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Stories Never To Be Told (2019)

by Egrimonia

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CHOIR: An old colonial house in the countryside Someone is chanting songs in a cellar Strange lights, dust and candles Abdul Alhazred's apprentice Yes, he's waiting for something ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: Oh, forgotten gods! Oh, Ancient Ones! Bring back to life thy kingdom CHOIR: These words once spoken can never be taken back ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: Is it only in my mind? I can almost feel unnatural presence CHOIR: A presence from the depths! Brighter flames, feeling colder Intolerable odour made him sick Something’s moving, it's crawling ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: It is breathing... CHOIR: It's screaming! An ancient god Astonishing majesty of the cosmic cycle The stars are right again ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: I have reached unknown dimension I have summoned an ancient god! His first call was irresistible His first call could... could freeze the blood CHOIR: Black hole appeared in the floor The dark doorway beyond of time The aperture is black with darkness And a stench as of a thousand opened graves ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: Ia Dagon! Ia Hydra! I had spoken the holy seal CHOIR: After vigintillions of years Older than time Cthulhu’s spawn is loose again And ravening for delight ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: And all its glory All my dreams Slowly are fading away CHOIR: Man lives on an island of ignorance In the midst of black seas of infinity And it was not meant that he should voyage far The are doors that should remain locked A knowledge that should stay undiscovered Unopened books and stories never to be told ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: His first call was irresistible His first call could... could freeze the blood CHOIR: The thing cannot be described It lumbered into his sight And gropingly squeezed itself Through that fatal portal he made ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: Ia Dagon! Ia Hydra! I had broken the holy seal CHOIR: After vigintillions of years Older than time Cthulhu’s spawn is loose again And ravening for delight ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: And all its glory All my dreams Slowly are fading away CHOIR: Man lives on an island of ignorance In the midst of black seas of infinity And it was not meant that he should voyage far ALHAZRED'S APPRENTICE: Merciful gods! Oh, Ancient Ones! Please, close the gate of thy kingdom ANCIENT ONES: Your words once spoken can never be taken back Didn't you read entire Necronomicon? CHOIR: Vile beast is here to stay! Lyrics by: Odo (excerpts from "The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Lovecraft)
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CHOIR: Horror! The pale autumnal moon over the graves Casting long horrible shadows The grotesque trees, the antique church The odors of mould and worst of all Worst of all, worst of all... ST JOHN: Hear? Growl! Something is baying All night someone is trying To hunt us down in this churchyard CHOIR: Louder and louder Closer and closer Nearer and nearer The barking is growing strong ST JOHN'S FRIEND: Grim collectors, we devoted our lives To horror till nightmare fill our eyes Our museum is a blasphemous place We’d assembled loot with taste ST JOHN: Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig Dig my friend Deep, deep, deep, deep, deep Into the ground CHOIR: Into the grave Unnamed is near, unseen is there The trees, the fog, the presence... ST JOHN: Faster and faster Deeper and deeper ST JOHN'S FRIEND: Horror, horror, horror ST JOHN: At last! Now we had assembled The worst of the trophies; An universe of terror Amulet of decay To excite our jaded sensibilities CHOIR: Suddenly stronger wind rushed by ST JOHN: Stenches of the opened grave made us sick Ancient One! CHOIR: Living monstrosity had raised from its grave And from its rotten jaws we've heard a well known bay Die, die! St John torn to ribbons Die, die! Mass of mangled flesh ST JOHN'S FRIEND: It disappeared! Is it buried again? I must bury an amulet in that same place! We're no vulgar ghouls, we devoted our lives To horror till madness fill our eyes Our museum is a pervert's place We’d assembled loot with taste CHOIR: Now seek, seek, seek, seek Seek that place Weep, weep, weep, weep, weep Mud on nails ST JOHN'S FRIEND: Faster and faster Deeper and deeper CHOIR: Empty grave! ST JOHN'S FRIEND: Now, as the baying of that dead Fleshless monstrosity grows again I shall seek with my gun the oblivion Which is my only refuge from the unnamed Lyrics by: Odo (excerpts from "The Hound” by H.P. Lovecraft)

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This is Egrimonia's last record. We always wanted to give it to you. Some songs we made in 2009 unfortunately were never recorded. We played them only live or on rehearsals. Two of them had already recorded all guitars tracks and drums. It was in 2009. So now, 10 years later, in 2019 we recorded and added all vocals and synths just as they were written back in the day. Not a single note was changed.

All lyrics for this single were strongly inspired by writings of H.P. Lovecraft. We did this to honor his invaluable work we cherish for years. Any of you who are familiar with it will find many, many references to the whole his supernatural, terrifing world he had created.

We hope you'll enjoy this very short, but also very intense single. It's not much, 12 minutes in total, which is some kind of our saying farwell to all of you, but it comes from the depths of our very hearts. This is what Egrimonia was in 2009, and as it would be if it wasn't end up in hiatus. Sadly it will never will come back so we hope you'll like this last record or at least give it a try.

Odo - all growls, clean vocals & lyrics (excerpts from H.P. Lovecraft)
Gwydion - music, guitars, keyboards, programming & additional clean vocals
Ysengrin - music, bass guitar, keyboards, programming
Symbelmyne - music, viola

Synths & keyboards mix: Ad-X
Guitar recording & raw mix (2009): Gwydion & Ysengrin
Mix & mastering (2018): Paweł Ostrowski
Production: Gwydion & Odo

Cover art & layout: Dawid "Blodek" Boldys // Shred Perspectives Works
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released February 8, 2019

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Bachus - guit
Beherit - dr
Edri - bg
Gwydion - guit/prog
Iduna - voc
Locke - guit
Odo - growl
Svale - voc
Symbelmyne - viola/violin/voc/prog
Thorvoy - kb
Vingar - growl
William Grey - kb
Ysengrin - kb
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