1. The slowing of time 1:46 2. The world beyond 3:03 3. Death in torment 7:09 4. Arx idolatriae 4:21 5. Labyrinth of pain 6:38 6. Hate blade 6:21 7. Black heart 5:58 8. God man 3:18 9. Moments of falling 2:23 10. Infinitude 5:40 total time 46:37
1. The World Beyond I suffer in delight The poison is mixing with my blood A raging cyclone is coming Onto the threatening sky of mine Fury and longing rule my heart When my time has come to depart When I take my very last breath I close my eyes and I emerge I dare the burden of gravitation Into cold space I venture I watch the stones from the far distance Beyond the threshold of earthly existence The sting of darkness penetrates me I'll be the cruellest shade That dwells in your scariest dream 2. Death in Torment With my haunting memories I'm still staring into a narrowing funnel Where bats fly Look at my plated face Eaten by rain and rust Washed by a blye glacial torrent My shadow is pinned against a sweating wall With all the immensity of feelings in my heart No one could satisfy my excessive thirst for blood My carnal lust for the incarnadine I step onto the freshly frozen snow You'll not see my footsteps to follow I'm the hay in the mass of green grasses I've seen everything from dark to blazing bright I strike down with the power of falling stones I see you lying in the heat of the sun Your odour spread in the air A scent beloved by vultures 3. Arx Idolatriae In the deep of the Carpathians Surrounded by forests where beasts of night dwell On a bare mountain it stands The loneliest fortress O' lord Opour Worship the four elements God of Earth, thy gift a great stone Created not by human hands God of Fire, thy gift, a furnace in the bowels of earth from which thou throw out thy fury Through the "flue of hell" God of Water, thy gift an awesome trunk Transformed into a stone black as night No axe could chop it and it sparks by the beat of steel God of Air, thy gift an enormous thunderbolt That fell on the ground of Arx Idolatriae Step into the sulphur cave Inhale the might of thy idols Though the walls are crushed We will raise the flag of the long forgotten ones 4. Labyrinth of Pain And I saw my death And I killed with passion I was out of breath And filled with aggression A silent cry echoing in my mind And a handful of sand that in the deep of my heart dwell There are visions engraved in the maze of my brain And a sempiternal restlessness leads my existence Into the darkest labyrinth of life An unbearable pain restricts me from touching the stars I lick the waters that fall from heaven Even so I dry I have seen my doom and I travelled through horrors there's an awesome vortex that in the deep of my heart whirls Though tears fall from heaven It won't soak my soul I would rather dry forever Than to be empoisoned by god I've been searching for the treasures Hidden in the tangled labyrinth Of my innermost and supreme being Sometimes I fell upon the earth Yet I rise and with the strength I sweep Into the darkest labyrinth of life An unbearable pain restricts me from touching the stars I lick the waters that fall from heaven Even so I dry 5. Hate Blade We rise from the deaths And we are holding our swords Our heart is filled With pride and might untold With our spiritual brothers we shall gather To fight side by side in the mightiest battle And we shall use our mental force for we are transcendent We are gifted with the energy of universe Join our army And fight in this spiritual battle The memory of conquering Still lives in our heart And we daydream a time When we'll be in warfare We have no time to loose Triumphantly we'll awake the flame Its embers lie inside (for a long time) Waiting for this day When we declare war With the purest feelings in our heart With the bitterest memories in wind Why should we forget those whom we hate inside? 6. Black Heart Still I dream and I'll never wake again from a dream where the cruellest phantoms dwell I invite you to my world to enter Where the wind blows always and night is darker I'm everywhere. Here and out there Crossing galaxies I travel I have no visions and entirety draws near Look at this liquid blackness dripping and floating Unseen I sail the streams of ether Waiting for the greatest storm to gather I fell in love with darkness With delight With hatred Come and taste my fury I rise and spread the wings of my heart Over spheres and stars ...You will fall into my slumber 7. God Man I have left my world behind Ethereal winds tear me apart Fallen angels wanting my bleeding heart Ghastly shadows I belong to your kind I fill the universe With black cosmic sadness Come to drink from these galactic fountains I watch the stars' aura I feed my lake of fire I'm lonesome and forgotten Heading to the endless seas of oblivion 8. Moments of Falling The spell has broken I can't see the face of silence anymore And the force of wind suffocates me I'll need all my power To struggle forever I've fought many battles My hair is stained with blood And in the dark the blade of my sword shines I know now how the wind blows the infirm ones away I stayed here, yet not alone The Eagle leads me on As if I knew him since days of old My only companion I feel now as a warm wind caresses Into the deep we dive Sweeping between walls of flame Roam through the darkness of dangerous fields I entered a marble room And spreadlegged angels laid before me (I've fought many battles My hair is stained with blood And in the dark the blade of my sword shines) 9. Infinitude Beyond the utter darkness In the blackest night Where noctiflorous flowers bloom We breathe the autumn air The night sky seems so pure When we wonder in the winter cold We are but shadows Smelling the breeze of forests Perhaps the vision is over And the fog ascended Walking towards the sky with desire I'm disappearing in the distance, far away When I find no words And I loose my breath Then I find out that All finite things reveal infinitude When the secrets are destroyed And nothing left but void I will see you in the night Dressed in silver moonlight Lyrics in plain text format	Line up András Nagy : bass guitar and vocals Zoltán Schönberger : drums István Neubrandt : guitars P. András Horvath : guitars Tamás Kondor : session synth The Sear Bliss Brass section: Zoltán Pál : trombone and barytone Róbert Pinter : trumpet Artwork Info Recorded and mixed at Home Studio Szombathelv between the 6th of november and the 9th of december, 2000 Engineered by Bertalan Domby Produced by András Nagy, Zoltán Schönberger and Bertalan Domby All music written by Sear Bliss All lyrics written by András Nagy Cover artwork by Kris Verwimp Computer artwork by Peter "Flynn" Faragó (www.flynn-visual.hu) Logo by Kris Verwimp Inner logo by Winter Photo by Gábor Horváth Visit Sear Bliss' dark domain at www.searbliss.hu Review Compared to the previous Sear Bliss album "The Haunting", this one is less experimental. With songs that are faster and more straightforward it gives more of a death metal feel, yet still with lots of slower doomy and black metal parts. The big change in sound is also due to all the changes in the line-up, with only singer András and drummer Zoltán the only remaining original members. This isn't all bad though, especially the bigger brass section gives the music something special, and though changed a lot, it still has the Sear Bliss atmosphere... Rating: 7,5 out of 10