BAND NAME: Xaphon
GENRE: Blackened Death Metal
STATUS: Active
LOCATION: USA (Clarksville, Tennessee)
Lineup:
Drew Greal - All instruments, Vocals
Links:
Bandcamp
Interview @ Blacforje (April 2024)
Instagram
Spotify
BoomPlay
Pandora
Apple Music
Amazon Music
YouTube Music (band)
YouTube (artist)
Discography:
Note: On some streaming sites, there's a song by a band called "Spice:Garden" that features "Xaphon" as a guest musician. I don't know if this is the same Xaphon or not.
Time Stands Still (single, 6 November, 2023, Independent)
Format: Digital
Apple / Spotify / etc (OFFICIAL)
1) Time Stands Still 4:32, see below for lyrics
Tabernacle Within (single, 6 November, 2023, Independent)
Format: Digital
Apple / Spotify / etc (OFFICIAL)
1) Tabernacle Within 6:24, see below for lyrics
2) Time Stands Still 4:32, see below for lyrics
Heights of the Far North (album, 12 January, 2024, Independent)
Formats: CD (digipak), Cassette, and Digital
Buy the CD and/or tape (OFFICIAL)
Stream / Download (OFFICIAL)
Track 8 is about an actual school shooting the artist experienced in 2008.
Both the digipak and the tape are limited to 100 copies.
I'm pretty sure "Divine Kouncil Records" is a personal imprint and not an actual label, but I'm not 100% certain.
1) Tabernacle Within
6:24, lyrics:
Day by day more chaos enters the world
Temptation to slip away into the black nothingness
Hatred and contempt for my kind
Every interaction an entropic inevitability
Humankind, the locusts
Lead astray by programmers of fear
Swim through the horde little bug
decipher the enigmatic code of life
Pestilence spreads across the land
A ploy conspired for control
The disease of greed the only motivation
Matchstick beings, recycled endlessly through time
The wheels are turning
Enfolding civilizations
Descending, layer after layer
Built on the backs of the hordes
Lift the rocks, build again
Walking through this life, affix to Truth
Interface with reality, awareness increase
Layers unraveled, through the spirit of the deceased
Guide us Spirit, illuminate the path
We are the lost, we are the depraved
A thousand generations cut off from Eden
Spirit of Yah, Tabernacle Within
Divine Council
Mankind, the cockroach
Crawling through the dark, in search of sustenance
Crawl across the dying bodies
little bug, you will be crushed
Pestilence spreads across the land
A ploy conspired for control
The disease of greed the only motivation
Matchstick beings, recycled
endlessly through time, Souls cry out for all eternity
Souls encircling
For the chance to inhabit
They grip your heel
Pull you down
You will pay your debt
Faithless soul
Cuckold hedonist
Dragged below
The wheels are turning
Enfolding civilizations
Descended, layer after layer
Built on the backs of the hordes
Lift the rocks, build again
(We can’t get it right,
We can’t follow Yah)
Spirit of Yah, tabernacle within
Divine Council, stand and witness
The creation of New Eden
On earth, as it is in Heaven
On earth, as it is in Heaven
In Heaven
2) Wings of the Wind
4:30, lyrics:
Cast your gaze, up to the sky
Where celestial bodies reside
Chaos reigns in the void, yet we stand firmly here
Who is Man, that you are mindful of him?
You hung the stars in the heavens
yet you care for the small, the insignificant, the rejected.
Everything is held now
Fear has lost its grip
Seek comfort and be restored
In the shadow of His wings
Find rest beneath the sight of the watchers
Crowned with Glory and Honor
Seated at the right hand of the father
The North is stretched out like a void
The Earth hangs on nothing
Light is His garment
Heaven is stretched out like a tent
Clouds, His chariot
Messengers of fire ride on wings of the wind
He sets the Earth on its foundation
Each starry host, known by name
Black the canvas, nebula the paint
Cast your gaze, up to the sky
Where the heavenly host reside
Collimation aimed, praise given to the one creator
Who is Man, that you are mindful of him?
You hung the stars in the heavens
yet you care for the rejected.
Imagers of God, the Earth will be given to you
Light of the world, cast your spirit inside us
Give us power, to rule and reign
Stewards of the Earth, your glory we proclaim
Imagers of God, drink from the fountain of life
The holy city descends down from heaven
The spirit of God tabernacles within men
Behold the tree of life
Gather its leaves to heal nations
All these tears, will be wiped away
Crying shall cease
The epoch of sorrow will come to an end
Death has ended
Pain has ceased
Cast your gaze, up to the sky
Where the heavenly host resides
Chaos seems to reign, yet we stand firmly here
Everything is held now
Created, a little lower than the heavenly beings
Dominion you will have
Over the work of His hands
3) Individuate
2:46, lyrics:
Individuate, retaliate
Crowd theory, disassociate
Control, manipulate
Society, dictate
Free think, spurned
Internal light, snuffed
Individuate, escalate
Individuate, accelerate
Individuate, necessitate
stupid, dumb
Small child, prostrate
Cornered, retaliate
Now I know, I am IMAGINATE
INDIVIDUATE
Hatred, capitulate
Quench cravings,
Resuscitate, deny self
Ascend
Descend through time, felicitate
Love oneself, appreciate
Intercede, through time, consulate
Kindness, proliferate
Peace, incinerate
Control, manipulate
Society, dictate
push square peg through round hole
control dispelled
INDIVIDUATE
stupid, dumb
Small child, prostrate
Now I know, I am IMAGINATE
INDIVIDUATE
4) Back to the Copper Mines
4:08, lyrics:
Coronal mass ejection of the sun,
Send Radioactive particles towards
The Singular Fragile blue planet,
exist in the expanding void of black nothingness
Solar maximum has been reached
All life has been impacted,
all life has been destroyed
Cancerous rays perpetually hurled towards the fragile beings,
simply searching for meaning
Miles long collapsing black void
lead miles down, Into the center of the earth
Our only home, raped and pillaged
For the sake of unquenchable greed
The obsession with materiality
Causes earth pillaging global operations
Back to the copper mines to rape once more
The event horizon is opened, the gate to the perpetual black void
that will swallow mankind
Nothing quite satisfies
Like the hunger for power
And self deification
Miles long collapsing black void
lead miles down, Into the center of the earth
Our only home, raped and pillaged
For the sake of unquenchable greed
Why pray to God
When you can become one?
Why rule and reign with the Almighty
When you can build your own empire?
Absolute power corrupts, absolutely
Your empire, turns to rust
Your bones, turn to dust
You've stored your riches in barns
Instead of building riches in your soul
Care for the Earth
Harness its gifts
Image in harmony
Reflections of a free Being
5) Instrumentarian Power
3:16, lyrics:
Instrumentarian Power
The technocrats devour
Populous data, impending strata
The great oil rush of our time
My feelings, my thoughts are not mine
Spill your blood
For the technocracy
Do what you're told,
Endure the lobotomy
Who knows, who decides?
Who decides who knows?
Harvesting behavioral signals
My Feelings, My Thoughts
Unilateral extraction,
Only a fraction
What they take from us
Do we knowingly give
My Feelings, My Thoughts
Are not mine
Who knows, who decides?
Who decides who knows?
My Thoughts, My Mind
Weaponized
What they take from us
We freely give
Individual Freedom
To decide
The time the place our secrets are shared.
Elemental epistemic right
To know ourselves
To know my mind
Who knows, who decides?
Who decides who knows?
My feelings, my thoughts
Weaponized
6) The Treacherous Road
5:05, instrumental
7) Time Stands Still
4:32, lyrics:
Lies, deceit, betrayal
Rejection of true love
An offering freely given
Repudiated out of selfishness
Strong Willed
to destroy thyself
Blissful arrogance takes control
Self protection, mechanized
Learned behavior
Familial sabotage,
homeostasis
False comfort constructed
We tear eachother apart
Autolysis, decompose
We live in fear, weaponized
Familial sabotage,
homeostasis
False comfort constructed
We tear eachother apart
Limb from limb
The truth willfully blighted
In the presence of scorn
The left hand path
Has been chosen
Spit in the face of the Savior
Trampled by the blows of cowardice
They make a mockery of You!
Abbadon, the angel king
Ruler of the subterranean realms
Present the seal or be cast below
Abbadon, the great destroyer
Leader of the locust hordes
Eternal resting place of the dead
You’ll accept your fate of doom
As time stands still
In the endless pit of sorrow
As time stands still
In the endless pit below
8) Righteous Adjudication
4:42, lyrics:
Do you believe in God?
As they point the gun to your head
Can you make sense of this moment?
As time collapses in
Oh God,
Don’t let me die
Was this always my purpose?
Or was I living a lie?
He comes on the clouds
He returns to take what’s HIS
This broken world will be restored
Adjudication come to the Earth
Shots riddle the hallways
Get down, it’s time to hide
Can you make sense of this moment?
As your adrenaline begins to rise
Children
Run for your lives
Judgment Day has come
He comes on the clouds
He returns to take what’s His
This broken world will be restored
Adjudication come to the Earth
No fetish in mind, can be garnered
Only the grip of reality takes hold
No weaponized tale of the martyr
Only the loss of innocent life
LOST
They're all gone
Who do you blame?
I blame the system
Who do you blame?
I blame the system
9) Repentation
5:32, lyrics:
Confrontation, rehabilitation
Turn from wickedness, reconsideration
Unrepentance to purification
From weakened mind, new realization
Image driven feedback loop of SHAME
reverence is the only thing to gain
Self confrontation, rehabilitation
Turn from wickedness, reconsideration
From unrepentance to purification
From weakened mind, new realization
Look at yourself! Humiliate yourself!
Hate yourself, love yourself!
Own yourself! love yourself!
Hate Yourself, Love Yourself
Image driven feedback loop of SHAME
Receive Unmerited favor
Transactional perfection achieved
Running the program of terror
Feedback loop inside,
Your Operation
Self contextualization,
In the modern age
Unrepentant coward,
you've blinded yourself
Manipulation through compliance
Willful preconception:
re-crucification
Fill my heart with hate
Willful preconception:
re-crucification
Fill my heart with hate,
not for mankind
For immoral deprivation
The first will be last, the last will be first
Golden thread of influence,
Teach me, with a fractal pattern,
I Promise I will learn, the meaning of peace
Subsistent being, never created
I come into agreement with you
In contact with the REAL
ON my knees I repent
Subsistent being, never created
I come into agreement with you
ON my knees I repent
10) Those Who Weep
6:02, lyrics:
My voice will be heard
They tried to silence me
But now I stand in victory
With the legions of disciples
I’ll raise an army to make war
Our sons and daughters will be free
Upon this wretched earth
Every wrong will be made right
When justice reigns supreme
We worked the lands
With our bare hands
Lived hand to mouth for what we earned
Through persecution, threats of death
Through ethnic genocide,
A remnant remains
To rise and fight once more
Through prayer and supplication
Consistent work everyday
We will survive this depression
We’ll sail across the seas
Find a new land for my kin
Avenge the lives of our dead
Tears run down my face
My soul pours out upon me
And as I wait for light, there came darkness
Cast me not to the grave
As my heart turns to mourning
My organ is the voice of those who weep
I went mourning
Without the sun
I stood and cried
In the congregation
I'll hold you tightly
Get you through this time
Anxiety building
Cast your cares upon him
Together, let's trust in God
He says he won't fail us
Though it feels we're wandering through the desert
He has our backs, as I’ve got yours
When we return home
Back to Eden
Our children will be free
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UncertainInfo, SimilarTo
1) Info on that Spice:Garden song? 2) Is "Divine Kouncil" an actual record label?
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