We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

ABSENCE

by Blindead

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Double 180 g. vinyl.
    Gatefold
    Layout by Maria Michalska

    Includes unlimited streaming of ABSENCE via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 4 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      €25 EUR or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 9 Blindead releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Niewiosna, Autoscopia / Murder In Phazes - remixed & remastered edition 2018, Ascension, Live at Radio Gdańsk, ABSENCE, Affliction XXIX II MXMVI, Impulse EP, Autoscopia / Murder in Phazes - 2008, and 1 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €45.75 EUR or more (25% OFF)

     

1.
A3 06:03
Over many a quaint and corious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tappng, Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting ... While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ever dared to dream before Dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ever dared to dream before
2.
B6 06:28
My place My tomb Rest with no view of the world. My desire Stronger than throughout the lifetime. Dominates the forces of nature Conquers the worlds neatly hidden away from me. How beautiful it is to destroy one`s body ... Devoid of cognition ... To learn How far To learn How far it hurts To learn I don`t want you If only there was a way If but the tiniest spark Could meet the light. How wonderful it would be to give it back To share the taste To pass and offer the flame To be again To be the origin To be the death To be the life To be myself To be the God To be the God
3.
S1 08:48
I. I can speak again, call you, I. forsaken, fading ailing, void I. I am afraid now I. The great bear drowning in the sand and reaching out I, the one of endless sentiments I want to see to be unchained I, a temple in the tempest I, once desired, hauntedwith eternal plague I, ready to swear no evil or pain can ever dwell in me I, am leaving I, white, etherreal, rising from the desert sands craving for wanderers silent sounds full of inward decay I. I am holding out a hand I, a temple in the tempest I, once desired, hauntedwith eternal plague I, ready to swear no evil or pain can ever dwell in me I, am leaving
4.
E5 05:56
You were the life ... My anonymous philharmonic All my notes I composed for you For you were the music You were the sound I dreamed on throughout the wars And you absorbed and stifled tears Misfortunes and changes But you failed to feel me For you were all unchanged Talking about the same old things in the same old way. `twas you who brought the rusty wheel, That defines what has been left of me You changed my spirit and you cast a spell on me Heavy breathing and piercing howl coming from the riverside And my streets were carved with the blood And the days of evil came You and your filthy image. Your treacherous eyes filled with vermin and tempest Thoughts that struggled with wisdom You freed the volture, thus vulture now they call me and vulture I am you forgot me I forgot you you forgot me I forgot you you forgot me I forgot you
5.
N4 06:30
She was always the one and only Strong Proud A mount of stone amid countless stares She, always lost in reflection so deep and distant, vaguely disturbing She, whose gist is hard to define. Wanted to be properly understood Consistently lost in a long and stubborn slumber. She The wolf mother full of concern and endless vigor utterly sublime The finger of death across her chest the fear of the grave rising dreadfully devoid of children, through tears she spoke of ultimate conversion The wolf mother full of concern and endless vigor utterly sublime The finger of death across her chest the fear of the grave rising dreadfully devoid of children, through tears she spoke of ultimate conversion And the destroyer came and left her nailed. She was fading slowly drifting back to her orginal solemn silence, her extraterrestrial scarlet evanescing leaving gray debirs full of memories of unconditional love Tangled coils writhing quietly and dispersing in the shadows of the rocky throat the pearl gravel resting peacefully in its eternal placeforever casting its light
6.
C7 06:32
Selfishly Never did we mention Their names Our names Lost in the image Born of reflections Of our prolific Imagination Convulsing with Shivers With a single touch of the Brush We quivered Never Knowing why ... We Dying for sheer simplicity We Searching for own eyes in the dark We We longed for solitude Like for the light Like for the labyrinth of dusty paths for cat`s endless meandering ... We lost the sense of place and time, and the stars of our fate in the sky died out
7.
E2 05:59
You have waited eons to meet us Risinigup high with your peaks Touching the clouds Caressing them You made the sky smile `its this blackness that Affected you so. As no one feels safe in the dark And children in the least. Darkness is like a dreary and absymal slope of defeat Like the stone foals racing throught the black ocean waves - Like the stone foals racing throught the black ocean waves - Emerging from a dreadful and ceaseless hall Where the air is heavy with broken promises That crashed down on a lair`s head With the flutter of wings. Like the stone foals racing throught the black ocean waves - Like the stone foals racing throught the black ocean waves - The noise of hidden machinery begins to gradually disturb you .. You. Who turn rage into creation Covered with Dust Ice And lava You entombed by ghosts buried by reflections
8.
A7bsence 09:57
And maybe it is the other way around If they're still alive haunting my frozen, rigid face And each time they visit they leave a spark Penetrating Suffocating Punishing me Punishing me They, The primal reason The force ripping from the bottom Forcing two moments in time To become me Two moments passing through space in unison For they are the sunken city of dreams An underwater friend For they are phantoms born of madaman's delusiions brought to life Or maybe it was the other way around Or maybe it was the other way around Or maybe it was the other way around And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the falmes of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

about

All music by Blindead
Concept and lyrics by Patryk Zwoliński except quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" in A3 and "The Maque of the Red Death" in A7bsence
Lyric translation by Ilona Bieszke
Produced by Riccardo Pasini
Recorded at Custom34 Studio Poland and Studio73 in Italy
Mixed and Mastered by Riccardo Pasini

credits

released October 2, 2013

Patryk Zwoliński
Mateusz Śmierzchalski
Marek Zieliński
Konrad Ciesielski
Bartosz Hervy
Matteo Bassoli

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Blindead Poland

contact / help

Contact Blindead

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Blindead, you may also like: