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Toward the Empyrean

by Adora Vivos

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Jules Mord
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Jules Mord Gentlemen, hats off. Ever since I bought this EP I can't stop listening and wanting more. If you ever release a full album, believe you me, it's an instant buy. Favorite track: These Dark Roads.
Owen W
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Owen W Melodic doom metal is a fitting label for this gem of an album, with its strong melodies and great vocal harmonies balanced with just the right amount of heaviness and deliberate composition. It makes for a very accessible yet still very satisfying listen. It's a unique sound, and I look forward to seeing where the band will take it. Favorite track: Acceptance and Negation.
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CARPAGE Most excellent! Clean vocals are reminiscent of David Gold, from Woods of Ypres,RIP. All five songs are smokin'. Favorite track: Acceptance and Negation.
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1.
Facing adversity Humbly accepting my fate Under great scrutiny Resolved, my life must stay No one knows my tranquility Peace like winter's first snow But before this serenity There came a curse, a tragedy   And from that curse Sprang forth my plight To live in tortured state A simple mistake lead to disease A melting point for flesh So here I lay, decomposing The binding of my hate In rotting tranquility A simple word set forth my fate Tortured state of serenity Life amidst the flames of tragedy   Take my peace, tranquility And fuel your inner hate A burning coal with righteous fire That justice cannot define Take my hate, vitality The aesthetic source of flame A sacred scorching of the past That no one can deny What possessed you Overcame you Bleeding out, my soul Forced to sit and watch it drain An everlasting coal That stokes the fires with its hate And calls out all my pain A wicked curse that never ends Fighting all in vain
2.
Blind and stumbling Mad and wandering You fell into my path Laid your thread on mine The parting of your lips The parting of our ways Only memories remain Nothing heals with time The snakes of my past Dripping venomous fangs Mistakes and missteps Never to be undone Severed, a soul torn free From a future not to be Forsaken alone I will walk these dark roads Serpents of the heart Entranced and intertwined Constricting in their writhing’s Choking out the light The weaving of our ways Leading us apart Seasons standing still A winter cold and dark All the best of reasons For you to fade from me Before I become you And fade from myself Severed, a soul torn free From a future not to be Forsaken alone I will walk these dark roads These dark roads I'll walk alone For missteps, never undone Walk away from a season cold and dark Before I become you and fade from myself
3.
Torn from the essence, of a constant entity Into an ever-changing journey, to embark upon alone Calm breaks to chaos, light becomes obscured In a sleepless void of emptiness, the mind is rendered numb Fall away, release the fear Tear down, negate remorse Far away, I breathe again As all thoughts of you slowly fade Stand and face the agony, defy the storm and rise again Exult in the arms of exile, revel in this scorn Redesign the course of fate, with each step control regained Redefine existence and resolve to overcome Reminisce the steps mislaid, for this end to never come Yet retracing steps, a hollow task, when the error lies exposed To live the past anathema, is to become despair again Transcendence to a new life comes, when the past finds its end In my presence, the crushing weight of conscience In my absence, expectations die Stand and face the agony, defy the storm and rise again Exult in the arms of exile, revel in this scorn Redesign the course of fate, with each step control regained Redefine existence and resolve to overcome Embrace the end Acceptance brings negation From shame arise, defiant And spit in the face of destiny
4.
Luminous, intoxicating, the aurora of the sun Resplendent rays, cast a shadow, upon fading ruins A question of finality, and the ending of a dream Knowingly rests upon the tongue, of solitude and silence hewn The resounding cry of failure, the Autumn air consumes Fading to a memory, the warmth of summer's fire A frozen epitaph will stand, buried amidst a mantle of snow The wind will sing an elegy, of triumph, defeat and tragedy And so begins the fall A life departs this hollow shell An ember's smoke transcends the fire Released, ascending fate's design A monument of sorrow To a life long imposed Ashen remains of immolation Fading into Winter's desolation Fading, the ember dies Consumed, this life departs
5.
As silence falls the cadence fades Words so vile escape on wings born of tongues Infecting the mind of the shattered soul Evoking the frailty of ignorance Setting ablaze the serenity unspoken word Had long entombed in silent litany A facade of calm amidst the agony Spiraling back to the start of this depravity To rest in the solace, the arms of despair Amidst the idle agreement of false peace Or face the flames of adversity To accept the wisdom of scathing tongues For am I failure, the collapsing icon of loss For am I one with the bleak aethyr of nothingness Facile to yield to despair, the arms of tragedy Yet to what end shall I resign to agony And with every step I take Forsaking the path of a life forlorn Ascending the torment of the mind Forging onward toward the Empyrean Shadows of a past life Drenched in black aethyr Frozen in this coldness The strength to conquer my despair Flames of hatred rising Awakens the struggle to survive The will to recreate life The lure of nihilism endures In this moment, the failure of life and desire must be cast aside Exhausted, the final escape, this shell must depart in the flames of resurrection To the iron grip of solitude, I succumb, suffocate and thus transcend And wrest vitality from the cold hand of the dying soul Resolve to defy the chaos within The frail ideologies of this world For the mind is one's own, I am subject to none Save for those inflicted upon myself For every memory consumed in flame For every moment of life's past, inhumed in dusk These ashen remains, I cast unto the wind Resolve to embrace the fear and rise again And with every step I take Forsaking the path of a life forlorn Ascending the torment of the mind Forging onward toward the Empyrean Imposing walls within the mind, dull and glazed were these lightless, apathetic eyes Weathered by the shame of this unending storm, I lit the flames of hate just to feel alive again For shall I bend to another's will, embrace the fate given me? Or hold their lives in a steadfast grasp, rise from these ashes and erase all despair Lost was I upon this path of negativity An awakening of the soul, from death to life again A promise of a new beginning, and to transcend Through dark and light I walked these roads and found serenity And a peace that no one truly knows Acceptance and negation of this mortal coil

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released February 18, 2013

Joe Waller - Guitar/Vocals
James Benson - Guitar/Vocals
Jaden Adair - Bass/Vocals
Shawn Grim - Drums

Artwork by Gustave Dore, Editing by Jaden Adair
Mixed/mastered by Max Karon

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Musically exploring the dark and melodic doom metal of past and present, Rochester, MN based Adora Vivos came into being by crafting together each of the band member’s individual strengths and visions for dark metal.

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