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The Founding of Man

from At Outer Dark by Spectral Darkwave

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    Set for release on the 8th of October 2021, the CD album includes artwork and lore about the band's voyages upon the good ship Darkwave and it's pursuit of suffering. Artwork by Petr Pollach of Apterus Graphics.

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(A man sits in a smoke-choked hovel. The heat of the furnace pricks at him, beads of sweat roll down his powerful arms. He pulls the cast from the flames. An orange-golden alloy sits in the mould, tapered to a sinister point. His eyes glow as he bears witness to his creation. It is hammered forcefully onto a spear shaft and added to the stockpile of arms.)

I see, the end of our need
I see, immortality
Time is spent and the work is done

And lust...
Lust, it will be the end of us
The founding of man will be our end
Lust, a way to escape the abyss
The founding of man will be our end

President Harry Truman: A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe.

And so we return to the most violent century on Earth
And God made us?
And so we become Gods
And we don't even know what we want, we're lost
And the Gods made
Time is spent, and the work is done.

Command earth, command tools and signs!

Lust, it will be the end of us
The founding of man will be our end
Lust, a way to escape the abyss
The founding of man

(A ship falls from warpspace - a wonder of impossible technologies. The fuel tanks hum deeply with their excessive payload, but the captain begins the refuelling sequence nonetheless. He disengages the automatic safeties. It is time. He would be witnessed. The clipped voice of the computer chronicles the tale that would never be told. They will call him a terrorist - he is no such thing.)

'Autopilot engaged'
'Gravity scoops active'
'Containment failure'
'Abort action'
'Abort action'
'Auto recovery sequence failure'
'Terminal spacial tear imminent'
'3...2...1...'

The tear in space renders untold systems asunder, destroying his own race at a scale never seen before.

The founding of man
It will be the end of us

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from At Outer Dark, released October 8, 2021

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Spectral Darkwave UK

Fusing the intimidating splendour of symphonic death metal and the sombre majesty of doom, adding a touch of black metal’s bleak fire and an infusion of industrial terror, then entwining the resulting weapon of war in silver threads of horror and adventure, myth, story and magic – SPECTRAL DARKWAVE are a band like no other. ... more

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