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Relinquishment

by Ordinance

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mourner This may be a forgotten gem but it's a gem nontheless. Great instrumental and songwriting skills and the band is not afraid of passing by any genre boundaries. Great atmosphere through and through. Excellent guitar work and harmonic melodicism. No wonder that their 'new' release from 2020 is such a masterpiece. Favorite track: Waning Light.
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1.
Relinquished 04:13
I curse thee, forever, dispiriting artificer Be thy name hollow, and worthy of mere cinder For these palms do not meet to clasp in prayer but clench to opposing fists As these knees do not bend to genuflect before thee and these lips shall remain clammed when in demand to beseech thy name Through years and miles innumerable, one eternity followed by another Has the earth imbibed my blood Robbed of inborn sanctity yet granted with a truthful mirage of a silenced axiom A voiceless whisper of a tongue split in two For the embers they glimmer and lie in their dormant wait So reckon, that not all that lingers bend under thy rule As my words of holiest wrath roar, the skies and their clouds shall surge and ripple the slumbering waters into rage As a breath of fire and smoke, shall I vomit out the lies once forcefed And cleanse my stomach from selflessness, and spiritless filth Beckoning the path into the great unknown By valediction, and through fleshly relinquishment am I to light the lantern of my seeking...
2.
Eerie despondent formation Shapeless ethereal carnation Revelations through horrid visions Sealing the end of creation Plunging through enraged Into the core midmost of being Infecting the womb of existence Source of life spawned stillborn Lifeless thou shalt remain Never-verdant, ever-dead Perished into obliteration Nonexistent, never to wake The exhausted rays of a dying sun Cast down upon this mouldered soil from the densely darkening heights Never to shine, to glare no more What once falls to the ground Shall never stand again For everything will collapse in the end The cloud thickens through the heavens To cast a shadow over the living and the dead And as all once above fell down amongst the dirt Ruptured through a splinter in the wall of glass And as all above fell down amongst the lurid The leafless branches of the tree of life
3.
Come unto me, leave thy garment and step forth To lay among the liers and their rows myriad Congeal into a dreamless slumber on a bed of gravel Flounder no longer, for thy toes are now cold All ten... Come with me... For thou art to walk with me... Yes, the weight of these horrors I offer Too great for thy hand to hold Too vast for thee to comprehend And what thou art forced to face, I know may seem unjust For I bereave thee of the keys to thine own fate For thou art to come with me... As a garland rooted in the filth of a paradigm of illusion Thou once were planted Nourished with the befouled waters of entropic delusion Thou languished a life Gnawn by the fleas and vermins of fatuousness Thou art now weeded out For I know the name to whom thou prayeth And I know each of sins upon thy brow As an accusive stare through an unflattering mirrour The very core of thy guilt is beheld And in the end thou shall come with me... As a garland rooted in the filth of a paradigm of illusion Thou once were planted Gnawn by the fleas and vermins of fatuousness Thou art now weeded out The dense black light that is to taint the glimmering Sun and outshine the haloes of each angel, every saint And this is where thou shalt greet Him Behold Him, the exalted one Claiming the throne of the sun Fear Him, the luminous one Now once the justice is done Adore Him, the viewless one For in Death the sceptre is won Praise Him, the sovereign one Of Him greater are none Worship the phosphorous one Once banished numinous son Serve him, the deathless one And so it is done And so it is done
4.
Euphoria, morning light The bleak splendours of thine Thy rotten charms so beautious, Appealing, yet so malign Vague figures, contourless shapes Motley shades of pallid grey Voices that I can behold Visions that call my name Eidolons transcending Reforming into flesh Ominous glints of the inbetween The envoys, they approach! Featherless fowls Swarming ‘cross the air Ambassadors of all maladies Wafting forth famine and plague Crossing the fatal threshold Entering corridors unknown Absorbing its mysteries The maze - it breathes! Come now and devoid me From the scoria of reason Impregnate life with the seed of Death Abandoning the laws of yore Imbue me, Lord Satan! Make this flesh thy shadow Convulse! Conflagrate! The black flame most sublime Revealing its clandest' glory Darkness divine Clairvoyance - unlidded eye The Grail at the End Surefootedly I lift up to step forth ahead Unfathomed nooks foreshadowed albeit unseen For I have tasted of sin Peered of the forbidden Stripped of its masque Beholding back at me With an unblinking eye The very fountain of all fears Gruesome dreams they reach out their hands ...to strangle! For when I hear Thy call... I know Thy Voice
5.
A cortege of suffering souls Dragging their poor trunks Droopingly and wearied Tottering the edge of their fall Carrying the carrions of their loved ones Upon fatigued shoulders A history on the threshold Of its final demise A despoiled ground Gasping its final breath Through the vale... Through the wail... Laments at the end of the age of the world Praying for the days to end The ages lay to rest A Journey monumental in tears, burden and pain The heavens to collide and earth to form its grave Epochs of glory, aeons of might Detrimented by time A solemn sob by the edge of the pit The tolling chime of the knell Closer towards the final rest With each ungainly step Through the phase of years' decay The paeans of the end of this earth And as the shades once more descend To veil the retreating horizons Faces of the mourners forever petrified The fading light against the skies Landscapes stand still Ashes washed by the sea, by the slowly quivering waves Shades painting their silhouette Upon the cloth of the welkin As dust reaches the ground to cover this sordid soil Of what once was the face of all creation is now forced to outwane before a certain... Death
6.
Cipher 05:15
Once a King whose forehead wore an emerald crown now forgotten under the piling stratums of ash Bournes in the distant past, neath a tumulus of dust... Not an emblem, not a token, not even an obsolete portent... Nought of yester shall remain...
7.
Pilgrim! Prophet! Spokesman! Messiah! Whereon may thy shoulder lean once thy hands have been nailed and the hammer is held by an enemy hand? Reap the foul! Death to the frail! Son of all that is to fail Feel the smarting lick of the lash upon thy skin Again... and again... and again! Reap the foul! Death to the frail! Son of all that is to fail Justice shall be done Wielding the shining Sword of Division! A life led without a purpose A death died sans a reward For whereto may thy soul hide once thy heart has been devoured? Reap the foul! Death to the frail! The shining Sword of Division
8.
Waning Light 07:52
Out from the cunt of chaos Spawned forth from the pits of Hell Begotten by the seed of widdershins breath Under the glimmer of the waning moon Defying the squalid bloodline of clay Irrigating the soil with sin and shame Kiss of Death with a slash of a sickle Prayers gurgled through a throat slit Choirs of wanton moans in the malodorous air Chants of vulgar pleasure and lust indign Bestridden upon the throbbing Serpent phallus Receiving the fiery seed of awakening The deeper the root of death penetrates the earth The thicker strengthen the boughs of the Nightside So may the clayborn bow before their creator Squashed like a putrid apple This is where the new sun dawns As the gales tear open the sealed doors May there not be such cloud, mist or veil That could taint its lustre or hide its light
9.
Expectorate fire and let us behold as we stand aghast, yet in awe as our hearts ignite with burning devotion and the meadows of the old world they burn Moribund, gaunt, left forsaken lie the ashes of abandoned magnitudes Salvation gained through damnation Equilibrium through separation Make us burn! Awaken, o storms! Tempests of destruction Tumultuous flames Reddening the azure Crescendo of fury A punishment divine Bestow upon us Thy judgement most foul Anointment of fire Verily, at last I now glide As a vivid breath in the shadowless night Soaring across the everspreading boundless skies High above the shoreless seas Carried forth by the winds Devoid of fleshly form Detached from the debris of all mundane May the old desert sun roast my corpse That I left behind, to wither away and die For God my putrid remains For Satan my Soul

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On their debut full-length Ordinance surefootedly steps forth ahead unfathomed nooks of what is in the core of Black Metal. "Relinquishment" lights the lantern of your seeking by intertwining the ominous, bold and versatile musical, lyrical & visual qualities of the album into a 65 minute crescendo of fury.

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released October 23, 2015

DLP 2014, AAP
Digipak CD 2015, AAP
MC 2015, AAP

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