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R​á​n

by Aetherra

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schweineöhrchen You can tell that a lot of love went into this work, the record is bursting with ideas, melodies and complex rhythms. Definitely more than just an album to listen to on the side, you definitely have to listen carefully not to miss anything. Krater is a banger. Favorite track: Krater.
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1.
Schwärze 05:43
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Weh mir Es ist vollbracht Mein Freund Vertan Leuchte Saphirblaue See erstrahle im Ersten Tageslicht der siebten Woche Aus allen Poren schwappt Der Geysir der Schöpfung erwacht So nehme ich, Zug um Zug, das Salz füllt meine Lunge, Anfang und Ende der Wende meiner Zeit Schwärze zerpflückt die See Umschwärmt die Kapsel der Farbenspektakel um mich Vermehren Dunkelheit Einsamkeit In der Schlucht des Meeres Ich ziehe dich herab in mein Reich Möge die Schwärze unser beider Leid sein Kollabiert dein Ohr Bricht deine Knochen Zerfetzt deinen Halt in dieser Existenz, verdaut Kälte umgibt dein Sein Fülle, längst vergessen Leere verschlingt, Schlächter, unendlicher Schmerz Wird auch Dein Die Metamorphose beginnt
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Empress 06:08
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Black are the broken days, The bones of old towers, Glowing coals in the heath, Ruins of the red bride’s reign. Each night the sun sheds her blood You behold your stolen self’s root As my pale face Etched into the lake. White widow, yet unfelled - I’ll haunt every mirror, I’ll hunt the last shadow home. Still pain and death are all that will grow From the open hands of loss - So don’t blame my open heart As it demands your stolen souls’ blood. My claws will unravel Every dusk, shatter the shells Of a thousand wells and drain Your dreams to paint my own again, Write the verse that gives your nightmare a name. Thus, I begin my ascent Onto the throne
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Fylgja 09:04
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Fall from far Cut in half, no fear or flight Feel no wraith Obey to your duty of Saving all Protect with your integrity Fylgja My tormented spirit, Just, impeccable scholar Set to drown Omnipresence, always unleashed Set to the earth, forcing protection Ever-synchronized act of Indifference of consequence No voice or form to interact Greatly bound to fate See the oceans rise, watch your master burn From angst he fails In self-despair Doubt the point of life Lose internal prowess Fylgja My tormented spirit, just, impeccable scholar Set to drown Wish to Wake up and see From your own eyes, Cleanse and find your way out of The spiral Disconnect all bonds Find meaning in stillness Balancing out the waves Open the portal Steer into the abyss Let them Fall Let the end arrive where it has to For not all can be saved Where sorrow lies under solemn peace Revelation is obnoxious
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Deconstruct 05:56
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Deconstruct the dream that blinds you, shrouds that veil scaffolds of shame Release the dark Beneath our chagrin, the holy weight of ancient light within impales a pale moon’s twin Glaciers Decapitated By the solar born The open mouth of The favourite son Fed scraps of stars to grow indifferent to nights too dim to carve their scars into our eyes Deconstruct the lies that bind you shrouds that veil scaffolds of faith Release the dark, withing the grouts of our plight The pagan prayer rotting between your fangs The faceless nightmare
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Rán 05:59
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Hear the silence Beneath the waves Wash away The shame and the sins Of withering and decay It’s always been the ocean Roaring songs for the deaf She takes your breath Watch the sun drift away As I rise from your grave Pierce the skin of time, There’s no memory you can save From the net that I have tied From a thousand tears, a thousand cords, From your nets that reaped my womb For a thousand years, carving your tomb This desert holds no records But my heart remembers all All these years I’ve waited To hold the vessel of your soul Remember the blood, Remember the tears You were born here Earth child, so close now Don’t close your eyes Remember the pain, Remember my name For I am the light Crossing the distance From the shore You came home at last Now lay your head down Rest in my arms
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Krater 05:56
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Zerbrochen Zerteilt, vervielfacht Schattentanz des Epilogs Prognostische Ignoranz Die Untersterbliche zersplittert Müde, aus den Trümmern Atmen fällt mir schwer Ketten ersetzt durch Die Existenz Verbrennt mein Fleisch kocht mein Blut So betrachte ich zynisch Und suche den Kern Ikarus, Dekadenz, Ausbeutung Nagel um Nagel ins eigene Kreuz Zieh vorbei, die Schatten werden lang Der Thron ist leer Niemand auch nur Willens Zu schwer Die Bürde der Einsicht Wende den Blick ab, verdränge die Pflicht Bis der letzte Rest verbrennt Es birgt eine historische Ästhetik, dass Ausgerechnet die selbst erkorenen Untiere Verstümmelt, wimmernd, gebrochen und von Panik erfüllt Hilflos, kratzend und klammernd Kauernd im eigenen Erbrochenen Und Dreck der Zeit Niemand hört sie klagen Kein Schrei ertönt Gefangen Im Todeskampf des Seins Fäulnis‘ dichter Dunst nimmt mir die Sicht Doch das Bild, dass ich seh, ist ganz klar Dichter Dunst nimmt mir die Sicht Als das Ende sich mir offenbart So suche ich In Ruinen uns aus starren Krallen Und das letzte Licht des ersten Tages Als allerletzte Emanzipation Wird mir gehören Mir ganz allein Selbst den Sinn nicht verdient Den hat es nie gebraucht Die Mutter empfängt ihr Kind Die Erste ist nun Rein Im Todeskampf des Seins.
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Mimir 08:11
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Quiet now, fall asleep A while back noone knew You fulfilled your deeds Rest now Beheaded king of grace Wisdom’s spreading through blood Once coiled in your mind now rushing through the draft of our kind crimson light weeping off a last flutter, flickering of amonument worlds legacy pure soul be withered soughed with radiant red abandoned grain, bent, never to be fed by the maelstrom, the force, of your vision Mimir, speak your truth Stumble out the dark to see Stars shimmering above Hidden away for too long now To remember Hollow existence now fulfilled Us The children of collaps Who were never willing to touch the curtain of fade But still eager to reach and take What’s left Drought has come Unholy gift of suns Serpents pierce earth Carcass what once kept the source The nourishment, spectral hemisphere Now bleak Spoil the black river Burn his remains To ashes Drought has come Rift in the earth Heresy has come to replace Judgment of fear Reasoning of hate Kneel to the blind of faith Mimir Speak your truth Crush the temples of prosperity Force abundance Purge the soil
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Winter 06:10
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Fade Autums rust away Cleans the soil Traces of blasphemic rot and blood Forth comes winter’s heir Sacred forthoughts tirade Doomed soul of the woods Relentless, your grave for long sought Your fear of what was Crimson clumps Hide away deep into unknown lands Better gather your ashes Than to ever adjust or reckon with change Unholy body forsakes Abundance and grief, Youth once was Percistence of bloodlief You hear the sound of the bells Calling down from his brittle Carriage Harvester’s here A whisp of forgotten tongues of the gods You follow The fall To your end Would you’ve just suspended The inherence of fear Your dread Gave in to forfeit Regret Winter’s moon sealed your death, you mourn The serenade of cataclystic serenity The warm shower Of liberation strikes your carcass, deforms Melts the ice, you’re free
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Missing 08:43
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Poising on trembling ground Where waves lured us To a blue plain, a blurred silhouette Where our sighs stretch the fragile night Oh, we've been sailing for too long Yearning for a distant shore You pray that I will always remember A reason to sail on For the waves to clear our way home Not to die without hope Yet in my dreams, my dying spirit Soars aimlessly across the water Nowhere on land have I felt This gravity before Bleached by the sea All light breaks in my eyes Cursed are these memories For keeping me alive For each night inside a vivid dream I drown I feel my lungs stretch and burn I feel my breath’s departure I feel this body as it ceases To be my own As the north wind reaps my soul One last time I hear the echo Of my voice cry out The prayer that has become Your name My sacrifice, the salt It still burns In every open wound As gods we shaped the land Now we are lost In this borderless nightmare Nowhere the promised paradise Now the day has come All time has slipped Beneath the surface, As thunder cracks our shell And her hunger breaks the ground

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Revolving around self-reflection, mysticism and mythology in a Progressive Black Death Metal outlet, Rán will crush you with ever-changing compositions, ranging from down-tuned death metal riffs, over mountain keeps of black metal, not hesitating to lead you through valleys of proggy clean parts to rest for a while and listen.

A pretty long sentence, but listen for yourself!

Also, Aetherra is a solo project and with that completely self-produced and mixed.

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released October 11, 2023

Benedikt Brixius - Composition, Guitars, Bass, Programming, Production, Mixing
Christoph Thiem - Vocals
Marleen Fey - Lyrics on "Empress", "Deconstruct", "Rán", "Missing", Vocals on "Deconstruct"
Fabian Mader - Helped programming drums on "Winter"
Patrick Heitmann - Mastering

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Aetherra Bonn, Germany

Aetherra is the solo project of Benedikt Brixius and resolves around mysticism and self reflection in the form of a progessive black/death metal outlet.

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