Disgrace - Obscurity in the Azure
Disgrace ( founded '87 ) was one of the oldest death metal bands from Finland and pretty much started the Finnish death metal scene together with local band Xysma. Band recorded two demos 1990 which were titled "Beyond The Immortalized Existence" and "Inside the Labyrinth of Depression". Next year (1991) the signed in Seraphic Decay in America and recorded "Debts of Gods" EP.
The band finally recorded their first
LP ,"Grey Misery" in 92', after two demos and one EP. After Grey Misery bands style changed to more punk rock oriented style, in which they have remained till this far. Disgrace's musical and lyrical themes were pretty independent from the mainstream DM going on. Lyrical themes dealt with obscure and depressive themes in a phantasy coloured worlds with lots of symbolism involved. Musically they remained pretty surprising; progressive and swinging, by still not forgetting the DM riffs and melody.
This track is from their "Grey Misery" full-length ( 1992 )
Lyrics :
Buried alive
Man amidst the pandemonium
In a trench
Of mud and blood... anticipation
A helmet full of brain
It's forbidden to use 'em
Ear drums spoiled
By pressure
Eyes are gazing at eternity
Among the corpses and smoke
There's no immortality
The order is life
Futility kills
It dominates and affects
One and a thousand
Are a hundred
Anticipation and combat
Waste of all
Those hypocrites
They won't awake
"Hallowed be thy name!"
The ditches of vanity are beyond
The flag is the last guilt
The one...
A gauze for the journey
Thru the universe
You're flying
To the land of marble temples
Stories of a monster
And I've waited for my end
Fairytales of pouring lands
The stench of air putrified
Golden temple
Porcelain stairs
Inheretix, my mistress
I adore your calm mask
Pictures of tomorrow
Obscurity in the azure
Your horizon
Reflects your infernal continence
An aberrant mind above us, a sanctuary
Missing wanderers
Filled by vacuum
The holy centre of universe...