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A FRITH BEFOULED

by AEIR

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adrian gonzalvo I hear a lot of Prelapsus and Beautiful is this Burden in this song, it carries the same massive emotional weight Light Bearer did. I’m blown away. Favorite track: A FRITH BEFOULED.
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Ascend, eye of Phoebus. Daystar, my warmth, shed your light upon this Stygian pantomime. Weep at the vista before you. Burn your mark on its expanse. Witness the facade of a primitive civilisation. Why do they toil for a lesser being? Why do they ache without relent? Such asinine fragility. A democracy of feudal design. Dancing. Pleading. Raping. Let us entertain these peons as they whimper before their coronated shepherds. Let us observe their woes…

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A Frith Befouled

Bound beyond
Mercy corrupted
Blood of the attainder
We serve the bonds

The faceless thralls of Varangian assault
Harvested steppes Beyond Byzantium

Penitence for the barren
A tithe for a blessing
Gorged to oblivion
Like the wretched abandon
Of sentient thieves

We drudge in odium
We till the sepulchre
We harrow and burn
Without tenancy,
Without refuge. Refuge.

We, with deadwood and piety
Without tenancy,
without benign asylum
Satiate the keepers law
Serving the bonds,
serving the will
Of the possessor

Expelled from the autarchy
Our chattels bereaved
Annexed to a kingdom
Immured by excess
At the foot of majesty
Assembled in tremors
With eyes to the sun
Crying out ‘armistice’

Bound beyond
Mercy corrupted
Blood of the attainder
We serve the bonds

De rerum natura, Such liberty
Our demense, Our labour
To toil and to be Our Vassal awaits
To survey
Such fealty
De rerum natura

Such liberty
Such fealty
Such villeiny
De rerum natura

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Taken from the forthcoming album A FRITH BEFOULED due out mid 2022 on vinyl, CD, and digital on Moment of Collapse Records.

Recorded 2021 at Holy Mountain Studios, Hackney
Engineered by Stanley Collins Gravett & Chris Fullard
Mixing by Misha Herring
Mastering by Matt Colton
Art by Bethany White

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AEIR London, UK

AEIR is a narrative-driven progressive sludge metal collective based in the UK and the US; featuring current and ex-members of Light Bearer, Momentum, and Basement.

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