Arkona - Necropolis
Taken from "Stella Pandora", out on September 27 2024.
Video created by Lyric Video Factory ( / lyricvideofactory .
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"Stella Pandora", the impassioned and anthemic 8th album from ARKONA, finds the formidable Polish Black Metal pioneers supremely focused, superbly intense and aflame with melodic vigour.
Since their 1993 formation ARKONA have progressively fine-tuned and elevated their sound, and this follow-up to 2019's acclaimed "Age of Capricorn" advances the band further still, as they imbue each phrase with a sense of existential yearning - a wistful awareness of the past dying inside the present.
Powered by a watertight rhythm-section, the band create sweeping and elegiac arrangements of neo-classical, folk-infused vehemence. Windswept and elemental leads, textural orchestrations and pitch-perfect storytelling from cruel, anguished vocals propel emotive Black Metal of the highest quality.
Conceptually, "Stella Pandora" examines the inevitability of death and the pointlessness of fighting against human destiny: when faith is but a shell aimed at manipulation, myth becomes the only truth in the senselessness of existence.
Lyrics translated to English :
From dead cities where the bones turn black
The flame of the soul remain in the darkness
Where skulls turn to dust
The coldness of the stone will warm us
From dead cities where the towers are high
They reach deep into the Earth, to its bowels
In cities where the walls are wide
Blood soaks in, to satisfy thirst and hunger
Where whispers are screams
What will open closed eyes
Where teeth are sown like seeds
To feed them, to the maggots
From dead cities where the bones turn black
The flame of the soul remain in the darkness
And the darkness will devour it, and the light will spit it out
And will be entwined forever in a dull embrace
Nothing that once was, lasts forever
Nothing that happens will matter
High above the stars
Our beings have ascended
Dead fields covered with dust
Body filled by cold wind
Among walls full of darkness
Damned souls are howling
Cemeteries and fields full of corpses
The remains rotting in the pits lie dormant
A dream of eternal suffering
Dead fields covered with dust
Body filled by cold wind
Among walls full of darkness
Damned souls are howling
Cemeteries and fields full of corpses
The remains rotting in the pits lie dormant
A dream of eternal suffering