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Suffering The Storm

by Potmos Hetoimos

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Jordan Vauvert Matt qualifie Suffering The Storm de vilain petit canard au sein de la discographie de Potmos Hetoimos et c'est vrai que, si on l'aborde on connaît ce groupe via The Paragon Trisagion, il sera déstabilisant.
Matt a déjà montré qu'il avait de la suite dans les idées sur The Millstone et le prouve encore ici : pour aller avec le récit du Déluge, il jette la guitare et ne garde que la basse, instrument de doom/sludge parfait pour nous engloutir sous des tonnes d'eau. L'expérience est un succès ! Favorite track: Flight Of The Dove.
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1.
Into The Eye 08:26
Torrential downpour of iniquity A tempest flooding humanity Storming blight induced by vile invocation Liquid languish for our degeneration Build your ark, the clouds are gathering One more try to set things right Holy rain, descend and cleanse this world This last time we’ll start all over Corruption reset to the purity of when All was good in My sight Take to this ocean, be thou My Eden Rising and falling, my God my God the tide is turning Rising and falling, my God my God send us into the eye To trust in Your blessing is all I can do When all that is left is blue
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I turn My face from My design Swept away in a purging stream I’ll take back the breath of life From a creation in mutiny They pushed Him over the edge With their souls’ infidelity Our eyes look over the edge To where our world used to be On each horizon black clouds draw near Earth is but a shadow in the light of heaven’s glow God closed His eyes and erased a history of mistakes
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Great men of old blackened their souls in grave descent Daughters of men offered their skin to God’s own children Heroes and whores stood where before there had been peace Forced to create a plan that will make all as it should be As thieves in the night each droplet alights with dark intent Nephilim rise with fear in their eyes as He opens the firmament Rain falls, seas swell, washing clean this earth that’s gone to hell Purification the only salvation for existence beyond repair Total renewal of twisted and cruel autonomic heresy Onward we sail ‘neath clouds gray and pale to God knows where The darkness below bearing the only lives preserved in sanctity In faith we wait for our return to home Nostalgia of unholy lands will only hold us back We must begin again, a mankind free from sin A glance to heaven reveals a stream of tears Held in obscurity the reason behind His eyes Sick of staring across spiritual divide I will not remain on a shelf put aside Damn the idolaters and ill-deified Behold My final genocide Still we’re far away from the break of day Still we fold our hands and remember those who lost their way… Blackhearted fools, a spark on the fuel of my holy wrath Daughters dethroned, no longer My own in this catastrophic aftermath To hell with the whores and heroes of yore who turned from Me Commence the act, I send the earth back to how it should be Quiet now the voice of disharmony Let this world again submit to Me On earth as it is in heaven Father, Master, let Thy will be done
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Sky And Sea 10:26
Salt in the water and steam in the air Drowned the deserving through cries of despair Our hope is the future, a new earth we seek But in front of my eyes is bleak gray sky and sea Though clouds have subsided to reveal the day No sunlight is reaching this drifting vessel Monochrome horizons are distant and clear As lifeless as trust while supplanted by fear This seafaring chariot steals us away From idols and fires our children wrestled Why me? Who am I to start this new world? (Believe in yourself, blessed one) Hope of humanity all on me (Strength I will give to you in your need) Two hands and seven souls, what can we do? (Go forth and create a new beginning) Will everything fall apart again? (Through you, righteousness is renewed) Chosen for righteousness, but no one is righteous This heart of innocence standing tall My soul is no cleaner I am as wicked as them all From all it is you I have chosen Unite yourselves and trust in My plan Feel the sun breaking through Luminescence covers you Feel the warmth on your skin The world is yours, enter in
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(instrumental)
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Thus repeal the waters This ocean fades away The floodgates of heaven shut To permit the break of day My raven’s wings beat on blue skies A signal of hope for new mankind Now from my hand my dove will fly To set its feet on dry land Noah, faithful, come forth Your oceanic prison is gone Bring with you earth’s future In My hope you will carry on The curse of this deluge is past No more shall I unleash such wrath As the sun shines, for all earth’s time, Day and night shall breathe with life Into you I impart my power Your righteous blood will fill this world once more But never put aside the pain of this deluge Or all is doomed to a worse fate than before For centuries we kept hope alive In the glory of our Father we survived But in fear of light, so many run to shadows Trusting in themselves with minds so shallow The great man of faith weeps from his grave In sight of his descendants spitting on the hope he gave We are the generation deserving of his pain Our existence is nothing more than shame The time has come Our hope is undone The end of creation awaits For annihilation I pray Grant us this deathwish and wash our sin away

about

The third Potmos Hetoimos full-length is in many ways the black sheep of the discography. There is no guitar anywhere on the album; each song was written and performed entirely on bass (along with drums and vocals, of course). The album was recorded between sometime in early 2007 (“Into The Eye” and “Sky And Sea”) and sometime in mid-2007 (“Flight Of The Dove”), and then finally finished with the recording of “Flight Of The Raven” in early 2008.

I decided to shift back to the Biblical framework (as on the first album) for lyrics. Since a lot of post-metal deals with aquatic or oceanic themes, I found the story of Noah and the flood resonating with me in a new way. Think about it: Noah had a limited time period to build the biggest boat anyone had ever seen by far, before God sent torrents of rain that would completely cover the face of the earth. Every single person alive was going to drown, save the few family members on Noah’s vessel. The sky would be black as night from the heavy clouds. It would be like a month-long hurricane. So, I decided to address some of the darker themes of the flood narrative on this album. There are a ton of anachronisms in the lyrics, so it’s not a “storyline” album exactly. There is an overall progression though; “Into The Eye” definitely starts the story, and “Flight Of The Dove” definitely finishes it.

(Technical note: this album was never released in high quality, so the files uploaded to bandcamp are WAV transcodes of 128 kps mp3s.)

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released June 1, 2007

Matt – bass, drums, vocals, synth, programming
Carole – piano on "Flight of the Raven"

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Potmos Hetoimos Baltimore, Maryland

PH is a (mostly) one-man prog/doom/jazz/ sludge/post-metal project from Baltimore, Maryland. PH focuses on music as storytelling, with the lyrics and concept being integral to the compositions.

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