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The Great Dying

by Arms of the Abyss

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Morts Slow and churning death sludge that can tend to drag a bit in places, but that comes with the territory, really. The last track, however, defies the odds - being the longest track on the album it also happens to be the most engaging. Certainly worth giving this one a go! Favorite track: Fate of the Faithful.
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1.
Profound concussion unleashed cataclysmic upheaval ensues, currents reversed, chasms forming, depths dredged, plains scoured Profound concussion unleashed breaths of boiling anguish churn the deepest crevices, fissures spit magma into the tides Colossal city - Hidden in the depths Megalopolis - Unknown to land dwellers Colossal city - Once resplendent Megalopolis - Rent asunder Vast basalt structures deprived of their former splendour, dwellers simultaneously stupefied and pulverized Reefs reduced - to vestigial carcasses Reefs reduced - to barren plains Reefs ruptured, crushed, decimated Reefs reduced, to nothing Within abyss, the depth of depths, beyond the spasms, Neath temple seal, with stygian purpose, a sentience awakens
2.
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Benthic temple as black as night Old as the ocean depths themselves Girt by sentinel, Nearly as ancient Proof to all but the most violent shockwaves Custodians disarmed, Temple seal violated Architeuthis Unbound by time Cyclopean entity Anathema to mortal sentience and its puerile perceptions of space. antediluvian slumber, unbroken for eons, through the births of lesser races, to their throes, in a cyclic rhythm, echoing indifference. Awoken, roused by fumes of slaughter oozing through the fractured temple altar Through riven, once monolithic seal A self-fulfilling prophecy is birthed Architeuthis lumbered, Tentacles engorged rigid with rage Acres of iron-flesh, wrenching matter beyond Leagues of tendril flailing, in blind vehemence The roaring collapse of the, threshold twixt worlds masked by a cacophony, of endless gnashing.
3.
Innumerable life-forms, Drawn from the wreckage Gathered in melancholy, grieving in unison Arisen in vast pilgrimage, tempered in wrath Bonds forged in anger, Traverse the crust Listen to the call The clarion call Form in the shade of the wreckage Flock to the banner of vengeance The denizens of the depths Preparing to besiege The machinists of the land And bring them to their knees Monurans Protodonates Ammonoids Neath basalt kraken sigil A covenent is entered An autocracy is birthed Upon the ocean floor And eclipsed by a war-like god
4.
The might of the ocean march forth To enrapture the earth with dread Vengeance begets victory The fate of the faithless is death A compact forged in idealistic, self-souring sentiment Neath fruits of its own embitterment, is destined to dismay. Imminent dismay. Prayers are cast into irrelevance Worship is made in vain Seeds sown of helplessness reaping nothing but sorrow Regrets reap the same Prayers are cast into irrelevance Worship is made in vain Seeds sown of helplessness reap nothing but sorrow Regrets reap the same Shackled in misguided servitude To a bludgeoning force A mass realisation Turns our host to flight An antipathic horror - Spreading its fondness for war An antipathic horror - Sharing its wrath amongst all Shackled in misguided servitude To a bludgeoning force A mass realisation Turns our host to flight Prostate before obliteration The seas are enveloped by dread Encapsulated by tyranny The fate of the faithful is death Two civilisations mired in unpleasantness Two civilisations ensnared and wracked with endearing constrictions. Two civilisations beset and devoured Two civilisations gorged on forever.

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The Great Dying is a lovecraftian recollection of the permian-triassic extinction event - 252 million years ago, with the loss of between 70 and 96% of all forms of life.

The unfathomable loss of life had its origins in hubris, fanaticism and the indifference of powers beyond the antagonists' comprehension. Time and entropy have all but eradicated evidence of the truth.

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released June 16, 2014

Mitch - Guitars
Dale - Bass, vocals and software
Tim - Vocals

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Arms of the Abyss Brisbane, Australia

Arms of the Abyss brings uncompromising down-tempo riffs with haunting melodies. The band's vision is crowned by a dual pronged vocal barrage, ranging from guttural roars to unearthly wails.
The band hails from Brisbane, Australia.

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