Vacant Earth, by The Seraphim Veil

Vacant Earth

by The Seraphim Veil

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YomaBarr Agressive atmodeath, it exists. I feel left alone on the vacant Earth indeed...
Hope these gentlemen are left alive somewhere out there too to make more.

Jay Waltz I typically shy away from a lot of the newer sounds of extreme metal, as it is not my thing. Ever so often, there is a band that comes along and gives me pause, and in this case, The Seraphim Veil did just that. These songs are very well written, technically proficient, tastefully brutal, and has a dreadful atmospherics throughout the entire EP. I hope these gentlemen are proud of themselves with this release, I know that I would be if I wrote it. Much respect.

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1.	Vacant Earth 07:00	lyrics	buy track
Behold the blind wandering without purpose Dwelling in a state of indifference So fervently averse to change; willfully unswayed These feeble minds; enslaved by fear and woe You crawl You serve A single minded goal Leading to nothingness Fearful of eternal darkness Unable to accept fate Dissonance, Emptiness A hollow eyed stare into the mind Yearning for a higher calling to flee from mortality Straining to see beyond the self when gazed into the mirror The reflection is blank Upon filth stained glass Eyes cannot turn inwards Like a beast , drawn to bright light Entranced; drawn further into the illusion And then devoured Loss of self Hollow vapid shell Sustained upon pious vapors Starved of truth Mind drawn again to fear Like rats fleeing a sinking wreck, drowning in its pull The world neglected by those arisen as its keepers Eyes turning towards a grey sky In wait for the light of illumination Everything else is cast in shadow And the earth veers towards abandonment The Earth is vacant Void of responsibility Lying in wait for the end to come Wasteful without remorse The flames grow dimmer and dimmer Our depraved souls, wane further and further Yet still tethered to this place Unwavering in these toxic ways An epidemic of feverish delusion Ignorant of worldwide suffering Emotional ties are severed The world neglected The Earth abandoned
2.	In the Dust of This Planet 08:59	lyrics	buy track
We the feral creature, unable to see That which is has become, and eventually could be Bestowed sentience Cursed with ego Failing to see beyond the linear Bereft of clarity, we are alone in our insanity A dismal reflection of our inabilities Found in the memory of our past misdeeds Face to face, twitching, gnawing Staring back into the embodiment of chaos Clutching to sanity You cannot know what you have become This refusal to see a disease that brews in the mind A rot, a taint, slowly spreading, growing, consuming; rotting cell by cell We are but a step beyond the beasts Twisted from innocence to depravity Yet they are that much nobler in their passivity We are burdened by higher consciousness And delusions of morality We the "enlightened breed" reach forth with crooked fingers To strangle Hands around our own throats Choking, suffocating Another corpse falls upon the pile Behold our monument to death Barely arisen from the primordial mire And now we proclaim ourselves god Of a world littered with icons of pestilence We are a species worshipping its own self-destruction We'll claw our way upwards Towards the burning sun Skin scorched and blistered Broken and bleeding, and still we climb higher Now once upon the peak Above our ruin (stand trembling alone) There is nothing for us below From these withered lips, the last breath of man escapes into the void (never to return) They wont remember us Our ruin, our legacy Our ashes all that remain "They wont remember us They wont remember us"
3.	Invoking the Wrath of Tyrants 08:21	info	buy track

about

Vacant Earth, the new EP by The Seraphim Veil.
10 years after their debut release of Orphan, the band finally unveils the product of years of work and effort to create something new and fresh. This is the result of shed expectations and being unshackled from the bonds of convention.

The three songs on Vacant Earth are a testament to each consecutive year in time as we strove to rise from the ashes after a near collapse of the band, leaving just two of a former five.
These songs reflect bold, abrasive and ambitious new beginnings. They explore the gloom and despair of uncertainty. Finally, the embody the burning fires of triumph.
Fusing ugly and discordant noise and synth work with chaotic and oppressive blackened death metal, this record contains all the elements that once defined The Seraphim Veil, but it is not the same beast.

A purely DIY project, recorded, mixed and mastered by the band.
This is not only a creative triumph, but a triumph of skill and experience.
The artwork, generated through AI, has a thematic and philosophical aspect and allure.
What does it mean to be human, what world will be left when automation and machines begin to think and act for us?
A vision of an end without humans is expressed by an inhuman mind.

We hope that old fans understand what we have tried to communicate as we forge a new path forward, for a new era of The Seraphim Veil.

"We step through the threshold of smoke, towards a reborn world"

credits

released September 9, 2022

Daniel Beech - Guitars, backing vocals engineering
Timothy Richmond - Vocals, synths and additional engineering

Session drums by Robin Stone

Vacant Earth written in 2013
In The Dust of This Planet written in 2014
Invoking the Wrath of Tyrants written in 2015.

All music written by The Seraphim Veil

Mixed & mastered by Daniel Beech

Artwork generated by Midjourney AI.

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The Seraphim Veil Melbourne, Australia

"Into the void,
Never to return"

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