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The Mournful Utterance

by Varanak

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1.
I feel the pain, solitary shame. I will exalt the love within me. I dreamed your heart was in my hands. But he holds it close with ball and chain. We grew so close as Delphic lovers. Never to be heard, never to be seen. For if the world knew, we would be done. Yet still I mourn for a time that will never come! In the life I was once loved I start to fade. My heart dies in her hands while I mourn. Its like I've faded in her eyes and memories. She lives on chained to the one she calls God. In this black fog of hate and misery, My sympathies wither away like shifting sand God give me the strength to stay alive long enough That she passes into memory, into the dust! Her eyes lead me to her heart, a warm caress. My pain leads me from her eyes, back to my hatred, burning for her. Her lips taste of shallow lies and deep remorse! The guilt inside her tears her apart as it does to me and my bloody heart!
2.
In the night I realize that I Push away all who I love. In the act of self preservation. To defend against loves mutation! Everyone deserves happiness, but I. The inside of my heart yearns for love but I reject it Because I do not deserve what they have to offer me. As hard as I try to break down these walls. They only grow higher, with each kiss my love. A push to contact is a push to suicide Then I crawl back towards the light! Everyone deserves happiness, but I. The flames rise higher, the walls go up, I will push you all away. And if you try to get inside my heart, I'll tear you up tear by tear! This time I swear to you I won't show any emotion back. Do not attempt to break me from my hell, I do not need to see the light. This burning hate I hold for myself, lives eternally inside. Now only in the end will I love again when I've died. Nobody will understand. I will not see your love as positive. Everyone deserve happiness...but I Why?

about

I wrote the music and lyrics for this release back in 2016 and did the initial recordings in 2017. By the time I had finished, I was already working on tracks that would appear on Demo MMXX and Relics Immemorial, so these songs no longer fit into what I was writing. Around October of 2021, I went back and revisited these tracks and they resonated with me. I rerecorded the guitars, vocals, and bass and worked out a kinks in the tracks.

Originally titled "Mourn", "The Mournful Utterance" can be seen as a relic of a different time of Varanak's musical evolution. Instead of monolith black metal, "The Mournful Utterance" explores the slower more somber aspects of Varanak, think Warning! or My Dying Bride but tuned much lower.

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released February 18, 2022

Varanak is:
Rz: Vocals, guitar, bass, songwriting


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Nick LaTorre: Drums

Steven Foster: Mixing and Mastering

Album cover by Justyna Koziczak

Layout by Crisanna Glasser

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One man atmospheric black doom.

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