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{ }

by Still

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Jay Waltz
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Jay Waltz I am embarrassed that this sat in my wishlist for so long. It is such a unbelievably awesome collection of songs from fantastic band. That is all.
Slut Aus Nord
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Slut Aus Nord {} is a masterpiece of blended styles, drawing both from dissoblack and atmospheric sludge most prominently, and these palettes are used excellently to tell a story wherein the war has been lost in the first two tracks; the subsequent turmoil is internalised, the panicked spasms of anxiety and self-hatred that follow, culminating in a sense of acceptance as the dissonance mellows and more delicate moments emerge, and the fierce rhythmic pounding and noise become a source of hope. Favorite track: Ever { I.I.MMXVI }.
j-kep
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j-kep A devastatingly emotional, intensely cathartic gem of an album. This is a hell of a debut LP. The production is picture perfect post-black deliciousness. Favorite track: Half Hands Won't Hold.
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1.
Droves 06:07
Murmuring voices amass Building toward the greatest wave Their torrential storm break against the highest walls Our palace Devoured by their storm Eloquent in its pursuit Consorting with a master call My world falls away With each turning Each passing day With the churning Rivers run red This storm alone Could quell our world entire Besot desire Still survives Swathed in the writhing waves Our stubborn hearts Fight against the current Absolved We join hands and accept To sink Deeper Beneath Swathed in the writhing waves We accept to sink deeper beneath Swathed in the writhing waves We accept
2.
Here again Toiled skin Shivering Wild eyes Cast over blanket ocean I’ve let my fire wilt Like charred bones Blistered and black Frail Fading embers Seeth Savage winter bends my will Pushed passed comfort Unfulfilled I cast each fear atop the pyre Every piece of prior peace Catches quicker than the last Consumed x2 Continued suffering through endless night x3
3.
Burdened By grief A waif A wretch Alone I walk For the end It’s hidden somewhere Bright lights that shine Brighter Longer than they need To take Onward I dwell into despair x2 Their lights Dismantle My inertia I see my end Before my time Folding to sweet release Rest now in your paper thin sleep I am so far from the end It seems we both sit silent On either side of this cruel divide I am nothing If not a child You were someone too grand to hold And we were ghosts all along We were ghost all along x4
4.
All But Lost 04:04
Waiting on a breeze A change of mind of clarity This fog of promise Had filled my heart For far too long And left me bloated I’ve lost myself The days of passionless tenancy Have reached out and devoured me Alone I am all but lost Used of everything I have
5.
Youthful hands Grope and grasp Finding comfort in each other Forming cracks between walls Forbiddance sought to seal Their breach and catch and cut the guilty Severed from their side’s These hands won’t hold another Through short supply of duty breeds disillusion That claws and clamours the walls Confrontation comes when eyes close In bliss of slumber Loyal I wait Arms raised Pleading Half I stand a broken man Half of what once could’ve been Phantom hands grasping Reaching nothing Consumed I break Deformed Draining These hands won’t hold another hand Confrontation comes once all eyes close In bliss of slumbers song
6.
Grasp For the corners Of the edge Black upon black The great expanse Embrace the yawning mirror And all those it keeps within Mirror born of self Reflecting back heresy I see myself Suspended My pendulous spirit A drop frozen above An endless black ocean I fear my thoughts become exposed Deliberate and complete Yet meticulously vague Unending in its spite Hidden in the opaque Protruding shards Rise from the mirror Dissect my form Convergence means The end of all things Beyond thought Beyond self
7.
Drift 05:57
Drift Into Possibility A faltering wish Observed worthless Abstract Undefined Remaining nonetheless It’s aperture silhouette Grievously bound With entrancing persistence Propelled Or held Hoping Standing in the gulf Potency Over aweing Expanding upon desire To glare ever deeper And go into Blissful Calamity It calls my name Forever It calls for me Standing in the gulf Potency Over aweing
8.
Looming Indelible Holding Over the ages Without Provision I ask to pass, from this place (There is no sound) where nothing grows (There is no life) Alone beneath the clouds (There is no light) a sun amidst the fog. Without strength The night groans Shadow’s won’t pass My will diminished as the apex climbs on and on Alone beneath the clouds Echoes wail and languish In the vastness Renewed only to fall again Propelled Skyward On and on
9.
Outlasting our hope The ever stretching stare Endless and fraught Our resolve is all but gone Blown like ribbons In the wind With faithless steps It stretches on We preserver yet Against our own Faltering will Ever on we’ve climbed To this moment Ever on To touch the sun You fill our cupped hands in communion For you compel the sun to burn And burn the winds away You are the beginning and the end The bridge on which we cross You are the beginning and the end The bridge in which we cross. Could this dying hope Subdue the endless dark That climbs on To drag you under But with not a word Burn The sun will cast the sea asunder Never have I seen such beauty never have I felt such terror You may not see From so far and so high This sea of dark climbs behind To drag you under But with not a word Burn The sun will cast the sea asunder Never have I seen such beauty never have I felt such terror You are the beginning and the end For you compel the sun to burn You are the beginning and the end For you compel the sun to burn.

about

Cries of ‘more’ have always followed the exploits of STILL. With the release of their debut full length album, ‘{ }’, the hungry howls of both fans and critics will finally be sated.

With recording and mixing by Joe Clayton of No Studio (Leeched, Pijn) and mastering by Sam Vaney of Lead & Sulfur (Cortez, Throane), ‘{ }’, is a seed wrenched from the gloom by these masterful fingers and nurtured to new stomach churning heights.

‘{ }’ sees STILL take a volatile leap out of the shadows with a painfully inflective assessment of existence and the human experience; a tonal landscape stark and harrowing but not without beauty. Occasional flashes of majestic glacial black metal cascade across the scape scorching the rugged, thundering sludge and thrashing post hardcore. With every revolution of these jarring components the anguish expands, each passing dissonant harmony or devastating rhythm is enveloped in the crush of the next.

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released September 24, 2021

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Still Hull, UK

“...anything but still...” - Metalhammer (2019)

A24 Black Metal



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