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The Shrine of Mad Laughter Lyrics
God of terror, very low dost thou bring us, very low hast thou brought us...
A sensation of everlasting rot and those frantic wails, no, it is not a fall into the abyss, the defiance of descent, a coronation beyond liberty and slavery; the cry of woe and deliverance exudes a flame, evasive as sound and ether: an instant of collusion with death, without hope nor prospect, yet it is a world below and above and in all eternity, a gift of fever, the wind of death that sustains the life in me, yes, the lightness of hovering in permanent anguish; I dared to borrow those words, to articulate them and to savour their turpitude, as I beheld the shrine of mad laughter.
The limit is crossed with a weary horror: hope seemed a respect which fatigue grants to the necessity of the world.
As if Death was dashed onto the death within, a violent thrust stealing the light of the eyes, a ray of darkness, a negation, the bread of bitterness that ignites neither devotion nor fervour; resplendent nothingness! make all things appear with clarity, ruined in the flame of repudiation, in the flame of God! Interwoven joy and confusion, a stabbing confusion, asphyxiation from within, yet I gained this certitude: malediction, degradation, sown in me like seeds, now belonged to death, in harbouring a desire for the hideous, I was beckoning to death. Insatiable combustion, expand, this body is the vessel of grace!
The idea of God is pale next to that of perdition, but of this I could have no inkling in advance.
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varulf On Aug 12, 2007
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woah is all i can say to this song, and that i'm really angry that this band as so few fans i also have no idea what this song means just yet
Amazing song and even more of an amazing album. Despite these guys getting top honors in several metal magazine for one, if not the best, album of the year; the reasons they don't have more fans is 1. They never play live, 2. Never grant interviews to the media (as far as I know), 3. No one knows anything about them
However these reasons serve to add a mystique to the band that makes them that much more intriguing. It seems so rare nowadays that black metal bands can have good production AND sound truly evil. This is definitely one of the most evil sounding records I have heard in a while.
Anyway, I think this song is an affront to God and all things that God stands for. The speaker seems to embracing the "left hand path" and taking pleasure in sin.
Yeah these guys are really underground. If they did what you said their whole mystique would be gone and they might not be as cool. It is really cool of them not to do shows because these guys completely bypass the whole "black metal scene" by not dressing in corspepaint and that help them do what they do better. This is a perfect example of extremely good underground music done right.
Yeah these guys are really underground. If they did what you said their whole mystique would be gone and they might not be as cool. It is really cool of them not to do shows because these guys completely bypass the whole "black metal scene" by not dressing in corspepaint and that help them do what they do better. This is a perfect example of extremely good underground music done right.
these lyrics owe a lot to one of Batallies "inner experience" essays. I think it’s called "the torment." After reading that the song will probably have further meaning.
this song is only about religion in so far as all of deathspell's lyrics have religious foundations- perhaps the most valid origin of cognition considering God's incessancy- he is the conclusion of will thus a fundamental part of humanity, no matter what the atheists will tell you (but the conceivable God can certainly be dismissed)
With 'fas...' i get the impression the whole thing is a sort of flow of consciousness that has been heavily refined to incorporate the authors seemingly genuine convictions of inverted religion. The concepts intertwine between songs, and though a poem also seems to act as an essay, an arguement against conventional, human thought subject and enslaved by greater powers. They are supposedly professed satanists i beleive though my reading indicates that the writer is just forlorn in the mentioned 'divine conflict'. The themes that strike me most are the ones of celestial proximity (e.g. where humans are between heaven and hell) and invertion. There is also an incredible sense of entrapment 'I dared to borrow those words', words i assume to be the later mentioned in the album 'language of resistance', or blasphemy- words that bring inevitable condemnation. I would write more but it is past 3 am and my mind has gone blank.