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Master's Murmur

by Yellow Eyes

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afbm This is phenomenal. The quiet parts are just as gripping as the louder more aggressive pieces. Feels legitimately transporting. Can really hear/see the world they're painting with this. Unsettling and memorable. Favorite track: Winter is Looking.
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Alveus Lacuna It's great to have a new recording, and they completely nailed this experimental direction.

This is the kind of thing that normally doesn't go well, but I can honestly say that the material is all very engaging; it all feels like a necessary expression rather than an what often happens in these cases: indulgent meandering by artists who are out of legitimate ideas.

Some deeply moving songs. Now the challenge is to have the forthcoming "complimentary" album match this release in its quality. Favorite track: Master's Murmur.
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Peter Szabó Brilliant. It's like if black metal had a child with dungeon synth. It works, it's dark and offers an unique experience. Favorite track: Master's Murmur.
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In the pine-filth of a lowland home Master fills his heavy jug And passes through the cornerstone To slake in silence in the mud The duchess shaking gold from gold In quiet halls of garden gloom Is swooning downward toward the sun Fresh crocuses in Mesmer’s room So nested with a silver yarn A spiral in the pony’s flesh She’s gliding up the country hill And keening for the gilded bed Chanting of a widow Tall shadow on the plain A tunnel through the ceiling A teapot of remains I fear the master’s murmur Comes drifting down the flue Aberrant void, hyaena heart ’Til springtime comes for you
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Fallen is the poppy field Fallen is the light Fallen is the lid Risen is the sight As burning leaves Glide blackened snow Reversed up to the apse Spook finger smoke With coddling curl Seethes loving ‘tween the gaps Smolder on the rabbit hill The ice will be out walking The winter now is looking The blackbird nigh is talking
4.
Irrlicht 02:25
Lantern reprieve Irrlicht deceive Darkness and smoke Fortune revoke
5.
A century of bluebells In a trance upon the slope Spiralized and longing For the mother to approach The couloir is the place to sleep When Jackie’s lamps have showed The purple flesh of angels Now rest wayward ‘neath the snow The purple flesh of angels Now rest wayward ‘neath the snow What’s above will come to earth What’s below will pierce the veil All between is dungeon damp Tension proves the billowed sail What’s above will always fall What’s below will rise again All the rest is cruel and coiled Suspension is the king of men
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I fear the wing is bare The ritual is gone The twilight shows a brittle frown When creeping round the pond Forgotten field Forgotten knave The fleshed harp unstrung Beneath the frozen cobblestones Lie drippings of the tongue
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Gold door to blindness Laughing on the knoll I will not see another spring Acclivity of old
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The window makes a stain upon the town The castle must remain inside the mist You only know a flower through the bell You only know a peasant from her bliss If blackbirds are the trumpets in the hall Then twilight is the hour of the feast If chanting is the archway through the gate Then silence is the tunnel to the beast You can’t see the ember With light on the hearth Tremble blue morning Keep in the dark If day blooms within Then I beg you resist Tremble blue morning Keep in the mist
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Garden Trick 01:33

about

After nearly five years of silence, Yellow Eyes present Master’s Murmur, the first of two complementary releases conjoined in spirit, a surreal, sinister industrial folk prelude to an upcoming full-band LP (2024).

Largely devoid of traditional black metal instrumentation, and— though all members of the band contributed together in an intense, spontaneous month-long session— setting aside the obliterative maximalist group dynamics that have suffused every Yellow Eyes release to date, Master’s Murmur is a bold experiment, defiantly laying bare the hallucinatory mechanics of their songwriting in medieval sparseness and finding new avenues of bleak power in restraint and austerity.

At its heart, Master’s Murmur is deceptively lush—deceit, the guiding lantern of the weary traveler—expounding on the bounty and dissonance of careening Yellow Eyes melodies with an eerie, tactile warmth reminiscent of Dead Can Dance or Coil, laden with inventive contrasts and adorned with symphonic dungeon synth, bells, rippling curtains of heavy distortion, the bucolic sheen of 12-string guitar, and the gurgling of pastoral field recordings.

As seen in the delusional arc of their previous full-length, Rare Field Ceiling, or the bitter ether of Immersion Trench Reverie, Yellow Eyes rise again as a cryptic trick of the light; a dark figure in the shade, laughing; a dawning sense of having been damned and left behind.

What’s above will always fall,
What’s below will rise again.
All the rest is cruel and coiled.
Suspension is the king of men.

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released October 27, 2023

Music by Will Skarstad, Sam Skarstad, Michael Rekevics, Alex Demaria
Lyrics by Sam Skarstad

Vocals on “When Jackie’s Lamps Have Showed” by Michael Rekevics

Featuring Patrick Shiroishi on saxophone on "Irrlicht" and "Garden Trick"

Recorded in October 2023 in Beacon, NY

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