"The Grieving Path" is a dark casket that reveals the deepest and most intimate emotions and sensations, where a pain-torn mind describes life as a slow journey, step by step, through a feeling of overwhelming discomfort and acceptance coming from awareness, of the form of life itself. A funeral song for darker times. Mourning, visions of the afterlife and deep introspection are some of the topics covered through the 5 tracks that make up The Grieving Path, an album with a total duration of 45 minutes. These times immediately lead the listener to refer to the five stages of grief processing: Denial;
Anger;
Plea bargain;
Depression;
Acceptance;
It can be defined as a very personal album, with a strong poetic inspiration, in which the listener can recognize lived experiences or sensations that, perhaps out of shame or fear, he never wanted to tell or even accept.
Tracklist:
For The Storms To Come
Tombless
Just Another Skull
A Downfall
Unbound
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lyrics
Soars as a blackbird from inside
Spiralling as smoke, permeates this mind
Coiling deeper into bowels it corrupts
Reaching for the Will to Live suffocates it all
Follow me even if you don't want to
Despite my reflection on Heaven
Redefine the shape of sorrow and yourself
Just to live another day on Earth.
The scent of hemlock, seducent tone
Empty the goblet, empty the throne
Feeding on your fears it germinates
Unceasing, overwhelming, adumbrates.
Follow me even if you don't want to
Despite my reflection on Heaven
Redefine the shape of sorrow and yourself
Just to live another day on Earth.
Did you ever feel so silent
Even though you would just scream?
Titan against God or Tyrant
Just another skull.
credits
from The Grieving Path,
released November 12, 2021
Guitars and drums by Fabio Pierani
Bass by Federico Albini
Vocals, lyrics and artwork by Nicola Belotti
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Francesco Massari at SeccoRecordz
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