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Exile Of Shadows

by Murk Rider

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1.
Descent 21:03
Tooth of earth, guide me Claw is the torch of the night On owl's wings I descend Frigid in terror Sacrificial lantern embody Cast bones to unveil Path sent downward – eclipse The shivering teeth Echo shrouded call of tribulation Harken to the call of ancestral horns Inhale nightshade smoke through iron tusks Red in tooth and claw, awaken to terror Descend Ashen foot crushing tooth and frozen marrow Through coffins are oaken forests Descend Raven's wing eclipse moonlight The tooth of the wolf is cold Descend Spinal eye awoken through serpent's fangs Elaborate maze is the will of god Descend Reveal arcturus, guardian of cavern's light In funeral pyres Awoken to darkness is waking to light Arrow – wing of the gods Seized by nightward rapture Lantern – blood of the oaks Ensconced eyes glare Sigil – awake speaking stones Mankind summon the eye of fear Chalice – purifier of poisons To be destroyed Fear – annihilate Prometheus lion-fire Speak pathward division to stray The soil is sacred The soil seeds path Mirrored awakening through blood and bone Skin of serpents The circle unborn, inborn Through flesh of ancient stones Traverse the labyrinth mineral waveform Enflame the psychic formic shield You are the shield Descend Shadow mirror labyrinth of a thousand eyes Descend Myriad cries of a nameless fear Descend Callous roots of frozen sentience Descend Ancient skulls are seeds of the sun Impervious wasteland Humanity deafened to the will of god Unmanifest destiny Beyond the tyrant's symmetry Herohood beyond Devouring jaws of fearful ignorance Backbone of night Project fire seeds of immortality Spiral inward ghost dance of shadow spirits Inward spiral ghost dance of shadow spirits Completion warrior sorcerer send eclipse Spiral inward through blood and flesh Completion warrior sorcerer send eclipse Spiral inward cracks the shell of time Behold The spiral leads down to caverns Of crystalline glory Magmatic demons arise Only to be conquered Hour of the wolf tribe Incarnate soul's freedom Through darkest earth I crawl Ensnared by thorns Embattled by ghosts In the crystal sphere My victory I perceive Hour of the wolf tribe Incarnate soul's freedom Freedom Pyre sphere illuminate Serpent's den of clarity Pyre sphere illuminate Serpent's den of misery Pyre sphere illuminate Serpent's den of ecstasy Pyre sphere illuminate Serpent's den of clarity Proteus Cast down golden hood of mortality Procyon Guide I to the edge Scythe blade wheel Destroy crystallization of time Psychopomp Reveal to I the key Eye of truth Project supercosm in the forests of the night Underworld Open doors Demiurge Feed upon rotted flesh of humanity Depth of darkness, enter my eye Scythe blade wheel Amulet of lightning warrior's animist spirit Riding horse Shaman's drum upon the edge of annihilation Proteus Annihilate self through tongue of flames Drilling skull Through stone burrow To the kingdom of the dead
2.
Journey 28:06
Scythe of waves crash down Inbehold black door Far beneath mortar of time and space Grip of oceanic terror Awaken to underworld realm Fell black serpent, watery domain Herein labyrinth sleeps fate’s well Enshrouded in vapors; distorted For he who would seek wisdom or death Echoing voices of ancient gods ring From cyclopean stone shell Spiral galaxies Chalice of spineless ones Fluid in ancient form Drinking serpent's blood Fasting beneath the blackening sky Devouring father, initiatory rebirth Grasping oaken peregrine staff Chasms of water towering down As lineage veins through blood Frozen halls, the hand Becoming a silent temple of flesh Sacred mistress deliver the sword Transverse desolate realm Beyond labyrinth forests Warp sword eye see the journey Conjure shadow through a circle of flames Task to be undertaken Voyage beyond the land of soil and stone Glimmering in the distance Diving down through obsidian waves Deliver the sword Riding tidal vortex of endless deep Do not falter Shapeshift back to hydrospheric form Deliver the sword To the altar Westward The mast ascends upon sea Of hallowedness Osprey guide My soul through tormenting waves To yonder shores Zodiac eyes of distant suns Charter this vessel Of a wandering sage Solitary exile Homeland but a memory To the night sea wanderer My horse I guide to seek the path unknown My tomb Adrift, lit with fire Across the ancient sea I crawl Toward the lair of the challenge I am the edge ascending from the sea Through blood and stone I split the earth Beyond waters of death Awaits the rose and thorns Shrouded in ancient seas Reclaim the line of kings Through redemptive sword Jewel of the lady of the waters Warrior, ride on Through stars and shores Of cosmic storms Seek the path Bear forth the chalice of truth Shattering is the raven's cry Enter belly of the beast Swallowed through jaws of leviathan Self annihilate I have become Threshold beyond threshold Seeking golden light of dragons Slaughtering tyrant gods of hoarded wisdom Disperse eternal flame of retribution Prometheus rising Nameless wanderer Body pierced by one thousand arrows Mortal initiate Mind swaying on the blade of twilight Seek my pale radiance Reflecting in the brume of sunless waters My eyes have seen the world Splintered galaxies of crystal Mirroring the volcans of your genesis Quicksilver is my voice A tongue of lightning whips My embrace an azure flame Melting your armor, spent Come to me as water Cascading through dark earth Down beyond the frozen grottoes Crypts of herculean stone See now through my gaze of shadows The path you seek The gilded soil of my flesh In the ever flowing stream Leading down Ever down Come to me From the shadows: glaring eyes Glistening teeth of a black maw The septangle of flames ensconce the trove Beyond the hidden door, encandled in blood Enchanted with venom; the poison must be let Blood must be spilled Behold: the face of absolute horror Writhing scales of hydra Surrounding frozen flesh Carnal eyes, glistening lust of blood Vampirous demons siphoning blood from skull Lecherous forms shadow the horizon sea Impaling the hollow shells of souls Burning in flames of depravity Devouring insides of saurian flesh Torn apart through mercyful blade Torn apart by mercyful flames Grasping scalp of severed heads Laughing baptized beneath moonlight You are the enemy The enemy is I manifest Beyond cherubim Shattering walls of eden Paradise regained Through undivided circles Unify spirit with queen of perfected form Becoming cosmic wheel In innocence I rest in blackened flesh Of goddess Kali, destroyer creator Ecstasy of muscle and flesh Dance of fire well within primal sea Two becoming one Hammerheart echo Temple drums of the deep Warrior bear down With the hand of Thor Hero Prepare thyself to be crucified Upon the sacred tree of knowledge Lightning swords Splinter Osirian casket Reborn Upon sunlight
3.
Return 30:01
Return warrior king Return shaman king Return I wean that I hung on the windy tree Hung there for nights full nine With the spear I was wounded And offered I was to Odin Myself to myself On the tree that none may ever know What root beneath it runs Vision of dawn Aloft in grace Broken-necked Strangled by ancient vines in offering Circle of ten thousand moons and suns Burnt by waves Snake tongue sigil Breathe new life Arisen from fermescent swells Choked with doom Arisen raw flesh Transfused with aeons Drinker of aegis blood Morph into form aquiline Arise, spread serpent wings Hung skyward by weightless stones Hero undivided Shapeshifting warrior Through golden waves of light Levitate the solar crucifix The arrow shot through fire and ice Behold the crystal tree of life Beyond the hall of sun Skyward I ascend Stellar caverns of cosmic clarity The sharpened blade of the spiraling pelican Hydran aerial sentinel of deliverance Immovable I am in fluidity Eternal lightning waves I ride to golden shores Rooster of empowerment Thunder wheel of hammers Proclaiming the call of dawn Spark of knowledge aflame Beyond the fortress of time Shattering force of circle's realignment Iron fist of machina at end Cleaving the fetters of time Red raven rising Smoldering carcass of tyrant fallen The cloak of ancestral flames Before the formless weapons of truth The circle calls forth completion Inhale the smoke of righteousness World's shattering at hand Victory of unity over manifestation Praise the goddess of water Gnashing teeth of lions Praise the father of fire In lightning fire Praise the death of ignorance Eradicate form, chaff lofts as ash Enthroned beyond space and time Upon the winds of creation Soars from infinite ocean To the sun's first eastern visage Serpent spirals outward Returns the eye of light Vortex through shadow realms Wheel of fire-theft ignite Ecstasy of experience The crown of life dismembering Hammers of Saturn Forging golden rings of light Resurrect through sacrifice The blood in chalice fills high Bringing forth celestial warrior Willing flesh of Gaian sacrifice Initiate of a thousand thundering gateways Tales woven through seed and beast through time Cast forth the spines of fear guardians The severed black bones of Inanna Amongst the glistening flowers of eternity Atop the fiery mountain of blood and gold King of oaken valor returns Warrior sorcerer shaman Archangel venom exorcist The song through fire of love is sung Unconditional is the path Self annihilate through love And the phoenix she does fly Enflaming stratospheric shores Behold the radiant jewel of Gaia Life undending Fire eagle serpent the king To whom I hold my sword to sky Disillusion of suffering Victorious laughter of enlightenment With the blade of sky-forged stone Molten air in warrior veins Shattered at grasp of holy demon's nails Ascendant, burn through mountains of shadow Eagle awing, perceive limitless battlefield Littered with ruin of thought and form Attain to highest heart of purity Glimmering gate at the bastion of the sky Lightning raptor wings of prophecy Collapsing ivory towers of the fearful eye Shrouded walls of saurian ignorance Behold, the savage lands are calling home Necrosynthesizing dragon A thousand aged guardian of phantom light Taste the molten blade of Prometheus Steel through scales, the cosmos realign Thunder wheel of hammers Spark of knowledge aflame Shattering force of circle's realignment Cleaving the fetters of time Smoldering carcass of tyrant fallen Before the formless weapons of truth Inhale the smoke of righteousness Victory of unity over manifestation Crucifix of fire dissolve Radiate love, annihilate fear Attain to no form To the temple in the sky To the temple in the sky The circle is life The circle is death YHVH

about

Ranked #1 metal album of June 2019 by Stereogum:

"The core sound is a crashing wave of volcanic black sludge, with frantic leads circling a surging rhythm section…until the clatter breaks apart, as it often does, and pulls back to the ululating drift of a gentle clean guitar ... Whatever this is, it’s far outside the realm of the ordinary; the metal bits are unrelenting and the rest is insane. But it holds together. There’s a unifying vision that slowly takes shape as you listen — like a dome behind the stars, marking out constellations, ascribing order to an absurd universe."

www.stereogum.com/2049605/the-black-market-the-month-in-metal-june-2019/franchises/the-black-market/

"Massive in scope, duration, and ambition, and manages to actually fulfill those high-aimed goals."

- Metal Blast

www.metalblast.net/music-review/murk-rider-exile-of-shadows/

"These huge songs are imposing and monolithic, but also welcoming in their blackened grandeur. This is not an album of impenetrable darkness. Rather, it’s black metal played by musicians that are unafraid to violate the core of what some purists may think black metal is all about. This is a very good thing, of course, as it allows the band free rein to explore their musical environment unfettered by convention or unnecessary restraints. This freedom allows them to adopt the black metal aspects that they want from the parent style, using this as the overarching framework into which they skilfully incorporate speed and heavy metal elements alongside stoner and sludge ones."

- Wonderbox Metal

wonderboxmetal.com/2019/06/21/murk-rider-exile-of-shadows-review/#more-38248

credits

released June 20, 2019

MURK RIDER, for the development & recording of this record album, was:

URSUS
Ian Thompson:
Lead vocals, Agile AL-2000, Marshall 4100, Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier

STRIX
Derek Schultz:
Lead vocals, Agile Dauntless, Marshall 2203, Peavey 5150 Mk. I

Ross Major:
Backing vocals, Rickenbacker 4003, Marshall JTM45, Orange OR120, Sunn 1200s

Tom Hoopes:
Tama Starclassic, Sabian cymbals

With a very special thank-you to
Katrena Marie:
Clean vocals on "Journey"

Lyrics written by Ian Thompson and Derek Schultz,
Music composed by Ian Thompson and Derek Schultz,
with contributions numerous and indispensable from:
Ross Major, Tom Hoopes, and Adam Apodaca
2010 - 2012

Brass arrangement on "Journey" by Michael Mull
Trombone performed by Matt Evans
Trumpet performed by Greg Zilboorg
Brass section recorded by Brice Albert & Michael Mull

"Justo Juez" prayer on "Return" read by Matias Sanchez

Produced by Derek Schultz with Ian Thompson
Recorded and mixed at Hidden Fortress by Derek Schultz
2012 - 2018

Mastered by Chris Hanzsek
2018




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Murk Rider Baywood Los Osos, California

An animistic seeking through the shadows for the coronation of the spirit.

The hero's journey enacted through thunder-sorcery.

The philosophy of recovery through unconditional love.

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