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Shadow Self Psalms

by Amid The Barren And Lost

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Darknight Amid The Barren And Lost absolutely slay it on there debut album.A stunning new UK metal band that everyone who likes metal should support this awesome band. Favorite track: The Beautiful Architecture Of Lies.
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1.
Murder, Is this something you’re failure omits to? Regress, Through our eyes, a parallax sight, Deceive, I’m the essence to undo myself, Unbound, Is this corruption that I embrace? In an endless broken age, We have found ourselves controlled by any, Faceless tyrant whore! That laugh at your own expense, Is this just? I am indifferent to this war, For the war will root out failure, I’m the only one to wear this virus crown. I am indifferent to this war, For the war will root out failure, I’m the only one who wears the defect proud. Murder, Is this something you’re failure omits to? Regress, Through our eyes, a parallax sight. You are the destitute, Deprived of all, You are the witless fool who fucks your enemy. I am indifferent to this war, For the war will root out failure, I’m the only one to wear this virus crown. I am indifferent to this war, For the war will root out failure, I’m the only one who wears the defect proud. I am indifferent to this war, For the war will root out failure, I’m the only one to wear this virus crown. I am indifferent to this war, For the war will root out failure, I’m the only one who wears this defect proud. Abort the crown, Swear to follow nothing, Redeem the sightless whore, Torn, are we, I am nothing but blood and bone.
2.
I overhear chattering deep in the walls, Their crippled whispers are a scourge to my thoughts, A distant calling, a traitor for all, I believe nothing as this logic is false, The treason's enduring, the treachery's potent. There is desire within this disease, A pitchless calling to relinquish our fear, Crawling infections we are, Crawling in filth of our own, Do you see the enemy? And I will never break the surface I made, A residual piety, And I'm sure that the promises said, Are dying words of the blind, There is hope in the blood that is shed, Seduce vermin with it, Drown in this, drown in lust, And believe in me... The needle teeth smiles, The laughter of knives, Your perception ends with the perfect pretence, As you follow the cause for no reason at all, This treachery, will follow me. And I will never break the surface I made, A residual piety, And I'm sure that the promises said, Are dying words of the blind, There is hope in the blood that is shed, Seduce vermin with it, Drown in this, drown in lust, And believe in me... Confide in truth that assails your belief, And forget us... Now! Confide in truth that assails your belief, You hear the voices that heartless surmise, Doubt, doubt. And I will never break the surface I made, A residual piety, And I'm sure that the promises said, Are dying words of the blind, There is hope in the blood that is shed, Seduce vermin with it, Drown in this, drown in lust, And believe in me...
3.
A counterfeit of innocence that I have faultless, A promise to reject to only repeat, Fear of the one thing I have, In my heart, I know awareness of this dogma keeps me free. Displace, Cut out, Into my open wounds. A residue of persona I now inhabit, A shell-like husk with a perfect echo, I uncoil, To an unfamiliar light, My blood seeps in an ocean of spite, So into my open wounds I pour this lie, I unfold, With these unfamiliar eyes. Antipathy sunk its hooks within this facade, I'm in awe of an unclean parasite, Fear of the one thing I have, In my heart, I know awareness of this dogma keeps me free. Displace, Cut out, I am not alone, Weakness, Impure, I shun the morning light. I uncoil, To an unfamiliar light, My blood seeps in an ocean of spite, So into my open wounds I pour this lie, I unfold, With these unfamiliar eyes. The rape of me. A poison of self, A dreamless abuse, I'm exiled from the gaze of the sun. Displace, Cut out, I shun the morning light. I uncoil, To an unfamiliar light, My blood seeps in an ocean of spite, So into my open wounds I pour this lie, I unfold, With these unfamiliar eyes.
4.
I cauterize these open wounds that, Fail my reason, I adore the sense, And everything that you have claimed inside this callous heart, I choose to free, The torpid thoughts that hide inside. Corrupt and pure within my bones, I’m saturated by all who deceive, So I dream within this darkness that you surely, Fail to see. And you are cursed, In all you are, The remnants of a false redemption, Judgement, reprieve, I have no desire to see, In you. This apathy, A torrent of scorn, Breathe in disdain, And exploit their love, To hold contempt and cherish derision that scalds my heart, Disparity has guided this minority. We are pure and corrupt, We are pure and corrupt, We are pure and corrupt. And you are cursed, In all you are, The reason for your false redemption, Judgement, reprieve, I have no reason to believe you, Prophets are false, They leave me distorted and caustic, Exiled within, And as I walk along this broken path. Taste the razors, Bind my shackles tight, Frail silence, You’re the nameless slave. And you are cursed, In all you are, The reason for your false redemption, Judgement, reprieve, I have to reason to believe you, Prophets are false, They leave me distorted and caustic, Exiled within, And as I walk along this broken path.
5.
I am the desire of wretches once proud, I dwell in sewage with the impaired, The influence of my disgust excites, Drunk in the knowledge of despair. Fortune, belittle me, I am a simple man. There is no doubt you'll follow me down, You are pathetic in your reason. We can stagnate, composing sermons, My house is open to all, And will you slip the grasp of all your animosity? No! Wallow with me and fall. You follow with your blindness in perfect line, Search for meaning in these calcine fumes, Holding your hands up to a burning sky, The pleading only bleeds contempt in your eyes... ...and your heart. Misguided minds, Asinine pretence, They walk on fault lines in droves, I dream they reap the shame of all there fake lucidity, I feel nothing at all. Fortune, belittle me, I am a simple man. Fortune, abandon me, Do as you always have. My blistered thoughts, construct these prisons, Mortars suffused with my guilt, These hooks they drag me to the depths of my depravity, Surge! As I drown in my soul. I relish harm, tormented visions, I dream you crawl to your facade, Your amour's frail with the lies you tell yourself again, Now! Wallow with me and fall.
6.
Between these failures, That I despise, Truth is despair, Failure repeats and kneels to none. Will it ever... Just let me be? I’ll be the one to govern all, So where has my love gone? Crowned in their own ash, Whipped by their beasts, Razors intoxicate me, I curse the heart that beats within. So I curse the eyes that wash over the pretext, They burn into my memory, My scars they weep within the shame of history, And I'm left inside the shadow. As you abuse, All my rewards, So I perceive, More then your, Cataract eyes see. Let it flow, I see more than your eyes, Will I honour? Will I endow? Will I let shame reason to my hate? Will I bow to the prospect of treason? Or break this feeble dependence? I dance alone in this void, And laugh along with my agony, My agony. Ending doubt, Waiting out, And all we are, Hate. Empower me with your contradictive spite, My last vestige of hope with the promise of pain, Astringent, Let it flow, In the void...
7.
The innocence of vehemence, The honesty of violence, The allure of the savagery, Brings forth the unimpaired despair, A state of finite suffering, One that I alone adore, My only true inheritance, Is death and my legacy... ...is dust My faith... ...is lost. A burning disease in my burning heart, A sullen belief in the morning star, I long for their screams, they nourish me, I’ve clawed away the taste of this humanity. Innocence, I see it all, For what it is, Virtuous hypocrisy, The guileless son, Remorse for none. Disparity is weakening me, A confusion of all the tongues they speak, Hold it all, Hold it close. Burn down, I walk alone in flames, Burn down, Drawn towards this shame. The innocence of vehemence, The honesty of violence, The allure of the savagery, Brings forth the unimpaired despair. Innocence, I see it all, For what it is, Virtuous hypocrisy, The guileless son, Remorse for none. A wasted atonement, I travail the lies, And kneel upon, The shards of their broken lives. I am lost, Mindless, Follow, Into this cursed life.
8.
My honour erodes, With remnants of the failures that I won't forget, Degenerate heart, I am the final nail that I drive myself. One day I will, I'll burn it all, And bathe in the ashes of guilt. Drown, The consumed and the derelict are perfect hosts, A parasite's lust, I'll wallow with the ingrates and their wasted chance. And so I wallow in the wasteland of, The wishes of the lost, The whimper of the whipped beast is, A calling to us. And I will not kneel, I won't succumb, For I've traded my faith, A sightless gaze, That only derides, You bury me. One day I will, I'll burn it all, And bathe in the ashes of guilt. And so I wallow in the wasteland of, The wishes of the lost, The whimper of the whipped beast is, A calling to us. And I will not kneel, I won't succumb, For I've traded my faith, A sightless gaze, That only derides, You bury me. And so I wallow in the wasteland of, The wishes of the lost, The whimper of the whipped beast is, A calling to us. The only constant is resented pride, Upon a road of bones, And nn the acrid haze I hear them laugh, Malignancy.
9.
This discipline and single minded obsession, Gathered from that Judas within. Oh the enmity, An amorous loss of, Self. It's inherent, Instinctiveness, It's reason enough, To waltz upon your broken bones and realise. No grace, no reprieve for bargaining, No distractions from the anguish in your selfish screams, No intentions lost, I wont ever wane, My morality's dictated by the debt I'm owed. Atrocities, The desire never fades. A residue of solace fades, Taste your tears, fall from grace, You're the source of your pain, I promise this, a slow release, Your contempt, your deceit, My one chance to dwell in bliss. I am mindfulness, I bless that venom in my veins, The final chance, To see your agony and watch you suffocate. I promise this, A slow release, Your contempt, Your deceit. It's inherent, Instinctiveness, It's reason enough, To waltz upon your broken bones and realise.
10.
Your eyes choose to deceive us, As they drown within a soul, Without form, without love, Born into a state of suffering. Where will you go? With the promise of affliction, Where will you go? With the vacancy, In your heart. Only forever in accursed dreams, Only forever will you drown within your soul. Will I believe the liars? Will I fall in line? Will I lose inhibition and accept the failures that are chosen for me? The beauty in your torn out heart, The beauty in your sirens lure, I fear the beckoning, I feel the reckoning, Consuming. Will I believe the liars? Will I fall in line? Will I lose inhibition and accept the failures that are chosen for me? Will I believe the liars? Will I fall in line? Will I lose inhibition and accept the failures that are chosen for me? Promises without blood inside, Reckoning to an end, see no light. You carved your loveless life into me, Your promises have spat in my face, The time we had has withered and bled, Emaciated memories fade.

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Amid The Barren And Lost
'Shadow Self Psalms'
2018

1. Of Blood And Bone
2. Plague In Paradise
3. Exiled From The Sun
4. Nameless Slave
5. Embers Of The Desolate
6. Womb Dance In The Void
7. Drawn To Flame
8. I Play The Victim Well
9. 12 Hours Of Violence
10. The Beautiful Architecture Of Lies

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released January 19, 2018

Sean Gibson - Vocals
Doug Cartwright - Guitars
Chad McCamlie - Bass
Leigh Costanza - Drums

All songs written and performed by Amid The Barren And Lost

Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Doug Cartwright

Artwork by Sean Gibson

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Amid The Barren And Lost is the focused and distilled sound of a quartet with one unified aim; the creation of the most uncompromising, progressive and pummelling heavy metal.

The core of the band's sound comprises crushing riffs and thunderous drums alongside a punishing vocal assault of dark, menacing lyrics, delivering a relentless sonic force not for the faint of heart.
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