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Shunya

by Wallachia

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1.
I stand at the edge of the world With a heart shattered into pieces And a pain that never cases Forever lost in this void Wake me up from reality There's no catharsis through this agony Bring me the poison or give me a reason How to have faith in a world full of treason? Spiritually homeless and no need for a compass When the journey is set for the abyss Holding on to a broken dream It's all what i've got left The promises that i have kept I will go down with this ship 86'd by destiny The never-amending story A glimpse of hope turns into oceans of sadness Climb to the top and dive into the madness No mask for concealing These wounds never healing No sense of belonging Or what is becoming A mind that never rests Every day an endurance tot A soul that never sleeps And a heart that forever keeps Bleeding for what could not be Absolve me from the emptiness All-consuming nothingness The mirror of my soul Torn between this duality Haunted by the memories I had to bring myself down
2.
High on your throne of apathetic perfection With a Matter's Degree in the an of provocation The judge and jury, the grudge and fury Still there's no blood on your hands Light the fuse and spread the abuse Keep yourself from a safe distance You regard yourself as the equator of humanity Can't do nothing wrong when doing nothing at all Your cup runneth over with envy The pride and prejudice, deep rooted cowardice Your chants of disdain shall echo as silence Come full circle with your animosity Your joy in life depends on others' misery and failures Fall victim to your own cynical nature The backfire of vanity By ignorance you base defined your strength Having no idols apart from yourself Feeding an illusion Living a delusion The mirror reflects the enemy Gloria in excelsis Ego Curves reverse From the lack of response You reap what you sow Gloria in excelsis Ego The bitterness is yours all alone Dismissed and dethroned
3.
Ksatriya 04:48
The stars were aligned for a short moment in time To continue this dream I can only rewind On that beautiful summer day with happiness all around When my heart turned into a burial ground Loss defines love and sorrow reminds the joy And how everything so suddenly was taken away Many seasons have passed and the world has changed The emptiness inside of me will always remain
4.
Leave me with the agony The only thing you gave to me Close the door - leave conscience behind The pain is all mine Never look back but always move on Make sure that guilt can't keep along And in your time of need You should know that I am gone Enlightened by deception Betrayal and rejection Enlightened by deception Flip the coin of oppression You had my world in your hands It slipped between your fingers like grains of sand All my trust, love and respect You chose to trade it for something less Because you're not at peace with yourself Easier to pass the torment to someone else What I once felt was a loss to me Was the painful process of being set free Leave me with the agony The only thing you gave to me What you have done to me, unconsciously, made me a better person after all To this tragedy I found no remedy, and I just had to take the fall Separate ways, better days, I carried your pain as my own Accepting fate was never too late, and so I travel alone
5.
Hypotheist 06:09
The folded hands creating the perfect image of God Adjusting faith to make room for yourself Standing proud on your moral high ground The rules are applied for everyone else Putting yourself above the law Twisting the word to cover your own flaws Damnation you bring upon us all So let the angels sing and the money continue to roll The molded man deep in trance by your crucitricks Salvation depends on the wallet size The promised land will in the end make you all rich Kneel and pray as you throw the dice The party is on at your Go-go Bar Mitzvah Drinks are on the house, hallelujah! When the table is empty and redemption is yet to come The mirror of truth doesn't cast any reflection Living a charade Keep fooling yourself A glamorous parade I don't buy what you sell
6.
I close my eyes and drift away The wonders of the world so far ahead Childhood oblivion and days of joy Memories from a time long gone The curiosity and exploring will When the days seemed like eternity And I ask myself where did it all go? The pure essence of freedom When the pressure of the world weighs me down I travel back so that I can move on Save the sorrows for another day The past becomes the threshold Evolution or dissolution it's all the same I find myself in the opposite lane Conscience fiction reality Convenience is the curse of humanity We take it all but forget to give We exist but forget to live So many things I don't comprehend Nostalgia among the ruins of common sense
7.
Neon signs along the way - not reacting until it's too late Tomorrow seem so far away - leave it for someone else to pay Evolution got out of hand - turning us into grains of man Apathy now shall rule the land - awareness was just a one-night stand I see a bleak future - the pollution of human nature The inability to change our destructive ways Guinea Gods to take the blame as we make a smooth escape Sacrifice our souls upon the altar of technology Knowing only the value of material things Contemporary entertainment to fill your empty beings Living for the moment in blissful oblivion The rear-view mirror is broken Lay waste the earth and claim your wage A higher power will take out the garbage So this is the legacy that you leave behind A cargo load of responsibility
8.
The sleepless nights of wondering and pondering How my world got turned upside-down in a flash of a moment Everything I believed in and wanted to be myself Suddenly became what I feared the most Don't be surprised when I choose to leave The decision wasn't really my own It was made a long time ago Some things can't be unsaid or undone You had it all but it was never enough Betrayed your own flesh and blood Lost the game and put the debt in my name The solitary heir to your kingdom of despair I am the ghost of a 10-year old boy Who died on that day when you went away I cried and I begged and I hoped you would stay Telling myself everything is okay Bloodstains and broken glass among my toys Gave me your pain in trade for my joy Amending, pretending that nothing was wrong In a desolate house a child weeps alone On that night when you turned your wrath against me Because I witnessed your cardhouse of lies fall to the ground How could I forget those words you said and forgive those things you did? You ran away with no trace of repentance to be found As our paths cross and I'm reminded the loss I realize it was the only absolution Drifting away into the oceans of fate We're beyond the point of any redemption

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Recorded at Sountempel Studios, Germany in August 2012.
Engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Stefan Traunmüller.
Artwork and layout by Laura Sava.

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released November 16, 2012

Lars Stavdal: Guitars, bass and vocals.
Paal André Sandnesmo: Keyboards.
Tom Kocher: Drums.
Caroline Oblasser: Cellon on tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Anna Oklejewicz: Violin and viola on tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

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Wallachia Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Wallachia started out primarly as a one-man band located in central Norway. The band became a duo for the debut demo recording. Further on several other members have been included for the album recording sessions. Wallachia has existed since 1992 and play an epic symphonic pagan style of black metal. ... more

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