BAND NAME: Sympathy
GENRE: Technical / Symphonic Death Metal (most releases), Death/Unblack with Symphonic Influences ("Birth of the Apocalypse")
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: Canada (Caronport, Saskatchewan)
Similar to a couple other pages here, this band has basically no
relation to black metal, but they did one black
metal release. I'm only going to add that one. For info on the rest of
their career, see their [Christian Death Metal Collective page]. CDMC is an archive site run by my friend at Coleiosis Records.
Lineup when this album was recorded:
Angel - Vocals
Dharok - Vocals, Guitars (lead+rhythm), Bass, Keyboards
Jeff Lewis - Guitars (lead)
Jim Austin - Drums
Discography:
Birth of the Apocalypse (album)
Left:
- Carcharoth: 2009-20??, UNRELEASED
- Sympathy: 22 February, 2022, Independent, Bandcamp
Right:
- Serpent's Breath: 20??, Endtime Productions, UNRELEASED
For those confused, here's the basic context behind this album:
Sympathy had started a side project called Carcharoth, and recorded their debut album from 2008-2009. "Carcharoth" was later changed to "Serpent's Breath", they got signed to a label, and planned to release the debut under that name. However, it never ended up happening. (Hoping we'll eventually get more backstory on that?) Years later, they decided to release it themselves, but under their main band, not as a side project anymore.
Although the old artwork is used for the 2022 version, the band still considers it a Sympathy release.
1) Futures Past
4:38, lyrics:
Cursed am I
To bear this dread portent
The night’s rest
Is filled with terrors
The daylight whispers
Of evils unknown
When dusk embraces earth
When darkness casts out day
When the mind succumbs to sleep
Then do the horrors overtake
Revealing futures past
Foretelling future pains
Portents of great demise
Warning of our doom
Standing on the fields
Vortex spinning carapace
Dreams of an unknown horror
Visions of a dreadful god
Always falling
Always burning
Always bleeding
All hope drifts away
Now comes the end of days
Risen the scion of apocalypse
Now travail grips the earth
Pregnant with our destruction
Once dead the cursed god
Stirs in his rotted tomb
Usurping mankind’s thrones
Seizing all dominion
Always falling
Always burning
Always bleeding
All hope drifts away
2) The Frozen Earth
5:36, lyrics:
Under unbound Northern skies
Reigning over the barren earth
A chilling wind roams the plains
Subdues all life in gantlet fist
The daylight is weak the darkness is deep
Our reprieve is brief and our nightmare so long
Fell beasts roam the land now awakened to kill
Their slumber is over and we are their prey
Behold the dancing Northern lights
Reigning over the blue moonlit night
The moon is our witness it hangs silently
It observes the nature of their cruelty
Crimson scattered
Blood on the snow
Dreadful in meaning
Terrible in beauty
The frozen earth laps not our blood
It rests in sombre repose
As the stars are veiled and weak
So becomes our resolve
The daylight is weak the darkness is deep
Our reprieve is brief and our nightmare so long
Fell beasts roam the land now awakened to kill
Their slumber is over, we are their prey
When arises the cold moon
To cast its light upon the earth
Its ghostly beams entwine branch and limb
Luminous shapes emerge
When snows fall gently through the stilled air
Alighting upon the forest trees
All life stammers with bated breath
For our enemies awake
Then our stalkers hunt again
Enveloped in the gloom
Then our dead arise to kill
Once companions now foe
Taking those with warm blood
Ensuring their demise
Only ever on those nights
Where moon and snow coalesce
3) Call Forth the Cursed Dead
5:23, lyrics:
The tolling of bells lauds my return
Conquering prince firstborn to rule
Rose petals cast float down through the air
Glories now mine by the strength of my hand
Seduction of power corrupts every soul
Whispering promises exacting its price
This kingdom must fall and become my own
Regicide, patricide, born of the night
Die - I am your saviour
Die - I am your doom
Die - You are my minions
Die - My dead armies arise
Sacrifice of succession
Pass the sword across noble neck
Crimson flows royal blood spent
The life of a ruler now yielded to me
From the ash of this fallen kingdom
Shall rise a new order
The reign of darkness shall be complete
Stripped free of all moral convention
Arise - I am your saviour
Arise - I am your doom
Arise - You are my minions
Arise - My dead armies
Arise
4) We Are Legion
5:21, lyrics:
Too long old hatreds reigned
Too long they brought us low
Too deep the scars we now bear
Too hard our hearts can’t overcome
Yet now return our ancient foes
Yet now we must unite
For they will destroy us all
They are our masters of old
Burning
Burning hatreds
How far can a man fall?
How deep can sins scar souls?
How long must recompense be?
Can forgiveness surely come?
Yet we are our foe
We must ourselves withstand
Burning
Burning hatreds
We must destroy
Destroy us all
Twisting, turning
Purging, burning
Mankind must scourge
Itself of blight
We are sickness
We are disease
We bask in loathing
Consume infection
We are legion
The burning hatreds
We are legion
The burning hatreds
So long old hatreds reigned
So long they brought us low
So deep the scars we now bear
So hard our hearts can’t overcome
Yet we are our enemy
We must ourselves withstand
We must destroy
Destroy us all
5) Bastard Gods
3:21, lyrics:
Once born we were pawns
Placed within a cosmic drama
Then the day did appear
When mankind killed their gods
Now we’ve become
Ourselves our deity
Cast off the cords
That have bound us for so long
Now arises a new age
Marked by the rule of man
We have become
Heirs to the throne of our dead gods
Subdue the heretic
Who refuses to worship himself
Now we’ve become
Ourselves our deity
Cast off the cords
That have bound us for so long
Now all people stand
Beyond the old concepts
Of good or evil
We are uber menschen
Cast down the apostate
Who takes not what isn’t his
Now we’ve become
Ourselves our deity
Cast off the cords
That bound us for so long
Subdue the heretic
Who refuses to worship himself
Tasting the fruit
Of a forbidden tree
Taking the crown
That must be ours
Cast down the apostate
Who takes not what is not his
Tasting the fruit
Of a forbidden tree
Taking the crown
That must be ours
Taking the crown
We are enthroned
Now reign
We bastard gods
6) Like Shadows of Untimely Night
4:47, lyrics:
Stretched across the blackened night
Wings spread in horrific flight
Dark creatures of noble breed
Swift minions of certain death
Oh most glorious ones
Swift steeds of the night
Coriaceous wings fold the sky
Bending air with your might
Terror issues from your cry
Emanates from mighty jaws
Pestilence and decaying rot
Forever upon your foes
Soaring scrying
Plying beating
Grasping crushing
Sublime terror fuming
Spread your terror ‘or the earth
Tear down thrones and usurp kings
Soaring scrying
Transcendent horror
Grasping crushing
Sublime terror seething
Spread terror through the blackened night
Cries piercing in horrific flight
Dark creatures usurping kings
Swift minions of certain death
Oh most glorious ones
Swift steeds of the night
Coriaceous wings fold the sky
Bending air with your might
Terror issues from your cry
Emanates from mighty jaws
Pestilence and decaying rot
Forever upon your foes
7) The Horror and the Glory
5:39, lyrics:
“Happiness lies in conquering one’s enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.” (Genghis Khan, 1210)
I have become war
I have become death
Tasting the blood of my foes
Caressing their battered forms
Relishing their utter defeat
An enemy who ceased to exist
Hearing the cries of the fallen
Taking the spoils of the dead
Savouring the scent of smoke
A victory earned in flesh
Mine now the mantle has become
Mine now the glories of war
I have become war
I have become death
The foes are gone now I reap my reward
It is paid in flesh and is earned by the sword
The foes are gone now I reap my reward
It is paid in flesh and is earned by the sword
Carrion fowl devour all my foes
Birds of the air consume your fill on this glorious night
Tasting the blood of my foes
Relishing their utter defeat
I have become war
I have become death
8) Funerary Eclipse
5:02, lyrics:
The forgetfulness of death
Falls like a shroud of finest gossamer
Draping over the soul
As a veil of silver splendour
While shadows set upon the spirit
Restful gloom replaces acumen
The embrace of sleep stills the mind
Life ends in a sigh of peaceful slumber
As the past becomes the future
The remembrance of the living
Of all life’s pleasures and glories
Of all life’s pains and defeats
Seep from those who have gone forth
To set foot in the tepid waters of Lethe
The toils of a life once lived
The striving, Sturm und Drang
Are diminished and released
To fade into the eternal past of forever
The worm destroys and corruption prevails
The grave will claim its own
Redeem the body to the earth
Returning flesh to dust and breath to wind
As the past becomes the future
The remembrance of the living
Seeps from those who have gone forth
To set foot in the tepid waters of Lethe
Under a dismal moon
Let me lay wreaths of flowers
So that the memory of those dead
May survive
The forgetfulness of death
Falls like a shroud of finest gossamer
Draping over the soul
As a veil of silver splendour
The toils of a life once lived
The striving, Sturm und Drang
Are diminished and released
To the eternal past of forever
9) A Grave Abandoned
5:03, lyrics:
A soft glowing sphere rises within the darkened sky
Clouds move and shift around a glorious moon
Hanging far above the earth below
Beams fall from the huge night light in the sky
Far below the cemetery gates gently creak
As a cold breeze tickles the oak tree's leaves
They dance and sway to the blowing wind
An eerie fog descends upon the cemetery
Thick enough to catch the moonbeams
The graves are aglow with soft light
The full moon growing brighter with time
While the clouds hang observing it
The breeze is no more the air is still
A blanket of thick fog is horizon bound
An abandoned grave is bathing ever so softly
In the falling glowing full moonlight
The grave abandoned in the wake of rapture
No longer the abode of a corpse
But a cavity in the earth's crust
The former occupant now far beyond
Bid farewell to the moon the stars
The past now a faded memory soon to vanish
10) Into the Eternal Past of Forever
3:08 (choir/vocalizing, no actual lyrics)
4:38, lyrics:
Cursed am I
To bear this dread portent
The night’s rest
Is filled with terrors
The daylight whispers
Of evils unknown
When dusk embraces earth
When darkness casts out day
When the mind succumbs to sleep
Then do the horrors overtake
Revealing futures past
Foretelling future pains
Portents of great demise
Warning of our doom
Standing on the fields
Vortex spinning carapace
Dreams of an unknown horror
Visions of a dreadful god
Always falling
Always burning
Always bleeding
All hope drifts away
Now comes the end of days
Risen the scion of apocalypse
Now travail grips the earth
Pregnant with our destruction
Once dead the cursed god
Stirs in his rotted tomb
Usurping mankind’s thrones
Seizing all dominion
Always falling
Always burning
Always bleeding
All hope drifts away
2) The Frozen Earth
5:36, lyrics:
Under unbound Northern skies
Reigning over the barren earth
A chilling wind roams the plains
Subdues all life in gantlet fist
The daylight is weak the darkness is deep
Our reprieve is brief and our nightmare so long
Fell beasts roam the land now awakened to kill
Their slumber is over and we are their prey
Behold the dancing Northern lights
Reigning over the blue moonlit night
The moon is our witness it hangs silently
It observes the nature of their cruelty
Crimson scattered
Blood on the snow
Dreadful in meaning
Terrible in beauty
The frozen earth laps not our blood
It rests in sombre repose
As the stars are veiled and weak
So becomes our resolve
The daylight is weak the darkness is deep
Our reprieve is brief and our nightmare so long
Fell beasts roam the land now awakened to kill
Their slumber is over, we are their prey
When arises the cold moon
To cast its light upon the earth
Its ghostly beams entwine branch and limb
Luminous shapes emerge
When snows fall gently through the stilled air
Alighting upon the forest trees
All life stammers with bated breath
For our enemies awake
Then our stalkers hunt again
Enveloped in the gloom
Then our dead arise to kill
Once companions now foe
Taking those with warm blood
Ensuring their demise
Only ever on those nights
Where moon and snow coalesce
3) Call Forth the Cursed Dead
5:23, lyrics:
The tolling of bells lauds my return
Conquering prince firstborn to rule
Rose petals cast float down through the air
Glories now mine by the strength of my hand
Seduction of power corrupts every soul
Whispering promises exacting its price
This kingdom must fall and become my own
Regicide, patricide, born of the night
Die - I am your saviour
Die - I am your doom
Die - You are my minions
Die - My dead armies arise
Sacrifice of succession
Pass the sword across noble neck
Crimson flows royal blood spent
The life of a ruler now yielded to me
From the ash of this fallen kingdom
Shall rise a new order
The reign of darkness shall be complete
Stripped free of all moral convention
Arise - I am your saviour
Arise - I am your doom
Arise - You are my minions
Arise - My dead armies
Arise
4) We Are Legion
5:21, lyrics:
Too long old hatreds reigned
Too long they brought us low
Too deep the scars we now bear
Too hard our hearts can’t overcome
Yet now return our ancient foes
Yet now we must unite
For they will destroy us all
They are our masters of old
Burning
Burning hatreds
How far can a man fall?
How deep can sins scar souls?
How long must recompense be?
Can forgiveness surely come?
Yet we are our foe
We must ourselves withstand
Burning
Burning hatreds
We must destroy
Destroy us all
Twisting, turning
Purging, burning
Mankind must scourge
Itself of blight
We are sickness
We are disease
We bask in loathing
Consume infection
We are legion
The burning hatreds
We are legion
The burning hatreds
So long old hatreds reigned
So long they brought us low
So deep the scars we now bear
So hard our hearts can’t overcome
Yet we are our enemy
We must ourselves withstand
We must destroy
Destroy us all
5) Bastard Gods
3:21, lyrics:
Once born we were pawns
Placed within a cosmic drama
Then the day did appear
When mankind killed their gods
Now we’ve become
Ourselves our deity
Cast off the cords
That have bound us for so long
Now arises a new age
Marked by the rule of man
We have become
Heirs to the throne of our dead gods
Subdue the heretic
Who refuses to worship himself
Now we’ve become
Ourselves our deity
Cast off the cords
That have bound us for so long
Now all people stand
Beyond the old concepts
Of good or evil
We are uber menschen
Cast down the apostate
Who takes not what isn’t his
Now we’ve become
Ourselves our deity
Cast off the cords
That bound us for so long
Subdue the heretic
Who refuses to worship himself
Tasting the fruit
Of a forbidden tree
Taking the crown
That must be ours
Cast down the apostate
Who takes not what is not his
Tasting the fruit
Of a forbidden tree
Taking the crown
That must be ours
Taking the crown
We are enthroned
Now reign
We bastard gods
6) Like Shadows of Untimely Night
4:47, lyrics:
Stretched across the blackened night
Wings spread in horrific flight
Dark creatures of noble breed
Swift minions of certain death
Oh most glorious ones
Swift steeds of the night
Coriaceous wings fold the sky
Bending air with your might
Terror issues from your cry
Emanates from mighty jaws
Pestilence and decaying rot
Forever upon your foes
Soaring scrying
Plying beating
Grasping crushing
Sublime terror fuming
Spread your terror ‘or the earth
Tear down thrones and usurp kings
Soaring scrying
Transcendent horror
Grasping crushing
Sublime terror seething
Spread terror through the blackened night
Cries piercing in horrific flight
Dark creatures usurping kings
Swift minions of certain death
Oh most glorious ones
Swift steeds of the night
Coriaceous wings fold the sky
Bending air with your might
Terror issues from your cry
Emanates from mighty jaws
Pestilence and decaying rot
Forever upon your foes
7) The Horror and the Glory
5:39, lyrics:
“Happiness lies in conquering one’s enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savouring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.” (Genghis Khan, 1210)
I have become war
I have become death
Tasting the blood of my foes
Caressing their battered forms
Relishing their utter defeat
An enemy who ceased to exist
Hearing the cries of the fallen
Taking the spoils of the dead
Savouring the scent of smoke
A victory earned in flesh
Mine now the mantle has become
Mine now the glories of war
I have become war
I have become death
The foes are gone now I reap my reward
It is paid in flesh and is earned by the sword
The foes are gone now I reap my reward
It is paid in flesh and is earned by the sword
Carrion fowl devour all my foes
Birds of the air consume your fill on this glorious night
Tasting the blood of my foes
Relishing their utter defeat
I have become war
I have become death
8) Funerary Eclipse
5:02, lyrics:
The forgetfulness of death
Falls like a shroud of finest gossamer
Draping over the soul
As a veil of silver splendour
While shadows set upon the spirit
Restful gloom replaces acumen
The embrace of sleep stills the mind
Life ends in a sigh of peaceful slumber
As the past becomes the future
The remembrance of the living
Of all life’s pleasures and glories
Of all life’s pains and defeats
Seep from those who have gone forth
To set foot in the tepid waters of Lethe
The toils of a life once lived
The striving, Sturm und Drang
Are diminished and released
To fade into the eternal past of forever
The worm destroys and corruption prevails
The grave will claim its own
Redeem the body to the earth
Returning flesh to dust and breath to wind
As the past becomes the future
The remembrance of the living
Seeps from those who have gone forth
To set foot in the tepid waters of Lethe
Under a dismal moon
Let me lay wreaths of flowers
So that the memory of those dead
May survive
The forgetfulness of death
Falls like a shroud of finest gossamer
Draping over the soul
As a veil of silver splendour
The toils of a life once lived
The striving, Sturm und Drang
Are diminished and released
To the eternal past of forever
9) A Grave Abandoned
5:03, lyrics:
A soft glowing sphere rises within the darkened sky
Clouds move and shift around a glorious moon
Hanging far above the earth below
Beams fall from the huge night light in the sky
Far below the cemetery gates gently creak
As a cold breeze tickles the oak tree's leaves
They dance and sway to the blowing wind
An eerie fog descends upon the cemetery
Thick enough to catch the moonbeams
The graves are aglow with soft light
The full moon growing brighter with time
While the clouds hang observing it
The breeze is no more the air is still
A blanket of thick fog is horizon bound
An abandoned grave is bathing ever so softly
In the falling glowing full moonlight
The grave abandoned in the wake of rapture
No longer the abode of a corpse
But a cavity in the earth's crust
The former occupant now far beyond
Bid farewell to the moon the stars
The past now a faded memory soon to vanish
10) Into the Eternal Past of Forever
3:08 (choir/vocalizing, no actual lyrics)
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