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The Ircath Cometh

by Aeons Of Khaalii

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1.
(8 12 9 0 0 0 78/The Ircath Cometh) On earth, and then the reek The black night's inauspicious The dire dust that precedes the morning drew its terrible shadow over the newly lit faces and plunged its flame to darken its little hills that made us and the earth The Ircath Cometh It clung to, and turned our dryness to dark It made us into fools in its own eye When the sun went from its dim place And the night and starlights gleam (With a dark and ominous glare) That monstrous frequency from space Was what the slight changes of colour Called for when the sun fell Far around, from a distant world We saw the firs of the hills covered In a mist that colored them red We saw the late dawn ascending, moving slow With a fire of crimson glazing them down (And when the light of day never again shone on earth) It clung to, and turned our dryness to dark it made us into fools in its own eye When the sun went from its dim place and the night and starlights gleam (With a dark and ominous glare) That monstrous frequency from space was what the slight changes of colour called for when the sun fell In furious wrath The Ircath arrived ‡ Into the fray ‡ It clung to… (With a dark and ominous glare) That monstrous frequency from space was what the slight changes of colour called for when the sun fell (8 12 9 0 0 0 78)
2.
Legend 01:21
(They are the eld, also known as the bharlak or ov'u (They are the devourers of worlds) (They are the Ircath and their old-father Uldeath) (The unbelievers of men, the bewildering and disgusting) (They are the dastard, the irridescent ones) (They are the unwhole · They are the Irratians) (They are the Ircath)
3.
What am I? What are you? This is what they are This is what we are (Let us become one) In the sky watch for the lights Each one of other conquests spoils Each one a fire never to cease Weaving the circle that harvests our dreams See the circle form in the sky Brighter than the sun ‡ Orion belt ‡ One by one – Like a storm of light One by one – Falling from the sky One by one – Fire in the night One by one ‡ Sollicitans ‡ (What am I? What are you?) One by one – Like a storm of light One by one – Falling from the sky One by one – Fire in the night One by one – The new gods will arise This is what they are This is what we are (Let us become one)
4.
(Upstream) Their eyes are nothing but black pools Watching you from afar (Process) Their eyes have no texture (Learning) Those terrible eyes (Understanding) Watching you from afar ‡ The alien scale ‡ Resisting (Watching) See if you do not weep The terror it inflicts (Watching you from afar in your dreams) See if you do not weep The terror it inflicts (Watching you from afar) ‡ Beautiful butcher boy ‡ Flashes of terror (Watching) Mind carved up (Understanding) Their eyes (Knowing) What do they see? (Destroying) See if you do not weep The terror it inflicts (Watching you from afar in your dreams) See if you do not weep The terror it inflicts (Watching you from afar) (Destroy, Destroy, Destroy)
5.
I grasp at the remnants of my self With all my force And as I start getting lost Inside their eyes I feel the warmth of letting go The warmth of letting go And then I start calling them And then I let go And then I fall to become one And I embrace the heat Ohh, the warmth of letting go
6.
Devour me, renounce me, consume me, obtain me, weave me, construct me, extract me, retain me, enlighten me, complete me, sustain me, destroy me, submit me, perfect me, infect me, use me ‡ A strat in the rain ‡ Expectorate my spirit into the sun I welcome you, I suffer you Come onto me (The circle is never a lie) Consume me Consume me whole (The circle is never a lie) Obtain me Obtain my soul Intertwine me and use me whole Make me a part of thee Let me join your weave – I shall stay Oh, Uldeath, kill me (The circle is never a lie) Consume me Consume me whole (The circle is never a lie) Obtain me Obtain my soul (The circle is never a lie × 8) ‡ What is this button for? ‡ Oh, Uldeath, come for me at dusk I surrender myself to the new dawn (The circle is never a lie) Consume me Consume me whole (The circle is never a lie) Obtain me Obtain my soul ‡ Found the distortion box half way through ‡ Oh, Uldeath, kill me ‡ It’s just a Squier ‡ Kill me (No)
7.
The Circle 03:34
‡ For a few *** more ‡ (I await your embrace × 2) ‡ Ascension ‡ I am ripped apart I am dismembered I am destroyed I’ve become terror and I’ve become one I am the circle
8.
(Suffer not thy pain and shudder) Surely I'm free (We hate no more) And even hide thy horror From our lips – we are all Then one sorrow, one joy, one blast When it falls like a wave On our chaste hearts. I have long longed for a sacrifice Of all we ever have conceived (We hate no more) Uldeath is without blame Because the burden is seen, And the terror is dreamt That there is no release. I have long longed for a sacrifice Of all we ever have conceived In the mad frenzy that flashed Through our blood like wild fire One blast – one blast (We hate no more) ‡ Major pain ‡ I have long longed for a sacrifice Of all we ever have conceived In the mad frenzy that flashed Through our blood like wild fire (I am forever greatful for now humanity is one with all – all with one) WE ARE IRCATH! I have long longed for a sacrifice Of all we ever have conceived In the mad frenzy that flashed Through our blood like wild fire (8 12 9 0 0 0 78)

about

See video for Transhumanist here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3f4tdvKBvs

This album was thought up as an experiment in free flow album production. I quickly decided on a theme (aliens attacking earth), fired up my strange friend, the AI text generator "Talk to Transformer" @ app.inferkit.com/demo and fed him beginning sentences and let him do his soothing magic (it took several tries to create something that I could fake into an overlying storyline). I pasted some names (the aliens are called Ircath/see the song 'Legend') and voilà: lyrics for 45 minutes of music created in less than 20.

Now to the DAW (digital audio workstation). I just recorded everything that came to mind in the quickest way possible, never overthinking anything. I just let it flow freely from my mind directly into the DAW – part by part, singing the eerie computer generated lyrics before the next part was even written. I also decided to use a vocoder a lot, so to speak as my alien counterpart, now and then either discouraging my will to live or harmonizing with me in a chorus.

Since the guitar is the only instrument I feel proficient enough to even record, I tried to use it in a much different way than what I am normally doing.

For example in the first song the only rhythm guitar I actually *played* was one power chord on a b-standard tuned guitar, that I recorded two times for left and right channel. I copy, pasted, cut, reversed, time/pitch shifted this beauty to oblivion never caring of destroying the sound (which I did) and that's what you hear on that track.

Same stuff with the solos/lead stuff. Most of them are first takes highly edited in a pitch shifting tool.

I did much similar things in all songs, except maybe on 'The Last of Man: Blood Song', which is a more traditionally recorded song, that I found with huge parts already being done on my old PC.

The album was thus finished subsequently in about eight Saturday evening sessions.

Also, there might be some involvement of fermented barley during the making of this record.

Well, so much for my PSA, thanks for listening!

P.S.: since Transformer did most of the work, I’ll let him have the last words:

*It was a great experience to make this album. I* can't wait to release this on vinyl and give it away. The songs are not just songs. The idea of that band was also to make the band a thing. So all the other bands I met up with were on the same wavelength, and I was just like, "F**k these, we got to work on that."

Did you have to spend time on this project?

The album is really a concept album. It's not a concept album. It's a song.

credits

released September 20, 2020

All songs composed, written, recorded and somewhat mixed and mastered by Kali Naumann.
All Artwork by Kali Naumann.
All lyrics are edited inventions of AI text generators guided and lectored by Kali Naumann.
Vocals, burps and handclaps on „The Circle“ by Schmidt.

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