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Darkness of God

by HEAVING EARTH

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Dmitry Nevozhay
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Dmitry Nevozhay Masterclass of songwriting in complex multilayered dissonant techdeath, nevertheless with high accessibility. Perfect composition and rendition. God-tier band, future classics of genre Favorite track: Flesh-Ridden Providence.
mourner
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mourner Heavinc Earth is just fantastic. Intricate and powerful, dissonant and harmonic, technical snd progressive yet accessble. Short: buy it allready. Favorite track: The Lord’s Lamentations.
citysavage
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citysavage Heaving Earth is an apt name for the band. Darkness of God heaves, tosses, and body-slams like a raging molten sea, pausing only for brief interludes of calm so you can catch your breath. Highly recommended. Favorite track: Flesh-Ridden Providence.
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1.
Ignite the flame of violence At the dawn of wrath For we shall not see the real holy trinity The killer, the rapist and the deceiver Seated on the thrones you’ve made And let them judge the living and the dead At the right and the left hand of God you stay Marking your path with the deeds most vicious Indoctrinate Manipulate Annihilate Cement our faith Through oppression and suffering Re-create the dead body of the redeemer With the blood torn from our veins Provoke the doubtful Ignore the lament of the meek Have no mercy Feast upon their foolish hopes Rise above The civil law and justice Impose thy moral codes with sword and fire Rise above The age of reason Proclaim thy will supreme
2.
Can you hear me from the depths I’ve fallen From the cage of thorns you made and left me hopeless Flies circle around the dead body of mine Still my heart keeps beating But nothing can comfort an empty hollow soul Lord, why have you forgotten me How come I can’t reach you anymore There’s nothing I can relate to in places I used to adorn Thy servants so odd and hostile They see through me And speak words that shatter like glass Comfort my soul like sleet and acid rain Lord, why have you forgotten me Banished from light With fear I stumble and fall Every time I struggle to rise Seeking redemption From the misery you’ve been dragging me through Have pity and uplift the rotting essence of mine Burned and swallowed by seething darkness The darkness of God
3.
Clans of hyenas Make your way to the herd And sing unto the Lord the same song of mass deception Declare his decrepit glory among the nations And use the power of suggestion and fear For Lord’s wrath is to be feared Honour aside The world once established shall not be moved Give unto the Lord the glory Don’t mind it all has been taken down Lying in ruins Poison the fields of the earth and all that is herein Let clouds and darkness enshroud the judgement of all living For his righteousness has to be seen Declare his decrepit glory among the nations Use the power of deceptive persuasion Bring sacrificial lambs and lead the herd into his courts Stripped of all strength and beauty Honour aside The world once established shall not be moved Give unto the Lord the glory Don’t mind it all has been taken down Lying in ruins Worship the Lord in the dismay of the punishment eternal Sing unto the Lord Bless his name Let resound the echo of the void Illuminate the fading light and brace the crumbling structures Apologetics: defenders of morbid fantasies Proclaim thy faith rock solid, carved in stone But even stones and rocks erode And great would be the fall
4.
Raise the monuments of earth and stone and bone The final perfect image in the form Of everything in heaven and in the waters below Thou shalt bow down thyself to them and serve them For I the Lord, thy Lord Am not a jealous God Refill the chalice of the holy thirst Reward thy offspring with the dish of the sacred hunger Choirs from thy spires caress thee and bless thee The icon of a hundred mouths is devouring thy cattle and thy goats Devotion and precision Forgotten vowels, mortal words in endless permutations To each deity a faith, ebony altars, ivory thrones In newfound bizarre combinations God‘s features distort Mutated beyond comprehension To each new Lord his own Ebony altars, ivory thrones Lo and behold Raise them high Let them reign supreme Forever deceiving dismal gods For his faith is a consuming fire Let the fire forge the man himself For his faith is a flowing water Let the water fill the man himself So that he may know Raise their monuments of earth and stone and bone The final perfect image takes its form Atrocities of heaven and the waters below Thou shalt bow down thyself to them Forever deceiving dismal gods
5.
Cardinal Sin 06:13
Blessed shall be he who takes lives Of the most vulnerable ones And seizes them with the burden of sin Since they are supposed to come Like that since birth Leave a stain that would not heal Make them suffer For the rest of their lives Living in shame Infest their lives with a cardinal sin O Father Conceal thy failure in a putrid haze Infest their lives with a cardinal sin O Father Conceal thy failure In a putrid haze of sanctity God delusion in a form of ulcers grows As anger cumulates Burnt out and bleeding In a cyclic mass of hope and desperation Stigmata eternal, wounds that never heal But drag you down like a mark of dishonour Father, thou hast brought nothing Cover yourself in shame Inflict their lives with a cardinal sin O Father Conceal thy failure in a putrid haze Lock thyself in a shelter Of all despicable liars In the deepest depths of abomination O Father, heaven awaits Burning with fire and brimstone Buried on the darkest day of the year O Father, blessed be thy coffin and thy rotting remains Words of final commendation and farewell go unheard While holy water sprays all over As a reminder of a life you wish you could have Servants of filth Receive his soul and present him to the Lord of all worms and vermin Into thy hands we commend this cowardly swine
6.
As the Moon hides the circle of the Sun, now the grave has hidden thee Thy mortal body eclipsed in death, like flesh of all mortal men The flesh of so called God buried beneath the earth Consumed by darkness, leaving no trace of hope It is our right to despise thee, giver of plague For thou has stretched our arms upon the cross with no redemption It is our right to despise thee, giver of death For through thy passion we are condemned to suffer a thousand deaths Dead in appearance, yet alive through mythos, O Jesus, Thou leadest up the fallen from the earth to nothingness O Christ, the failure, by thy death thou hast invoked death And murder became art and fountain of anguish for the world It is our right to despise thee, giver of plague For thou has stretched our arms upon the cross with no redemption It is our right to despise thee, bringer of death For through thy passion we are condemned to suffer a thousand deaths Uplifted on the cross, thou hast uplifted with thyself no one But the weight of thy own grief Stretched out upon the wood, thou hast drawn mortal men To unity in death and misery I feel nothing to thy passion and sufferings I won’t praise thy burial By abandoning thy word I am set free I shall not be ashamed For I have erased thy words from my memory Forsake me utterly
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8.
Great rejoicing Tore the night asunder At first light, the spear was driven through its chest The lamb was calm And from the way it fell Omens were drawn As to the welfare of the commonwealth Let thy neighbour be thy scapegoat instead of thy beast For to err is human Place all the sins of the world upon his shoulders For human is the animal divine May ashes and chalk cover the face of the unworthy Spare us from mercy on whom we could have known Hath not thy hand made all these things Let the tainted fleece cleanse the blood that the sheep have spilled Tears of joy caress their cheeks A distant gaze of wide open eyes O misfortune, leave our doorsteps as we soften the celestial scorn A gentle smile, a nod of agreement When the honest work is done High heavens reflected in pools of black and crimson Their perfection descends upon the ground In an image reversed
9.
Go forth, O tortured souls, from this world In the name of God who created thee Like a fruit that has grown in thy light Becometh a nest of worms in thy shade Blinded by the great deceiver Spreading the words of blasphemy Away from God and thy Holy Church Forsaken upon funeral pyres Go forth, O fallen souls, from this world In the name of God, who created thee Those who raise their voice against thy holy teachings Those who have no hope but thy mercy Blinded by the great deceiver Spreading the words of blasphemy Away from God and thy Holy Church Forsaken upon funeral pyres May thy holy words and thy pristine law proceed Consumed by flames, redeeming black clouds of death Reaching higher Towards unending heavenly skies Dispersed and absorbed Contagious sinful essence turned to ash Revolted by the stench of a burning sin I turned my face away with grief

about

Far too often, we are asked to settle for the mediocre and the uninspired - to accept that our existence will be a miserable slog of workaday tedium. This is the expectation foisted upon us by life in the 21st century. And sadly, too many artists in scenes that are supposed to embody the spirit of extremity and opposition to trends are happy to oblige. Prague's HEAVING EARTH is not among them.

Since their crushing 2010 debut "Diabolic Prophecies", and through the blistering 2015 follow-up "Denouncing the Holy Throne", HEAVING EARTH have pushed the envelope of intensity and creativity in their style of chthonian death metal. Now, after a seven-year wait, with a new recording lineup, they have returned with "Darkness of God", an album that represents an unprecedented evolution for death metal.
"Darkness of God", from the opening doom-infused reverberations and sudden blasting onslaught of "Violent Gospels (Ordination of the Holy Trinity)," to the dizzying lead melodies of instrumental "Earthly Kingdom of God in Ruins," to the unnerving clean guitar strums at the close of "Woeful Redemption," is an album that abhors comfort and complacency. Every riff slithers, warps and twists through multiple iterations before flowing seamlessly into the next. Every song is a distinct experience in its own right, yet fits perfectly into the greater mosaic of the album's 49-minute runtime. While most of their peers are content to write songs as collections of disparate riffs with a tenuous sense of continuity, HEAVING EARTH have mastered the art of cohesive, yet challenging thorough composition. And though the band is unafraid to explore any avenue for inspiration, and employs dynamics to tremendous effect, they never cross the line into gimmickry and always remain firmly committed to the essence of infernal death metal.

One would be remiss not to mention the production work of Andrea Petucco (AD NAUSEAM) which impeccably captures both the ferocity and unpredictability of the album, with a mix that makes every detail of the instrumentation easy to discern, and a DR10 digital master that rejects the Loudness War standards, which have turned so many metal albums in the digital era into a brick-walled mess. 

This is death metal for those who refuse to settle for "pretty good."
This is death metal forged in the belly of the underworld.
This is HEAVING EARTH.

credits

released May 27, 2022

"Darkness of God" line-up:
Marek Štembera - vocals
Tomáš Halama - guitars
Martin Meyer - guitars
Tomáš Ledvina - bass

Drums recorded by Giulio Galati (Cosmic Putrefaction, Continuum of Xul, Hideous Divinity, Nero di Marte) in autumn 2019 at 16th Cellar Studio
Vocals, guitars and bass recorded during the years 2020–2021 at Davos Studio

Mixed and mastered by Andrea Petucco at MSTR Sound Studio

Additional sounds created and arranged by Tomáš Halama and Ota Hobst except for sounds created by Gleb Kanasevich – used with permission of the owner

Cover artwork by Sözo Tozö

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