and break
A flash, a roar, and rain drives down
Aghast the young things wake
Trembling for what their terror was
Surprised by instant doom
With lightning in the looking glass
Thunder that rocks the room
8) The Morning Star
3:49, lyrics:
Far to the South a star
Bright-shining over all
A sound of voices singing
Round a Babe in an ox's-stall
Three Kings a-riding, riding,
With gifts of myrrh and gold
Far, far from the wild North Ocean
Of which this tale is told
By the sea, in the Hall of Beele
Were Yule and joy and feast
Outside was the noise of the ocean
And storm, like a howling beast
The King sate at the banquet
With his Jarls and Berserks hale
Quaffing to Thor and Odin
Huge horns of mead and ale
Unheeded howled the winter
Round the oak walls of the King
For a mighty skald with a runic harp
Made the hall re-echoing ring
Loud laughed the blonde Norse maidens
As they brimmed the barmy cup
Where the torches flickered the war-blades
And the bucklers hanging up
But out by the thundering North Sea
Ten shattered dragons lie
Vessels, like great sea-monsters
To the billows heaving high
And pale and hacked with gashes
Mid his battered arms lies low
The red-haired Viking, Hareck
Half-buried in the snow
And wan, where the waves beat sullen
Lies his brother, one-eyed Hulf
Above whose mail’d visage
Snarls the winter-famished wolf
9) Håvamål om vennskap
5:19, lyrics:
Klær og våpen er vennegaver
Slikt gjør vennskapet synlig
det varer lengst om lykken er god
når vennene veksler gaver (veksler gaver)
For vennen sin skal en være venn
og gjengjelde gave med gave
men ler en av deg så le igjen
lønn ham med løgn for svik (løgn for svik)
Har du en annen
som du ikke tror
og vil utnytte ham tross alt
fagert skal du tale
men falsk mene
lønn ham med løgn for svik
Og atter om den
som du ikke tror
ser du svik i hans sinn
smile skal du mot ham
men skjul dine tanker
la gave svare til gave
For vennen sin
skal en være venn
for ham og hans venn
men for uvenns venn
skal ingen mann
noen gang være venn
Hør, har du en venn
og tror vel om ham
og du vil ha gavn av vennen
bland sinnet ditt med ham
og send ham gaver
søk ham ofte opp
10) The Bell
5:37, lyrics:
Through the calm and silent air
Floats the tolling funeral bell
Swooning over hill and dell
Heavy laden with despair
Mute between each muffled stroke
Sad as though a dead voice spoke
Out of the dim Past time invoked
Stands my heart all mute with care
The Bell is tolling on, and deep
Deep and drear into my heart
All its bitter accents dart
Peace! sad chime, I will not weep
What is there within thy tone
That should wring my heart alone
Rive it with this endless moan
Peace! and let past sorrows sleep
Fling your music on the breeze
Mock the sighing of the willows
Mock the lapping of the billows
Mock not human sympathies
Slow chime, sad chime, mock me not
With that loved voice ne'er forgot
Flooding me with tears blood-hot
Mock not soul-deep memories
Come not from the unseen Past
Flying up the silent gale
With that deep and muffled wail
Slaying me with lying tale
Base chime, false chime from the Past
Not in sighs of mortal pain
Pain and anguish rise again
Voices from the far Death-plain
1:20
2) The Old Oak Tree
4:23, lyrics:
I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
You mighty one of all the trees
Within whose hollow trunk a man
Could find a shelter from the breeze
(I found a shelter from the breeze)
I see your knuckles hard and strong
But have no fear they'll come to blows
Your life is long, and mine is short
But which has known the greater woes
(I am the one with greater woes)
Thou has not seen no starved women here
Or man gone mad because ill-fed
Who stares at stones in city streets
Mistaking them for hunks of bread
Thou hast not felt the shivering backs
Of homeless children lying down
And sleeping in the cold, night air
Like doors and walls in London town
I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
You mighty one of all the trees
Within whose hollow trunk a man
Could find a shelter from the breeze
I see your knuckles hard and strong
But have no fear they'll come to blows
Your life is long, and mine is short
But which has known the greater woes
Knowing thou hast not known such shame
And only storms have come thy way
Methinks I could in comfort spend
My summer with thee, day by day
And in thy hollow rest at night
The stars turn over leaves of light
And through the open doorway see
The spirits and the powers that be
3) Winter
4:46, lyrics:
Winter, some call thee fair
Yeah! flatter thy cold face
With vain compare
Of all thy glittering ways
And magic snows
With summer and the rose
Thy phantom flowers
And fretted traceries
Of crystal breath
Thy frozen and fantastic art of death
With April as she showers
The violet on the leas
And bares her bosom
In the blossoming trees
And dances on her way
To go laugh with May
Winter that hath no bird
To sing thee, and no bloom
To deck thy brow
To me thou art an empty haunted room
Where once the music
Of the summer stirred
And all the dancers
Fallen on silence now
4) The Bittern
3:56, lyrics:
The reeds are idly waving o'er the marshy ground
The ragged herbage rots on many a mound
And desolate pools and marshes deadly lie around
There is no life nor motion, save the winds that fly
With the close-muffled clouds in silence through the sky
There is no sound to stir it, save the Bittern's cry
Bittern, sitting sadly on the fluted edges
Of pillars once the prop and pride of palace ledges
Now smeared with damp decay and sunk in slimy sedges
Shatter'd and sunken, with the sculptured architrave
Peering above the surface of the sluggish wave
Like a gaunt limb thrust fleshless from a shallow grave
The Bittern sitteth sadly on the time-worn stone
Upon life's moldering relics, fearfully alone
Searing the silence ofttimes with his solemn tone
The Bittern--monarch of the sad and dreary place
Mocking the pride and pageant of a ruin'd race
Whose very name is forgotten, whose deeds left no trace
Pleasant songs of peace, the lute, the lover's sigh
The statesman's eloquence
The warrior's battle-cry
Echo from the heedless sky
The hours fleet fast unnoted, and the time is nigh
When even he on featherless wings, he shall soar on high
5) Immortality
4:55, lyrics:
I bowed my head in anguish sore
When Life made Death his bride
Soul, we are lost forever more!
Unto my soul I cried
Nay, waste in wailing not thy breath
My soul replied to me
The child of Life and Death
Behold! Behold! Immortality!
Hypocrisy will serve as well
Oh, it will serve us well
Persecution and promotion
Do equally advance devotion
So round white stones will serve, they say
As well as eggs to make hens lay
In a church furnish'd with gable
The penitents' dresses are sealskin and sable
An altar with gargoyle and groin
The odour of sanctity is eau-de-Cologne
Could Lucifer, flying from Hades
Gaze down on this crowd with panniers and paints
He’d say, looking at the lords and the ladies
Oh, where is All-Sinners, if this is All-Saints?
How shall the living be comforted for the dead
When they are gone, nothing's left behind
But a vague music of the words they said
Be patient to the end, and you shall sleep
Pillowed on heartsease, you will not have to weep
6) The Devil Walks
4:42, lyrics:
From his brimstone bed at break of day
(A walking the Devil is gone)
To look at his little farm of the World
(And see how his stock went on)
Over the hill and over the dale
(And he went over the plain)
Backward and forward he swish'd his tail
(As a gentleman swishes a cane)
Thou hast confessions to listen
And many big bells to christen
How then was the Devil drest?
(Oh, he was in [his] Sunday's best)
His coat was red and his breeches were blue
(There was a hole where his tail came through)
Thou hast great pardons to sell
But only for those who pay well
Thou hast altars [and] dolls to dress
A few beads and bones to bless
Too holy seemed the night for sleep
And yet, I must have slept, it seems
For, suddenly, I woke to hear
A strange voice singing, shrill and clear
Down in a gully black and deep
That cleft the beetling crag in twain
It seemed the very voice of dreams
That drive hag-ridden souls in fear
Nay, Father, I boast, that this is my post
She answered; and thou wilt allow
The great Harlot
Who is clothed in scarlet
Can very well spare me now
7) Thunderstorm
4:21, lyrics:
The wind begun to rock the grass
With threatening tunes and low
He flung a menace at the earth
A menace at the sky
The leaves unhooked themselves from trees
And started all abroad
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road
The wagons quickened on the streets
The thunder hurried slow
The lightning showed a yellow beak
And then a livid claw
The birds put up the bars to nests
The cattle fled to barns
There came one drop of giant rain
And then, as if the hands…
There will be thunder then. Remember me
Say, she asked for storms
The entire world will turn the color of crimson stone
And your heart, as then, will turn to fire
Restless and hot two children lay
Plagued with uneasy dreams
Each wandered lonely through false day
A twilight torn with screams
Now high aloft above the town
The thick clouds gather and break
A flash, a roar, and rain drives down
Aghast the young things wake
Trembling for what their terror was
Surprised by instant doom
With lightning in the looking glass
Thunder that rocks the room
8) The Morning Star
3:49, lyrics:
Far to the South a star
Bright-shining over all
A sound of voices singing
Round a Babe in an ox's-stall
Three Kings a-riding, riding,
With gifts of myrrh and gold
Far, far from the wild North Ocean
Of which this tale is told
By the sea, in the Hall of Beele
Were Yule and joy and feast
Outside was the noise of the ocean
And storm, like a howling beast
The King sate at the banquet
With his Jarls and Berserks hale
Quaffing to Thor and Odin
Huge horns of mead and ale
Unheeded howled the winter
Round the oak walls of the King
For a mighty skald with a runic harp
Made the hall re-echoing ring
Loud laughed the blonde Norse maidens
As they brimmed the barmy cup
Where the torches flickered the war-blades
And the bucklers hanging up
But out by the thundering North Sea
Ten shattered dragons lie
Vessels, like great sea-monsters
To the billows heaving high
And pale and hacked with gashes
Mid his battered arms lies low
The red-haired Viking, Hareck
Half-buried in the snow
And wan, where the waves beat sullen
Lies his brother, one-eyed Hulf
Above whose mail’d visage
Snarls the winter-famished wolf
9) Håvamål om vennskap
5:19, lyrics:
Klær og våpen er vennegaver
Slikt gjør vennskapet synlig
det varer lengst om lykken er god
når vennene veksler gaver (veksler gaver)
For vennen sin skal en være venn
og gjengjelde gave med gave
men ler en av deg så le igjen
lønn ham med løgn for svik (løgn for svik)
Har du en annen
som du ikke tror
og vil utnytte ham tross alt
fagert skal du tale
men falsk mene
lønn ham med løgn for svik
Og atter om den
som du ikke tror
ser du svik i hans sinn
smile skal du mot ham
men skjul dine tanker
la gave svare til gave
For vennen sin
skal en være venn
for ham og hans venn
men for uvenns venn
skal ingen mann
noen gang være venn
Hør, har du en venn
og tror vel om ham
og du vil ha gavn av vennen
bland sinnet ditt med ham
og send ham gaver
søk ham ofte opp
10) The Bell
5:37, lyrics:
Through the calm and silent air
Floats the tolling funeral bell
Swooning over hill and dell
Heavy laden with despair
Mute between each muffled stroke
Sad as though a dead voice spoke
Out of the dim Past time invoked
Stands my heart all mute with care
The Bell is tolling on, and deep
Deep and drear into my heart
All its bitter accents dart
Peace! sad chime, I will not weep
What is there within thy tone
That should wring my heart alone
Rive it with this endless moan
Peace! and let past sorrows sleep
Fling your music on the breeze
Mock the sighing of the willows
Mock the lapping of the billows
Mock not human sympathies
Slow chime, sad chime, mock me not
With that loved voice ne'er forgot
Flooding me with tears blood-hot
Mock not soul-deep memories
Come not from the unseen Past
Flying up the silent gale
With that deep and muffled wail
Slaying me with lying tale
Base chime, false chime from the Past
Not in sighs of mortal pain
Pain and anguish rise again
Voices from the far Death-plain
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INFO:
1) Where is this band from?? Myspace says "Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais", Metal Archives says "Curitiba, Paraná", and Facebook mentions both Curitiba and Belo Horizonte. 2) Was "Thoughts" released on other formats or websites?... 3) I know some of the lyrics are incomplete -- I'll try to work on that.
IMAGES:
1) "Thoughts". 2) Anyone have a better band photo?
1) "Thoughts". 2) Anyone have a better band photo?
Miscellaneous stuff:
First image: "MERCY - Jesus er den eneste veien til livet" / "MERCY - Jesus is the only way to life"
Second image: "MERCY - Guds nåde være med alt folk" / "MERCY - God's mercy be with all people"
Third+fourth images: Not sure what they are, found them on Facebook:
Second picture: Original "The Powers That Be" artwork. Cropped slightly differently.
Third+fourth pictures: "The Beast from the Earth" artwork
Third+fourth pictures: "The Beast from the Earth" artwork
"Old Oak Tree" variant with color:
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