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The Sovereign and Somber - A Treatise on the Strife and Quietus

from Reliquary by Gates of Mourning

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Cathedra.
Reeling in the memory of times ancient.
Verily, celestial beckonings wade in primordial yearnings appointed there a ward of thy malice.

Slavish contrivance meld the maddening drip of waters seen worn erode that tunneled the stone, a crevice to suffer the cadaverous
providence.

Thus, trapped within the walls of eternity’s grasp my bleached and eyeless soul, sockets of a word, abandoned.

And yet my chains a forge, of the pitiless forlorn in purpose to seek such awakening.

A gnarled and hopeless lust, the path of depravity must for the wisdom of forbearance visit shadow of being to everlasting night.

Behold such grace from heaven's gates!
A palatial envoy of ornamental soldiers poised their lofty
decree an emetic release from beyond that bade forces
guidance in the space between.

A pupil of such covetous notions as the ponder
of the endless wouldst land my charge.

Noblest in pursuit thought they and many before, now lay stricken in the limbs, roots and stem, labyrinthine.

Begat in soil, battered vestments of aeons ceaseless in their cycles of rebirth cast the gleam of their appointment as seen swathed upon these hell spawned immaculate.

Come forth, adorned kings of such elegance!
Oh, beasts of the barbed and profane.
In beauty or veiled aura, a vow enveloped in the expanse of the cosmos.

Unsheathed presentment of skeletal branches clasped tomes bound of the disfigured.

Quilled scratching murmured rites of the specters.
The muse of the godly.
We, those who wouldst dwell in the reach of the wastes,
now come only to regard the swift and ragged brush with the divine.

Naught but frailty in the shattered bones.
Footfalls, caress in approaching, spurred by the wretched Overlord.
So too, strung so carelessly across scarred backs the lost mask of hope no longer beguiles.

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from Reliquary, released September 6, 2021

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Gates of Mourning Orlando, Florida

Ex Maruta Drummer, solo act Gates of Mourning creates epic, medieval inspired melodic Black Metal. Drawing influence from Ulver, Dissection, Dark Funeral, Lord Belial, Gates of Ishtar, and The Black Dahlia Murder Gates of Mourning seeks to invoke the imagery of tormented souls, passionate longing and sorrow against a backdrop of the medieval woven through intricate, beautiful & somber melodies. ... more

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