NOTE: Not to be confused with a secular project named Erasmus, also from the USA. Also not to be confused with a rock band called Erasmus, that released an album called "Eden". THIS IS NOT THE SAME BAND!
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BAND NAME: Erasmus
GENRE: Unblack Metal with Doom Influences
STATUS: Unknown
LOCATION: USA (Nashville, Tennessee)
Formed in 2007.
Last-known contact:
erasmustennessee [AT] hotmail [DOT] com
The band is named after Saint Erasmus of Formia (known also as "Saint Elmo"), a bishop who lived in the 3rd century AD, and was martyred in the early 4th century.
Lineup:
Mike "Sanguinus Nocturnus" Owen (Mankind) - Vocals, Guitars, Programming
Thaddeus Cathedral (ex-Mankind, Ruach Nephesh) - Vocals, Drums
Links:
Discography:
(artwork
not
available)
title uncertain (single/demo, 2008, Independent)
Format unknown
Format unknown
Mentioned [here], [here], and [here]. Was released at some point before the EP. From what I can gather, this demo only contained one "track" -- that is to say, it contained one single audio clip that lasted 16 minutes -- but that one track was made up of four "parts".
This track is themed around the ocean (St. Erasmus is considered the patron
saint of sailors in Catholicism and Orthodoxy), and is based on "Rime
of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. [1]
1) Sanguinus Nocturnus 16:47
1) Sanguinus Nocturnus 16:47
2) The Tongues of Serpents Silenced 7:33
3) Non Dracos It Mihi Dux 3:12
4) Sunt Mala Waue Libas, Ipse Denena Bibas 4:43
2) The Tongues of Serpents Silenced 7:33
3) Non Dracos It Mihi Dux 3:12
4) Sunt Mala Waue Libas, Ipse Denena Bibas 4:43
Memento Mori I: Outrecuidance (album, 28 July, 2009, Sullen Records (RIP-OFF LABEL))
Format: CD-R, limited 250 copies
Guest appearances:
G. Merideth - Drum programming (additional, track 5)
1) Into Oceans, the Ever One
6:18, lyrics:
I come to bare my enamored suffering. To offer wounds as a catalyst to passion.
I languor with desire and yet shudder before your presence. The ever One. How perfect the grief and the romance. How tired the soul to wander such desolate lands. To truly know the cold. Let us into martyrdom without conceit. Let us give as we take. Let us embrace silence as attentiveness. Let us love in oceans of anguish. At your feet, I lay but filth and burden... for all I am, I give. The vast sea, deep with mystery to traverse, drop by drop is joined as one in eternity. Pour into me as I pour into Your bottomless depths, Creator. Creation. The ever One... the Father who forged all, the Son who saved all, the Spirit that guides the painfully adoring. Immortal name of our King upon high... reign now and forever. We bow and adore Thee, the ever one.
2) Lifeless... as a Means to Ignore the Truth
7:20, lyrics:
We look to the all-seeing eye and see not the rotten soul festering within. We hunger for enlightenment and comfort, yet starve before searching. A whore, you are, for lies and bribes offered as bait by your captors. Light shall never warm the misled droves; they shall remain frozen, stagnant, lifeless... as a means to ignore the truth. Aim for destruction and savor your ignorant suicide. I call for an end to this pain. I cry out for our suffering to manifest and smear it's putrescence across the face of its perpetrators.
3) In Defiance of the Temptors
3:10, lyrics:
I feel the blade inside. It rips deep in my flesh. My heart is not prepared for what awaits me. Shall I fear for my existence, yet it means nothing? Shall I shake until I fall like a leaf into cowardice? Shall I be so vain as to call this mine? Shall I fall into outrecuidance and surrender to this world? The corpse of temptation into ashes... scattered in darkness... that consumes the sun. Bring life to my soul. Delight in my death to the world and satisfy my hunger.
4) To Weigh the Distance Burning Closer
3:53, lyrics:
A fire burns, the flames lick at me. And patience sparks life. So I will wait and adore you from this distance. A fire burns. Water laps at my soul, frigid and cold, begging to free me... to cease this breathing... and consume those who it has never known. They cycle and become it. To praise death... thankful, it is, to liberate the faithful. To praise life... so vain and selfish. Shall I clam death as my savior? My key to God? Shall I fear it as fate? As a means to an end?
5) Memento Mori
3:16, lyrics:
How can darkness light the way? Arm the shepherd to strengthen the weak. Bows poised to set fire unto the universe. My heart bleeds pity for the wretched... condemned to suffer inside themselves. Breath deep, see clearly. Behold grace... God manifest.
6) Interlude
4:40, instrumental
7) The Somnambulant's Lament
4:45, lyrics:
At your feet, I beg for mercy... to heal my filthy soul. The malaise of perpetual torment burns in my eyes. My grief becomes me. Bereaved and broken for the undying. Ravage me and reveal purpose. Destroy my heart to be raised new. I succumb to powerless adversity. In loneliness, I know passion, To know pain in love, though distant, you are close at heart.. The selfish struggle. Flesh for flesh. Each day, death is my escape... I deny myself for You.
8) Burden
5:36, lyrics:
From your body. From your arms. Never to return. A mistake. A burden. Anew.
9) ...and Under a Funeral Shroud
3:27, lyrics:
Sorrow envelopes. Hearts harden... under the weight of a profane prophet. I see the pillars crumble away and lost millions fall to their doom... and under a funeral shroud, a light shines through.
6:18, lyrics:
I come to bare my enamored suffering. To offer wounds as a catalyst to passion.
I languor with desire and yet shudder before your presence. The ever One. How perfect the grief and the romance. How tired the soul to wander such desolate lands. To truly know the cold. Let us into martyrdom without conceit. Let us give as we take. Let us embrace silence as attentiveness. Let us love in oceans of anguish. At your feet, I lay but filth and burden... for all I am, I give. The vast sea, deep with mystery to traverse, drop by drop is joined as one in eternity. Pour into me as I pour into Your bottomless depths, Creator. Creation. The ever One... the Father who forged all, the Son who saved all, the Spirit that guides the painfully adoring. Immortal name of our King upon high... reign now and forever. We bow and adore Thee, the ever one.
2) Lifeless... as a Means to Ignore the Truth
7:20, lyrics:
We look to the all-seeing eye and see not the rotten soul festering within. We hunger for enlightenment and comfort, yet starve before searching. A whore, you are, for lies and bribes offered as bait by your captors. Light shall never warm the misled droves; they shall remain frozen, stagnant, lifeless... as a means to ignore the truth. Aim for destruction and savor your ignorant suicide. I call for an end to this pain. I cry out for our suffering to manifest and smear it's putrescence across the face of its perpetrators.
3) In Defiance of the Temptors
3:10, lyrics:
I feel the blade inside. It rips deep in my flesh. My heart is not prepared for what awaits me. Shall I fear for my existence, yet it means nothing? Shall I shake until I fall like a leaf into cowardice? Shall I be so vain as to call this mine? Shall I fall into outrecuidance and surrender to this world? The corpse of temptation into ashes... scattered in darkness... that consumes the sun. Bring life to my soul. Delight in my death to the world and satisfy my hunger.
4) To Weigh the Distance Burning Closer
3:53, lyrics:
A fire burns, the flames lick at me. And patience sparks life. So I will wait and adore you from this distance. A fire burns. Water laps at my soul, frigid and cold, begging to free me... to cease this breathing... and consume those who it has never known. They cycle and become it. To praise death... thankful, it is, to liberate the faithful. To praise life... so vain and selfish. Shall I clam death as my savior? My key to God? Shall I fear it as fate? As a means to an end?
5) Memento Mori
3:16, lyrics:
How can darkness light the way? Arm the shepherd to strengthen the weak. Bows poised to set fire unto the universe. My heart bleeds pity for the wretched... condemned to suffer inside themselves. Breath deep, see clearly. Behold grace... God manifest.
6) Interlude
4:40, instrumental
7) The Somnambulant's Lament
4:45, lyrics:
At your feet, I beg for mercy... to heal my filthy soul. The malaise of perpetual torment burns in my eyes. My grief becomes me. Bereaved and broken for the undying. Ravage me and reveal purpose. Destroy my heart to be raised new. I succumb to powerless adversity. In loneliness, I know passion, To know pain in love, though distant, you are close at heart.. The selfish struggle. Flesh for flesh. Each day, death is my escape... I deny myself for You.
8) Burden
5:36, lyrics:
From your body. From your arms. Never to return. A mistake. A burden. Anew.
9) ...and Under a Funeral Shroud
3:27, lyrics:
Sorrow envelopes. Hearts harden... under the weight of a profane prophet. I see the pillars crumble away and lost millions fall to their doom... and under a funeral shroud, a light shines through.
Christian Metal Fellowship: Compilation Volume II (Compilation, 2009, Sullen Records)
Format: CD
7) Erasmus - Nausea 4:25
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INFO:
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INFO:
1) Lyrics for the "Sanguinus Nocturnus" EP, and for the song "Nausea". 2) More info on the single/demo.
IMAGES:
1) Logo. 2) Sanguinus Nocturnus EP. 3) Anyone have a better / complete band photo?
1) Logo. 2) Sanguinus Nocturnus EP. 3) Anyone have a better / complete band photo?
Miscellaneous stuff:
Left: Old logo
Right: "Storm at Sea" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the original cover pic
A bunch of pictures from Myspace, not quite sure what the top-left picture is?
Similar to: [SECULAR] Bethlehem, Xasthur, Batushka (Pol), Under a Full Moon, Endlichkeit, Licht erlischt, Worm (US/Can), Sanctus Daemoneon, Tunes of Despair, Winds of Doom, Silent Shepherd's Horn, [CHRISTIAN] Beksvart, Cloth, early-mid Cryptic Rising, Eunagelion, Quest for Serenity, Willow Mount,
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